Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-07-09
CLIPPINGS AND scR1BBL1Hes.

fence, and committed to jail to await his trial
TIE Providence Post sneeringly calls Col.
Fremont q ssbear hunter.n The Post will find
before mex. November that he is a ssbuck,'
hunter also.-Bosfon .4tlas.
! CONGRESS has just passed an act granting to
the Hebrew congregation in Washington, all
the rights and privileges enjoyed by theChris-
tian churches in that city.
/ The Albany Times states that a pistol has
been invented in that city, which will fire 90
times per minute, and carry bail 40 yards
farther than any pistol now in use.
WE of the South know President Pierce !;
we have tested him.-Richmond Enquirer.
WE of theNorth also know wPresidentPierce !;
we have long de-tested him.-Leadsr.
FAIR ExcHAsGE.-Whfle 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
1st. charges Governor Price with having sent
twelve cannon, aud twenty-five boxes of mus
kets from the Arsenal to StriEgfellow, to as
| 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 a week, and taken 20 Holidays
| burg and lodged in Jail.
THE Legislature OF Iowa has passed an act
| compelling all railroad trains to come to a full
halt, at crossings, and if any life shall be lost
| 10y violation OF this act, from 900 to
| $50 900 shall be forfeited to the heirs of the
F! deceased.
The FACTORY GIRLS of Lowell presented the
| gallant Brooks with so pieces of silver (three
cent pieces,) rope and winding sheet, and
counseiled him to follow the example CT Ju-
| das, his illustrious predecessor, and hang
himself
WANTED TO Ksow-what has become of Jim
Conrad's ''three inch Pollock borer 7'' Want
ed for the next campaign. Any person leaving
information of the same at the store of Conrad
& Walton in Philadelphia or at this office will
be handsomely rewarded.
The WHIsKEY Observation-Disclosures (O)
Commercial states that the increase in the
whiskey business, within so miles of that city,
bushels of corn per day, or nearly $4,000 gal
Ions of whiskey-
MELAScHoLY-The 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
eralist remaining; they are in sad quandary.
Col. Fremont's running away with Mr.. Ben
toms daughter. Whereupon 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
Convention at Brookville on the 1st of July.
and nominated ". W. Wise, for Congress;
NJ H. Shannon, Assembly; Joseph Hender-
son, Associate Judge; John P. Mckee, Com
missioner; W. Reynolds, Auditor; J. JY.
Thompson, Surveyor, and B. F. Lucas, Pros.
| ecuting Attorney.
Mn. c. 5. BRows, 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 deplorable condition of
things in the territory, especially about Law
renee, and says the outrages have not BEEN
cannot be. exaggerated.
FoTISG AND PRAYISG.-A Clergyman in
Newark, on a recent Sabbath, said to his con-
gregation :-.sMy brethren, wish you to vote
just as you pray. II you pray for slavery and
intemperance, 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
iard's Hotel, Washington, who was shot down
by Herbert the Locofoco Representative in
Congress from California, is dead, leaving te-
hind her several orphan children. The shock
OF her husbands death, and the proving of
grief at her loss, have hurried her into an uu
timely grave. Thus the double murder is COM
pleted, and the murderer was shielded from
his crime by the votes of the Locofoco mem
bers of Congress
A METHODIST PREACHER MoBsEp.-The bor-
der ruffians 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 l4th ult., received orders from
number of pro-slavery men to adjourn imme
diately, and leave the State. Not complvinr
with the order, a mob assembled, entered the
church, and took the presiding officer and tar