The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-05-07
News Items.

OF the capture vi NeW OiiCooot W"
vessels cleared at the port Of Boston Tor
the former city loaded with ice. One
ship, the Havlock, took out one Thousand
tons, and another took eight hundred
tons. These shipments will arrive 10
time to make our soldiers comfortable
Yankee enterprise is always ahead.
A secession Tennessee planter, when
in Nashville the other day to sell his cot
ton, was reproached BY a Rebel for 50 do
His reported reply was "Do you sup
pose I'm such a damned fool as to burn
up cotton when | can sell it? Out OF
1000 bales destroyed in my country, not
one has been by planters hands, but all
by ragmufin thieves, who never had a
bale 10 their lives, and never will"
A TOTAL ECLIPsE.-The Confederate
Almanac for 1862, published by Rev.
Dr. Summers at the Southern Methodist
Publishing House. announces an ''eciipSe
o. the sun, visibte oUer the Confederate
States" To this the Nashville Union
adds, that about the same time "there
will be a total eclipse of the Confederate
States, visible over ali creation"
LITTLE DELAWARE READY.-The
Delaware State Journal, (Wilmington,) }
tae leading Wing and conservative organ
in other days, announces broadly the
readiness of the UuiCnists Of Delaware to
accept the broad issue made up by the
rebellion on the one hand
and the Presidents Emancipation mes
sage on the other.
1t is reported that the mammoth
Union" gun, cast in Pittsburg, is to be
transferred to the "Nlonitor," and the de-
spatcl with which the proiectlles for it
are being hurried up, would go to show
that the rumor may not be altogether
without foundation.
The SEwARD.LYoNs TREATY-The
text of this treaty for the suppression of
the slave trade is published. 1t comedies
to English and American men.of war,
commissioned for that purpose, the right
to enforce the prohibition of the infamous
traffic in slaves, against slave traders un-
der either flag indifferently. The great
princi Piles of this treaty are those for
which W have long coniended and still
heartily approve. Its details, SO far as
We have examined them, are most care
fully and skilfuliy guarded, and the
whole measure reflects the highest honor
upon those who have conceived and exc
cuted it.
The British Chancellor Of the Excheq.
uer states that the dispatch OF troops to
America, in view of possible war with
the United States, cost S4,250,G00. Be
sides this loss to Great Britain. resulting
from our civil war, it may be stated that
in 1860 the exports to the United States
to sos. 1886, 900 in 1861 they
fell to S45, 90.000-diminutie in one
year, S63 045.000.
SPRING AT TIE SoUTH-Everything
at the South is very forward at present.
The Union flower, now in the bud, will
soon be in full blossom The federals
are shooting, and the rebels begin to
leave.
BEFORE YORKTowN.-Our gunboats
are making fearful havoc with the Rebel
batteries Their. superior guns and NOR
tars enable them to work beyond the
range of danger
DIRECTOR OF THE SEIGE.-Gen Fi:z
John Porter is officially proclaimed "Di,
rector of the Seige" of Yorktown. His
fitness is universally recognized.
FREMoNT IN TIE FIELD The Wheel
ing Intelligencer announces that Gen.
FREM0AT would leave that city for the
interior of Western Virginia, April Goth
The Galena-the new iron clad vessel
is at Fortress Monroe, ready for action.
She is as strong. and three times as for
mida5le as the Monitor.
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.-The
late report of the resignation Of this off
Ger was started by persons who had failed
to make steamboat contracts with the Ma
Wy Department.
The rebel story of "25,00O" shells
thrown at Fort Jackson. is the largest sto-
ry they have told vet, and they have told
a good many very large ones.
The Memphis papers call upon every
body "bioch and white" to turn out fol
the defence of rebeldom.
General George Cadwallader, of Penn
sylvania, has been confirmed as briga-
dier general.
Gen Rosecrans is understood to be in
command Of the division formerly com.