--SLIDELL IN DESPAID.—The telegrams from Washington are not always reliable, but on the hypothesis that a retie can have a spark of reason left, it is quite possible that the statement that Slidell, who was captured on the Trent and then released, has sent home word-to 'the reb els that the best thing they.ean do is to maize the best terms possible - and return to the Union. It is well for Slidell that be is in Europe. Such advice, however judicious, would (not be listened to in reb• (Abut, and it would probably cost him 'a larger imprisoutneut than he was subjept to in , Boston Harbor, should hellow ,re pm ; ,Davis 'Coo federatO may, listedto this advice, but bread kriti, Snell as :have already broken out in It;chmoind and Petersburg, will force the `matter upon his attention, and may final .ly constrain him to heed thp advice of his • :`forein.n agent. EETING' JAFFICULTY:—Sneb largo :Portions of the , Confedericy" 'have been "subjugated" and oceqied by Federal 'troOps,lhat the / Jeff. Davisites at Rich; iiton4l.begin7tO fear that they cannot lung 'be able' toilloose members of Congress to get over the difficuilt3i bY going back to ihe'gineral ticket system ,' so that a few towns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, eon - elect the entire numbeed Con gresSmen to which each State may be entitled: The next, step will probably bit aliow th e Rebeli Who have 'fled from thase States. to hold an _election at any place they may appoint—say in Rich. tuund. • BEL.The report of the Congressional Committee on the conduct of the has at last been published, and it effectually deenolishes the last vestige of Gen. Geo. 13. McClellan's military reputation ' if he Intd(aby left. It shows that, in the Pen. insole campaign, in the language of 1171kes' Spirit of the Times, "while he misconceived every operation, and mis• inansged every movement, he ran away, persistently, from every haulm"? The New York Daily Times, in briefly reviewing the evidence, remarks : ~"We think the country and the world, in 'view of the facts stated in this report, i linist come, however , reluctantly, to the conelusion, that the failure of this army lai been wholly and exclusively owing to the incompetency of _its commandin, Veneral ; - ai3d those who do not adopt this explanation must fall back on one in finitely legs to his credit, namely,.that Gen. MoClellan did not think the wan try was to be served and the Union saved by crushing the rebel armies, and that he acted' upon this conviction, rather than upon - bts - duty and hie orders as a tali, tary•commander. We can see no escape from one of these two conclusions." Two free-born colored boys, who went out as servants to souie of the officers in the ,42d Massachusetts Regiment, and at the capture of -Galveston were taker"' by the rebels, have been sold into slavery by their captors. What a commentary-upon the rboasted•ciVilization of the age is this 'enslavement of free-born Northern boys. The Government should demand their re lease, on the principle that ; whom the Meg 'overs the :Cation will protect. Sup- TroSe the Rebels had- undertaken .to sell two White servants into SLvery; is. it voisible to doubt that this GoVerrkment would have interfered? Justice and hu. I Inanity and policy alike require that they 0611iie rescued from' the hell to which 6'or capture has consigned them. ' "I HAVE TAKEN ME GROUND that ice hare gone far enough in this wa.. 1 ann not here to retract anything I have said." So said ex-Governor T. 11. Sey tnour,-.-tho defeatedcaudidate for Gayer -I,dr in Connecticut `'the man mbo headed . the party which the Post called "gallant eaitorratives," and hoped forAheir sue cess,;saying: "We hope for a oonserva tivo Victory, but dread 'the, odds against US 'will prove s too powerit4 'to be over eat:to." Sore enough;' l ‘i:s" were beaten very badly ;. bat it . Was nothing to . what happen - to."ui" in Pennsylvania next Wt4ier. OF HOARDING SMALL COIN 7-- Those people who now hoard cents and three cent pieces, do it, probably in the belief t.lkt . sbey . ere Much more valuable than the — re.ular paper currency.. We suppose they do not übderitpt4 that cents and three emit pieces are'oet worth what they pass for, and that they are not a le gal tender for the paytnept of debts atriounting to wore than thirty cents. A peripn way hoard three !cent-pieces to the amount of hundreds o . dollars, but he eennot pay debts With them:or use theta at Atli. in business transaction's, beyond the aniount specified, if others refute to take . t In ;- and with cents the ease is still . . Such hoarding is foolish busi . nes.. These small .coins were wade to uirculato as °flange, and_thes were made to circulate as change, and They Were made to : past for more than. -they pre• in trinsically worth, , in, order to keep then, in.circulation; therefore let them circu late.--NpriVnien Herald. ; The Algua. nioartie over the defeat of Seymour. - .• But the Argus inhere cop). harry in :its grief. Jeff. _Davis will . "mourn." The Richmond Enqu'rer will icreourn.l. .So will the Louden Times.- . -- the. eoemipe. of our cause, every where. On the .heory that t 'lnieerY loveo company," our - neighbor- ought to feel halitqlegeo in its" team—Many—Jour- Victor Rugo ha's writtoo a •tragedy of WI4LU 91d Jvi.n Bwhvu is t e ucgo. THE JOURNAL. Coudersport.. Pa. 1 Wednesday, Apr. 1803. ',::- M. W.! 3IcALARitE Y, EmToi. ':: STATE CONVENTION. The Union State Ccmmittee have issued the following call for a State Cocvention : The loyal citizens of Pennsylvania, without distinction of party, Who desire cordially- to unite in sustaining the National and State Ad ministrationsiin their patriotic efforts to sup press a sectional and unholy-rebellion against the unity of the Republic - , and who - -d3sire to support by every power of the Government our heroic brethren in arms, who arebraving disease and the peril'Of tho'field, to preserve the Union of cur fathers, are requested to se lect the number of delegates equal.to.the Leg islative representation of-!the State, at such times and in t such manner us will best respond to the spirit Of this cal), to meet - in - State Con vention at Pittsburg; on 'Wedtieticitiy, - die Ist day of July next, at.ll o'clock. A.. M., on the said day to nominate candidates' for the offi ces of Governor and Judge of the Suprernh Court; and tli`talte Such measures tie may be 'I deemed necessary to strengthen -the Gayest* merit in this season of common peril to a com mon country . . C. P. MARPLE. uitaarman of M e Li nton Jtate,Gonsmulee. The following resolution was• adopted. by the Committee: . Resolved, That it. be recommended to the loyal, citizens. of. Pennsylvania, without dis tinction of party, to organize in each election district of the State a Union 'LeAgue, for the purpose of sustaining the Go - vernment in MT pressing this; causeless and wicked rebellion, which now .leeks to divide and destroy _the Republic. ! The Voice of the . 53d •Penn'a. `Below wepublish the resolutions plan i9ously adopted by the • Fifty-Third Pa. Regiruentat their camp before Frederlcks brirg:- 1 - Ve also hive a series of resolu tionsjfroin the 137th regiment, and from the itimateS of the Hospital at York, Pa. We cannotipublisl them for lack of room' but can assure our readers that they are animated by that hostility to treason and copperheadism which has asserted itself in eery northern - regiment. The majority of# the officers are ,dernoerats. WHEREAS, It has - come to our knowl7 edge that there are certain partiesin the North,• who, by their, recent acts and speeches, have shown that they coincide and sympathiie with those in rebellion against tbe_government of the 'United States, and are bolding meetings both in publio, and private, denouncing. the Ad.-, ministration and lb° Officers and Soldiers in the. field, who are fightinc , to uphold the Constitution and the enforcement of the Laws tberefore be it Resolyed, That. we regard all those per sons, Lading such feelings as the above, and- living under the 'protection- of our Glorious Old Flag as infinitely deeper dyed traitors than those in open Rebell ion, Resolved{ That we aioßegiment,,will to the best; of our ability and powerAtn dearer by even the sacrifice of life itself, to uphold the PreSident of these United States in the enforcement of the Coma: tution andithe Laws against open trillion or 'hidden f'oes. „..: • ..• Besolvee, That ire place firm- reliance land implicit confidence in our brave4ind noble leader Major Gene4.l.Joseph Hook er and believe him• to fit-ii - capable and iorie s o commander. R e.sc ,' ;:f i t ', 'That we earnestly call - Upon. the North to ferret all Loyal Frc,7mo 'of out, expose and p l iC.63l.oll:"Copperheads'f now in their midst as we wIN endeavor - to, the t.nemyltrittir front . Isrlte:.3 oite'a thore led forwqrd. • - • ResolUte That we look 'forward witu great expeCtattol4. from the Loyal League Associations now being formed in the.dif ferent cities of the North we earnest ly urge the establishment of such associa tions threughout the entire country. Resolved, That there be no compromise made with the traitors of the South who are endenyering to destroy the best goy ertitnenOOri 'the face of the earth-be• dueaihe : =to us by our forefathers and bought with their blood—except in their entire submission of the Constitution and Laws ()filth° United States. • lisoleed, That the reports now being eirenlateld by the disloyal 'parties of the North ill regard to the detnoralilation 'et this army, are fatsr in every particular, as it was never in better-Condition, discip line 6nd:,l4pirit - 4 than at the present-time. R. - MCMICHAEL, Prea.' A. B. MANN, See. gre . at deal is said nbciut the extrava gance of the. War Department. The Nashvile' *Union in criticisfnethis fault findinespirit,, catls attention 'to the fact that the!,Utah expedition; which VOniiit ed Of 16,090 men. ant}' laStedlonlya feiv months,rfcost six millions of dollars. At the same rate, the cost of the pre`gent War, with nearly a million of men would, up,to this' timb; have been seven billions of dot= lar i ! l,• • - • • • Gen. ;Asboth, commanding the Depart ment of; Tennesse, has .issued au order: to the effect:that if any • Northern copper head shalt be found guilty before a Court Martiabof harboring, feeding or clothing deserters from the army, er ferrying them across 4reams, or furnishing them other faciliti4 to escape, be shall suffer .death. If wq hang the rebels who attempt to poison Onr soldiers with Strychnine and ratsbane ' ' bat should 'svo do with' the pretended logy lists, who do_the same mur derous lob' with horrid whiskey? • 'The ;Cincinnati rcunicipat electimj re. suited,: in the defeat of Lac Copperheads.- • The War News. The studied silence as to the move ments by Gen..lleoker'e army is broken at Our Washington correspondent states thiit our forces, comprising cavalQ„ infantri, and artillery, under Gen:-,Stone : 'man, the Chief of Cavalry, after Making feinto(elessing at Kelly's Ford,',crossed . the Rappahannock some distance higher up, and. rapidly pushed on to Culpeper and Gordonsville. They now occupy the latter place, "havingdril , en out the enemy This movepent took-place Thursday, we presume. What more might have been done but, for the inoieportuile storm—the thitd'Or foirtri` that has failhP Upon the Army tet'lleii linfornad" - tit - a most oriti6al moment=we'etin only"guess: • By•the oc cupation of Gordonsville, the Rebels lose the use of the. - Virginia Central Railroad, and are practically flanked at Fredericks burg. Perhapi this movement may ac count for the otherwise unaccountable suspension' of the grand ; Rebel effort to cepture'Foiter'aind,retake Newberti, Suf folk and the Sounds. The Navy Departmetit-has received an IPccount, .ota little tight in the Napsemond River on-Tuesday last..- (TheNapserpond is the_Attesun_rhitififtinto the James nest above Elizabeth River, and is the reguler water communication with Suffolk, in which neighborhood the-Rebels have been operating all the Week.) • , The report states that on Tuesday• ruorning,solue of our vessels came down—from 'Suffolk, propably—the Mt. Washington, steamer, being disabled. About neon the Rebels opened, and our vessels at once got into action. At 1 o'clock the Mount Wash ington got ag round, and the Reheliniade her a specia l target at only. .700 yards.-- At, high water the stearper ; ,Steppingi Stones hauled the blount,Washington off, and at 5 p. w. the Rebel batteries were silenced. Our loss Was slight, only five killed and eighteen wounded. Our Ves sels were to anchor for, the night just where they bad fought all day. "The object of the enemy was to cross the river, so as to get in the rear, of Suffolk; but at the date•cf this report they had not done so, and it was thought thatlhey were in , re treat _From Richmond'', papers of the 16th we learn that all was quiet at Charleston (on the 15th, we presume.) : Union - imps occupy Coles, Kiantah, .and .Sea brook, Islands. Seabrook lies at the mouth of the North Edisto River. Hie wah lies immediately above Seabrk, from which it is separated by a narrow creek. Coles .Island lies at the junction of the. FollY and Stono Inlet. Coles Is land was occupied before the late attack by two or three Union regiments, who ad vanced inland some:distance, driving-the Rebel picket's before them. - By way of St. lipuis, we. have a word from Arkanias:- dispatch from Col. Phillips, dated the 11th, at Park Hill, in the Cherokee Nation, states that he has elexed the Rebels frowilie north Ride of Arknnsas -Elver, and part of his command now hold Fort Gibson,. Park Hill is on the,road -from Fayetteville to Tahlequah, and 'Pint Gibson is nn old Government post heyCridlablegnah, on the . Neosho, near its lonetiou. with =the Arkansas.-•=4 Col. Thiflips,,flad received overtures of loyalty', , The Rebels were in force on the south side of he" Arkatine, and held all the fords. - „ WO'fbave„extracts by telegraph from Rickinpnd papers, of, the 13th. They have diSpatolm, from Jackson, Miss. r of the 10th, saying that "fifty-three Yankee guii.bpAs have gone up. the Coldwater Itiyer, The !Coldwater it Oo stream running, from Yazoo Pass ! ,to -.the the; hatchie. If this exaggerated number of gunboats Or any number have gone, there, j,,; it another attempt to get into the rear, of Vick:!% 9 .rg And they say "ifp", the Coldwater, w --;: 1011, could -lead nowhere but into the Mississipli! ; *hid!. river : oe Yazoo expedition' long - ; . ;ticArf:returned.' They further say thatio• Blaeit Bayou, stream a -Hide north of Vieksbitrgoon, neated with Sunflower Pass, the Yankees , are retreating and laying waste• the coun• try as therge. ' .And again, "Our- river (Mississippi, we preaume), patrolmen r& pore•that tOrd , Yankee gunboats, convey: lug five cavalry transports, passed np the tiver.on the 7th inst.; also 19 transports with ' , infantry, and 40 -freight ' boats." Rebel. Vicksburg dispatches to the 10th report' all. quiet; two trans ports went up.. the 'river on that day; loaded wtth troops, and others were pre paring 'to go. Of:affairs . near Memphis they say the Yankees are re-enforeing all their depots on 'the Memphis nod' Ohio Railroad ; • and :thirty transports: and i twelve gunboats have gone from Mem -Iphis•to operate On the COmberland..fleavy shipwents and being. made on the Mein• phis and Ohio Road; the Corinth Mer chants are: shipping their Foods north, and the sutlers are . selling :their Wagons !g./k great strategic movement ts afloat." If these.staternenta arcvmeorrect, the con clusion about tt—stracegie movement is equally so: Our "'Union advicen have vaguely shadovireffsomething of the kind', but thus far'We have - not sufficient Public data to' ipeCulato upon the directiiiii or purposes of the .ruoTeuient. A' ebel dispatch states that a. Union force, mostl3r . ea negro troops, landed at Pascagoula, Miss. (on the Gulf of 3.lexi. en, the first put west of Mobile), on the 10th. They mere: attacked by Rebel Cavalry and lost 15 killed, Rebel loss, two wounded. ,"The' Yankee . gunboats put back to Ship Island "withtheir wounded. Re.enforcernents htige`..Vesn sent up to renew the action." As.the Ilebele do not boast of a victpry,„we Wray safely conclude that our side wi:llOt'de. hated. We have n„ thing` about the matter, hoF s ever, from Unten.amiumes.„..- The Suite of Georgia--Alie-of ex 4the Confederaey —bothers : Dada; Avery, way. ''Fir‘t, Alexander Siepltani'ilgiir; ottsly:opptitedaeceSioti ; then - Gov. Brown stuck: up pettinabiciugy, far - State . Rights and fought usainst drafts and compulsory : taiety; then:the State - Judges pronounced the Cotisciiption law unconstitertioua4 now there is financial tiouble;•Daijs-de: mends that the States shall legislatinly indorse-the bonds of, the . Confederacy; but the deorgia Senate refuse to do- it, mid 'pass it bill submitting the , matter to Ott-veto-Of:the people - 7 —always a popular wove,, and in 'this 'itistince - boding .do l i good to Davis. In the llodie,Stephens tVice President of the Confederacy) of- fared a resolution not to indorse' these bonds, ad it came within' two votes of beingcarried. • ' from New s Charleston report that the old steaMer Leopord,' now Called the Stonewall Jackson, was burnt on the llth, while trying to run the blockade with a choice 'cargo for the:•Rebels. 'The 'crew and 'passengers escaped, taking' the mail with them. Dispatches of the 10th.rep 'resent ail quiet. MR. EDITOR :' I cannot' understand he impart of the meaning of the •Presi dent's PrOelatuation for a National Fast. He,fsayS, "may we not fear that - the awful calamity of war -which now desolated the land; may be buta.punish ment inflicted upon us for ' our pr.suynp• tious sin's." I take a Very different-view of it. If the caning Of Sumner, if other violent acts in and out , of The balls of emigre* if 'that long and terrible strug gle of the Slaieocracy. to idake.Slavery national instead sectional ) , if, the re petifea injUries' and insults heaped upon unOffeeding citizens from the north, who resided le?tho south, if the opening . , of mail bags, 'and the firing upon kart Sumpter. are charg,able upon us, then we' have justly called down the "calamity" of this civil war, and ought to repent of our .'presumptions sins." I shall'devote the dayqats the President requires, but my prayer will be- for the success of our arms, and that the war Way not stop arid! Pharaoh lets my people go. em not guilty Of my brother's blood. It is as they will have it. .pleased to have the 'Executive call on us to invoke the Divine blessing, and certainly every one should respond to the call, but we should have a Specific object, a national object; and that object should be the removal of the cause or 'our calamities. There. fore r take'exception to that clause of the Proclaniatien, and consider it unsorted and nag:noble. H. April 20, 1863 . Rhode lels \ nd, Maine and lowa are the only,Stitteti which as yet have signified to the General. Land Office their accept acme of the grant of land to the several States for the establishment of Agrieul• tural Ccilleges. Chicago *led 970,264 hogs during the lastleesson ; Cincinnati oily 268,582. Chicago - now-.claims to take the lead as the greatest lumber, pork, beef and grain market in the world. All the contracts for iron•olads (twelve in all) have been awarded. .The prices for these will raoge from 8350,000 to 8400.000.-- , They are to be finished and added to the navy in : about sia'manths. A great bread rtot has recently- taken place in. Aiehmond. The riaters,_ were composed of about 3.000 Romeo, armed witb.clu i ts i gutts . and stones. , They broke open the Government and priiite stores;' l and took' b'reitdi-olothing and whqtever ' else theywanted The militia Were or: • tiered out to check the riot, but, failed. to 0.50.. :Jeff: ,Davis and other officials triode speeches, and told them they should have what: they needed. They then be-' came calm, and order was 'once more re. stored: read is now distributed gratis ;o fawilies of soldierti. ' A bread riol;hal also occurred h 3, Pe tersbur,,r.a, wOm,en beiug th'e leaders and the starch outZes of speculators. ; ; - In PeenSyliania, Last falt,A,ooo were *Red, of whoin not more'ittlia'l£3 ) : 000 or 20,000:were foithcOming, the re- . mainder, having delerte'd"orproeurett emptions. ;gov;Cettin, ho'.ds 'that. it i& the busnyvi,of, the general. boyerinnent to hut)t np the desertera, and husiisited WashitOon to logic that the State shalt receive:credit for the maim nttmber of, her volititteers and.drafted men in the en:;i forcetnent.of the Conscription act: , :I • About fifteen or twenty women of At lents/ O'a., wives , of, Confederate soldierlr a few days titic,,,after effecting government: prices far,bacon and beinglefrifed, quietli t seiied abtut two hundred povlnde orliacon, some of thern standing , gutfhl with drairn revolvers , while the rest re rtfored, , r the4beti. They 'had laige - "fami lies to 'suppo• rt • ' .• . Gen; Rosencranz telegraphi,do ihe War Department_ that Gen. Stanley has re• tared, from 'his scout ;(in Southern Tennessee) bringing in soma forty or fit ty prisoners and 300 serviceable horses and Mules. " Sala the Richmond .4nquiror : "It re quired; forty : years to „effect dissolution'. Their friends in the North say it was effected, in 1860,, by„ Lin celn's eke -don • bit _o . they'course;;knOci.thev when. - they - say ed." • , 'tilierwarm friendship, like,hot potatoes are ciniilly;dropped. - NEW 1116 Purchased during decline in f DRY Ladies •' HA.Ts BOOTS ramp] PRO 1E! CKERY, Fan Ea Wool, Twin NAILS; woo We respectfully lean, feeling confident , hat we can supply, wants of all on terms ct • their sciisfacti.i, gi ing better Goods for ess MONEY than can House in Potter o • djouning conntaes. We hare also adde 'of goods, a new nd co .:pletc stock . of PIIR DRUGS. =I Medicin IMI ®IN Paints 0 Glues, Mil LE SOAP. Sponges. rks. Bottles Vials art Eamp-Glob!Eso MI MI ~~ WHICH be sold i the -• • - .7 RATES. vLRir fAo oit IMMEEI SH. MEI to Cali and See ! Donn,F EOM BI3INS &Ct). P. A. S CORNER OP A : !1D SECONDSTREETEt , v 3, 1 •t . . ,• • • .BPORT; P 4. cOpDE Mini INIEI oDs IT Cez4, panic itid-gitfat. den New York. opps, ess Goods, • Olothing, 3ah CAPS. na SIIQES; RIES - lONS, G00d.4; EIM Wall• Paper, GLASS, 0,2 -WARE. be had at any ether GROCERIES, lone well-known-stock Hats & Caps, EaTdware, Chemicals, Varnishes,: Together with some i:of thibest ye Stuffs KEROSENE OIL,' . far superior to the Oil Creek or Tidioute Oil, LAMP &LAMP FIXINGS, • POCKET CUTLERY, MEM Also a few more of those superior. CANDOR PLOWS,•, SLEIGH SHOES; GLASS, SASH, PUTTY,. . INK, PAPER, ENVELOPES, And other kinds of . • &c. WALL PAPER, =ZEE WINDOW CURTAINS And other articles which time alone_ for bids' is tiimentiou, all of which be sold as low as the WAR PRICES win allow—for 'strictly _ READY-PAY !! And for those articles we take, the high est market' pries will be paid. We are also General : Agents for-; DR. D. J AYNE'S Family Medicines. DR. AYER'S Medicines, ' BRANEORETH'S Pills,. KENNEDY'SIMedicaI Discovery, . And all the standard Medicines of the day CALL AND SEC . ' NAV. 'The payifor the Goods mast be eir hand: when:the Goods are delivered; as we are. determined to live to, the motto of "Pay air Yon Go:" • .; •*. Jiiit one thing more.. Jiikinents,notes and 'book accounts mach gee bare: on bead must be settled and closed up immediately or we fear they will be inc - eased faster than the usual rate of limiest. =-- Dec /31 .ONES' COLUMN _NEW GOODS AND *SOMETHING E-LNE _, .. i MED NEW! 11 T HE subscribers at, their . OLD STAND ON BLAIN SW?" COUDERSPORT, Offer l, to their old customers end the publiii :enendly for Cash, United States .Treinnui Notes (which by the warare. tagen.at Par,) Wheat, Corn, Oats, Buckwheat, BUtter,Cheesor Hides, Pelts, Deer Skins, and till other kind* of Skins, such as Calf skins, &c., also, Beim, Bens, Venison, and some other thine this can't be thought of, A LARGE AND 'WELL-SELECTED ASSORTMENT.. OF DRY. GOODS, BOOTS '& SHOES, DEADYMADE CLOTHING PROVISIONa S !MEDICINES, Paints, Oils l iand Dye Stairs, STATIONARY. C: S. & E. A; JONES. i Iron, Nallsi,