Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-04-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

which have been made in regard TO the prob
able decision of the Administration concern
ing the Southern forts must be received with
grains of allowance. The point OF embarrass-
ment concerning Fort Sumpter, in the Presi-
dents mind, as announced with entire candor,
is, that if it be yielded and the Federal author
ity be thus withdrawn under real or supposed
necessity, similar reasons may be urged as to
Fort Pickens and other points, which are not
considered in the same category. He had
never entertained the idea of abandoning the
principles announced in the Inaugural, and
if the military necessity should be accepted
as to Fort Sumpter, it will be for reasons
which in no way affect it, and which will no:
be held to apply elsewhere.
SECESSION NO PRoTEcTIoN.-The Louisville
Courier states that secession has invaded the
courts in Kentucky, but got kicked out !:
GA day or two ago one William Chester was
arraigned before Kenton (Ky.) Circuit Court,
charged with passing a counterfeit bill on the
State Bank of Louisiana. After the evidence
was heard. counsel for the prisoner claimed
that as the State of Louisiana had seceeded, the
court had no jurisdiction in the case. Judge
Moore, however, ruled that as neither the
President of the United States nor Congress
had recognized secession, the trial would
proceed under the laws of Kentucky and it
did, resulting in the jury awarding Mr.. Chest
er three years in the Penitentiary."
EFrEcrs OF SECESSION SoUrH-The National
Infellisencer says: ssThose who imagine that
since the secession of the cotton States from
the Union all the suffering from the crisis is
confined to the trading and manufacturing
North, should observe such paragraphs as the
following from the Aberdeen Conservative
paper published in the northern part OF Misss-
sippi: ssWe attended the sheriff sale on Mon
day last, and were perfectly astonIshed to see
such sacrifice of property. One gentleman
actually purchased one hundred and sixty odd
acres of land for $40; another bought half
interest in a brick law office for $50; Sl25
buggy was sold for $50, and other property
sold equally low.''
DESERTED VILLAGEs--The. Pensacola cor
respondent of The Ne,r Orleans Della says the
appearances of things in tie villages of War
rington and Woolsey are gloomy; fully one
half the stores are closed. the stOrekeepers
having left for New Orleans, Mobile, Pensa-
cola, and other places, with their goods and
chattles; the residences are one-half of them
deterted, the occupants having left to avoid
ssLincoln's bombai dment" of the place. In
deed, it is remarkable fact that not one of
the old creole population but has packed his
furniture and proceeded some miles into the
woods to avoid the war.
A Coon SIGs.-It is regarded as good sign
| that there are quite number of Union men
in the States that have seeded, who have made
| and are now making application to President
Lincoln and the members of his Cabinet, for
the various Federal offices in their respective
States. The other day Geo. W. Lane was
| nominated as Judge of the Northern and South
| ern district of Alabama. AS for the Southern
States which have not seeded, no trouble will
| be had in filling the various offices to which
they are entitled by staunch Union men. We
hope the seceders will all be turned out Of the
places which they disgrace.
| FEMALE SoLDIERs.-The Holly Springs( Miss. }
Herald learns that the county of Chickasaw in
| that State has already ten companies of vol
| unteer soldiers ready to be mustered into the
service of the State. 1t adds that, in addition
| to these ssThe country has regularly Of
| ficered and drilled company of young ladies,
| who have pledged themselves, in the event
| that the men are called into service, to protect
their homes and families during their absence.
| and see that the farms are properly cultivated
and full crops raised not only for the support
Of the country, but of the armies of Mississippi.
| MONEY PLEsTr.-The wall street banks, of
| New York city, contain upwards of Sal ,OO0,-
| 900, which the Government at Washington
| can procure on loan on demand. Under the
| circumstances of the difficulty in the South,
| capitalists unwilling to make investment,
| but perfectly satisfied to place their funds in
| to the hands of the Government for official u
ses. The Southern Confedcracy would doubt
less be pleased tQ receive part of this. immense
| treasure on loan, but unfortunately for the
| wants Of that government, Southern credit is
rather low in New York.
| BEATING A SIsTER WITH BoARD.-We un-
| derstand from a gentleman of the name Eliza
| Burgess, that man Of the name of John w il
| son, living in the forks of East Grand River,
Me-, maliciously and willfuly beat and bruis-
| ed, in terrible manner, his sister an orphan
| girl about II years old, who is under his care
| and protection. Mr.. Burgess states that her
| shoulders and back were literally covered
| with bruises, leaving at least fifty marks of the
clap-board used by the brother in the brutal act.
| WHIPPING WOMAN TO DEATH.-We learn
that Mr.. Jacob Patten, who lives in the south
western part of Missouri, whipped one of his
slaves negro woman, to death, on Saturday,
| March 7th. After the negro was buried, sus-
picions of foul play caused her to be taken up.
| A cornor's inquest was held, and it was evil
dent from the condition of the body, that she
had met her death as above stated, Patten
was arrested, and gave bail in the amount of
50, 500 to appear at Circuit Court.
esBoLp SOUTHERN BuMMEns "a company
of young men paraded in Portsmouth the other
day bearing the national flag, and small pen
mons incribed B. S. B. The unfamiliar initials
| having provoked some inquiry, correspon-
dent gratified public curiosity by stating
through the Day Book that their true signf-
cation is the ssBold Southern Bummers,' and
that when next they parade it will be under
the flag of the Southern Confederacy.
KANsAs.-The attack of a portion of the
Democratic press upon the Kansas relief move
ment is brutal. Democracy endeavors TO
make political capital even from the sufferings
of starving men, women and children. 1t is
prepared to dissolve the Union, rather than
fail in its object of breaking up the Republ-
can party. In or out of office, the Democratic
| party is alike mean and dispicahle.