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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-09
OUR UNION.

The blood that flowed at Lexington. and crimsoned
bright Champlain,
Streams still along the Southern Gulf and by the
Lakes of Maine
1t flows in veins that swell above Pacifcs golden
sand
And throbs in hearts that love and grieve by dark
Atlantic strand.
It binds in one vast brotherhood the trapper of the
West,
With men whose cities glass themselves in Eries
classic breast;
And those to whom September brings the freside's
social hours,
With those who see Deccmber's brow enwreathed
with gorgeous flowers.
From where Columbia laughs to greet the smiling
Western wave,
To where Potomac sighs beside the patriot hero's
grave
And from the streaming everglades to IIuron's
lordly food,
Tho glory of the nations past thrills through
kindred blood
Wherever Arnold's tale is told it dyes in cheek
with shame,
And glows with pride o'or Bunker Hill or Moul-
tries wilder fame;
And wheresoever above the fray the stars of en-
pire CLEAN
Upon the deck or oer the dust it pOurs common
stream.
1t is a sacred legacy We never can divide
Nor take from village urchin, the son Of city
PRIDE
Nor the hunters white haired children who find
fruitful home
Where nameless lakes are sparkling, and where
IopeIy rivers roam
Green drew his sword at Eutawi and bleeding
Southern feet
Trod the march across the Delaware amid the snow
and sleet
And 10 upon the parchment. where the natal re-
cord shines,
The burning page of Jefferson bears Franklin $
calmer lines.
Could We divide that record bright and tear the
names apart,
That erst were written boldly there with pIighted
hand and heart
Could yc erase a Handbook 5 name c en- with a sa-
bre's edge,
Or wash out with fraternal blood Carrolls double
pledge2
Say. the South sell out her share in Bunker
hoary height
Or the North give up her boast in Yorktown's
closing fight
Can We divide with equal hands hermitage OF
graves,
Or rend in twain the starry flag that Ger them
proudly waves,
Can We cast lots for Eernons soil, or chatter mid
the gloom,
That hangs its solemn folds about your common
Fathers tomb
And wreak your burning curses DER his pure and
calm repose!
Ye dare not! is the Aileghanian thunder-toned dc
'Tis echoed where Nevada guards the blue and
tranquil sea,
Where tropic waves delighted clasp eur fowcry
Southern shore,
And where through frowning mouutain-gates Ne
braska waters roar
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-09
The EIser.

OF all the creatures upon earth- none Is SO
that the profiigate may have afriend, for there
is usually left ABOUT him some touch Of hu-
manity-some unbroken chordj of the finer
feelings of our nature; but the miSer meets
with no sympathy. Even the nurse wing, ,,
hired to attend him in his latest hours, loathes
the ghastly occupation, and longs for the me-
ment of her release; for although the eieath-
damp is already gathering his broy9. the5.
thoughts of the departing sinner are stillupop
his gold; at the mere jingle OLA key he starts
from his torpor in a paroxyisIa of terror. lest a
surreptitious attempt is being made upon the
sanctity of his strong box. There ere. no
prayers of the orphan the Sidow for him
not solitary voice has ever breathed his name,
to Heaven benefactor- One poor penny
given away in the spirit of true charity, would
now be worth more to him than all the gold
that the world contains; but, not withstanding
that he was church going man, and familiar
from his infancy with those awful texts in
which the worship of nammen is denounced
and the punishment of Dives told, he has ney-
er yet been able to divorce himself from his
solitary love of lucre or to part with one atom
of his pelf. And so, from u miserable life, de-
tested and despised, he passes into drear
eternity; and those whom he has neglected or
misused, make merry with the boards Of the
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NO. 6.
Raaut,fuI EuIogy on the Bible.

We would be pleased to know the author of
the following most eloquent eulogy on the BIZ
BILE. 1t appears to have been addressed to the
Young men. We have seldom read anything
finer
.sStudy now to be wise and in all your get
tings. get understanding. And especially
would L urge upon your heart bound, soul
wrapped attention, that book upon which all
feelings are concentrated-all opinions; which
enlightens the judgment while ii enlists the
sentiments and soothes the imagination IN
songs upon the harp ofthe 'ssweet songster OF
Israeli That Book which gives you faith
full insight into your heart, and consecrates its
character in
.Shrines
Such as the keen tooth of limo can never touch
Would YOU know the effect of that Book
upon the hearth 1t puriffes its thoughts and
sanctifes its joys; it nerves and strengthens 1t
for the sorrows and mishaps of life; and when
these shall have ended, and the twilight of
death is spreading its dew-damp upon wasting
features, it breaks upon the last glad throb,
the bright and streaming light OF Eternity's
morning. Oh have you ever stood beside
the couch of dying saint, when
without sigh
a change of feature shaded smile,
lie gave his hand to the stern messenger,
And as glad child seeks his fathers arms,
Went home.
Then You have seen the concentrated infu-
ence of this Book. Would you know IFS name!
1t is the Book of Books. Its author! Cod
It's theme, Heayen-Eternity. The Bible.
Read it-search it! Let it be first upon the
shelves of your library and first in the afiec-
tions of your heart. Search the Scriptures,
for in them We think ye have eternal life, and
they are they which testify of me. Oh! If
there be sublimity in the contemplation OF
| God-if there grandeur in the displays of Eter-
| nity-if there be anything ennobling and pu-
rifiing in the revelation of mans salvation
| search the Scriptures, for they are they which
| testify of these things.
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~A A fashionable lady, a would -be-so

Gy A fashionable lady, would be- some
body said to a friend
sc My new house, now directing is to be
s.,blimated and .splendiferous.' There is to
be a sPor 20 Rico in front, sPizarro' in the
rear, and a lemonade all around it, The
water is to come in at the side CT the house in
an sanecdote,' and the lawn is to be sdegrad. ed,
the seritic' in the rear
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-09

~.s Will you rise nov, my dear rs said a
broke long ago. 81 wonder,'' replied the
somnolent tinancier, IF the endorsers Were
secured
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-09

hr. Ferguson says that he ought to be
considered friend of the Maine Law. for h..
mas made as great personal efforts 10 pnf do,,n
liquor as anybody.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-09

A SUFrERER.-A garrulous fop, who had
in the ballroom, among other empty nothings,
asked whether s.she had ever had her ears
pierced 2''
"No,'' was the reply; ''but I've often had
them bored 20 Esfa
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-09

cy Some lazy fellow spells Tennessee, af-
ter this fashion: 10 a c.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-24

The world has had no experience OF this method
until our time; and il il impossible to calcu-
late where it will end One thing however, is
pretty certain: if the Nebraska villany sue
ceeds II will be settled, at least for fifty years.
that the slave power is not to be arrested, or
at least essentially checked, in its career, by
any force, numerical or moral, within these
States calling themselves free. 1t was pre-
dicted, twenty years ago, that If it got Texas,
it would not shop till it reached Brazil and it
is now doubtful if it would stop there.
With such fattering prospects of new mar
kets in addition to the vast and permanent
ono we have already, slave breeders, or those
inclined to become 30, might feel encouraged to
establish stock farms in any State IL the laws
allowed it, but especially on tho fresh praires
and in the genial cline Of Nebraska where
land may be had for song, or less, and corn,
about the only Indispensable article for rear
ing slaves, be produced in such quantities as
the world has not yet seen.
Again: Has not slavery existed in every
State Of the Union, however hard, rough, and
Highland did it not cost many Of thom
struggle Of more than one generation to exter-
inmate it !? Even in Massachusetts, where it
was abolished ffrst, and by the easiest Of all
processes, q judicial decision under the deca-
ration of her Bill Of Rights, that all men
are born free and equal ~ it was not altogether
quiet transaction. There is tradition that,
as soon as the decision was made, and spread
with the rapid,ty of lightning, some Massa-
chusetts Shareholders collected their chattels,
and made for Rhode Island and other contgu-
GUS States; but the people turned out, pursued
them, and rescued their captiyes. But now,
that people are reduced TO catching f,remen
and putting chains upon them, instead Of knock
ing them of, is it nothing that this very privi-
legc Of making every free State a hunting
man for Southern lord, is to be extended by
this bill to all the embryo States Of Nebraska
and to all their futufe inhabitants
There is no free State that would not deem
it an enormous and intoIerable evil, and an OK
ccrablc crime, TO permit their laws against Ella
very to be repealed and their fair domains
opened to the influx of slavery and the agita-
ton and strife Of new abolition; and vet
there is not one Of them that would not be
sure, even if her hands were tied for a time, Of
discriminating it at much earlier day than
Nebraska, or any new Territory or now State
could. With the lamp Of experience thus illu-
minating our path, can we hesitate for a mo-
ment?
Physical geography, forsooth Slavery pre-
walls all over Russia and Tartary "Asiatic
scenery indeed modern writer remarks
that Asia has always been the hot-bed of sla-
very and the plague" This WAS written TWEEN
ty years before Webster delivered his strange
dicta.
We have Mr. Douglass authority for stating
that slayers is already in Nebraska. Of course,
it is there without law and against law and
yet the impostors have the Catinarian assur-
ance to pretend that it will not go there with
law! STRIKE BUT HEAR.
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LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.

The steamer North Star arrived at New
York yesterday, with dates from San Francis
co to both ult. She brings 100000 in gold
dust.
Acapulco was still blockaded by Santa
Annals naval vessels. The city was still in
possession Of Gen. Alvarez.
The revolution in New Grenada was pro-
crossing.
The most prominent news from California
is the accounts from the gold regions and the
fires.
The trial Of Dillon, the French Consul, for
violation Of the neutrality laws, ended in the
disagreement Of the jury, whereupon q nolle
pros was entered by the district attorney
The proceedings against the Mexican Con-
sui had also been discontinued.
The grand jury had found true bills against
Walker, Snow, and other officers Of the late
Republic Of Sonora.
George s. Hunt was killed in duel with
Numn Hubert, late member Of the Assem-
bly,. A few days after, Thomas l.. Benson
was killed in duel with man named Menzio.
A destructive fire had occurred at Mays
ville, consuming the Theatre, Post Office, New
Orleans Hotel, and the Presbyterian Church.
Loss, over 100000
Tho accounts fro tho mining regions are
still most flattcring.
Mr.. McHanacks, President of the Legislative
Council Of Washington Territory, has been nc.
cidontally drowned at Pugets sound
Business in California had been quito limit
cd, and prices generally unchanged. Money
was easy.
The Isthmus Railroad Company has compile
ted trip acroes in six hours.
The health Of the Isthmus is good
IT, ITc,koA Ikckos c~,.va "a axyxarna
rived at Callao on the 18th OF May Tho
sloop-of-war ST. Mary's was to sail on the 25th
for Valparaiso.
Adviccs from Australia are to tho aIst Of
March
The gold yield continued satisfactory.
The wheat crop had turned out much better
than was anticipated
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-24

In several Of these States, elections for men,
bers Of Congress will be held about tho same
times. The friends Of Freedom will see from
this that they have plenty Of work before
them. Let them remember that tho one great
achievement Of the Administration ia the null
LITIGATION Of the Missouri Compromise it's
leading policy is, Slavery Propagandsm. 1t
has done nothing, intends to do nothing, re-
speeding the Tariff A prsjet has been brought
forward in the House, differing from that Of
Secretary Guthrie, but nobody supposcs that it
is to be seriously taken up this session. The
twenty. five million surplus in the Treasury, an
nounced by tho Presidents message, has been
probably doubled since that time Congress has
been in session about seven months; q jndicious
Bill for the revision and reduction of the Tariff
would have been introduced long ago, had the
Administration been sincere in the matter, but,
il was thought better to open all our Terrific
RIGS to Slavery, and pick quarrel with Spain
for the purpose Of getting possession Of Cuba,
with it's seven hundred thousand slaves the
mrpus, and five times as much might be use-
ful in the prosecution Of such scheme and
70, the Tariff will not be reduced
To call such An Administration, Democratic,
is mockery. To sustain such an Administra-
ton, no matter with what disclaimers and pre-
tcxts, is TO assume the responsibility Of oil it's
sins Of commission and omission. The blind
devotces Of party in Pennsy lvania, for example,
imagine that they can elect Mr.. Bgler Govern
or, BY declining to Affirm anything pro or con
in relation TO the Nebraska Bill, while at the
Same time they swear by the Baltimore plat
form, and glorify tho Administration. The
Democratic People will hardly be deceived by
this dastardIy management. These political
tricksters in clarifying tho President and sus.
tanning his Administration, make themselves
responsible for it's policy--for its repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise for its contempt Of the
sentiments Of the FREQ States for its designs
upon Cuba, for its utter subservicnce 70 the in
terests o. slavery; and, IL Bigler should be
elected, all the world knows that the President
would claim the fact as a triumphant endorse.
msnt Of his entire Prc-Slavery policy.
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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO BE poLLEp.

The Washington Sentinel is perplexed by
the Address to the People Of the United States
by anti-Nebraska members of Congress 1t
wonders whether committee of one or more
was appointed to prepare it-how many mem
bers were at the meeting that adopted it-how
many sanction it, Meantime, it characterizes
it as Free Soil Address, it were Siave
Soil Address, it would be all right-and it in
Inmates to members who voted against the Bill,
and yet disapprove Of this Address, the neoes-
sity Of coming out and defining their position
1t says that the announcement that the Address
was adopted at a meeting of members of Con-
gress who opposed the Nebraska BILL impli-
Gates every member of the Senate and Of the
House of Representatives who voted against
the Bill, and makes it right and proper, if not
absolutely necessary, that tho opponents Of tho
Bill who did not attend the meeting shall come
out, sign of, and repudiate the proceedings of
the conclave over which Senator Foot presided,
and at which Messre Mace and Fenton acted
as Secretaries. Otherwise they permit the in.
fluence of their names to be used in favor Of
the meeting, and must become implicated to
some extent in the declarations Of tho Address
We feel convinced that some Of those who voted
against tho Nebraska bill would sooner cut off
their right hands than subscribe to the senti-
ments contained in that Address; but the pub
lie cannot share in that conviction without
direct and positive evidence"
We hope the evidence will be forthcoming
Recently we have received several letters from
different States, inquiring what was the real
position Of certain members who voted against
the Bill on its final passage. It suspected that
on preliminary movements they were acting
in concert with the Administration that on
the final vote, assured that the Bill would pass,
they were. permitted to record their names
against il, iust 10 save their standing at home
and that DSw they are acqniescents. We
have boon extremely reluctant to answer such
Inquiries lest we might unwittingly DO injus-
ticc but should tho signing off urged by
tho Sentinel, take place, we shall be relieved
from all embarrassment. Tho Address, all
our readers must admit is remarkably mild
and moderate, more subdued in tone than the
occasion demanded, devoid Of every kind Of
ultraism, free from partisan cast and coun-
sells nothing at war with any organization.
or course il will DO quito safe to say of those,
who in obedience to the mandate Of the SEN
tinel shall I" sign off" those are tho men, Peo-
pie Of the free States, who are not to BIO
trusted in any contest between Liberty and
Slavery. We hopo the operation will begin
speedily for it is allimportant that the free
State constituencies should know who are
submisaonists, and who are not--who are relir
able and determined opponents Of the Slave
Power, and who mere eye-servants,"
We presume IL this thing be not quickly
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From the National Intelligencer.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,,

June %, 1854.
GENTLEMEN: The impression seems to pre-
vail that the Address Of the members Of Con-
gress against the Nebraska BILL published in
your paper Of the 2lst instant, was prepared
by me. This is correct to q great extent.
deem it due to myself, however, to state that
portions of the address prepared by me were
materially pared do,on, pursuant to the desires
of some of the more conservative members from
different sections Of the Union. For the sake
Of harmony | "acquiesced" in the modif.
cations, and endorse the contents Of the paper
yet beg leave to say that it does not assume
as high and as strong grounds as think the
outrage perpctrated upon national faith by the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise demanded
Very truly, yours, go,
LEWIS ID. CAMPBELL
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

attended to, some trusty overseer for the Adj
ministration 10 the House will take occasion
to poll suspected members, 80 rs to ascertain
their real character.
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CONGRESS.
The Senate did not sit to-day.

The Senate did not Sit to-day.
la the House, the Connecticut joint resolu-
tions in favor Of cheap ocean postage were
presented; statement was presented from
the Register Of the Treasury Of the receipts
and expenditures Of the United States Govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30 1853 ;
action was taken upon several private bills
yesterday approved in COMMITTEE Of the Whole !;
and the House, in COMMITTEE, resumed the con-
sidcratiou of the Civil and Diplomatic Appro-
priation bill
NJ Advices from Turks Island, to the Sth
of June, state that Mr.. Nelson, of Baltimore,
the American Consul was still imprisoned,
having refused to pay the fine imposed upon
him, saying that he had appealed to his Gov
eminent for liberation. The authorities re-
main firm, contending that he was simply fined
for an assault upon one Of the officials Of the
island. His friends have advised him to pay
the fine under protest, but he refuses.
Correspondence Of the Baltimore SUM-
WAsHINeToN, June %, 1854.
The appropriation for carrying the Mexican
treaty into effect will doubtless be made be-
fore the 3Oth inst Meanwhile, an individual,
n subject Of Louis Nspolcon's Government,
Chas. Dubois do Tueket, has given notice to
our Government that he has lien upon the
territory ceded by the treaty to the United
States. IL is part Of tho territory mortgaged
to him by the Mexican Government, as securi
ty for the payment Of nearly million OF dol
lars, as appears from Mexican DEGREES.
Louis Napoleon, il is said, has under consd-
GRAFTON the claim Of his subject and may pro-
coed to enforce il against Mexico. IL may DO
worth while TO refer the question OF Santa
Annals title to the Attorney General and OF
all the cases Of this sort, which ne has had,
this will be the most troublesome--pa
" il Napoleon should notify this Government
Of his intention Of assuming the lien Of his sub
ject. The Emperor has been suspected OF some
designs upon Mexico, and this may be one Of
his plans for creating claim upon that coun.
try, in opposition to our own ali-abscrblng and
manifest destiny Ion.
RHopr ISLAND HoRsE SHow--SEIzURE OF
LrquoR--Thc horse show, ut Providence, closed
on the afternoon Of the 22d June, having been
very successful The FIRST premium for stall
lions was awarded to Matchless, owned by
William Bradford De WOLF of Bristol; for trot-
ting horses, to Lady Titchicld, owned by Dan
iol Mace, Of Boston.
Fifteen hundred gallons OF liquor were seiz-
cd on Thursday, at Providence r. J., the first
under the new law.
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COUNTY OHIO-THURsDAY ECENBE 81. 1854

Law. The case affords much material upon
which to seriously ponder. Ills. We believe q
neW feature in our criminal jrnspudenee for
The Government TO pay the owner Of bis lost
property for the tune and expense in hunting
it up. and also TO furnish men al the public eT.
Pense to aid him in the search.
Mr Cyrus Fillmore must have very low 60.
innate Of the duty which he, as the brother OF
the ex President Of the United States, owes 10
the public or private character Of our chiefma-
gistrsIes, when he for the paltry pittance Of
three dollars, and expenses paid. would con.
sent to become mere slsve-hunter. There is
not gentlemen in the whole South, ifasked TO
do it, but would indignantly scorn the connec
hon. What would be thought Of brother Of
Washington, or Jefferson, or Adams or Clay or
Madison, or Jackson, who should thus degrade
the name which he bore But Why ask the
question which no man ever dared to put to
men bearing the names we have inscribed, and
holding the close relationship to the illuslrious
dead. which Cyrus Fillmore holds to the late
President ofthe United States? In our life's
experience We have known many mean North
ern dough-faces: but, all things considered,
lney we're 11irssye and honorable men in com.
parison with the Indiana Fillmore. e.-Cin. Gaz,