The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-07-01
resident of a great city.

The Irish in Massachusetts, have con.
tributed $4,000 for the sufferers in
Ireland.
Brigham Yeung and his wives fill just
five rows of seats in the theatre at Salt
Lake City,
1t is said that Russia has already ex-
pended $1S,000,000 in her akortive ef-
forts to put down the insurrection in Po-
land.
A female slave was recently sold in
Richmond for SS,0S0 She was entirely
white-hence the remarkable price COM
manded.
The Federal losses in Grants cam
paign have been greatly exaggerated. -
The total loss will not exceed seven
thousend at this time.
Amongst the novelties circulating as
currency are India rubber and gutta per-
cha cents !! This is stretching it with a
vengeance.
Two tons and half of oysters were ac-
tually stripped from the copper bottom of
the French iron clad frigate La Gloire
not long since.
The Pension Office at Washington has
lately recorded the nineteenth thous-
andth application of wives made widows
by the war.
Charlottesville is not a village but a
fine and elegant residence, owned by two
brothers named Chancellor, one of them
a clergyman.
The Rebels say the Union party could
better lose Hooker and his whole army,
than they can lose Stonewall jackson
whose death is undoubted.
The famous Col Grierson is described
as tall spare man, with a determined
cast of countenance, light "complected,"
and every inch soldier.
At late sale of autographs in Paris,
rag of yellow paper was sold for FIVE
hundred francs. 1t was note written
and signed by Martin Luthur, and dated
1881.
Gen. Rosencrans has ordered all Rebel
officers now prisoners of war in bis De-
partment to be placed in close con6ne-
ment until the Rebel retaliation threats
are retracted.
There are now about ninety thousand
guns on hand in the Springfield Arsenal,
seventy thousand of which are packed
ready for shipment.
The feat of removing entire a large
chimney 100 feet high distance of $50
feet, has just been successfully accom-
plished at Worcester, Mass.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Fox,
states that the whole number of vessels
captured or destroyed by the blockading
feet, up to June 1st, is eight hundred
and ffty-6ve.
The oldest newspaper in the world is
published in Pekiu. 1t is printed on
large sheet of silk, and, it is said, has
made weekly appearance for upwards of
a thousand years.
The issue of legal tender notes has
been discontinued, and the blank notes
now on hand have been sealed up. The
total amount of greenbacks, in circula-
tien is net far from S405, 100000.
AS showing the severity of the contest
at Charlottesville, the Richmond Dis
patch says that the Forty-fourth Virginia
Regiment went into the late fight IT'S |
strong and lost all but 81.
A wag recently slurred a certain gov.
ernor up West, attributing the disease
in potatoes to the modification they felt
at seeing SO small number of their fam.
lily in the Gubernatorial Chair.
The secesh female sceool teachers are
being put through a course of sprouts in
New Orleans-fned $3.50 and $500
for teaching yonng crinoline ideas to
shoot in an unpatriotic direction.
An up country editor pays his respects
to newspaper borrowsrs-"May theirs be
a life of single blessedness may their
paths be carpeted with cross-eyed snakes,
and their nights be haunted with knock
kneed tom CATS
1t is at last ascertrined that the War
has made no decision which
makes it optional with the Secretary to
accept or reject the $500 offered for ex-
emption from conscrlptiou The whole
stoay is another Washington rumor.
A few days since, as Gen. Rosencrans
was dining with his staff, he uufortun.
ately tasted the Tennessee butter: when
he Immediately arose and saluted the
plate before him, remarking, "Gentle-