Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-10-21
CLIPPINGS AND eCRIBBLINGs.

| EyIT is stated that all the crew of the An
| glo-rebel pirate ship Alabama are British sail
| ors.
UCharles Putnam great grandson OF Israel
| Putnam, died short time since, at Marietta,
| Ohio.
~TuE Paris papers announce that Yucatan
has expressed adhesion to the Mexican En-
! pre.
UThe effects of the. Rebel commodore Tat
nall, at Watertown, n. Y, have been sold by
auction.
~rhe subscription agent reports the sale
| OF 50, ,034, $50 s.Five-twentes' on Wednesday
| of last week.
~PEN points are now manufactured out
of the new metal Aluminium, it is not OK
! ydisable.
~THERE were eleven hundred and fifty
eight widows pensions issued at Washington
| last month.
OgThe city authorities of indianapolis
have purchased 700 cords of wood for the poor
| of that city.
Dy-Chicamauga means the river of death and
the right Of that solemn stream to its name
! has been doubled.
ryOwING to the increasing price of provi
sions and fuel, the hotels in Cincinnati have
| increased board to SO per day.
ERather mean-for man to challenge
a
him to cast his ballot for Woodward.
UThe Bureau of deserters picked up
within the last two months Il, 900 of the 49,
900 who deserted from the Union army
Gan immense deposit of silver bearing
lead has been discovered in Marquette county,
Michigan, yielding % lbs. of silver to the ton
DEALL the forts commenced in Philadel-
| phia few months ago, are now completed.
| Their cost, so far as known, is about $780,
| 600.
GETHE desertions from the entire army
| during the month OF September and October,
! TINS far are repotted at five thousand and six
ty-two.
GEA MISSISSIPPI rebel paper boasts that
the stock OF ammunition in the Confederacy is
abundant, and that in any contingency 1t is
deemed ample.
UvTHE American House at Niagara, which
was burned last year and nearly rebuilt, was
set on fire and destroyed on Wednesday last
The loss is about $4,000.
GyBragg having made some of Grants
Vicksburg parolcd men fight at Chattanooga,
our government has declared all paroled u
ninn prisoners-20, ,00U-exchanged
GrCanada seems to be afraid of annex
alton 10 the United States. poor and ugly
girl might as we'll be afraid of being married
TO rich, handsome, and worthy gentleman.
0vEIGHTY cases of shells, filled with Greek
fire, have been sent to General Gilmore at
Charleston. We apprehended that, before
they are exhausted, Charleston herself will be
shell.
0TSEvFNrY FOUR men of the crew of the
priyateer Florida had been dispatched from
Brest in France, to Eng lard, in order to form
the nucleus of ii crew for some new rebel ves-
sci or vessels.
g-A CoMMIssoN has been appointed by
Gen Grant to examine into the ownership of
property at Ficksburg-confiscate that of reb-
els and place loyal owners 10 possession OF what
belongs to them.
UyThe ladies of Carlisle have presented
Spended silver pitcher aud beautiful painted
photograph OF himself, to Gen. William +.
Smith. for his gallant defence of that place
July lSt last.
Gy-"RECENT statistics,'' says the Paris o.
pimion National, s:show that'in one of the luna
tic asy lums oi the Department of the Rhone,
one third OF the patients their intrm lty
OF mind to spirtualism.
Gg-IIon. Edward Everett has agreed to de-
liver the Grafton at the cOnsecration of the
national cemetery on the battle filed of Get
tyshurg. The ceremony will take place on
the 19ih of November next.
G-MRs. ELIZABETH KANE and her daugh-
ter. Miss Clara Kane sister and niece of the
notorious Marshal Kane have peen sent South
from Baltimore, tor writing reasonable letters
to relatives in the rebel army.
~England aud France may recognize the
rebel Confederacy as Independent without
making it so, just as you may recognize per-
son as gentleman when he is a blackguard
and can never be anything else.
Oy-OF the Crops d'Afrique, organized un
der the auspices of Gen. Banks, fifteen thous
and colored soldiers have already been mus
tered into the service. and recruits are still
coming IN rapidly. The Maximum strength
of the corps is % 900.
UgStephen A. Douglas is buried in the
out skirts of Chicago, in beautiful spot by
the lake shore. There is no monument erect
ed over him, with mama or history simple
mound with a wooden fence around 1t, tells
where Douglas lies.
rvB.ig.-Gen Robert Anderson, in re-
sponse to an inquiry from the War Depart
ment, has stated that the flag which he hauled
down from Sumpter on the occasion OF its
surrender to the rebels is still in his posses
sion, and has never left his custody.
DvA giant lady died at New Prospect,
New Jersey, a week ago, weighing 700 lbs.
She liked ham and eggs; a ham would last
her two meals She eat a good dinner, of
which twenty four ears of green corn formed
a slight portion, shortly before her DEATH
OvArtemus Ward says: 81 have already
given two cousins to the war, ard L stand
ready to sacrifice my wife's brother rathur'n
not see the rebelyn krusht. And if wuss
comes to wuss, I'll shed every drop of biud
my able bodied relations has got to pro socoot
the war;
OEOn last Thursday night six of the pris
oners confined in Cambria county Jail made
their escape from s.durance vile'' by saving
assunder the iron bars encompassing of
the windows of their cell. They Immediately |
made themselves scarce, and have not since |