The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-15

Soon the Star Spanged Banner foated
from the top of the Custom house, the
Citadel, and the Arsenal-waviDg for the
first time here over free soil and people
free.
'INsOLENCE" OF THE CoLORED TROOPS.
"Do the Yankees trouble you 2" was
asked of this person.
"No," she said, "the Yankees don't ;
but your negroes do"
"They dc not insult you do they ?"
"No, not me; but they do others "
"What do they do 2"
"Oh they won't turn off the sidewalk
for you, and they will go up 10 white
man and ask him for light for their
cigars~
TO appreciate this enormity fully, it
should be known that it is part of the
unwritten laws of South Carolina that
every negro on meeting white person on
the sidewalk shall give them the inside
or "the wall" Some seditious Yam
KEGS have probably advised the negroes
Of the fact that this lcr non scripta is
repealed, or at least played out
Since some of our soldiers went into
Catholic cathedral in Mexico, and re-
quested a priest to give HIM one of the
tapers to light his cigar at, there has
probably nothing been done by America
troops so offensive to the feelings of the
natives of conquered country as was
perpetrated when the FIRST negro soldier
stepped UP to one of the scions Of the
chivalry here and asked hrn for light.
"But things like this, you know must be,
after famous victory" as the uncle of
little Peter Kinney judiciously remarked.
THE MASSACHUSETTS FIETY.FIFTH.
On Tuesday evening, about 7 o'clock,
we heard prolonged and hearty cheer
ing in a neigb bboring street. Iran IN the
direction indicated by the shouts, and
found that the Massachusetts Fifty-ffth
(Colored) regiment had just landed in
the city:
Johp Browns body lies moldering in the
grave,
John Browns body lies moldering in the
grave,
John Browns body lies q moldering in the
J grave,
His soul is marching on!
Glory Glory Halleiujah!
Glory Glory Hal'elujahl
/ Glory Glory HalIeiujahl
We 90 marching on
Wen hang Jeff Davir on a crab-apple tree,
Wen hang JEFF Davis on a crab-appie tree,
/ Wen hang JEFF Davis on a crab-apple tree,
AS we &C marching on!
Imagine, if you can, this stirring song
chanted with the most rapturous, most
exultant emphasis, by a regiment of ne.
gro troops, who had been lying in sight
of Charleston for nearly two years-as
they trod with tumultuous delight along
the streets of this pro-Slavery city, whose
soil they had just touched for the first
time-imagine them, in the dim light Of
the evening, seeing on every side groups
of their own race-men, women, maidens
and little children, who greeted them
with Joy that knew no bounds save that
of physical ability to express itself fully
Imagine them, as they finished their
song Of triumph, Unite with ecstasy, in
joining in that other thrilling melody:
Down with the traitor,
Up with the flag
Imagine them cheer, as only triumph
troops can cheer, in honor Of the "stars
and stripes" and you may conceive,
(albeit very faintly,) the sublime and
unequaed scene that [ had the privilege
of witnessing on Tuesday night IN
Charleston.
DAHLGREN AND GILMORE
Major Gen Gilmore and Admiral
Dahlgren, as l t id you in my last dis
patch, landed IN this city on Saturday
morning. 1t is said that whenever a
negro was told that it was Gen. Gilmore
who commanded the National army here,
a broad grin would al once make him
show how fine a set of teeth he had for
his own private use 1t was a happy
accident that enabled Gen. Gilmore to
be 10 command Of this Department now.
1t makes the taiumph poeticaI and CON-
Plete.
BLOCKADE RUNNERS.
4 fine, fast blockade runner was in
the barbor when the city was evacuated,
and now flies the stars and stripes. 1t
is the Syrene. On Monday night still
another walked the waters like thing
of life, and woke up to find itself in a
Unien harbor, an easy prize to the feet
which it thought it had eluded 1t is
an old ofender-the Hope. 1t is believed
that there are others nearly due. They
will be allowed to come in, freely. Our
success is making US little careless. l
believe there are naval officers who would
lust as lief as ns not let all the blockad-