The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-11-05
NEWS ITEMS.

pect soon to see bis "Aeecy locks"
Quite jubilant-the sympathzers, over
the result Of the late election.
Ditto-Jeff Davis, Breckenridge, and
all their "dear Southern brothers"
Got into a scrope-many OF the best
ladies Of the land, since lint is in great
demand.
Ii is stated that at Vicksburg, Miss,
-four sells at S52 per bbl., and shoes at
S32 pair.
A mammoth OK, which stands seven
feet high, is on exhibition at the agricu!-
tural fair at Hartford, Conn.
Great quantities of cotton continue to
arrive in Memphis, and the prices III the
Western markets are falling.
Still in use-"all quiet along the Poto-
mac" Wouldn't vigorous forward
movement be more appropriate?
Steal chickens-the guerillas, wherev-
sr they can. Prentice hopes every raS-
cal Of them will get the chicken pox.'
Rcmoged-Gen Buell., from the COM
Gsnd Of the Kentucky army. That's
right, discard all "augurS that won't bore. "
Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, who shot Gen.
EclIon few days ago, has been released
from arrest by order Of the War Depart
Hsut.
S,rategic-permitting three thousand
% the enemy's cavalry 10 circuuvolTe an
srmy Of one hundred aud twenty thousand
ucn.
Was held--a large Union meeting at
Beaufort, Y. &. The Presidents procla
nation was endorsed in the resolutions
adopted.
Gov Buckingham. of Connecticut, has
ordered draft for eight hundred more
Inen TO 6li up the regiments now organ
iIed IN the State.
The pirate steamship Alabama
ing within 200 miles Of Sandy
burning every American vessel she
fnd
The Boston Common Council have vot\
Cd bounty of 500 for recruits. 1t is
Ihought trat under this stimulus the
draft NAY be stopped.
A man named Brant, in one of the
townships Of Dauphin county, bad seven
Eons, all Of whom were drafted. In an
sIher, five brothers were also drafted.
Enrollcd-a man living in Summit
toWuship, Erie county, in three districts;
snd on Ihe day of the draft he was drawn
IN siI Of them. Is that chap three soldiers
uOW
BY statistics lately gathered, it is as
sertalned that the wheat crop Of lndiana
FOR the year 1862, will b, about 10000,
900 bushels being 100000 more than
the crop Of 1861.
The difference between war and peace
las been well defined by one of the an
clients: In time of peace, the sons bury
Ihelr fathers in time of war the fathers
bury their sons"
The Lynchburg Republican says that
wheat Is going up in that market, a
strictly prime article commanding from
81 80 TO Sc 20 Der bushel. Family -four
is held at $40 so, extra SIS so, super
fne SIT so.
Senator Hunter, Of Virginia, made
quite "A bluudcr, and electrified the rebel
Senate, some time ago, by inadvertently
swearing one of the clerks TO support the
,f
The scarcity of change is felt BY the
Confederates, as we'll as by ourselves
They, Instead Of using postage stamps,
have passed bill authorizing the coinage
Of copper, TO the amount Of five million
dollars, in five, ten. and twenty-five cent
pieces. These twenty-five cent pieces, if
coined Of size proportonate to the value
Of the metal, would be about as big as a
pancake. Nice pocket, pieces.
The Western army is gradually forcing
the rebels to retire from the ground they
were allowed to occupy through tie trea-
sou Of Gen. Buell.. Fighting Gen. Ro.
Sencraus has been put in his place and
will 10 very short time begin the work
90 nearly completed last summer.
OHIo.-The vote of this State is rs.
900 less than at the Presidential Election:
there are that number of soldiers absent.
The votes at home gave $40 maj. for
the Democratic Judge of Supreme Court
That's what's the NATTER" undoubt,
sty.
Columbia county has paid forty thou
saDd dollars for substi:ut to the draft.
Hon. J. W. Maynard, of Wiiliamsport,