The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-05-07
I1-.r:- D nog., of New York. one

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Of the wealthiest patent medicine men,
died last week, aged 45 years. "Llte
pills" did not save him from compare
tively early death, and "Phenix B'tters
will not raise his ashes from the tomb.
s A man recently hanged in neighbor-
ING state, confessed upon the gallQws that
his first commencement in crime and vii
laluy. was stopping a paper actth0@t pay
ing FIR 1t
$500 Union men left East Tennessee
for Kentucky, since the Governor proc
lamation calling on the military.
There is a farmer in Putnam eouRty,
New York, who has mile OF children
His name is furlong, aud he has eight
boys and girls. Eight furlongs make
one mile.
Our DARBY" says, the pleasantest trip
he ever had. was, when be tr!pped and
fell into a young lady's lap.
Rev. j. D. Moore of Birmingham, Iowa,
has invented rifle capable of firing forty
shots second.
FURTHER SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN
franklin An Englishuan, Mr. Par.
ker Snow, will soon arrive in New York
on his way to the north, in search of
traces of Sir John Franklin and his party.
The sister Of one of the lost officers and
her friends furnish most of the means for
the expedition.
An AtheDian, who was lame in one
foot, joining the army, was laughed at by
the soldiers on account of his lameness.
II am here tt fight" said the hero, "Eot
to run" Had that man joined the Con
federate army. what would have been his
punishment for such objectionable her
.esy?
Price Lewis. former resident Of Wal
cottvile, Conn, was hung as spy at
Richmond, few days since. He had
made several trips to the rebel camps
successfully, but was caught at last aud
manfully paid the penalty.
The tribe of Penobscot Indians is rap
idly becoming ies>ened in number Only
five hundred and six are now living. OUT
Of once large aud powerful tribe. The
Pa>samaquoddy tribe number four hun
dred aud sixty-three.
The Empress Eugene has promised
'to-uodity her toilette SO as to help the
embroidery girls of Nancy, who are out
of work. Open corsage will be the rage.
An army Of 6O0,000 men carry on
their shoulders 5000 IONS, aud eat 600
tons of provisions. and drink l,2O0 hogs
heads of water per day.
The New York State Senate has passed
the bill providing for the enlargement Of
canals for the passage Of United States
gunbVars.
The emancipation question is now be-
ing pretty freely discussed or the stump
iu Missouri.
Some of the editors of the Sonth pro
pose to use mp their type metal for balls
for shuoliny.irons. Couldn't do more
mischief that way than they now do.
One Wisconsin Regiment staying near
ly year in Marylaud. got up seventy
marriages with The daughters OF Mary
land. Senator Doolittle illustrated the
tendency of the North TO colouize the
South, by this fact.
Whatever impatieuce the President
and Secretary Of War may have shared
with the soldiers and the people when the
Army of the Potomac Iotered seven
:nonths Eefure Manassas, they now cordi
ally approve VI MClellan's actious at York
town. He Is an engineer, aud as such l.
reducing that place, as Manassas should
have been reduced, by approaches and the
strategy Of doing something instead VI
nothing
The revolutionary siege of Yorktown
was conducted By Gen. Washington and
Lafayette. with 10000 troops, consisting
mostly Of men from Pennsylvania, New
York, New jersey, aad the New England
States. 1t is now besieged BY troops
from the same SectioHs. OH a much more
ext euSive Gale, iu thi, second war for
American freedom. The coincidence is
Suggestive.
Among the men who fought for the
Union at Pittsburg Landing, was Henry
Clay--grandson Of the ilIustrious States
man--a son of the Henry Clay who fell
at Beuna Vista. 1t is not always that
great men hare their talents or their pat
rlotism reflected in their offspring But
the gallant Harry of the West still lives
IN the 10! atty Uf some Of his descendants.
Dasiel Webster's sou Fletcher, is also in
the Union service