The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-11-12

! lowers.
Why is the Democratic party like Pha-
roah because they don't want to let
the oppressed go free.
It is estimated that all the bcuntles
paid and to be paid to the soldiers will
make an aggregate of 100000.
While it is very unjust to say that
every Democrat is traitor, it is very true
that every traitor claims to be Demo
crat. philadelphia Press.
Willard's hotel in Washington is maxi
! ing profit of one thousand dollars day.
The present proprietor bought it for sew
enty- five thousand dollars.
Gerritt Smith has shown his accus-
toned liberality, by paying s25 extra
bounty to each of the fifty-two volunteers
from where he resides, Peterboro, New
York
Illinois has raised one hundred and
thirty nine thousand troops, of all deserip-
tions for the war. Eighteen regiments
are yet in the State awaiting orders.
Gov Curtin is doing all that he can to
make the drafted men com Portable. It's
/ like him. Kind and considerate in all
that be does.
Mr. Lyons has proposed resolution in
the Rebel Congress offering $40 to every
negro who should kill white Union
soldier Pretty good for our "wayward
sisters" who howl so dismally over the
enormity Of arming negroes.
Ohio citizens are raising fund of
100000, to be devoted to purchasing ar
tiicial limbs for such Ohio soldiers as
may need them. This is right.
The British steamer Anglia has been
captured in Bulls Bay, S. G., by the gun
boat Flag, laden with arms and goods for
the rebels 1t is new vessel, and with
its cargo is valued at S500,000, quite
sum to be divided as purse money
In Cleveland, Ohio, a boy of seventeen
was accepted as substitute for drafted
man, and received $500 bonus. He spent
the money and then obtained his dis
charge on a writ of habeas corpus on the
ground that he was under the age pre-
scribed by law for recruits.
/ Among the facts developed by the in
quirieS already made by the Military Com
mission, of which General Hunter is
chairman, is the strange one that not
single rebel was wounded ,orin any manner
injured, during the so,caled defence of
Harpers Ferry. Our Artillery under
Col. Ford, appears to have been handled
with especial desire that there should be
1 ''nobody hurt"
The Columbus (Georgla) Times of
29th October, says that General Butler,
with seven thousand men, had landed at
Pensacola, and it was expected he would
advance on the junction of the Mobile,
Montgomery & Pensacola railroads.
The"Daily Constitutional Union" pub
lished In Philadelphia as the organ of the
Breck kinrldgers, has died for the want of
breath. The substantial business men
in Philadelphia will not sustain a half
Tory daily.
| Irene Stevens, the daughter of widow
lady in Tioga county, while engaged in a
spring house, was seized with an epileptic
i fit, fell into the water, and was drowned
before she was discovered.
The late James Buchanan is said to be
conspiring to be sent to the U, S Senate
Clancy Jones, Ancona, and Reed were
lately in caucus with him.
Judge Grier is Cne of the hundreds of
Democrats who this year for the first time
voted against the mis-named democratic
ticket"
Major General Sumner entered the ar
my as a private, and rose through all
ranks to the highest.
Galveston, the most important city and
sea port Of Texas, has been taken by the
Union army, the enemy retiring to avoid
a contest.
One man, dodging around between Co.
lumbia and Schuyikill counties, was en-
rolled in three different districts, and
drafted in all three
! One Company of Volunteers, at Harris
burg, returned to Perry county, and voted
.-electing Magee (Dem.) to the Legisla-
ture. Other companies, in Maryland
voted for Kennedy (Rep.) but are denied
the right by the Supreme Court. Reject
ing both, elects Kennedy; but receiving
the Dem. and rejecting the Rep, compa-
nies, gives Magee Z maj, and he makes
Dem. maj. of on joint ballot in the
Legislature, Is that fair or lawful?
PUBLIC DEBT.-The representations
made in some quarters that the public