The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-05-04

was in Taunton, Mass, a short time since,
in search of machinists and workmen for
the Russian establishments, but business
in all departments is SO good IN that city
that he met with no success, finally OBJ
tanning the great part Of his men from
Mystic, Conn.
Gen. Mcdowell is about to leave for
to assume command OF the
forces in that State. 1t is understood
that the President will constitute de-
partmeut of California, Oregon and por-
ton of the adjoining Territories, and ac-
thorize the organization of ten new vol
uuteer regiments.
a curious murder case is on trial at
Haverhill, n. II. A man named Thomas
Dyer is indicted for the murder of an En-
field Shaker, known as Elder Dyer, and
his counsel admits the killing, but claims
that the prisoner was religious enthu.
slast, and was insane to the extent that
he was not accountable for his acts. He
was regarded as insane while in the army.
Several witnesses were introduced who
testified to Dyers laughing and talking
boisterously to himself; to his going
through the ulanual of arms with his hoe
when at work by himself in the field /;
and, further, that he was frequently ex-
cited about the Shakers keeping his
children.
A Chattanooga correspondent of one of
the Cincinnati papers describes how the
Rebels kept warm on the top of Lookout
Mountain:
ave found several points on the slope,
where powders aud fat stones had been
so laid as to form bed, followed slightly
in the middle. Sometimes the stones
were laid in an excavation deep enough
to shelter from the winds. The width Of
the beds was the length Of man. They
were long enough to receive fifteen or
twenty persons In these paved or bowl.
dered cou1hcs huge fires were built. The
wood consumed, the Goals and ashes were
raked out, and on the warm stony bed
tue shiverng soldiers disposed themselves
for sleep.
4 man in Lewiston, Me. some time
ago had his life insured for $4,000, and
Immediately went into a decline. The
company bought his policy at discount
of S400, and he went to California and
got we'll, and is now enjoying the benefits
of his own life ensurance.
1t was remarked by a clergyman in
Hartford Ct., at the Methodist Confer
euce held there last week, that during the
past year he oficiated in two churches in
New Haven county, in one of which there
was not Democratic member and in the
other not Republican.
There is an old man at North Adams,
named Burdick, who was drafted at Ber.
lin, n. Y, and served in Vermont in the
war of 1872, was never discharged from
service, aad is now entitled to fifty years
pay, which, including rations, amounts
to $4,000.
The Liverpool A20ton says: "The
Great Eastern has been taken up by Glass,
Elliot & Co. for the purpose of laying the
cable between England and America.
When the cable is laid the proprietors of
the Great Eastern are to receive G50,00O
iu paid.up shares of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company. 1t Is not intended to
lay the cable till next sprlog.
The late Andrew Carney, of Boston,
left an estate of SS00,000, and bis char.
liable bequests during his life amounted
to over S200,Q00 la his will he gives
$4,000 to the Carney Hospital, and a
like sum to the Church Of the Immacu-
late Conception, both at Boston. Most
of his estate, however, goes to his widow
and daughter.
Eight millions of acres of land belong
ing to the insurgent New Zealanders
have been confscated by the British Gov.
ernment, which shows no mercy to rebels
against itself, but is very tolerant of reb-
els in other countries than its own.
In one Of the school districts Of New.
bury, Mass, there is but one child within
the age prescribed by law for scholars of
the common schools. Still, as in duty
bound, the committee hire a teacher, who
makes her school room and boarding
place in the house of the grandparents
of the child.
More shells were discharged in the
single battle of Gettysburg than were
employed in all the battles that Napoleon
ever fought.
The Navy Department has received
information of the capture of the schoon-
er Three Brothers, by the steamer Nita,
off the coast of Florida, and the sinking
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