Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-02-09

FEBRUARY 4, 1859.
S. B. Row, ESQ Dear Sir Pine county is
still in the field. Since my last, additional pc
titions have come in from the different coun-
ties from which it is 10 be taken; the bill has
been read in place, and is now in the hands of
the committee
l notice a deputation of removal men here,
supposed to be from the vicinity of Curwens-
willie. They have stated their case-at least
so l judge, by seeing them busy among the
members, and on inquiry learn the project
finds favor with some members in both Houses.
| have ascertained during the past week the
price of s.Iamming" member for words spo-
ken in debate--it is fine of $780, costs of
prosecution, and three months on bread and
water in a place where You can gaze upon
wiite-washed walls through a ten of diamonds
Such is the case of Donnavan, now immured
in one of the cells of the Harrisburg Jail. So
much for assault and battery in high life.
The Philadelphians cormorants. 1t
strikes me that they are asking for more legis-
lation than they can digest, or even swallow.
They want corporations with capitals OF such
whose present capital is nominally 62a cents
4 dime being bogus-feels the cold chills run
up his spinal column as he reads about their
thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds OF
! thonsands-miiiions' Fabulous, sirl-all gas
r-bonds-notes-dr ts-stocks-accep-
tances. and ali the other appicauces Of mod
ern financiers. Show me real million in new
md nd +oi-,
| lodgings one of the tall cedars of Lebanon
| county, or one of the everlasting pines OF
| Clearfeid. They want, too, acts of ineorpo-
| ration for any number of passenger railways.
and if all are granted, denizcn of Quakerdom
need walk nowhere, if he happens to have
such a thing five cent piece about him
Is there not possibility that this mania may
DE q sort of second morus multicauiiS, or Lake
Superior Copper stock operation, ending by a
biow-up higher than kite. Seme ten or
twelve companies are applying for the right to
/ build on the same route OF course each one
has its friends, and l anticipate lively debate
next week-a debate which will, however, be
of very little interest to those who reside in
the rural districts.
The Governor has signed the supplement 10
the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad. AS
| money is plenty everywhere, they will find no
| trouble in negotiating their bonds, so that
there is a certainty of that road being compile
ted. hear some whispering about the future
| prospects of the road leading to your place,
and shonld not be much surprised If If would
take an Unexpectedly fresh start early in the
Spring.
a supplement 10 the Laxawanna & Blooms
| burg Road has been passed, which enables that
company to continue its road from Rupert
Station along the North Branch TO Sunbury
This important link will make railroad facili-
ties complete along the Susquehanna.
The people of Blair county are having law
passed to preserve their trout. = similar, and
more stringent law should be passed to pre-
serve the deer of your county, as take it the
sspot-hunters" of>the cities do considerably in
the way of thinning them out every season.
The immense number of small, trifiiug bills
| brought up here TO clog legislation, possess so
little interest that do not feel like taking up
the room in your paper, mentioning them.
! The Cambria county case, you will notice,
| has been decided. Porter has lost his seat.
| and Proudfoot has been sworn in. The COM
mittee in their report say that Proudfoot has a
| majority of all the legal votes cast, but Proud
/ foot is honest enough to declare that he has
not such a majority. The majority he obtain
ed was by throwing out 100 legal votes in
| Washington township, which were not count
/ ed, because the election was Illegally held, =
and the ballot-box supposed to have been
stuffed on the most approved California prin-
ciple. Yours, SPECIAL.
| I*QUERY ?-If, as our correspondent saws
s'the election was illegally held,'' how could
| it be said that any OF the votes cast were ssle-
| gdl?' Rather Hibernianistic. that.-ED.1