Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09
s-B. ROW. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA, NOV. 8, 1889.
DARE THEY DO IT.!

UAhE OU
AS contemporary truly remarks, this busi-
ness of imputing to prominent Republicans
completely in Old Browns mad raid at Har-
per's Ferry has been carried quite too far to
be allowed TO drop where it is. If the charges
made against Messrs. Seward, Hale, Giddings
and others, OF having guilty knowledge of
Old Browns plot to incite slave inSurrec-
ton, thus involving them in treason against
the United States, be true, why don't those
who make them have the guilty parties indict-
ed, arrested and tried If the editors of the
Lecompton papers are honest in what they
say, and half as good, peace-loying, law
abiding, Union-saving citizens as they would
have US believe, how can they evade the re-
sponsibility of doing so? Gentlemen, We
want to see you ''come up TO the scratch in
this matter. Don't dodge behind Gov. Wise
and try to get up question of jurisdiction and
the duty of surrendering them, for, though
the act You charge on residents of New York,
Ohio or New Hampshire may not be treason
against Virginia, it will be treason against the
United States, aud you can indict them in
Washington City or wherever you SEE fit, and
where within our National limits. Dare you
then, indict them, or some Of them, and have
your charges sifted to the bottom ? You must
either do it, and prove your allegations true, or
stand before the world as pack of base and
malignant liars This is the position you are
in. No dodgIng now. The eyes of the coun
try are upon you. The people waiting to
Xhath IN wi to no
LATE FROM EURoPE.-The steamer Ameri-
ca, which arrived on the 4th. brought intelli-
gence up to the 23d Oct. The departure of
the mammoth steamer Great Eastern for this
country has been postponed indefinitely. 1t
is now said that the only Powers to be repre-
sented in the Congress, beside the great ones,
will be Piedmont, and the Pope and Naples,
under certain conditions. The Congress will
probably be held in Brussels. The Prince
Napoleon, after visiting various English cities,
left in his steamer for parts unknown. The
projected FrenchChina expedition would not
leave till the end of the year. 1t will number
$4,000 men. 1t is said that the French troops
in Cochin China are worn out with fatigue and
disease. They were preparing to abandon
Tourain. 1t was thought necessary that the
Duchies should be occupied by the French to
prevent civil war breaking out. The Peace
Treaty made at Zurich appears to be merely
amplificati on of the Villafranca agreement.
1t seems to be unsatisfactory was the ba-
sis of the cessation of hostilities. Spain is
much dissatisfied with the terms offered by
Morocco, and evinces a disposition to declare
war. Indeed, it is thought that war is immi-
nent. The Sandman Government has issued
decree for loan of 100000, coo francs.
Piedmont is greatly dissatisfied with the Zu-
rich Treaty. The Council of Milan has voted
100, ,0C0 francs toward Garibaldi's subscription
for the purchase of muskets. a revolution in
Palermo is reported, by which 80 rebels were
killed. This lacks confirmation, however.
Two hundred and three lives were lost by the
wreck of a vessel, on the Turkish coast, with
Circassan emigrants on board. Flour is dull.