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EE-A Rheims will has been set aside
for "ngratitude cause known te the Code
Napoleon. The ingrattude was Of a very
decided character, for il consisted in mur-
dcring the testator
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RFH- Two deserlers from a New York regi-
ment, who have gone over to the enemy, and
then been sent back through our lines as
southern refugees" were shot, by sentence
of a court martial, near Petersburg, on The
Sd inst
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WE are pleased to record the fact that Col.
Harry White, the State Senator from Indiana
county, who was taken prisoner and kept our
Senate so long from being orga Rized by being
held by jeff Davis, IS now made BrigadieTT
General
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22

HsE~ Principals Of the intermediate schools
in Cincinnati receive s 600 year two lady
teachers have $1,000 each three 500 each,
and seventeen $500 each
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1865
1863

1865 1850
PHILADELPHIA & ERIE RAILROA AD.-
This great line traverses the Northern
and Northwest counties Of Pennsylvania to
the city of Erie, on Lake Erie.
It has peen leased by the Pennsylvania Rail
Road Company, and lnder their auspices IS
being rapidly opened throughout It's entire
length.
It is now in use for Passenger and Freight
business from Harrisburg to St. Mary's (2lf
miles( on the Eastern Division, and from
Sheffield to Erie, Us miles) on the Western
Division.
TINE OF PASSENGER TRAINS At EMPORIUM
Leave Eastward.
Through Mail Train 40 2. NJ.
Leave Westward.
Through Mail Train 10 Is A. VI.
Cars run through WITHOUT CHANGE both
ways between Philadelphia and Lock Haven
and between Baltimore and Lock Haven.
Elegant Sleeping Cars on Express Trains
both ways between Williamsrort and Balti-
more. and Williamsport and Philadelphia.
For information respecting Passenger busi-
ness apply at the S. E Cor. 18th and Market
Streets.
And for Freight business of the Company s
Agents:
S. B. Kingston, Jr., Cor. 18th and Market
Sts., Philadelphia.
J. W. Reynolds Erie.
in. Drill, Agent n C. R. R. Baltimore.
H. Il, HoUsToN,
Gent Freight Agk PhiPa.
LEWIS L. HOUR,
Gent Ticket Agt. PhFG.
Jos. D. PoTTs,
GeaI Manager, Williamsport.
GtASH PAID FOR EGGS,
Z by EK. spenC Cer.
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Rea. Ex-senator John P. Hale has been
nominated and confirmed as Minister to
Spain, and Ex-senator Wilkinson is to take
charge of the Indian Bureau.
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State Medical Board
Headquarters Pennsylvania Militia J
Hospital Department.
Harrisburg, Nov'r 10, 1864. J

Harrisburg, Noyr TO, 1861.
YVHE State Medical Board of Pennsylvania
is now in session in this city, and will
continue until further notice, to examine can
didates for the post of Medical Officers in
Pennsylvania Regiments.
The appointment of number of Assistant
Surgeons will be required Immediately to fill
vacancies now existing, as well as for others
constantly occurring.
Physicians of Pennsylvania, in good health,
furnishing proper testimonials as to moral
character, &C., will be admitted to the exam
ination.
BY order of the Governor:
JOSEPH A. PHILLIPS.
Cur0pon General of PCnnSy yania
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22

nsn- Kennedy, tried as a hotel burner, is
still confined at Fort Lafayette. The result
of the trial is not published, but it is under
stood he has been convicted
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ne The Chnrleston Carrier $

BtS@ Inc CnarieSLON courier says: - / ne
recruiting officers in Charleston are head
over heels in business, The coored men are
iocking to the support Of the United States
flag by the dozen and the score Companies
are formed in single day, ana faI! regi-
ment comes out in a week. The men, as soon
as enlisted, placed in charge Of capable
officers, by whom they are drilled and disci-
plined for the field. The notion that some
people entertain that colored men do not
make valuable soldiers in the field is an erro-
ueous one. The thing has been tested, and
the fact established that the negro will fight.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22

FsIThe three States-Delaware, Ken
lucky and New Jersey-that voted FOR Nc
Clellan, have voted AGAINST the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery. #
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HA- See New Advertisements.

lsF FOue of Garibaldi's generals has been
arrested in New Haven for keeping barber
shop open on Sunday, and was discharged
because he did not talk English.
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Marble Yard.

VENHE subscriber desires 70 inform the citi-
zens of Potter that he can supply them
with all kinds of Marble work, as cheap and
as good as it can be had any place in the
country. MONUMENTS and TOMB STONES
of all kinds furnished on short notice.
c. BREUNLE.
CoudersDort. Feb l3 '65 "
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u. S 7.3O LOAN

By authority ofthe Secretary of the Treas
ury, the undersigned has assumed the Cen
eral Subscription Agency for the sale OF
United States Treasury Notes, bearing seven
and three tenths per cent, interest, per an
,,uro l-uoyrn a the
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The interest amounts to

Notes of all the denominations named will
be promptly furnished upon receipt OF sub
scrintions. This IS
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22

- ES~During last week this region expert
enced one Of the greatest foods that has Wis
tied it in the life time Of our Oldest citizens
perhaps we have never before had enc that
did as much damage. The snow, which was
almost three feet deep. rapidly disappeared
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday with rain
and warm south wind and on Wednesday
evening the streams had swollen greatly and
the side-hills and mountains presented the
appearance Of an almost unbr0ken sheet OF
water On Thursday it raiued during the
day and as night approached 1t poured down
for the space Of FIVE or six hours, when 1t
began to snow and on the morning OF Friday
there was four inches Of snow on the ground,
most OF which disappeared during that day.
One of the bridges over the AlleganY river at
this place was taken away, the bridge at the
Tannerv and most Of the township bridges, AS
far as we have heard, on all the streams. Logs
and timber have pretty generally gone off to
look market for themselves, and some OF
our citizens will be heavy losers thereby
The water was higher in the streets Of our
village than it was in the food Of '6I and
there being no ice in the stream, many of the
logs and much of tle timber has been scat
tered over the meadows and up the small
bayous where it can be found but too late to
benefit the owners this year and also gener-
alIy attended with so much cost as TO be a
doubtful piece of economy. The roads ars
almost impossible, no matter in what direc-
ton you go From the Susquehanna we have
heard two or three accounts, aed they all
represent that it has been very destructive
carrying away most of the Phila. & Erie R.R
bridges and much ofsthe road, destroying
farms, mills and everything movable along
its banks We have received no papers from
below since the food and therefore cannot
gi7e any particulars, and there will be nc
trains on IL. Phils. il Erie for several weeks
20 come.
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JAY COOKE

JAY COOKE
Subscription Agent, Philadelphia
Subscriptions ,gi4 Be received By the
First NaIioual Bank Of Harrisburg,
First National Bank Of LOckhaven,
First National Bank Of Philadelphia,
First National Bank of Willamsport,
TnE NINTH NATIONAL BANK
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
Capital, 100000 Paid in,
FISCAL AGENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
and Special Agent TOR Jag Cooke,
Subscription Agent,
WILL DELIVER 7.3O NoTEs, FREE OF CHARGE
by express, in all parts Of the country, and
receive in payment Checks on New York
Philadelphia, and Boston, current bills, and
ali five per cent. interest notes, with interest
to date Of subscription. Orders sent by mail
will be promptly filled.
This Bank receives the accounts OF Banks
and Bankers on favorable terms; also of in
dividuaIs keeping New York accounts.
j. U. ORVIS, President.
!. n. HIL Cashier.
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SEVEN THIRTY LOAN.

These Votes are issued under date of August
18th, 1854, and are payable three years from
that time, in currency, or are convertible at
the ontion of the holder into
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22

TEELLOW CITIZENS, Friends and Custom
Il ers return my thanks to you for the
liberal patronage bestowed upon me for the
past teu years, and my business having so
much increased, found it necessary to estab-
lish my headquarters on the railroad, have
selected WellsyiIle, ,and hereafter may be found
at the
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22

psa. The grain crops the ensuing summer
certainly ought to be very abundant if any
reliance can be placed on the ordinary indr-
cations. The snow has beer on the ground
plenteously all winter, covering and protect
ing the grain from the ice and severe cold
weather, and rams have also been quite
heavy Next summers harvest should be
a superabundant enc, furnishing US a surplus
for export equal to any we have had for Il
long time past When this harvest comes TO
market we shalt have much larger southern
area open to US thar at any time tor the last
four years.
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Record Feur Deeds.-The attention of par
ties holding unrecorded Deeds is directed to
the provisions Of the Act Of Assembly, which
requires that
'All deeds and conveyances for real estate
in this Commonwealth, shall be recorded in
the Office for Recording Deeds in the County
where the lands lie, lcidjs sic mohthi after the
execution of such deeds and conveyance and
every such deed and conveyance uotrecorGcd
as aforesaid. shall be adiudged FEAUDU-
LENT AND VOID against any subsequent
purchaser for valuable consideration, un-
less such deeds be recorded before the re-
cording of the deed or conveyance nnder
which such subsequent purchaser er mort
gage shall claim.
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Administrators Notice.

AdnoinfsEr rato1's Notice.
ygTHEREAS Letters Of Administration to
w the Estate of WILLIAM S. JOHNSON,
late of the county Of Allegany, IN the State OF
New York, deceased, have been granted 70
the subscriber. all persons indebted to said
Estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment and those having claims against the
same will present them, duly authenticated
for settlement to
WILLIAM T. JONES, Admir-.
Dec. %, 1864. WelsVllle, ~ /.
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PRICE CURRENT.

every wednesday 6y ?. 4. STEB,
BINS < co, Retail Dealers in Groceries
aud Provisions,
oppositeD. T. Glassmire's Hotel,
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nsa- Park Goodwin, at a meeting held in
New York recently, said;
Europe says we are 100 slow. remCm-
ber that the great Wellington took six years
to drive Napoleon ont Of Spain, a country as
great as Virginia, and then he retired because
of reverses elsewhere. Four nations took
two years to occupy the Crimea, a country as
large as New Jersey England took eighteen
months to suppress the Sepoy rebellion, about
as great an undertaking as to put down Il re-
bellion among the negroes of a South Caro-
lima county France has in more than a year
succeeded in getting only about one hundred
and eighty miles into Mexico, where she holds
a very insecure position We think that
England had better look at home before crit
icising the movements Of armies"
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DRY GOODS,
READY-MADE CLOTHING,

&c, and shall ever try to give all customers
good bargains To my friends and customers
at WhiteSyille, l sincerely return you nly
thanks for your liberal patronage there, and
shouldyouovisit me at Wellsville, l shall try
to repay you for it.
Good Shirtings and Sheetings for 80 TO so
cents, worth so TO Is.
Best grades of Prints from 81 to So cents,
worth IS.
Good Delans 25 to 81 cents, worth 35 to As.
Good Plaid Alpaccas 28 to 80 cents, worth
go to 70.
Extra Plain Alpacoas 40 to 8e cents, worth
63 to 80.
Extra aI-wool Delains 873 to so cents, worth
80 to rs.
Fine Mozam6iques p to IS cents, worth a8
to IS.
Fine all.wool Merinos 60 to so cents, worth
81 to 81 so.
A large stock Of Cassimers, Kt. Jeans, Sati-
netts, Broedcloths, and other goods equally
as low.
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na.P .Parson Brownlow has been elected
Governor of Tennessee.


sea- Both branches of the legislature have
agreed to adjourn on the 24th inst.
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CLO OI,.HEeYG

This branch Of our trade we call your atten-
i on to in particular, as we can and will save
you % to SO. per cent. Fine suits from Sl2
to Sl5 worth $50 10 S25. Good black pants
for So, IS, worth $3.50. Extra Doeskin 81, so.
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Empire Store

at the upper end of the village, where I shall
be pleased to see all my old customers and
as many new ones as may feel disposed to
favor me with call. We are now opening a
large stock Of
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22
French Burr Mill Stones,

Surgeon General of Pennsylvania
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-20

sure of the truth of what is said in print,
even if only in the advertising columns of
newspaper-so certain of the good faith of
people who have their names printed in large
capitals and with handle at one end-that
actually these fellows had hundred thous-
und dollars in bank within ten weeks-be.
fore they owned one foot of land, or one inch
of well, or one drop of oil, except those three
pints in the walls on the Office shelf
And remember this is no imaginary case
/ am giving point by point the exact trans
actions of a real Petroleum Company.
Everything have told was done, only if
possible with a moro false and baseless i'm.
pudence than / have described And scores
and scores of other Petroleum Companies
have been organized in ways exactly as I'M
principled Some of them may perhaps have
proceeded as real business concerns Some
have stopped and disappeared as soon as the
managers could get handsome sum of mon
| ey into their pockets for stock.
! What the result will b. In the present
case, don't know. The New York and
! Rsngoon Petroleum Company. when / last
/ knew about it. "stili lived" They had-or
said they had-bought some land. / have
not heard of their receiving any oil raised
| from their own wells. They have sent off a
mOnstrOus quantity Of circulars, prospectuses
and advertisements. They caused portrait
and biography OF the Honorable A. Bee to
/ be printed In a very respectable periodical
and paid five hundred dollars for IT, They
/ had themselves systematically pulled up ii
/ the seventh heaven IN a long series of articles
IN another periodical, aud paid the owner Of
/ it - 600 or so ia stocG. They talk very big
about q dividend. But although they had
received great deal of money, and paid out
"a great deal, do not know OF their paying
their stockholders any yet. If they should
it would not prove much. For it Is some
| times considered "a good dodge" to declare
and pay large dividend before any real
profits have been earned as this is calculat
| ed to enhance the price Of shares, and 70
make them go of like hot cakes
| | shall not make any moral about this
story. 1t teaches its own. Is Is q very mild
| statemet of what was done to establish an &C
/ tual specimen-of great part of the Petrol
cum enterprises Of the day.
| 1t is whispered that somehow or other the
trustees and officers of the New York and
/ RangOan do not own so much stock Of THEN
company a. they did, having managed IL
have their stock sold 20 subscribers a. If il
We're company stock. Ii this IL So those
/ gentlemen have made their reward sure and
Mr.. Peter Rolieum having tho cash in hand
for that Ts-y liberal allotment OF stock which
he gave himself for his trouble in getting up
the New York and Rangoon PETROLEUM. Com
pany, Is very likely half or quarter as rich
as he saws.
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shall be carried to completion.
We shall attempt NO explanation of the in
consistency manifest in the respective posi-
tons taken by the conservative delegation in
congress from New York and their newspa-
per organ. II what now seems to be the
bad faith shown by the former to their con-
stituents and the president, was but a ruse to
win radical confidence for the purpose of ul-
timately betraying it, the fact will no doubt
appear soon after the committee of fifteen has
IL ade it's report. Be this "a it may. the pres
emf course of the Times will be likely to win
them back to the position assumed by them
while their last state election was pending.
They cannot stand up under it's heavy firing.
I. w. means what his articles indicate-that
the policy of the president shall be sustained,
and that the fanatical malignants opposing it
shall be driven from political power. There
10 an explictness and positiveness about
them which cannot else be accounted for
And he is working for these results, not TO
accomplish the disruption and defeat of his
party, but because he believes that its only
hope for success in the future lies in the in
dOrsement of the presidents plan of restora
ton CHICAGO Times.
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81 TELEGRAPH
Reported for t1e Daily Argl.s.

New YORK, Dec. IL.
The n. Y. Herald's Savannah correspond.
ent says:
The late city election was conducted with great
quietness.
Affairs in the country present gloomy picture.
The country is represented to- be bare of provi-
sions, and the roads nearly impossible.
II is extremely difficult induce the negroes
to labor for any length of time continuously, and
both they and the hites INDUCING freely IN
extensive maraudering, thie'ing and other vices,
with the protested purpose of again restoring
order.
Bands of self-styleo regulators have been form
ed, who guilty of worse crimes than those
who they pretend to be suppressng. Their
shooting and hanging of negroes are Of such COM
mon occurrence az scarcely to excite remark, and
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-20
BARNUM'S BOOK.
Petroleum Phillips, Humbugs, &c. &c.

Our readers will remember that, short
time since, we published the following letter:
C,rrop ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, Sir In "a book
inst issued by p T. Barnum, on s.Humbugs,'' and
at mage 1876 entitled ''The Petroleum Humbug,"
he has under a slightly disguised name, held up 10
ridlcule the operations of this company ana mas
perpetrated libel against myself by printing "ha'
is calculated to damage my business ana rePo'a-
ton. r-r.L -
Proceedings have been commenced to force the
author and publisher OF these ihProPEiS'IeS u
suppress this chapter ana 10 pay tue U"iase
which justly due. .
Take notice that any repetition OF the improper
matter in your paper will subject you TO q lloeI
suit intend to vindlcate my reputation and lHd'
of thus company at any cost; and teach the news
na,ers of this country, it necessary, as Mr. James
Feuimore Cooper has already once done, oy ms
Ihel snits against the New York Tribune that they
will burn their fingers if they abuse the freedom
of the press
Vice President New York and
Birkenhead Petroleum Company.
We made rather sharp notice of this
Petroleum Phillips and his impudent
threat, at the time, and stated that II Mr..
Bsrnum would send US his book we would
publish the improper matter" as a warning
to all verdant people who are disposed to in
vest in humbug petroleum companies.
Last evening we received copy of Mr..
Barnum's book, by mail from New York, and
have looked it over with good deal OF inter
est. 1t is very readable affair, and well
calculated to do good in posting the people as
to the various manias, humbugs, swindles
&C., &C., practicted by sharpers and dishon-
est people, in which class we place Petrole
um Phillips, who issues his threats against
the newspaper press. This greasy individu.
al knows he utters falsehoOi when ne says
proceedings have been commenced to force
the author &c., to suppress this chapter. -
No proceedings" whatever have been com
menced, nor dare this sensitive, thin-skiuned
speculator in petroleum stock commence any
proceedings.
At page 195 of Barnum's book, under th'
head of ''Money Manias," we fad the follow
Ing on Petroleum Humbugs, and We repuh
lish it for the benefit of Petroleum Phillips
and his Berkenhead or Rangoon concern. Il
he wrnts a good smart libel suit we advise
him to come on-we have some splendid law
yers here who viii undertake his case. Ill
he pays in advance) and stick I, him as long
rs he has got five dollars in MS pocket.
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MUSICAL

Ii Il. l.. GRUMPY having become q rEsi-
VI dent Ot Rock Island, taxes tins method 10
inform the musical public thar he - prepared 20
tune and repair PiaEoes and MeiOdeons, and can
sell ~ factory prices the following first class n
strUments:
Gold Medal Piahoes, VIM. Knabe * Co., 5alt-
more, Nd.
A. H. Gale & Co.'S. PIanoes, y. Y.
Organs and Melodeons from the factories Of &.
II. Prince y Co., Buffalo, y. y; Cahart & Need
ham, n. Y; Mason q HamlIn, Boston.
Second hand PIanoes ard Melodenns taken I
exchange or cHes.
Orders for NIoliEs, Flutes, Acoorleons, Brar
instruments, &C, promptly filed at Chicago pr
ces.
y. B.-Orders for tuning Of instruments LETT al
Island City Hotel, ?. q. box I3Z, al res!dence,
on Madison street, Sd house south Of Highland
street, promptly attended to. oct3o5m
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-20
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 90.
FARM WAGONS FOR SOLDIERS.

4 GOOD MANY FARMERS, who have
4 served their country faithfully and received
honorable discharges, are now returning to their
farms, and they want new wagons. To all such,
who purchase of me, | will make a deduction Of
Five Dollars from the regular price.
B. II, KiMBALL.
Rock island, Aug. %, dwtf.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-20
CHRISTMAS BALL
NOTICE

Is hereby given 10 the heirs Of Th.uas
i Biddison, late Of the city of Rock IssBs, &C.
deased, and 10 all other persons interested, that
on the Gath day of May, 1864, the Unders' gaed
purchased al the collectors sale of lots and LANDS
Tor taxes ana costs due the county of Rock Island
and state OF Illinois, the following described
lands.
The west twenty feet OF lot SIX, in block one,
IN Spencer & Cases addition 10 the city OF Rock
Island; and lot eight, IN block four, IN baIiey &
Bo,le's addition the civ OF Rock Island ,-ani
that the tim OF redemption otthe same from sad
sale Will expire on the 2Ith day OF May, 1880, al
which tune ne viii apply TO the proper office :o'
the deed or deeds OF the sane, II not Tedeemel
according to law.
P McDERMID
Rock Island, Dec. Il, 1855.
decI6d3t.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-20
PRAIRIEFIELD DETECTIVE ASsGCIA.

THE regular quarterly meeting of the
i Prairie6eld Detective Association will be
held at Washington School House, in Coal Valley
tp., on Saturday, the 30th of December, 1866, at
10 O'Clock in the forenoon.
LEWIS WILSON, Secretary.
dec2Ow2t
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PLATED WARE


Card
Cream Butter
IN gequanu anGv
n ne Wetthat YOU fndsu
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AT RIGGS

May be fouad the best Assortment OF