Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-10-29
cL1pp1HGs AND sea1Bp. 1xas.

CLIPPINGS AND seRIBBIlNGs.
GyScarce-goo.i, fresh burier.
~Rising-the river, and dry goods.
wLooks fne-Judge Barrett's new resi-
dence.
~Substitutes are offered in Cincinnati as
low as twelve dollars. 1ist
DAbout agan-Winter. We may expect
soon to see his s.f1eecy locks" -
WQuite jubilant-the sympathisers, over
the result Of the late election.
~Ditto-Jeff Davis, Breck kinridge, and all
their ssdear Southern brothers."
UGot into a scraps--many of the best la
dies of the land, since lint is in great demand
UIt is stated that at Vicksburg, Miss,
-four sells at $50 per bbl., and shoes at $S2
pair. s-lh
grA mammoth OK, which stands seven feet
high, is on exhibition at The agricultural fair
at Hartford, Conn.
UGreat quantities of cotton continue to
arrive in Memphis, and the prices in the Wes-
tern markets are falling.
~ otli III uSc-''oiA Quct dfouS tuc L OtO.
mac Wouldn't a ssvigorous forward move
ment' be more appropriate ''te
DTStea chickens-the guerrillas, w wherever
they can. Prentice "hopes every rascal of
them will get the chicken pox.'
~Removed-Gen. Buell., from the com
mand of the Kentucky army. That's right,
discard all ssaugurs that won't bore.''
UGen. Jefferson c. Davis, who shot Gen.
Nelson few days age, has been released from
arrest by order OF the War Department.
| ~Stratcgic-permitt three thousand Of
| the enemy's cavalry to circumvolve an army of
one hundred and twenty Thousand men.
| ~Was held-a large Union meeting at
Beaufort. m. C. The Presidents proclama-
~Gov. Buckingham, of Connecticut, has
ordered draft for eight hundred more men
| to fill up the regiments now organized in the
State aaa
nyThe Boston Common Council have voted
bounty OF 5000 for recruits. 1t is thought
stopped. 1,-.
GA second though very faint comet is
now in the vicinity of the orbit of Mars.
1t is 20, 600 900 of leagues from the earth, and
SO 900 from the sun.
GA man named Brant, in one of the
townships of Dauphiu county, had seven sons.
all of whom drafted. In another, Ave
brothers wcrc also drafted. .sa
0D.'Is that bell ringing for fire, Davy 7''
inquired youth from the Greon Mountains.
.sNo, they have too much fire somewhere, and
they ring the bell for water.' ais
~Enrolled-a man living in Summit town
ship, Erie county, in three districts and on
the day of the draft he was drawn in all Of
| them. Is that chap three soldiers now
1ZBy statistics lately gathered, it is as
certained that the wheat crop of Indiana for
the year 1862, will be about &c, 600, 900 bushels,
being 1,750, 900 more than the crop of 1861.
DThe difference between war and peace
has been well defined by one Of the ancients
lin time of peace, the sons bur- their faith
ers; in time ofwar the fathers bury their sons. -
~The Lynchburg Republican says that
wheat is goiug up in that market. strictly
prime article commanding from So 60 to Sc
25 per bushel. Family -four is held Sl9 50,
extra SIS so. superfne S17 so.
EX-SENATOR HUNTER, of Virginia. made
quite blunder, and electrified the rebel
Senate, some time ago, by inadvertently
swearing one of the clerks to support the
Constitution of the United States. -.
UGcn. Prentiss pronounces the statement
that troops were sent from the Corinih
army to Richmond, after the evacuation OF
the former place, to be incorrect. He knows,
of his own knowledge, that largo numbers OF
veteran troops passed over the railroads.
DThe Hon. Townsend Harris, who has
just returned from his mission in Japan, says
that the last person he parted with was .sTom-
my - who was in fine health and spirits. '.Tom-
N.Y. was attached to the American embassy
before he visited this country, and resumed
his position on his return.
HEADQUARTERS, Reg't Mcrrell's Horse,
Macon City, Mo-, Oct. 10Th 1862.
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