Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-12
CIrANLNGs.

oC the Dartmoor prisoners of the war of 1872,
died at Salem, Mass, on the 25th ult.
The Northern Bee, published at ST. Peters
burg, says elf God grants peace, we shall
take advantage of it to provide Russia with
railways
The following laconic epitaph. carved on
Spanish tombstone, should be remembered =
81 was well--tried to feel better--took ply
sic, and here 1 am.''
Gerrit Smith forwarded his speech on the
Nebraska bill to the New York Tribune, with
the sum of FIVE hundred dollars as compen-
sation for its insertion.
There are sixty German papers published IN
the United States, of which thirty-one advo-
cate Democratic principles, twenty-five are Re-
publican, and seven are neutral.
! What is the difference between having all |
! your children ssdowu with the measles" and =
! well executed counterfeit The one is sick
/ family and the other facsimile.
| Western Editor much wishes to know
! whether the law recently enacted against the
carrying of deadly weapons, applies to doctors
who carry pi!h in their pockets.
| IF YOU ever get so far gone over drinking
table, as to attempt to snuff your companions
nose instead of the candle, you may take it
for granted that you very nigh drunk.
Virtue springs from industry rather than
lfgfon. We care not how piou, a man is, or
assumes to be-just let him loaf for week
and he will feel the devil in him bigger than
woodchucil.
The New Workers should insure the lives OF
their councimen, their deaths are expen-
sive. The city last wecl, paid nearly five hun
dred dollars for the funeral expenses OF Coun-
Gilman Dixon.
Mr.. Carter, collector Of Portland, Ne, has
seized sixty five thousand cigars on board the
brig Zone, for alleged violation of the reve-
nue.. This isthe largest seizure OF cigars ever
made in that district.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch says :-.sThe New
Orleans City Treasurer, Col. Garland, has left
with the funds, and the office is closed. If
ours could run off with the city debts wo would
almost wish he might
It is estimated that 80 600, 900 feet Of lum-
Der have been cut during the past winter on
Wolf river, Wisconsin, and its tributaries
led Oshkosh, where its value is about SS per
1000 feet.
''When goes shopfe en- said al old lady,
, - alters ask for what wants, and if they have
, , s-,--'a its suitable, and feel inclined to buy
place for less, tnos>an,t be goe ~ any other
chappering about it all day as most @tS;; peo,,
: does.'
The editor Of the "Sunay Sonth" must have
had severe time Of it recently. Hear him
in his paper Of the 18th of February oTho cd
= itor Of this paper is probably, at present, the
leanest, lanlest, the most lantern ,jawcd, slab
n sided, fatless specimen of humanity that ever
{ dared TO strut about stills. He is GONZALES
n cling, but as weak as Taunton water. celebrated
: down east for being too feeble to run down
a stream"
, hIDSAPPIyG.A negro boy was kidnapped
: from Hainesport, Burlington county, y. j., a
( few days since, and was taken south as far as
Baltimore, under pretence of obtaining work
S in driving wagon. While the kidnapper was
r negotiating for his sale, the boy discovered
5 the game, and told his story to some persons.
who caused the arrest ofhis capturer, who was
imprisoned, and will soon be brought to Mount
$ Holly.
DEvAsTATIoH OF RAGooS.-From Burmah
= intelligence has been received of terrible
confagration which deyasted Ragoon on the
18th Of December. In few hours it DESTROY
: cd eighteen brick warehouses. one hundred
and eighty tinker houses, and three hundred
bamboo dwelling places. Water was not TO be
procured in sufficient quantities, and aconsid-
. cradle amount of plunder was carried Of. The
loss, estimated at fl5o,000, will fall upon Eu-
, ropean houses.
BRTIsE CAyADIAy REGIrrxrs.--Our coun-
trymen are very apt to get excited at any
movement on the part of Great Britain, and
therefore they look upon the return of regi-
ments 20 Canada as 'a specll of wars They
eutirely overlook the fact that Eve out of the
eight regularly stationed Canadian regiments
were despatched to the Crimea, and in view of
the hoped for pacifcation of Europe, the Ca
madam provinces are to be placed in the same
position rs before the Anglo-French alliance
against Russia
ANOTHER CHURcH PRopERTY DIFFICULTY
y suit has been brought against the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Chicago, to recover under
contract for building church. The Bishop
denies the validity of the debt as it was made
in his spiritual capacity. The courts of Illi-
nois viii. probably, permit him TO pay in his
spiritual capacity, if the distinction is of CON
sequence to him: but it is doubtful whether
the Bishop win thus be allowed, by common
sense jury, 10 repudiate his obligations alto