The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-11
NEWS ITEMS.

IN ~ heetng. a., the circulation OF the
Louisville, New York, and Baltimore dis
loyal papers, has been interdicted.
Bayard Taylor, who has been spending
the last three months at Gotha, Germa-
ny, with the relatives of his wife, is ex-
pected home BY every steamer Imme-
diately upon his return he VIII JOIN one
of the divisions of the National army, as
the war correspondent of the New York
Tribune.
The Government has ordered the con-
struction of thirty 13 inch mortars at the
Fort Pitt Works, tn Pittsburg, Pa Each
of these mortars willweigh IL 900 pounds
and will throw shells weighing 225
pounds. Fourteen 10 inch mortars have
lately been made there for the Govern
ment, and twenty columbiads are expect
ed to be finished in short time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 1S61.-The
whole South is moving its available mill
tarY power to the line cf the Potomac.
From New Orleans, from Mobile, from
Pensacola, from Savannah, and from
Charleston. from Missouri even, and from
Tennessee, masses of men, raised by the
despotic influences so agreeable to the
policy Of the OIigarchy, are tramping
their way northward. The Presidents
recent Proclamation to the Free States
for more troops bas been heard and obey
ed by the Slave States. Upon high Gov
ernmental authority We warn the Free
men Of the North Of the hasty and gen
eral concentration of the military power
of the South upon the line of the Poto-
mac, aud it calls upon the men who have
the spirit to fight for Free Soil, Free
Speech, and Free Men, to flock to the
army and to march to Washington. No
army in the world was ever so well paid,
or so well fed, as is the army of Freedom
now encamped upon the two sides of the
Potomac. The rations, large before, were
greatly increased by the last Congress,
and it is now a common thing for we'll
ordered companies to save their surplus
food, at tie rate of 81 200 a year Not
one man in fifty can possibly cat the ra-
items now allowed our troops.
From Missouri we have narrative
which will cause the blood to run cold
through the veins of all who read it. On /
the Sd inst, the passenger express train
bound west on the Hannibal and ST ,Jo-
seph Railroad, when it had reached Little
Platte River Bridge, nine miles east Of
St. Joseph, was precipltated into the
river, the whole train going down with a
terrible crash, hurling nearly one hun
dred men, women, and children into the
chasm. The scene was what might be
horrible to allow even an
attempt at description. The cause of this
would hardly be believed did
we not know the deyiish brutality of the
tiends who now ravage that State They
bad deliberately burned the timbers Of
the bridge so that the weight of the loco
motive must carry away the whole struct-
ure. A list Of the killed and wounded
has not yet reached US, but the dcstruc-
lion Ct life and limb was awful If any, ;
hing were wanted to show that the stern
edict of Gen Fremont was needed in
this deed of the Rebel miscre-
ants would remove all doubt. We lock {
'or a speedy infiction upon them of
punishment SO terrible that it shall be re.
nembered for a generation.
WASHINGTON, Sept 5, 1861.-Gov.
Gamble of Missouri has started homeward.
lie was here not to demonstrate against
zen. Fremont's proclamation, as alleged, S
out to obtain means to arm the State
roops. The most perfect agreement ex- .
sts between him and Gen Fremont, and :
hey will heartily cooperate in putting
lown rebellion. There will be no trian-
gular contest in Missouri, as has been
stated. He represents that the State is
n very critical condition. The rebe. '
orces in the south are dispensing, and t
going north in small bands, without at 5
racting notice, and where there is no {
preparation to oppose them. They intend
o attack towns and swall bodies of Union c
sts, and, if possible, unite, and fall upon I
arger bodies. The great want of Union
nen is arms. Throughout the State are {
oldiers without weapons Ia Illinois
ire 10000 enlisted troops destitute of }
equipments.
We have been shown a document I
igned by the Mayors in Office of the I
titles of the United States and Canada. G
certifying to the superior excellence of q
Dr. Ayers Compound Extract of Sarsa-
'ariila, and to the value of all his RENE
lies as articles Of great public utility. 0
such evidence from such high sources :
'ears us out triumphantly in the position
Te have long maintained with regard to 7
)oct' Ayers preparations. or more par
lcularly our advertisements of them. No a
publishers need be more opposed than we a