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The Washington union., 1857-10-03
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Caa S4ruey From the printed directions IN regard 10
the operations of the survey for the years 1851 and
1883 It appears that extensive preparations have been
made for the continuance Of the great work This in
cludes primary and main triangulaons, and astronom
cal and magnetic observations and Reconnaissance With.
in the scope of operations are the State OF Maine east
ward and northward the Chesapeake; North Carolina;
the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; Florida Keys
Mississippi sound Atchafaaya bay and approaches the
coast of Texas the coast of California the coast Of Ore
gon and Washington Territories; and the tranguaton
for connecting the islands of Santa Barbara channel with
the coast
Also TO be continued the collection Of data for ascer
tanning the difference Of longitude between wedeter
mined European observatories and points upon coast
the observations for differences of longitude by the electro
magnetic telegraph; the investigation for longtudes and
the combinations of the chronometer expedition for diff
ference of longitude between Cambridge and Liverpool
Secondary and other triangulatons and observations
are connected with the aforementioned work and in,
clude Typographical and photographic operations.
The drawing of charts and sketches is to be continued
The number of them is nearly sixty Upward of one
hundred charts and sketches will be- or now are In the
hands of the engravers
In connexion with the Office are electrotyping and
printing operations requiring, in all of its departments,
gentlemen of profound science artists, mechanics clerks,
and various persons III supoiuiia'c e"P"NieiS''
Appointnent Mr. George X Harper, of Staunton, Vr.
gnia was yesterday commissioned by the Secretary of
the Treasury frst-cass clerk in the ofhco OF the
Sixth Auditor. Salary 1900 year
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
Recoray OF Stolen Land Warrants. The Commissioner
of the General Land Office yesterday morning received
the following telegraph from Hastings Minnesota dated
LIST instant from which it will be that nearly all
the land warrants recently stolen from the registers Office
at Faribault covering 5000 acres of and have
been recovered:
The robber of the Faribanlt land Office is under
rest all but five of the warrants recovered
81 CAVERLY HALE,
Especial Detection Police
The Speculaons of Stock Companies Inquiries having
been made of the General Land Office as to whether
number of persons forming themselves into ontstock
association have the benefit of the graduation oct by
going out and becoming actual settlers public lands
not for their individual benefit but for the benefit Of
their common interest--an in the negative
received
The graduation act intended for the benefit of
tual settlers and cultvao of the soil only not for spec
uators and the rights given by it personal only and
because of actual settlement and cultivation already made
or contemplated No entry cam therefore, be made
der said for the benefit of any other person persons
than the party making the same to whom the patent
issued in every instance.
The Washington union., 1857-10-03

We learn with great pleasure that meeting has
been called by Mrs. Pendleton and other ladies, of
Berkeley county Virginia, to carry out the sugges-
ton Of Mrs. Magruder, of this city, that the women
Of America raise fund for the support of the widow
and daughter Of the late Captain Horndon.
The Washington union., 1857-10-03
UNION AND HARMONY IN NEW YORK

We copy with great pleasure the following from
the New York Daily News
We are as pleased to announce our
readers will be to learn that final positive harmonious
union has at last been effected in democratic commit
tees The war that has been waged with much vigor
and no little bitterness of feeling between the Cooper and
Small organizations is at end, the contest is closed
and peace is declared never hope TO be again dis
turbed, at least until there is some principle involved
which will make contest for position worthy of strug
gle.
The difficulties in the party have been cause Of
deep regret not only to the democracy of the city, but Of
the State and Union Holding here the party has,
such position Of commanding influence standing at the
last presidential election the breakwater against which
the threatening of sectionalism, abolitonsm,
black republicanism dashed their mad strength in van
rolling back the mighty hosts of discord and proclaim
ing Thus far shalt thou come and further it could be
naught but of the deepest to every lover
of the Union and Of its destiny to look upon
the scenes of disorder dsorganization and selfish
tention which prevailed"
The Washington union., 1857-10-03

Things coming right financially, slow but sure
The New York and Boston banks refuse TO yield to the
storm of panic and riding safely at their anchors So
long this is the case, there be suspension Of sc
Gle payments in New England, unless from local causes
which readers New Haven at least, s
happily exempt from.---Nep Hrpca Reqiaer
The Washington union., 1857-10-03
FOOD For REELECTION.

The Rochester New York; Union closes able
article on the present financial troubles as follows
''By our money market column to-day it appears a
firm has failed which has millions of dollars in good
sets than its liabilities. The banks are not well
off as this firm But still their position is gazetted
markably strong while the firm is gazeted failed -
The Washington union., 1857-10-03
WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY MORNING. OCT. 3. 1857.

ss-Mr An f. JAMES, Of Phadelpha general travelling
agent assisted by JAMES DKEsa ColIISs HAsrr
W. WILEY yoas pExsse, A. EvAss, g. JAxE, AaxAS, p
A. DAyIs, r. r. RoBkRDs.
nSM w. JkAK Harrison street. Cincinnati, Ohio Is
general collecting agent States Texas
H. j. THosAs wuAx H. TnoxAs, THos NJ JAMES CmDs,
GEoaaE MoRRIs Receipts good.
ss-Mr GRo authorized collect moneys the
subscriptions and advertisements the District Of
Columbia
The Washington union., 1857-10-03
BLACK REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION IN
NEW YORK

NEW IOhh.
The blackrepnblcans have just held State con-
vention and nominated various candidates for State
Offices The territorial affairs of Kansas formed the
great element of action. 1t clamorousy assert
ed that there was danger that the people in Kansas
would fail in framing their constitution, to forbid
slavery, and thereupon remedy was proposed.
The convention solemnly assured the public that
slavery could be excluded in Kansas by eectng black
republicans to perform certain official duties in New
York under her constitution and laws. How public
functionares in that State control events in Kan
sas not explained. But the convention declared
that such consequence would follow, and the con-
ding and obedient rank and file required to be-
eve and act accordingly. The leaders Of that party
dare not attempt to explain, or to address the intel
ligence and judgment of the people. Should they
do so, they know full well that demagogism would
have fall, because the sober judgment of the peo
ple would see through, and condemn their imposi-
tions If asked to explain how eecting blackTepub-
lcans to local Offices in New York can control and
shape events in Kansas they cannot tell, but they
would resort to the old game of harsh epithets and
denunciation of their political adversaries and to
whatever they think will best create excitement
and divert attention from the imposition practsed
They deal neither in facts nor rational arguments
Corner them in one falsehood, they readily invent
another equally appalling. Destroy their arguments
by the force Of reason, they fly to some new point
equally indefensible The question is will the
people of the Empire State submit to be cheated
into the support of men for offices in it with the
vain hope that when elected they will control the
destnes of Kansas will they give their votes to
those democrats who are honest, capable and faith
full to the constitution and in every way worthy of
being elevated to the positions for which they have
been nominated? If we have not overrated the in
telligence of the electors of New York. they cannot
fail to repudiate the backrepublican ticket and give
manful support to that nominated by the democracy
The Washington union., 1857-10-03

The barque Kershaw, of Chicago and last from that
port has lately reached Liverpool after passage OF
twenty days from Quebec This Is the second vessel
sent from Chicago to Liverpool and shc commanded
by Capt Pierce, who successfully nayigated the first one
the Dean Richmond
The Washington union., 1857-10-03

The charter OF the now Bank of Ohio with branches
is 10 be voted on on the second Tuesday Of this month
and If adopted viii make independent banks illegal
The Washington union., 1857-10-03
WHAT NEXT?


Mr.. David Wimot, the black-republican candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania is of opinion that "the
very considerable reduction made in the tariff at the
last session of Congress- is one of the principal
causes of the present financial crisis in Philadelphia
He will find no serious difficulty in persuading the
officers of the suspended" banks to adopt this
opinion.
We have kindly been permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract from letter just received by gen
tleman of this city from a correspondent whose
sources of information are such to give great
weight to his statements
81 fully agree with you about the southern being
the only available route at all of the year Much
the desert between the Colorado river and Caa creek
below the level of the river and is frequently watered
by the overflow The mountains to the west full of
fine streams, that at triAing expense sufficient
number of arcsian wells be made to supply water
whenever needed. What is called 'New riur 1 have
followed somo seventy miles, and have doubt but that
by boring its vicinity water could be made TO flow
purposes If not for irrigation With water the soil is
rich as the delta of the Nile Should capitalists be in
duced to make The experiment have doubt but that
they would be rewarded with fine crops of sugar and
cotton.
~ have visited large fields of melons, pumpkins
corn and beans cultivated by the Indians forty miles
north Of the present wagon-road from Alamo Mucho to
'Vaecitas,
The Washington union., 1857-10-03

share with him in the infamy of misrepresenta-
tion, but not in pitating by the Wholesale from
a British work the very words Of falsehood. He
has outdone these journals, not of which
has copied the opinion Of the court, while all of
them have professed to quote from it what it does
not contain. They dare not let their readers know
the TRUTH and therefore, they misrepresent what it
contains instead of copying it that they can see
for themselves what was actually said. Not one of
them truly and fairly quotes from the opinion 1t is
to be regretted that person of the standing of Mr.
Mann should allow himself to be deceived and mis-
led by the journals and orators of his party, and es-
pecially that he should resort to professed aboli-
ton article for false statement of what the court
held. This continued misrepresentation of the opin-
ions of the court WILL in the end prove fatal to those
engaged in it. Truth, though slow, is sure and will
finally triumph, and PROSTATE those who have been
engaged in misrepresenting her. Mr.. Mann has a
right to be an abolitonist, and engaged in the hui
initiating employment of disseminating their publ
cations but he has none to misrepresent the action
of our Judicial tribunals, the President, or anybody
else. If he wishes to possess his party of the de-
csion of the court or the letter of the President,
let him cause them to be published and circulated
among them and leave the readers to form their
conclusions from what was actually said, in
stead of making or copying studied misrep-
reservations of both, as he did in his speech.
OVER SIX THOUSAND RECORDED TRAITORS
The Boston Liberator publishes call for meet
ing at Cleveland Ohio for the 29th and 29th Octo-
ber to take into consideration "the practcability,
probability, and expediency Of separation of the
free and slave States, and to take such other
ures as the condition of the times may require "
That paper displays long list of names from fifteen
States and Territory Itsates that there are o33
signers to the petition, and that with more syste-
matte effort ten times that number60, ,330-of names
might have been obtained. If this be true we have
over sixty thousand traitors among us, who are
ready to destroy the labors Of our revolutionary
fathers and dash to earth all hopes of selfgovern-
ment among mankind. Ours is the only government
on earth where the true voice Of the people is heard
and respected, and the effort now is to destroy it
because in some of the States they sustain in their
midst institutions which are not viewed with favor
in others. Institutions framed by Washington,
Adams Franklin, Hamilton, Carroll, Madison, and
others not good enough for these perfectonists
who have as yet done nothing to indicate wisdom,
purity, or special benevolence. We hope all the
names to this roll of traitors will be published, SO
that they may be known and treated as among the
Arnolds of the day, ready to sacrifice their country
and her institutions to aid her enemies, Banks Will
mot, & Co., to attain political power, who will then
be expected to give them few crumbs from their
expected abundance
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-18

UDuring rafting, it is likely that we will
miss issuing the Journal one week.
~Congress, on adjourning, appropriated
$1,000 to renew the furniture in the Execu-
tive mansion; also S1l 900 for the repair of
tho public grounds in Washington.
Uy-An idea of the amount of letter writing
in the United States may be inferred by the
number OF postage stamps sold, which, during
the last year was one hundred and fifty mil
lions.
uy-The Northern Independent, progressive
Methodist paper, started to represent the
more decided anti-slavery sentiment of that
body has In six months attained circulation
of 10000. The principal editor is the Rev.
William Hosmer.
~Holders of Lancaster Bank notes, says
the Lancaster Examiner, should understand
that if they demand payment at the bank, and
have an endorsement to that effect made by
the cashier, the notes SO presented will bear
six per cent interest until paid-or until final
dividend is made of the assets. The notes, it
will be understood, will bear interest only from
she time payment is demanded and those on
which no demand is made, will of course not
bear interest.
DThe New York Tribune says, that the
Pope has made to us another consignment OF
aportion of his refractory subjects Fifteen
men, released from prison and sent to this
country at the expense of the Papal treasury
have just arrived. These exiles VIII iorth~ith
be forwarded to Scranton, Pa, to join their
compatriots, where employment will be given
rhn1 hair IRON
fayed by the American Industrial Asso-
citation.
U The question of pay and allowances to
Lieut.: Gen. Scott was fortunately settled dur
ing the closing hours OF the late session oi
congress. The arIearages due the veteran, IL
Is understood, will amount to about thirty-two
thousand four hundred dollars, and his ANIMAL
pay ana emoluments will hereafter be fifteen
thouSand dollars. grateful nation, we are
sure, says the National Infelligencer, will cor
oiaiiy approve this proceeding, and deem it far
lessh measure Of liberality than OF justice.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-18

HULICH BENNER, would respectfully
VI inform the citizens of Clearfeld, and public
generally that they have entered into co-partner-
ship in the
CABINET MAKING BUSINESS,
and keep constantly hands, and manufacture
to order, at the lowest prices. every variety of
furniture, consisting of
Dining, Breakfast, aud Centre Tables, Se,ring
Writing, and Wash-Stands, Mahogany, and
Common Bed-sieads;
Mahogony and Cane -bottomed Chairs, Bureaus,
Sofas Lounges, &C., &c
Collins made and funerals attended the short
est notice, with neat hearse. and appropriate
aceompanyments
House Painting done on the shortest notice.
Shop and Ware-rooms, same formerly occupi
ed by John Gulich NEARLY opposite the jew Store,
Clearfeld Pa JOHN GULICH,
May 22, '55.-1y. DANIEL BENNER.
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This useful book Is estined, If we can form an
opinion from the Notices of the Press, to have an
unprecedented circulation in every section of our
widespread continent. and to form distinct era
in the sale of our works. 1t viii, doubt, IN a
few years become The Family Bible Of the Annex
lean People
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lowed 10 all persons who may be pleased to pro-
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Gin addition to the Pictorial BI6le, we publish
large number of illustrated Family Works very
popular, and of such a high moral aud unexcer-
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ly engage in their circulation, they will confer
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WEST BRANCH FIRE INSURANCE COM

WEST BRANCH FIRE INSURANCE COM
w PANY, LOCK HAVEN, CLINTON CO., Pa.
CAPITAL, $500, 900
Insures Detached Buildings Stores, Merchandise
and other buildings and their contents.
DIRECTORS:
Hon. John ]. Pearce, Hon. G.. G. Harvey,
John B. Hall, L. L. Abrams,
Charles A. Mayer, d. X. Jackman,
Charles Crist, w. White,
Peter Dickcnson, Thomas Kitchen.
Hon. G. G. HARVEY, PREsT.
Thos. Kitchen, Sec'y. T. T. Abrams, Vice Pres't
The undersigned having been appointed
gent by this company, gives notice that he will
insure Buildings of every description, Goods, &c,
on the most reasonable terms. This company is
in prosperous condition, and meets all demands
promptly. The capital stock Of the company is
100000 with privilege of increasing to 100000.
A. NJ. M0NTELIUS.
Curwensville, Pa; Aug. 20, 1S56-6mp
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produces nausea other disagreeable effects,
and gives almost immediute relief In this ever
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should be without this CERTAIN CURE.
Itwould be easy to follow in the wake of the ven-
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got up for the occasion, of miraculous cures but
such adventitious aid is necessary in introducing
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never failing success, in accomplishing all prornis
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which it is a remedy Pr1ee 373 Cents per Bottle
Prepared exclusively by
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March a, 1S57.-tf Clearfeld, Pa.
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Having hand very large stock Of 'ie'c and raj
uabie books and our motto Is Large sales and
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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-18

According to report made to the Board of
Revenue Commissioners at Harrisburg, Clear
field county is the fourth in the State in re-
spect to the number of acres within her boun-
daries, having 100000 Those having a larger
number of acres are: Luzerne S96, 900, Nc
Kean 5000 and Bradford Isl 900. The val
uation agreed upon by the Board, fixes the
amount of property in this county subject to
taxation at 81 l,432,615.
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A UDIToR's NoTICE.-The undersigned

A UDITOR'S NOTICE.-The undersigned
"A Auditor appointed by the Court of Common
Pleas of Clearield county to distribute the pro-
eeeds of the sale of the store of r. NJ. Stevenson
1855. pro rata, among the Philadelphia creditors
of r. NJ. Stevenson 4 Co." will attend for that
nurpose at the Office of u. A. Frank. Esq, in the
boroueh of Clearfeld, on Saturday the 2fst March
inst. when all those interested can present their
claims E. s. DUNDY,
n,orIi Auditor.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-18

The WEATHER, during the last few days, has
moderated considerably, and the snow, under
the warm rays of the midday sun, has to great
extent disappeared. The dams in the river
were still covered with ice on yesterday, but
the action of the water wearing it away
rapidly. With the present stage of water, it
will doubtless require some rain to make a
good rafting flood.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-18
CLEARFIELD COUNTY.

1ll persons in Clearfield comfy favorable to
the above call, and who sincerely opposed
to Locofocoism, are requested TO meet in
County Convention in the Borough of Clear
field, on Saturday the 21st day of March, at 2
O'Clock, p. m. to select one Senatorial and one
Representative Delegate TO the above Conven-
tion, and to transact some other business of
importance. Each Borough and Township are
requested to send three or more delegates.
March IL. MANY.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-18

We understand that the Presbyterians of
Clearfeld and Curwensville have finally deter
mined upon giving Rev. James II. Baird, for
merly of Toledo, Ohio, but more recently OF
Philadelphia, call as pastor for the congre-
cations at the places named.