Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-08-26
From Philipsburg, Penn'a.
PHILIpsBuRG. August II. Is

our authorities have been annoyed by set ot
denzens of the forest, making complaints oi
assaults, batteries, threats to kill and in short
all the crimes of the criminal code. There
was not much attention paid to their COM
plants, from the fact that they never accused
the guilty person or thing. The constitution
that done all the fighting was Major General
| Strychnyne, formerly Captain Whiskey, but
promoted for his gallant and unrivaled des-
tructIon of mankind. The General marshal
led his forces last Sunday, in the vicinity OF
the famous s.Big Spring. about two miles
from this place, on the road to Tyrone, that
has quenched the thirst of thousands. Every
thing was ssgay and happy" for time, but
mutiny soon showed his hydra authority when
the Gen. brought up the reserve, and made a
charge at the Hmouth of the Jug; got the bet
ter of the whole crowd drove their senses
entirely to 'sthe wall and then such break
ing and smashing of dishes and cabin fnrni-
ture generally has not bcen heard tell of since
the days OF the ssoldest inhabitaut.'' The men
are kind of anglo indiano-sem emi-americano
and have natural talent for making shingles,
and work very study for time ,but they seem
to bear an inveterate auimosity to an accu-
mutation of the 'sroot of all evil'' When the
''pile' gets too flush, they draw'in their pick.
cts, and then starts out the invincibIe General
Strychnyne on a raid, and such a raid has not
yet been made by the Union or rebel army.
since raids have been the order of the day.
But his time the ssKinikinicks' carried the
matter too far. They marched against the
''Poolonians' with guns shotted, and clubs
rotted, and assaulted or threatened son OF
Mr.. James Callers. who was taking a lady to
Sandy Ridge, and made the boy turn about
and come home. The sPoolonians'' applied
to the auth critics, but they thought it best to
let them fight it out. But this made the ssKin.
ikinicks' more valiant, and they came to the
conclusion that they were
''Monarchs of all they surveyed
At this junctnre the magistrate issued war
rant. The constable with a posse W ent to ar
rest the "Kinikinicks.'' but they had fled, all
but two women, who were on the warrant and
were arrested, held over to the next day for a
hearing, but they also gave the Constable the
slip. and away have gone wigwams and the
whole kettle OF fish. 1t is a blessing Tor the
purses of tax payers of Centre long may
they stay.
But our citizens were hardly entirely re-
stored to the usual peaceful lness that pervades
our town, until another woe. more to be dread
ed than the one just past, is upon us. The
draft for this district was announced for Thurs
day, August 18th, and of course all who had
put in share were anXious to know who were
the lucky holders of pass to The Army of
the Potomac. The anxiety had subsidized du-
ring the tndiano-ctdal war OF the past few days
But on the arrival Of the stage on Friday the
news was brought by some of the passengers
OF the draft for this county, and also list of
the lucky holders. The excitement was up to
a scale not put down in Fahrenheit. The for
tunate ones of our township were ann ounced.
There were twenty drawn from this township,
Rush, fifteen of them from this Town, to wit:
Theodore Adams, Charles J. Andrews, John
ID. Gill, A. j. McCielland, Geo Crabtree, ,Har-
vey z. Graham, Joan CLOSER, John S. Funk,
Fred'k Ash, Thomas F. Twiggs, John Crab
tree, Gustavus a. Hahan and W ifiam Galley.
1t falls on the wrong crowd, and is such
mortifying disappointment to those copper
heads who had gone to the trouble of aiming
and equipping themselves for the s'emergen-
cy." One OF the order was so sanguine of sue
cess, that he was ing inquiry of our deal
ers, in such articles. for tons of powder, and
percussion caps, Innumerabe. But poor fell
low after all his excitement, trouble, gassing,
vexation and Vallandig ham IS Life and speech
es, he is ''le alone.' There are great many
men, and men of no families, that we could
spare much better than those who are in for
it. number of young men promenade the
streets of our town with the young ladies, that
would be much more to their credit, and coun-
try's welfare, if they were doing something
for the land of their birth. But when the
question of war is brought up they then sud-
denly relapse into all the ssthousand ills that
flesh is heir to- when just a moment before
they were struttng with all the pomposity of
a turkey gobbler. Some of them claim ex-
croscopic portion of the index dactyl,-others
the giraffe Stretches or some elongation OF
the spinal column, or its disarrangement in
some part But why do those ladies detain
those dolls Why don't they tell them that
they should be with their brothers 2 dor
some of those ladies we know have brothers
fighting in the defence of their country j and
others of them, judging from their dress, |
mourn the loss of brothers who have yielded |
up their lives on the battle field. Beaux, like |
political party lines, should be abolished. No
time now to be flirting around year or two. |
either get matched lawfully at once and be