Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-05-13
Correspondence of the ''Raftsman's Journal F."
U,pptspupG Nav 9th. 1851.

Correspondence of the ''Raftsman's Journal"
HARRISBURG, May 9th, 1851.
DEAR JOURNAL I'll wrote you some time ago
that the House had passed the appropriation
bill, by which the sum of S330,000 were ap-
propriated to common schools. In the Sen
ate, Mr.. Brown, of Philadelphia county, moved
to amend by reducing this sum to S250,000,
and Mr. Brewer, another Locofoco, moved to
reduce it to S225, 900. How these Locos hate
the light. Mr.. Brown is aiming to be Cover
nor, and he thinks the way to accomplish his
purpose is to be as penurious as possible, and
especially towards the common schools. His
motion did not carry, however, but the section
passed appropriating S280,000 to common
schools This is $4,000 more than last year.
In order TO carry favor with tlrcir Fusion Cath
olic constituents, they must oppose the grant
of aid to the common school fund. While the
State is advancing in wealth and population,
Brewer was for advancing .bdckrdrds, and ma
king the appropriation less than last year.
The bill guaranteeing the security of S3,-
10000 to the Sunbury and Eric Railroad,
passed the House by a small majority, 40 to
AZ, on the 1st inst, and went to the Senate.
IL Has Hpb ycb uctu III luaI DOuy
What its fate may be there, I cannot say.
The Senate have had under discussion this
week, the bill for the sale of the Main Line,
and has passed it with few amendments to the
third reading. Its enemies have opposed it
at every stage OF its progress.
The Senate has passed the bill to incorpo-
rate the Bells Mills and Fallen Timber Turn
,,ii,o and pI,rL Poad Comnary and ~ hoe baar
signed by the Governor, and become a law.
The people along Clearfeld Creek win now
have another good road across the mountains
to the railroad.
The frauds acted upon the people Of this
Commonwealth by Insurance companies, cs-
pecially by companies located out of the State,
have become so frequent that the Senate has
passed a bill to appoint commissioners to in
quire into the condition of Insurance compa-
nies. This is a good bill. There is great
deal of wicked speculation in these compa-
MES With many, the great matter is to get
Offices, and TO get well paid for their services,
and much fraud is practised by the companies.
The bill to release Gen. Small from the ty-
ranous judicial decision of n Lncofoco Judge,
for contempt Of Court, has passed both houses,
and Gen. Small is released from prison.
You are aware that most astounding frauds
were practised in the districts of Philadelphia
in the election of last fall. VIM. b. Mann con-
tested the office for District Attorney, with
the Democratic candidate, who was declared
to be elected. The investigation has revealed
some of the most vllanous frauds ever prac-
ticed, but the investigation is not ended. The
Legislature, probably from peculiar sympathy
for darkness on some things that wont bear the
light, passed an act requiring the appointment
of second District Attorney by the Court !;
and the Court have appointed Mr.. Mann, who
was now an applicant. This is all wrong
wrong in the Legislature to pass the act, inter
fering with the legal investigation of fraud
wrong in the Court to appoint Mann, who is
the contestant, thus removing the reason why
he should continue to centcst and wrong in
Mann to accept. He should have prosecuted
his just claims, if he had any, to the end.
There appears to be some difficulty in the
cabinet of Buchanan at Washington, in rcla-
tion to Kansas affairs. 1 judge they are be-
coming somewhat alarmed at the determined
| free spirit manifested by those sons of liberty.
| The cabinet spent a day recently on the sub
ject of Kansas affairs, Gov. Walker being
present.
The probability is the President will soon
die. The Washington epidemic is not con
fined to those who put up at the National Ho-
| tel, but others, who neither eat nor drank
there, have had the same. 1t should be called
the oflice-seeker's disease. My impression is,
that it was occasioned by the rot-gut whiskey
they drank there.
M'Kim is found guilty of murder in the first
degree, and sentenced to be hung.
Yours truly, CUJUs.