Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-07-09
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBLINGs.

fence, and committed to Jail to await his trial
THE Providence Post sneeringly calls Col
Ere mont s'bear hunter" The Post will find
before next November that he is a ssbuck':
hunter also.-Boston .4tias
CONGRESS has just passed an act granting t,
the Hebrew congregation in Washington, al
the rights and privileges enjoyed by theChris.
tian churches in that city.
The Albany Times states that a pistol ha.
been invented in that city, which will fire 90
times per minute, and carry a ball 40 yards
farther than any pistol now in use.
WE of the South know President Pierce
we have tested him.-Richmond Enquirer.
WE of then orth also know PresidcntPierce
we haze long de-tested him.-Leader.
FAIR EXCHANGE While Canada is receiv-
ing many of our colored population, the French
Canadians are migrating to the western states
and find our lands, markets, and institutions
far preferable to Canada.
A letter in the st. Louis Democrat, of JULY
lst, charges Governor Price with having sent
twelve cannon, and twenty-five boxes of mus
sist in the conquest of Kansas.
Hooker, the man who murdered Davis, at
Williamsburg, Blair county, was arrested at
Germantown, in Philadelphia, on Sunday
morning last week, and taken to Holidays
burg and lodged in Jail.
THE Legislature OF Iowa has passed an act
compelling all railroad trains to come to n full
halt, at crossings, and if any life shall be lost
by violation of this act, from $4,000 to
$4,000 shall be forfeited to the heirs of the
deceased.
The FACTORY GIRLS of Lowell presented the
gallant Brooks with so pieces of silver (three
cent pieces,) rope and winding sheet, and
counselled him to follow the example CT Ju-
das, his illustrious predecessor, and hang
himself.
WANTED TO KNow-what has become of Jim
Conrad'S ''three inch Pollock borer ?'' Want
ed for the next campaign. Any person leaving
information Of the same at the store Of Conrad
4 Walton in Philadelphia or at this office Will
be handsomely rewarded.
THE WHIsKEY YBUsINEss.-TheCincinn (O)
Commercial states that the increase in the
whiskey business, within so miles of that city,
during the last four months, is equal to 10 900
bushels of corn per day, or nearly $4,000 gal
Ions of whiskey.
MELASCHoLY--Thc Locofoco presses are in
despair at the loss of their favorite arguments
in political campaigns, the s.Hartford Conven-
tion'' and sold federalism Having nomi-
noted for President almost the only old Fed
eriiiff tit Boston Posi- says It can't see much in
Col. Frcmont's running away with Mr.. Ben
toms daughter. Whcreupon the Chronicle re-
torts that Mr.. Buchanan ran away from every
body's daughter, and no body's grand daught-
er is so poor as to do him reverence. He is
bound for Salt Lake city, and the broomsticks
of the Saintesses.
The Americans of Jefferson county met in
at Brookville on the 1st of July,
and nominated W. ". Wise, for Congress;
NJ. II. Shannon, Assembly; Joseph Hender-
son, Associate Judge John P. Mckee, Com
W. Reynolds, Auditor; J j. Y.
Thompson, Surveyor, and B. F. Lucas, Pros
ecuting Attorney.
Mr.. G. S. Brown, of Trumbull county, O.
who was some weeks ago delegated to convey
the Kansas fund raised in that county, to the
Free State men of Lawrence, has executed
that perilous trust, and arrived safely home.
He reports the most dcplorable condition of
things in the territory, especially about Law
renee, and says the outragcs have not been,
cannot be, exaggerated.
VOTING AND PRAYISG.-A Clergyman in
Newark, on recent Sabbath, said to his con-
:-''My brethern, | wish you to vote
just as you pray. If You pray for slavery and
lntemperancc, vote for them if you pray for
freedom and temperance, vote for them.''
The truth is in this respect as well as in others
we may very often have great deal to do in
answering our own prayers.
THE WIDOW of Keating, the servant at VIII
lard's Hotel, Washington, who was shot down
by Herbert the Locofoco Representative in
Congress from California, is dead, leaving be-
hind her several orphan children. The shock
Of her husbands death, and the preying of
grief at her loss, have hurried her into an un-
timely grave. Thus the double murder is COM
pleted, and the murderer was shielded from
his crime by the votes of the Locofoco men,
bcrs of Congress.
METHODIST PREACHER MoBBEp.-The bor-
der rufiians of Missouri know no stopping
place in their efforts to introduce slavery in
Kansas. A Methodist Conference which as
sembled at Rochester, Andrew county, Mis-
souri,, on the 14tb ult., received orders from
number of pro-slavery men to adjourn imme-
iiately, and leave the State. Not complying
With the order, mob assembled, entered the
church, and took the presiding officer and tar