Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-05-21
CLIPPINGS AND sCRIBBLINGs.

AN OLD L OGE - OHe VINO Si4S upon Lue COsl-
tail of time and cries, Halt Haiti
THE ADVERTISING in the London Times, is
said to yield the handsome sum of S8,0o0.000
a-year
THE NEXT Exhibition of the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural Society will be held at
Pittsburg.
THE TERMS of eleven Senators of this State
expired with the late session, of whom seven
were Loco's.
CONGRESS has been in session nearly six
months, and has passed but eight public bills,
and very few private ones.
y BILL, to increase the capital of the Co
lumbia Bank, from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900, pas
sed the late Penn'a Legislature.
THE whole number of Quakers in the United
States is stated in the Philadelphia Journal at
282, ,S53. They have : ii meeting houses.
An OTTER was killed in Warwick, Il. l., by
S. II. Luther, which was five feet long and
weighed % pounds. The skin is worth fifteen
dollars.
y DIVIDEND of four per cent, for the last six
months, has been declared by the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company, from the net earnings
of the road.
''THE WHEAT CROP Of Indiana and the great
Northwest says the Madison (Ind.) Courier,
'snevcr was more promising than at the pre-
sent season."
THE LONGEST Steamboat in the world is the
Isaac Newton. She is 4Of feet long, and has
state-rooms sufficient to accommodate one
thousand persons.
CUSTOMERS WORTH HArING.-One firm inIon-
don pays the Times S150,000 a-year for adver-
tising. Several other firms pay over $4,000
| annually for advertising alone.
a NEW Postage Stamp has been ordered, by
the Post Master General, with a head of JEFF
ferson, of the value of five cents, expressly to
prepay postage on foreign letters.
THE ODD FELLOWS had grand time at their
Anniversary, in Cincinnati on the 24th ult.-
The procession, four abreast, was three miles
| long and numbered 1000 of the fraternity.
THE LEGISLATURE of New York adjourned
without passing the usual appropriation bill;
| through neglect or otherwise. The State Will
have to rely on its credit to sustain itself.
y LITTLE GIRL died lately at Boston from ex-
cess in jumping rope. She jumped about two
hundred times without stopping. Immediate
Iy after, she took sick, and died the next day.
Ma. CnoATE, was recently asked, how he
thought the conversational powers of Samuel
Rogers would compare with those of Mr.. Web
ster. He replied, s.as fiddle to two hundred
organs.''
y PoET, in 'sdoing the pathetic" began
stanza thus: 'sSorrow came and left its traces
-whcreupon a wag inquired if the bard could
| inform him how Sorrow had disposed of the
rest of its HARNESS.
AsroUSDiSG.-Thc Councils of New York
voted to add 1000 dollars additional to the
salary of Mr.. Comptroller Flagg, which that
gentleman refused 10 rcceire. Whoever before
heard of such refusal
THE MoRMoxs are moving in the matter of
the admission Of their State into the Union
The subject of their admission will be a vex-
ed one, and will occasion much discussion in
Congress and elsewhere.
NICARAGUA ExcIrEMESr.-The recognition
of Don Viii, by the President, as Minister
from Nicaragua. has given great impetus to
the Nicaragua fever at New Orleans, and many
new recruits arc going out in the next steamer.
THE FREEMAsoSs Of New 7 ork intend build
ing magnificent temple, which is expected to
surpass anything of the kind in the world. 1t
| is to be built of sandstone or marble, 100 by
l21 feet, five stories high, and cost $500, 900.
n TERRIBLE ACCIDENT occurred lately on the
railroad near Davenport, Iowa. An express
train ran off the track, while going at full
speed, and was completely smashed up
Twelve persons were killed and great num-
Der wounded.
ACCOUNTS of the growing crops in Michigan,
Ohio. Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland N York
and Pennsylvania, concur in representing
very gratifying state of things, and it is pre-
dicted that the yield of brcadstufs the present
year will greatly exceed that of last year.
ANCIENT RU1Ns.-Thcrc has been discover
cd, in what is called the Big Thicket on the
San Jacinto, Texas, by Mr.. Smith, some an
cient ruins of great interest. The fragments
show that they are the remains of an edifice of
remarkable and magnificent architecture, con-
structed of material no where to be found in |
that country.
AMERICAN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION
Boston, May 14.-The anti-Fillmore portion of |
the delegates to the American Convention |
were in session yesterday till midnight Six
ty delegates were present. \ resolution was |
passed repudiating on behalf of the American
party Of Massachusetts,, the nomination of Fill |
more and Donnelson, as inconsistent with the |
Springfield platform and the principles TO