The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-15
Maj. Gen. Warren has resumed COM

Eihu Burrit, "the learned blacksmith,
is the United States Consul at Birming.
ham England.
Hon. Gustavus A Koerner, of Illinois,
United States Minister to Spain, has re
signed his position.
Philip Dougherty, Esq, one of the old
est and most respectable citizens of Har-
risburg, died on Thursday night last.
j. S. Rock, colored lawyer of Boston
was admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States last week.
Geu. Meade has been confirmed as Ma
jor General in the Regular Army, his
commission dating from the 18th of Au.
gust last.
Hon. Wartman I Wiley has been re-
elected United States Senator from West
Virginia for six years from the 4th Of
March next.
Burleigh the Lake Erie raider, was de.
livered to the us Provost Marshal. at
Suspension Bridge, New York, on Friday
morning
Robert Lincoln, eldest son of the Pres
ident, and famllarly known as the "Priuce
of rails, is about entering the army as
one of General Grants Staff.
A correspondent of the PiHsJury Doi;-
~ Gazette urges the Hon Thos. NJ. Howe,
of that city, as proper person to be ap-
pointed Secretary ofthe Treasury.
Daniel S. Merton, the Senator elect
from Minnesota, who will succeed Mr..
Wilkinson, will be one of the youngest
members Of that body, being about thirty
five years of age.
Gen. Pope is at StLouis en- ronte to
the northwestern department.
Missouri, Kansas aud the
military division of St.Louis. Gen. Curtis
goes to St. Paul
The wife of distinguished citizen of
Boston on Thursday, gave birth to fine,
hearty boy, and the father has determined
to name himCo Institutional Amendment
Good for the father.
The Buffalo Courier announces the
death of Mr. WmF. ketchum. inventor
Of the mower and reaper which is known
by his name. He was also the inventor
of hand grenada. Mr. Ketchum had
resided in Buffalo more than thirty years
Lieutenant Commander Wm.A. Parker
who was in command of the Monitor
Onondaga and showed the white feather
when the rebel rams came down the James
river last week, has been relieved and Or
dered before court martial.
The health of Major General John E
Wool, Unitsd States army (retired,) is
said to be fast failing This vetran off.
Ger is now far advanced in years, and
keeps well to bis official residence in Trov
spending most of his time in the prepara-
tion of his memoirs and other writings.
The keeper of the Auderscnville, ,Geor
gia, military prison, Lieut.. S. B. Davis
who was arrested at Newark, Ohio, on his
way with dispatches from Richmond to
Cahada, has been tried and sentenced to
be hung at Joh1son's Island on February
l7th
The St. Louis Republican states that
Brigadier General Roddy, who has earned
a high reputation during the war as
partisan cavalry commander, and who has
cooperated with Forest in several import.
ant operations, grew tired of the contest
a few weeks ago. He found means to
with the Federal authorities,
and through them procured full pardon
fren the President as a condition preced.
ent to lay down his arms. His pardon
was forwarded to Gen. Thomas headquar-
ters by Mr.. Lincoln last week, and by this
time, doubtless, in the hands of the re.
pentant rebel for whom it was prepared.
He will soon be heard of, therefore, as
having resumed civil pursuits at his old
home, which We believe was in Tennessee.
The information upon which this state
ment is made comes from a loval officer,
who has just arrived from Tennessee. His
position In the army there is such as to
give him an opportunity of personally
knowing the truth of what he asserts.
The BLooDHoUNDs KILLED-Dr. Ben
SOP, of Milwaukee, surgeon of the Four.
teenth, Wisconsin,, has just returned from
Savannah. having left that city on the 22d,
the day OF surrender. He accompanied
Sherman's expedition through Georgia as
Medical Inspector of the Seventeenth
corps. He says that the bloodhouuds and
dogs of VARIOUS species were found in
enormas numbers along the route, kept
for, the purpose OF hunting Union men,
deserters and negroes. These were slaugh.
tered without mercy, not far from FIVE