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VOLUME XVIII.--NUMBER 28.
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POTTER JOURNAL,
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promptly answered, and on receipt by mall of a -:-iie
ment of the c ,-e 1 M t r-.v ,r . ■
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®" free ofy..,i- .-iy J irt Ot t. e Uuiteu gtai-LE.
1, lsob. sp.n-.e. a w,:y lyr. , •
wwwm—anwm—maa at i ■
OLI FSLkS.
I often tliink each tottering form
Tiiat linij-tf along in life's decline,
Once a iieart aj- young, as warm,
As full of idle faults as nnne ?
A I'd each li?.- had its dreams of jov.
it.- own uneq. ailed, (ture romance ;
C;n:j,eiiciug wht t the blu.shing bov
h irsi turtileu at lo\ e'.y woman's glance.
Ai.'i each c -uld tell her tale of youth.
Would think its scenes of love evince
More j aseiou, more nueaithly trntii.
Than any tale before or since,
Yes! they could tell of tender lavs
At mofi .ghl penned m classic shades.
Of days ui >re blight tlian tuodern days—
And maids more fair than modern maids.
Of whimpe rs-in a willing ear ;
Of ki.-.-; - on a blushing cheek ;
Each kl.-vs. each whisper far too dear
< ur modern lips to give or speak ;
Of 1m am.iig eyes and tresses gay,
Eia-iic form and noble brow.
l forms tEat have all pa-sed away,
And left them what we see them now.
And is it thus—<s human love
So very light and frail a thing ?
A: 1 nr. -i y>■ .thV br gh'e*. v.-ion move
F< rever ou time's reffiJesi ?
Must all the eyes tliat now are bright,
And all the lips that told of bliss,
And all the forms so fair to sight,
HeneafL r only come to this !
I i • :i tvLa; art all life's treasures worth.
J t we at length would lose them thus—
If a-i we valu- ino-t ou earth
Eie mug must fade awav from us ?
MISS PREDOSA'S PRINCIPLES.
In IL*O most precise- of country vi!l.-iges,iu
the i ripj iiie.-it ruansiou ever built, dwelt the
most precise maiden ever born—Miss
Preciosa Lockwood. Even in that precise
t- wn, where 'aughter was reckoned one of
i.ic -maijcr sins and the family in whose
iwti.ing the I.glits were seen lurningaftei
wn o . Ivx. a, -.txreconsidered dissipated, there
wa- a v..runt j-ke regarding Lock wo-.1
Ct .tag , which giddy girls dubbed "the
nunnery, a;.J some even went -o far as to
cad M;.-- I J re> -a the "Lady Superior."
Certain y never convent wails closed
: themselves more grimly against mankind,
g< ntle an i simple, old and younz. What
in n.any an excel.ent s] inster has been an
ulectalioD, was genuine with Preciosa.
b 'tig ago, a pretty little cousin, who had
heen tier c uiidante and companion, had
become acquainted with a ra.-cal with a
handsome face and serpent's soul, and had!
elopv . wit.i Lim. They heard of her wear
ing \ civets and diamonds, but no wedding
r.;.g, and drvmg about in Xew Orleans in
a . indaonie enniage, wondered and admir
ed for her beauty, and shunned for her sin.
And at a long silence about her
iomgs, a fa led thing in rags came creep
Tig at night to Mi-s Preciosa's cottage,,
i '-gging 1 i God's sake that she would let
her in to die. Miss Preciosa did the re 1
! verse of what mo?t women would do.—
She gave the sisters hand to the poor vic
tim, nursed her until she died, buried her!
decently, and thenceforward shut her spin-'
ster home to man. She was barelv twentv
>cven and far from plain, and she argued
■ •U:>: something in a stove-pipe hat and
L *. i- has wrought this -ill —all who wear
t-hov ii.'ibi.iinenu must be tabooed.
She kept her resolution. From the poor
house she .- -iected a small servant maid,
not y<rt oid enough to think of "fellows."
As r-' k -he k -pt a hideous old femele, too
far a lvanced in years to think of them.—
"he mi k wasbr night by a German woman
i.ie b'.itchc ; s wife, by request, brought the
joints. Even the grass in the garden,
when it was too long, was cut by a woman,
and it a man approached the the gates an
ci'-ut Deborah, the cook, was seut forth to
parley with him, ani to obstruct his ap
proach.
Having thus made things safe, Miss Pre
ciosa wont to Xew \ ork, and brought
Lome a dead sisters daughter, who had
hitherto been immured in a boarding school
and the arrangements were complete.
Mis.- Luekwood took her niece to church :
a'.-o to weekly meeting. They spent after
no us v ..t with wi low ladies with no grown
up sons, or with spinsters who reside in a
solitary state.
i'he eider lady kept an argu- eye upon
her b ming niece, and bold indeed would
have Ixea the man who dared to address
her.
For her part. Miss Bella Bloom was an
arch hypocrite. She had learned that at
a boarding-school, where ingenuity is ex
hau-t 1 in deceiving the authorities, and
d< ing always exactly w hat is most forbid
den. Bella Bloom came to Lockwood Cot
tage perfecty competent to hoodwink her
aunt.
She did it. Preciosa blessed ber stars
that her niece was well principled. She
li, / 1 men. She wondered how any young
lady c- uld walk, talk, be sociable, and mar
ry wiih ih ui. And when she thought she
Lved in a home where they could not in
trud". 1: 'W thankful she was Aunt Preciosa,
ecu!-Le'. • ;• gue-s.
i .'i l the while Bella was chafinz in
wardly at the restraint, envying girls who
had pleasant little flirtations at will, and
k eping up a secret correspondence with
one "Drar George," who scut letters, under"
c ver, to toe butcher s wile, who brought
the n in with the b- f and mutton, and
saiJ,"B!ss yc. natui will be natur, for all I
i)itoUS ic inc principles cf cf JiJofqiiitj, ifctr?.
CO JDERSP3RT, POTTER COUNTY. FA., TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 1367.
old ipaids; I a gal oust —before Clea
j ver courted me."'
Dear George was desperate. He could
not live without seeing his Bella. He
wrote bitter things about spinster aunts
lie alluded feeling ; y to those rendezvous in j
the garden of the seminary, with Miss
Clover standing sentry at the gate, on the
lookout for governess and enemy. The
first opportunity he was coming to Ploin
acers, and intended to see his Bella or die
Was he not twenty-three, and she seven
teen ? Were they to waste their lives at a
spinster's bidding! Xo!
Mis.- Preci<>a, v ith her argus-eyed watch
i fulness,sat calmly, hoar by Lour, two in
| ches from the locked uoc>r of the cabinet
which contained the gentleman's letters,
and dined from the meats that had aided
in bringing them across the threshold, in
culcating her principles into the mind of
her neice and her handmaiden, the latter of
! whom grinned behind the lady's chair,with-.
out reserve Charity Pratt, having grown
' O O
to be sixteen, also had her secret. It was
the apothecary's boy, who, in his own pe
culiar fashion, had expressed admiration at
church by staring.
A few days after, Dr. Green, the bache
lor minister, called at the collage. Debo
rah went to huff and snap, and was sub
due.] by big eyes. She came in
"Miss," ?aid she, "the clergyman is out
here."
"Where ?" gasped Preciosa.
"In the garden, wantiu' you."'
-Me!"
"1 es, Mi-s.
"You said of course I was out?"
Go, alias. Everybody recieves tueii
pastor."
So the pa-tor was ushered in. He con
versed of church affairs Miss Preciosa an
swer..-! by polite monosyllables. Bella
smiled and stitched. Deborah sat in n
hall chair on guard. Finally, the best
specimen of that bad creature, man, was got i
out ol the aouse sateiy,and the ladies looked
at each other as ... -e might who have been
clo-eted with bear and-escaped un
•44 1
hurt
"lie's gone, aunty." said the hypocrite.
-Thank goo ine— I" said sincere Preciosa. j
"I thought I -hould have fainted X eT
er let it happen again, Deborah. Remem-'
ber, 1 am always ei gaged."
"But he seems a nice, well-spoken, good
behave ! kin 1 of a gentleman," said ancient
Deborah.
"And a clergyman "
"6o lie doe-, soiid Preciosa, "but ap
jearances are deceitful. 1 once knew a
gentleman
"Yes. Mi-.-."
"A Docler of Divinity, Beh
"A e-. Aunt.
"W eil {
U W ho ki-sed a young lady of his con- i
gregation in her father's garden."
"Oh! Aunt!"
"He afterwards married her. I could
never vi.-it her. or like him." "Bicss you,
no." said Deborah. "Xow the best thing
you can do is to have a cup of strong, green !
tea, and something nouri-hing to keep your:
spirits up. Cleaver's wife has just brought i
oysters in." (Private signal to Miss Bella.) |
"li t-she? Oh I so love oyster-." cried
Bella, and she ran to get dear George's
last.
It was a brief one, and in it George
vowed to appear at the cottage when they;
iea?t expected Lim, and demand his be-!
trothed.
That evening, at dusk, Miss Preciosa
walked in the garden alone. She was ;
thinking of a pair of romantic big eyes,
a soft vence : nia softer band, which shej
hal been surorise J into allowing to shake
her's.
"It i< a yity men are so wicked," said
she, and sighed.
Although she was near thirty she looked
very pretty, as she walked in the moon-'
light, forgetting to put on airs and graces
and stiffen her.-e;f. Her figure was very
much like her niece, Bella—so much so
that some one on the other side of the con-.
vent-like wa!', with eyes upon a level with
its upper stone, fancied it was that young
lady. Under this belief he clambered up
and st od ou top, and whispered:
"My dearest, look up and behold your
! George."
And Preciosa, lifting her eyes, beheld a
man on her wall, flung up her hands ia the
air. and uttere d a shriek like that of an en
raged peacock.
The gentleman di- wc-red his mistake,
and en Favoring to retreat, stumbled and '
fell headlong among the n over-pots and
boxes, and lay there quite motionless.
The shriek and the clatter aroused the
house. Deborah, B -3!a and Charity Pratt
rushed to the scene, and found a gentleman
in a sal plight, bloody and senseless, aud
Miss Preciosa half dead with terror.
Bella recognized dear George, fainted in '
good earne-t. Preciosa, encouraged by
numbers, addressed the prostrate youth:
'Tret up. you man. and go. Your wiek
eduessha.- been, perhaps, sufficiently pun
ished. Do go."
"II can't; he'- dead," sail Deborah.
"Oil! what aju Igemeai. Are you sure
he"- dead ?"
I Yes. Miss." I
"Then take him into the house and call
the docter.
They laid him on the bed, and medical
aid came. The poor fellow had a broken
i leg.
He'd get well. Oh, Yes,but Le could not
be moved."
Miss Preciosa could not murder a fellow
creature, aud she acquiesced.
"He can't run off with the spoons until
his leg is better," said Deborah.
"He isn't able to elope with any one,"
said Miss Preciosa. 'and we should be gen
tle with the erring. Who snail we find to
nurse him f"
"Old Toods is competent, Miss," said
Deborah.
"And old Toods came. He, of course,
dwelt in the house. The docter came eve
ry day. The apothecary's boy invaded the
hall with medicines; and finally, when the
young mfin came to his senses, Le desired
to see his friend, Dr. Green.
"Our clergyman his friend?" said Pre
ciosa. "He must have been misled, then
i surely, his cond .ct must have been proper.
May l>e this is the first time he looked over
a wall to make love to a lady. By all
means send for Dr. Green."
1 aus the nunnery was a nunnery no
more. Two men under the roof Three
visiting it daily. \\ hat was the world
coming to ? M:ss Preciosa dared not to
think. Beha was locked in her own room
in the most decorous manner, while her
I aunt was in the house; but when she was
absent Deborah aud Charity sympathized
and abetted, and she talked deliciouely to
dear George, lying on his back, with bis
handsome face so pale, and his spirits so
<ow —poor feliovv I
Troubles always come together. That
evening Miss Preciosa received informa
tion taut legal affair- connected with her
pioperty, which was considerable, demand
ed her presence in New York, and left that
establishment, which never before so much
needed the Lady Superior. She retume 1
after three days, toward evening, no one
expecting her.
"I shall give them a pleasant surprise,"
-he said, ani slipped in the kitchen way.
There a candle burned, and on one chair
-at two people—Charity Pratt and the
druggist's boy. Hh had his arm about
htr waist.
Miss Preciosa gra-peJ the door frame
and shook from head to foot.
"111 go to Deborah, she said. "She
can speak to that misguided girl better
than I."
She faltered forward. Deborah was in
the back area, scouring tea-khives. Before
her stood old Toods. the nurse. They were
talking.
"Since my old woman died," said Tood*,
"I bain t seen nobody scour like you—and
the pies you does make!"
"They ain't better than other folks," eaid
Deborah, grimly coquettish.
"They are," said Toods; and to Miss Pre
ciosa's horror, he foiiowed up the compli
ment by a-kiug for a kiss.
Miss Preciosa struggled with hysterics,
and fl®d parlorward. Alas! a murmur of
sweet voices. She peeped in. Through
tHfe window swept the fragrance of honey
suckle. Moonlight miDgied with that of
the -haded lamp. Bella leaned over an easy
chair, in which reclined George Loveboy .
This time Preciosa was petrified
"Dearest Bella."
"My own George."
"How happy we are."
"Oh, so happy."
"And when shall we be togaiuer again ?
You know I mu-t go. Your Aunt don't
want me here, Bella. I mast tell her.—
Why are you afraid of her ?"
"She's so prim and good, dear soul," said
Bella
"Ah, you do not love me as i do you."
"George!
"Tou don't. Would I let an Aunt stand
between us ? '
"Oh, George, you know I have told you
that nothing could change me. Why, tho'
you had stayed lame; and had to waik
on cruches all your life, it would make no
difference, though I fell in love with you
for your walk, I don't deny it."
"Oh, oh, oh," from the doorway, checked
this speech Those la-t words had well
nigh killed Miss Preciosa Lockwood.—Hys
terics supervened, and in their midst a gen
tleman was announced—the Rev. Peter
Green.
"Show him in." said Preeiosa; "I need
eouu-el. Perhaps he may give it." And
for the first time in her life she hailed the
entrance of man.
Mr Loveboy left the room as stealthily
and a? as possible. Miss Bella
followed him. Charity was in the pantry
hiding her head, and Deborah returned to
the cellar.
Alone the Lady Superior received the
Rev. Peter Green. She falieree and blush
ed.
"You are, I presume, already aware of
the fact that I am much disturbed in mind."
said she.
"I es, madam, that is perceptible."
"You are my spiritual adviser, sir. To
you, though a man, I turn for advice "and
i she shod a tear or two. "My own house- <
hold has turned against me!" and she told
him all that she had seen.
The Rev. Peter made big eyes at her,
and broke the truth gently.
"My dear madam, do you know that old
Jonathan Toods and your faithful Deborah
intend to unite their fortunes in the bonds
of hoiy wedlock next Sabbath ?"
"Ob, what Jo I hear? "
! "The truth, madam. Can you hear
more ? "
"I hope so."
"Then it is time that you should be in
i formed that Miss Bella Bloom an i Mr.
George Loveboy have been engaged a rear
They have corresponded regularly. It was
to see her he ehmed the garden wall and
met with this accident. Don't give awav,
my dear madam—don't."
"You are very kin.]," said Miss Preciosa,
"but it's awful. What would you advise
me to do ? "
"1 should say. allow Toods and Deborah
to marry next Sunday."
"Yer, sir."
"And Charity and ZadJock on the day
■ they have fixed And I should sanction
the betrothal of your niece and Mr. Love
boy, and allow me to unite them at some
, appointed day before the alter."
"My own niece,'" said Miss Preciosa.
Oh. my own niece."
"Do you so seriously object to weddings?"
asked the pastor.
"No—no," said Preciosa. "It's that aw
. courting I dislike."
"1 agree with you," said the pastor. "I
. Lave resolved that when I marrv I will
; come to the point at once. Miss Preciosa,
i the parsonage needs a mi-iress. I know of
no lady I admire and esteem as I do YOU.
Will you make me happy ? Will you be
.my wife ?"
Preciosa said nothing. IJV*r cheeks burn
ed; ber lips dropped. He came a little
closer. He made bigger eves at her thag
ever. At last his lips approached and
tcuciied her cheek, an! she -aid nothing.'
In such a case, "speech is silver, but si
lence is gold
Deborah wa- married Sun lav, it
her tortieth birthday. Charity on Tue- lav,
Miss Bloom gave h-r hand to George Love.
Boy in a month, and on the same dav a
brother clergyman united Preciosa and Dr,
Peter Green.
AnJ*the nunnery was broken up forever.
L_
JOII VSOVi LOGIC.
If we would see the extreme rashness
and folly* of the President's partisan decla
rations, wherein he speaks of Congre-s as
an incompetent body, because certain State
are not represented in it, we have only to
I carry them out to their logical sequence.
If this reasoning is corrwt, then Con
gress fell into that condition the moment
the eleven rebel States tore themselves
away from the Union and recalled their rep
re-entatives, and we have bad no Congres
since. Then the whole national debt is in
valid, an! the national securities worthless.
Then every enactment of Congress since
1361 is as null an! void as are the ordinan
ces of secession. Then the second election
of Mr LINCOLN WAS no election at all. AN
DREW JOHNSON never was Vice President
of the United States, and consequently is
not now the President The logic, when
carried out, cannot stop short of this. If'
the secession of the rele!s worked such dis
asters as these, it was more successful than
any of us supposed tt wa*.
A llcautHui LI tack. Team.
The following in regard to a very fine
team of horses appears in the Spirit oj
the Times:
"Central Park and Harlem Lane have
been pleasantly startled several times with
in the la-t fortnight, by the appearance of
quite a novelty in the shape of a very beau
tiful team of six black horses, rigged in
tandem fashion. They were driven by
their owner, Mr. A. 11. Bellows, of Walpole,
Conn , who handled them with great skiil;
and a they dashed along at a tine rate of
speed, the equipage certainly out-styled,
anything which we have yet seeD in the
Park. Mr. Bellows commenced manipu
lating this team by first driving two ot
them in this fa-hion, then four and then
six. He has still two more hatdsome and
stylish black horses which will match well
with the others, and we believe it is his
intention to hitch tbera in with the six, and
show us a lantern of eight some time dur
ing the week. This will be a plucky per
formance. and those eight jet blacks, with
their long manes and tails, guided by their
delicate white lines, and dashing aloug at
half speed, will be a fine sight to see. Bv
the by, Mr. Bellows drove the six we speak
of as a six-in-hand over the Fa-hion Course
one dav last week, making two half-miles
in 1:31—1:33."
—The report of the conversation between
the President and Mr. Eggleston, publish
ed originally in an Ohio paper,is pronounced
to be glaringly sensational and incorrect.
—A Cargo of St. Louis flour, from New ;
Orleans, arrived at Portland, on Sundav.
and others are to follow—this mode of
transportation being more speedy than bv
I rail. * i
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Elihu Burritt on Abraham Lincoln.
Eiihu Burritt, now in Engl-md. has just
published a characteristic treatise on "The
Mission of Great Sufferings," which is rep
jesented in English papers as a work of
singular interest. One says: "It discourse*
of suturing, its mission a'd its power, with
wonderful profundity, intelligence and pa
thos. In the last chapter, Mr. Burritt
comes naturally to the tragic events of the
present day, among which an appropriate
place is given to
.! . ..
the life and death of ltncoln',
* e now come to another event which
moved powerfully the whole of Christendom,
and produced an effect upon the foremot
nations which no occurrence of that or any
other order had ever accomplished. It was
an event that came in a moment with no
, preni i-'D. it was the sudden extinction
of one human life except its light. There
was an honest-hearted man who came up
out of the commonest walks of the people,
and was raised to the Presidential chair of
the American republic to represent and ex
ecute its will. The lifting up of that man
to fill this high place split the nation in
sunder. The chasm was dark and wide.
The struggle to close it on one side and
widen it on the other was long and terrible,
Hait a million of precious lives were thrown
into the breach, an i it ran red an 1 deep
. jWitu t.ie test blood of the severed nation.
The tall, gaunt man of furrowed face and
pwiintive e_\es, who stoo l in Ins piace with
stead} faith am purpose, being in the stat
ure of his elevation what Saul was to tW
l-rae.,tes trom his shoulders upwards,' wis
from beginning to cud the b-itt of Utire
and denunciation, much at home a>. ! more
abroad. In a certain sense the p-x.ole of
the North might have sail, 1j- I,,>e -
iniquities of us a'!. For all wh bar- i toe
I northern cau-e hit him an J bruis i p.
sptnt with their hard and cruel s.vig N
In addition to ail this birdeu of re
proacli piled upon his ebonM-rs, because
thev were higher than the people's
he was and whom he served, in, p
antecedents and associations were liir.-wrj
in his lace in all the epithets that ndi )!•<
, com J invent. Foreign satirist, lampooned
him with their criticisms and caricatured
!l "? ? r l , P euc,k Friend, fell w*y
an. foes fell on him, as the sanguinary con
flict went on from year to year. The fur
rows ot his face deepened; the sallow ridges
iOt .OS brow showed the mole walks of care
were ploughing night and day his inner
>Ol.. But as those sad, deep and solemn
eyes withdrew farther inward, h v
beamed with the old steady light of faith
an J hope. And according to Jus faith was
it given to see that for which his spirit
prayed with longing most intense, H*
saw the long and bloody struggle concluded",
He saw the wide rent in the nation closing
| A ith a foot on either side, he siretbeJ out
ins long, gaunt arms and ess ved to press
the two sections, like estrangJd sisters to
Lus nroai and tender breast.
" His was a great life, but his death was
greater still—the greatest, perhaps, that
had moved the word for a tbousan 1 vear-.
When he stood with his tender "arms
.around the North andSouth, holding them
to his heart that both might soften"them*
at its spirit, his life's work was lone. Tbeu
xT-r-." l t ha sub:ime mission f hie death,
V hl,e sun ken eyes were shining with
the g adness of his soul at the giv
en him, as to M rses on Pisgah's top. of'"the
Canaan side of his country's future, in a
moment their light was quenched for ever
on earth. An assassin pierced hi? brain as
,with a bolt of hgntning; aud he fell, and
great was the fail ot that single man. With
him fch a million enemies of hi - cause and
country at home and abroad. It* the liwt
act of his life was to close the rift in a con*
tmenr, the first act ol his death was to close
the chasm between the two hemisphere*.
- <-■' er before was England brought so near
to his country. In the great overflow of
. r sympathy the mother country was
rt >oded and tided towards her first-bom
daughter weeping at the bier of the great,
departed; and she bent over the mourner
with words ot tender condolence, lilonl
is thicKer tlian water; and the latent in
stincts of nature came forth in g nerous
speech and sentiment towards a sorrowing
nation In that overflow of fellow-feeling,
, the sympathy with the South an 1 its un
righteous cause was drowned, or burnt up
by a spirit of indignation at the taking off.
which seemed to consume at a breath the
animus that had sided with secession,
| 1 here was light as well as heat in that fl-*;
and in that light thousands of southern
sympathizers saw in a different asoect the
cause they had upheld."
—llussia is again announced a* m iking
extensive war preparations— a proceeding
that Austria and lurkey are verv mucli
I dis tressed as it Ixodes tbein no it > >d.
: —i no Scientific American estimate*
1 that twenty tons of pistage stamps were
; used last year —or bv suj>erff :i.! measure*
1 raent forty-eight and a half sq iv -nde- of
I paper.