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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-08-06

IIE ERIE CoNrERENCE.--Th Erie Con.
ference which held its Session al Warren.
Pa, adjourned on the Oath ult Wepub.
lish list Of the appointments for Clarion
District, taken from the Warren Daily
Mail, published during Conference. 1t is
a very neat little daily, and was furnished
10y the Rev. d. S. Steadman. who wo are
glad to learn his returned to Brookvile.
Clarion District--R. a. CARoTHERs, =. T..
Clorion--J. j, Bentley.
Brookyille-D. S. Sieadman, D. Eason.
Curllsville-A. D. Davis.
Reimersburg- r. Graham.
West Freedoms. S. Burton.
Shippensyille--S. Comb j. T. Perry.
Washing toni. Shields. b. ATarsteller.
Tionesta--N. W. Jones.
Troy and Corsica--Geo. Moore
Punxsutawney-G W. Heard.
Warsaw-S' Coon,
Luthersburg-J. w. Weldin
Brockwayyille-O. j. McInthc.
Ridgwsy-J. II. Sterret.
New Bethlehem N. G. Luke.
President-J. Howe. Js8crsoniar.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-08-06

GTATENGNTof the CLEARFIELD COUN-
- TI BANK, for the month ending Juuly
81, 1851:
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-08-06

country editor, or even a member ofCon>
gress. viii the loyal, national men, who
endorsed the Chicago platform 10y voting
ior Mr. Lincoln land there are many such)
quietly permit such a relversion Of their
intentions? VIII they take the proper
steps to show that such is not the purpose
Of the Republican party, and chat this
Central Club of New York speaks without
authority? Time will tell.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-08-06

WI w "
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in S2s.05O 90
Note in circulation 2IJ,OOy
Due )epOsitOrs pSI64
Interest and EEchHnge l1S7 SO
-- toI.Gl0 90
JAS. B. GRAHAM, Cashier
Clc8rfeli, Pa, July 81. 1851
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-08-06

ELLIS IRWIN, President.
d. f. ErzwEILER, Secretary.
LEVI +. IRWIN, Cor. Secretary.
JAMES WHOLLY, Treasurer
JoHN F. WEAVER, Librarian.
Gen. A. NJ. HILLS, Marshal.
Wm. Ten EYCK, Chicfof Police.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
The Bed of the Atlantic.

Soundings in the Atlantic, according to
AH the Year Round, have revealed the fact
that at least two hundred and thirty miles
shollow; or, in other words, that there is
another Ireland only waiting to be raised
thus reversing the famous panacea for keep
ing the country quiet. 1t is just beyond this
that the true Atlantic begins, the gulf sud.
denly sinking 5000 feet. Thus Ireland may
one day have a coast line as high as the Alps.
The whole floor of the Atlantic is paved with
soft, thicky substance, called ooze, nine
tenths consisting of very minute animals,
many of them mere Jumps of jelly and thou
sands of which could float with ease in drop
of water, some resembling toothed wheels,
others bundles of spines q threads shooting
from little globule. Some, however, are
endowed with the property of separating
flint from the sea water-which is more than
every chemist could do; and there are hun
dreds of square miles covered with the skel-
etous of these little creatures Part of this
ooze is doubtless from the clouds of rain
dust which rise from the vast steepes of
South America, in such masses at to darken
the sun, and make the animals fly to shelter,
and which, after sweeping swiftly like si-
moon over the country, loose themselves in
the ''steep Atlantic" No bones have been
found of the larger animals, so that the kra-
ken or sea serpents might sleep their last
sleep, and leave not bone or vertebra to
tell the tale. Not mast or anchor, not a
block or strand, nor coin or keepsake has
been found to testify of the countless gallant
ships and more gallant men who have gone
down amid the pitiless waves.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
Experience ofa Southern Surgeon.

DIR. Means, q surgeon in the Southern ar
my, writes as follows to an Atlanta (Ga. pa
per, from Richmond. on the 29th of july
My labor on the battefel has been ar
duous but profitable to my professional ex-
percnce, from the vast number and variety
of important surgical cases which have been
thrown under my treatment, while humbly
trust my services have been at least in some
degree useful to my country and to many a
suffering soldier. | dressed while there two
hundred Federal prisoners, besides scores of
cur own, whose sufferings were hedrt-rend.
ing. Some were brought in shot through the
head, others through the neck, arms and
legs some with thigh bones shattered, and
the limbs hanging suspended by skin, mus
Gle or ligament The miserieS of many were
intensified by the want of covering, food and
water, for which they piteously begged.
Scarcely Il portion of the human body was
exempt from the violence of some weapon of
war. When moved in the midst of such a
melting scene, my Southern heart grew too
large for the indulgence of hatred, and l
therefore dressed their wounds and nursed
them in their sufferings, as willingly rs
though they had been our own dear people.
have been occasionally mortified at the cold
hearte dness with which some who boasted a
Southern birth could ridicule and abuse these
suffering creatures, before their faces, even
when death was about to perform his fatal
work. We have shipped $50 to the hospital
in this city, $50 to Culpepper Courthouse,
and some 400 to Charlottesville. Indeed
they are scattered over tie country far and
wide. Some Of the wounded Federals are
lodged in the costly and comfortable dwell
ings of the rich; others committed to tn.
hospital, and hundreds more to the cherries,
enclosures of a prison.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

A DIGGER BELLE-The editor of the San
Juan Press recently had the honor of visit
from venerable Digger warrior and his
"beautiful and accomplished daughter who
is thus described: 'As she stood and ..gazed at
the type settlers, IAN audible snicker manifested
her surprise. The three front fingers other
left hand were thrust into her mouth, from
which stalactitie stream of saliva escaped
dripping to the floor while those ofthe right
were on manipulating tour of investigation
about the crown of her head. Her features
protruded from square aperture of massive
and tangled locks, like a blurred picture from
q smoke soiled. frame, and were. Enthusiastically
bedaubed with vegetable dye or primal pen
Cling. Her dress was sattenly calico gown,
changed from its original color by contact
with the grass of cow pastures; and her feet
somthing smaller than those of the Colossus,
were bare, hard and horny, with stubbed,
nailless toes, spreading out at the ends in the
shape of Italian ,castanets. Her position was
relieved, goose fashion, by changing from one
foot to the other There she stood, a veritable
female type of her tribe.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

THE GULF SrREAM.-A naval officer of the
United States, who has been engaged several
years, in the course of his professional duty
is studying the subject of the origin and pro-
gress of the Gulf Stream, presents the follow
ing propositions of the result of his observa-
sions and deductions 1t is of subterranean
origin. Its progress in a certain direction,
and rate. is caused by the shape and revolu
ton of this planet It is heated by internal
volcanic fires, supplied from the ignecus por-
tions of the globe. 1t is fed from beneath by
a constant flow of waters. Some of these are
the Mediterranean and other adjacent seas.
The color, heat, current, motion, animalculse.
sedges, taste, odor, and all the other pecu-
liarities, prove it to be subterranean in in its
origin and progress. The trade winds, and
the formation of the shore of the Gulf of Mex
lea, have nothing to do with the origin,
characteristics and progress of it.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION case of this
nature lately occurred at Buffalo, the victim
being a man named Charles Dunter, of good
standing but of inebriate habits. Having
become accustomed to drink in one day him.
self four or FIVE bottles of brandy, he gradu-
ally lost all appetite for everything save spir-
ituous liquors, and one morning iestingly
asserted his belief to some acquaintances that
if he held burning cigar lighter to his lips,
he would himselftake fire. He tried the ex-
pertinent. when all the alcoholic vapors con-
tanned in his stomach ignited, and he died in
dreadful agony.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

The WRoN0 PLAcE.-Somc politicians
what a time we have had with these fellows,
to be sure.-were riding into neighboring
town, on Sunday last, and one of the party
espying number of horses hitched to fine
looking dwelling house, exclaimed: "Why
Kirk, that's church, isn't it?" Kirk knew
it was no meeting house, and dared to say so
The matter was explained, and the Assembly
candidate learned that two good looking
ladies lived in "that house." and the horses
belonged to some gentlemen who hadn't as
sembled for the purpose of attending divine
service-La Porte Messenger.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

THE FALL OF A GREAT HoUsE.-The late
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos-who
possessed Dukedom, two Marquisates. two
Garldoms, one Viscounty, and one Barony
and died in an obscure lodging in London.
m the 18th ofJuly, under the alias of Mr..
Johnson, " succeeded to the titles and estates
worth 81 ,000. 900 a year. on the death of his
father, in 1889. He died almost a pauper.
5issraced and degraded. Related to Queen
F1.oria in blood, (actually belonging to the
sl2ar Tudor branch, whereas She reicns
tlcsugh her descent from the Scottish Stew
arts a Knight of the Garter and a Privv
Counilor, his latter wears were uncared for.
his death unwept. Morse than all. his own
misconduct caused the ruin of fortune and
fame.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

EUROPEAN COSTUME IN THE ORIENT.-The
Oriental women are copying the Frank style
of dress. ~ have seen," says an Eastern
correspondent of the Boston Traveller, a
Princess from Mount Lebanon, who. after
remaining in Beyrout awhile, adopted hoops,
and this lady called on me once with crino-
line in most dilapidated state, which, in.
stead of giving her robe an expansive and
round appearance, the broken steel caused it
to project here and there in points and an
giles. Her stays were also failure, and the
poor lady had made up her robe. from Paris,
with imitation flounces, the wrong way. Her
head was covered with pearls and diamonds,
but the effect of these was spoiled by an in.
termixture of faded French flowers"
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
Commission AND PURCHASING
Agent,
SAN FRANCISCO.

ORDERS FOR THE PURCHASE OF MER-
~ chandizc and articles Of every description
solicited by the undersigned.
A residence in this city of over ten years, and an
experience in the business of nearly the length
of time are considered sufficient to warrant the
confidence of persons in the country who OCCASION
ally require to make purchases here, through the
agency of reliable party; or who may be looking
for permanent Agency in San Francisco. To
either the advertiser offers his services assuring all
who intrust orders him that effort shall be
spared TO execute their commissions satisfactorily
All Orders must be accompanied with the Cash or
City Reference.
Those desiring information concerning the under
signed are referred to
Wm. T. Coleman & Co., San Francisco.
j. H. Coghill & Co.,
C. Lal gley, Druggist,
Flint, Peabody & Co.,
Ira p Rankin.
Ross, Dempster & Co., g
]. Anthony & Co., Union Office, Sacra-
mento City.
And to the proprietors of the Shasta
COURIER.
NB.-Orders for Machinery, Pianofortes, Melo-
deons, Sewing Machines Watches, Jewelry, &C..
will be attended to by competent Judges.
L. p. FISHER,
Commission and Purchasing Agent
629 Washington street. up stairs,
Opposite Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco.
ap27
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

Coop NArURED HusBAND-Mrs Margaret
Stoly, residing at Washingtonville, New Jer-
sey was so unfortunate as to have a child
during her husbands residence in California.
The father was one Gilbert Brown. Like q
good wife, she acquainted her husband with
the fact by letters, who forgave her on con-
dition that she should do so no more, but he
told her to pass over the baby to the person
to whom it belonged, as he would soon be
home. She did so, but the father being a
married man denied the soft impeachment,
and stranger married woman kindly adopt
ed the little forlorn one.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
SHASTA COURIER.
The Horse known by His Ear..

The size. position, and motion of the ears
of a horse are important points. Those ra-
ther small than large, placed not too Tar
apart erect, and quiet in motion, indicates
both breeding and spirit; and If horse Is
in the frequent habit of carrying one ear for
ward and the other backward, and especially
if he does 40 on a journey, he will, generally,
possess both spirit and continuance. The
stretching of the ears in contrary directions
shows that he is attentive to everything that
is passing around him. and while he is doing
this he cannot be much fstigaed, nor likely
soon to become so. 1t has been remarked
that few horses sleep without pointing one
ear forward and the other backward, In order
that they may receive notice OF the approach
Of objects in any direction. When horses or
mules march III company ut night, those In
the middle Of the train turn them latterally,
thus seeming to be actuated by one feeling.
which watches their general safety. The car
of the horse is one of the most beautiful parts
about him, and by this is the temper more
safely indicated than by the motion. The
ear is more Ineligible even than the eye;
and a person accustomed to the horse can tell,
by the expressive motion OF the organ, most
all that he thinks or means. When horse
lays his ears fat back on his neck, he most
assuredly is meditating mischief, and the by
stander should beware of his heels or his
teeth In play the ears will be laid back,
but not 50 decidedly nor SO long. quick
change in their position, and more particu-
larly the expression of the eye at the time,
will distinguish between playfulness and
viciousness. The hearing of the horse is re-
markably acute. A thousand vibrations Of
the air, too slight to make any impression on
the human ear, are readily perceived by him.
1t is well known to every hunting man that
She cry of hounds will be recognized by the
horse, and his car will be erect, and he will
be all spirit and impatience, considerable
time before the rider is conscious of the least
coupd
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
MERCHANDISE DESTROYED BY THE G.EAr

MERCHANDISE DESTROYED BY THE GREAT
FIRE IN LONDON. JUNE 23d.-lS,00 bales
East India cotton Is, 600 barrels -four; s.,
900 bales hops 500 tons saltpetre 800 tons
sambar; 500 tons pearl sago; 90 tons sago
flour 500 bags cochineal; 1000 bags su-
gar; SIS tons cutch; $500 casks tallow; f.
500 tons rice; lS5 tons black pepper; so
tons white pepper; 700 bags cloves; 500
cases ginger 700 tons Manila hemp; 600
tons Russia and East India hemp, and HOO
tons iute. Xalne about e 900 600.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

A WIRES INFLuENcE.-A married man
falling into misfortune ismore apt to retrieve
his situation in the world than single one,
chiefly because his spirits are smoothed and
retrieved by domestic endearments, and his
self-rcspect kept alive by finding that al
though all abroad be darkness and humiliat-
ing, yet there is little world Of love at home
over which he is monarch.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

YOUNG lady of extraordinary capacity
atdressed the following letter to her cousin !:
DEER kuzzES-The weather what we is
ar kold and suppose where you is it air
kalder.
We is all well and mothers got the his
Terrix, brother Tom has got the Hupin
kaugh, and sister suzin has got babee. and
hope these few lines will find YOU the same.
Rite sumo. Your aphfcctions Kuzzen.
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

WHAT A PIC DID.-By the disobedience of
lad in 1909, garden gate in Rhode Island
was left open, and pig got in and destroy
ed a few plants quarrel between the own
ers of the garden and the pig grew out of it,
which spread among the friends, defeated the
Federal candidate for the Legislature, and
gave the State Democratic Senator, by
whose vote war was declared in 1912, with
Great Britain
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

VINO BEG1NNED THIS ERE WAR?-An en-
ragged parent had jerked his provoking son
across his knee, and was operating on the
exposed portion of the urchin's person with
great vehemence, when the young one dug
into the parental legs with his venomous lit
tie teeth.
"Hells flames +! what are you bitin' for ~
swell, dad, who beginned this ere war?''
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

A WIDOW, who had lost her husband, was
weeping bitterly for the dear departed. A
friend tried to console her. No, no" said
the fair mourner. "let me have my cry out !;
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

"MApAx, good many persons were dis
turbed at the concert, last night, by the CRY.
ing of your baby"
.'Well, do wonder such people will 60 to
concerts"
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

AN Arabian, who brought blush to a
maiden's cheeks by the earnestness of his
gaze. said to her;
my looks have planted roses in your
cheeks why forbid me to gather them +?
The law permits him who sows to reap the
harvest"
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

A Mr.. HEM has just slarted new paper
in Iowa. He says he hopes by hard scratching
to make a living for himself and little chick
ems. Let him scratch
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
Notice.

vUyHE UNDERSIGNED being about to leave
for the Atlantic States, is desirous of
settling MP his business, and takes this method of
giving notice to all those indebted to him to make
immediate payment. and to those having claims
against him to present them for settlement
JOHN BALL.
Ehasts Aug. l, 1851. aus
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21

HVHESE instruments radically different in
i principle and construction, from all others,
embracing what is valuable in them all with new
principles of vast utility.
The Bow used in these instruments is not a
spring, but soft iron, to be shaped at pleasure to fit.
The Pad works over a knuckle, giving at the same
time inward and upward motion whereby not
than half the usual pressure is required, and
very little on the back. 1t cannot work up or out
of place; the pad-bearing is changed. the pad
itself changed in shape size with very little trou-
BILE. These instruments the smallest, lightest,
most endurablc, (no rust) most cleany the cases
can be taken off and washed at pleasure, and will do
more for relief and radical cure than any others
offered to the public.
Send for descriptive pamphlet.
EDWARD HALL & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists.
53s Washington street, San Francisco.
Sole Agents for the Pacific coast. au3:3m
The Shasta courier., 1861-09-21
"A n EORD'S
FAMILY
CATHARTIC PILLS,

CuMPOUSDED FRO4
Pure Vegetable E Extracts, and Put up In
GLASS CASES, Air Tight. and Will keep
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-09-20

~ The following extract from the speech
Of Hon. d. 5. Diekinson,it Cortland county,
on the 81 inst, states the exact duty of
Democrats in this crisis
Any democrat that undertakes to embar-
rass the administration, whether he loves or
hates il, in such crisis rs this, is no Demo-
crat and no good citizen. and ought to be
put up as monument for scOrn to point her
slow, unmOvipg finger at. His genuineness
must be about equal TO that Of the old ruyolu-
tionary soldier have heard Of in the inter-
Tor Of Pennsylvania. The inhabitants Ut the
place had determined ON having 18th OF
July celebration, of the old fashioned spread.
eagle kind, and looked for man for revolu-
tionary soldier, 10 give interest to the occa-
sion. and finally succeeded in inding one, an
old German. lie was brought great dis
lance and placed upon the platform near the
orator. who waxed grandly eloquent upon
the patriotic deeds OF the surviving hero, and
at the close Of the Grafton he was desired to
give some Of his personal recolleetiOns Of the
war, "You." said the President, "must have
known Washington :" "Yes. knew him.
where did you meet him ?" "At Trenton
"were you in the battls," "Yes, sur
rendered to Washington. "You surrender
oil to W ashington - SHOW was That ~
"IrOs ron HesSida :"
Now, l think, when you find men prating
about the Democracy embarrassing the ad-
ministration at such time as this, when
you explore their history, you will find they
were "ron Ressiaa."
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-09-20
Pensions TO Volunteers.

The following. from the New York Tribune
contains information of great importance tc
volunteers, and removes the principal objection
made to enl'sting. on the part of men who
have families dependent on them
eft will no doubt interest our brave yolun.
teers TO know, that in case they are disabled
or killed while in service, their families will not
want for bread. The nation, through the Gov
eminent, stretches out its protecting arm over
the widow and the fatherless of its soldiers,
teuderly adopting them as its own; and every
man wounded or disabled in the service OF his
country, may rest assured that, in his hour oil
helplessness, his support Is assured. alreahS
the families Of many Of those who fell at bull
Run are in receipt OF pensions from the Gov
eminent. BY section of the law passed July
a, 1886, soldiers of the vOluteer or militia SER
vice, and the widows of soldiers dying In bat
tie. or from injury OF disease incurred while In
service, are entitled 10 the full benefit Of the
invalid pension laws. Volunteers for more
than six months are especially provided for By
nm act passed ut the last session OF Congress.
The wounded soldier receives an allowance pro-
portionate to his disability. IL totally inca
pacitated from labor. he receives the pay Oi a
soldier in active seryice-if partially disabled,
n proportiOnate pension, graduated according
20 the certificate Of the examining surgeon
Widows OF officers aud soldiers get onc-half the
nav which their husbands received. Ii no wid-
ow survives, then the pension is paid to the
children, il any, until they arrive at the age OF
sixteen years. No bounty land has been voted
10 soldiers for service subsequent to the act OF
March 3, 1855. but when peace is restored due
provision will probably be made for the loyal
men now in service, or their immediate suryiy-
ing relatives, should the principals not live to
claim il. Those who have claims, or desire fur
Their information upon this subject, may obtain
il by writing To the Commissioner OF Pensions
at Washington"