Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-12
GLEANINGS.

dled at Salem, Mass, ON the 18th ult.
| The Northern Bee, published at ST. Peters
burg, says eff God grants us peace, we shall
| take advantage of it to provide Russia with
railways
| The following laconic epitaph, carved on =
| Spanish tombstone, should be remembered -
81 was wel-tried to feel better-took ply
| sic, and here / am.''
| Gerrit Smith forwarded his speech on the
Nebraska bill to the New York Tribune, with
/ the sum of five hundred dollars as compen-
sation for its insertion.
| There are sixty German papers published IN
the United States, of which thirty-one advo-
cate Democratic principles, twenty two are Re-
publican, and seven are neutral.
| What is the difference between having all
your children ssdown with the measles'' and a
well executed counterfeit2 The one is sick
| family and the other facsimile.
| a Western Editor much wishes 70 know
whether the law recently enacted against the
carrying of deadly weapons, applies to doctors
who carry pin in their pockets.
| If you ever get SO far gone over drinking
! table, as to attempt to snuff your companions
nose instead of the candle. you may take it
for granted that you very nigh drunk.
| Virtue springs from industry rather than re-
| ligion. we care not how pious man is, or
assumes to be-just let him loaf for a week
and he will feel the devil in him bigger than
woodchuck.
The New Workers should insure the lives of
their councimen. as their deaths are expen-
siye. The city last week paid nearly five hum
dred dollars for the funeral expenses of Coun-
Gilman Dixon.
Mr.. Carter, collector of Portland, Ne, has
seized sixty-five thousand cigars on board the
brig Zone, for alleged violation of the reve-
nue.. This is the largest seizure OF cigars ever
made in that district
The Pittsburgh Dispatch SAYS :-s.The New
Orleans City Treasurer, Col. Garland, has left
with the funds, and the office is closed If
ours could run off with the city debts we would
almost wish he might
1t is estimated that so ,00O, 900 feet of lum-
Der have been cut during the past winter on
" Off river, Wisconsin, and its tributaries
Nearly all this lumber is taken to place cal
led Oshkosh, where its value is about SS per
1000 feet.
~ nen e0cs- ~"OI7r -s---.----------.-y-
81 allersask for what wants, and if they have
it, and its suitable, and feel inclined to buy
it, and its cheap, and can't be got at any other
place for less, most alters takes it without
chappering about it all day most people
does.''
The editor OF the ''Sunay South" must have
had severe time of it recently. Hear him
in his paper of the 9TH of February: ssThe ed
itor of this paper is probably, at present, the
leanest, lankest, the most lantern -jawed, slab
sided, fatless specimen of humanity that ever
dared to strut about on stills. he is GONZALES
cling, bat as weak as Taunton water, celebrated
down east for being too feeble to run down
stream"
KIDSAPrISG.-A negro boy was kidnapped
from Hainesport, Burlington county, n. j., a
| few days since, and was taken south as far as
Baltimore, under pretence of obtaining work
in driving wagon. While the kidnapper was
negotiating for his sale, the boy discovered
the game, and told his story to some persons,
who caused the arrest ofhis capturer, who was
| imprisoned, and will soon be brought TO Mount
Holly.
DEVASTATION OF RAGooS.-From Burmah
| intelligence has been received of terrible
confagration which devasted Ragoon on the
18th of December. In few hours it destroy
ed eighteen brick warehouses, one hundred
and eighty timber houses, and three hundred
bamboo dwelling places. Water was not to be
! in icja nd
cradle amount of plumber was carried of. The
loss, estimated at ESQ, 600, will fall upon Eu-
ropean houses.
BRITIsH CANADIAN REGIKENrs.--Our coun-
trymen are very apt to get excited at any
movement on the part of Great Britain, and
therefore they look upon the return of regi-
ments to Canada as ga speck of war; They
entirely overlook the fact that five out of the
eight regularly stationed Canadian regiments
were despatched to the Crimea, and in view OF
the hoped for pacification of Europe, the Ca
madam provinces are to be placed in the same
position as before the Anglo-French alliance
against Russia.
ANOTHER CHURCH PROPERTY DIFFICULTY
y suit has been brought against the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Chicago, to recover under
a contract for building church. The Bishop
denies the validity of the debt, as it was made
in his spiritual capacity. The courts of Hi
nois will. probably, permit him TO pay in hi!
spiritual capacity, if the distinction is of con
sequence to him; but it is doubtful whether
the Bishop will thus be allowed. by common
sense jury, to repudiate his obligations alto
gether on such jesuitical grounds.