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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-15
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instance WAS the casa IN The Metbodist 1i,r,,, and
Lutheran O5seyrer conducted by men who preach
love and good viii to ALL But TO show that we
neoDle to the following extract from discouse re-
Gently delivered by the Rev. Dr. WApswonrH, and
published in the Presbyie''a~ OF the 2d inst, which
S'>'a',s !" te,.-io'u ue'eF' al we nave s"'" on
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,b,,, l.,.;, ina, tbo,,soIva ~ tho r.erc, .,d 60, &
dence OF the people, and bringing reproac upon the
Church. 1t is truly gratifying 10 know that our glori-
Gus country not deficient IN Preachers who are al
ways ready to promulgate 'hle promises Of fte Cos
pei issued /" tie deofh cry from Caira,y," Ann
ELSE No man ever was, can be hap
py who is destitute of GENUINE RELlGlON-re-
ligion which commences at aud dwells in, THE
HEART-and which directs The thoughts as well as
the acts of a man in the right channel Let not,
therefore, the apostacy of certain TEACHERS, lead
any believe that there is reality in Religion,
bot rather let all seek to drink at the fountain of
eternal truth, and, by upright walk and Cody
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-15
PRDSlDENT'S }IESSlGE.

60 We publish to-day, at full length, the annual
Iessage Of President PIERCE, satisfied that 1t will
read with deep interest by all into hands il may
IlI. 1t is written in spirit of candor, and will
pmpare favoraby with any other message ever
sued from the same quarter. The President ex-
ians every thing fully, and plainly, that the
lost ordinary mind cannot fail to understand the
orkings of the machinery of our great government.
rue 10 the Constitution and The principles of the
emocratic Party, FRANKLIN PIERCE has proven
mself well worthy the distinguished trust conferred
pom him by the Frermen of this Republic, fact
hch will be admitted by all candid men who care
lily read his message.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-15

Gg JOHN P. REED, ESQ, of this Borough, has
been appointed agent for this county by the Mer-
chants Insurance Company OF Philadelphia, that
all persons wishing TO insIre in this Institution
do by calling him, who is fully prepared TO give
all necessary information the subject. Fhe Com
pany is said to be a good and reliable one.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-15

withstandirg he bad taken an OATH 10 kee, go
knowledge secrei, such oath was clearly IT.
and VOID, II the secret was to be kept anon, -
members OF an Illegal Combination ''e
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
Evening and Death .

Death never appears more welcome visit
ant than in the evening when, Jean Paul sweet
ly says, the sday is dying amid blossom clouds,
and with its own swan song Then even sthe
alleys and gardens speak in low tones, like
man when deeply moved: and around the
leaves fly the gentle winds, and around the
blossoms the bees, with tender Whisper as
if afraid of disturbing the holy stiffness. At
such time, only the larks, like man, rise
warbling into the sky, and then, like him.
drop down again into the furrow while the
great soul and the sea lift themselves unheard
and unseen to heaven, and rushing streams,
sublime and fruit-giving, and waterfalls, and
thunder-showers dash down the valleys. In
such an hour, the tone of the tolling bell which
tells of the dying, around whom the Last An
gel has drawn the shades of night, therein to
sever his heart-strings, as they bandage ones
eyes in the amputation of limb, seem un-
speakably sweet, and rises like hymn upon
the air. 1t sounds as if Death itself were fly
ing down from Heaven, as indeed it is, with a
song upon it's lips, and singing on with one con-
tinuous tone of rapture, hanging poised with
open wings above the earth, until the flowers
should have sprung up for its evening couch.
In the evening, Death comes gently. and on
its darkened battlefield no echo of the reced-
ing earth can enter. Softly and calmly, in the
dim light, the angels fold about the dying one
the mantle of eternal Love gently they loose
the silver chord, and giving Faith the helm of
their tiny barque, steer out upon the shadowy
waters that beat, in the far distance, against
the very gates of Heaven.
Death in the evening is beautiful there is
in it then poetry and eloquence that speak
to the heart like a trumpet, and garland the
soul with sunshine. To be cherished forever,
as precious thing, as the memory of those
who die in the lap of the evening.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
Circumstances Alter Gases,

sWhere's your husband, tonight, Mrs.
Smith?'
sMassy only knows, Mrs. Brown, every night,
regular, as soon as he's milked the COW, and
done the chores, he starts off and don't come
back till nigh on to twelve O'clock
Just the way with my husband, I'll tell you
what, believe them Know n Nothings is at the
bottom of it,
$50 do I, think it's a disgrace, and a
shame, that they should entice honest men
away from their families in sucha way
The next time the ladies met was the day
after election day.
We'll, declare, Mrs. Smith, if it don't
beat all. Ny husband is elected member of
the Gineral Court, by the Know Nothings.'
sAnd mine is chosen Town Clerk-fifty ma
jority.'
sAfter all, Mrs. Smith, the Know NothinSs
are better than any ofthe other parties.
That's a fact, Mrs. Brown. l really be-
lieve they have the good Of their country at
heart. Il Ert both.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
ISN'T ALL IN BRINGING UP.

1t isn't all in the ibringing up,
Let folks say what they will,
To silver scour pewter cup
1t will be pewter STILL
Fen he of old, wise solomon,
Who said ''train:up child
If 1 mistake not, had son
Proved attle-brained and wild.
A man of mark, who fain would pass
For lord of sea and land,
May have the training OF son,
And bring him up full grand
May give him all the wealth of love,
OF college and of school,
Yet, after all, may make no more
Than just a decent fool.
Another, raised by Penury
Upon her bitter bread,
Whose road to knowledge is like that
The good to Heaven must tread,
Has got spark of Natures light,
He'Il-fan-i it to a flame,
Till its burning letters bright
The world may read tle name.
If it were all in bringing up,
In counsels and restraint,
Some rascals had been honest men
I'd been myself a saint.
o. 'tisn't all in bringing up,
Let folks say what they will:
Neglect may dim silver cup
1t will be silver still.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
CLEARFIEID WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Is 1854

simply required to give securities for her that
she would keep the peace. From that day to
this, we are assured by Bancroft, no hag has
ever ridden through the air on goat OF broom
stick in Penn's domain, and the backest deal
ers in magic have pretended to no power be-
yond the art of telling fortunes to servant
girls, muttering charms over quack med
icines, or finding with the divining rod the
lost treausures of the buccaneers.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
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CHAPTER TX.

The man is yet to be found, who, after
fair trial of life, has gone down to the grave,
unscathcd by the sorrows of the world. Bright
and joyous were the rays that gilded his
morning SKY, yet little while only, and cloud
after cloud has risen, frowning in the heavens,
and casting their deep, dark shadows across
his pathway. And the enchanting visions of
youth have faded away, and he has found him
self upon journey of peril and disappoint-
ment. In short, it has been found universally
true of the race-''man that is born Of a wo-
man, is of few days and full of trouble
1t is well for man to know that this is his
lot, and it is lesson that should be taught
him at the very outset of life. Trials are sell
dom so severe, when they have been anticipa-
ted, expected, looked for. Much of their
sharpness is thus warn off before they come /;
or, at least, when they do come, they are not
some new and strange thing of which we
had never before heard. They are rather like
a friend, upon whose DagurreOtype we have
often gazcd; and consequently, whose acquain-
tance we much more easily and readily form.
But no anticipation OF the trials of life can
entirely blunt their edge, or render the blow
are grievous, and sometimes fall upon the soul
with an overwhelming, crushing force.
This is peculiarly so with first trials. The
human mind is Injured by exercise. In this
respect, it is very much like the bodily men,
bers; and the load, which, at first, may be
well nigh insupportable, it may afterwards
bear with a strange and wonderful ease. Such
Al lox- Of onsS ntlt os
well as bodily constitution.
ssOhl how did pity that poor woman, to-
night. What a trial Husband, children
all burnt to death! How her poor heart bleeds.''
s.But her strength, I dare say, will be made
equal to her day
ssI hardly see how she can endure it, at all
l fear. were it my case, my faith would utter
Iy fail me, and 1 should go distracted
esSuch would be the case, even with the
children of hope should their faith fail. They
would sink under their trials, as the yesse
goes down under the great stormy waves, and
if they ever rose again, it would only be tc
float on the angry bilows, disjointed, bro
ken, ruined, melancholy wreck. But they
have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus
and their faith fails not.''
ssI confess, hardly see how it is-how. faith
can sustain one under such trials.''
sit isasmystery to the world, but not to
them nesose hope loks beyond the presents and
penetrates the future of man,
ssPerhaps comprehend it; though not GER
tainly."
seYou see, faith operates the reasonable
soul, in a rational, reasonable way. 1t is be.
cause of the great truths, which it compre.
hends, appropriates, beiieVes. Now this poor
woman, like ourselves, believes in the soul:
immortaity--that death is only the passage te
life-a life of unending, inconeivable glory
And, although she cannot overcome the com
mon feelings of nature, she sees, far beyond
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

A clergyman, seeing little boy playing IN
a small stream by the roadside, inquired for
his faher. -a--=--z--=--
.,He's over to the little dam BROOK cx-
claimed the lad.
ssWhatp' said the reverend gentleman,
shocked at the boys profanity. Cant yoa
speak without swearing 2''
eWell, he is over to the little dam brook,
any how,'' persisted the boy, as he went spat-
terng through the water and mud after but
terffy. s.He's been over to the little dam
brook all day, and If you don't believe it,
you can go up to that house and ask mother"
The clergyman sought an 4terview with
the mother Immediately, and complained OF
the profanity of her child. After telling her,
however, what the lad bad said, she laughing
ly informed him that slittle dam brook was
title by which the stream was called to distin-
guish it from ''big dam brook,'' Stated a few
miles further TO the eastward.
He now felt that he had wronged the boy,
ana therefore owed him an apology. Hurry
ing back to the spot he exclaimed,
ssBoy, | wrongcd you. in accusing you of
swearing; but you should have told me that
little dam brook was only the name of a
stream, and then would not have scolded
yon.''
s.Well, 'tan't no matter,'' said the happy
youngster, as he held aloft a struggling frog
that he had speared with his mothers clothes
stick. ssThere's a big dam on big dam brook,
and little dam on little dam brook, and We
would have had little dam on this brook, on
ly 'spect it's so small it ant arorfh dsn.''
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

LyThere is a fast boy out in Madison Wiscon-
sim who if he gets backsets, will scarcely fail to
reach Congress the Penitentiary one of these
days. His school teacher, young lady, was pros
ecuted by his parents for pretty severely welting
the young rascals back for his badness The case
went up to Court, and the verdict of the jury was
in effect, 'served him right We give one of the
items of the boys testimony, the wit of which atom
ed for its rudeness He asked her to do a sum for
him which was to subtract from %. One of the
counsel asked him if he could uot do it without her
assistance. He answered, Il might, but the arith-
metic said couldn't subtract from without bor-
rowing 10, and L did mt know where the hill to bor
rowit." 1t is little questionable whether boy
who does not know where to borrow a ten will
ever get to Congress.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
The .sCussedn Indians.

4 gentleman called at hut in the Aroos-
took valley and requested some dinner. The
lady, her spouse being absent, refused to sup
ply his necessities for money or for the love
of humanity.
every well,S said the hungry traveller, as
he turned his footsteps from the inhospitable
abode. s.you viii want nothing to eat to-mor
row.
ssWhy not?'' inquired the woman.
Because answered the weary man, s'the
Indians are digging tunnel at Noosehead
Lake, and they going to turn all the wa
ters of the Lake into the Aroostook valley,
and you and all the rest of the people are to
be drowned
Upon this intelligence the old lady hurried
off to the priest to inform him that flood was
to overflow the valley, and to ask what was to
be done in the sad emergency.
The priest endeavored to quiet her fears by
telling her that God had promised that he
should never send another flood upon the earth.
But exclaimed the afrighted woman sit isn't
God that's going to do it-its the cussed Injins.'
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

NATURALLY ANswERED.-sMy DEAR said an
anxious father to a bashful daughter. Il don't
intend that you should throw yourself away on
the wild worthless boys of the present. You
must marry a man of sober and mature age
one that can charm you with wisdom and good
advice, rather than with personal attractions.
What do you think of fine mature husband of
fifty p The timid, meek, blue-eyed little
daughter, looking into her fathers face, and
with the smallest possible touch of interest in
her voice, answered: ssI think two of twen-
ty-five would be better, Pa
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

GE An Irishman had been sick for long
time, and while in that state would occasional
ly cease breathing, life be apparently extinct
for some time, when he would come to. On
one of these occasions when he had just AVA
kened from his sleep, Pat asked him, San how
III we know, Jenny, when ye're dead ye're
afther waking up trery time Bring me aglass
of grog, and say, shere's till ye, Jenny and
if don't rise and drink, then bury me-
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

GUA colored boy was looking through
grave yard fence upon the tomb stone of
yillager who in life had been known rath
er close-fisted citizen, whose principal care
had been ssthe greatest good of the greatest
NUMBER the ssgreatest numbers with him
having been ssnumber one.''l After a POM
pous inscription, the following passage of
scripture was recorded. ssHe that giveth to
the poor, lendeth to the lord.'' ssDat may be
so,'' solioquized Sambo, ssbut wen dat man
died, de Lord didn't o,ce him red cent?
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
MONSTER RATS.

Victor Hugo, in his ''Shetches Of the Rhine, -
gives the following account of what we might
call ssDutch Rafting" which will no doubt be
| interesting to Clearfield lumbermen =
Suddenly the river doudlcs upon itself, and
you discover an immense raft from Namely,
majcstically descending. Three hundred sail
ors man this monstrous craft long oars, fore
| and aft, simultaneously strike the water; a
slaughtered OK hangs hooked to the stern,
while living one turns round the post to
which he is lashed, lowing to the herd he sees
grazing on the shore. The padroon nimbly
mounts and descends from his station, the tri-
colored flag floats above, the smoke circles out
of the sailors huts in fact, whole village
floats upon this prodigious platform of wood.
Yet these immense RATS are, in comparison
with the ancient craft of the Rhine, as three
decker to sloop. The drags or rafts of for
mer times,-made up, like those of to-day, of
-bnildng timber, bound together at their
extremities by .joists called bunds-pGrren, and
secured together with osier twists and iron
cramps,-carred fifteen or eighteen habita-
tions ten or twelve boats laden with oars and
rigging, were manned with a thousand rowers,
broad, and nine hundred long, viz. the length
of ten frst-ratc pines of the Murg, that are
tied end to end.
Around the central raft, and moored to it by
means of q trunk of a tree, serving at once as
bridge and cable, foated in order to steady
her coarse, as we'll as to diminish the chances
of stranding, ten or twelve small sized
| RATS, about eighty feet long, called by some
knee, and by others ankange.
On one side of the greart raft there a
clear way leading from spacious tent TO the
house of the padroon, kind of wooden palace.
The kitchen smoked incessantly, and a vast
cauldron bubbled night and day. Morning and
evening, the pilot hoisted up basket suspen-
ded to pole, which was signal for meals and
| the crew. to the number of one thousand, as
| sembled with their wooden spoons. These
drags or RATS consumed, in one voyage, eight
tuns of wine, six hundred hogsheads of beer,
| forty sacks of pulse, twelve thousand pounds of
cheese, fifteen hundred pounds of butter, ten
thousand of smoked meat, twenty thousand
| fresh, and fifty thousand pounds of bread.
They took with them a flock of sheep and a
| butcher. Each of these RATS was worth about
| eighty thousand pounds sterling.
| 1t is difficult to imagine how such an island
can float from Namely to Dordrecht, dragging
its archipelago of islets through all the rapids,
rocks, and CULTS abounding in the Rhine. The
wrecks were frequent, and the proverb ran, that
! the speculator in RATS should have three capi-
tals one on the Rhine, the second on shore,
and the third in his pocket. The art of pilot
| ing these monsters rarely possessed by
more than one man in generation; and at the
end of the last century, it was the secret of a
master bargeman of Rudesheim, called the old
jung Jung having departed this life, the Sc
| cret seems to have died with its master.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

O-The Waterford Sentinel makes the fol-
lowing capital hit:-If you want to keep your
town from thriving, turn cold shoulder to
every young mechanic or beginner in busi-
ness, and look upon every newcomer with
jealous scowl Discourage all you can; if
that won't do, decry his work, and rather go
abroad for wares than give him your money.
Last, though not least, refuse TO patronise the
village paper. Hsesf9 ~
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

~.John, how does the thermometer stands'
against the wall, dad
Il mean how is the murcuryl' w
Il guess its pretty well, dad; it hasn't CON-
planned lately aSE vcE e6tse1.z cos ~
sYou little rascal, is it colder than yester-
day?' E si'Eiasz1s -
Il don't know, dad, III go ont aud fecl.a
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VOL. |.
RAFTsMAN's JOURNAL.

len JONES. PubilSheE
Per. annum. payable in advance) 81 90
If paid within the year. 80
After the expiration of the year. 90
No paper discontinued until all arrearages are
paid
failure TO notify discontinuance at the expi-
ration of the term subscribed for will be consider
ed engagement.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

GgIt is supposed that the fellow who left the
house, was not strong enough to carry 1t.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15
Little dam Brook y

A clergyman, seeing little boy playing in
a small stream by the road side, inquired for
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-15

the griefs and bitter agonies of the world,
those dear. loved ones in that exceeding and
eternal glory. And then, she knows their
separation is only for little season, and that,
shortly, her own weary spirit, redeemed and
sanctified, will join them in their songs and
halleuiah's forever"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-06

0+The Sunday law was enforced in Lam
caster, for the first time last Sunday, and there
was general compliance on the part of the
liquor eeller.
ea-Gas is gradually finding its way into
Italy. Mica was lighted, for the first time,
on the 24th of April last.
ea-Prof FELTON, will deliver the Grafton be-
fore Harvard College on commencement day
the 18th of July.
0G-The Saratoga Sentinel says the number
Of arrivals there amount to eight hundred or
thousand day,
0a-Daniel Ross, of Allegheny city, has been
appointed agent for the Pennsylvania Rail
road to Chicago, Illinois.
CA lady, consoling her neighbor for the
loss of her son, was answered in tears: IF
Billy's grandmother is in Heaven, know she
won't see Billy abused
sA-A Bible student says careful examina-
ton has satisfied him that Methusaleh was
drowned in Noahs flood, and that he was the
idential chap who asked the latter TO be taken
into the ark, which request not being complied
with, he philosophically exclaimed: Go to
thunder with your old ark; l don't think its
going to be muah of shower
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-06
Orphans Court Sale.
July 6, 1854.

UY virtue of an order of the Orphans Court of
kCambria County, to me directed, there will be
Dexposed to public sale, on the premises, on Mon
day te TtA- @ of August nesst, at two o'clock p.
NJ. the following described real estate, viz:
All that certain piece parcel of land situate in
Carroll township, Cambria County, beginning at a
post on the road leading from Carrolltown to
Ebensburg thence south sixteen degrees west thir-
ty eight perches TO sugar, thence along said road
south eight degrees west twenty seven pcrches to
post, thence 6y land Of John Bennrt west one hun
dred and a half perches 10 post, thence by land
of Peter STUDIED North sixty five perches to aBeach
thence by land of John IIlig East one hundred and
eighteen perches to the place of beginning, con-
tanning forty eight and sixty two perchesstrlc
measure about twenty acres of which is cleared
and thereon erected a two story frame house and a
small stable
Terms Of Sale One third Of the purchase mo
ney to be paid on confirmation Of the sale aud the
residue in two equal annual payments thereafter,
with interest, to be secured by the bonds and mort
gage of the purchaser
JOHN IiIlG.
Guardian Of the minor children Of John Moscr.
July 6,54 st.