The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-12-14
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W lut -i' OhdIlis ASi-I iOA thiteJ SSH'S
publisher OF the Philadelphia Ledger, has
sold it to Mr. Geo. w. Childs, the well
known publisher.
The California gold mines, were never
more productive than they are proving at
the present time.
A Mcclellan student iu Williston Sem
mary, Easthampton, Mass, bet his fond
ly cherished beard on the election-and
lost it.
Two magistrates iu Shropshire, Eng
land, recently sent two agricultural labor
ers to prison for seven days for refusing
to 90 to church when ordered to do so by
their employers.
The panner town is in vermont. Lin.
colu, appropriately named, in Addison
county, voted, Lincoln, 200; Mcclellan, 0.
Well done for Lincoln town.
The New-York Tribune says it has
made no money the last year, and has lost
thousands Of dollars in its weekly edition.
So it reyises its prices for 1865. The
Weekly is fixed at $3.50 per annum.
During the last fifteen months over
FIVE million dollars have been paid over to
the Treasurer Of the United States by
Marshal Keys, of Massachusetts, as the
proceeds of sales of captured blockade
runners whose cases have been adjndca-
ted at Boston.
The Concord (N.H:) Monitor learnes
that in some Of the towns in that county
snow drifted in piles of six and eight feet
deep on Sunday last. and that persons in
getting up their young cattle from outly-
ing pastures last wednesday had to break
paths in some places to get through.
President Lincoln has declared by proc
lamation that the ports of Norfolk, Flr.
ginia, and Feruandina and Pensacola,
Florida, will be open to domestic aud for
cign commerce on and after the Is: Of
December prcximo, excepting as relates
to such articles as are contraband Of war.
Owing to information that Southerners
and rebel sympathizers in certain West
ern towns are manufacturing cIaudestin-
ely, and collecting at convenient points,
shot, shell and cannon, the Canadian Gov
erament has issued a proclamation pro-
hlbiting the expectation or carrying,
coastwise or b5 inland navigation, Of arms
or ammunition.
Telegraphing in India is attended with
peculiar difficulties. White ants eat the
bottoms Of the posts away, elephants rub
against the posts aud push them over,
and monkeys use the wires for gymuastlc
exploits; and often wrench them from the
insulators, and hurricanes often PROSTATE
miles of wire at once,
The Union Executive Committee Of
East Tennessee, of which Parson Brown
low is a member, have issued au address
to the loyal people of that State calling a
convention, to meet at Nashville on the
10Th proximo, for the purpose of taking
measures to reinstate their Common
wealth in her old and proper footing in
the Union, and secure to her the repre-
sentation in Congress to which she is en-
titled.
The Navy Department is advised that
the Rebel schooner Badger, from St.
Marks bound to Havana, was taken pos
session of by the Steamer Adelia, on the
9th inst. off the middle entrauce of St.
Geclge's Sound, Florida. Twenty five
packages of cotton were captured with
the vessel, the captain of which threw
his papers over board.
The Guerrilas of the Southern States
are not made up of the riff raft of South
ern society. 1t is notorious, says a cor.
respondent and their bands are made UP
of citizens and plantets, the once rich, re.
spected, chivalrous lords of the lash
murderers now of defenceless old men, OF
helpless black women and children-th the
shame OF our civilization and our age.
Lieut.. Gen. Winfield Scott is reported
to have presented copy of his autobiog
raphy to Lieut.. Gen. U. S Grant, with
the following inscription From the
oldest to the ablest General in the world. .
;, Did Gcn.Scott forget, or did he remember
that Fredrick the Great once sent a sword
to Washington, with the inscription -
"Froln the Oldest General in the world
to the greatest p
The British North American newspapers
devote much space to the discussion Of
the subject which is now uppermost il
the minds of our provincial neighbors-
the proposed colonial confederation. One
very important point which dIsturbs the
minds of these editorial writers is the
question whether the people will be al
lowed to give expression to their feelings
in the matter of the new form of govern