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VOLUME X. NUMBER. 10.
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Business ifotrtjs.
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JOHN S. MA.\.\,
ATTORNEY AND cot N.SKLLUR AT LAW.
C'oudrrport. l*a., will attend lbs- several
t Hurts in Potter and M Kean (Jouiilie--. All
b isin.'s eiitrtistaii in liia cure will receive |
jnoiiipt attention. Ollicv ou Main St., oppo
site tiiw Court lloii.e. In: I
K. W K.\U\"
ATTtUINEY AT L.\\V, Coudersport. Pa., w ill
figulail. attend the Courts in l'otter and
tii. adjoin on; Co.iuiics. 10:1 j
A Kill I KG OLMSTED,
ATTORNEY k COI'S.SELLOK AT LAW,
Coudersport. Pa., will attend lo ail business;
entrusted to bis care, with prouiptucs and
bdrlily. Office in Teuiperain e block, sec- '
iiiid tloor. Via.ti St. 10:1
ISAAC BENSON.
ATToIIMIA AT LAW. Coudersport. I*a., will
attend to all business entrusted to hint, with
mre and promptness. Office corner ot W e.t
aud Third at*. lu:i )
L I' W I l.i.is 1 u.\,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Well, bo: o\ Tioga Co.. j
Pa., a ill attend the Courts iu Potter and
it h'eaii Coi tities. ;>:l3
A I'. CONK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Wellsboro", Tioga Co..
Pa , will rogi.lath ultrnd the Courts o:
Potter Coitiiiv. 0:13
ii. \V. BENTON,
R'SVKYiHt AND CONVKYA.NCKR. Ilay
lluii'l P. t >., AIT-g tny l'p M ) Potter Co., Pu..
wilt attend to nil ouiuc>* in ins lilt--, with
sarw nut dispatch. y:33
W. K. KING,
fcIUVEYOR. HiaiTSMAN \ND CONVEY
ANCER. Aturlh)>orl. M Keau Co.. Pa., will
au*u i to business lor nun-resident land
holders, upon rea-oua'de terms, llclettu- ;
ss jjtv ull reijuticd. P. S.—Maps oi any
pari of th* County ma le to order. U:l3
O. T. ELLISON,
1 LACTICI Nti I'll YSICI AN, Coudersport, Pa.,
rrsp ettuily intorius th citizens ot tile v i|-
Jsev and vicinity that tr* will proiuply re
si-io I to all calls or prolessioual services,
tinier on da in it., in building' lortuetly t>c
tupiwi by t*. W. hlli-. Km). U:'2'2
c. a. Jos Ki. Law is mass. A. v. J ONLS.
JUNKS, MANN st JUNKS,
liKALKUS IN Ilii CttultS. CKttCKKUY.
Aiwislwaie. Pout* A Shoes, Cioccries and
Pruriaious, Main st., Coudersport, I'u.
10:1
l 01, LISa SMIVM. IS. A. JO.NL.i.
SMITH Si JUNKS,
I KALKIW l\ lUK'tis. MKIMCINKS. PAINTS,'
ttila. i suit Articles. .S.uuoui ry. l>ry tlosnls, !
tuio eiies, Ac., Main t., I uudcrsj.ort. Pa.
in: I
l>. K. UK.MSTKIL
J KVLKH IN HUT KKAUY-MADK
lo.niuj{. Crockery, tiroceries, Ac., Mailt st.,
( uudwrojMirt, Pa. 10:1
M W. MANN,
I'EAI.KIt IN P.OOKS A STATIONERY. MAfi
>/:larS and M'Otc, N. W. comer ut Mailt
4*4 rnird ts., Coudersport, Pa. 10:1
K. It. IIARItINUTUN,
EIjLEK. Coudersport. Pa., having
rJ * HI jSehpu .taker A Jackson >
ptor* wijl rajry the Watch and Jewelry
i>*.fj U eiii there. A tin<> assortment of Jew
i; i ous autly ou hand. Watches and
Jew clfy Caret ully tf paired, ill 111- be-t style,
on the t,,,i;iei notice —all work wan anted.
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HKM;\ J Ul.\lSTKi>,
(srCCKMKOB To JAVJK.S W. SMITH.)
UKALKIMN STOVES. TIN A SHEET IRON
W AUK, Mai), t , }' ( c;trly oppo-itc the Court
IfinuM'. CottdeTspiirt, Pa. Tin and Sheet
Iron V\ re made to order, iu good style, ou
short notice. |:L
i'ui HKItSI'URT HOTKL,
P- P. (iIiASSMIRE, Proprietor, Comer ot
dam and Second Street-, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co., Pa. U;44 i
ALLEGANY liul Ml,
PA MILL VI. MILLS, Proprietor, Coleshnrg.
Poller t 0., Pi.., seven utiles north ot Cou-
Utspoil, ou the W *ll. vih Road. a: 4
potter HottrtuvC
Jjtiirg.
LITTLE POOLS AND (JRETT FIMJLS.
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And when in youth's too tleeting hour* j
\ ou roiiui the earth uione,
And have not sought some loving heart, J
'i hat yo may make your own :
Remember woman's priceless worth,
And think when pleasures pall
That little fool* will love too much,
Rut great ones not at all.
And il a friend deceived you once,
Absolve poor human kind,
Nor rail again-t your fellow-man
\\ itli malice in your mind ;
Hut iu your d lily iiA.-rcourse,
Remember, lest you fall
• Th it little l'ools ronlide t.o much,
Rut great ones not at all.
C'UARI TFS MACK iv.
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LelU'r lrum Mr. Lcn H Saiilli.
. To the Editor <</ The X. I'. Tribune :
Bnt: In your leader respecting inv
gills ol land to colored men, you find more
occasion for commending me and for
blaming them than the case reallv atfords.
It was not I, but my father, who toiled
to pay for the land. It is easy to give
away what we easily get.
1 sold the best and gave away the poor
est ol my land. .Some of it was given to
schools, Home of it to white men, ami
-omc of it to colored men. My consent-;
ing to sell any of it shows that 1 was per
haps a better land-reformer iu theory than j<
| iu practice.
I confess that my expectations from this .
measure have not been fully realized. Ot ;
the three thousand colored men to whom
1 gave land, probably less than titty have i
taken and eontimie to hold possession of!
their grants. What is w*or.->e, half of the.
three thousand, as I judge, have either .
sold their laud, or been so careless as to
allow it to be sold for taxes.
Much, however, can be said iu excuse
f.r them. The great body of the land, i
which I gave to colored men, is in the,
Counties of Ks.-ex and Franklin, some 20 j I
to JO miles west of l.ake Champlain. i
The Winters there are long, the snows.,
; deep, and the soil thin. White men who
dwell there can support their families only ,
by very*hard work and very frugal habits. ,
\\ hy, then, considering the character of i
the colored people, should we expect them
to do much iu such a country ' Most of
the parcels 1 gave them in the central
part of the State they are occupying. Is
it unreasonably to suppose that they would!'
he occupying the other parcels also had 1
they been equally inviting?
i referred t< the character of the Col- 1
ored people. It is improving, hut still far
from what it should he. Anionic them 1
are intelligent and noble men and women. |
but the mass are ignorant and thriftless.
You and I have the right to complain of ;
l item, since we have demanded just ice in
their behalf, and have uot contributed to 1
fortu and perpetuate their undesirable!
character. They have not this right who;
ilaiiv their manhood and shut them away
from the ballot-box, and school, and om
nibus, and table; and thus do what they
can to necessitate a bad character in the j
colored people.
Uur colored people complain of your
treatment of them. 1 think myself that
it is sometimes too rigorous, though, in
the meiu, I candidly approve it. You
are their friend in demanding that they
shall, by tlu'ir own irood conduct, redeem
themselves from their deep debasement.
You deal but justly with them, when you
declare that their own bad influence goes
further than the arts ot the worst slave
holders to uphold Slavery.
Fo far frotu making their wrongs and
outrages an excuse for their continued
degredution, the free colored people should,
in view of these wrongs and outrages, j
arouse themselves to the ir res is table de
termination toeijual and surpass their per
secutors iu all that honors manhood. They
should swear that they will be Pariahs
and lepers no longer. To this end, they
should tjiiit the towns in which they art
wont to congregate, and where they are
but servants-, and should scatter themselves
over the country in the capacity of far
mers and mechanics. They should cease
from the habit of wasting their earnings
in periodical balls, They should never
wet their lips with intoxicating drinks nor
defile them with tobacco. They should
never so war upon their self-respect as to
join a church which -pares Slavery, or
join a political party which knows law for
Slavery.
It was, perhaps, needless for tne to say
even this little in reply to your article be
fore me. Uur colored people well know
'that, for nearly a quarter of a century my
lips and pen have been urging them to
save themselves ami deliver their enslav-'
td race. GKKRIT SMITH, i
j Petcrboro, Aug. ", I SOT. (
(fm'iid io llfj iViiß'ipK's of Jrtfc jUiiKJriKij, wd 1K of iiloryilly, JutetyJifiv I(avs.
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1857.
Tlio Deed tor tlie .Sale of Hie
Main Line—tleauliiuft Piece of
W orkuiaiiMliip.
The act of the drama, says the ITarris
burg Trtryrajih of the dOth, was litially
, executed this morning, by the signature
! of A. U. Curtin, Esq., Secretary of the
Ujoiuiuonwcaith of Pennsylvania, to the
J deed conveying the Main Line of Public
improvements to the Pennsylvania Kail
road Company. These improvements, for
which the State has spent an enormous
amount of money, have iioaliy passed into
tlie hands of a Company of the best busi
ness men iu the State, and it remains to
be seen whether they wdl be able to man
age tlieni in such a manner as will re
ward the stockholders for their heavy in
vestment*. Tlie State having lost large
amounts in their management, we hope
that the company may meet with better
wucccss, and be amply paid for their trou- :
ble.
The 30th day of July may, therefore,
be hailed as a day of KXI.IKE by the tax
payers of this great State. Their State
debt has virtually been reduced this d:tv
the sum of s>:\ k.\ millions and a half
of HoLLARS; the Pennsylvania railroad
having paid that amount in cash and bonds
to the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania for
the works, and this money must be ap
plied immediately to the reduction of the
State debt —although the company does
not pay the whole amount of the purchase
money in'cash, yet they will pay interest
on their builds, consequently the people
will be relieved from the payment of in
terest ou the Srate debt to that amount.
The deed as executed is written on
parchment in a bold and plain' hand,;
handsomely bound in Turkey morocco in
folio form. The book containing the deed,
contains also, a handsomely embellished ,
title page, decorated with a beautiful eo.it
of-arms and other suitable devices; the,
act providing for the sale of the Main
Line; the proclamation of the Governor
offering the same for sale are also bound
iu the book, and finally the receipts of the
purchase money and bonds to tile amount
of seven millions and a half, signed by
the proper accounting ollicers, closed this
pleasing drama.
Subsequently the Governor made proc
lamation of the i'uet, and from and aftcr
Saturday last all the otheers oil the uiaiu
line were iu the employ of the Railroad
Company. How long they will remain so
depends on their behaviour, as inefficiency.!
neglect, druuketitiess, dishonesty, and oth
er relics of State management will au
doubt hereafter meet with prompt reward
iu the shape of a dismissal.
1 Vow Slur In the Wed.
We observe iu the Mis.murs iJc/nocrtit
some of the first fruits of the emancipa
tion movement iu that state :
"The sales of public lands in this dis-'
triet, within the last sixty days, have
reached 4t>tJ,UUU acres —entered almost
exclusively by persons from the free states
—Ohio and I'eniisylvania being largely
represented ainuiitr the purchasers. Tlus
amount of entries exceeds that of the
three previous years at the Springfield !
office 1
Uur readers will recollect that the land
register at Warsaw, published in this pa
per, some weeks ago. that .JUO.UUU acres
had been entered in that district within
about the same length of time, ami that
the office was in consequence closed until
further notice. About two thousand
acres per day are being entered in the!
Jaek-on district. Af I'alinyra there are
only, we are informed, about 50,000 acres
of govern nient land now subject to entry.!
In the northwestern part of the state,j
emigrants are crowding in from lowa,
where lands have become too high for
actual settlers to pun base. They have;
consequently turned their attention to-
Missouri, where lands at reduced prices
eau be had, and a milder climate, and a
more fertile mil oiler greater inducement*
to farmers. The prospect of Missouri
becoming a free state is a settled convic
tion iu the minds of the people of the;
north, and to this significant fact we owe
ihiit unbaralleled activity in our land mar
ket."
These facts are eloquent. They show
how promptly emigration responds to the
call for labor iu the slave states, and how
si tuple is the remedy for the decaying
tendencies of southern society. -A\ bile
their demagogues are quarrelling with
every one who will not make the propu
tion of slavery the chief end of govern
ment, their lands are wearing out under
a wretched and impoverishing system of
culture, labor i< become more scarce with
them, their property is depreciating, their
enterprise discouraged, their schools are
deserted their newspapers stop, and final
ly, private and publicly bankruptcy is
hanging like a black cloud over all the
states under the control of this class oi
men. llotv suddenly is tlie prospect
changed in Missouri within the short pe
riod of two years, or less, by the free la
-1 bor movetucuts of the independent and
vigorous band of young statesmen to
i whose hands fortunately, tlie future des-
tinies of thes noble state seem about to
' be committed.
The facts stated by T the Democrat go'
far to confirm an impression we have
indulged fur some mouths part, that Mis
souri will never again give her Presi
dential vote for a slavery propagandist.— j
A R . Y. Ecr. I W.
FROM" MINNESOTA.
Tillr1 Week ol tli<? Constitu
tional Convention.
From The Hintuiolian. July 31.
We ngyiu call the attention of the poo-!
PL to the fact that the third week of the !
i session of the Goustituiioual Convention I
I will close to-morrow, and as yet there is i
no sign of yielding on the part of the!
Democratic factious minority, who meet
once :t day in the Council Chamber.—
They have raised the lust man they can !
procure on any pretext, to take part irt
their illegal deliberations, and they only
number ol—j list one half of the number
'of members which they claim that the i
Convention consists of. Thus they have I
met and adjourned, doing nothing, from j
1 day to day. There they are, with six i
I Pembina men seated as " Delegates," two!
lof whom never received a vote for the;
place which they hold, and the third a !
'resident of Hennepin County.
They have finally concluded to go on
with this fifty-four—being less than a
!quorum—ami make a Constitution.—
.Judge Flandreau shakes his Government
;gold at the Republicans, and brags that
tlie Ad mi nist ration and Congress are on
their side, and will sanction their Con
stitution let what may happen. Those'
men, iu fact, care not what tlie people of
Minnesota thenk of their course. Their
reliance is u|xm Government money and
Government rascality. The legally-orgau- \
ized Convention is still hard at work,
and progressing rapidly with it* business.'
ft almost seems that its members will
| have their Constitution completed and
before the people before the bog us it es
commence work. The minority worthies
may rest assured they have got themselves
into a mortal warfare with their oppo
j nents, and there will be no letting up on
that side.
From all parts of the Territory we
have the most gratifying intelligence of
the firmness of the Republican masses.
The people of our party feel that their
, representatives are right, and bid them J
'stand firm. During the past week maiiv |
of the delegates have been home, and
they all report, " all right." Large and
enthusiastic meeting* have been address-'
led iu Steele and Waseca counties, bv
Messrs. Cogswell and McKune, and in
Winona by Mr. \\ ilsoii. The people
say to these gentlemen, "We know you
are right —go ahead !" On the other
hand, the Democratic press and the Dem
ocratic people, either say nothing, or else
lcoudeitiutliecour.se of their members.
I The St. Cloud Ad re rt iter ( Democrat ie)
considers both parties in the wrong.
! i
Tlie Inliiienet' ol' Slavery on
lite Line tils.
An interesting essay on the " Mora)
Influence on Slavery on the South," is
contained in a pamphlet recently publish
ed by John I'. Jewett A Co., of Boston,
entitled " A Reply to Frof. Bledsoe's Es
say on Liberty and Slavery." This pam
phlet i> written by an intelligent citizen
of Virginia, and contains a firm hut dis
| passionate protest against what the writer
calls the great heresy of Calhoun, that
slavery is a blessing.
We make the following extract from its
pages which affords a curious illustration
of the state of the fine arts at the capita)
of \ irginia :
" There was once in Richmond a saloon
of antiquities. We remember iu that eol
; lection an Apollo, a Medicean Venus, a
! Rorghese Gladiator and a Laoeobn. Some
evidence of the utter want of taste for the
tine arts may be found in the fact that
these priceless types of ancient art have
disappeared, and in vain does some de
votee to the sublime art of sculpture in
quire ' whither V
" We might suppose that some rapaci
ous Yerrcs, almost compensating for the
; vice of avarice by an appreciation of the
beautiful, 1 ijoud piUchcrrim utn Jee it
ult*tufera y ' had secretly, in the dearth ol
taste elsewhere, appropriated these mas
terpieces to the decoration of his own
• ■ abode.
"This would have been our own solu
tion ot the mvsterious abstraction of these
v valuable models for the student of design,
• were it not that one of our civil rumbles
- brought its suddenly in amazed and sor
! rowing contact with the noblest of them
- all, the Lacobn, defaced, mutilated, and
I weather stained, in the yard of the tnedi
t cal college, side by side with the huge
- hone of the fossil mastodon, as little
- garded and certainly less comprehended
1 than the mightv relic of the greater mas
> ter, whose hand touted the one and whose
-jinspiration dictated the other."
.Vlr. Hueliiiuan s Southern Ex
posure.
The speech of Senator Brown, of Mis-i
jsissippi, in to-day's paper, throws addi
tional and highly important light upon
the secret policy of President Buchanan,;
as well as upon the professions and pledges i
upon which he obtained his nomination, |
which Senator Brown was one of the!
| committee appointed by the Cincinnati
Couvcntiou to communicate to him.
The acquiescence of the South iti the
| nomination of so unreliable u man as Mr.'
, Buchanan has always had a strange ap-|
' poaraitee, and gave room fur a suspicion
of a secret understanding between the two!
! parties, and ot concessions by the 1101111-
! uee more liberal thau it would be pru
i dent to disclose to the country at large;
and now we have the proof "strong as
! holy writ" in the authoritativ declarations
of his chief southern spokesman, the Sen
ator from Mississippi
It is well known that in Mississippi, I
Brown speaks for Mr. Buchanan, and is
at the head of the Administration party, j
as distinguished from the states-rights or
lire-eating faction, headed by General
| Quitman and Jefferson Davis, Brown's
senatorial colleague. Senator Brown's'
i avowals iu Mr. Buchanans behalf are
therefore virtually of an official character.
We do not doubt that the President
would desire Mr. Browu to keep the in
formation communicated in the speech
published to-day to himself, but the exi
gencies of a hot contest for a reelection ;
to the Seuate have compelled the oracle
to speak out. The fire-eaters were de
j nouiicing liiiu as the supporter of an Ad-i
i ministration which had sent to Kansas Gov- '
ernor M alker, an avowed advocate of pop
ular sovereignty, even when it might re
sult in the exclusion of slavery from tin
territory. What reply does Mr. Buchan
an authorize him to make? Why sim
ply that "Mr. Buchanan pronounces;
squatter sovereignty one of the most
damnable heresies ever broached," and
promises that "he shall leave nothing un
done to throttle it." Senator Brown, as
the leading supporter of the Presideut at
the South, promises that, :LS a proof of
; the sincerity of this declaration, Walker
shall he removed, and that if he is not.
Mr. Buchanan will deserve aud receive
the execrations of the united South —
that she would denounce him as "false"
to the principles of the Kansas hill, and
a traitor to her best interests."
We ask tlie Northern supporters of the
Administration how they like this inside
view of its policy. What do they think
of Mr. Buchanan's .southern exposure ?
AT. Y. Ere. Cost.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT IIIUIISIMRE. j
—The Ilarrisbnrg Telegraph says that
on Wednesday night last, a canal boat
man, named Tomach, a resident nf Loy-.
alslock, Pa., while lying asleep oil the
deck of his boat, came into collision with
a bridge neur Iliglispire, which struck'
on the hack part of the head, and knock
ed therefrom the perietal bone, which
WHS found shortly after as free from ex-j
traucous substance as if it had been ex
tracted by tlie hands of a demonstrator'
of anatomy. The wounded man, of course,
was instantly aroused hy the concussion,
and what is most rduiarktble, rose to his
feet, perfectly uucoucious of the extent
of the injuries lie had received hy the;
collision. Tlie slight pain in the hack
of his head gave Itiui no trouble whatever,
and it was only after lie had dressed him
self, and one of his comrades had found
the bone on deck, that he was made
i aware of the unfortunate mutilation of
his caput. After this discovery, the
wounded man was taken to llighspire,
when Dr. Rutherford, of our city, wa*
.summoned, who after uadtiug the man's
brain, and reptairtnj it, and arranging l
the splinters of the adjacent parts of the
skull in a proper manner, informed him
that was all he could do for him. With
this the wounded man departed, in a per
fectly ratioua' state, to his home at
Loyal sock. We doubt if the experience
of any member of the medical profession
qua show a similar case to the above.
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA. —Away among
the Alleghenies there is a spring, so small
that a single ox, on a summer's day
could drain it dry. It steals its unobtru
sive way among the hills, till it sbread.".
out iu the beautiful Ohio. Thence it
strcaches away a thousand miles, leaving
on its banks more than a hundred vilages
and cities, and many thousand cultivated
farms, and bearing on its bosom more
than half a thousand steamboats. Then
t joining tlie Mississippi, it streatches away
and away some twelve hundred miles till
it falls into the great emblem of eternity.
It is one of the great tributaries of the
! ocean, which, obedient only to God, shall
roll and roar till the angel, with one foot
i on the sea and the other on the land,
- shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear
1 that time shall he no longer. ri'o with
.'mortal influence. It is arill —a rivulet
• —a river, an ocean, boundless and iatli
jomlesis as eternity. —Escharjc.
{ FOLK CENTS.
TERMS.--$1,25 PER ANNUM.
Gov. M ALK.F.R lias raised his siege of
Lawrence —the fourth to which that re
nowned citadel ot Free Labor has beeu
subjected—and sent off his dragoons in
quest of hostile Indians on the further
prairies. lie has accomplished not one
of the ostensible objects of his military
demonstration; for the bogus taxes re
main uncollected, the home-made Char
ter and Municipality are in full blast,
and the People have just held their State
Flection under the Topeka Constitution,
re-aHirming that instrument by a vote
iu Lawrence of 062 \ eas to 2 Nays.
\ et the real object of this bullying dem
onstration lias been effected iti the carry
ing of the South-Western Election for
Buchanan. The thunders of the South
ern Conventions against Walker's Inau
gural and his repeated pledges that
the People of Kansas should be se
cured a fair vote on the adoption of the
bogus Constitution, were quelled by the
parade of troops before Lawrence and the
windy fulininations of "rebellion" and
• 4 treason" to which the people *>f that
stiff-necked city were subjected by the
worthy .successor of Shannon and Wood
sou. Walker's dragoons have done good
service in North Carolina, Alabama,
Kentucky and Tennessee, but none at all
in Kansas, unless it be to place the few
deserters from the Free-State standard iu
a position where they may be conspicuous
ly observed and admired. Henceforth,
we trust, there can be little or no differ
ence among Free-State men as to the
propriety of her coming into the Union
if she is ever admitted on the application
of her own people, under the denounced
and vililied Topeka Constitution. —N. V.
Tribune, 10th.
TKKMKNUOUS BIOAMY —The fat wo
man, on exhibition last week near the
post-office, we understand, was named
Dclauv, and her husbands resides iu New
York city. She has beeu traveling about
the country lately in company with an
Irish agent, named O'Neal, and has done
a very fair business. During their trav
els, the agein besaine enamored of the
fair proportions of .Mrs Delan&y, (she
weighs 560 pouuds,) and last week at
tacked the mountain of flesh with a mar
riage proposition. The u frail, fair one"
could not withstand the elo juent love of
O'Neal, and accepted his proffer. They
were mar;ied in this city on ■ Sunday
night, and on Monday night they de
parted for Memphis Tennessee. Yester
day a telegraphic despatch was received
in this city, anouneiug that Wiliam Del
aney would arrive here to-day to tarvel
with his wife and unite their fortunes.
What courc he will pursue when he
learns that his wife is a bigamist, uuo has
shared iiej charme with a " bould adven
turer," we do nut know, but presume he
will follow their flight to the South —
Piitsbnry Post.
A RESIGNATION — .1 Cimlb njr .1
iVitb/e ( '/tam/>inn, —Judge WLLMOT has
rfeJgucd his Judgeship and elnillenged
(Jrtteral Packer to meet him on the ros
trum, there to discuss before the people
the various political topics of the day. —-
Let Gen. Backer accept this ehallemre,
and our word for it, if he has the iutciii
ovnee it is said he has and the honesty
which :i c:m<lhhtto tor the Governorship
• ai,//it to have. In' will admit that he has
no business to be a candidate at all iu
Pennsylvania, but might make a very
suitable outtJu another latitude.
Come, gallant General, accept the chal
lenge, ainl just permit Mr. WII.MOT to
emvince vour misguided adherents that
there is no more Democracy in pm thau
there is red blood iu a frog.
Will you please accept the challenge,
dear G -ucral, ami your orgius cm pub
lish your speeches instead of editorials.
After your defeat, General, if Gov.
\\ ulkcr has been disposed of, you might
try your hand in Kansas. — I'hit. Sun.
I SAI.TIXU llAV. —This is uow, we b,
lieve, extensively practiced, aud judici
ously done, we have no doubt it is well.
Those who are in the habit of placing suit
j before cuttle, know that during the winter
season they will take but little. A cow
consuming a ton of buy in the cold
months, we are confident would not vol
untarily consume two quarts of salt—and
yet many farmers are in the habit of ap
plying t-ujht quart* to a ton! This is prob
ably the source of many of the recent dis
eases among cattle, it leads, also, to the
; slovenly practice of petting in the hay in
I a damp or partially cur d state, under the
idea that the salt will preserve all its vir
tues.
DANUF.R TO TOIIAOCO USKUSS. —Not
only are liquor manufacturers engaged in
the nefarious practice of using poisonous
ingredients in their destructive business,
but it fo stated that tobacconists are now
using prusaii' arid to give an almond fla
vor to the leaf, iu consequence of which
many smokers have lott the use of their
lower limbs.