The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-06-22

SOLDIERS YoTING ELECTION. Every
Union mau should be awake to the sub
ject of the vote on the Constitutional
amendment elections to be held on the
FIRST Tuesday cd day. of August next.
The vote that day will decide whether
the soldiers who have fought our battles
shall be entitled to vote in the election
of officers. Soldiers must hare the right
10 Dotc. The copperhead traitors are de-
termined they shall Dot vote if it can be
prevented. Their secret cOncaves are
already devising plans to prevent ma
jority of votes from being cast for the
amendment in this state. They dare not
show their hands openly, tut they are
arranging for a quiet but concentrated
copperhead vote to defeat it. Let the
Union men of every election district be
on the alert. Let every arrangement be
made to call out the Union voters and
have full vote and let the soldiers 10 the
field know that the people of the old Key
stone recognize the right of the soldier to
vote. Arrange for thorough election
and full vote on that day.
sa-Col. Metealf, of Kentucky, made
radical Uniun speech at public meeting
a few days since, at which he related an
anscdote of General Mcclellan, showing
how he regarded the rebel leaders. He
said -
81 got my eyes opened on that young
Napoleon in the spring of 1861. went
to see Gen. Mcclellan, and in the course
of the conversation | said that jeff. Da
Wis was scoundrel and repudiator.-
He (McCleilau) Strengthened himself up
quickly, and SAID, 4 do assure you, sir, that
you are mistaken. Jeff. Davis is per-
feet gentleman, aud will do nothing un.
becoming gentleman Well, if a trail
otr, conspirator, thief, repudiator and the
devil who is instigating all this murder,
is his beau ideal of perfect gentleman
hope our country may never be cursed
with his standard of morality and virtue
at the head of affairs"
Hon. JOHN J. CISCO, after eleven
years of honorable service Of the United
States Government, has been compelled
: by the state of his health to res ign his
position as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury 10 New York. Mr. Cisco has
discharged the important duties of his
Office with eminent satisfaction to the cir
cles with whom be has had to transact
business in that city, and with great ad
vantage TO the government. His resign
alton takes effect at the close of the fiscal
year, and will be received with general
regret.
RATlFIEp.-In Nashville, June 10th,
: "the nominations at Baltimore were rec d
with enthusiasm, and salutes fred. Andy
johnson made an eloquent speech at the
St Cloud hotel and was loudly applauded." ."
Friday evening, at San Francisco, q
mass meeting was convened to give voice
to the popular feeling for the nomination
of LINCOLN and JOHNSON.
How CoMMCTATIoN EXEMPTs FROM
THE DRAFT.-Provost General Fry, In
answer to the inquiry as to the length OF
time to which the com2utatlen money
exempts from liability 20 service, replies
that the language Of the Ian Is pam. 4he
law says: "If any drafted person shall
hereafter pay money for the procuration
of substitute, under the provisions OF
the act to which this Is an amendment,
such payment of money shall operate only
to relieve such persons from draft in fill
ing that quota" If it should be neces-
sary to make several drawings Of names
to fill "that quota"-that is to say, the
quota already assigned-the person pay
ing consultation money will be exempt
on account of such payment from all the
drawings to ell "that quota" made sub
sequent to the one in which he paid the
Communication.
F President Lincoln visited the Sanitary
Fair in Philadelphia on Thursday. The
throng was immense, and honest old Abe
came pretty near being squeezed to death
by the women, who crowded around to
shake hands with him.
Valaudigbam has slipped away from
Canada into Ohio, and is again trying to
help jeff Davis b. getting up a counter
rebellion in the Loyal States.
na-We have most hopeful sign of
the favorable progress of the war in the
improvement. of the Philadelphia Age.
After the great battles of the Wilderness
and the Po, the Age announced that the
Virginia campaign was virtually ended,
as it regarded Gen Grant as unable to
advance and when Lee retreated from
Grant solth of the Pc river, the Age au
nounced that the "Coufederates had taken
a new lipe;" but when Lee retreated
south of the North Anna river with Grant
in hot nnrsuit. the Ane concluded that it