Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-03-27
SUMMARY oF NEWS.

special duty, for the purpose of ordering and
detailing the officers. directing the recruits,
arranging the complement OF ships, and di
recting other matters relating TO the efficiency
and dicipiine of the service. This movement
is considered very judicious, as il fixes the
sponsibiIity upon an officer of acknowledged
worth. OF regulating delicate part of the SER
vice with which no new Secretary could pos
sibly be familiar. The duty has heretofore
been discharged through the Chief Clerk.
much to the dissatisfaction of the Navy An
attempt was made at the last Session 70 create
an Assistant Secretary, but failed. Mr.. Velles
has supplied the deficiency without increased
cost, ana with equal advantage. His admins
tration, thus far, has been very satisfactory,
and he has earned the reputation of practi-
cal and straight forward Secretary.
NORTH CARoLINA.-With reference to the
recent election in that State, The North Caro-
lima Standard says: The truth is, the U Union-
lists in the late campaign triumphed alike over
| treason, passion, fraud, and falshood. The
people, on the 2Sth of February, dealt the
conspirators against the Union of the States,
and against the rights, the interests and the
safety of North Carolina, mortal blow. The
beast of disuuion was wounded nato death,
but he still has power as he writhes in hls final
agony. Let us finish him. Let the people
set their mark on the agitators and distur5ers
of the peace. Let the good work of crushing
If they dare, to inaugurate a revolution in
North Carolina. The people have spoken,
and it becomes conspirators to hide their
heads. When the eagle is abroad let the bats
and owls retire TO their holes.
RECENT DIscovERIEs.-In England, consid-
erable excitemant has been created among nat
uralists and geographers by the startling dis
coveries recently made in Central Africa. by
gentleman now in London. Mr.. Chay lion
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blood, who. availing himself of the facilities
given by his position as son of a consular Off
cer near the Gaboon river, has penetrated
across the African continent on the line ofthe
equator, and has there discovered. in a dense
ly wooded region, range of lofty mountains
zone peak calculated by him at II 900 feet,)
which contain, according to his conviction,
the sources of the four great rivers of the AT
rican continent, the Nile, the Niger, the Fam
besi and the Zaire or Congo.
REcoNsrRUcTIoS IapossIBLE.-The AUGUSTA
| (Ga.) Consiitnti0nGiist relieves itself Of the
| following, to prove that no reconstruction Of
| the Union can take place: Wise men cannot
| be deceived twice By the same trick. COM
plete change of all things must take place
first. The climate must change from its ge
NAL and glowing warmth TO hyperborean dark
ness and iciness. The sun will have to go
back through seven signs of the Zodiac to its
original starting point and, greatest change
of all the character of the Southern citizen
must change, TO answer to the change of eli
mate. All this must be before We can return
| 10 a union with those whose love is ruin, and
whose embrace is death.
| MORE CoERoIoN.-This is good hit from
| the Cincinnati Commercial '.The Southern
heart, as appears from the secession sheets, is
| likely to be fired by the evacuation of Fort
! Sumter. Evacuation is considered syDony
nous with coercion. The ire-eaters say the
| object OF the Administration is to give up Fort
| Sumter, in order &c strike the South in some
vulnerable place. Is there anything that would
not FIRE the Southern hearth We suppose the
| resignation of Mr.. Lincoln, or the announce
ment that he stood on the Breckinridge plat
| form, would be considered plot looking to
| coercion. I'm such case could the border
States be induced to remain in the Union !''
GUSs FOR THE SoUTH-The sTredegar''
Works of Richmond are driving busy and
/ thriving traffic with the seeded States which
derive their supplies of heavy cannon, ord
| nance &C., almost exclusively from that
source. In addition to the scores of '.Colum-
biads'' which have been sent from that cele
! brated foundry to South Carolina and A Ia
| bama, we notice the passage through Atlanta.
on Thursday night last, OF six 6-inch Colum-
| biads en- route to Savannah. The atlanta
! Confederacy says they complete the first in
| stallment of seventy i've similar guns of diff
|
| gia and Alabama.
| SEIZURE OF THE GUTHRIE.-The Washing
| ton Star characterizes the late seizure of the
| light house supply vessel in Galveston harbor,
| as ssanother great achevment of the oligar-
| chy," and says: ssThe Guthrie was on a mis-
| sion of peace, mercy, humanity and charity.
| Filled with supplies of oil. &C., purchased and
paid for by the United States, to be distribu-
| ted to the lights on the Southern coast, to pre-
| hair h,.a
and without which supplies they must at an
early period be extiDguished, and thereby
cause great loss of life and property in the
| navigation of that coast"
| MARYLAND AND THE UNION. The Baltimore
| Clipper has the following. eve take pleas
ure in assuring our Philadelphia contemporary
that the Union spirit not only lives but i'm
measurably predomnates in Mary land. Peo-
| pie of all parties here have grown weary and
| sick of the political or pal ltisan agitation
| which has pTecipitated ruin upon our, country,
and brought misery, bankruptcy, idleless-
we had almost said beggary-to their once
| happy homes. The sovereign people are de-
termining to assert their rightful mastery
over those who lead them astray, and will do
| it though the heavens fall.
| PATRIOTIC TEARs.-At Willard's, Washing
ton, the other evening, lady seated at
| the piano, singing. General Wool, wearing
| his button, asked her to sing the Star Spangled
Banner. She did it with admirable effect.
| The General stood beside her with the tears
running down his cheeks and as he turned to
dash them from eyes that never qnailed before
his country's foes on the field of battle, the
parlor rang with the applause the song and the
| scene so well merited.
THE ssPALMETTo" AT DISCOUNT IN CALI
FoRNM.-0n the 10th alt vessel was haul
ing out from wharf at San Francisco CAL,
| and hoisted the Palmetto flag. A crowd in
stantly assembled on the wharf. and by well