The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-01-24


WHEN WE SAY that Mrs. WINsLow's
Soothing Syrup acts like a charm, we do
but re.terate the language of every per
son who ever used it for their children,
for all diseases incident to the period of
t%eething, such as dvsentery. and Diarrhea:
Wind Cholic and Cholera Infantum. 1t
will produce quietude and rest, relieve all
suffering, and the infant will awake in
vigorated and refreshed, and not with the
dull and Supplying effects Of preparations
Of opium. Sold everywhere, % cents per
bottle. Ohice, Is Cedar street, New York.
THE poIaver against coercion by those
Who say that it will ruin Northern inter
ests is a nousequitur If South Carolina is
permitted to establish a free port with i'm
punity, and to invite to her harbor all the
ships of foreign nations, wonld not disas-
ter in that event fall upon all our great
Northern interests and would not hun.
dreds and thousands, now dependent upon
tie present revenue, in that event be turn
ed cut Of emqlcyment? No city would
be more seriously damaged by the failure
on the part of the present Administrator
of the FEDERAL Government to insist upon
the execution Of the laws thar the great
manufacturing city of Philadelphia
Press.
THE STATE SENATE On Tuesday
the Senate organized by c@lecting Robert
NJ. Palmer, of Schuylkill, Speaker; Rus
sell Errett, Chief Clerk c. II. Ramsdell.
Assistant Clerk Me>srs. Hatton. Hitcl-
cock, and Berry, transcribing clerks; Har-
man lerkes, sergeant-at-arms; j. Nc
Afce, assistant sergeant-at-arms; John
g. Martin doorkeeper J B. Kinds and
George Bulb, assistant doorkeepers VIM.
ii. Huddleson, II. essenger; Jos. j. Brow
er, assistant messenger and Wm. =. Bra.
dy. librarian.
The House was organized by e~lecting
Elisha W. Davis, Speaker Rauch, clerk,
4. w. Capron, assistant clerk Messrs.
Wallace, Denuiston, Nichols, and Porter,
tranxcribing clerks NJ, Mathews. SER
geantat-arms E. d. Pickett, doorkeeper
and II. A. Woodhouse, postmaster.
FORCED LOANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Washington Star says: Among
the items of news from Charleston float.
ing around in secession circles here is a
story that Hon. William Aiken has been
made to fdisgorge in aid of the cause
much against bis wili,' as follows: He
was notified that he was expected to ad-
vance $4,000 to that end, but pleaded
his right to advance or not, as lie might
please, adding that he did not have the
money. He was then promptly notified
that he had been assessed that amount
and must promptly pay it, under penalty
OF having it raised by the immediate con-
f~scation and sale of his property in
Charleston, worth many times as much.
10 save that from utter destruction, he
did raise the amount demanded. and in
paying it remarked that his lot would
be better If he was a journeyman carpen.
ter at the North, showing a jack-plane at
- per day wages, than the South Caro-
lima millionaire be was before it was es-
sayed to reduce the South under a mill.
tary despotism. He is now zone Of the
suspected, his course in refusing to seem
to be pleased with paving the forced loan
having earned him the dangerou, repu-
tatlon of being disafectei to the cause"
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EUCHRE AND OTHER FUN.--Sou.h
Carolina and James Buchanan against
Major Anderson and General Scott.
South Carolina deals and turns nm ten