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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10
FENEANS.

The New York Tribune pours a
whole column of cold water on The
movement of the FeniaDs who are max
ing active preparations to retake Ireland
from their hated oppressors, the English,
arguing that the English and Scotch out
number the Feniaus nearly four to one.
But England can only depend on her
hired soldiers and the Fenians outnum-
Der the English army in greater pro-
portion than four to one. John Bull
cannot take his rihemen, his home militia,
to Ireland.
In the Navy only Will the English
Government have the great advantage
over the Fenian movement, and that most
concerns the Order in this country. If
Mr.. Seward and Mr. Stanton really take
an interest in the Fenians, it will be easy
to sell any number of our Iron. clad ships
on good terms, for Irish Bonds if you
please, and John Bull will be hoist with
his own petrard' as he aided the rebels
in just that way.
But the Irish will vote with Copper
heads to turn out President johnson,
Seward and Stanton, and put the govern.
ment in the hands of men who took sides
With England for the rebels, and then
the chance for the Fenians to have aid
from this country will be slim.
Such meu as New York Seymour, Ben
/ Wood, Valandigham and Judge Wood
ward Of Pennsylvania who have sided
with England, will not help the Fenians,
however much they may promise to get
votes.
The Tribune says "For with all their
faults the Irish arc a noble race" and so
we believe. Misguided in this land Of
Republican liberty, their fault are not
their own so much as those of evil coun.
sellors, aud we hope they may succeed in
freeing Ireland and in once more becom.
ing happy people, WiIhes6arre Times.
Pendleton, the Virginia loyaIist run
ming for Congress, calls Thaddeus Ste.
vens a 'hell-cat' We should Judge from
this that he had bpeD hardened.
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Upon our friends in the various dis.
tricts of the county, let US impress one
matter of importance that, if their own
district is disorganized, apathetic, or in.
different in its preparations for the cam.
paign if they find themselves not pre-.
pared or not able to do as well this fall
as formerly, they must not expect the
balance of the county to compensate their
want of energy aud faithfulness. Gen.
orally speaking, you can judge of the
condition of things elsewhere by the sit
uation at home. If your own district is
we'll organized and thoroughly awake tc
the issues involved if you know of sev,
eral changes in it favorable to the cause,
or Of conversions, or reasons for an 10.
crease of vote, you may safely presume
that these are general indications of pop
ular sentiment, and not confined to a sin.
gle section. But if you hear that Q
neighboring district will do well, do not
upon any account, rely upon it to do your
work. Emulate its galIantry, and per.
form achievements as great or greater
Let US urge it upon you, fellow citizens,
that you look at home, in your districts.
and prepare to do better this fall than
ever before.-Rep0sit0ry
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why the Soldiers should SuppOri
the Democratic Party.

Because it opposed the war from be-
ginning to end.
Because it sustained the rebel cause
throughout.
Because it eulogizod the leaders, states
men and armies Of the foe
Because it never rejoiced over any Of
our Union victories.
Because it was invariably pleased with
rebel triumphs.
Because it sent men from the north to
join the rebel armies.
Because two leading Democratic poll
ticians of New York were commanding
generals in the rebel army-Mansfeld
Lowell and Gustavus w. Smith.
Because the Democratic National Con.
vention in 1864 pronounced, by its plat
form, the efforts of our soldiers in the
war only failures
Because the Democratic State Con-
vention of Pennsylvania in 1865, by its
platform, pronounced the war a disgrace.
Because the Democratic papers sian.
dered the Sanitary Commission, which
was seeking to provide for the wants and
comforts of the soldiers.
Because the party endeavored to in.
crease the cost of tie war to the utmost
possible extent, in order to break it down
and let the enemy succeed.
Because the party defended the rebel
government in It's refusal to exchange
our prisoners.
Because the party defended those who
murdered our prisoners at AndersonviIle
and other slaughter pens.
Because the party adopted every rebel
tale Of outrage alleged to have been com
mittcd by Ger troops during the war.
Because the party magnIfed all these
alleged outrages, and eudcavored to make
the soldiers responsible for them.
Because tho party slandered every
Union general who was in active sympa.
thy with the object of the war.
Because 1t tried to make the world be.
lieye that the rebel soldiers were better
and braver than ours.
Because it exaggerated our forces and
diminished those of the enemy 10 every
conflict, in order to make it appear that
our triumphs were merely the result Of
numbers and not Of skill, bravery or g0oc
fighting.
Because it refused to aid in enabling
the soldier to vote
Because when he did vote it slandered
him, by representing him as voting only
under duress or to please his officers.
Because it repeatedly sought to nullify
the heroic struggles of our soldiers by
crying out for compromise with thc
rebels.
Because it underrated the results Of al
our victories.
Because it doubled and trebled ou
losses in every battle, in order to depres;
the public mind and force peace
Because it vilifed Abraham Lincoll
and praised Jefferson Davis.
Because it sought to plunge US into
foreign war, in order to render the efforts
or our soldiers useless in the civil conflict
I-Norh american.
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drink rot gut' with an endless flow
Frequently, around Fredericksburg, the
preacher had gone from house to house
and found in each the husband and wife,
and in some cases the children, in state
of beastly intoxication. They quarrel
like cats-whole neighborhoods at time.
On any Saturday afternoon there may be
seen streaming out of any village in Fir-
ginia a long procession of two wheeled
carts, made Of poles, with two or three
old planks at the bottom, driVeress or
driven by some child, the horses being
much more ready to fall dead than to run
the parents both stretched on the cart
floor dead drunk Licentiousness Of the
most loathsome forms prevails among
them also. In q collection of eighteen
families, the writer found bat one person
who could read and none that could
write. The one who could read was a
little girl of fourteen, who had acquired
her accomplishment by walking to a
monthly Sunday school, through all
weathers, five miles each way. She was
much looked up to on account of her
accomplishment, as she deserved to be.
Mr.. Conway, after a residence in the
English capital, thus concludes his des'
cription: I must declare, then, that
although | have visited with careful
observation the Five Points of New York,
and WhiIechapel and Betbnal Green in
London, I have never seen a population
whose wretchednes, whether Of soul or
body, is so deep as that Of the poor whites
of the South-that class which Slavery
has created by dishonoring labor and
abolishiDg wages, and which it has sunk
lower with each year by keeping unpro'
ductive a third Of the land, while those
who should be sustained by those lands
are multiplied SO fearfully. A cloud of
witnesses confirm the truth fthi8 picture,
What shall we do for the poor whites p
IrtGune.
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The More Convenient Season.

/ Mystery still hangs about the solution
of that famous problem which relates to
Monroe, Maximilian, and Mexico. 1t is
an entire novelty for secrecy to invest,
for SO many weeks, any Government
measure. So soon as an official does any
thing, he puts it in the newspapers, un-
less the obliging gentry of the press do
so for him. Even during the war, for a
long time, what information the enemy
could not get through his spies he col
lected from the files of New York papers.
We know not, therefore, how to account
for the present phenomenon, except it be
on the ground that our statesmen are
dealing with a court from whose habit
ual silence we have insensibly and at
once cGught the infection of secrecy
whom, perhaps, we have been proud to
initiate in SO diplomatic quality, find
ing therein pleasure even greater than
that of rushing into print. Or perhaps
the French Emperor has forcibly pointed
out the necessity or expediency Of silence
in negotiations to which he is a party.
However, in any event, here, at last, is a
genuine puzzle and annoying as it proves
to people unaccustomed to reticence in
its rulers, still it has the charm of vari-
ETY., and affords pleasant subject for
speculation.
The indications now are that delay is
the policy Of the Government; that the
doctrine of the lamented Monroe is not
to be suddenly enforced and that Benito
Juarez, SO long left out in the cold by
uor Government as a matter OF necessity,
must be suffered to drum his heels in the
cold still longer, as a matter of expedi-
ency. There used to be fayorite phrase
of "masterly inactivity employed to de-
scribe the policy of procrastination, and
perhaps that is the proper epithet to ap-
ply to our Mexican policy. General
Hancock, in his late speech, said that all
the Volunteer forces were soon to be dis
charged, and that, if any one should urge
there were grievances yet to redress, he
would answer that "these grievances can
be settled by time alone He declared
his belief that Napoleon would ovacuate
Mexico, "if allowed time to do SO with
honor And, though be believes war will
result from failure Of the Emperor to
evacuate, yet the General says, it Is now
for US to cultivate "the arts of peace, and
bind up the wounds made by the late
Rebellion. We may defer the day of
retribution until we ere strong again,
without resting under the lmputation of
fear. The Emperor Of the French went
to Mexico when it was convenient for
him. We can defer meeting him there
until it is convenient for us."-1rn,y
journal.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

The English Government continues to
make numerous arrests of Fenians, and
the excitement throughout the country is
most intense. Among those arrested at
the Office of The Irish People, the Fenian
organ in Dublin, there was one man by the
name of Murphy, who described himself
as an American citizen, and stated that
he should invoke the protection Of bis
Government.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

A Richmond paper speaks of some of
the best friends of the South in the
North as Abolition ghouIs. Ghoul is a
pleasant phrase, and brings back the good
times of the DAVIS dominion. In return
for this and other "bealthy indications of
Southern loyalty we advise our "ghouP'
friends to send an American flag to these
Richmond people. When they have
another meeting it will not be necessary
to borrow one from the military author
tiles
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

The STATE FAIR.-As an exhibition
the State Fair held at Williamsport last
week, did not come up to the expecta,
tions of the people, it being deficient in
many departments, particularly in live
stock The attendance was all that could
be desired, thousands being on the ground
each day from all parts of the State.
The crowd was too great for comfort,
large numbers finding it almost impos-
siblo to get anything to eat, or place to
sleep.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

The Hon. Townsend Haines, formerly
President Judge of the District composed
of Chester and Delaware counties, died at
his residence in West Chester last Thurs
day week, after an illness of three weeks.
Judge Haines wasSocretary of State under
Cow Johnson, and served in other positions
of trust in the State and at Washington.
His age was seventy four years.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

". II. Davis, the Democratic candi-
date for Auditor General, is no relative
of Jefferson Davis. This correction
seems to be necessary, as it is stated that
in some sections of the State the Cop
perheads are giving him an enthusiastic
support under the supposition that he is
the Veritable Jeff.
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A Most Important Discovery
INTERESTING TO AGENTS, FARMERS
AND LADIES.

A-ND LhUIEIo,
WE are making single machine whicb
w combines the best and cheapest port
able Wine and Cider Press the dryest Cloths
Wringer, and the most powerful Lifting Ja:l
in the world. 1t is the only press adapted %
making Apple Champaign, which is now ="
garded as one of the most important diScor
cries of the age. A good agent wanted;
every county. to whom we will hold out SUI
inducements as to insure $1,000 before Chris
mas. The first one making application fro9
any county shall have the excluiveS agent
Full particulars, terms, etc, by Circular
Address HALL, REED 4 co.
No. 55, Liberty St., \.
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For years the Democratic leaders cried, e.,
mot man or dollar to support this IN
famous war !" The soldiers who were
fighting our battles were called abolition
hirelIngs' and Lincoln's pups' Now
that the war has succeeded, these soul,
less politicians, led, in this State, by the
mcanest of their kidney, seek to escape
the consequences of their ipfamy by
nominating soldiers fer office, But the
boys in blue are not thus to be deceived.
They will remember who kept up fire
in the rear while they were attending to
the Johnnies in front.-H0aesdale Re.
public.
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The sc-called Democratic party has
lost all its prominent men. The Hon.
Paul Gillingham, jnst elected Governor
Of Vermont by the Republicans, was five
or six years ago the leading Democratic
politician of the State, and wrote letter
to John B. Floyd, Mr. Bucbanan's Sec
retary Of War, asking an opportunity to
duy the Fort Smelling property in Min
nesota. He said he wanted to remove
from Vermont, "where genuine Democ-
racy is so poorly thought of by the great
colOred party who rule, and always will
here"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

A correspondent writes from Mont
gomery tie story Of gentleman who was
pardoned recently at cost of sixty thou
sand dollars. This is only an Illustration
of the corrupt practices now prevailing in
the national capital in reference to the
Presidents sacred prerogative.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

South Carolina repeals her Secession
Ordinance. This means, perhaps, that
she reserves the right to enact it again.
Other Southern States regard then Sc.
oessior ordinances 1ull and void.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

Stephen A. Douglass once remarked
that this Government would never be
really strong until some one should be
convicted of treason and deliberately
hanged. He was blood thirsty, radical
black Abolitionist, according to the talk
of men who once professed to be his
followers.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

TERRIBLE.-Tho Ohio Statesman, the
organ of the Democrats of that State,
says that "a vote for Gen. Cox, (the Re
publican candidate for Governor will be
vote in favor of taking the Declaration
of independence for our political guide. :"
No greater calamity-in Democratic eyes
could happen to the country, than tax
ing the Declaration of Independence for
our political guide.
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Jerry Black, as Mr.. Haskin rrevor,
entity calls the venerable ex-Searetary Of
State, has made long speech in Penn
sylvania, A Philadelphia paper says
that 'clearness of intellect and lofty pat
riotism distinguish it from the first para
graph to the last Jerry's patriotism
las not been of the loftiest order hither-
to, but we are right glad to find that we
were mistaken, aud that he is not dead,
nor has he, as we feared, been in the
Rebel army.
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"A large number of pardon blanks,
says a newspaper, have been ordered to
be printed, and a ac.simie of the sigma
ture of The President has been made,
which will be used in affixing his name
to these Documents This, we presume,
will be called Pardoning by Machinery.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

A Copperbead paper in Chicago com
plains that in the recent reception of Gen.
Grant none of the CoPperheads were
asked to take part in the ceremonies
This, we think, showed a delicate regard
for Grants feelings. He has seen Cop
perheads enough before Richmond to
make any further intercourse agreeable
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

Tie london Times insists that Wad.
dell of the Shenandoah shall be captured
and treated as a pirate, The Times
wishes to make this buccaneer a scape-
goat. Who pnt Waddell in power, and
gave him ship and all the means of
piracy? England, most certainly, and
England is responsible for every crime be
has committed with his ship,
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

Tie World is jubiIant over what it
calls the great Democratic victory in
Connecticut The World has a right to
shout We surrender Connecticut to the
Democracy, aud hope they will have a
good time managing it.--Tribune.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

Gov Sharkey has issued proclamation
declaring that negroes will be protected
in their persons and property.
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COMING To- AN END-Domocracy in
Maine appears to be dwindhng down to
something of very small proportions.
This ancient stronghold of Locofocoism
at the recent election gave but little more
than one,third of the votes poIIed to that
decaying party, Notwithstanding the
Spasmodic effort which it made to gain
popularity by endorsing the reconstruc,
ton policy of the President. If it were
not for the regard which many have for
the name, the associations connecred
with it, and the illustrious men who were
regarded as leaders of the party in the
early days of the republic there would be
hardly anything left of it. When par
ty abandons all correct principle and un.
dertakes to subsist upon mere corruption
and demagoguism, it is quite time for it
to give up the ghost and make room for
something of q more honest character.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

Maj. Gen. Couch has been nominated
by the COpperheads OF Massachusetts, as
a candidate for Governor. IfCouch runs
as well in Massachusetts, as he did in the
Cumberland Valley, he will reflect as
much credit on treason sympathy in that
State as he did disgrace on loyal vaIor in
this Commonwealth. 1t is maintained
that the chief merit of Couch, in the eyes
OF his eastern Copperhead supporters, will
be the fact that he abandoned Chambers
burg to the fire and fury of the rebels.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

SOLDILRs AS DEMOCRATIC CANDT.
TEs.--If the Democratic party was
sincere in its hostility to the war during
its progress, then the effect of their nom
mating Union soldiers for Office, now that
it is over, must be to compel Democratic
voters to support candidates whom they
hate, and on the other hand to force their
candidates to ask for the votes of men
whom they must despise, if they have not
been hypocrites themselves. The dcgra-
dation of both is thus complete.
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Having sold my interest in the Mercantile
business to CHAPEL Brothers, (who are
soon to fill up with Goods, here and al
Ulysses,) am prepared to give my attention
more exclusively to
SURVEYING,
Writing Deeds, Contracts and other Real
Estate business for Residents or Non Resi-
dents.
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! have tip-top Blacksmith ready
to do most anything sppertaining to hiE
Trade, as well and as Low Priced aG can be
found in the County.
HORSE SHOEING,
AXES JUMPED and WARRENTED
&c, &c.
LUCTEN BIRD.
Brookland, Pa, Aug %, 1865.
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P. A. Stebbins & Go.

A RE AGENTS for the sale of
n WHEELER Il WILSON'S SEFH
MACHINES for Potter County
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A WHITE MANS GOYERNMFNT.-
The Democratic conservative organs say
that they aae in favor of white mans
government We affirm that the asser
tion is untrue. What sort Of white
mans government is that In which thirty
three Representatives Fit 10 Congress
representing four millions of non voting
black people? A pretty sort of white
mans government indeed ! If these
Conservative Democrats are for white
mans government, why do they not pro-
pose to strike out their four milSOns OF
negroes from the representative popula.
ton? Why do they not confne them
selves to white people in making up the
ratio of representation in Congress ?
Why do they not coDfne themselves TO a
white basis exclusively, and not 60 ran
sacking freedmen's villages, contraband
camps and cotton plantations, in order to
muster up big census Of negroes, to in
crease their political power in the Ma
tional Government Come, gentlemen,
a little honesty, if you please. No shut
fling nor sophistry will serve your turn.
If you are for government of white men,
be consistent, and do not mix up four
millions of black men in your political
hotch potch. What business has South
Carolina with three members in the Ma,
tional House Of Representatives, who get
in on the the backs of over four hundred
thousand black men ?-NQsHUiHe Press
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-10

a "heaIthy" loyalist named Pendletcn
has been making a speech in Virginia
He was once an Old Line Wing. He
had been opposed to Secession. Now be
wants to go to Congress. In his speech
occurs this pleasant and pathetic passage
-Four Yankee Generais-.-Wadsworth,
Morrow, Robinson and Rice-camped on
my place for four months, Winter before
last and, although l don't exactly be.
hcve in special providences. the fact that
three of them fell dead at the Wilderness,
the day after they crossed the Rapidap,
looked like special dispensation in my
behalf" This stamps Pendleton as being
about the "heaIthiest" Ioyalist we have
seen yet. Send him to Congress.
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WHAT IT NEEDs.-"What the Dem
ocratic party chiefly needs is power"
says E. w. Purdy, the Chief Sachem of
Tammany. With all your gettings get
power, no matter how, but get it. lily
ing and hypocrisy, only, will net it, then
use them, and don't be sparing.
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A full assortment Of almost everything shafts
kept in a country store on hand. We intend
to keep Goods that will give satisfaction and
sell good articles at the lowest living profit
AT OLMSTED'S,
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Pendleton, the Virginia loyalist run
ming for Congress, calls Thaddeus Ste.
vens a 'hell-cat.' We should Judge from
this that he had been pardoned.