Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-02-27
CLIPPINGS AND soalaaLlaes.

USpriDg -like--the weather
oyDisappearng fast-the snow.
DComing en- the rafting season.
nyJohn Nicolay, of Illinois, has been ap-
pointed private secretary during the presiden-
tlal term of Mr.. Lincoln.
nEA machine which will make 100 900
slate pencils day has been invented by a
Hartford, Ct., mechanic.
O-Value the friendship of him who stands
by you in the storm; swarIns Of insects will
surround you in the sunshine.
UThe Legislature OF Ohio has passed
bill prohibiting intermarriage or illicit inter-
course between persons of white and those Of
negro blood.
DrThe first State election win be held, in
New Hampshire on the 18th of March. in
Connecticut on the 1st of April, and in Rhode
Island on the Sd of April.
WPleasure like quicksilver, is bright and
shy. If we strive to grasp it, it still eludes
us, and still glitters. We perhaps seize it at
last, and find il rank poison.
ngEve did not know as much as her daugh-
ters of the present day. Had they been in her
place, inslead of being deceived by, they
would have deceived the devil.
TPeter Dexter Tiffany, one of the wealth
lest citizens of st. Louis committed suicide
on the 14th instant He was supposed to be
worth about million of dollars.
UAt Charleston, S. c.. white woman
named Hertzer, convicted of causing the des tn
of a slave by severe whipping, has been fined
$500, and imprisoned eighteen months.
UThe returns of the State election in Mis-
souri, for a Convention, shows that the State
has gone overwhe lningly for the Union candi-
dates. Not ten Secessionists are elected.
U-The family of Mr.. Bawlby, of the Len
Io,, hos hao
paper correspondent was cut off by the, Chi
nese, received 500, 900 indemnity for his loss.
O-New Hampshire will be the first to vote
for members of Congress under the Admins
tration of Mr.. Lincoln, the election taking
place there on Tuesday, the 18th of March
next.
GA duel was fought in Georgia., on the
Sth inst, between Edward Hart, editor of the
Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel, and gentleman
named Coleman, in which both parties were
killed.
DTMuch has been said about feats of
strength but it is an actual fact that few
days ago a man of but ordinary stature knock
ed down an elephant. The performer was an
auctioneer.
GyJoseph Veazie, of Providence, says he
is willing to subscribe $1,000, if nineteen 9th
ers will subscribe like sum, to make begin
ming in the experiment of raising cotton in
Central America.
G5~It is ascertained that ex-Secretary Floyd
sold nearly all the means OF transportation for
five companies of troops at Fort Randall, on
the Upper Missouri, to prevent their use
at this time by the government.
OgAbout ninety speeches have been deliv-
cred in the House at Washington on the cri-
sis, and nearly two thirds of them by the Re-
publicans. There are still on hand at least e.
nough to make the even hundred.
~Mr. Merryman Lathrop says shen he
came on the steamer to California; they kept
the chickens in the hatek way, the beef in the
bull works near the steerage, and when they
run cat of eggs the ship sslay too"
~A captain of rife company out West,
was guilty of an unheard of barbarity on one
very cold day, recently. He actually march
ed his men to the very brink of the canal, and
then coolly commanded them to sJal in.'
Oy-Old Fort Kearney, in Nebraska, was Ia
ken possession of on the night of the 18th, by
the secessionists, who mounted the Palmetto
flag. The Union men however, mustered I'M
mediately and retook the tort, tearing down
the secession flag and hosting the stars and
stripes.