Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-03-13
CLIPPIEGs AND sGRIBBLIEG5

| DEThe aim Of the South-to keep all the
kernals, and throw us the Shells.
! TLittle tho't of--the ashes OF smoked
/ cigar. Those OF man, scarcely more.
vStated--that FIVE printers occupy the
| pulpits in as many churches in Portsmouth
/ Virginia.
| W-Visionary-the mind of the editor who
says that Lincoln sis following in the footsteps
OF Buchanan
/ 10 Mrs. Partington says there isn't enough
of the spirits of seventy six left in the South
to fill fluid lamp.
| EFact-how immensely would cur con-
versation be abridged, if all mankind would
| only speak the truth.
vOfered-large quantities of apples, of
the finest qualities, in the Erie market, at from
| 10 to 20 cents per bushel
| 0gIn a mill at Saxonville, Mass, they work
and worship at the same time. Prayers and
! spindles are going at once.
GA Virginia paper speaks Of the chaste
oratory of fSecretarv Floyd. II he isn't chaste
as nsorator, he oaght to be chased as a thief.
! -Presumed-in army circles, that Col. E..
V. Sumner will be promoted to the commits
! sion dishonored and abandoned by General
| Twiggs. --f.
| "Estimated-the number of persons Kill
led and wounded in Texas by the Indians dur
|
seventy.
| VFhe California Legislature, by vote of
Al 10 81, have expunged the resolutions of cen
sure formerly passed against the late Senator
| Broderick.
| IThe editor of the 'sSuRny South boasts
of a 'svisit from the Devil" If Is supposed
| that he'll return the ssyist'' and make pret-
ty long stay.
WA dandy observed that he had put plate
| of brass Oh his boots to keep him upright
'sWell balanced by jing,' said Dutchman !;
| ''braSs at both ends.''
| "Discovcrcd-lately, in Habersham co.,
Ga, that a woman, held in slavery for twenty
| years, is white, having been kidnapped when
Il child from Baltimore, Md.
| TReported-th some officers of the T.
nted States Army discoTcrea ell spring IN
Mendocino county, California, which rendered
thirty gallons OF oil per day.
UThey have taken Maj. Anderson and have
him exhibition In Charleston. He was ia
ken by Photographic artist. That Is the on
ly way they will ever take him.
Qy~IIas made-some industrious young lady
in Central New Y ork, an elaborate wrought
Thibet dressing gown as a gift to Mr. Lincoln.
1t contains l, 1919 yards of stitching. s..
UStated-that a battalion of liremen from
New Orleans will visit the principal cities ct
the North and West during the coming sea
son. These s.furriners' will be vel!
GgA member of the Virginia Convention
telegraphed to n Norfolk-s.Tell your people all
is wel and that the Fourth of July will be
celebrated under the stars and stripes"
~A yankee Dragging of having killed
panther whose tail was three feet long, Brown
replied that the panther died seasonaby rs the
tail" WAS long enough not to be continued
ly@The Sacramento Union credits the report
that 500 or 800 men are enrolled in San Fran
cisco as knights of the Golden Circle, whose
object is to favor establishing Pacific Re-
public.
WSome queer fellow who has tried 'em,
says s:There arc two sorts of wine in Slut
gard; to drink one is like swallowing an ang-
ry cat; the other like pulling the animal back
again by the tall
O5-It has long been said that ''Brittannia
rules the waveS,' but SINCE the fort and arse
nal capturing business has tiourished so, down
South, we must surely agree that South Caro-
lima is ''First ON the Seize"
GgProposed--in Boston, to erect a statue
TO Major Anderson, and that it shall be done
with the cent coin of the country, contributed
by the people wherever there is any love u
country or loyalty TO our Institutions.
0yOccUrrcd-a somewhat novel wedding,
at the Church of the Holy Trinity, in Brook
lyn, last week. Ten married sisters appeared
with their ten huS bands, and small army OF |
children, to celebrate the marriage OF the G.
leventh sister. -
Dy~The ST. Louis Evening News learns by
private letters, that the stars and stripes are :
flying above nearly every country store and |
hotel in the interior of that State, thus indca-
ting the devotion OF the NiSsourian'S 10 their |
country glorious banner.
-Circulating-bank bills, purporting to |
be of the Beverly Bank, y. j.. There is no
such bank, so beware of them. a charter for
such bank exists, bul the laws of the State
have not been complied with, the issue Of bills
is illegal and irresponsible.
GCy-Vhe New Y orl Tmes' Washington cor
respondent says Senator Andrew Johnson, of
Tennessee, endorses Mr.. Lincoln inaugural
without qualification, and that both Mr.. Crit
tenden and Mr. johnson 'sentcrtain great hopes
for the future OF the county,
Cy-.sWe must be unaninous," said Han
cock, on the occasion OF signing the Declara-
tion of Independence, ssthere must be no pull
ling different ways ssYes,' answered Frank
lin, s'we must all haag together, or most assn
redly we Shall all hang separatsty.''
ByThe cotton States now hold sixteen of
the forts OF the South, and the Federal Gov
ernment has seven. Fortunately, with the ex-
ception of Forts Sumter, Moultrie and Pincil-
ney, the Is and Z are far apart that they
cannot think OF bcmbarding each other.
a CARD To THE SUFFERING.-The Rev. William
l., ,Inl Lob, Iaa