Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-03-06

suptcmo court involving the litlo lo aI
oulrhtyot minom California, estimated
toto woih slOOOoOoO ST. walker vi
lbe proprielor ofone hilh Of this ,alua
bic mine, and was offered not long ago
1000 600 for II provided tho Court should
rhoa favorable dccision That decision
I'M, now been given, aud Mt Wslker. who
was, to use his own words, - bcegar IN
the morning." went home to his dinner Al
millionaire.
1'HE lIoSX SQUADRoS NJ PENsACoLA.--At
the mouth ofPensacola harbor, on the 9th
instant, appeared the Macedonian, Brook
I'm, Sabine 81; Louis and the P0whAttnn.
The Wyandotto went up to the city On
the 9th instant the Pioneer Guards. from
Alabama, numbering 20 men, arrived. II!
ia said that five thoEsand men could not
take Fort Pckens, II is supposed that II
was reinforced in tho night. Lieutenant
Slemmcr admits no strangers now.
The legislature of New Mexico has pas
sed an act for the election of delegates to
form q State Constitution, which is TO be
held in Nay next. The delegates are to
meet IL June to discharge the duties
which will thus DO imposed upon them,
ard the Constitution they form is after
wards to be submitted to the people, for
ratification or rejection, at general cleo
ton to be held in September.
II is said that Ex>SecretOry Floyd is
preparing a lengthy and elaborate defence
of himself and his official acts. lie will
take the ground that his acts were justified
by precedent and the necessities of the
Government; that the business of the
Department could not proceed without
some expedieu. to relieve the Treasury,
and that the Treasury Department aud
Congress are at fault in not properly ro>
viding for the fulh.ment of the contracts
Hon. IIoralio King, now Postmaster
General, entered the Department over
which he nov presides, vixen twenty, five
OF six years OF age,with an appointment Gs
copying clerk, and a salary of $1,000 pei
iannum. He was called to the First AS
sntaut Postmaster Gcneralship on the
death of Gen. Hobbie. lie began his
public career as conductor Of newspaper
st Paris, Me-, having Hon. Hannibal
Hfmlin, now Vice President elect as his
partner in the business.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.-We have been in
formed of the outlines Of 0 terrible tragedy
; which occurred in Sumter county, near
Adamsville, on the 18th inst. A man by
the name of Andrews, who was, until re-
Gently, II Methodist preacher killed, on
that day, two persons, Mcssrs. Mcclellan
and G. NJ. Condry, and wounded two
others Lang and Clyatt. lie waS immo.
arrested and hung on chc following day
I-Eloridan.
\ large number of influential citizen,
Iof Kansas have published y card warning
} the people not to credit the stories of want
and starvation recently published b.
rhadd,us Hyatt. They say about one
fifth of the people Of Kansas do need as
sistance, but that none have starved or
are likely to starye. They also say that
the contrib Itions coming in are quite
. equal to the demand.
MRs. DOUGLAS IN FII.-A newspaper
contemporary says that the beautiful and
accomplished wife Of Judge Douglas made
- wager cf 500, prior to the late election
that she would sleep with the next Presi-
: dent of the United States She has eli"
ther got 20 fork over, or have homely
and most uncouth bedfelow. We think
tho Judge sill prefer to advance the mon
ey and pay the wager.
One of the largest cotton planters in the
South mas written letter to John Covcde
, believing him to be in the confidence of
the President eject, in reference to our
national troubles John writes to him
that the future Of New Orleans is gloomy,
= and that he had better move up North
We are not advised of the intention of the
- gentleman in question.
: A Washington correspondent Of the
, Baltimore sun, says that :hc Administers
+ ton is satisfied from official channels OF
Y information, that none of the foreign
Governments sympathize with the seces
, sion n,oyannen.s in the South but on the
t contrary, express the utmost solicitude for
the preservation of the entire Union.
$50 .O00.-lt was currently reported at
} Harrisburg, during the past week. that
SEVENTEEN SENATOR'S had formed a
ring" and demanded the sum of
$4,000 each to put the Sunbury and Erie
u and Pennsylvania Railroad bills through
the Senate. Is this true?