The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, March 06, 1866, Image 2

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    A Richtnond paper says, that young
men are scarce in that city, and maidens
and 'widows is search of husbands, very
plenty. The latter seem to be the most
successful, anU the editot pleading.in be
half of the naidens, says : "We do not
think in view 1 of the gre9t scarcity of men
that it is fatrfor widow to marry a sea
l.
ond time, until all the young maidens
have secured, , thusbands. The legislature
ought to attend to this matter, and pro.
1
tect the interests of young ladies, for
without the aid of legal enactments, the
widows are sure to play the grab game.
They will, therefore, have to be restrained
by the strong arm of the, law,as was done
in the, early i colonial hil3tory of Virginiri,
when the Elqns'e of Builgesses passed an
act of the v ary obaract I.' indicated. It
was found that all you g men imported
into the coloby, were t once caught by
the widows, 13 . x superio wiles and strata
gems, without any chance being allowed
1
to cb, tu
odeat and retirng young maidens
so the Legislature took he matter in hand
and will liav to do so gain."
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Northern ;men who went South to re•
side since the closing cht of the rebellion
ore finding ik both unsafe and unprofitable
to receive through the mails, from their
old homes newspapers of anti-slavery pro
mivities• As one hai }recently expressed
the fact, "tbe only way that a Northern
tan can liv l e there In safety, outside of a
military pout, is to profess to be a Demo
crat. with .4outhern proolivities."
The Vashington correspondent of the
New York I l'xpress says that Justice
Davis,oftherUnited States Supremo Court,
he executor of Mt .Linoln's es tate,reports
that Mr. ILilocoln left about 885,000, $75-
000 of which is in five-l i twenty stocks. Ile
I/oft in Springfield abdut four thousand
dollars worth of real etate.
The Eln'llira Gazet)e states that the
Northern Central Rail l way Company have
purchased tlhe Northern Division of the
Erie . Railr4y, from Elmira to Canandai
gua, and dtring the coming season intend
laying the .narrow guage track of the road
on that so as to Dale them' to send
through trilins from 13 ltimore to Niagara
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Th New (YorkYk there! are a gang of boys
regularly 'organized for stealing cott on from the dbcks or on I rays. They carry
iti
bags ioto v l vhich they cram the haudfulls
tliey snatch from the i toro bales, and sell
the cotton jet twenty:five cents a pound to
ra g dealers.
An excoange trulyisays that "you may
insert a thousand excellent things in a
newspaPetl, and never hear a - word of ap
probation 'from its readers; hut just let a
line or two not suited to their taste slip in
(though 14 aceicientand you will be sure
to bear °flit." There is more trouble in
4;eepin g ainewspa'per free from an objec
tionable thing than filling it twice over.
The despot of Russia has given freedom
to the serifs or Flay es 1o f his empire. We
are told that "the fiednien have already
open'ed upwards of three hundred schools
of their own, and the Emperor is very
anxious for their progress in education as
well as fdr' their instruction in the man
agement l of the , local affairs of their respec
tive diettlicts." Wel wonder if the Empe
ror permits the late owners of these freed.
men to . shobt, and mangle, and, rob them,
burn (loin their school -houses and mob
the teacl era
Most) 's wife wants the government to
phy her husband for the tobacco captured
by ON "Yankees" at Richmond. Secretary
AlcCuNeh does not see the propriety of
"reftinding" to the guerrilla who stripped
our boy of their clothes, money,&c.,wheu
they fe.l into his liMids. ,
The great Ciaeienati bridge about to
be suspended aeross l the Ohio will, it is
said, be the longest in the) world, being
over two thousand feet longer than the
suspension bridge over the Niagara river,
and fiv3 hundre.d andkforty feet longer than
the Meilai bridge ilnrEngland. Its total
span will be one thousand and fifty-seven
-vartis. 'The massicy stone piers tower one
huldrect and ten feet over the floor of the
bridge, pnd two hundred feet above their
foundation. One year is the period al
lowed for building lt.
One,! million five hundred thousand
pounds of cotton, of good staple, has been
raised in the vicin4 of Carbondale, Jack
son county, 'the 'past season. Illi
nois farmers consider that,at present prices
it is the most profitable' crop that can be
raised.
The late I late Sdnator
to characterize the
viz. Calh9un, Wc
chanan i . Ile said
iiician,l but no stal l
watesnian, but no
a politician and a st
sir, is slippery fei
Benton was once asked
following public men
'biter, Clay, and
"Calhoun, sir is a poi
tesuan. Webster is a
politician. Clay is both
i ltatesman. .Buchanan,
llow l"
.1
Earl Russell, in reply to an address
nom committee l i d working men, offic
ially announced the intention of the Gov-
Prnment to brin l g tln a reform bill, and to
~.,tartd ;or fall by this bill. He gave no
rartheJr intimation as to the character of
the Olt, though te. admittedtthat it did
nob grant all the workingmen prayed for.
OHIO ALL ataiir.--In both branches
of thC Ohio legislature, as soon as the
Thesident's veto Was received, the Demo
cratic" members, offered resolutions endors.
ing and approving it. They failed most
di:21101r —9 to 16 in the Senate, and 22
to all is gie Houaa--a atria party Tote.
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TIIE
Couderspo.rt. Pa.
Tuesday.,lMach,
M. W. MdAL:A.'NEY'IEDITOR
stand by itlae 'lag. '
The following from ill& Laricaater Examiner,
agrees so entirely with our !feelings at the
present crisis that we copy itl l "It may be that
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the Union Republican partk which elected
Abraham Lincoln Presiderii and Andrew
Johnson Vice President, Jost titeir friend when
the assassin slew Abrahami Lincoln. It may
be (that the true l"Moies'" died when
Abraham Lincoln died, and, that four millions
of God's creatures who unfortunatelY have
I
blak skins, will have to serve for forty years
in the wilderness,,after they Ire! declared free
because their suiiposed "Moses" : was a bogus
one.l It may bei that icopperbeads and un
washed traitors claiin,th'at their "Moses"
bas icome. If sq, meet it like men who be
in liberty, in truth,' in right, in justice,in
God and while traitors to onr conntry'could
not Iswerve you from the flagOreachery to the
party will only make you cling to it the stron
ger.,,
1121 i I
!The Te i pedrancp Cause.
There is an Increasd' activity on the part
of the friends o Temperance.; in all parts of
the country, and pert-mob-0y in • our own
Statle. The Grit'nd Lodge Of Good j Templars
has l'presented it. petition to; the Legislature
contlaining the most nonclu' t sive arguments to
1• , •
provJe the criminality ' Of the present license
law. l We will publish; it lift our next, and
desiie our frien . ds to'p
reserve it, read it to
thei r t r friends, and to hose. who are in , favor of
'Remise and use, its arguments in their discus
' sio4 with the.se' who , seem determined to
har'n grog•shoPs forced' upon our people, and
the ils, endu!red years ago, repeated with
ten-!fold virulence, It 'might seem thi'be im
posiing upon ) th i e credulity of our readers to
hint that stcli lan attempt was beingmade, if
1 t 0 , •
actions transpiring every day did not clearly
indilcate it.lF l 'th in the I virtue and intern
. leof a ,f" 1
genhll people may excite' a false confi
deltic° in thn lihmantty - of the decision they
will make At Yhe ballot-btx this fall. How
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74, there'is nothing to by gained by attempt
.' to disguise the fact hat the question of
c
tense" or' i'no licefis ," will enter very
tely into the!appreaching, cOntest for county
.ters. It will come ivith ' hod as certainly
I I 1 '
as'le election?. A decison will then be made
for or against,Land bY that decision we will
be.l , - m
, ,
ompelled to abide. , The ajority,wbether
foriright ot,Crong, will undoubtedly rule..
re : are priding ourselves in the absence of
many criminal suits from the Court Records,
but no sane Man will dispute !the assertion
tilt such wodld not be the, case if liquor was
sol on ever corner. At the 'December
Teitn of the Dauphin County; Nun there
we're four rtundred indictMents. Neither
Judge, Lawyers, nor Jury, at!empted to dis
gu se the fact that they were all or nearly all
ditectly or In 'pirectly traceable to the use of
i
liquor. Is that not awful—isll it not a shame
I i , ~.
to the christian, ,or even decently moral peo
pl4, of our age. I Four Hunde?d indictments
at one term ;of court? Of (purse, Dauphin
is 'i,tirger thari Potter-and it Would be absurd
N+
toisay`that would have as many here, if
grggeries werelichnsed, butlit is not absurd
tolsay that we would have tqem- in about the
sable ratio. I Think of these things. They
concern us all. Parents who have children,
ddsire theta to. grow up under goOd influences.
Lt them kat itcording-ly. 1 I
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IWe copY from the Lewisburg' Chronicle an
a4ticle rel'ating to this subject, and which we
think deserves the careful peruSal of all. If
We mistake not it, is 'written by one who has
hid the "Temperance harness" lon for many
1 !
yitars : 1 : ,
Ing
"lit
cla:
offl;
1"I want to shoW that every -one who, by
word or act, favored the abolition of slavery,
is bound alsp for the sake of consistency, if
nothing else', to favor the abolition of the
rpm traffic. I This proposition transposed so
as to read, every one ,in favor of the sun
pression Crthe rum traffic, ought for similar
reasons to favorithe abolition of slavery, was
often contendedlfor during the more exciting,
times of thd teMperance reform. But there
were eonst4utienal difficulties in the way
Which:caused Many to doubt the soundness
lf the latter .prOpositifr. Into the correct
ess of that opinion we are not now to in
quire. Thank j Heaven, the • difficulty that
doused the doubt, andl the evil that gave rise
that among are past. So "let bygones be bygones."
Our business is now with the proposition
first stated; and to make it good we will try
to sum out more fully the analogy indicated
in a cornier paper. f
jeAnd first) tus look at the territorial ex
,nt of thetwo evils: Slavery was sectional;
?um is tini4M.sal. The one was limited to a
1. art , ordy of the states; I the other extends
clver them all. Literally it "knows no North,
no South, no East, no West ;" but all are alike
embraced in the arms of the fiery Afolech.
There is no g room here fur the exciting issues
.raised about the extension of slavery, for,
as if by a sort of divine right to reign, Rum
is enthroned wherever a poptflation is found,
land hitC rninis‘eis indulge in no poetil license
.
4. •
when they sing i
No pent iup Utica contracts our powers,
But the whole hnundless continent is ours."
"Next letius view the numerical extent _of
the two evils, The slavei,of the South were
estimated in round numbers 'at four millions.
Five hundred thousand is set down as the
number or i dvurikards in the United States.
But besidcs tlOso usually included in the
category of thg drunkard, there is a much
larger close:wile have contracted intemperate
habits to Each iin..extent as to unfit them for
all the more iniportant duties of life, and
make therrt,ll nOisance , to community. Thus
we have at fles.et one million of inen whose
prospects,, 13is life at least,. have been
ruined by 'rum:- But 'all these men are con
nected with faMilies, each averaging at least
five persent, which swells the number of those
involved, in' did eVils caused by rum to five
millions. BntJfurther I,tje safe to say that
an equally kar4re number of friends and neigh
bors to the mtemperate are male in rile form
or another to experience the bad ,effects of
inteloperimapo,l SC that the proportion to
slaves of those whom 11133 drinking injures,
either directly or indirectly, is two and a
half to one.
"Shall we next institute a lomparison be
tween the bondage itself or, the black man
andthat of the victim of the rum-seller ? But
here all comparison is at an end. The one is
slavery of tie body ; the other that of the
mind. Thq slavery of the drunkard is the
, worst just sto far as the immortal mini., "that
ray'of light whieh constitutes an the image
of his Maker ' nobler than the body. Mere
subjection 'of the will to another can not
quench that sp4rk of divinity; within, nor sub
due tbcse aspitlatious after immortality, nor
shut man out ftotn communion with the God
who gave him being:,
.But rum does all that.
The drunkard is a slave to a vile appetite, to
sin, to evil, tol death,' and 'bell I Will you
say such languge is too strong? Why, Mr.
Editcr, it is within the recollection of some
in your own town that men have died who
declared on their death-bed they would and
must drink ruin if they knew the act would
sink them down to perdition! Language too
strong? Tell me what language can be
strong enough to depict the bondage of that
miserable wan who said to ills physician,
"Doctor, did you sayl mnst give up brandy,
or lose my eyes?" "Not brandy only" re
filled the physician, but all spiritous drinks."
"Then farewell eyes !" said the] infatuated
drunkard, "think Imust and will ; I can not
help it." Surely all the shackles ever put on
the limbs of the negro are mere cobwebs, in
comparison with the bonds that. fetter the
soul of the man enslaved by rum."
6, 1566.
TIIE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
The_ essence of the late Rebellhin was
an assumptiOn that one race of men are
born booted and spurred by the grime of
God to ride,
,and another with bent backs
and hoof-like; hande to be ridden -1 that
the wise' and :stront>, because of theyr wis•
dom and strength, have a right to ; do as
they will with the weak and simple'. ;As
A. IL SteplMns well said, Slavery, the in.•
cidont or accident of other States,was the
corner-stone Of the. Southern Confederacy
—that but for which that Confederacy
had never been. Hence every Tory,every
Reactionist, in either hemisphere—every
upholder of the Divine Right of king-craft
—was a Rebel sympathizer by instinct;
while every ; opublican,every Socialist,in,.
the Old \Vorld, ws a champion of the
Union cause. Men do not wait to•reason
out such differences—the King of, Dalio•
aryl, had he been seasonably apprised of
our qoarrel,k would have joyfully; spared
his brother :Jeff. a legion.of his most blood
thirsty Amazons to fight for their common
cause, though he 'detests and suppresses
all secessions and rebellions in his own
domain. The higher law of elective affinity
would make him tolerant of treason and,
revolution, when their aini is the' causer
vation of the copple and the auction-block
fur beings wade in the image of God.
It is impossible not to see in the recent
utterances dour President a determination
to make war on the advocates of Human
,Equality before the Law. If he had said
to the Blaok delegation, "Your people
, must wait. ' Educate your children ; seek
knowledge; be industrious; be frugal; be
thrifty, and you will.ulticuately attain all
,you desire,; but prejudice is strong, and
you must not expect everything done at
once—we should have felt that what he
said was reasonable, and counseled acqui•
escence. f . So, if he had said to Congressi.
"There aro some provisions in your Free&
men's Bureau bill which seem to we tria,
warranted and pernicious. ; allow me to
designate them, and to solicit their modi l .
fication"—we should have urged compli
ance with his requirements, even though
wel could not ;deem them intrinsically
sound. But his Veto Message is a deo
larationrof war-:—it can wean nothing else.
It was 'not intended to convince but to
defy Congress. , There was not a Copper
head,not a Rebel in America who did not
lon reading it, say, "This is the man for,
us—he talks just as we think and feel."'
We are confident that itnvill evoke letters
of approbation: from Rebel fugitives, in
Europe, Mexico and Brazil—that, some of
them will even offer to return wheneYer
assured that "the President's policy' is
destined to prevail. John Surratt ray
not ' yet pe ready to condescend so far; but
he will surely feel that he has not periled
lifeiamilincurrred the pains of exile! in
vain.
When we'nsk the Right Of Suffragefor
thel Blacks, we are told they are too kin°-
,
ran and degraded to vote ; when we ask
tha provisions be made for educating
them, the reply is, that we surely cannot
deem them in such crying'need of edu
cation,l since we consider them qualified''
to vote!. Such is the vicious circle I;rherein
their rights are denied and their prayers
for justice derided.
Again : let us suppose the People of the
)'United Slates to be, Thirty-one Millions,
'whereof Sixteen Millions side with us,aud
Fifteen Millions with the negro-haters.
They ;stifle the voice of Three to Four
Millions of us, and ,say, "Don't, you see
that you are a weak ;minority ? You have
scarcely alparty in ten or twelve States"
—the fact being that we are a majority
in Most of them ; and that most of us are
suppressed and nuliiied. And this in the
abused name of DeMocracy
Of course, the natuaral presumption is
that all who would sell their sours to keep
and those who would sell them to get
office, piling ;upon one liungry party, qan
secure it a present.Predotninance. What
if th 4 doll? With power comes responsl
bilities. With action, difference. ; A
blended Copperhead and Rebel 'ascend
ancy, thinly veneered with office•holding,
and office-seeking Unionism, could not
help assai;ing I he National Debt,disturbing
the safeguards' . of our National Industry,
and . many other things equally provoca
tive of resistance. The new allionce,now
beiog solemnized by salvos of artilery,can
have but a short and stormy life at best ;
but''give it power, and it cannot fail to ex-
plode by force of inherent repulsion.
We are one of those, who would gladly
have accepted an instalment of justice for
the Freedmen, and waited far more to
ruc&e, favorable season. But, since we are
driven to the alternative, we choose to ;
claim full justice rather thrill acquiesce in
its absolute, flat denial. It has been
prPved, at a fearful cost that Slavery and
Liberty cannot peacefully coexist—that
onp or the other must give way. It is
ncitv to be proved that the systematic deg
radation of a race precludes the general
education of any race, and involves the
pe . rpetuatton lot Indolence, untruth and
b4rbarisw forlitil. If we,as a people,nePd
mpre lessons to make us wholly and nobly
just, we shall receive them and pay for
them.
Dark hours are probably at hand : let
ripe f6rget, that the way was cleared for
the policy of iliatauciPationby dist want of
heart and unSuceess of McClellan, Buell
and their kind,rather than by the courage,
ability, devoiion and triumphs of Grant
Sherman and Sheridan. So, though
whatevar of disaster and discouragement
may lie before us, let us never doubt that
the Republic is moving majestically for
ward to Universal Justine and Universal
Freedom.— Trilatne.
How the World Mores.
Two years ago the Democrats in Con
necticut nominated for Gevernor Thomas
H. Seymour, a person who did not thihk
it worth while to disguise his sympat y
with the ram] leaders. Day before ys
terday the same party nominated for Gov
ernor James E. English, who, because e
voted with two other Democrats, Od 11
and Haight, for the abolition of slavey'
in the District of Columbia in 18t32, was
denounced and burned is effigy by many
of the very men who have now nominate('
him by acclamation for Governor.
Though.bitterly denounced by the dent
ocratic leaders in Connecticut for his vete
against slavery, Mr. English was reelected
to. Congress and completed his record by
=-sting
for the Constitutional Amendment
abolishing slavery. The Democrats in
Conuecticut,findiug themselves hopelessly
beaten under the leadership of such hide
bound and stupid politicians as Thomas
H. Seymour, now take up a man of di.
reedy opposite sentiments;and put Sey
mour
and his friends on the back seats.
The people of Connecticut will see in
this chanrre one of the good results ac
complished by them in repeatedly defeat
ting the Democratic ticket. The party,
there as elsewhere, got into the bands of
unpatriotic men, who thought ;to use its
name and influence to the injury of the
Union and the elevation of unworthy
persons. But the people said "No;"i and
when the party leaders find they are in
earnest,they hasten to fling overbcad such
Jooabs as T.U. Seymour to sa vr,; the shin.
We hold the. President to be 'an aver . -
age specimen of the better class of South.
ern men. The country now know what
Freedmen have to expect of him'. What
may they!reasouably expect of the other
sort?
Mr. Voorhees of Indiana was ejected
from the; House on the ground : that his
election was secured by fraudulent votes.
The contestant. Mr. Washburne, was
awarded !the scat.' Mr. Voorhee's made a
viulent effort to show that the Committee
on Elections had once decided in his fa
vor, and charged that they had, reversed
their decisions on political grounds, bat
the recotd of the Committee was produced
and no such vote appeared thereupon. Df r.
Shellabarger then explained that an iu
fcrmal vote 'had once been taken upon the
express understanding- that it was nut to
be final, and Mr. Dawes showed that Mr.
Voorbces nominal majority turned out to
Consist of fraudulent votes. Nobody but
Mr. Voorhees' fellow-Copperheads will
doubt that the decision of the house was
a just one on the merits of the case. The
charge thatit was based on partiwn grouds
was the expiring effort of a man who
knew himself in the wrong. •
The editors of The Louisville Journal
and Democrat, both of which supported
McClellan for President, also hie] of The
Courier,who went his pile on Jeff Davis,
have united in a - call for a public inderse
ment of President Johnson's Policy. The
"Conservatives" of Kentucky appear to
be united in that sentiment, but the Reb
els are most vociferous in glorifying it.
Both Houses of the Legislature of
Missouri have passed resoltres sustaining
the action of Congress generally, and es
pecially in passing the Freedmen's Bureau
bill. The majorities are very strong-77
to 26 in the' House, and 21 'to 5 - An the
Senate. They know Rebels out that way
and don't regard them as properly recon
structed, as, yet.
No New PARTY. —The deingerats of
Missouri dec,line to form, or help in form
ing, a new party, and tell the conserve.
Lives they must join that party if they
want to sustain the President. The dem
ocratic presses generally do the same.—
There will be no new party. The repub
lican paity will maintain the oause of
freedom,' as heretofore, and those who
Want to betray that cause will have to find
refuge with their Copperhead allies.
The only Republicans whO votod against
the resolutions adopted by the House O l t]
Tuesday,dcelariog that no Representatives
should be permitted to Occupy seats in
Congress from the Southern States until
Congret had formally readmitted such
States i to the Union, were Raymond acd
Hale ofl Nesv York. If a fishy Republi•
can is wanted for any purpose, be can
alwayS be found iu New York.
41.0. 410-
NEW JERSEY.---The Republican }eels.
lature of New-Jersey, by a strict party
vote in both houses, has laid on the 'table
resolutions offered py Democratic
ben endorsing the veto.
TnEAstizetiti , s SCHOOL REPOBT.
A. F, Jones, Treasurer of .Potter County in
Account mi h the several School Districts for
the year 1865
lie. Cr.
. .
To amount collected on taxes of 1864
and 1f65.
To amount collected on School tax 138 # .
" - Building . tax 93
in Ttetumeeee Lubda 2 82
To amount collected on School tax '•43 29 •
Building tax 43 29
" in Treasurer's, bands 85 55
Euletqa.
To amount collected on 5e1.61 ta F x. 80,34
" InTroasnrer's horde 80 34
Homer. '
To amount collected - on School taxi 119' 79
in Treasurer's hands
°Mayo:
To amount collected on School tax . 50
in Treasurer's hands
To amount oolleotod on School tax 5J 45
" in Treasurer's hands
. Burnout. • •
To amount colleoted on Sohool tax 51 69
" ' 1 Building tax' .25 79
" in Treasurer's hands '77 38
Sweden,
To amount collected on School tax 11 18
" iu Treasurer's hands 11 18
Sylvania. I
To amount collected on School tax 79 77
" irn oasurer's haude. 'l9 77
We the undersigned Auditors of Potter County do
certify that we have examitied' the acconnts and
vouchers of A. F. Jones, Treasurer of said County,
for the year 1885, and that the above is a correct
Statement of the Funds in his hands belonging to
Schobl and School Building Funds in the Districts
.abdre named, out of which he is entitled to a corn
mtssion'of four per Gent. for collecting, and the bal
once is duo said Districts. In the setlerat districts of
the Counts- not named above, theto as been no tax
collected by said Treasurer.
In witness whereof wo have heronn o set our hands
11t. Coudersport, thla 17th day of Jonu ry, A. D. 1866.
W. B. Gasv'Es,
.B. H. MARTIN, S. Auditors.
I. 0. 'ruomrsos,
TREASERER''S REP I RI C.
A. F. Jones. Treasurer of Polttr CountY, in
-Account Fah said County fromlZanuary let,
. 1865, to December 3lat 1865, tclusive.
Da.
TO seated ca, taxes for '6l: $ - 3 27
" " 1864 I+ 12.6 664
.• 1665 44 5 01
" unseated " 1664 & '65 7953 91. $l3BB BS
Am't received of Bird, Martin and --
Banbere for chain $ 19 00
Itec'd of Geo Manly for tot $6 31
Am't of seated 'ax ret'd as unst'd 158 82 ,
Rec'd of L. W Lyman. 663 15
" i Isaac Thompson $ sis 48
Balance due A. F. Jones W. 79 10 . 79
$14 . 970 10 ,
Bou'nty Tares. i
To stm't Unseated Bounty Tax for 1854-5 $3102,8
seated Bounty Tax for 1884 ..V., 5 26022
returned as unseated II 5
' " received of L. NV. Lyman .985
" Bat clue A. F. Jouo3 on Bounty ac't . i3O
s62.fm: SS
Coudersport 4- Shippers State Road.
tmount reed on taxeslorlB64s $422 72
" " of L. W. Lyman 170 05
,
.8592 77
.Relief and Military Tax.
amount of Reli f Tax outstanding for 1864
end previous years $ 315 88
amount of said Tax for 1865 ; 890 38
unseated Relief Tax for 1864-5 1595 95
Ret'd on Button order by p.i Baker 20 00
‘• cord on seated returned as unseated 33
" Rec'd,of L.W.Cyman,late Truasurer 932 20
6 ' of Isfilitary Tax for 1864 and previ
nun years \ 308 73
elf,
•
By l abatements tor 1661-2-3
1864
" " 1365
13. y seated returned as unseated not
rollec'ed for 1663-4-5 I $193 80
Apated on seated unseated 347 $197 27
Collector's percentage for 1861-2-3 3114
" f' ,1864- 145 58
1565 j 39 47 $216 19
Uncolleectd Tax for 1861-2-3 $7O 09 '
"1864 143 32
" 1965 ' 1719 78
truseat'd tax for 1864-6 uncollected 6804 31 $8787 50
Tyeasurer's eommi4slon on $491145'
at four per centum $192 45
Orders paid and cancelled 6434 94 $5627 39
lieceired as unseated in 1564 $ 96 51
" " " 1865 14 43 $llO D 9
,e 14970.10
,
1 ,
i i Bounty Tares-. • •
By amt unseat'd bounty tax outstanding $27228 24
" seated bounty tax outstanding 5952 58
Alintemeints by County Commissioner .2267 3.)
" Seated returned as unseated 639 68
t• Collectoi's commission 315 18
" Trt.usurers commission on $22,263 at
one per cent. 222 G 3
•: " Ordere paid and canceled 21057 ,79
I ; --- 7 .---
•, ' ' 02581 , 58
•
; 1 Coudersport 4 Shippen Stale Road.
By Commissioners order .Tan 18, 1505 $l7O 05
t A, Bonneville's receipt, 405 75
'I " Treasurers csunmission on $422 60 at
four per centum ; 16 90
" Balance duo State Road 07
Relief and Nilitury , 'Paz
By abatement ior 1865 and previous years $ 19 86
" nm't returned unse.tted for co:lection 22 41
" Collector's per centago for 1865 and
previous years .40 97
" aru't outetaiid'g on seated tax for 1864-5 437 20
.%. nnseated " . " 1359 96
9 abatement on military tax for 1864 and
previous years 104 50
" Returned for collection in 1804 • .. 3 50
Col' per centage for '64 and previous y'rs 849
-, Uncollected on Military Tax - 81 65
" Orders paid and canceled!; • 1792 99
‘• Trea,nrci's corn on $lO7O 44 at 4pr cent 42 82
" Dal duo the Relief fund in Treats hands .166 93
We the undersigned Auditors of Potter County do
certify that we have examined the accounts and
vouchers of A. F. Jones, Treasurer of said County
relating to County, Bounty, State Road, Relief and
Military Taxes, and that the above is a correct
Statement of the same.
Witness our hands this 18th day of Jan'y 1866.
W. B. Guevss,
S.'7l. MARTIN, Auditors.
I. C: THOMPSON,
IT ! ITCH f =au s.
SCRATCH !SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Wlieaton's Ointment
Wilt Ci l tre the Itch ht 48 Hours.
Also cures• Salt Rheum, Ulcers, Chilblains,
and all Erubtions of the Skin, I Price 50 cts.
For sale bylall Druggists.
By sending 60 cents to WEEKS &TOTTER,
Sole Agent, 170 Washington street, Boston,
Mass., it will be forwarded by Mail, free of
postage, to !any part of the United States.
Sept.,lo.—Sp. Notice, 6 'mos.
WAIiNTIVG !
Ihereby warn all personi,against cutting
wood on or taking logs from my lands
near. Germania, or doing any damage 'what
ever to said lands, as shall prosecute all
such offenders to the utmost extent of the
Law.
Dec, 20, 1865
The Ro heater Straw-Cutter.
OmrsTE Sc KELLY, Coudersport, have
the exc usive agency - tra' this celebrated
machine, in his county. It is covenient, du.
-able, and REAP.; Dec.l, 1860.-12.
THE NEW STOVES'
,
HAYS lust arriv r ! • 4 ,. M !
! •
6TATEmrairr
n k F the Receipt vtoci Expeuditnees of Poler
ty r the yea. epcilug on the, 31•1 da) of t,
.15. D. 1665 r tt,
o Ftecid from County taxes for 1865 slid pre_
viomyears i
Reed from liellef taxes for 1865 and pr i m,. $ 434 4 1
us yeses i 1763 4
itec , d from Bounty taxes f0r,1865 and pre- '
viandyears
Excess of Expenditures.over Receipts
Mb ;1 3
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Total Receipts
' $ 33005 it
Fold for AssesSors wages WI 11
. On Bounty bonds ' - reo4 45
. .. On Bond to Win. Treating 618 0 0
" I. 11. Benson . 677. ~.3
" ,Commissii , cere wages Eli 43
. • Cmrk hire 55000
" Court drier ) 10 so
. constables Returns 144 4
'..' Repairs to public buildings 137 5
. Clerk of Quarter Sessions 106 4'5
'‘ Commonwealth coals - 194 04
. ' Balauce duo for Clerk hire for 1664 160 6,7
.., Election expenses . ' lao 83
''''' ", Judgments ' 41 37
~I‘ Jail expenses i 65
", Fuel ! - 137 i
", Money expended . 75 17
". Justices returns 047
u Qualification fees , 21 t 3
.",
Frothonotarys fees 24 z
", Relief to soldiers families • 19 0 611
.3 Public printing 312 56
" Attorney fees O3 to
'.". Auditor's wages - i . 223 3: ,
.-, Stationery I 20111
,' Sheritni fees 1 ; ] ls 34'
. Postage - • 3 07
. Tip Mares 1 68 00
‘' Lands bought at Treasurer's sales 14 3 3
ii Tending town clock I . 12 Do
Traverse Jurors fees 606 36
. Road viewers ' 203 50
• " Grand Jurors fees ; 300 sr
" Town views I 130 25
" Taking prisoners to Penitentiary 100 m "
Wild cat bounty i 'I 7.5
119 79
59 45
We do certify that the foregoing Statement of Re.
ceipte and E,xpenditures of Potter tdunty for the
year 1965 is correct as appears from the records set
vouchers in this Office.
Commissioners' Office, Jan. 9,1806.
. It. 1.. Nicuota. )
E. 0. A CBTIN, t COIXiM11101:1011.
C. P. KILDORN, r
Attest : L. B. Coin, Clerk.
OF the P , trids of Potter County on the let day of
January A.. L. ISM
To am't Of Counticorders outstanding WIN) 55
" Judg't in favor of Warren Co. Bank 2623 9S
Intereit onisamo from Sept. 24, 1663 35753
" Judgment in favor of ES D. Herr 4299 97
" Interest on same from Sept. 22 m 1864 329 10
• " 8.4,1 to Jam Keating 494 00
" Aseetts over indebtedness 1274 06
Total indebt iess ,
.Bounty Fund.
•
To amount of Bounty orders ontstanding $ 744 48
" 'Bend to Isaac Benson ' 1000 00
" Interest on same to Jun'y 1,1866 400 00
" Unpaid bonds to 'Volunteers 56260 00
" Interest on the, sante33So 60
Total amount of BoUnty Fund $61787 23
nxclarrri,
Aggregate amount of County indebtedness $72030 20
Ca.
By am't of Co. taxes due from unseated lands
for the years 1564 sr. '65 #5804 31
" County taxes due from seated lands
returned as unseated
, r Reit e r taxed due from unseated lands
for 1864 Sr. 1865 1359 98
• " Seated teller taxes outstanding 1186 1/
" County taxes duo from collectors for .•
fur 1865 and precious years 2053 53
Due for Military taxes for (seated) 1863 41 00'
" Due from Cam-ron county 600 01
" Dub for relief taxes, seated, returned
as unseated
- " Due on notes
. • ,
$12417 05
Foist.—The above credits will be decreased bt the
amount of the percentage for collection.
By amount due from unaoatod bounty taus
for 1864 rfr; 1565 $27225 24
'• BOrtnt r taxer. on 'relied lands and per•
sorrai property for the year/ '64 &'65 8953 75
" Of indtrartednesa over assets 25608 31
;40C3 :iS
11
0 Is
,
10
'26 88 - $80,76
1561181
Aggreguto amount of assets 1 $48596 C 3
Amount of indebtedness over assets' 24334 25
NOTH.--The percentage for colleetiort is to bede•
ducted from the asset's.
We the Couinii , sioners of the conrfty of Potter Co
certify that the foregoing S.tatemcnt of the Fends of
said County on the I .• t day of January; 1566 i* correct
as they appear on the books and vouchers of thin
Office.
Commissioners' Office, Pn'y 10. 156 a. •
R. 1,. Nicuot.s, )
R. 0. A roux, Cammlentoriers.
C. P:Rituonsr,
ATTEST : t. 13. CoLE, Clerk.
Nora.—The correct outstanding Bounty txz en
seated lands and personal property for the years 1654
.L• 1565 is $5053 73, Instead of $5430. 53. Making s dif•
fcreuco of $523 20, in favor of the County.
A. F. Tones, Treasurer of Potter County, in
Accoutie with the several Townships of and
Caunty.
Abbott. ! Dr. Cr.
To amount collected on Road Tax .$ - 1 83
Special " 1 33
" Town Bounty tax 281
‘• in hands of Treasurer 8 17
Coudersport.
To amount collected on Road Tax rl 16
in hands of Treasurer
Eulalia.
X 502 77
To arnannt collected on Road tax'69 WI •
• " " town Bounty tax , 247 22
" 'tented, unaented, town and
Bounty, tax j 186
By Coratnissloncre order on road tax 60 01:
" town bountY 249 08
'
$3lB 10 318 10
To amount col'di on town bounty taxi 5 SR $
. in - Treasurer's bands 553
To amount collepted on Road tax 64 66
" in hands of Treasurer 54 10
I• Osteuy lo.
'l'o amount collected on Road tat • 1 00
" in T 'eaeuter's handa 100
1?oulet. .
To amount collected on Road tax 56 35
" " Special tan 112 :0
town 13 , ,unty tax 231 60
" iln Treasprer's 'lntuits 400 65
. . Summit.
- -
To amountcollected on Road tax 100 31
Special tax $4 83 . .
" in Treasorec's. hand, 185 11 1 .
• : Sweden.
To amocnt collected on Road tax 430 I
' Special " '1 29
• " " town 13ountr tax 17 20
• " in Treasurer's bands
$4063 aS
To amount collected on Road tax 92 In
Special tax ' 51 21
" town Bounty tax 184 04 \
" in Treasurer's bands 327r7
ME
*0 'the undersigned Auditors of Potter County
do dertidy that we have examined the accounts sal
vouchers of A. F. Jones, Treasurer of said County,
in relation to Town hip Mande, and that- the above
ih a correct Statement of the Funds m his handset::
of which he is entitled to four percent. for collection.
In the townships not named above there has been as
collections by him.
W. B. GRATES,
S. B. MAXTIN„ Audio rs•
I. C: Tnoosrsozr,
Coudersport Jan. "11, 1.566.
S9OA Month !—AGEh j TB for cif
O. T. ti; ' City Buildtrig.Biddeford, Maine.
Dec. 28,1E45. tewly.
BUSHOR
'P. Stebbins & Co.
ARE AGE TS for the sale of
WHEELER & WILSON'S SETIVO
MACHINES or Potter County
Late
R6six
Alb Bale by,
Total Expand!tures
4TATIMENT
Bounty Fund,
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Rebron
Keating
Sylvania
)a from Sherman '•
TAR, from Nortb Carolina, for
BMWS
$33003 51
$12417 Psi
190 37
38:9
132 32
133