The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-08-21

tor u. -. SeOdLOF III D1sSOuTl pTOfluSo Ih0
next Legislature is radical
g- The President and Cabinet will be
at Chicago, September 5th, and remain
two nights and one day.
S The westean people are welcoming
the radical members of Congress. home
with unbounded de monstratiOns Of conf
dence and respect.
TWhat did Andrew johnson mean
when he promised to be the Moses Of the
black men of the South, and lead through
the Red Sea?
He meant Memphis and Neac Orleans!
Ea- James E. Brown, Of Mercer county,
was nominated as the Republican candi
date for State Senator on the eighty second
ballot. This district is composed of We
mango, Mercer and Warren counties.
"a Governor Morton, of Indiana, says
the Philadelphia convention is a direct con-
fession that the democratic party, indellbly
stained with treason as it is, is a name too
greyouS to be borne.
BS~ The Union State Convention for
New York will be held at Syracuse on the
5th day of September next. Candidates
for Governor lieutenant Governor, Canal
Commissioner, and Inspector Of State Pris-
ons will be nominated.
N- The theory of the recently deceased
aged German physician, that bis life was
greatly prolonged by sleeping with his head
to the North, finds an accompanying con-
tirmation in the fact that most American
politicians, who have for scores Of years
laid their heads to the South, are very dead.
! @ The public have seen how the Con
seryatives managed what they called the
"Rump" Convention in New Orleans. 1t
! is not uncharitable to infer that the Con
servatives design to administer the same
discipline to the assembly they call the
"Rump Congress at Washington. In the
New Orleans massacre the President was
on the side of the cut-throats. There are
indications that he intends to be on the
same side at the National Capital.
nsa- President Johnson, in his dispatch
to the Attorney General Of Louisiana, says;
"Tne people must first be consulted in
changing the organic .aw of the State.
Usurpation will not be tolerated"
1--WE recollect Alright, this same Presi-
dent, without the slightest authority of law,
dictated most important changes in the
Constitution of ten different States, in not
one of which did he allow the demanded
changes to be submitted to the people
Does he mean to plead guilty to the charge
of usurpation3 ~
N A party of New Orleans youths just
bursting into manhood, went up town a.
few nights ago to compliment lady friend
of one of the young gentlemen by a sere
made. They had barely time to execute
one plaintive air, when window opened
and masculine voice good naturedly in
quired, "How many of you are there 2"
-Four" returned the serenaders, thinking
the inquiry had probably reference to re-
freshments. divide that among you,
then,' returned the individual at the win
dow, as he omptied the contents of a water
pail over the heads just then massed to-
gether.
EST The devotion of the infamous Mayor
of New Orleans to the rebel cause during
the war is we'll illustrated by the following
incident recently related by Gen. Butler
at social gathering:
Mayor Monroe, after being imprisoned as
a traitor, was about to be released upon
taking the oath Of allegiance, ,and had actu-
ally the pen in his hand to alfix his sigma
ture, when word was brought in that Nc
CleIIan had been defeated 10y the rebels
with the loss Of forty thousand men. Be-
lieving this canard, Monroe refused to sign,
threw down his pen, and was taken back to
prison, from which he was afterwards re-
leased by the action of the authorities at
Washington. i
eg Mr.. King,of the New Orleans Times,
who, before the riots telegraphed that the
Convention was onlyZ''a debating club"
and afterwards spoke of its members as
revolutionists, wrote recently at the Presi
dents dictation, as follows:
"The officers and people of New Orleans
must an every reipect deport themselves
in such way that the stain Of the recent
occurrence may, as much as possible, be
wiped out. The President demands this"
The President, then, comprehends that
the blood of his victims in New. Orleans
has left stain" Ay, and all the waters
of the ocean will not wash it out. He now
demands that the ,assassins, who were his
tools, shall SO behave as hereafter to pass