The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-05-13
Sr LOUIS. MAY Z. 1863.


Gen. Blunt teiegraphs to Gen. Curtis
FROM Leavenworth that Col. Phillips
crossed the Arkansa. River on the night
of April "a, and attacked the Rebel
forces that had been concentrating and
terrifying at Weber Falls, in the Indian
Territory, routing them, aud capturing
all their camp equipage.
The capture of Grand Gulf by Gen.
Grants forces is definitely announced 10
a telegram from Cairo The news comes
BY dispatch boat which brings informa-
ton for the Government. All the guns,
ammunition and stores Of the Rebels were
captured, together with 500 prisoners.
Adyices a day or two earlier say that
McClernard with large force is on his
way to Port Hudson.
According to Rebel accounts. Gen
Stsnenan did his work splendidly His
men moved in three columns, cutting the
Richmond and Fredericksburg and Vir-
gina Central railroads at various places,
some within eight or nine miles of Rich
mend. Up to Monday night only about
forty of them had been captured. BY
way of Fortress Monroe we hear that a
part of Stoneman's cavalry arrived at
White House on Tuesday. This is the
the column that the Rebel papers say was
moving down the north branch of the
Chlckahominy on Monday. .a
a the rumors of forward movement
by Braggs army are premature. On the
29th he moved a good force of Breckin-
ridges division IRON Tullahoma up to
Wartrace, ID miles up the railroad, d.
rectly toward and but 23 south of Mur-
ireesboro. He brought DO artillery, aud
evidently neut nothing serious. Desert
ers from Bragg say his force is from So
900 to oO,OO0-a guess not very definite
They say he has lately received few
thousand re-entorcements, chiefly con-
scripts. Some say the Rebels are half
starved; others that they are we'll fed =
FROM hundred conflicting stories cor
by 10 means starving, although embar,
rassed for provisions that they Go not
exceed 10000 of all arms that they do
not intend to attack Murfreesboro but
if they do they will be destroyed. A lat
er dispatch, 9th inst. from Murfreesboro,
says that deserter repeats the story of
a Ienconter between Bragg and Breckin-
ridge-that Bragg has died Of his wound,
and that the particulars of the affray are
published in Chattanooga Rebel.
The last accounts from South Eastern
Missouri, state that when Marmaduke
failed to cross the Whitewater, 20 miles
from Grardeau, he passed over the
Bloomfield Ridge, where lie became en-,
tangle in our pursuing lines and suffered
immense losses. The main object of his
raid is said by prisoners taken from him
to have been an Invasion Of Southe, q
Illinois to get horses and provisions and
test the temper of the Copperheads. The
scene changed, to his discontinue, and
on his retreat he had SO many men wound
ed that almost every house on the way
had one or more of them.
The Opposition are falsely boasting
that they elected the Judge in WiScon-
sin. On local railroad issue, he had a
small majority of the home vote, but the
soldiers gave Dixon (Adm.) 9,0l3 votes,
to 1866 for t'other fellow, and Dixon is
elected By 5000 to 5000 majority.
: Several Boston friends of the late Gen
Reno have presented $1,000 to his widow.
and raised fund of $4,000 for the ben
eft of his family. .......
The Northern Central Railroad Compa-
nv has purchased an extensive lot OF
ground in the city of Baltimore. upon
which it is contemplated to erect mag,
nifcent depot.
! Gen. Fremont in letter to Hallett &
Go. suggests the occupation immediately
on the Pacific Railroad of the large bod
les of men freed by the Presidents procla-
nation.
| The Cotton Mills of Delaware county
have ali stopped operations for the pres
ent, Oh account of the immense stock OF
; goods on hand, and the scarcity of the
raw material. These goods are in the
hands of speculators-t fact of the high
prices of all cotton cloths.
A recent fire in Denver City destroyed
property to the amount over One Million
Of Dollars.
} The Jackson appeal of the Goth ult.
says of Col. Grierson's Union raid that
beside tearing up the railroad, be has de
stroyed two bridges, each $50 feet long.
seven culverts. burned twenty eight
freight cars, blown up two locomotives,
and burned the railroad depot and two
missary buildings at Newton. He