Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-11-13

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into the port of Savannah was worth great
victory on the field to them. Much of this is
mere boasting, but it has its effect.
CLIPPINGS AND sCRIBBLINGs.
THE polls of American destiny-the G.
lection polls.
@Thriling narrative-A dogs tail under
cartwheel.
~Quite natural-that the rebels should
stick to the Cheat.
~Dress plainly-the thinnest soap bubbles
wear the gaudiest colors.
WEat enormously who feed on Sian.
der, yet they are always hungry.
UMore interesting-money lent on good
security, than any other property.
Asserted-that soldier is ra,o until he
is exposed to the fire. So is turkey.
~Ift the rebellion cannot be suppressed by
force, can it be put down by ueakness Z?
WGrows reckless-the man who sstipples.' y
The more drams the fewer scruples he has.
~Query ?-Is carpenter who supplies the
fixtures for dry goods store counter-f filter
"Detected-a ssfemale recruit" by trying
to put her pants on over head. So says an ex-
change.
~ Which is the moro destructiye-the
mortar in the battle field or the mortar in the
drug store.
UThe man who made an Impression on the
heart OF a coquette has taken out patent for
stone cutting.
~Unknown-at what season of the year
our first parents were placed in Eden; but
they went out in s'the fsll.''
CTThere are two kinds of lawyers, those
who have 'paying practice and those who
have practice of not paying.
NTWa can strike ut, harra inc. and Ike
contracts by proxy; but all men must work
out their own salvation in person.
WSuggested-that s'tell- whopper" be
used instead of fs'telegram, 'asmore expressive
OF the truth of the miSSiye so headed.
70 Fact-it is but step from cunning to
knayery lying makes the whole difference
add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
"In want of light-the people of Calves
ton, Texas. There is but one box of candles
in the city, and the gas-works have stopped.
G-A Texas paper says that s.nobody ever
saw Wigfall drunk.' But Prentice says he
has seen him when he wasn't sober by Jug
tull.
05-A bad spell-that made by the Georgia
schoolmaster. He spells esGod Almighty''
thus, s'Goddle nifty" No wonder he favors
Secesh.
OS@Rev. Peter Rizer of the Luth eran church,
northumberland county, in this State, accom-
panicS the naval expedition in the character
of chaplain.
0yWhy is a certain preacher we know like
Brigham Young? Because he has married
more women than he can support, and would
like to marry more.
~Remember-Fanny Fern says that it is
just as sensible a move to get married without
courting, as to attempt to succeed in business
without advertising.
~Why is General McC lelan like person
who has just captured small insect which has
disturbed his rest Because he sees the
wicked flea before him.
TThose who are now crying for speace, ,
should tell us how peace can be secured with
out sacrificing the Union and the governmen
or else shold their peace
~Charitably disposed-the soldiers on the
battlefield. They think it s'more blessed to
give than to receve,'' in interchanging their
leaden and iron compliments.
~rhe vote on the question of dividing the
State of Virginia, in the western section of
the old Commonwealth, is nearly hundred
to one in favor of new State.
GVA lady in a paroxysm of grief was said
to have shed torrents of tears. sPOor thing =
remarked an unfeeling punster; 'she must
have had cataract in each eye.'
0gQueer fellow-the editor who think S
"people should never kiss their own sex - be-
cause ''he never kissed boy In his life, except
occasionally pretty TOM boy"
D-In bad fx-the western editor who,
after being on jury eight days, says he is
now SO full of law that it is hard work for him
to keep from cheating everybody.
Bell-ignorantly inclined-the 3-months
Captain who ordered his company to give ssthree
cheers for the American Eagle'' when he saw
Il Bus-ard flying over his camp down in Dixie
0~Hon Johp Roll Il 90 larad l,i,n c,rf .xo rob
ell before an audience of East Tennesseeans
long ago. He has now turned pirate, and ta-
ken command of gunboat on the Cum berland
river.