The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-02-04

luSb. IlC L%UCUHCCHCf ndO WV hO'Nc'S
editorials-one in reference TO peace ru-
mors and the stories told at Richmond of
disorganizaticn in the North, These ru-
mors say that Northern finances are in in
extricable confusion Gov. Seymour is
as good Southener as Toombs; New
York City wants JEFF Davis for its Presi-
dent; that Wall and Parker of New Jer-
sey are in accord with Mcclellan, who
me9itates fearful schemes against the Alb
olitionists that the North West is ripe
for revolution, the armies going to mutt
ny as soon as they get their pay, &c. The
editor opposes all these bright visions the
fact that the fall of Arkansas Post is a
terrible blow, putting heavy balance OF
prisoners on the Union side and derang-
ing Davis nice plan of hanging officers !;
that Arkansas is open TO the Union arms;
that Bragg's army is overworked while
Rosecrans is heavily reinforced; thatthere
is trouble and danger on the seaboard, and
a gloomy view all around. The Confed
crate Congress is discussing plans for
peace if they could get rid of New Eng
land all would work smoothly. The Con-
federacy had outstanding on the 3lst ult.
S4l0,4 1880 in Treasury Notes and
S145, ,259,770 in stocks and bonds.
AS some offset to the unwelcome news
of depredations by the new pirate Flori-
da, we note the capture on the 10th inst.
of the British steamship Rising Dawn,
with valuable carge, while trying to get
into Charleston Beside this capture, we
have news of the burning ef the Rebe!
steamer Huntress while trying to evade
our blockade and also the taking of a
schooner laden with cotton.
A dispatch from Cairo says that Gen.
McClernard's forces have landed on the
Louisiana side of the Mississippi,two miles
below the mouth of the Yazoo, and In full
view of Vicksburg. Two brigades were
engaged in opening the "cut-of which
is to make Vicksburg no longer port of
entry The river is now bank full at
Vicksburg. Gen. Grant left Memphis
on Tuesday for below, with one division.
Dispatches from Washington say that
there.is the best authority for saying that
the statement that the Emperor of the
French has made renewed proposal of
mediation to the British Government,
since the battle of Fredericksburg, is en-
tirely without truth.
The reports from Mexico, though not
official are highly important. The ru-
NOR Of the total defeat of Gen. Berthier' S
advance by 800 Mexican cavalry main
tains itself. On the road from Jalapa to
Perote, an entire convoy of ammunition is
said to have been captured. The army
which was advancing from Orizaba upon
Puebla is said to have likewise been de-
feated, with a loss of 1000 men, and to
have retroated to Orizaba. Jaiapa and
Tampico, the same accounts says, have
/ been abandoned.
The depraved London Times has be.
come an out-and out champion of Sla-
very! In a recent article it endeavor to
justify manstealing on scriptuIal grounds
The Times was always groyelling and un-
serupulous; but latterly it seems to have
turned Dccency out of house and home.
Gen. SToNE.-Gen. Stone, of Balls
Bluff memory, had nearly passed out of
the public MUD. His case has not, how.
ever, been neglected. The testimony
will soon be published ; and it is intimat
ed that the result will show great care.
lessDess, if nothing worso.Se
a LARGE HAUL OF REBEL OFFICERS
-Jeif. Davis will probably have to recon
slider his determination to hand over all
officers taken prisoners to the rebel State
authorities, to be treated-thatls, hung
as slave stealers for, if retaliation is to
be the order of the day, Jeff's attachment
to his word will be very uncomfortable in
the matter Of some hundreds captured al
Arkansas Post Among the rebel prison
ers taken there were one general, ten
colouels, ten lietepant colonels, ten ma
jors, one hundred captains, nearly two
hundred lieutenants, aud a lot of adju.
tants, quartermasters, surgeons and stat
officers.
"TIGHTfNG JOE HOOKER. The New
York Erening Post says that thoughtless
admirers have contributed to give to the
new commander of the army of the Poto.
mac, character for rash recklessness
which the facts about that general do not
warrant. Gen. Hooker himself knows
this. Don't call me Fighting Joe
said he, lately, "lor that name has done
aud is doing me incalculable injury. II
makes portion of the public think thai
| am hot-headed furious young fellow
accustomed to making furious and need
less dashes at the enemy" The fact is
Hooker is an old soldier of long expert
ence, and to undoubted bravery and bold