Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-07-31
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBL1NGs.

EMrs. General Mcclellan is in Cincinnati
~Good for Secessionists, and other yer
mn-Lyon's powder.
~Any merchant may make his house
custom house by attention to its duties.
UssMy son, I dislike your low ways. Pray
fathes, would yon have ale-turn highwayman p
The portrait of ex-PEesident Tyler ha!
been taken down from.th Eotundo,of the Capt.
tol.
rPrentice says that James, D. Clay, o
Kentucky, is ga fourth-rate man, bearing Z
firstrate name.''
rWhy is the last act of Hamlet peculiarly
IIish Because it begins with funeral and
ends with fight.
~Gen. Lyon has ordered the Missouri riv-
err blockaded, and, boats bound down are now
stopped at Leayenworth.
GyJeff Davis's tears of repentance are pri-
vate tears [privateers.] We guess old Abe
will dry them up before long.
DgAt the United States Arsenal at Pitts
burg, there are 10000 Minie-rife bullets and
10000 cartridges made daily.
"The census of the borough of Titusville,
Pa, the location of several oil wells, shows a
population of 1872, against 450 one year ago.
~Ex-Secretary Floyd and the stF lloyd gun'
are alike in one respect at least. They have
both proved themselves capable of going of
with heavy load.
GyBe not afraid to work with yonr hands,
and diligently too. GA cat in gloves catches
no nice. ssHe who remains in the mill grnds;
not he who goes and comes.''
CyThe Charleston folks are trying to pre-
pare machines for blowing the bockading
ships into the air. That would be a summary
plan of ssraising the blockade.'
" NJ IT.
sity of confiscating all property in that city
which is owned by northern citizens. A large
portion of the city is owned by northern people
UThe Secessionists s in. all of the blockaded
ports are ambitious of going extensively into
the Internal machine line. Secession itself is
one of the most Internal machines ever inven-
ted.
~Gen. Beauregard has one essential quail
ty of good general-SecreSy. He told an
nquisitve person lately, that if his own coat
knew what his intentions were, he would burn
it up.
GIT is curious fact that Robert Garnett,
who was killed at St. George, was the profes-
Sional instructor of Mcclellan at West Point.
He taught him tactics, and had an apt pupil, it
appears.
nEThe Louisville Democrat makes the fol-
lowing clear statement of plain fact :-ssSe-
cession has played its las; card in these States
it has started down hill, and will roll on to the
bottom, increasing its velocity as it goes.
~The Richmond Dispatch, of Saturday
last, says that every body in that locality is
just now propounding the important question,
s.Where is all the specie ?'' sCoppers," it
says, aye sssoaree as meteors, and as for silver,
the light OF quarter or dollar is as fax
seed poultice to diseased occulars."
~Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina, has
issued proclamation convening the State
Legislature on the first Wednesday ir Novem-
ber next, for the purpose of choosing electors
for President and Vice President, and two
Senators in Congress. He has also issued
writs of election for members of Congress
from the several districts, the election to be
held on the same day.
OG-One day recently, the workmen in clean
ing away the rubbish of the Neil House, at
Columbus, at the depth of about fifteen feet
encountered some timbers that still retained
the sold fire. and when exposed to the open
air burst ont into flame. 1t has been over
eight months since the fire took place which
destroyed the premises, and still the moulder-
ing enters remain beneath the ruins.