Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-08-15
Increase tbis wear
S98,2l6 AZ


Or nearly 100 per cent. andvance on last
years business for the same month.
The total receipts for the months in this
year being 50, ,l57 1913 IL, pretty round sum.
Politics to be at a discount just now,
unless the riots in Louisville will serve to en-
flame some of our more enthusiastic Ameri-
cans,-and that great outrage should not be
suffered to die away and be forgotten. No one
can read the full accounts as they are gwen to
us by the papers published on the spot, with
out coming to the conclusion that the war has
commenced in earnest, that American liberty,
is endangered on American soil. The mercen-
aries of a foreign power are at work among US,
and unless full stop is soon put to their ne
farious proceedings, shall see the mournful
spectacle of the Home of Freedom made the den
Of the Uilest se-pents that infest the earth-men
with vipers' fangs, who, unprovoked, can, in
the broad light of day, destroy the lives of
their fellow beings for the sin of being 4rneri-
can ty birth, and american in feeling.
strange document came to light in the
ssNorth American" of yesterday. A resigna-
tion from VIM. B. Reed, Esq, as a member of
the Whig State Committee. He assigns as his
reason that the Committee are swayed by the
Know Nothings, and he will have nothing to
do with them. He also says-prophetically
We suppose-that the doom of the new party is
sealed and that their days will be few if so,
wonder he did not remain in the Committee,
and try to hasten that rished for erent. But
ssSam'' is not dead yet, and does not seem to
be dying very fast; he has yet as many faithful
sons as he will require in the hour of need, /,
and the same spirit and feeling that once nerv-
ed our fathers of '76, still throbs in the breasts
Of their children, and unworthy is he of the
name of American, who would lend his infiu-
ence to undermine the fabric they erected
There are some such, and unfortunate
President is their leader. Yours, o. O.
NEWSPAPER BoRRowERs.-We fully COIN
eide in the following well timed remarks from
the Columbia Spy.-!"Borrowers of any kind
are bad enough, but newspaper borrowers
conceded to be the meanest class in existence.
We are acquainted with some persons in our
town who do not take the local paper-and are
yet its constant readers-it no sooner being
left at subscribers houses, than they borrow
and take it home to read; thus not only tax
ing the patience of those who pay for the pa
per, but absolutely cheating out Of the small
sum of three cents per week. Now if our pa
per is worth reading, it is worth paying for,
and we have to request subscribers to refuse
to lend it. Three cents per week is but a tri-
fling amount, and if any one feels disposed
that sum can easily be spared to have what
every one should consider indispensable-the
local paper. We do not ask any one to take
the Journal as gratuity or favor to us; we
furnish an amount of reading matter alone
worth double the subscription price-an
amount equivalent in year to over two thou
sand pages of the ordinary duodecimo or oc-
tavo works, that would cost several times the
subscription price"