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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-12-12
PROFESSIONAL q BUSINESS CARDS.

IL -. WOODS, Attorney at Law, Indiana Pa
IL. Professional business promptly attended to
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n o. CROUCH. PHYsIcrAs, CurwensvilIe Clear
IL. field county, Penn'a. May IA:
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w ALiEn BARRETT, Attorney at Law. Clear
o0o1P'e" oy Ho"' ". Barrett. sept5'60
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oHN Russell CO., Tanners and Curriers'.
= Pennville, Clearfeld Co Pa. Keep constan ntIy
on hand an excellent assortment of leather, which
they offer for sale at the fowestcash prices Hid.
of all kinds taken in exchange JuIyI5-5I
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TT BUcHER sWooPE, Attorney at Law. Clear
II. neid, IA: ofct in Graham's Row one door
east of the 'Raftsman S j ournaI' office Nov IN
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FINHOMAS j. & WILLIAM NJ MCCULLOUGH n.
y Attorneys at Law, ClearfeId. Pa Once on
Market street directly opposite Richard Messop- =
store Deeds and other legal instruments prepar-
ed with promptness and accuracy Feb. IS.
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II oBkRI J., WALLACE, Attorney at Law. fand
a district Attorney Clearfeld, Pa. Office in
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8. D. ROW. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

We print in onr paper to-day the most i'm
portant parts of President Buchanan's last an
nual message. True to the slave power, the
Old Public Functionaly tries to throw the
blame of the present agitated condition of the
country upon the North. In this connection,
he asserts that "the long ng-continued and intem-
perate interference of the N Northern people with
the question of slavery in the Southern States,
has at length produced its natural effects.''
Who does not know that this is false If
there had been any sintemperate interference
during the last eight years, at least, it would
only prove that Mr.. Buchanan and his Demo-
cratic predecessor were too weak to perform
their sworn duty. The secession movement,
however, is not the result Of such tsinterfe-
renee" as the President refers tot is the di-
rect offspring of the Reasonable dogmas that,
for the last quarter of a century. have been
propsgated by Southern Disunionists, and fed
and encouraged by doughfaces at the North.
There are other glaring misrepresentation in
she message, which the intelligent reader will
discern as readily as this one. Whilst the
President holds that no State has right to
secede, he says the Constitution confers upon
Congress no power to coerce her into submis
sion il she does withdraw from the Union; by
which he probably means that South Carolina
has no right to secede, but if she does, he has
no right to prevent her. Gen. Jackson took
altogether different view of the matter, and
soon put stop to the DIsuniun M movement in
his day. The President says it would be easy
to settle the slavery question forever, by SIM
ply letting the Slave States alone and permit
ting them to manage their domestic institu-
tions in their own way and yet, in the face Of
this, he proposes certain 'explanatory amend
ment,'' TO the Constitution, which would make
1T just what the South wants, a slavery expand.
ing instrument, and would also 60 far towards
justifying tie Presidents part in the Lecomp-
ton iniquty. That seems to be Mr.. Buchan-
ans idea of "letting the Slave States alone.''
A portion of his views on the Tariff, and the |
good word he says for the famishing people ia |
Kansas, are redeeming features in the mes
sage. But, as whole, it is unsatisfactory to |
all parties, unless the Secessi0nists can draw |
encouragement from 1t. This even, it would |
seem, depends upon contingency, for Wig |
fall, Of Texas, says the more he reads the |
message the less he comprehends It.
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YIN Ho1DEkOPER. Civil Engineer and Land
q Surveyor offers his professional services to the
citizens of Clearfeld county. All business en-
trusted to him viii be promptly and faithfully ex-
ecuted. He can be found at the banking house OF
Leonard, finney Co. Sept q, 1859.
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! *. NJ NoODS, tenders his professional servi-
IL to the citizens Of Cleareeid md vicin;tv
Residence on Second street, opposite the office OF
L. j. Grams. Esq Office, the same that was recent
ly occupied by Hon. r. Barrett, where he can
be found unless absenton professional business
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WILLIAM a. WALLACE, Attorney at Law,
Post Office. on Second street. Sent
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hk II. X. BRYANT, Luthersburg, Pa tenders
IL his professional services to the public in gen
erai. Luthersburg, October Is, 1859
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/ .. GRAMS, Attorney at Law and Real E.tste
IL. Agent Clearfeld, Pa. Office adjoining his
iesiuehce, on Second street. May Is.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

QUAuFIcAIoNs FOR Success AT THE BAR.
Can you live alone? Can you keep awav
from temptation in the midst of forced idle
ness, or can you create occupation for your
self? Can you live for years without the
daily solace of household affections Can
you bear up against trial and sorrow with
out aid or Sympathy Can you sit patiently
for years in court or chambers, and see young
er men passing your Can vou bear to see
inferior men succeed, when you, man of
talent, have never been afforded an opportu-
nifty :? Can you 60 on believing, until you
are grey-headed, "that there is a good time
coming, wait little longer ?" Can you do
all this without becoming intemperase, bitter,
soured, or misanthropical? Ifyou can do
all this, YOU may safely go to the bar, for
with such qualities you might conquer an
empire, Nevertheless, career at the bar
will try YOU in all these points; and a rare
man you will be indeed, if you pass through
the ordeal without some marks ofthe fire.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

awoke in tears. The gray light Of morning
struggled through the half-open shutter, the
door was ajar and merry faces were peeping
in. aa .... -..- .... .. .a'
swish you happy new year, mamma
"Wish you a HaRpy neo Year,"- "a happy
moo ear" ....
She returned the merry greeting most
heartily. 1t seemed to her as if she had
entered upon new existence. She had
found her way through the tl,icket in which
she had been entangled, and light was
now about her path. The Angel ocer the
Right ShoHlder whom she had seen in her
dream, would bind up in his golden book
her LIES work, ifit were but well done. He
required of her no great deeds, but faithful
ness and patience to the end of the race
which was set before her. Now she could
see plainly enough, that though it was right
and important for her to cultivate her own
mind and heart, it was equally right and
equally important, to meet and perform
faithfully all those little household cares and
duties ON which the comfort aud virtue of
her family depended for unto these things
the angels carefully looked--and these duties
and cares acquired dignity from tho strokes
ofthat golden pen--they could not be neg
lected without danger.
Sad thoughts and sadder misgiYings-un-
de ined warnings and ungratiicd longings
seemed 10 have taken their flight with the
Old Year, and twas with fresh resolution
and cheerful hope, and a happy heart, she
welcomed the Glad New Year. The Aagcl
ooer The Right Shoulder would go with her,
and ifshe were found faithful, would strength
en- and comfort her to its close.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

Miss Martiuaau is a good advocate of get
ting up carly in the morning. She says:
81 speak from experience here. For
thirty years my business has been in nv
study. The practice OF early rising was, |
am confident, the grand preservation of
health, tnoagh many years Of hard work
the hour gained D.ing given not to book or
pen, but to ACTIVITY. rose at six, summer
or winter, AMI <oaer cold batling) went out
ior a walk in all w.athers. | never re-
turned without ying glad that went. |
need Hos detad the pleasures Of the summer
morni2.rS IN wintare shera was either
fragment OF gipOOnS moon hanging over the
mountajn, or some star quivenn. in the riv-
er, o. icieles beginning 20 shine in the dawn,
or, at worst, some gleam on the water, which
| carried home in the shape OF refreshment.
brcakEastcd ut II and settled household
business and was at my work at 81, fortified
for seven hours continuous desk-work, with
ou, injury or fatigue"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24
a AiRcE.s.an Travellers i'm EiUrODe,

We are informed tht during the three
years o Mr.. Buchanan's administ Iation. the
Department Of State has issued about eight
cen thoussnd passports to citizens desiring
To travel in foreign parts. This number
does not represent the whole number of
travellers, because man takes only one pass
port for himself and family. We suppose
that 1t would be safe to say that at least
eight thousand people go annually from the
United States to Europe Most of them are
persons who have e-moncy in abundance. and
who expend it quite freely. 1t is difficult to
make an estimate of the average expenditure
of our travellers in Europe But if we call
it only two thousand dollars each, we con-
clude that the vast sum of sixteen millions Of
dollars passes yearly from US to the pockets
OF the Europe@ns. Some with whom We
have conversed think that three thousand
dollars would be a low estimate. That would
give MS as the aggregate twenty -four millions
of dollars. At any rate the sum is immense,
and quite surprising to one who has not
thought of the subject '.t
vi course we are not now speaking of
money expended for articles of merchandise
which are to be sold here again, but only of
that which is devoted to the expense of trav-
cling, sightseeing, books, gems, curiosities,
works of art, &c. When we speak of these s
acquisitions as unproductive, we do not use
the term in its highest and widest sense, be-
cause we hope that we do receive in culture,
in intellectual and moral enjoyment, good
return for the investment which we make
But our contributions to the purses of the
Europeans are really of a good deal of impor-
tance to them.-Proyidence Journal. 20.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

ESfRAGT.-The true gentleman is Gods
servant, the worlds master, and his own
man virtue is his business, study his recre-
aEon, contentment his rest, and happiness
MS reward God is his father, the church is
his mother, the saints his brethren, all that
need him his friends devotion is his chap.
lain, charity his chamberlain, sobrety his
butler, temperance his cook, hospitality his
houSekeeper, Providence his steward, charity
his treasurer, piety his mistress ofthe house,
and discretion his porter, to let in or out, as
most fit. This is his whole family, made
up of virtues, and he is the true master OF
the house. He is necessitated to take the
world on his way to heaven, but he walks
through it as fast as he { N, and all his bust
ness by the way is to mas Q himself and Others
happy. Take him in two words-a man
anda christian.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

RoDMaN's MONSTER CANNoN.-The mon
ster cannon designed by Major Rodman,
United States Army, and recently cast at
the Fort Pitt Works, Pi.tSburg, is now be-
ing bored. The gun weighs some forty eight
thousand pounds. 1t has bore OF fifteen
inches diameter and thirteen feet nine inches
in length. 1t has twenty-five inches of
solid metal at the breech, making its extreme
length fourteen and half feet. At the
breech, the outside diameter is four feet at
the muzzle, twenty-eight and nine tenth
inches. 1t willproiect a ball of four hundred
and twenty -one pounds distance of five or
six miles. No gun approaching it in size OF
weight has ever before been cast. The larg-
est English guns are made of iron slaves
banded together. Some brass pieces OF
greater length have been cast, but no gun OF
more than twelve inch bore.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

CHILDRENs THouGHTs.-The first time |
took my oldest boy to church, when he was
two and halfyeras, I managed with car
resses, frowns and candy, to keep him very
slll till the sermon was half done. By this
time his patience was exhausted, and he had
climbed to his feet and stood on the seat
looking at the preacher (his father,) quite
Intentionally. Then as if he had hit up on
certain relief for his troubles. pulled
THE chin to attract my attention, and exclaim.
ed in clear, distinct voice, =" .Kamma, make
Papa say Anaen." . a-. .rs~a
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

DrFFrcULrr.-Burke says: Difficulty is
a severe instructor, set over us by the su-
preme ordinance of a parental Guardian and
Legislator, who knows us better than we
know ourselves, and he loves us better too.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our
nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antag-
onist is onr helper. This amicable conflict
with difficulty obliges us to an intimate ac-
4uaintance with our subject, and compels us
to consider it in all its relations. 1t will not
suffer us to be superficial -..-..
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

a NOBLE SESTIMENT.-D Daniel Webster
penned this sentiment.
live work upon marble, it will perish; il
we work upon BRASS time effaces it; if we
rear temples, they viii crumble into dust;
but if we work on principles, with the Just
fear of God and our fellow men, we engrave
on thoseltablets something that will
brighten through all eternity. rrs
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

Tacticus once said that early marriages
make us immortal. They are the soul and
ehiefprop Of an Empire. That man who
resolves to live without woman, and that wo-
man who resolves to live without man, are
enemies to the community in which they
dwell, injurious to themselves; destructive to
the world, apostles from nature, and rebels
against heaven and earth.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

An anxious parent who has just finished
whipping child three years old Now
my child, 1 hope you will be good, so
that will not have to whip you any
more"
Child-'If you have to whip any one, you
had better whip one of your size"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

Corns may be easily cured The most
torturlng corn can at once be extirpated as
follows; Take sharp knife, find the joint
OF the toe whereon the corn resides, insert the
knife in the articulation, pry off the toe and
throw it away; twill never return again
unless your dog brings it back to you in his
mouth. Patent applied for 70 @
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

Don't make up your mind about any
creature in belt ribbon and velvet rosetts
without arst.asking your sisters advice
Depend upon it, one woman can read an
other better in five minutes than ycu can in
live years
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

A country parson had singular peculiar
ity ofexpression, always using the phrase
II hatter myself" instead IL believe
HaTing occasion to exhort his congregation
Turing revival, ''he hattered himself that
more than one half of them would be dam
nedl"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

a man in passion is like Vesuvius in
an vomiting forth flames and red
hot stones, which descend immediately into
its own bosom, till chance directs it over the
crater, TO deal destruction to Others"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

We might pardon the ungrateful if they
would forget who are their enemies as speed
i'ly and completely as they often forget who
were their friends. sre -.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

Awoman IN Havana recently gave birth to
three children-two females and one male.
Thelatter has beard and ali of them full
setsof teeth. So it is said.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

A down east editor says he has seen the
continuance our lawyers use when they
swarm up with the subject" He says it is
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

A man Of taste has lind of property in
every beautiful thing he sees, and is often
more truly the possessor of picture or a
statue than the ostensible owner,
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

The FIRST WEDDNG.-Major Noah thus
pleasantly and philosohically discourses on
the first wedding. He says:
We like the short courtships, and in this
Adam acted like sensible man-he fell
asleep bachelor, and woke to find himself
a married man. Heappeared to have popped
the question almost immediately after meet
ing Miss Eve, and she without Irritation or
shyness gave him kiss herself. OF that
first kiss in the world we have had our own
thought, however, and sometimes, in a poeti-
cal mood, wished we were the man that did
lit. But the deed is done-the chance was
Adams and he improved it. We like the
notion of getting married in a garden. Ad-
ANS was private. No envious aunts and
grunting grandmothers. The birds of the
heavens were the MINISTRIES, and the glad sky
flung its light upon the scene. One thing
about the first wedding brings queer things
to Us in spite Of its scriptural truth. Adam
and his wife were rather young to marry
some two or three days old according to the
sagest elder; without experience, without
house, "a pot or kettle; nothing but love
and Eden.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

Nearly half million bushels Of grain are
on the way to oswego, New York, from the
upper lakes. E 'evs sfly'7S9
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

1t isn't because he's afraid that Mr.. Pryor
objected to the bowie-kniyes --oh, no!--it's
because they are SO, demnition vulgar to his
body. q
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

''Why did you NOT strike my dog with
the small end 81 you cane, when he attcmp-
ted to to biteg" Z.
Il would sir, had he come at me with his
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

The heart that is not touched by tear,
is not hunan-cultivate tenderness.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

NiGnr AIR.---In her notes on nursing,
Florence Nightingale SAYS, in regard TO the
common impression that night air is iniu.
Tions whit air can we breathe at night
hut night air? Tue choice is between pure
night air from without and foul night air
from within. Most people prefer the latter.
An unaccountabc choice. What VIII they
say, if it is proved to be true that fully one
half of all the disease we suffer from is oc-
casoncd by people sleeping with their win
dows shut ? An open window most nights
in the year can never hurt any one. This is
not to say that light is not necessary for re-
coycry. In great cities, night air is often
the hest and purcst air to be had in the
twenty-four hours. ! could better under
stand in towns, shutting the windows during
the day than during the night, for the sake
Of the sick. The absence of smoke. the quiet.
all tend to making night the best time for
airing the patient. One of our highest med
i'al authorities on consumption and climate,
has told me that the air in London is never
so good as after ten o'clock at night Al
ways air your room, then, from the outside
ar if possible. Windows are made to open,
doors are mldc to shut; truth which seems
extremely difficult Of apprehension. Every
room must be aired from without; every
passage from within. But the fewer passa-
gcs there are in 4 hospital the better.'
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24
This Life is not all SaducSS.

IHIs NE Is not al sadness ||-I-
Its days are not all gloom:
70 There are many hours of gladness
'Twixt the cradle and the tomb.
There is ne wave that rolleth
. On the bosom OF the lake, 2'" .1 3
But hath some white foam near 1t,
When it may chance to break,
aa.ar4
If we in our life-sorrows .-......
But lift our eyes to God, .....
He will mingle countless blessings
With the chast'ning of his rod. .-..
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

duty, and the knowledge of having done 50
was all the reward she asked. However. she
finally accepted the money ard said it should
go to educate her children.
The railroad company built her a new
house, gave her and her children a life pass
over the road, and ordered all trains to stop
and let her off at home when she wished -
But the employees needed no such orders :;
they can appreciate all such kindness-morc
than the directors themselves.
The old lady frequently visits my house
at Il, and she is at all times welcome
visitor at my fireside. Two of the children
are attending school at the same place.
So you may see that little kindness cost
me nothing and saved my life.--Eechaage.