The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-11-26
LATEST NEWS.

NITeeleu lOI uNSCOuId-iuS 'OlN"'N~l -"
listments, opposing the draft, or for 9TH
srwise giving aid ard comfort to the enc
NV. ia States where the draft has beeG
made, or the quota of volunteers and MI
litia has been furnished The same order
pays that persons who by authority Of the
Military Commander or Governors IN
Rebel States, have bean arrested and sent
from such States for disloyalty or hostili-
ty to the Government of the United
States, and are row iu military custody,
may also be discharged upon giving their
parole to do no act Of hostility against the
Government of the United States, nor
render aid to its enemies. Such persons
may be sent out of the loyal States on
condition of not returning again during
The war. The order does not discharge
any person who has been in arms against
the Government, or by force and arms
has resisted or attempted to resist the
draft, nor relieve any person from liabili
ty to trial and punishment by civil tri-
tunnls, or by court-martials, or military
commissions, who may be amenabe to
such tribunals for ofenses committed
The grand expedition to open The Mis-,
si..ippi under Gen. McClernard, will
consist entirely of Western and North
Western regiments 1t will embrace ten
regiments from Indiana, twelve from Hi
nois, four from Iowa, four from Wiscon.
sin, two from Minnesota, and 10000
troops, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
force will be ample for any emergency.
In addition to this force. the gunboat fleet
under Com. Porter will cooperate with
she expedition.
A Baltimore papcr has a rumor that
Jackson-with the inevitable 10000
men--is near Winchester; others had 1t
on Saturday that he was marching on
Washington with 10000 men and again
he was retreating with 10000 men.-
"Tha King of France, with twenty thou
sand men, marched up the hill, and then
marched down again. of course with
twenty thousand men, which just makes
up Ubiquitous Stonewalls steroOtyped
forty thousand-in buckram.
From Nashville we learn that the Reb-
els report Gen Bragg moving upon Muir
freesboro, instead of evacuating that place.
Letters say that jeff. Davis required
Bragg to fight every inch Of Tennessee
soil. Gen. Breckinridge's division has
occupied Shelbyyile. The rest Of the
Rebel army is south of Duck River, for
tfying Elk Ridge Gen. Kirby Smiths
corps Of Brage's army was crossing the
Tennessee River on Thursday.
The War Department has commenced
the publication Of the names of dismissed
officers for, among other causes, being alb
sent without leave, intoxcation, disre-
spsctful language toward the President
anu commanding officers, cowardice, &c
The first printed list comprises 81 cap
tains and leutcnauts.
Grig.-Ge Patterson was found dead
in his tent, at Fairfax Court House, OF
Saturday morning. His body was sent
to Philadelphia. He is a son of Maj
Gen. Patterson, who commanded at IIar
per's Ferry at the tine of the first battle
of Bull Run.
The President Of the United State:
lately remarked to a friend that, though
some Of the results of the November Elec
tons were unexpectedly adverse, he wOulc
not, as a whole. reverse then-that IN
considered the Emancipation triumph ii
Misson,i of more enduring consequence
;han the Republican defeats in Pennsyl
vania, Ohio and New-York In this, Ii,
spoke like philosopher, and the seque
will show the justice Of his estimate.
\ dispatch from Louisville says tha
Col } Dis, jr, on November 10, write
shat he has routed the Rebels out o
Eastern Kentucky, captured 50 prison
ers, and a large lot of tents, guns, wagons
horses, and mules, near Piketon. Th
main body Of the Rebels escaped through
Pound Gap.
In his Message, which nearly finished
Mr.. Lincoln will argue his Emancipation
policy at length, net only III regard to tn
military Proclamation OF Emancipation il
the disloyal States, but in regard to hi
gradual Emancipation policy in the Bor
der Slaves States.
INTERvENTIoN.-The Secession sym
pathizors among the French and EngIisI
Journals repeat that France has applied
to Great Britain and Russia fora conjoin
mediation in our domestic troubles, an(
that Palmerston indicated a willingness
to cooperate if Russia would do likewise
Tho offer was perfectly safe one, as The
British Premier was we'll aware. Wher
Russia intervones to our prejudice, the
world will be considerably older than il
now is.