The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-03-12
President Lincolp,s Message should be

President Lincolp's Message should be
read By all Coming at the time 1t does,
it revives the hopes of all true lovers OF
-.be nations greatness.
BALTIMORE, March 5, 1852.
The Richmond Dispatch calls often
lion to mysterious writings on the wall,
indicating that Union conspirator are at
work. Among these writings are the fol-
lowing: "Auention Uuion men )"
"Watch and wait" The Union forev
er" "The day is dawning." "TheI
hour of deliverance approaches"
!, 1t was these significant announcements
that caused the arrest Of John Minor Bolts,
aud twenty other suspected citizens of
wealth, character, and position, and the
proclamation of martial law.
The Richmond Dispatch urges summa,
~ measures for checking the progress Of
treason, and advocates the arrest and ex-
.sution Of the conSpirators.
There was great panic at Richmond,
which was caused by the recent defeats
ri the Rebels. The leading traitors cx-
hblted the greatest trepldatloh.
The news from the South West is ex-
illicit; Columbus is abandoned and burned
hy the Rebels, and has been occupied by
the Union troops A Memphis paper Of
MS long ago as the 10Th of February stated
that Gen. Polk had issued orders for de-
stroying the track of the Memphis and
Ohio Railroad, ard that rumor was cur
rent to the effect that Columbus was to
be evacuated, the guns removed, and the
forti6eations demolished. Part Of this
plan has now been carried out the town
has been left, some Of the guns removed,
aud the property which could be destroy
ed by fire las so perished The fortif-
cations have, however, apparently been
left to stand /; it is probable that the panic
of the Rebels would not allow them to
pause for the completion of this work.
The Memphis paper already alluded to
said that the evacuation Of the town was
80 take place under the immediate direc-
,!on of Beauregard, aud that the Rebel
army was to fall back to Island No. 10,
L
er name given to the same point. An
other piece of intelligence is that Gen.
Polk shortly before this time called for
1000 negroes from the planters of the
Mississippi to work on fortifcatiOns tins
implied that a resistance was contemplate
cd there To this island the Rebels have
retreated. according to our latest news.
A dispatch to the War Department, dated
Columbus, March A says that the recon
noissance of our forces on the I'd caused
the enemy to beat hasty retreat; the
works of the place are said to be of great
strength, consisting of formidable tiers OF
batteries on the water side, aud on the
land side deep ditch and abattis.
Abraham Wakeman of New York has
been appointed Postmaster for that city,
vice Taylor, removed.
Gen. Lane has resumed his seat in the
Senate.
A biographical sketch of Mason and
SlideIl has been published in Paris, and
copied, in an abridged foim, into most of
the journals. The fact Of Mason being
the author Of the Fugitive Slave law is
carefully suppressed, and no alluSion is
made to Siidell's connection with the Gu
ban, Nicaraguan, and other flibustering
expeditions.
tits said that all the officers and pri-
Yates who entered the tobacco prisons at
Richmond Pro Slavery Democrats have
returned, as far as can be discovered, Alb
olitionists. Our whole army, excepting
few West Point officers, is said to be
rapidly tending in the same direction.
Notwithstanding thirty or forty polit,
cal prisoners were released on the 22d of
February from Forts Lafayette and War
rem and the Old Capitol Building, at least
an equal number are still confined. they
being spies, or considered of other dan.
gerous chararter.
IaNoRED.-The Southern Commission
ers have been denied any space in the
Worlds Fair at London, on the ground
that the allotment of a place to them
might be construed iDto an implied recog-
milton of the Confederacy.
The bill granting homesteads for actu-
al settlers and providing bounty for
soldiers in lieu of lands was amended to
take affect January lst, 1868, and passed
the House los against l6.
Commodore Lynch has arrived at Nor.
folk. The Providence journal suggests
that he should be made knight. of the
Bath.
Paris letters say that Sliden was re.
ceived by NJ. Thouvepal in private ca