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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-08-06
VOL. 2.--NO. 81.
4 LEAF FROM THE NATIoNAL LEDGER.

IN exchange, in a calculation of the cost OF
he.public lands of our domain, says chat the
equivalent which we give for them amounts to
about hundred millions of dollars. This we
believe 10 be an altogether Inadequate esti-
mate. That this is an immense country. and
a growing one beside, and that it viii invento
ry, as the merchants say, OF a much higher fig
ure than Sl00, ,0o0, ,000, glance at Uncle Sam
uel's real estate operations viii satisfy the
most incredGlous. Beginning, then, in 1903,
when we first began as a nation to break a por-
tion Of the tenth section OF the decalogue, We
purchased louisiana from France, giving her
as an equivalent Sl1, $50, GOO, besides making
out for her receipt in fun for obligations of
about an equal amount, for which she was pre-
yiously oar debtor. This satisfied for a
while, until in 1919 Ne paid s5,o0o.o0o to
Spain in order TO secure Florida. We then
disburSed $1,000 geo more FOR the extin-
guishmeut Of tho Indian title, an operation
which was afterwards succeeded by the trans
fer of Texas and the acquired Mexican terri
tory. at a cost Of So, Goo, ,o00 more. If we
then sum up the figures and add S5,000.0 600,
which is a low estimate for the expense of sur
veying this extensive territory, we find the
sum total to be one hundred and sixty odd
millions of dollars, not counting the expense
of the Florida, the Mexican, and the contin-
ued Indian wars. At the present time, say
De BOWS statistics, the L. S. own fifteen hun
drcd millions OF acres of land, which are worth
TO il two billions Of dollars. What glorious
picture is here presented of the Irresponsible
ity,' according to commercial parlance, of
this great nation! All these immense sums
have been paid at maturity, and yet taxation
has rested as lightly upon the shoulders Of the
people as dew upon summer foliage.
/ We are apt 70 felicitatc ourselves upon iiv-
! ing in a progressive era. We do; but whoev-
/ or lives to sec a century hence, when all this
! huge domain is under cultivation and every
acre is occupied by colleges newspaper offices,
! telegraph stations. model farms and machine
shops, viii witness the prosperity of country
/ teemmg with population of 500 100000 OF
souls. II wic5edness don't keep pace with
/ progress in the arts, and the world is not pre-
maturely destroyed for its presumption, the
greatest country that ever had existence
upon its surface viii be these United States.
It is as certain as certainty itself
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RRooKs Am pURLIVGATIE..

The recent acts of the South Carolina ruf-
fan. who has at last relieved the House Of Rep
resentatives from his presence, by resigning
his seat, are in strict keeping with the das-
tardIy deed which first brought him promi-
nently before the public. That he is at heart
an arrant coward. whilst it might have been
Inferred from the mode and manner of his at
tack upon Senator Sumner, has been most con-
clusively established by the course he has
pursued in relation to his difficulty with Bur
lingame of Massachusetts,. 1t viii be remem-
bered that the gentleman referred to delivered
in the House Of Representatives the most elo-
quent speech which the expulsion resolution
called forth, in which he commented upon the
Sumner outrage with just and scathing severi-
ty. For this the gallant hero of the bludgeon
saw proper to challenge him to mortal combat.
Contrary 10 his expectations, in all probabili-
ty. AIr. Burlngame promptly accepted the
challenge. fixed the Canada side Of the Mag
ara river as the place of meeting, and after
sending Brooks word to that effect, repaired to
the city of New York, on his way thithcr.
After some deliberation and consultation with
his friends, the challenger concluded that dis
cretiCn was the better part of valor, and de-
clined to follow his antagonist to the spot Sc
lected, upon the absurd plea that he would
have to travel some seven hundred miles thro'
an ssenemy's country and was liable to be
attacked on the way. This is essentially a
back out-a showing OF the white feather
for he would have been perfectly safe; not a
hair OF his head would have been disturbed.
The trne reason is. Rrnnlss afraid to meet
Mr.. Burlingame. who is a dead shot. And
what will the South say to the conduct Of their
champion, who had The courage to strike down
an unarmed Senator? According to the code
of honor he is disgraced beyond redemption.
Mr. Burlingane subsequently returned to
Washington, and both parties arc now under
bonds TO keep the peace.
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of learning had not been OF the richest qna!l-
ty, they never would have sprung up 10 a hum
dred fold In full ear. Such, my young friends,
is bat an imperfect sketch OF my once beloved
and favorite pupil, now Senator, and who
may yet rise to be at the head of this great
and growing Republic. Ny prayer is that he
may ever be opposed TO war, injustice and op-
preston of every kind, a blessing to his COM
try, and an example Of every noble virtue TO
the whole world''
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Do YOU REALLY THINK He DID

waited till the twilight,
And yet he did not come
I strayed along the brook side,
And slowly wandered home
When who should come behind me,
But him L would have bid
He said he came to find me-
Do you really think he did?
He said that since we parted,
He thought of naught so sweet,
As of the very moment,
The moment we should meet.
He show'd me where, half shaded,
A cottage home lay hid,
He said for me he made it
Do you really think he did ?
He said when first he saw me,
Life seemed at once divine
Each night he dreamed of angels,
And every face was mine.
Sometimes voice, when sleeping,
Would all his hopes forbid,
And then ne walked up Weeping
Do you really think he did
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THE MAMMOTH CAvE.-An unknown pas
sage some two miles in length was discovered
in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, on the u
inst This passage is said to leas
bers far surprising aps-t
both in extcp.
! the VII
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-08-06

ADvIoEs from Key West, Florida, state that
a party of Is volunteers had attacked band
of Seminole Indians, numbering rs, on the
18th ult, and killed L. The volunteers losi
one-third of their men, but succeeded in dis
persing the sayages.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-08-06

Commodore Robert Z. Stockton has written
a letter Withdrawing from the contest Tor the
Presidency. His associate od the ticket,
Kenneth Rayner, withdrew some time ago
This slightly narrows the contest. one ticket
being entirely out of the field Fillmore, Fre-
mont. Buchanan and Gerrit Smith are the on
ly men now regularly before the people as
candidates for the Presidency.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-08-06

THE COMMITTEE on Elections of the United
States House Of Representatives have repor-
ted in favor of Governor Reeder's claim 10 a
seat in Congress, as Delegate from Kansas
They decline TO send the case back to the peo-
pie Of Kansas for a new election, on account of
the certainty of repetition of the disgrace
full scenes which have attended previous cleo
tions there; and until the passage OF an act, by
Congress, by which an election can be legally
held there, they recognize Governor feeder
as the Delegate elected by the majority OF the
citizens Of Kansas.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-08-06

In Philadelphia the citizens are employing
private watchmen to guard their dwellings,
having no confidence in the regular ponce
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-08-06

\ FATHER AND SoN WITH SIX WIVES AFfEcE.
The Manchester (N.H. )lfirTor, gives a long
account of the proceedings in that place and
in Rutland, Vt, OF two men calling themselves
DR.. Lyman a. Abbott and James Il. Abbott,
said to be father and sou, who are now Both
under arrest on the charge of biganly. II is
slated that they have each, within a short pc
riod. married no less than SIX wives. The IA
ther passed at Manchester, n H.. as the erich
old uncle" OF his son, and in consequence OF
his Representations, the tr4desmcn of Aanches-
ter were victimized to the amount Of several
hundred dollars. The career of both parties
for number of years is detailed in the1Iirroy
with great minuteness. st Newark, Nj. in
1851, the elder Abbott was married to Mrs. E
lizabeth Roberts, who soon discovered that he
had wife living in Syracuse. y. I. lie was
consequently arrested FOR biSamy, convicted
and sentenced to ten years in the New Jersey
Penitentiary, but was pardoned out after seven
months detention. 4 Miss Gardiner, OF West
moreland, n. H., states that she married the
same man, under the name of DR.. Lyman An
drews, in 1852. In Sussex county, n. J., IL
lS49, he persuaded a Miss Sherman to elopC
with him, and they were married by JuSticC
of the Peace. He was soon after obliged Il
abscond forthreatening his wife's life in orlei
to obtain her property. 1t was also ascertain
ed that the true, original name OF the SOLD
DOCTOR is Aaron Andrews Abbey, and th'
true name of the young man James Henry Ab
bey-the latter being the eldest son of the FOR
mer by his first wife. Both parties are kel,
for trial.
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A TRUE SARMINr.-The other morning as
Father O'NciI mounted the rostrum of the cha
pei at Bathfey land, having just come over from
Ballygraddy on his one-eyed minus tailed
shettv. which was tied to post behind tbs
chapel. he thus addressed his assembled con-
gregation My friends turn wild me if We
paze as the subject of our mornings medita-
tious, to Paul's Epistle 20 the Romans. But
may as we'll tell you that some of ye knows as
little about what an Epistle names as Con-
naught pig knows about plating shirt front
But an epistle, let me inform ye, is neither
more nor less than lether; and that Paul
wrote this lether and addhrcssed it is widen,
10 rs all but whether he sailed the lether, or
merely stuck wafer into it. ali the commen-
tators [ have consulted have not been able to
inform me. HowsRnever, my friends, be did
not address II to them dirthy Episcopalians.
nor them schurvy Presbyterians, nor to them
theeyen Unitarians, nor any of them Heretic-
onayians. Ne, he addressed IL to you my
frfends-thc omans. L intend to divide my
discourse this morning into three heads. The
first will tratc on something that 1 know my
self. and that niyer a one o. We knows ha'
poIth about In the second place, name to
spalle to We about something yourselves know
all about, and l know nothing abou. meself,
and in the third place 1 Inane to spake TO ye
about something that naither you nor knows
any thing about at all, at all. In the first place
then as / was mounting my nag this morning
to come to praich to ye here, tore tllump-
ing hole in the knay of my black throusers,
and We knew nothing about that. In The sec
ond place you know when you're going to give
me new pair, aud don't; and thurdiy, We
! don't know what that PROTESTANT tailor DOVER
the way will be after charging us for thin"
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II is now evident that Messrs. Toombs and
Douglas, n;he preparation Of their Kansas
bill, have been acting in concert with the
Missouri propagandists OF Slavery. By tele-
graphic dispatch from st. Louis, we learn
That hand-bill was issued on the sth OF July
Dy Stringferlow aud his associases, calling up
on all good Missourians TO go over into the
Territory before the lst OF August, so as to be
in readiness to vote at the November election.
There can be no no.question that If the Senate
bill should become a law, hundreds of the bor-
der rufiians would be enrolled by the commits
sioners whom the President is authorized to
appoint, and, as they have repeatedly done
heretofore, defeat thc wishes of the actual
residents.
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MEDICAL.
NALL SHOULD TRY ITl3
D r. j.. HOST ETTERt S 6
CELEBRATED
STOMACH BUFFERS.
100000 Honles soia d one ! ..r.1 >.

NOTHING In the marer-nOlhluE Ia the medical Tkst
t0T the past MY yeAr, has tqualtd nor can mn
Artlcie be produced eVuRlto this
GREAT ANT1-DTSPEPTIC
nr hostcters Preparation Is grHnsy's TVclrr
nor the mrFe experimental some AnRta liai'
clAn verbal investigation. Il Is tho sult Of profound
anu elaborate study Of QUE Of the sccc chemists q
the ITrscnt ernlury, =
Dr. HUStrrr submits his alunble BttCrs 10 any cei
SA tests" or Nhai Is sti letter, prlSuul trial uiOn your
S"satulop The true properties thrss HTteFS Win
o. found oy thr hrst anRyas and the full Osor their tAt
medicinal effects will be usde manifest ia an Almost erj
OG shS1 space 81 time upon the system.
BIiterS 80 ~ S''' SIC" EfSAaA'A
relieved at cnce. - =
Are YOU arnoyss BY ladigeatio Remsve til. oaua. Gy me
tree use Of these BteTS, :
Have yOu Fever and AKue! How many tntss n6r In ts
West and South have been thu consItuon dtEFo,
ing disease, bj the use Of these Mtlrrs.
AL should Try this great antidOte We venture 10 aEr
nat Hhie HoStettsFS btFsHTe usca fever Gsd
HEne eaunot occur. =.
One wine gHssuI, taken three times day before peaf
Wll be found great tonic aHent, which all will appreciate
when PGEsonAy satiEtd Of the fact thcy NH s By IN.
Ing the DttcTS trial.
tneFs are otheL ers represented to b. the same which
are comparatively worthless. Our R!GteFs are VifhSuR
F1Na Tor their medicinal quAlEvA. They are put 40 -
containing full quart with the reetIpni on
ana u IHoSse'sers Stomach RfterS" blown the oI-
PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BoTTIR
" TOT sale ey III the principal Druggists, Hotel RGFS
Restaurants, and Dealers generally throuRhOA ~ End
States, and by - s
LAuGHllNs 4 BusHF1ElD Sad
jssslydsw 1905 whssIas
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ODD FEf.ICWs' DIRECTORY


VIrslnIas Ledge No 3.-Aleets. every Thursday
evening the Hall cOrurr Of Market and Monroe streets
VIM zrSE, x. G.i B, u. 6IFr, secretary.
Fr1nklIn Lodge Ne. I3--stsets As above every
Monday evening. Z DEsrtE, =. Gi S + Elria, seerr-
sary-
VIVA. Tell Ledge Nc. 33.-Nsets a. above eve
~ Wednesday evening. II. BuseEssocE, n. G.; Z. v.
Hsltss, Secretary
wheeling Lodge No. 5o-.i.st, every Monday
evening at the Hail. corner Market and Quincy streets D.
D. IIrxLrE, " Co. Ma. " BssrytiR, seeretAry.
Pamela Lod2e-No S3.-MeCs as above every
Friday evening" G. K. CARTWRIGHT, y O.; u. ". Bla.
cEGEd, secretary.
Abran.'s EncamPnent Ne. 1.-Mqets at the
Hail. corner Market and Onros Streets The rst and id
TUESDAY evenings of each month. Wv BL4sea4aD. Pr
S. u. Psarsaa, Scribe.
VIVA. Tell EuenmPmeat Ne. 3&.-Meets as
above the second and fourth Taesday evenings of each
month. JoaS G. HoEF,t4x, C p; I'm Fst.gartsr.
Scribe.
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= w AS1l.,.
SExATE.-Not in session, having adjourned
till Monday.
HousE.-The House renewed the examination
Of the report of the com. on Elections.
Mr.. Oliver, of No., addressed the House at
length in opposition to empowering the commit
tee to send for persons and papers in the Kansas
ease.
He maintained that on the head of Mr.. Reed
er and Others, who had Joined in the cxtraortli-
nary movement for getting up cmisrsnt aid so
cletles and procuring Sharp's rifles, rested the
responsibility of all the strife and bloodShed in
Kansas, their sole object being to defeat what
they called the infamous Eansas-Nebraska bill
These things were calculated justly to excite the
indignation of the people of Missouri and Kan
Sas Territory.
MIR. Oliver indignantly repealed the term of
border rrifhanS, as applied to patriots con-
Scious of their rights and with nerve enough TO
maintain them.
Mr. Oliver did not know any Missourians who
voted in Kansas; he had seen hundreds fast
eTn men returning from the Territory, who said
they had seen the elephant" filed their con-
tract to vote, and were going home. Toauthor-
izc the com. to send for persons andpapers would
be to give Countenance to revolution and def
ance to law. He trusted that the House would
refuse this demand, made at the instance OF Mr.
Recder, who has Smcarcd his hands with the
blood Of his butchcred fe!low-citizens and is the
foundation Of treason, which needs but the
overt act to justify his being hanged as high as
Hannah.
Mr.. Cumback of Ind, admitted, as charged
by Mr.. Oliver, that the design of the emigrant
aid society was to make Kansas \ free State
The doctrine pronounced by the Northern Dem
ocrats as the object of the Nebraska Kansas act,
was not only to make those territories free, but
to establish Gordon of free States to the Pacific
He never had any desire or intention to go to
Kansas until he saw the effort made to force sla-
very. These he submitted to Mcssrs. Oliver
and Phelps, who had addressed the House on
this subject: Has it come to this that we must
ask how many men and who shall go to Kansas
in order to become cities. Freedom to go thith
er is war on Missouri. In conclusion he said
Virginia and South Carolina once stood on the
ground thatthe Republican party now occnpy
If slavery has become sectional who made it so
Mr. Cullom said this question should be set
tied according to the principles which regulated
the Courts. He maintained that the House can
not impugn the act of the Legislature, under
which Whitfield was elected Rceder declared
the members duly chosen, having commissioned
them, and sent message to recognize their acts
as legal. The House has no right to open that
investigation, because they cannot go beyond
the record
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GOING NORTH.

GOING sOUTI-The S1OA. II. Train Will San
husky with Morning Train from Toledo; MonrocvIe with
Chicago Express the Southern Division Of c. T. Road;
Shelby Junction with Cincinnati Express from Cleveland; at
Mansfield Junction with Dav Express from Pittsburgh and
Newark with the East and West Trains the Central Ohio
Railroad.
The p NJ Train will connect at sandussy with eara.
ay City from Detroit MonrOevle with Train
y l. H. a.; at Sep: Junction AT II T. NJ with thu Mail
fell Junction t5'5S T. N. with Fast train o. P. r.
for Pittsburgh, and at Newark With East and West Night
Trains n Central Ohio Il. Il.
GOING NORT1I.-Tte 9'26 v Train will make close
ncctiUn at Newark with Mail Train from Beair g. o. r.
r.. at Mansfield Junction with Express for Pittsburgh; at
shelby Junction at 12'J with Cincinnati Express
Cleveland Buffalo aud New York, and Honrcevle with
Aail Train G. 4. r. road TO Toledo, Chicago, &c.
2-II Train will connect Newark with Express from
the East Genital Ohio Road; at Mansfield Junction with
Fast Train for Pittsburgh; Shelby Junction 5-21
with Cincinnati Mail for Cleveland Mou-oeve with Night
Express Toledo AMI Chicago and Sandusky with the
steamer Bay City for Detroit and Chicago.
J. r. ROBINSON, Supt.
SanluskY, Aug. {, 1855. sep1S-tf
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We are requested to state that gcneraImcet-
ing of the members of the different Lodges of
will be held tonight, in the Hall
over the POst-0tficc. The meeting, we learn,
Is preparatory to an organization under the char
ter recently granted by the General Assembly,
incorporating the Odd Fellows Hall Association
ct this city. As this is a subject of great inter
est to the Order, general attendance is desir:,-
be, that free expression of opinion may be
had, and the organization be intelligibly entered
int,
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-MAsoN1c DIRECTION.

ohio Lodge No. 1o1.-,Eeets at Nesonie Hail.
corner Market and Monroe streets and thfed Nom
day evenings of esst. month. g. W. stsurs, W. NJ +: "
Bd.sett, Secretary.
wheeling leo sc Ne. a9s.-stsess as above on
the st third Saturday evenings of each month J. H.
WILLIAMS, W. NJ; S. E. Peorson, Secretary.
wheeling Union Chapter Ne. 19.-Mscts is
above on the second Monday evening of each month W c.
Storr, II. p; !. A. Clarke, Secretary.
Wheeling Encampment Ne. 1.-Neets as
above the our NonIay evening of each month. WI
Barre G. G, 4. LoEtag, Recorder.
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nAMAGES REcnvEREn

NEw YoRH, March Mr.. Barclay, British
Consol, has paid $1,000 to Capt, Bronlow, of the
British bark Louisiana, which esselwas engaged
to convey three hundred recruits from New York
to Halifax; but in consequence of the arrest of
parties engaged in recruiting, the expedition
was abandoned, and the above amount was fixed
by the arbitrator rs damages
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Improved A1ttncial Teeth.

R J. ALLEN, late Professor in the ohe College OF Den
~ tAl surgery, invites attention 10 hS highly improved
method Of constructing Artctal Dehtures which combine
the following advantages;
l. There are no seams crevees for the Judgment
to vlate the saliva or infect the breath, not the
slightest moisture get brWren the teeth and Plate.
= An Artificial Cam, which Grin aud indeSructbe
base which Untes them other aud ht plate upon
which they oct Ih InFAEts TO the teeth that
thr natural organs.
s. Great strength obtained by thus uniting the teeth
and plate, and ordinary force Of mAstieAtnG, eau
break them from their base.
l. clear and distinct articulation OF speech restored
TimpOrtaEt change effected y having the inside OF the
teeth and gum of natural orm To this form the tongues
readily adapted This perfect adaptation Of ths tongue to
ing singing often observed in persons wearing aTta
cal teeth.
s. The natural form expression Of the mouth and face
can be restored In cases where they have become suNkvn
This is done BY Of additional attachments to the
formed to bring out the sunkrn portions aad sustain them
In their proper position They covered with the above
denture, and when rightly formed cannot be detected by tho
closest observer This method Of restoring the eheeEs TO
sion of the mouth adlp has been well having been
made special feature in the authors practice for several
years past variety Of Photographic and DagueETrOpe
Eenesses which have been taken OF persons Without this
Improvement and also with it, be At his Office show
ing the sss IN which 70 The
ed upon this principle which the public invited 10 call
and examine together with other specimens Of his york. not
requiring the above attachments.
The plates usually employed for this work patlna,
the purity Of which prevents the slightest arniSh
pleasant taste In the mouth In short this sysen embraces
many and important features which readily RppT
cated by those wearing artificial dentures upon this Princi
pic With reference TO the utility OF this method numerous
testimonials can be given from eminent Dentists IN the Tar
parts Of the CnOn aud wearing the work IN this
and other cities.
DR.. has arrangements by which he Is enabled to
serve persons from distance, Immediately arrival
]. ALLEN, No. 80 Bond street,
p sPersOns desiring any further information in refer.
with uamthlctE OF
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FARMERS of Page, Shenandoah, Frederick,
Clark, Warren, Jefferson and IIamshire, Va,
are exerting themselves to establish an Agricul-
mral Fair at Winchester. 1t is proposed to
hold cattle show at that town in the fall, at
such time as will not interfere with the State
Fair. Winchester is the centre of an uncom-
mon fine agricultural country, and ought TO be
the locality of successful fair.