Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-23
GIEANINGS.

a NEGRO carpenter was lately sold in Adams
county, Mississippi, for $500.
THe AMOUNT of lead sent out from Galena,
H., the past year. was 30, l25, $50 pounds val
uc, S2,732,219.
IT IS SAID that 500 young men Of the South
passed through Nashville few days since on
their way to Kansas.
+ & FRENCH gentleman, of ample means, pro-
poses TO establish salt-works, near Savannah,
and sell salt at five cents per bushel.
In Is estimated that there are now in store
on Lake Ontario and the Upper Lakes 340,eeO
bhls auur, and ], ,5Si 900 bushels Of wheat.
Two STEAM VESSELS of war were sent out Oh
the 25th uit., by the British Government, to
search for the unfortunate steamer Pacific
TuE FREScH government has become great
Iy alarmed at the cattle murrain, which was
said to be spreading all over the continent.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a law
making all cities and towns responsible to the
owners, for all property destroyed by mobs.
THERE ARE 900 men employed in huilding
the monster steamer Leyiathan, near London.
Ityillcost half million of dollars to launch
her. .r1 ID
THR REVENUE under the new license law,
which viii go into the State treasury, it is es-
timated, IN Philadelphia alone, Will amount to
$500, 600. @ 90 5s1, ,.s9 sa
THE EMIGRATION from the eastern States, to
all parts Of the West, is said to be unusually
large this spring. a great portion Of which
is going to Kansas.
oLD BREAD may be made as good as new By
dipping the loaf in cold water, then putting it
in the oven after the bread is drawn, or stove,
and letting it be well heated through.
Ok the sunny shores of Cape Cod they are
raising the White, or Weymouth pine, from
the seed, which is planted in hills like corn,
where the soil win produce nothing else.
The Warren Mail says, s.about election time
man isn't much of a man--he's nothing but
politician, the Ittlest end Of humanity whit
tied down to the smallest possible point,
FRS EXPECTED that the expenditures of the
Government, for the next fiscal year will reach
seventy five millions, which amount is to be
raised entirely from the duty ea imports.
THE Peoria dII.) Republican states that at
the lowest calculation, onc-third, and many
think half, of the fruit trees in that sec
tion of the country, have been killed by the
severe cold of the past winter.
PorAroEs were sold at recent auction in
Spencer, Mass, at prices ranging from IL to
26 cents a bushel. They can be bought in any
quantity in that vicinity Tor 80 cents bushcl.
THE Louisville Courier states that specula-
tors in corn on the Wabash haye sustained
great losses the present season; 80 and AZ cents
have been paid Tor corn, and it is now selling
for % cents,
A late Illinois paper contains the announce
rnent of the marriage of r. W. Wolf to Mary
l.. Lamb. ..The wolf and the lamb shall lie
down together, snd little child shall lead
them ''-.attcr awhile.
SEVEN Hoes were sold recently in Gincinna-
II. whose weight is put down as follows: 775,
10. 7l2. 900, 592, S05, 75O-totaI, .923 lbs
average weight, 703 pounds. The price
paid was Saper hundred gross.
SAw-1nLL BuRxED.-The extei.siye steam
sayy-mill at Portsmouth, Dauphin county, own
ed by Judge Wm. T. Murray, of Harrisburg,
was consumed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss
SO, ,Ooo-insurance about $4,000.
CommoDoRE PEnRY's book giving an account
Of his expedition to Japan, has cost 5000, 600
in preparing it for publication. Many Of the
plates of this work were destroyed, by The late
fire in Ranstead place, Philadelphia.
The eoAL-BEDs of Missouri can furnish l0O,-
100000 tons per annum for the next 1900
years. and there IS iron ore enough near Pilot
knobb TO furnish 100 ,O00, 900 tons per annum
Of manufactured iron for the next 400 years.
GuS-BARRELs have lately been found on the
field of Hubbardston battle, in Vermont
some of which, alter having been buried more
than I 5 years, contained cartridges that explo-
ded with considerable violence when the bar
rel was heated in the fire. zs
XESornox tellsus of an Egyptian who, when
sent by his wife to purchase perfumes, bTo't
her a jar of fresh water. a bachelor acqGain-
tance of ours, who hasn't the fear of women
before him, says there ought to be great
many like that Egyptian nowadays.
IL manufacturing gas from Newcastle coal
chaldlon weighing q cwt. is found to yield
o1o0o cuo'c ieet oi gas, II c"t OF coke, ~
gallons ammonical liquor, and II gallons of
thick tar. Camel coal win yield upon an uv-
erage $4,000 cubic feet of gas to the chaldron.
TIE progressive Geyelopement of the Aus
tralian group Of coloniesis is on the whole ex-
tremely interesting. In Victoria, the popula-
tion had increased. during the last year, TO the
extent of $4,000 souls, and the yield of gold
continued to average 10000 ounces per week,