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Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-16
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES AND PLANTS.

FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES AND PLANTS.
DARSONS CO, Flushing, near Now York, offer
Il for sale a large and excellent assortment of
standard
APPLE, PEAR, & OTHER FRUIT TREES;
Dwarf Pears and Cherries; Ornamental Trees, for
streets and lawns; Trees and Shrubs, for massng,
al reduced rates.
PIONEERING SHRUBS.
Roses Of thrifty growth, together with the usual
variety required for the lawn, the orchard and the
garden.
Careful attention viii be given 10 the execution and
packing Of orders Liberal discounts made to all
dealers in trees.
Catalogues sent by mail, without charge TO oil en-
closing postage stamp. PARSONS a CO.
Flashing, ID mo- 20.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-16

Published by JOHN p JEwETT, & co, Boston I;
JEWErT PROCTOR, & W0RTHINGTON, Cleve-
land, Ohio. April 7-3wif
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-16

PROPOSALS for making 900 900 Of brick, for the
4 Albany Manual Labor University, will be receiv-
ed until 10th March next Also, proposals for laying
mp the Same, either in connection with the making, or
separate job will be received until the LIST OF
May. Proposals should BIO addressed 10 tho under.
signed, Lee Post 0fice Athens county, Ohio
BY order Elk. Board VIM. s. LEWIS, Sec
ABonv January 20, 1854.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-16
7. s. ARTHURs HOME MAGAZINE,

GIVES over 900 large, doube-coumn octave pages
VI Of Choice Reading Matter in year; also. from
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ings.
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THE CHEAPEST MONTHLY MAGAZINE IN THE
WORLD
No periodical in the United States has been more
generally or moro warmly commended by the Press
than the HOME MACHINE
The third volume, which begins in January, 1854,
will contain new moral Story, by Mr.. ARTHUR, OF
considerable length, entitled
"Thc Angel OF the Household
10 Send for Specimen Numbers. They will be
furnished free Of charge.
TERMS, IN ADVANCE, 81 year.
-Four copies, one year, 50.
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05-The Home Magazine and Godcy's Lady's Book
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Address, postpaid, T. s. ARTHUR a Co,
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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05
The Mistakes of the Telegraph.

| 4 few days since, gentleman telegraphed
to one of the western cities, to gain intelligence
| ofhis daughter, who was i'll. In return he re-
| ceived laconic reply from her physician,
| which purported that he was grandfather.
seHeavens!'' he exclaimed, throwing down the
missive as if it had been a hot cinder. ''My
daughter child,'' And striding to his clo-
set he grabbed his hat and coat and struck a
bee-line for the cars, muttering, "a pretty
muss indeed-child-my daughter in such q
predicament, and unmarried, too! Oh, such a
disgrace,'' In a few hours he was at the sick
room of his daughter. The physician was sur
prised to see him so soon, but politely told
him ssthat the girl was getting along finely"
$50 it is a girl, hey" gasped the father. ''Of
course,'' said the doctor, ssdon't you call your
daughter girl2'' ssAh-hum-yes-but, tn
the child'' ssChiId'' wondered the doctor,
sewhat childl'' ssWhy, sir, did you not send
that dispatch?'' pettishly inquired our friend,
as he handed the doctor the dispatch he had
hastily picked up from the floor before he left
home. The doctor read it, and a broad smile
was visible upon his features. 81 sent you
dispatch, but heaven knows, it contained no
such news as this. The one 1 sent you intima-
ted that your daughter was just through having
a chilli 1t is added that the relieved papa
offered to treat, if the doctor would say moth
ing about it.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05
BOOKS.

There are many books that require no tho't
from those who read them, and for very SIM
pie reason-they made no such demand npon
those who wrote them. Those works, there
fore, are the most valuable, that set our think
ing faculties in the fullest operation. For as
the solar light calls forth ali the latent powers
and dorme MT principles of vegetation contain
ed in the kernel, but which, without such a
stimulus, would neither have struck nor borne
fruit upward, so it is with the light that is in
tellectual it calls forth and awakens into en-
ergy those latent principles of thought in the
mind of others, which, without this stimulus,
reflection would not have matured, nor exam
ination improved, nor action embodied.-Col-
ton.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

bly, in this 'cre kitchen year ago that you
ever seed. The fact was, that it drord the
,croag acay. Efyou'll bleye me on my sollum
oath, there hadn't flock of wild geese flied
within mile of our house fur ten years but
what was sucked down that 'ere chimbly. But
about year ago, new mason moved inter the
village below, an 1 hired him ter otter the
chimbly over. AM he did it--an' now you
may hook one end of an OK Chain in the mid
die of the kitchin floor, and the draft is SO
good that the chain'1l stem quiveren' up the
chinably. That's fact
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05
1Dg RA119lAls@ DOWR1Ala
Moral suasion ON a Ram.

When friend of ours, whom we call Agri-
cola, was boy, he lived on a farm in Berk-
shire county, the owner of which was troubled
by his dog Wolf. The cur killed his sheep,
knowing perhaps, that his master was consci-
entiously opposed to capital punishment, and
he could devise no means to prevent it.
ssI can break him of it, said Agricola, elf
you will give me leave"
ssThou art permitted" said the honest far
mer; and we viii let Agricola tell the story in
his own words.
ssThere was ram on the farm,'' said Agri-
cola, cas- notorious for butting as Wolf was
for sheep killing, and who stood in as much
need of moral suasion as the dog. l shut Wolf
up in the barn with this old fellow, and the
consequence was, that the dog never looked a
sheep in the face again. The ram broke every
bone in his body, literally. Wonderfully up
lifted was the ram aforesaid, by his exploit;
his insolence became intollerable; he was sure
to pitch into whomsoever went nigh him. s1'll
fix him. said I, and SO / did. rugged ar iron
crow-bar out of hole in the barn; point fore
most, and hung an old hat on the end of it.
You can't always tell, when you see q hat,
whether there is a head in it or not; how then
should ram2 The ram made at it full butt,
and being good marksman from long prac
tice, the bar broke in between his horns, and
came out under his tail. This little admoni-
ton effectually cured him of butting."
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

Stock is now complete,
= From little cases, very neat,
Up to those Of large dimensions,
Suitable for high pretentions.
Come on, Ladies, come on, Gents.
Come on, every man of sense.
And get impre ssions of your faces,
Tc show your friends your many graces.
The dress is better to bo dark;
But brown or red is just the mark.
For these the contrast plainly shows
Between the person and the Clothes.
It's we'll enough the Sun should shine,
As this will serve to shorten time.
But if it don't, and clouds be rife.
He'll take your picture to the life
Those little Sinners, y'clept babes,
Should never come midst clouds and shades,
But when the monarch of the skies,
His shining robes puts on, arise
And bring your little ones to me
And brightest pictures you shall see.
Another theme the muse suggests,
To put all gloomy doubts to rest,
Such honest men scruples feel
Lest wicked craft fresh from the deel
Should be invoked in place of art,
And made to act a willy part
Are told with conscience clear of evil
We hare no dealings ,ciM the DEVIL
Gallery, End St, End door north
of Powell & Cos Store.
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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05
Our Beautiful World.

1t has been continually asserted that oul
temporary abode is one of sin, trial and tribu
lation, and we are satisfied it is so, but b,
whose fault? By the beings for whose happi-
ness the globe was made.
There is no doubt that the earth is the most
favored of all the planets, indeed we are rather
puzzled to reconcile beings similar to our
selves inhabiting those orbs that lie outside
of Mars-or, on the other hand, inside of our
I-selves, regarding the as the centre.
The planet Jupiter for example that is l 800
times as large as the earth has its axis perpen-
dicular to the plane of its orbit and therefore
| there cannot be seasons there as We have them
fhere, besides it is SO far removed from the sun
that GALL other things being considered alike)
| the cold must be more than our frames could
| bear.
| Again, taking the planet Mercury, the near
! est to the sun, the heat there is equal to that
of iron at a white heat, and therefore totally
untitled (all other things being alike) to be the
dwelling place of man as We understand him.
Now to think these great orbs were made for
| no purpose but for us to gaze at, is quite alb
| surd, as there are many of them undistinguish-
| able with the naked eye; therefore may
naturally conclude they are the habitations of
| other intelligences, fitted to their individual
contingencies
Let us for a moment suppose that we stand
on Chimborazo-look at the hill and dale
the plain studded with habitations, the noun
tain streams as they trickle down until they
unite and form large rivers in whose sample
wave the little naiads love to sport at large
behold the waving forests-look at the quiet
herds as they Craze over the velvet green
see the flowers in all their luxuriance, that
even Solomon could not compete with in all
his glory-look at the cold round moon traver
sing the ETHEREAL heavens, to give us its reflect
ed light-look at all these things and must we
not at once see that we have been well cared
for by the great architect.
But, alas how huniliated, when in
the same breath we obliged to acknowl
edge that, all mans unworthy passions, all his
hypocrisy, all his short comings, and all his
crimes, are the only blots on the escutcheon of
the fairest, and most beautiful of all the sphe-
riods in space.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

WGod intended all women to be beautiful,
Just as much as he did morning glores and
roses, and what he intended they should be-
come they would, if they would obey his laws,
and cut indulgence and corset strings, and
indulge in freedom and fresh air. For girl to
expect to be handsome with the actions of her
lungs depending upon the expansive nature of
cents worth of tape, is as absurd as to look
for tulips in snow-bank or full grown oak
tree in flower pot.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

DThe distance of thunder shower and
its consequent danger can easily be estimated.
AS light travels at the rate of 1872 900 miles in
second of time, its effects may be considered
as instantaneous within any moderate distance.
Sound is transmitted at the rate l42 feet in
a econd. By observing, therefore, the time
which i1tervenes between the flash of lightning
and the thunder which accompanies it, a very
near calculation may be made of its distance.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

A S CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, AND AS
IA GOOD AS THE BEST, WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL.-IsAAC JOHNSTON would respectfully in
form his friends and the public generally that he
has just returned from the East, where he haspur-
chased the most splendid assert ment of Boots d
Shoes ever brought to Clearfeld. Every variety
of Ladies slippers, gaiters, pumps, &c: DC Mems
fancy shoes, and CATERS with an excellent assore-
mont of heavy stock, all adapted to the wants of
the people of Clearfield.
He hopes his friends will give him call at his
store in sShaw's Row and examine his stock.
June I3, 1854.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

Great MISUNDERSTANDING Announcement,
EVNHAT the largest, cheapest and best assortment
i of Goods ever brought into Clearfeld county.
have lust arrived and are offered for sale at the
New Store of the subscribers, near the Journal
Office Clearfeld, Pa. Never before has more
Goods been offered to this community They have
all been selected with view to the wants and ne
cessities of the people of this particular locality
after long experience, and intimate acquaintance
with their business connections
Dry Goods of every variety, Dress Goods Cloths,
Cassimeres, and Clothing; Boots and Shoes, Hats
and Caps, Bonnets and Shawls together with
large and splendid assortment of Queensware
Hardware and Groceries.
Defying all competition, they solicit their friends
and the public to give them call and examine
their stock. MOSSOP & POTTARFF-
Juno I3 1S54-Iy
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Popular Sung.
UNCLE SANS FARM.

OF All The mighty nations
In the East or in the West,
O, this glorious Yankee nation
Is the greatest and the best
We have room for all creation,
And our banner ie unfurled,
Here's . general invitation
To the people Of the world.
Then come along, come along, make no delay,
Come frsw every nation, come from every way
Our lands they're broad enough, don't be alarm
ed,
Uncle Sam is rich enough to give US all q farm.
st. Lawrence marks our Northern Line,
As fast her waters flow;
And the Rio Grande our Southern bound,
Way down to Mexico.
Prom the great Atlantic ocean,
Where the sun gins to go down,
Leap across the Rocky mountains,
Far away to Oregon.
Then come along sc.
While the South shall raise the Cotton,
And the West the Corn and Pork,
New England's Manufactures
Shall do the finer work;
For the deep towering water falls
That course along our hills,
Are just the thing for washing sheep
And driving Cotton Mills.
Then come along, &c.
Our fathers gave Us liberty,
But little did they dream,
The grand results that pour along
This mighty age of Steam;
For our mountains, lakes and rivers
Are ell blaze Of fire,
And we send our news by lightning
On the telegraphic wire.
Then come along, &c.
Yes, wore bound to beat the nations
For our mottos $50 ahead,
And we'll tell the foreign paupers
That our people are we'll fed;
For the nations must remember
That Uncle Sans no fool,
For the people do the voting,
And the children go to school
Then come along, &c.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

ia Peru, as everywhere else in the world thou
sands were found designing enough to avail
themselves of the ignorance, and practice on
the superstitions of men. The priests who
consulted the huacas, it should be mentioned,
were accustomed to put themselves in state
of ecstacy by means of narcotic drink, called
fonca, made of the fruit of species of stramo-
MUM, and in this state received their inspira-
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

NFW FIRM-GRAHAM d WATSON, have just
~ opened and splendid assortment of
goods at their Store in Grahamton; consisting of
Dress Goods, Cloths, Cassimeres, Hardware,
Quecnswarc, Groceries, Boots Shoes Oils, Paints,
and every other article usually kept in country
Store, where they offer for sale cheap, if not
cheaper than any other Store in the County. All
kinds of produce and lumber taken in exchange
for Goods.
C. NJ. GRAHAM.
JAS. +. WATSON
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

A SECRET WORTH KNowING.--Boil three or
four onions with pint of water then, with a
gliding brush, go over. your glasses and frames
and rest assured that the flies will not light on
the article washed. This may be used without
apprehension, and it will not do the least inju.
ry to the frames.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

ToHN R. MORROW. Cabinet Maker, Shop oppo-
y site NJ. Z. Church, Clearfeld Pa. keeps con-
stantly on hand and makes to order, all ksnds of
Furniture, such as Tea Tables. Card Tables, Cen
tire Tables, Sofas, Spring Seated Chairs, Bedsteds,
Bureaus, Wash Stands, Cupboards, Safes, &c. &c.
Cofins made on the shorsest notice and Funer-
alseittended. JOHN r. MORROW.
June 13, lS54-1y
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

MANSION H0USE.-The subscriber having Ia.
lVl ken this old established stand, and entirely
reftted and refurnished it in such a manner a. TO
vie with any house in the county respectfully So
iicits liberal share of public patronage. Every
attention will be shown to persons stopping at the
Mansion House. and pains will be spared to
make them feel at home.''
Tho bar is we'll furnished with the best liquors
and segars, and the table will at all times be sup
piled with the best in the market
He would respectfully invite the public to give
him a call. JOHN LIVINGSTON.
Clearield, June Is, 1854.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

H|'Billy, my boy, what are breeches of
trust1' said father to his smartest boy.
sWhat funny question, pa,'
Cant you answer it, Billy2'
sYes pa, but don't like to-
what silly boy; come out with it,
well, pa, your Sunday trowsers are breech-
es of trust, eos You got 'em on tick
(Exit pa, whistling.)
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05
Grahamton, June Ii, 81.

NEW FIRM.-TRoUTMAN & ROWE, House,
IN Sign and Ornamental Painters,-Glaziers
Chair makers, and Paper Hangers, offer their ser
vices to tho citizens of Clearfeld and vicinity.
Shop next door to the jews Store.
They keep constantly on hand. and make to or
der every variety of Chairs, Lounges Sofas &c, dc.
Chairs, and Sofas made equal in beauty any that
can be obtained from the City, and moro durable
in workmanship and material.
JOHN TROUTMAN
June Ii, '5I.-Iy. ROBERT ROWE.
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Beautifully Said.

We make the following beautiful extract on
the Homestead Law, from letter recently
written by Judge DILLAHUNTY, of Tennessee
~Secure to each family whose labor may ac-
quire it, little spot of free earth that it can call
its own-that will be an asylum in times of ad-
versity, from which the mother and the chill
dern, old age and infancy, can still! draw sus-
tenance claim protection, through misfortune
may rob them of all else. and then feel that
they are still free, still entitled to walk on the
green earth, and breathe the freeair of heaven,
in defence of the power and potency OF accu-
mulated wealth and the domineering OF the
pretending and ambitious. The sacredness of
that consecratcd spot will make them warriors
in the time of eternal strife. ssThose shocks
of corn,'' said Xenophon, ssiuspire those who
raise them with courage to defend them. The
largest of them in the middle of the field to
crown the eonqueror.''
ssSecure home to every family whose hon
est labor may obtain one, against the weakness,
vice and n1isfortunes of the father, and you
will rivet the affections of the child in years
of manhood by a stronger bond than any con-
sideration that could exist. He will remem-
Der where he gamboled in his youth, the stream
in whose limpid waters he has bathed, and the
family alter where he felt mothers love. and
the green spot within that little homestead
where sleep the loved and the lost"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

~.We cannot help thinking how much
easier an EDITORS life might be made if his gen.
erous patrons could only hear his sbetter half
scraping the bottom of the -four barrel! A
man that can write editorials with such mu-
sicssounding in his ears, can easily walk the
telegraph wires and turn somersets in the
branches of thornbush.''
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

N-A temperance paper, extending Its views
in the region of tobacbo exclaims: ssWhat a
splendid figure the apostle Paul would have
made, had he gone about to proclaim the sub
lime truths of Christianity with a quid of to-
bacco and long nine in his mouth"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

HNHE RED FLAG vICToRIOUs.-The Blood
Il Red Banner floats in triumph on the "Old Cor.
uer Store. .1where A. NJ. HILLS has just opened tbe
cheapest and most splendid assortment of Goods
ever displayed before this community, and exactly
adapted to their many aud various necessities
Every variety of Hats, Caps, Bonnets, Boets
dry-goods, that are unapproachable by any other
similar articles, either in beauty Of STYLE quality
price.
Also an excellent assortment Of Groceries Hard.
ware, Stone and Queensware, with fancy articles
al tnfnitzsna.
He defes competition, and invites all persons TO
give him call at the "Od Corner which has trp-
ly become the sBazarr' of Clear6eld.
Every attention will be shown to customers and
visitors, and pains will be spared to send all
smiling away loaded with his beautiful and vslua-
bic goods never surpassed in Clearfeld
A. n HILLS
Glearfeld -1u
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

TUNHE GOOD INTENT HOTEL, and Stage Office,
Il Curwensville, Pa. The Subscriber would in
form his friends and the public that he has just
fitted and re-furnished his house and is prepared
to render every attention to the travelling commu
nifty.
: His bar contains liquors of the first quality, and
6is table will always be supplied with the best in
market.
He respectfully solcits his friends and others to
give him a call. WM r. FLEMMING.
June IA "a.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

UyA darkey, having been to California,
thus speaks of his Introduction San Francis
co..
CAS- soon as day landed in de riber, dar
moufs watered to be on de land, and as soon as
dey waded to de shore, dey didn't find no
gold, but dey found such a large supply of
muffin to eat, dat dar gums cracked like baked
clay in q brick-yard.'
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

TAMES BIDDLE GORD0N-Attorney at Law,
- has removed his Office to the room adjoining in
the East the Drug Store of Dr. II. Lorain, and will
devote his whole attention to the practice of his
profession. He may be consulted in French and
German. [June l3, billy.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-05

Coon BREAD.-Speaking of the various al
legged improvements in making bread, using
doctor-stuff, &C., practical man says, s.Noth-
ing more is requisite to produce good, whole
some, light bread, than -four made from we'll
dried, new wheat, pure water, and a little
sweet leven."