Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-03-13
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| kernals, and throw us the Shells.
| ~Littlc tho't of-the ashes OF smoked
cigar. Those OF man, scarcely more.
UStatcd-that five printers occupy the
pulpts in as many churches in Portsmouth,
Virginia.
10 Fisionary-the mind Of the editor who
says that Lincoln sis following in the footsteps
OF Buchanan
U5 Mrs. harrington says there ism { enough
of the spirits of seventy six left in the South
to fill a fluid lamp
GyFact-how immensely would our con
verSation be abridged, if ali mankind would
only speak the truth.
Offtred-large quantities Of apples, Of
the finest qualities, in the Erie market, at from
10 to 20 cents per bushel.
Gy-ln 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 Secretary Floyd. II he isn't chaste
| as an orator, he odght to be chased as thief.
"Presumed-in army circles, that Col. e.
Y. Sumner will be promoted to the commits
sion dishonored and abandoned by General
TwiggS.
Estimated-the number OF persons kill
led and wounded in Texas by the Indians dur
| ing the past three months, at four hundred and
seventy.
| By-The California Legislature, by vote of
Al TO 81, have expunged the resolutions of cen
sure formerly passed against the late Senator
Broderick.
IThe editor of the 'sSWnny South boasts
of a 'svisit from the Devil If Is supposed
that he'll return the ''yisit' and make q pret-
ty long stay.
~A dandy observed that he had put plate
IN 70 n
''We ell balanced by jing,'' said Dutchman
'sbrass at both ends.''
WDiscovercd-lately, in Habcrsham CO.,
Ga, that Il woman, held in slavery for twenty
years, is white, having been kidnapped when.
Il child from Baltimore, Md.
yReported-that some officers Of the L
nited States Army discorcfe. oil spring in
Mendocino county, California, which rendered
thirty gallons OF oil per day.
GIThey have taken Maj Anderson and have
him on exhibition In Charleston. He was ta
ken by Photographic artist. That Is the on
ly way they will ever take him.
Dg-uas made-Sdme industrious young lady
in Central New York, elaborate wrought
Thibet dressing gown gift to Dir. Lincoln.
1t contains l, ,l99 yards of stitching. -.
~Stated-that battalion of firemen from
New Orleans will visit the principal cities OF
the North and West during the coming sea
son. These .'furriners'' Will be well.
GOA member of the Virginia Convention
telegraphed to Norfolk-s.Tell your people all
is we'll; and that the Fourth of July will be
celebrated under the stars and stripes"
ga yankee Dragging of having killed
panther whose tail was three feet long, Brown
replied that the panther died seasonabiy rs the
''tail'' was long enough not to be continued.
CS7The Sacramento Union credits the report
that 500 or 900 men are enrolled in San Fran
cisco as Knights of the Golden Circle, whose
object is to favor establishing a Pacific Re-
public.
~Some queer fellow who has tried 'em,
says: ''Ihere 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
D-It has long been said that ..Brttannia |
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 ''Frst ON the Sei=e.''
Proposed-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
10 Occurrcd-a somewhat novel wedding,
at the Church of the Holy Trinity, in Brook
lyn, last week. Ten married sisters appeared |
with their ten husbands, and small army OF
children, to celebrate the marriage OF the G.
leventh sister.
D5-The ST. Louis Evening Nercs 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 indica-
ting the devotion of the MiSSourian's 10 their
country's glorious banner.
10 Circulating bills, purporting to
be of the Beverly Bank, n j. There is no
such bank, so beware of them. A charter for
such bank exists, bal the laws of the State
have not been complied with, the issue Of bills
is Illegal and irresponsible.
Gg-The New Y orll Times Washington cor
respondent says Senator Andrew Johnson, of
Tennessee, endorses Mr.. Lincoln's inaugural
without qualification, and that both Mr.. Crit
enden and Mr.J ohnson ''entertain great hopes
or the future OF the country"
Cv-sWe must be unanimous said Han
cock, on the occasion Of signing the Declara-
ion of Independence, s|there must be no pull
ing different ways" eyes, y answered Frank
in, sswe mnst all hang together, or most assn
-edly We Shall all Aang separatety."
GTThe cotton States now hold sixteen of
,he forts OF the South, and the Federal Gov
;rnnent has seven. Fortunately, with the ex-
;eption of Forts Sumter, Moultre and z Pinct-
ley, the 16 and far apart that they
cannot think OF bombarding each other.
CARD TO THE SUFFERNG.-The Rev. William