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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22
From The N. Y. Petroleum Recorder
NV York. Feb l4th, 1865.

NEW YORK, Feb 18th, 1865.
The opening of the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad, which traverses nearly the
whole length Of the Sinnemahoning River,
in Cameron aud Potter counties, Pennsyl-
vania, has brosght this wild region into
prominent notice The arabic lands are
of red shale soil, and good for agricul-
turai purposes, aud tffe whole are of great
value for their timber and minerals The
recent discoveries Cf petroleum and salt
upon the waters Of this stream, has caused
great speculation along the stream and
Us tributaries and the SHOWS Of winter
do not prevent search for the hidden
weallh. Beaten paths through the snow
and excavations 10 the frozen soil and on
the ice bound streams Indicate the search
for gas, coal, and copper, which abounds
there. From appearances this wild
and neglected mountain region bids fair
so exceed in mineral wealth, any other
State. It is announced that the Hon
John Magee Il Soas, of Watkins, New
York, the proprietors Of the well known
"Fsll Brook coal mines" have purchased
ten thousand acres of land near the uouth
of the First Fork of the Sinuemahoning,
and near the line of Potter aud Cameron
counties, which is said to contain petro.
leum, salt, icon, coal, copper, aud lead, in
Considerable qualities, aud is of untold
.alue. The wealth aud business energy
Of this company is sufficient guarantee
for the full development of the property
and oil wells will be sunk, and coal shafts
opened at an earl day upon this tract
Ga the mouatain about one and a half
miles from tue railroad, is another of those
singular phenomena exactly sinular to
the one on the mountain between the
celebrated Blood and Tarr Farms, on OIL
Creek. There is an opening in the noun
tain about eight feet in diameter, from
which is constantly escaping a volume of
gas and steam, which in clear day may
be seen one fourth of nile at abont ten
feet down this opening divides into two
parts, dlverging from each other, and a
stone thrown in may be heard rubbing
dowa tl,e sides until the sound is lost 10
the distance This point is about fifteen
hundred feet above tide water, and is now
attrsc,ag a great deal of notice The
smell or ef1uvia from tins Gas, like that
from lowing wells, is sickeningj and when
exhaled for length of time causes YER
tigo and vomiting. 1t is no doubt one
Of natures great Laboratories, where cou
slant distillatlon of mineral aud vegetable
matter is going on, and the explosive force
OF the gas has at some period made this
opening. IT'S exact similarity to the
place referred to on Oil Greek is some.
what remarkable. aud by the referance to
the issue of your paper of January 4th, it
will appear that the levels of this stream
are these Of Oil Creek. The whole region
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22


ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice President
elect of the United States, was called out
after the passage of the recent emanciPa
ii O measures in Tennessee, and made q
speech which rang like bell. The
early poverty of Governor johnson makes
him a hearty contemner Of that slave
holding aristocracy whose feet iave ever
been set, with equal oppression, upon
humble whites. He wrcaks noble ven
geance upon his ancient enemies in the
following indignant strain:
"The mighty principles Of human
rights and liberty have been pitted against
monopoly and slavery. Yesterday you
broke the tyrant's rod aud set the captive
free. Loud applause Yes, gentlemen,
on yesterday you souuded the death kDeII
of negro aristocracy, and performed the
funeral obsequies of that thing sIa.
very. You have opened the grave and
let the carcass down, and all that remains
is for you to seal the pit on the 22d
Of February the am iVetsary of the day
which gave birth to the Father Of his
Country. Consecrate your work on thai
day. feel heartfelt gratitude that
have lived to SEE it done, and that have
been permitted to perform my little part
in this great drama. The blow has been
struck, and slavery lies PROSTATE. An
insoleht, ignorant, unfeeIing, hypocriical,
nefarisus dlabolical slave ariStocracy has
been tumbled to the ground. They who
never learn that
Worth makes the man, and want Of it the
fellow"
who live on the real or imaginary Eonors
of buried ancestry, have at least learned
that an ignorant, corrupt aristocracy must
20 down"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

ONLY FIVE LEFT The House Com
nittee on Revolutionary Pensions have
eported bill granting to the Eve sur
eiving heroes of the infant Republic a
.ratuity Of three hundred dollars per an
ium for the repaiuder of their lives
The venerable list is as follows.
Lemuel Cook, aged 90, Orleans Co.,
New York
Samuel Dowuey, aged 80, Saratoga Co t,
[ew York
William Hutchins, aged 100, Hancock
20, Maine,
Alexander Marony, aged, 81, Orleans
90, New York.
James Barbour, in his 101st year Mis-
,ouri.
10 July, 1868, eigteen were living
In January, 1864, twelve-seven have
luce died.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

That BLESSED baby''is is likely to cost
che English dear, an extra allowance of Q
hun lred and fifty thousand dolli rs year
about to be voted to the Prince of Wales
for its support.
One "blessed baby" in England makes
ten thousand unblest Yet the people n
the Southern States are f. Citing to estab'
lish q government there will make them
pay corresponding tribunte to the babies
of Jefferson Davis and the British Lords
are doing all they can to saddle the igno-
raut poor Of the South with this burden
thev seem so eager to bear
The Scripture says, Though thou
shOuldest bray (pound) fool il mortar
among wheat with pestle, yet will not
Lis foolishness depart from him."
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22
A Significant Resolve.

Even Mr.. Fernando Wood despairs of
the Coufederacy. Yesterday heassonished
the House of Representatives by Offering
the following resolution:
"Resolved, That it is the duty of the
Prsident to maintain, in every constitu-
tional and legal manner, the integrity of
the American Union as formed by the
fathers of the republic, aud in no event,
and under no circumstaces, to proffer or
accept negotiations which shall admit, by
the remctest implication. the existauce
of any other federal pr confederate govern
ment within the territory of the United
States"
That he did this after the return OF
Mr. Singleton from Richmond, whittier
the latter went as delegate from the
pro- slavery leaders, makes his resolution
the more significant. 1t means. probably
either that the Shareholders, irsurrec,iou
is, in the opinion of Mr. Singleton, ready
70 collapse, and therefore 10 that state
when it is judicicus to kick it; or else il
may mean that Mr.. Singleton was severe
Iy sunbbed by Jeff. DAVIS, and retuned
convinced that the rebel leaders cannot
be dealt with as friends of any party in
the North, but must be treated as enemies
by all who, either from principles or pter.
est, adhere the Uuion. N Y Evening
Post, FEB lSt.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

Coop News FROM MBgAzIL.-Advices
from Mr.. Webb, the United States Min,
ister at Rio Jaueiro, received at the State
department., brings the gratifying inteli.
2ence that the government Of Brazil has
issued a decree excluding the pirate
Shenandoah from the ports Of that mpire.
At the date of these advices Mr.. Seward's
answer 10 the case Of the Florida had not
been received at Rio.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22
Auditors RepOrf.

Balance Due from Le1cis W. Lyman,
Treasurer Of Potter County tor 1868
and 1864, TO the Uarious Tornship
and School Districts Jaauagy |, 1865,
as pr Aadit0rS' Statements flied IN tie
Commissioners Office and IN the P'o,
Mon0tary'S Office.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

ng-The forty. eighth annual report of
the American Colonization Society says
he sale of the ship Mary Caroliue Stew
ms, given the society by the late John
Stevens. of Maryland, was not the result
IF necessity, but the expense for wharfage
nd care in port, and the loss of interest
N the capital she might realize, Induced
the society to sell her for $4,000, which
will be invested iu United States securities
to be employed at some future time in the
purchase of suitable vessel to bear the
same name. During the year 1864 the
,um of sol ,455, "A was disbursed by the
society. For the same period SIS, ,23l, ,78
we're received from legacies left the soci,
etv $6,767 81 from donations and collec-
tluns, and Sl2, 600 from the United States
Government
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22
THE CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.

AFTER the vote taken in the House OIL
the Constitutional Amendment to abolish
slavery forever, in the United States apd
territories, and the .ally y,sheet was handed
from tie Clerks desk to the Speaker, h,
sid:
"OD the passage of the Joint Resolu
;iou, the vote is, yeas, l19; nays, So
The constitutional two-thrds majority
having been obtained, tie Joint Resolu
ton as passed !''
What followed-how all rules wer
forgotten how the Speaker nor the cp-
position, nor even the whole House coulo
restrain the galleries; how gentlemeu
3hcered and the ladies' waved their hand
kerchets as If muscles and veins wer
quivering and pulsating with fire; how
the food Of great rejoicing swept over and
washed out all possible legislative pro.
ccedings. The youngest boy that saw it,
will in his grey hairs recount the story il
aunother and 8 better time, to the child
rem Of another generation, as the most
memorable event of the nations history
Neither slavery nor involuntary serv
itude, except as punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their juris
Giction"
The vision Of the great expounder oI
the Constitution is realized His eyes
were not worthy to see it, but at last the
flag he loved so dear floats, over the armies
chat surrounds the rebellion as with a
wall of fire over the Davies that guard the
coast, in every land ard cline, "LlBER
TY AND UNION, ONE AND INSEP-
ERABLE, NOW AND FOREVER"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

The WESTERN Hoe TRADE.-Tht
number of hogs packed in this city, j.
estimated at 338,000, being a deficiency
a compared with last season, of 22,000
bead. At Chicago the packing foots up
100000 against 100000 last year, being q
falling off of abont $4,000 Tie fall.
ing off in the whole west will fall but IT.
tie short of 100000 head. In the num-
Der shipped East there is also large
deficiency Cincinnati Gazette.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

A SENSIBLE VIEw.-Le Temps, /;
leading and influential French journa
published in Paris, in closing a review o
the events of the year 1864, makes the
following candid admissions in reference
10 our great civil war:
ain this rapid review the war in Amer
lea must only appear for forms sake
Europe can DO nothing iu the matter, ,anC
the most chimercal minds have ceased to
speak of intervention. For the old worlc
this unprecedented struggle is a spectacle
rich in lessons, at the same time formid
able and conSolatory. BY the cost now
imposed on the United States to exter
pate slavery, it displays the terrible jus
tce of It's history, and shows, by thai
fearful sacrifices nations expiate the pro
longed tolerance OF wrong. 1t also exhib.
its, by the incredible facility of those sac
rlfces, that abundance of material and
moral resources, of which no idea existed
and above all shows, by the little loss Of
liberty they have involved, that liberty
is not fatally designed to perish in the
tempests OF civil wars. On this point all
European ideas, including our own. are
completely bewildered. The reelection
of Mr.. Lincoln, aud the manner in which
it was accomplished, are the pledge cf an
indestrustible liberty, and will remaiuc
in history as an lmperishable pledge of
political and moral greatness"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

is one of rich mineral deposit, and we IN
derstaud that specimens iron and cop
per from the First Fork are now in
this city for examination and analysis.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

Gov. Hahn, Of Louisiana, has issued a
proclamation congratulatiDg the people OF
Missouri and Tennessee on the adoption
of The ordinances abo.ishing Slavery in
those States, and appointing the 24th inst.
as holiday ia honor of these events.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

We do certify that the foregoing Statement
of Receipts and Expenditures of Potter Com
ty for the year 1864 is correct as annear.
from the records and vouchers in this Gfica
Commissioners Office, Jau Is, 1866.
r. L. NICHOLS,
9. T. KILBouRNE, Comsrs.
Z. o. AUSTIN
Attest: L. B. Cole, Clerk.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22
STATEMENT

ar the Receipts and Expenditures of Pot
" ter County for the. year ending on the
3lst day of Dec, A. D. 1864
Reed from county and special
taxes for 1864 and previous yrs $13742 81
Reed from Relief taxes for 1864
and previous years 2528 10
Rec'c Bounty taxes for 1864 9733 l6
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

" Stationary -.
g Fuel ~
" Attorney fees for 1863 oo o SS
Jail and Penitentiary expenses 9e9 W
6. Coprt a,nonsaa 46 O5
&c Pad -. LIS 70
q pnbI;c nr;n,; l9s 90
Wild cat bounty w
+" Damages by roads % 70
!, Com expenses to Harrisburg la ~
C.S,Jones exp's to for CONS =, eS
Justices returns 10
Clerk of quarter sessions
Prothonotary's fees -
Revenue Stamps 70 s5
Interest on Keating bond ee "
On bond to Isaac Benson 90 W W
4" /" g % oS
IN bond, 543S So
a Into,ostan - bi so,.H tTers 1856 50
Judgment to E. and D. Herr 7al 80
IN ho,a &C " III, pen l34s 81
90 Panoisa " " " IolVin 3l4 81
g !. Y"e :. ouiolngS 62
Teuding Town Clock ~ w w
Incidental expenses as w w
Recorders fees .!
Ccronor,a -; Is so
&C clorl e. 4 81
Excess OF receips over expenditures eooo w
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

Mr. Lyman desires the Town and School
Treasurers to call for the funds due to them
as he does not wish to hold them in his
hands. The particulars of each amount may
be seen in the book of Auditors Reports in
the Commissioners Office.
There is also in the hands of the Treasurer
of Cash, (since paid to his successor Arch f.
jones'
Bounty, 986,l6
County, 663, is
Relief, 1920
W. B. GRAVES,
S. H. MARTIN, Auditors.
L. BIRD,
Coudersport Jan 2l, 1864
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

l04,54 OF
We the Commissioners of the County Of
Potter, do certify that the foregoing State
ment of the Funds of the said County of Pot
ter on the first day of January 1855 is correct
as will appear from the books and records Of
this Office.
Commissioners Office, ,Jan'y Is, A. D. 1865.
R. L. NICHOLS,
E. 0. AUSTIN, Coms'rs.
G. P. KILBoURSs,
ArrEsr L. B. CoLF, Clerk -
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22

The HIGHEST M0TIyEs.-Tha war is
evidently drawing to a close, but while it
lasts the Treasury must have money to
meet its cost, and every motive that
patriotism can inspire should induce the
people to supply It's wants without delay.
The Government can buy cheaper for
cash in hand than on credit. Let US see
that its wants are promptly aud literally
satisfied
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-22
Total amount of Bounty Fund Ss7.7o2 %
CAPITCLATIoN.

Aggregate amount Of County
Indebtedness on the lst Of January
1865 including Bounty and Yolur-
teer Bonds Sl05I3q
NoTE-The aggregate amount of Bonds
sued to Volunteers during the year is
SS730O
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-09
Democrats, beware 0f Frauds and
Fraudulent Tickets.

Double Tickets have been circulated with
the name CT Samuel Gulck as candidate
for Auditor. MIR. Gulick withdrew his
name several days since, and is not candi-
date. ~ Nh A
Democratic Tickets in full have been cir
culated with the exception of the names of
William Domigan, for Sheriff, and Thomas
Arnold, for Auditor, which are left out.
And the names of other candidates may be
left out of other Tickets.
Fac sim,le Democratic Tickets have been
circulated with the same heading and print
ed with the same type as those issued by the
Democratic Central Committee, with the
names of one or more of the Republican
candidates printed or written in. a.
Republican candidates have got their
names printed on tissue paper which they
are pasting over the names of their Demo-
cratic opponents on the regular Democratic
Ticket,and are circulating the same, intend
ing to palm them upon honest Democrats
as the regular Democratic Ticket. @
Beware not only of the frauds before
mentioned, but look out for all sorts OF
fraudulent Tickets. -.r.a l..r
Get your Tickets of reliable Democrats
and read every name before voting.
Look out for imported voters. Challenge
all strangers.
BY order of the Democratic County Cen
tral Committee. O.. -. -r g-g ~
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-09
The Law Prescribing the QuaIiG-
cation of Electors.

Section II of "an act to preserve the
purity of elections" Swan & Critchtield's
Revised Statutes, vol. 1st, page 543, provides
that mo person shall be permitted to vote
at any election unless he shall have been an
actual resident of the State for one year, of
the county for thirty days, and of the town
ship Or ward in which he offers to vote
twenty days next preceding the election
The residence of person is declared to be
the place in which his habitatiOn is .f5ed,
without any present intention of removing
therefrom, and to which, whenever he is
absent, he has the intention of returning.
"a person shall not be considered or held
to have lost his residence who shall leave
his home and go into another State or county
of this State, for tempory purposes merely,
with an intention of returning" "a
A person shall not be considered or held to
have gained residence in any county of
this State into which he shall have come
for temporary purposes merely, without
the intention of making such county his
home, but with the intention of leaving the
same when he shall have, gotten through
with the business that brought him into it,.
If person remove to another State with
an intention to make it his permanent res
idence he shall be considered and held to
have lost his residence in this State. q d
If person remove to another State with
an intention of remaining there for an in
definite time, and as place of present res
idence, he shall be considered and held to
have lost his residence in this State, not
withstanding he may entertain an intention
to return at some future period. The place
where married mans family resides, shall
generally, be considered and held to be his
residence; buttif it is place for temporary
establishment of his family, or for transient
objects, it shall be otherwise. If a married
man has his family fixed in one place, and
he does his business in another, the former
shall be considered and held to be the place
! of his residence. The mere intention to
acquire new residence without the fact of
removal shall avail nothing; neither shall
the fact of removal without the intention.
= If person shall 60 into another State
and while there exercise the right of a citi-
zen by voting, he shall be considered and
held to have lost his residence in this State,
By section S5, page 546, Swan and Critch-
field, Vol. 1st, it is provided that nothing
in the act before named, so far as the same
relates to the length of time required OF the
voter to reside in the township or ward
where he offers to vote, shall be held, taken
or construed to apply to any voter who is
the head of family who shall bone Jtae re-
move with his family from one ward into
another within the corporate limits of any
city within the State, or who shall remove
from one township to another within the
same county. '-,s, o-.. q. l.. s.,i.... ...4...
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-09
HAGAN,s MAGNOLIA BALM.

This is the delightful and extraordinary article
ever discovered. 1t changes the sunburnt face and
hands to peary satin texture of ravishing beauty,
imparting the marble purity of youth. and the dis
angae appearance so inviting in the city belle Of
fashion. 1t removes tan, freckles, pimples and
roughness from the skin .-leaying the complexion
fresh, transparenta and smooth. II contains no ma
terial injurious to the skin Patronized by Actress
es and Opera Singers. 1t is what every lady should
have. Sold everywhere. Retail price. so cts.
EPrepared by W. Il. HAGAN, Troy, N. Y.
Address all orders to a.r a.
DEMAS BARNES 4 CO.. New York.
oct9-d&wly .a.+
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-09
Very Significant

The Navy Department has placed pro-
hibition upon the collection of funds from
the workmen in the Navy Yard at New
York city for political purposes, and also
upon the employment of additional men
about the yard, for party electioneering.-
That is grist to the Democratic mill. 1t
means that President JOHNSON desires the
success of the Democratic party in New
York, and, be assured, the election of Gen
eral MORGAN and the entire Democratic
Ticket Tomorrow will afford him great
deal of joy. t,
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-09
Must be Great Fools.

The editors and politicians who are ad-
vocating the election of General Cox, must
be great fools in supposing that the soldiers
can be induced to vote for Negro Suffrage,
contrary to their notions of right, because
some irresponsible person may have spoken
in opposition to the War when 1t was being
perverted from Its originally avowed pur-
pose. These politicians will find that the
soldiers of Ohio are like the soldiers Of
Connecticut and Iowa-opposed to Negro
Suffrage, and that they will vote for Gene
raj MORGAN and the Democratic Ticket to-
morrow. tl.