The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-05-11
A disnatch from Baltimore, 1st inst

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/ froln Richmond. Such was the condition
of the latter that every mar of them was ad
mitted to the hospital. One hundred
and fftv Of them had to be carried from
the boat on stretchers and cars. Their
words and looks abundantly testify that
their miserable condition has been pro-
duced by starvation, aud many are uu-
doubtedly past the reach of medicine or
nourlshment
In Senate NTr. Do0little proposes to
amend the Bauk bill by providing that
no bank or banking association whatever
shall issue any new notes, except National
notes, after the passage of the act, not
redeemable in gold or silver coin on de,
mand and also, that every bank, ect.,
shall reduce the amount of their circula-
tion to the amount of cash capital paid in
and per cent added thereto, or amount
secured by pledge Of United States or
State stocks, on penalty of tax one per
cent. per month on ali excess of circula-
ton after a period not yet specified.
/ One of the Committee who went to in
vestigate the Fort Pillow affair on being
asked to- day if the massacre had been
exaggerated by the newspapers, replied
Epassiouately that it had not, for the reason
that it was not in human power to ex-
aggerate the atrocities of that occasion ;
that half the truth had not been told.
4 The Committees report is now being
written out, and is looked for with intense
interest, coming as it does, in great
measure, from the lips of dying victims
of the atrocity.
i WASHINGTON, May 3-Odicial dis
patches from General Banks have been
received in reference to the battles on the
Red river. He states that, notwIthstand-
ing the surprise on the Sth uIt., and the
reverse experinced at that time, yet on
the whole, including the subsequent bat
ties on the two following days, they were
a very great disaster to the enemy the
loss in killed and wounded and the de-
moralization of their forces being larger,
the numbers being considered than IN any
other battle of the war.
THE petition presented to Congress a
day or two since, in favor Of the entire
aud immediate abolition of slavery, was
brought in by two stout men in bushel
basket, which the huge roll just filled.
1t was signed by 4l,7l8 men and women
in all parts of the Union-hfteen thous-
and residing in Pennsylvania, and eight
thousand in New York.
OIL CREEK, in Pennsylvania, has pro-
duced forty thousand barrels of oil during
the past two weeks, aud another well in
the same neighborhood is yielding at the
late of four hundred and eighty barrels
a day.
!; NARROW EscAPE OF THE SECRETARY
OF Wharf.-The Secretary of War narrowly
escaped being drowned in the Potomac
on thursday. In crossing the ferry from
!; Alexandria his horses became restive, and
horses and carriage were precipltated into
f the river The Secretary happened to
; be out of the carriage at the time.
/ DIsTILLING STOPPED IN MISSISSIPPI.
The Mississippi Legislature has enacted
a law which confscates the property and
everything appertaining thereto of dis
tillery, and imposes fine Of five thousand
dollars and twelve months Imprisonment
on every State OR county officer failing to
report every offender Evidently that
body is iuteut on stopping the con7erSion
Of grain into grog, if severe Legislation
will effect it.
Three brothers named Hudgins, who
took the oath after deserting from the
rebel army, and then found employment
in one of the government repair shops in
Washington, have been discharged by
Colonel IDgraham for rejoicing over the
Fort Pillow massacre. Served them right.
Seventy-Gve miles of Pork.-During
the pork season just passed, Illinois pack
ed, 1878 800 hogs of an average weight
of one hundred and ninety pounds If
these were placed in cars, ten tons In
each car, each car measuring two rods, it
would make a train seventy-fve miles
long. Allowing twenty cars to eaah To-
comotive, it would take six hundred To-
co1notiyes to draw the train.
A RAID BY "BoUNTY JUMPER" -
Benjamin T. Cox, of the 1S2 2 v, wri-
ting from Camp Distribution" near
Alexandria, Va, says that squad of
about sixty convalesceut soldiers were
sent there, from New York, recently, in
company with three hundred "bounty
jun pers." The latter, while crossing on
the boat, rushed upon the convalescent
veterans, aud plundered them of their
money and everything of value they had
about them. Unon reaching the camp,