Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-06-25
CLIPPINGS ANp scR1nRL1Nas.

dent and INDUCES frequently in shouts for
IM,!GrG Fremont
ANOTHER FIRE occurred at Brookville, JEFF
ferson county, on the 18th, by which the steam
saw mill and the water mill of L. II. Litch &
Co., were destroyed. involving loss Of about
$4,000.
WHILE the Cincinnati convention was in scs-
sion. some locofocos at Lebanon made bets on
the final result, one of which was 4 days wa
ges. The Buchanan man having won, the
Pierceite rendered him s'ten cents" alleging
that that was Buchanan wages.
a COMPANY of So young men, mostly me-
chanics, has been formed at Dayton, o., who
intend to start forthwith for Kansas, via Iowa
and Nebraska. The citizens have contribu-
ted about $4,000 to pay their expenses
They go out as actual settlers.
BREcKESRIpGE, tn e Locofoco candidate for
Vice President, when in Congress two years
ago, sent a challenge to Mr.. Cutting, OF New
York, to fight duel. We shall see how those
locos who had such horror of supporting the
''ducllist Clay will swallow this fact.
JAMES J. STRAsG, Mormon leader, was shot
at Beaver Island on the 10Th, by two OF his for
mer followers. He received three balls IN the
body and q severe blow from pistol on the
head. Strang was lying in very critical con-
dition. The assassins had been arrested.
ANOTHER attempt will be made shortly to lay
chain cable for 4 telegraph across the Allan
tic. The cable will be 2400 miles long, and two
steamers, each with 1900 miles of cable, will
meet midway between ireland and NewF ound-
land, unite the cables, and proceed in opposite
directions to land.
CENTRAL AMERICA.-From Nicaragua we
learn that General Walker had removed his
headquarters to Leon. There was some sick
ness among the troops. 1t was rumored that
a revolution had broken out at Costa Rca dur
ing Moras absence, which it is said was head
ed by an influential family named Castro.
TENANT HousEs.-An Anglo French compa-
ny is putting up large number Of model ten
ant houses in the Champs Elysecs in Paris. y
peculiarly of the scheme is that the tenant,
ten, twenty, or thirty years, according TO the
worth of it, and regularly paying his annual
rent, will own the house in fec.
MEXICO. .-Intelligencefr fromMexico indicates
that much alarm is felt by the government res
pccting the Spanish expedition. and forcshad-
ows an application for the protection of the
United States. Southern Members OF Congress
suggest the granting of protection on the con-
ditiOn Of cession to US of the Tehuantepec
route, with the circumjacent territory
Bills of Indictment have been found against
the Directors of the Camden and Philadelphia
Ferry Company, charging them with man
slaughter in negligently equpping the steam
boat New Jersey burnt in March, thereby caus
ing death also with misdemcanor in neglect
ing the same, they being carriers of passen-
gers. The Superintendent, Andrew B. Fra
zee, is also indicted in similar bills.
AN IMpoTESr THREAT.-The recusant Wing,
Thomas Butler King, aPennsylvanian by birth,
but a Georgian by residence, told the Buchan-
an ratificators in New York that the South
would be with them throughout the glorious
contest. He also added '..fny man 1cho does
not 90 7rith the South ia THIS contest lri be SET
do,cn as desiring the dissolution Of the Union. .
This then is war waged for the South
Who said sssECrIoyAL PARTIEs.''
THE Hoilidaysburg Standard states that Da-
Wis shot Johnston with a musket, that belong
ed to Capt. Walls, which he had aboard of a
Canal boat, and loaded for the purpose Of
shooting muskrats. 1t was one of an old con-
demned lot sold by the State at Harrisburg
some five or six years ago. As singular CO.
Incidence, it is stated that Hutchison shot Ed
monson with musket out of the same lot
and within bpt a few feet from where Davis
shot Johnston.
NEBUCHADNEzzAR.-It is stated in the Lon
don .4tlas, that Colonel Rawlinson has lately
discovered in a state of perfect preservation,
what is believed to be the mummy of Nebu-
chadneZzar. The face of the rcbeIlious mon
arch Of Babylon, covered by one of those gold
masks usually found inAssyrian tornbs, is dcs-
cribed as very haudsome-the forehead high
and commanding, the features marked and
regular. j post mortem examination has been
made and the stomach found full OF grass.
AFRAUD.-A man has been arrested in New
York, charged with having attempted to de-
fraud an aged gentleman, residing on Long Is
land, of property valued at 500, 600. 1t is
stated that the offender induced the old man
TO visit his house, and while there, he drugged
him with liquor from day to day for weeks,
and then induced him to sign power of at
torney, by which his property was to have
been sold. Before the sale took place, the
old man rallied, and the accused was arrested
and held to bail.
HoRRID ISHUNASIrT OF \ STEP-MoTHER.-A y
recent trial before the Hardin (Ky.,l County