The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, June 21, 1865, Image 2

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    Ithe Fort Pillow Butchery.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
True Delta describes an interview with
the rebel General Forrest, which took
place recently at Madison, Mississippi.
His testimony, raised with much gaseon
ade,fully sustains the accusations against
him. The writer,after some' preliminary
questions, asked :
,"Now that yOu have time, general, do
you think ph will dyer put upon ,paper
the. true account of the Fort Pillow affair?
"Well," said he, “the Yankees ought
to know; they sent down their best men
to investigate the affair."
"But are' we to believe their . report,
General ?" ' •\.
"Yei; if we are le believe anything a
nigger says; when I went into the. war,
I meant to fight.. Fighting means kill
ing. I have lost twenty nine horses in
the war,
and have killed a man; each time.
t. pie other day I wasp a horse aheid but
at Selma they surrounded me and I kill
ed twos—jumped my horse over' a one
horse wagon, and got away." I began to
think I had some idea of the man at last.
Be continued "illy Proyost Marshal's
book will show that I have ,taken thirty
one thousand prisoners during the war.
At Fort Pillow I sent in a flag of truce
,and demanded an unconditional surrender
or I would not answer for my men. This
they refused. I Fent, them another note
giving them one hour to determine. This
they refused. I could see the river beats
loaded' with troops. They sent back,ask;
intr for an hour more. .I gave them twenty
minutes. sat ou my horse durin the
whole time. The Fort was filled with
niggers, and deserter's from our army;
men who lived side by side witli'my men.
I waited five Minufes after the time, and
then blew the bugle for the charge. In
twenty minutes' my men were over the
works, and the firing had ceased. The
citizens and yankees bad broken in the
beads of whiskey and lager 'bier barrels,
and were all drunk. They kept up firing
all the time, as they went down the' hill.
Hundreds of thetamished to the river and
tried to swim' to the gunboats, and my
men shot them down. The Mississippi
river was red with their blood for three
hundred yards. During all' this, their
flag was still flying, and I rushed over
the works and cut the halyards and let it
down, and than stopped the fight. Many
of the Yankees were in tents,in front,and
they' were in their way, as they concealed
my men, and some of them Se them on
on fire. If any were burned to death it
was-in these tents. They have a' living
witness in Captain Young, their Quarter
master, who is still alive,and I. will leave
it to any prisoner- I have ever taken if I
have not treated them well."
“To filing or Not to litang.”
The' Tribizne replies to some points
made by Mr: A..J.'Smith of Danville, Pa.,
in a communication on the subject of ex-1
' , coating certain leaders, of rebellion, and
says :
"Austria killed many t l liousand - ofturt.
garians in putting down the uprising un
der Kossuth, and one demurred:' she'
hung tht:rieen, only of the'. Military load.
ers,suriendered unconditionally by Gor
gey at Vilagos,and all Christendom cried
shame h - pon her. Suppose these had
been surrendered under a capitulation]
like that of Lce, or Johnson, or Dick
Taylor, or Kirby 6mitli,aud she bad pro
ceeded to try, couvief,seutence and hang
them, she .woo:4 have been execrated as
perjured and infamous to the end of time.
To this effe'et, the verdict of History is
emphatic - tit - id ioverwheltuing. (See what
it says of the exehution of 'Marshal Ney
under the Bourbons in 1815 Yet he was
precisely such a forsworn traitor as Rob.
err E. Lee, and not half so well shielded
by terms of capitulation)"
- Christendom must make a vast differ
ence between a rebellion of opposed
Hungarian's strivihr , . for indipsodence,
and nationality and the attempt of an
over fed arristoieracy to destroy a free
country for the purpose of establishinu
the worst sort of-despotisna. The south
ern rebellion was not a sudden uprising
against oppression, it was conspiracy
against .Freedom. •
The leader's in this conspiracy are re
sponsible for deeds of cruelty . to unarmed
} and helpless persons that might make a
savage blush under his dark skin,and are
worse than robbers and pandits, and with
the record of a fair trial and conviction
ibefore them "ill Christendom can never
cry `shatue'Lltl the American government
fur meeting out.just punishment to them.
It does not follow that every rebel should
be executed, or even tried. The amnes
ty proelarnations meet the argument if
argument it is,of o the.Tribune, by,pardon
ing whole clasies at once, and open a
door] for filing reasons in'arrest of judge
ment in other cages: ‘ IVe6 never , could
see the sense of the cry,so dinmon,lhang
all or pardon all." There is no sense in
it. .
The Tribune itself has said that the
surrender of Lee only gave force to his
parole and safety under it during the
war, and at the end of the war •ended
their character of prisoners of war, and
turned them over to the civil power.—
That may be an error. We would have
the government ~,break no promises
posittre or implied made by our generals.
But Jeff. Davis cannot have the benefit
of the surrender of his generals as he did
not surrender. It will be an outrage on
humanity to permit him to escape if on
a fair vial ho shall be of tree•
son. 2, •
POLITICAL lIISTORY.
The following interesting jaddition ,to
the political history of the tame we find
in "Occasional's" letter to The:Phila
delphia Press of Yesterday
"A feiv days ago a gentleman rho
served intone of the Pennsylvania regi
ments in Sherman's army, handed me the
following letter, which he picked up at
Atlanta, Ga., written by Howell Cobb
while he was Secretary of the Treasury;
under James Buchanan. It)Was address
ed to the editor of !the Democratic paper
at Atlanta and was fcund in his office by
my friend. It will be seen tat the ed
itor had taken the,alarm at the course of
poor R. J, Walker, at that time the Gov
ernor of Kauai, appointed b' Mr. Bu
chanan, and thought that Atchison, the
infamous Missouri ruffian, was right in
predioting that it would be impossible to
force Slavery into • the territory. -He,
therefore, demanded of Cobh, to know if
the South was to be cheated in the pleds
ant game. The answer of Cobb ought
certainly to form a part of the forthcom
ina publication Of file Sage of Wheatland:
"'WASHINGTON D.C.,Aug416,1857'.
"'NY DEAR SIR : I have this moment
recei'Ved your letter, and re lily at once.
I feared that Gen. Atchison's letter would
do harm ' but I did not exiiect that it
would' influence intelligent, conservative
Democtats, such asj you say have called
at your offipe to give expresSion at their
indignation. What are thc_facts .? Oen.
Atchison lives in Missouri ' and ) ! as hawshawsinformed, has had very little idrercou,rse,
for several mouths, with the I peoplO of
Kansas. He writes a privqte letter,
which is published for the *pose, 1
suppose, of distracting the Democtatic
party, and which was evident) w q tten 1
to show that hia I former 'predic ions that 1
Kansas would be a Slave Sta e, would I
not be realized, on account of'vents he
could not control ; '
and this sol4ary state
ment of Gen. Atchison is said tc; be .taken
as conclusive evidence that the pro-Sla
very men of Kanisas k condetnn Gov. Walk
er against the following facts :
"'l..The pro+Slavery and DemoCratic
papers of Kansa's all sustain Walkei..
" '2. The Democratic Conventioncom
posed of tno-ticirds of pro• Slavery 'men,
unanimously support him.
"'3. Judge Elmore,
,the President of
j
that Convention, and one
,of the i most
decided pro-Slavery Men of Kansas, sus
tains him. '
~
" StringfellaW, Isaacs, Whitfield,
(late delegates), tVSToodward, and other
leading And proininent . pro•Slavery men
of Kansas, sustain him.
"'5 All the prb-Slavery 711C72 of Kan ,
sas who are known, and with 4bom Gov.l
Walker has met, iwithont ex4Ttion, are
l
acting in coneer ;and coopetation with!
him.
" 'Now, can it e possible that serile
men will petmit this overwhelms
of facts to be isilenced by tb solitary
' letter of Gen. Atchison, echo A's n ot in the I
territory, and [the croaking /of a few di.c.
'contented spirits, who wri,t6 letters to Thei
Charleston 3.4reury atid simpar sheets ?I
If you cannot with these facts, present al
satisfactory atgurt / lent to -th l e people oft
Georgia on this / point, you are not the
I man I have t4en.,you to be. I repeat to
you that the Administration of Mr. Bu
chanan is' the most thorough y identifie . 'd
Iwith our principles and our rights of any
that has eve4reeeded it, and I am wl
ling to stand or fall upon the issue. As
to removing ten. Walker for any cause
now existing it is not dreamed of, and
those who intend to quit the Democratic
party on thati.accouut, can commence et
(mei, looking out for theia quarters in
the Know;Notbieg camp.l I write in
very great haste for the nest
" 'Keipectfully yours, &c.,
COBB.I I
H 0 LL
ItlnFoßean Opi lon.
The Couajt de Mental° Bert, who is
one of the 'leading Catholic writers of
Europe. and a gentlethan of the highest
philosophical as well hs literary culture,
has just published an .artielein the Cor
respouqent, iheaded "The Victory of the
North in tl e United States," in which
he argues that the military virtues dis
played by ilk. Americans during their
tremendous struggle of four years' dura
tion, are notbing, in comparison to their
civil virtues. The citizens of the United
Statcs,hc ka;ys,did not have recourse to sa
beide to gd i t avve.y• from fear and suspense.
They were: . not the! people to imitate
those despairing sick' who prefer itntne-1
diate death to prolonged suffering. He!
thinks their conduct in time of trial 81
grand lesson for those Euiopeao nations
which,' thoiigh as heroic l as 'need' be on
the battle-field, are "intimidated and del i
moralized by every civil danger." The
Amerielnsihave given cto the world. the
"glorious mod consoling i example of 4
people whoisaves itself without ia..Cmsarr
This is intended, no doubt, as a rebu4
to the suilpressive and tlespotie policy
pursued by Napdleon b;bt; at the same,
time, it expresses the real feeling, the
smccre find genuine admiration, which
the patience, the . energy, the fortitwle
and the! self-Tespect of. our people have
excited.in all 'liberal minds, whether of
the Catholieior the Protestant church, in
Europe. •
DurEur.icEs.—A number of idle per
sons were ii , tingiu a store the other day,
one sudden]: asked the company : "What;
is the difference between the chivalry Of
the middle ages and of the present day?"
Mr. ToMpkins replied : the one was
medirevaland the 6as who* evil,"
"Bah cried Jahn' Jones ; "Don't be
a fool, Tompkins—rit tell you; one were
a. coat of Mail the other a coat of fomil."
J . _ _ -
The Missouil Constitution
There is no longer a doubt of the
adoption of the new constitution of Mis•
send. Returns from seventy•four
ties and ,the soldiers' tote show a decided
majoiity in itS fiver, and the remainder
of the state vial increase the majority to
five thousand. The pro•slavery seces
sionist element in Missouri. has 'fought
bitterly ag,ain4 this constitution, but its
schemes hate been defeated, and the
State is now tree tD take her rank among
the great and noble commonwealths of
the West, with compensated labor and
full opportunpies for 'the development of
her mishty resources , her industrial in
terests and her mining wealth.
President at the White house.
The Washington correspobdent of the
Philadelphia' ./(tqiuirer says :
''.President. Johnson and his secretaries
removed on Friday, from Mr. Hooper's
residence to'the White House, which has
been partial! fitted uo for them. Mrs.
Pattdrson, daughter of President John
son, and wife of one of the new senators
from Tennessee, - will arrive here next
week, to preside over the domestic ar
rangements of the white HoUse.
"The President finds himself unable to
attend to the important duties of his office
and give audience to the hundreds of
people who daily demand interviews. He
has accordingly directed his secretaries,
General Massey and Colonel Browning,
to give all a hearing, and to refer cases
to him neediog his attention. An im
mense number of persons coming to lilm
Want matters thr.t - can only be attended
to by, the various departments.
"Among those favored with an inter
view today was high private G. Vanzant,
of the Seventy-ninth Ohio; thirteen years
old, a clean lace and bright-eyed youth,
who has made the entire campaign from
Atlanta with I the, regiment, acting part
of the time as drummer boy, and part ,
as orderly to 'General Ward. 'Well, 114
son,' said the President, 'what do/you
want ? A brevet, I suppose. Brevet cor
poral ? How will that do ?' '...":), sir, I
.( i
don't care for rank. I have a ony that
I brought all the way throuA 1, and they
are going to take him fr/rn me, and I
want to take him home and keep him.'
'You shall have him.' And writing an
order for transportat,i n and directing the
officers to let hini,gave the pony. 'Now
I am all right annio,' and with a 'thank
you,' left the 'resident, to make room
for a. deleg_a . 011 of rebels."
#--- -...
The )31r
lear
fa r
fOPPER
't h at
I?eputUcan says: "We
'that a number of our democrUtic
...ere have their crops of wheat still on
Yand,.havilig relied on the predictions ofi
the ,"•Columbia Democrat" that the war
would last another four years ;
that the
South could never be conquered,and that
prices would still go up. Will they ev..l
er get their eyes .open to the fact that)
their leaders are not:to be relied upon.
This reminds us of the advice frequent- I
ly Volunteered by bur neighbor of the
Democrat, to his parlieular friends;
individual capacity. He advises them to
lay in a large stock of totter, grain,
because butter will' soon be a dollar a
pound, and grain at prices altogether be
yond the reach of common humanity, all
lon account of the failure of our currency.
j Notwithstanding the failure of his pre
dictions to, the same effect, for. two years
past, he still "harps upon his daughter,"
the doleful nymph of rebel despair. It
has cost many a poor innocent, ignorant
democrat hall his Wages to follow the ad
! vise of these copperheads. They have
taken their hard earned money and sold
it for gold, because the copperheads told
them all Paper money would he worthless.
Thus theise traitor sympathisers have,rob
-1 bed those who placed confidence in them.
- - -
The farmers who have kept their pro-.
duce for higher prices, under the false
idea that the war would continuo thro'
another four years, have paid the just
penalty of their faith in traitors,and their
greediness for high prices. We know
one who has two years stock of Iwool on
hand, for which he was offered a dollar a
pound, but kept it for higher war prices.
His highest offer for it now is seventy
cents, and he.is waiting for a rise. He
will wait untill he is satisfied that he has
lad "the wool pulled" over his eyes" to
the tune' of several hundred dollars. This
listening to the advice,of traitors is about
as profitable as listening to the original
old serpent.— West Branch Bulljetin.
Address by the Governor.
HARRISUIIUq, Pa., June 10, 1865
qo the People ofPennssivania :
The bloody struggle of fciur years is
ended. The fires of rebellion :are quench
ed. The supremacy of law and tight is
reestablished. ~The fonlest I treason re
corded in history has been beaten to the
earth. Our country is saved.
These blessings we owe—under God—
to the unequaled bereistn—oivic and mil
itary—of The People. En the darkest
hours—under the heaviest discourage
ments—falter who would--they never
faltered.
They have been inspired with the de
terattuacion to maintain the free Govern
ment of our fathers-•—tho continued Union
of our whole country—and the gland
Republican principles which it is their
pride and duty to defend,for the sake not
only of, themselves, but of the human
race.
I glory in saying that the people of
Pennsylvania have been among the for
most is the career of honor. Their hearts
have been in the contest. Their means'
and their blood have been poured out like
eater, to walutain it.'
The remnants of the heroic band; that
left her soil to rescue their country, are
now returning, having honorably fulfilled
their service. They have left tens of
thousands of their brothers on many a
bloody: , fi eld.
• Thetr Memories' will be preserved on
our rolls of honor. For-their widows and
families, a grateful country will suitably
provide.
Let the survivors, who ere now return
ina torus , have such welcome as befits a l t
brave :and patriotic people to give the
gallant men', who have saved the country
and stied new Jester on Pennsylvania.
I teccomend that in every part of
the State,on the approaching Anniversa
ry of Independence,special observance be
bad of welcome to our returned defend
ers and of commemoration of the heroic
deeds` of themselves and theiiJ comrades
who have fallen. A. G. CURTIN. •
E. Oil NCNIFS. fr
Froth a gentleman living in Elk County
we, ICarn something of the operations in
oil now going on in that and adjoining
counties. •
At the mouth of Deer Creek on the
Claribn river, three wells have been sunk
and are now producing oil. The largest
is prodneing . 40 bbls.: of oil per day. the
others 10 and 15 bbls. Fifteen miles above
these wells on the Clarion, a well is now
being pumped which is producin g daily
15 bbls. of oil. None .of these wells
'peed 400 feet in depth, and •the oil pro 7
duced from then, is a light green
and as lucid as ordinary refined petroleum
'Deer Creek empties into the Clarion
abuot 0 miles above Clarion Borough,and
35 or 40 miles below Ridgway by the 'riv
er, and 25 miles as the crow flies.
On Spring Creek another tributary of
the'C, larion,and 15 wiles below Ridgway,
a well is down 6)0 feet. On the East i
bp4tch,of the Ckrion above - Ridgway,andl
wiles above its junction with the West;
branch a well is now down about 480 feet'
At both these wells the prospects of find
ing an abundance of oil are exceedingly
tlattering. The sand pump brings up cou
siderabie oil every time it is used. The
Dickenson well at Ridgway is down about
500 feet,and although no oil has' yet been
found, the "premonitory symptoms" for
finding it are good: At Wilcox the oil!
fermi is raging, but perhaps in not quite
;so virulent a form as in some other local-1
Pities. One well is' now being sunk and
!several engindi ard on .band with Which!
to sink others as , soon as they can be got i
Ito work.
1 1
Present appearan l ees would indicate thati l
the Clarion valley !would soon become a
great and perinabe i nt oil 'bearing renlon ;
-
) perhaps not as brilliant and spasmodic as;
the Allegheny valley,but fully as reliable.
lOur latest intelligence from Kenzua,is
'to Wednesday last. The proprietors of
the well where oil was recently found,in
, tended to commence pumping that even•
ing, but whether - they did or did not we
are unable to state. •
In this county, : prospecting for oil is
not progressing (excepting, on Kenzua
creek) as rapidly as we would like to see
it. The well near this ' Borough is now
down 300 feed A...fers days since the
drills struck a iltard substance like iron,
d ip
which battere them to such as extent
that it was im opsible to proceed with
the work. W 6 are pleased to state,bow-
I
ever, that the wqrk was only retarded a
:'ecs days from this cause,and that matters
Ile :low pro.zresing finely: Mr Griffith
~,c.,flus us that fdr several days past,they
;lave made ntoOess at the rate of ten feet
per day. We stilli feel confident of the
most satsfaetoryitesults from this well.—
, 3TE - eatt .211inan,
MEM
It is a very Orions fact that the three I
men in America l who form the triumvirate I
of apostacy and treason were all detected
by means of their boot. Benedict Ar- 1
nold's treason Was hidden in Andre's '
boots. Aaron nurr, escaping in a dis
guise which would have probably proved
successful, was! betrayed by the elegant
cut of his boot; which was out of keepinir,
with the rough homespun suit in which
he was making 'his flight. Jeff. Davis
falls mto the same trap, and discovers
,himself to his Captors by neglecting this
most ordinary. preeM.oion. When the
Pretender was flying through the High
lands for his life,he set an example to our
American Pretender by donning a suit
of Lady Kimzsburgb's clothes,in order to
pass out of her t house unobserved, resum
in, his male attire as scion as he had put
a few miles between himselland his last
biding place. But he changed his boots
first, and his cast off pair,ragged and torn
with his wanderings through swamps and
hills, were treasure for many
i .years by
Lord Kingsburgh, and finally out into
small pieces and preserved as mementoes
of hiS romantic adventure with the fair
Flora McDonald.
Isham liarris,the ex-rebel Governor of
Tennessee, had a, prudent regard to his
own interest while promoting rebellion.
Among the state archives has been found
a receipt from Brown, Brothers Co.,
acknowledging the receipt of forty three
thousand dollars State bonds,to be applied
to Harris' credit by Brown,Sheply & Co.,
London. A $l,OOO State bond was found
with the coupons all cut off. While urg
ing the people of his State to the verge
of confiscation of their property, this im
maculate patriot was securing at their
expense a snug competency abroad; in
the event of his having to leave !the
United States.
jjeT•Mr. Lincoln's family horse, Bob,
been sold:for $3,200 and goes to the Obi
Sanitary Fair. •
It cost the London Times about St 00
a letter for its Richmond correspoodehee.
Buffalo and Washington B. B.
Thi3 Bufalo Expess says :
"We presume it is, not generally known
to our citizens, that the prospect of a new
and more direct route from this city to the
cities of Washington, Baltimore,
burg and Philadelphia,are very flattering.
The Company is organized by the ap.
paintment of the following officers : Pres
ident, James Braylpy ;; Vice President,
J. K. Comstock ; Secretary and Treas
urer, James S. Gibbs; Chief Enzineer,
William Wallace.
DlRECTORS.—Hosea.Birdsall, J. Tur
ner Edwin H. Gibbs, James L. Pond,
Frederick Swift, of New York; James
Brayley, James AdPms, James S. Gibbs,
of Beak); Aaron ; Riley, of Aurora;
C. V. B. Barsq, J. IC. Comstock., Frank
L. Stowell, Olean ;:A. S. Arnold, Port.
Allegany; Pa.
Thus orgapized, hisi Company has en
tered with becoming enterprise and ener
gy upon the work of.openitigulnetroute
between ,this city and Philadelphia; Har
risburg and Washington. The route is
surveyed and located, and passes through
a fertile and populous region of eoutry, It
extends up the valley of the Buffalo creek
to the village of Aurora, thence up the
valley of the Cazenovia branch, to Hob
land,- and thence by the most direct and
feasible route to 'Olean, and 'Port Alle
gany, pa., and southerly from that point
by direct route to Emporium, Pa., where
it intersects the Phil. and Erie Road.
By this.route the distance ;from Buffalo
to Baltimore via Harrisburg is 385 miles,
and to Washington 525 miles. ;
To the city of Buffalo this is an im
portaut route, not only for the direct
communication it opens up with the South,
but for the aliening it will -make to the
coal fields of Pennsylvania: We regard
the enterprise as in good hands and have
confidence in its speedy prosecution. Our
citizens should foster and encourage this
enterprise in every possible - way.i as its
advantages to Buffalo cannot be too high.
ly estimated. The New York - Directory
I were in town yesterday, and leave this
morning on a reconnoisance of the route.
I They arc gentlemen of enterprise and
wealth and have laid their' L liandsito this
work knowing no such word
as
fail. Bul
-1 fido must divide this labor, as it hopes to
share the benifits with them:
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~ - s
T heNew York Herald declares the
following - to be its platform on the negro(
suffrage guestion.: We would give the
suffrage at once to four classes ,r
of South
ern negroes. First, and empbatically,toi
every negro who has iborne arms in the
cause of , ( the United States ; Elfcond, to
every negro who own rel estate; third,
to every negrohead who can arid write ;
and fourth, to every neg o. who had.be
longed to. any. religious organization or
church for five years before the war.—
These . points would cover. every negro
that ought to vote, and they would in•
sure in every negro voter a spirit of man
hood as well as disciplioe;, some practi
cal shrewdness, intellectual development
and moral conciousndss and culture.
Colonel Forney writes tO the Philadel.
phia Press: 'Es.-Pr side i nt Buchannan's
long thrziktened vindication against the
charge,aiready incorporated info tile uoal
terable history of the war,iliat hP admits.
istration hurried on the events which led
to and enenuraged the rebellion is autioun
c4d to be on the eve of publicaoop. The
tirierable Sage of Wheatland preserves
hp equanimity to the last. Wrapt iu tha
rebe of concious innocence, and . serenely
convinced that if he was dui last of the
line of modern democratie Presidents, hb
was also the purest and the best, he will
no doubt give tho world a work of some
ingenuity and labor. The Old (Public
funtitionary is• not a "preuttce.han.d at
making the worse appear the . .better rea
son
,
About five hundred Sioux Indians, in
camp fifteen mile west of Fo,rt
and supposed to be friendly, on khe 14th
inst. attacked a guard of a hundred men
under Capt.li'ouks an/ of the 11th Ohio
Veterans Cavalry,killing Capt. FoUhs and
four men and wounding seven. A num
ber
of the Indians were t killed. The
Indians crossed over to the north side of
the Platte River.
Adjutant-General Morse of Connecticut
has just made a report on the number of
men furnished by that State for the war
The total quotas were 47,622, and tire
State has ftirnished 54,468 men,including
Dine nionths i enlistments and, re-enlist
'bents. Reducing the whole to the btand
ard of three years, there hive been fur
nished 47,572 men.
The loss at the Chattanooga fire anima ,
ed to $200,000, and that at Nashvifie t 6
nearly $3,000,000, which may be reduced
one half by the iron, chains, machinery,
&c., that may be saved from the wreck.
It is the opinion of the authorities that
these fires were the work of incendiaries.
The Masons of the State of Texas• met
in Houston on the 15yll and issued an
address to the Masons of the State,coun.
eeling, obedience) to the law;and cheerful
submission to the authorities - , discounte.
naneine, all insubordination or mutinous
conduct.
Daniel S. Dickinson is said to have
assured President Johnson that the ex.
tension of the elective franchise to South.
ern black men was the easiest and best
possible way out of the manifold difficnl•
ties of reconstruction.
The citizens of (lass county, Ga. hung
ten guerillas a few dap since.
AT HORSEMAN
WILL BE WITHOUT
RI% loaigs's .1Je.01141) Doive r_kNeo.
TA.,,zroN, Mass. may 14 ,1860.
Dr. Tobias: Dear Sir—During 35 years
that I have been in the livery business, I have
used and sold a great quantity of, various
liniments, oils, Sc. Some two years since,
hearing of so. many wonderful cures having r'
been made by your Venitian Liniment,
tested its merits, and it has given the best
satisfaction of anything I ever used. I never',
sold anything that gives such universal satis.•
faciton among horsemen. It io destined to
supersede all others. Yours, truly, r&e,.
SAMUEL WILDE.
Sold by all druggists. °ince, 56 Cortlandt
street, New York. Price for pint bottles, one
dollar.
*** County Dealers are informed that noi
travelers are now sent out. I -
IJ. S. 7-30 LOAN
THIRD SERIES,
$230,000,000.
By authority cf the Secretary of the Treas
ury, the undersigned, the General Subscrip
tion Agent for the sale of United States Se
curities, offers to the public the third series
of Treasury Notes, bearing seven and three
tenths per cent, interest per annum, known
as the
7-30 LOAN.
Vise notes are issued under date of July
15, 1865,,and are payable three years from
that date in currency, or; are convertible at
the option, of the holder into
1
IT. S. 5-20 Stix.per cent.
G 0 LD=BEARIN6 1301N13S
These Bends are now , worth a handsonie
piemium, - and are ex urpt as are all the Gov- '
erumeut Bonds, Iron State ? !County. and Nu
,
toripal tgration ; whie adds from one to three
pc cent. per annum toitheir value, according to
the rate levied upon other property. Tbe:is-i
terest is payable semi-annually by COupons
attached to each note, which may be cut off
and sold to any blink or banker.
The •merest at 7-3 d per cent. amounts to
One cent per day on a $5O note
Two cents " 51e0 "
T en . c, ig $560
1:=M1=!I
" *lOOO d
" u u " $5OOO "
• Notes or nil the denominationS named will
be promptly furnished .upon receipt; of sub- seriptions.
The Notes of this Third Series are precisely .
similar in form and privileges to the Seven-
Thirties already sold, except that the Gtiv
eminent reserves to itself the option of pay
ing- interest in-gold coin at 6 per cent., in
stead of 7.3-lOths in currency.. Subscribers
will deduct the interest in currency up to
July 15th, at the time when - they Subscribe.
The delivery of the ;notes of this third
series cf the Seven-thirties will commence on
the Ist 'of June, and pill be made promptly,
and continuously after that date.
The slight change rade in the conditions
of this THIRD SERIES [affectsonly the mat
ter of interest. , The, itaynient in gold, if
made, will. be equivalent to the currency in
terest of the higher rate.
The return to specie payments, in the event
of which only will the Option to pay interest
in Gold be availed of, Iwould so reduce and
equalize prices that purchases made with six
per cent: in gold would be fully equal to
those made witk seven and three4enths per
cent. in currency. This is
Only Loan in Market
Now offned by the povernment,tand its su
rerio,v ativarittyzes inakS it the
Great Popular Loan iof the
. People.
Less than 5230,006,000 of 'the Loan au
thorized by Congress are now on the
market. This amount. at the rate at Which
it is being absorbed, will all be subscribed
for within silty days, when the notes will
undoubtedly command a premium, cis has
unifcrmly been the case on closing- OM sub
scriptions to other Loans.
Ia order that•eitizens of every town and
section of the country may be afforded facil
ties for taking the loan, the National Banks,
State Banks, and private Bankers,throughout,
the country have generally agreed to receive
subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select
their own agents, in whom they have confi
dence, and who onlrare to be t . esporiSible for
the delivery of .the notes for ;which they re.
ceive orders. JAY COOKE,
Subscription Agent, Philadelphia.
May 15, 1865.
First National Bank of Harrisburg,
First National Bank of Lockhaven,
First National Bank of Philadelphia;
'.First National Bank of Williamsport.
Char
bored,
1794.1794.
INSURANCE COMPANY
.NO4TH AMERICA, .
PIIILADE,LPH/A.
Oldest :Insurance Company in America:
Cash Capital and Surplus, Over
$1,750,000.000.
• 'SEVENTY-ONE Years Successful Businesi
Experience, with a reputation for integrity
and honorable dealing unsurpassed by any
, similar institution.
LOSSES PAID since orgenizatioa,
500,000.00; with3ut the dedOction of a COD*
or a day's delay I. I
LIBERAL RATES for all the safer classes
of property, Insurance of Dwellings and
Contents, a specialty.
BRICK or STONE Dwellings insured per !
petually, irdesired, on terms of the grea,teet
economy and safety to the infured.
It is Wisdom and Economy to insure in the
best. Companies, and there none better than
the old. Insurance Co. of North
America.
Apply to N. W. MLILARNBY
Agent for IF'otter counbr;
PUTNAM
Clothes Wringer
Will wring anything from a Anglo Thread to
k a Bed-Quittj
PRICES : $ 5.50, 86.00; anti $B.OO.
P. A. Stebbins & Co l
Agents 'for Potter county.—att 25, 1863