The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-02-11
THE JOURNAL.
COuderspOrt, Pa.
Wednesday, Feb. II, 1868
Pa.

One of the arts BY which the Southern
heart is fired is this: Soon after the bat
tie of Murfreesboro, the Rebel General,
Bragg, caused to be printed and widely
circulated in the army counterteltS OF
The NqShvUe Union, i'll which was con-
spicuously displayed Startling News
-Four States Seeded from the Old Gov
ernmentl Missouri, Indiana, Illinois,
and Ksutuckyw y This was followed by
az editorial bewailing the loss of these
States. Of course, the whole affair was
forgery, bat the illiterate soidlery OF
the South, large portion of whom can
not read at all, could not detect it. While
Buckner was in Kentucky, bogus copies
of The Louisville Journal were freely cir
culated by the Rebels, filed with all kinds
of matter adapted to infame and eneour-
age the Rebels, and discourage the loyal.
A member of the Now Jersey Legisla-
ture has proposed resolutions In the As
semhIy that, if CvngrAss pays money for
abolishlng Slavery, New Jersey repudI-
sates her share of the tax to which such a
course would give cause. The member
who makes this proposition is the same
man. We believe, who made or tried to
make a speech all in favor of jeff. Davis
in Monmouth County last Summer. ~
Mr.. Boileau, the recently arrested Phil
adelphia editor, says in the first paper
since his release: "He is no Democrat
who is not unqualifedly in favor of the
Unionand The Constitution" \ Democrat
ic paper in this city is almost crazy be
cause Boileau Admitted SO much aud was
thereupon released.
Gen. Loan, who commands the Middle
Dis trict of Missouri, has issued orders to
hang or capture all marauding guerrillas,
robbers, Rebel recruiting officers and
agen Is, and also those vino knowingly har-
Dor and protect them. Any officer fail.
ing to carry out this order Is to be
promptly court-martlaled. 81.
Another British steamer, the Antona,
Glasgow propeller, has been captured
10 the Gulf, and brought into port at
New Orleans. She was chased IA hours
by the Pocahontas.
We have a brief account of brilliant
affair at Fort Donelson. The Rebels
made an attack on the fort with 5000 to
1000 men, and captured four guns
Our boys rallied and drove the Rebels
out, retaking the guns, killing 135 of the
enemy and wouEding and taking 80 more.
The Rebel Cavalry General Forrest was
reported to be wounded. Col. Mcneil
was killed. The eomo dispatch says that
all our divisions except Logan's had ar
rived opposite Vicksburg.
Still another set of Peace resolutions
has been proposed in the New Jersey
Legislature. They denounee the course
of the Administration, protest against a
war for unconstitutional or partisan pur-
poses, against a war for the subjugation
Of the Rebel States, against anything be-
ing done on plea of military necessity,
against arresting anybody in the Northern
= States, against suspending habeas corpus,
against dividing States, against confscat-
ing Rebel property, against liberatiug
slaves, in short against anything and ev-
eryihing that has yet been done or pro-
posed that may annoy 'our erring sisters,
for New Jersey has "no lurking animcsi,
" to the South" nor does she wish "to
deprive her people of their property. =
lnasmuch as JEFF. Davis has sworn that
lie will have no union will the North at
any price, and the great Democratic con
Spracy for a coup u etdt is not quite
ready for opening, these resolutions mod
estiy decline to state what they would
like to have done until they know what
would be accepted by the South"
One of the correspondents with Hook.
er's army says "there is gradually devel.
oping in the army better state of feel
ing, both with the officers and men
Whether it be the weather, or the Pay
master, or the appointment of Gen, Hook
er, or all combined, that is working this
Improvement. | am unable to say. 1t is
quite noticeable, however, that more
hopeful feeling is prevalent"
A Nashville dispatch records smart
= cavalry dash at OIiddletown, Is miles
from Murfreesboro, on the I'd inst Our
Tennessee cavalry surprised Rebel camp
and captured hundred prisoners.
Dispatches from Washington to the
Navy-Yard in New York order four iron.
clads to sea Immediately.
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