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SINGLE COPIFS, VOLUME X.--NUMBER, 7. THE POTTER JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EVERT THCR3DAT MORNING, BY TbON. S. Cliaso, To whom all Letters ami Communications should be Addressed, to secure attention. in Aii anciß: 81. '2 ft per Aduuiu. Terms of Advertising, 1 Square [lO lines] 1 insertion, - - - 50 1 " " 3 " • - - $1 50 Each subsequent insertion leas tb&jj 13, 25 1 Square three months, ------- 200 j I " six " ------- 4 00, 1 " nine " ------- 550 i 1 " one ye*r, - - 6 00. Rule and figure work, per sq., 3 ins. 3 .QOj Every subsequent insertion, ----- 50 1 Column six coombs, - 16 ,00 * •• " " 10 Q-0 J i " 44 " 7 ,0,0, i 44 per year, -------- 30 0,0 4 " 44 44 1 6 00 ■ Administrator's or Executor's Notice, 200 ! editor's Notices, each, ----- -- 150 Iskerifl-s Bales, per tract, ------ 150 " Marriage Notices, each, ----,-- luO Business or Professional Cards, each, not excelling 8 lines, per year, - - 500 Special and Editorial Notices, per line, 10 I gttiTAll transient advertisements must be paid in advance, and no notice will be taken j ot advertisements from a distance, unless they ! are accompanied by the money or satisfactory reference. business Savtis mumnm——m—nimwi—mwmnmnnn—mam—iih—n JOHN S. MANN, attorney* and counsellor at LAW, | Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Courts in Potter and M'Kean Counties. All business entrusted in his care will receive prompt attention. Office on Main St., oppo site the Court House. 10:1 ~~F. W. KNOX, ~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport. Pa., will regularly attend the Courts in Potter and the adjoining Counties. 10:1 ARTII I'KG. QLMSTED, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Coudersport. Pa., will attend to all business j entrusted to his care, with proroptnes aud fidelity. Office in Temperance Block, sec ond Hoor, Main St. 10:1 _____ _____ ATTORNEY AT LAW. Coudersport, ?a., will attend to all business entrusted to pint, with ' care aud promptness. Office corner of West , and Third sts. 10;1 L. P. \YILLUSION, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Wellsboro', Tioga Co., j Pa., will attend the Courts in Potter and M'Kean Counties. 9:13 i A. P. OQNkT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Wellsboro', Tioga Co.,j' Pa., will regularly attend the Courts of ■ Potter County. 9:13 !• It, w ~~j. SI'SVEY'OR AND CONVEYANCER, Ray-' Mond P. 0,, (Allegany Tp..) Potter Co., Pa., • will attend to all business in his iine, with care aud dispatch. 9:33 j \\Tk7 king, SURVEYOR, DRAFTSMAN AND CONVEY ANCER, Bmethport. M'Kean Co., Pa., will attend to business for non-resident land-! holders, upon reasonable terms. Referen- given if.-required. P. S.—Maps of any part of the County made tp order, 9-13 : O. T. ELLISON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa.,j respectfully informs the citizens ox the \ il lage aud vicinity that he will promplv re spond to nil calls for professional services, office ou Main st., in building formerly oc cupied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. 9:22 C. B. JONKB. LEWIS MANN. A. P. JONES. it JONES, MANN & JONES, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CROCKERY, Hardware, Boots A Shoes. Groceries aud Provisions, Main st., Coudersport. J'a. 10:1 COLLINS SMITH. K. A. jy.VEo. SMITH A JONES, DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES. PAINTS. Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Goods, Groceries, Ac., Main st., Coudersport, Pa. j 10:1 D K7(>L>ISTEH, _ DEALER IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing. Crockery, Groceries, Ac., Msinst., Coudersport, Pa. JO" 1 M W. MANN, DEALER IN BOOKS k STATIONERY, MAG AZINES and Music, N. W. corner of Main and Third sts., Coudersport, Pa. 10:1 E. 1L HARRINGTON, JEWELLER, Coudersport. Pa., having engag ed a windy w in Sciioomaker & Jackson's Store will cajtrv on the Watch and Jewelry business there. A hjjc assortment ot Jew elry constantly gn band. Watches and Jewelry carefully repaired, in the best style, on the shortest notice—all wgrk warranted. 9:24 _ _ HENKYJ. OLMSTED, (St'CCBSSOB TO JAMF.B W. SMITH.) DEALER IN STOVES, TIN A SHEET IRON WARE, Main St., nearly opposite the Court House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to order, in good style, on short notice. 10:1 COUDERSPORT HOTEL, P. F. GLASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner of Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter Co., Pa. 9:44 ALLEGANY HOUSE, SAMUEL M. MILLS, Proprietor, Colesburg Potter Co., Pa., seven miles Cou- | dersport, OD the YVellsvillc Road. ~ 9:44 §rlfrtrii Iflfh'g. From the N. Y. Eve. Pot. SOMEBODY ELSE. j '"Come here," cries the master, in voice of com mand, 1 To an unlucky urchin, —"and hold out your hand; j I'll teach you, you villain to make f uch a noise; ! Y'ou re the head and ringleader of all the bad boys." The boy, blubbering, exclaims, 44 1t was somebody else." | Says mamma to her daughter, 44 I'm shocked, I I declare, To see you go out with your shoulders so bare, You attract the attention of all whom we iuet,'' — |. i; Dear mama, when the men stare at me in the street, They no doubt think 'tis you —or somebody else.'' LSays the,.wife to her husband, "I'm grieved and surprised To see ypu.so tipsy—l mean so disguised— Pray, what 4,0 you think your neighbors will thjak. When & .m.%n of your age gets stupid with <^riuk." "They'll think," says the toper, "T'was somebody else." "So you re found pqt at last," madam cries in a pet; "I saw vou la3t night walking home with Miss Bet, With Miss Betty Bouncer —deny if you can, Y'ou deceitful and treacherous, wicked old man." Says he, "My sweet lqve, ji was somebody else." "When you came home last night it was past twelve o'clock, And you left me this morning sennd asleep as a rock ' "My dear," cries the husband, I ace petrified quite ; My business detained me from borne nil the night." ''Goodness gracious," says she, "wasit<nf body else ?" The coquette strives, with all her attractions, to win An admirer for whom she cares not a pin ; Ou the way to the church to fasten the knot. She stops, saying, "One thing I d ulmost for got— I think, on the whole, I'll have somebody else." The Parson, brimful of doctrine and zeal, Thinks the hearts of his hearers are harder than steel; While they, altho' pricked by their conscience wjthin, Each would shift to his neighbor the burden of sin, Thinks tb e Parson, no doubt, means sorne bpdy else. 'Ti? thus with mankind of every condition, Somebody's the object of every suspicion, And if anything's wrong, some one else is to blame — As somebody else ha? a had name. I m truly rejoiced I'm not scmbody else, j B Srue lifhiiT. A Word about Wc<il< 4 rn grallon and Western E\- perleiice, Correspondence of the X. Y Daily Times Mousd.Citv, Pulaßki, 111., June 30, 1857. "Mushroom" cities are only indeginqus I in America, and are not, by any meaps, j the least cariosity the country affords.— The "emigrant" from the East is pros pecting for settlement—rides over the ; prairies and plains, "fetches up" at a sol itary cabin, and is told he is in Vesuvius Citv ! He .^tares: but no stuuip nor house is in sight—nothing but the wide ex panse of the plain and 'the creek coursing through it. Uesiauus City! Perhaps it has been blowu up and this is the site it once occupied. Ah, verdant New Yorker, you are not a fast man, I perceive. The "city" is just in the process of being blown vp, and soon will be so inflated that it will take a large sheet to map out its beauties and mag nificent dimensions. That plain will be all streets and blocks, peopled by thirty thousand inhabitants; that creek will bear richly laden steamers on its muddy bosom, and railroads will sweep in from the four quarters of the horizon with ar gosies of promise to Vesuvius! So, at least, he is told by the disinterested host in whose cabin he tarries; and won by the facts, figures and faneies, which the shrejyd "proprietor" ever has at command, the emigrant invests and goes homo for his family, dreaming ,on his way of the j city that is to inflate his purse to huge dimensions. One hundred other stran ge rs are taffen in and "entertained" by the host of Vesuvius, and pext season sees one hundred and one houses on that lately solitary plain —the "mushroom" city has emerged into life ! This is the history of seven-eighths of the towns and "cities" which now dot the maps of lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas and Nebraska. And it is but fair to snv seven-eights of them are grand (Eeboled io 11k ?irii)cipies of Jrti i q,)d 11 jc £)issetyiiftiioij of HjersLwf, Juki'qiqre ju><) iicirs, COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1857. successes —for the 4 'proprietor," at least, whose fortune is rapidly made by selling land, which cost him one dollar and twen ty-five cents per acre, fcr ten, twenty, forty, fifty and one hundred dollars per " foot front, by one hundred feet in depth. r It remains to be seen how the purchas ers fare. As it is very true that fools are j not all dead, these first purchasers are . generally successful in getting rid of 5 their interests at advanced rates, and thus j j success number two is the result. But the fact stares the studious observer ; Rteadily in the faee, that, in most instan ■ ces, these places cannot possibly attain to " any very considerable growth, for there is r not country enough to support them, sup posing the land to be divided up into * I eighty-acre lots, or, as is most generally the case, into farms of one, two and three I hundred acres each. Nor are there the j resources of manufactories to fall back upon; for it is a fact, which the intelli gent observer will not fail to detect, that t the great concentration of capital, ma chinery, enterprise and appliances neces ! sary for successful competition, are now centering in Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Lou- I I is, &c., aud only in a very limited degree • 1 will the interior aud "up-river" towns be able to compete with, and live iu spite of, c the monster enterprises which are now . fully answering to every demand, in ev ery branch of trade, agriculture and i household life. Hence, when a proprie tor descants to the new-comer of the i trade and commerce which must centre at the city, the allowauce of ninety per , cent, may be safely made—and purchas es should be made accordingly. If the "city," by any good fortune, should reach ' i to a population of ten thousand, the prcS' ent prices of the lots are entirely dispro ! portionate to such success. Twenty, for ty, sixty aud one hundred dollars per foot —common prices of land in these : "cities" of which we are now writing —is too much by fifty per cent; for, add to this first cost the necessary improvements of opening streets, grading, of building i everything ah initio, of taxes aud inter est, and it will be perceived that property in New Y'ork City is cheaper to-day than j the prospective value of real estate in ! "Vesuvius City." It is not our purpose to disparage these enterprises "out West," which are! : now absorbing so much capital, so much ! energy, so much talent; but we would prevent misconception in the niir.ds of persons proposing to leave old homes, old j associations, old occupations, to seek the new upcu these Western lands; we would , have them go (or rather come —since we • write (torn the West) with their eyes ; open, agd thus incur fewer disappoint ments fly ,the fgture. We Lave met with so nipny disappointed persons in our. travels that we but repeat what has been : ' told us, confirmed as their statements are,! .by our own observation. Let give an : ; instance: ■ A fanner in New-England, living com-! fortably by his thirty-acre possession aud , his trade, that of wagon-maker, thought ( to better his fortune, and that of his two 1 daughters and son, by emigrating to lowa. ' He readily found a purchaser for his snug : and really beautiful home, and with three • thousand dollars started West. Arrived I 4 in lowa he visited many of these paper ' towns, and finally made a location in a I! thriving village, near the geographical een ' tre of the county. Property commanded pretty "steep" prices, but he succeeded - in buying out an earlier settler, agreeing t to pay one hundred dollars per foot front t for the lot, and eight hundred dollars for r • improvements, consisting of a small one ' story frame house, slab shed for horse, , well twelye feet deep, aud oak-board fence f around the premises. He turned the 2 i shed into a wagon-shop and commenced 2 work, paying very high prices for every - inch of timber which he had to use. —* j Provisions were very high, and, eGono i mize as his good wife would, it was found t that ten dollars per week were necessary ' for his household wants. He could not get money for his work. In a word, he f could not make ends meet; and, at the j end of the year, he sold out for fiftoc-n , hundred dollars what had cost him three I t thousand dollars. His family were dis -1 pirited; but there was now no Lome for them except in "the West," and he was j en route for Kansas when we left him. Now, this is 710/ a siugle experience;! it is one of hundreds—nay, we believe of ■ ithousands, who part with comfortable homes in the New England States, in in New-Y'ork, in Ohio, to try quick for-1 tunes in the West. And we think a five years' experience in frontier life, away from good society, from schools, from market, from all that renders living de sirable, will make a sad showing against the farm or business a man may success-; fully open in these new States. Taking into consideration the privations a family must necessarily suffer —the absence from friends and familiar society, the want of ; good schools and good preaching on the Sabbath day, the great distance from mar ket and consequent low prices which must attend grain-raising—we think the ad vice to all well-to-do farmers and mechan -1 ics in the old States, to stay where they are, is good, sensible council, which we; 1 give gratuitously, after considering well upon the question of emigration in all its lights and shades. Yours, VISE. > ; j stoUaitsnus |tsms. SPEECH FROM A VETERAN OF ONE! HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN YEARS! — The Chicago Tribune states that at the Pioneer festival, at Madison, YVis., a very | interesting speech was made by Joseph Creelie. He had lived one century and, seventeen years, had been three times j married, and, of his nine children, only one, the seventh, survives, and she has reached the allotted three score and ten He speaks of "grandchildren almost with out number," and says : I 44 1 come down to you, fellow pioneers.' from a former century —an old man, with the habits, customs and feelings of the j simple-hearted, contented race of a eeutu- j ry auo, with few wants, and no ambitious aspirations. I can with truth say that 1 : love my native land ; I have cheerfully : risked my life iu its defence, iu repelling ! the British and Indian foe; aud 1 trust there are noue here to-day who will fail to stand by our country in every hour of trial and danger." Think of the experiences of this white ! haired veteran ! lie has seen this mighty , nation burst the bonds of colonial depeu-1 ence and rise to the first rank among the \ 1 nations of the earth. He was twenty-five j .when Massachusetts began hor resistance to the stamp act; he saw the French and Indiau wars, the war of Revolution, and was in the prime of life when Washington was elected President. When he wa, born Frederick the Great sat on the throne of Prussia, and since that day Na poleon Bonaparte has played at Corsica, studied at Brienne, conquered Europe agd died at St. Helena. What a marvellous life! The steam engine, the telegraph, and Republican prin ciples and institutions are younger than ; he.— New Haven Palladium. I .. —. •* SINGULAR EVENT. —On Saturday last, ; Mr. Samuel M. Dockum, at his furniture j manufacturing room iu Daniel steet, emp tied a hair mat trass from the sack, and ; rolling up the ticking (about ten yards) in a compact form, piaced it on the top of an old secretary, which had been sent in for repairs. The latter article was laid against the side of his work bench, and was slightly elevated above it. On Mon day morning on entering the shop the ticking had been entirely consumed by tire, not a single square inch of it could be found. In the piece of furniture on which it was laid was a hole burnt equal to a square foot, and charred beyond, and in the floor was a place burnt of half an inch deep. The mystery could not be solved until it was found that a panorama lens on a pedestal which had been sent in for repairs, had been accidentally left on the bench before the window, at just such a distance as to bring the focus of the sun at an early hour of the morning, directly on the cloth, As the shop was closed there was no air to produce a blaze, and it is probable that it was mouldering for i half the day at least. Had the building burned down, the suggestion that the fire might have originated in this way scarce any one would have listened to. It is a; fortunate circumstance that it is a rule of the shop to have all the shavings cleared; up every Saturday night, as the observ- J ance of that rule probably paved the build- j ing. The escape is as providential, ae the j ! cause of the fire was singular.— Ports-' • mouth Journal. EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN— lnjustice j of Men towards Women—Xecessiti/ for additional occupations for Women.— | The Loudon Morning Post says: "Excepting domestic service, there is no remunerative employment for young women of the humbler classes. Slop-work leads to slavery, starvation and death.— What else is there? Few girls are taught book-keeping, and consequently, few hud employment in shops and offices. Even lace, ribbons, and all the leading articles of female attire are sold in our shops chiefly by men, Is not this gross injus tice to women ? If the only alternative be, on the one hand, idleness and alluring vice, and on the other slop-work and star -1 ration, can we wonder that many, who i are by nature loving, sweet, tender, beau tiful and good, fall before the cruel and corrupting influences which are made to bear upon them. " The injustice of men towards women is real, but it is not intentional. In ruder times, the business of life required a 1 strong arm, and capacity for physical en durance. All this is now changed : but, ; nevertheles, profitable occupations requir ing no bodily strength, aud which are peculiarly suited to women, continue from ; custom and routine, to be monopolised by men. Reformatories and missionaries j for outcast women do only an infinite small amount of good : still far be it from us to discourage them. Of this, however, we are firmly convinced, that so long as 1 women are not trained and educated so as to be able to exercise those remunerative ! employments to which they arc specially fitted, so long will they be actually co erced into crime and misery. If we cau i not rescue many of the present race from their evil ways, we can at least, take measures to save those who are now chil dren from being forced, on reaching ma turity, to select the dread alternative of starvation or infamy." How TO EDUCATE OUR GIRLS. —In- stead of educating every girl as though she was born to be an independent, self surporting member of society, we educate her to become a mere dependent, a haug : cr-on, or, as the law delicately phrases it, a chattel. In some respects, indeed, among whom a plurality of wives is per mitted, and who regard women purely as so much live stock : for among such pe - pie women arc, at all events provided with shelter, food aud clothing—they are " cared for," as cattle are. There is a completeness in such a system. Rut i among ourselves we treat women as cat ; tie, without providing for them as cattle. We take the worst part of barbarism, and the worst part of civilization, and work them into a heterogeneous whole. We bring up our women to be dependent, and then leave them without any one to : depend on. There is no one, there is nothing for them to lean upon, aud they fall to the ground. Now, what every woman, no les3 than every man, should have to depend upon, is an ability, after some fashion or other, to turn labor into j money. She may or may not be compel led to exercise it, but every one ought to possess it. If she belong to the richer ! classes, she may have to exercise it; if to the poorer, she assuredly will. CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING! — HOOPS MELTED ! Sabbath before last, a violent thunder storm passed over New Jersey. At Jamesburg, near Amboy, the Sabbath School of the Presbyterian Church was holding its meeting in the afternoon, when the fluid struck the building. It entered the roof, making only a small hole and descended by the chandelier to the centre of the church, | where it exploded. Quite a number of i adults, as well as children were prostrat- j ed by it, and their clothes burnt. Yet! no fatal result followed, although some! hours, and even days, followed before per-1 feet restoration took place. But the re-1 markable feature of it remains to be told, j and this is given by a clergyman who re ceived it from one present. It is stated that the ladies who wore brass hoops in their dresses, were uninjured, but the hoops themselves were melted' The elec tric fluid was thus diffused, and perhaps lives saved by this novel species of con ductor. —A". Y Evangelist. AN exchange says: "The Roman forum is now a cow market, the Tarpean rock a cabbage garden, and the palace of the Caesars a rope walk." To whieh the Louisville Journal adds: 1 "And Ashland is the residence f James B. Clay." <{ FOUR CENTS. TERMS.--$1,2 5 PER ANNUM. A NOVEL PUNISHMENT. —They have a veiy curious regulation of the internal police of the school at Muhlinen, in Switzerland, and intended to keep the children from playing truant, which they accomplish effectually by working, not upon the child's fear of the rod, or lore i of his studies, but upon the parent's love of his money. That is to say, if the chil dren are absent, and as often as they are absent, a cross is put against the parent's name and he is made accountable, and is fined, if he does not give satisfactory rea sons for the child's absence. Of course, all the whippings for playing truant are administered by the parent, and there fore, it being sure, if there be a fine for the parents to pay, that the amount of it will be fully endorsed upon the child with a birch rod, the pupils taking good care to be punctually at schooL No de linquent can escape, for no false excuse can be manufactured. To DRIVE AWAY RATS. —Some years since a correspondent of the Boston Cul tivator recommended the use of potash 1 for that purpose. The rats troubled him very much, having entered through the ; chamber fleor. they appeared in great i numbers and were very troublesome, so that he felt justified in resorting to ex treme meesures to effect their expulsion from his premises. He pounded up pot . ash and strewed it around the holes, and i rubbed some under the boards, and on ' the sides where they came through.— The next night he heard a squealing e among them, which he supposed was from the caustic nature of the potash that got among their hair or on their bare feet . They disappeared, and for a long time he was exempt from any further annoyance. LOOK ON THIS PICTURE, THEN ON THAT. —The Albany Journal says:—Eleven State* voted for Fremont and nineteen for Buchanan—nearly two to one. In the eleven States there are 43,000 ' Free Schools. In the nineteen States there are 37,000 • Free Schools. In the eleveu States there are 2,000,- 000 of Scholars. In the nineteen States thore are 1,000,- 1 000 of Scholars. In the eleven States there are 800 Li braries with 800,0U0 volumes. In the nineteen States there are 393 Li braries with 530,000 volumes. In the eleven States there are 12,000 Common School Libraries. In the nineteen States there are 250 | Common School Libraries. In the eleven States there are 235 mil lions of copies of newspapers. In the nineteen States there are 161 millions of copies of newspapers. A HEART AND HAND WORTH HAV • ING. —No person who has any reverence i for the good, the true and beautiful in human nature, can help admiring the no i ble woman of whom the following record • is made by a letter-writer in the West: 'I "While in Gratiot county, Mich., dur ing the recent fearful fainiue, he saw a woman who, with affectionate devotion, ; sustained her sick husband and two chil dren on maple sugar and leeks several days before she could get other relief; and, when, at last, relief came, she had to carry the provisions several miles on her back. This woman had taken care of her sick husband since last August, and her family of two children; besides which, she made 100 pounds of maple sugar, cleared the ground and hoed in two acros of spring wheat, and planted some coin and potatoes. She was habited in tatter ed garments." jfcaif An eccentric clergyman, lately alluding in his pulpit to the subject of family government remarked that it is | often said " that now-a-days there is no : family government. But it is false —all false! There is just as much family ! government now as there ever was, just as much as in the days of our fathers ond grandfathers. The only difference is, that then the old folks did the governing; now it is done by the young ones." figrWhen Dr. H. and Lawyer A. ! were walking arm in arm, a wag said to ! a friend, " these two are equal to one highwayman." Why ? was the response. ! " Because rejoined the wag, " it is a law yer and a doctor— your money or your ! Hfc!" I*i m i t As fortitude suffers not the mind to be dejected with any evils, so temper . ance suffers it not to be drawn from hoa- I esty by any allurements.