The Potter Journal

The Magazines for July are all received in good season this month—except Emerson's, not yet arrived. First came along the Atlantic, with its Summer-weather reading—airy and refreshing—original, genuine, spicy literature, just fitted for lolling with beneath the grateful shadow of some noble Maple or Balm of Gilead. Many of its contents are continued from the preceding number, making this one all the more needed by its thousands of readers.

Next came along that regular visitor of many years, which has recently been 'annihilated' by a criticism of the Richmond South—just as Northern literature is apt to be when it touches the slavery question, over-the-left—but notwithstanding which the July number of Harper's Magazine has found its way to our table, without any diminishing of the usual interest of its contents.

'Old Knick,' too, that aged, though far from infirm, representative of American first-class Magazine literature, is next before us to claim a monthly tribute of our sincere respect for its real worth. Vive la Knickerbocker!

Last week we published two essays by students of the Coudersport Academy—one by a young lady, (whilom a compositor in the Journal Office), before the County Teachers Association—the other by a young gentleman before the Literary Association of the Academy at its semi-monthly meeting. This week we publish another by a young gentleman, read before the Teachers' Association. We need scarcely say that the subject of Education needs no apology for the space it occupies in our columns, it being the first and foremost interest of our young and growing county: and that which, in conjunction with Agriculture, is to make this county one of the most prominent in the State. The essays we publish need no puffing or noticing to bring them to the notice of those really interested in the prosperity of our County—they are of such a character as to at once arrest such attention, and command a careful perusal. We have a word or two to say on the subject of School compositions and essays, when we get time to write it out.