Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-01-30
CLIPPINGS AND scsrsBllNes.

VBusy-our citizens, filing their ice houses.
IL Jersey Shore and Muncy are applying foi
Rooms in the river at their places respectively.
EF'Indicated--the thermometer. at Montpelier
VI, on Monday a-week, forty degrees below zero
Pretty cool. that.
sR-Has sailed-the o. States steamer Brook
iynfrom Norfolk, with two companies of troops te
re-enforce Fort Piekens at Pensacola
70 FDenies the statement-the New York World
that there are much greater number than usual
of persons in that city out of employment.
iBAn officer OF Fort Sumter called, the other
day and subscribed for the Charleston Mercury, to
be mailed to the Fort for the nert three months.
- Arrested man without hands, at Wheel
ing Virginia, charged with stealing horses in the
State ofPennsylvania and selling them in thai city
II Mr.. Case of Indiana, of the Committee on
Territories, will report bill to Congress appro-
pratng 100000 for the relief of the sufferers in
Kansas.
S-Stated-that the Catawba Indians have of
fered their services to South Carolina militia
ry company. and Gov. Pickens has accepted them
Fit allies!
Published-by Harper's Weekly, portraits
of all the seeding South Carolina members OF
Congress They are not rs we'll executed as they
ought to be-
sB- -Announces--the Pittsburg Erextng Chron-
icle, the gratifying intelligence that all the prin-
'cipal rolling mills in that vicinity are in opera
tion and doing large business.
B-Dow. Jr., says that the reason m an was m ad e
after everything else was, if he had been created
first, he would have annoyed the Almighty with
endless suggestions of Improvement.
I-T The Governor of Georgia, at the head of zoe
State troops on the 2fth January. seized the Uni
ted States Arsenal at Augusta. The garrison was
graciously allowed to depart for the North.
EBA cave two thousand feet deep, has recent
ly been explored near San Domingo on the Tehu-
antepec route. 1t has at some time been inhabi-
ted, as several broken jars hare been found in it.
l1,. TT
sury 1t is said tn at defalcations have been dis
covered in several southern and western states and
that special agents have been disp he'd to inyes-
gate matters.
BrNo less than 30, 600 bales of cotton passed
through Worcester last week, toward Lowell and
Lawrence crowding the freight cars on the vari-
Gus railroads. All this cotton came from Mem
phls, Tennessee, by railroad.
-. e Still coming to light-defalcations among
"he hepemocratc officials, WI hose reign is fortunately
nearly at an end The latest detected is the Post
master at Milwaukee, who is defaulter to the a.
mount of four thousand dollars.
EYA train of ears the Virginia and Tennes-
see Railroed reached Lynchburg Virginia, On the
lVth, having been detained in the mountains tn rec
and half days in the snow which is repo rted to be
"V 10 4O inches deep in the vicinity of Shawsvile
.,E-Gen. Henningsen the notorious Pro-Slavery
ailnuster, who Is an Englishman by birth, is now
IN montgomery. Alabama, and The Nask of that
pace expresses the hope that he will have COM
Mission in the army of the Southern nfederacy.
~ 1t is said that the withdrawal of the seced-
1ng Senator's will be accepted on their resignation
ha tesff names stricken from the roll of the Sem
1his will prevent them from coming back to
'aim their seats in order to obstruct legislation.
q, In pursuit of knowledge under dificulties'-
e committee on Resolutions of the late Union
"1penng In our town.'-Clsarfeid Republican.
.looabiy the requisite knowledge could have
sh easily obtained had the astute' editor of the
bspp'ottean-the ~ Disunion organ in this place
O'eh on the aforesaid Committee.