Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-12-17

On The 9Th inst, a collision occurred on the
Railroad at Alliance, west of Pittsburg, by
which nine persons were killed and II or Is
wounded.
Two swINDLERs calling themselves Lord Ar
thur John Hudson and Sir Charles Miller, were
arrested at Pittsburg last week. AS usual,
sundry fools after great men had their pock-
cts scorched.
DEMENrED.-Reah Frazer, Esq, of Lancas-
ter, known as ssthe war horse of Democracy"
has gone crazy and is now in the Insane Asy-
lum in Philadelphia, caused by political and
financial excitement.
THE Indianapolis Journal says there were
G000 applicants for the post of Messenger to
carry the electoral vote of Indiana to WASH
ington. There were applicants from every
township in the State but two.
The candidates for the Legislature in
county in Wisconsin were J. NJ. Root, Demo-
cratic; Robert Hogg, Free Soil; T. II. Dye,
Know Nothing. So it was Root, Hogg, or
Dye, with the voters, sure enough.
PREMoNrrIoN OF Evn.-The singular fact is
stated that at Saltwater, Minnesota, Rev. A.
G. Nelson, Methodist minister, broke down in
his Sunday morning sermon, and was so con-
founded by the unaccountable and awkward
dilemma, that he summarily dismissed his con-
gregation, ran home, and arrived there just in
season to save his house from destruction by
fire, which was we'll under way.
A LADY AFLoAT.-After all, hoops are not
Will fbeir ady An Epolish
tells US that lady was picked up by pilot
boat in the harbor of Ostend, whose head was
kept above water by her crinolne skirts
When taken into the boat she was in an almost
senseless state but on recovering, refused to
tell her name or place of residence. She said
she had made her family aware Of her inten-
tion to commit suicide, and that she would ul-
timately carry her determination out. We
presume that the next time she tries the ex-
pertinent she will unhoop.
LATEST FROM NIcARAGUA.-Criticai Position
Of Gen. Wdlker.-Latest advices from Mica
ragua state that Gen. Walker had been driven
from every place except the Transit route, and
four hundred men, were at Granada, surround
ed by the Costa Ricans and the forces of San
Salvador and Guatemala. The fighting had
continued for nine days. Gen. Walker was on
board steamer on the Lake, and without
communication with his army. His men were
regarded as in critical position, and were
suffering for want of provisions and clothing,
and dying off by disease. This news was
brought by the steamship Isabel, having OBJ
tanned it from the passengers of the Tennes-
see, from San Juan, Dec. 4th, on her way to
New York.
The SLAVE EXCITEMENT IN TENNEssEE.-The
Evansville Journal is informed by gentlemen
direct from Tennessee, that on the 9th, the
whole region from Memphis, through Clarks-
vile and Dover, on the Cumberland river, was
in state of the greatest alarm in regard to
the movements of the slave population. The
iails in all the counties were crowded with the
arrested blacks. The county courts had been
assembled in each county, and vigilance COM
mittees and patrols appointed for each neigh
borhood and township. Eight more negroes
had been hung at Dover, making nineteen in
all. No act has yet been committed, out the
proof of insurrectionary designs is said to be
conclusive.
Col. benton IN THE SENATE AGAIN.-The
news from Missouri is that coalition is form
ed between the Bcntonian and Known othing
members of the Legislature, by which Col.
Benton and Luther Nj. Kennett will be elected
United States Senators from that State, their
being two Senators to elect. This will be a
crushcr on the ultra border ruffian faction
| There can be no question says the Cincinnati
| Commercial, but that Mr.. Buchanan influence
| is used in Missouri to have Benton returned to
| the Senate. The administration papers of the
| State, whose support to great extent depends
] upon official patronage, long so bitter on Ben
ton, are now silent. 1t is extremely probable
it is almost inevitable-that the Senator for
six ustrums will be sent back TO his old seat.
THE BAKER TRIAL.-Who has forgotten the
Stanwix Hall Tragedy and the subsequent ova-
ton to Poole the victim Of the riot the es-
cape of Louis Baker, the pursuit and capture
of him, his trial in New York, the new trial
ordered, the change of venue, etc 2 The tel
egraph has given us from day to day within a
| couple of weeks, items relative to the pro-
gress of the trial which has at length conclu-
ded. The result Of it may be summed uI
| thus:
The jurors, after being absent thirty hours
in consultation over the evidence, came ont o
their room as they entered it, sir for acquit
| tai and SIR for manslaughter. Not the slight
est prospect of any agreement being thus af'
forded by the lapse of time, the suffering
| twelve were very properly discharged-one o