Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-09-23
CLIPPINGS AND scR1RR11ues

is another step towards Texas.
pRon- r ichard Broadhead died at Easton
! Penn'a, on Thursday the 18th instant
~A grand Curtin Mass Meeting is to be
held at Indiana, Monday the 18Th Sept.
WEight substitutes are reported as ha wing
escaped Marshall Campbell, at Waterford.
VThe demand for American Securities
/ has considerably increased of late in England.
GgThe price of coal being now 50 high,
many railroads have commenced again the use
/ of wood.
! Ice is declared to be remedy for dip
iberia, to be swallowed in small pieces con
tinuously.
~Greek fire must be a kind of electric
fire if we may judge from the way in which it
shocked Beauregard.
rWe see it stated, that 1851 900 of com
mutation money has been paid in Lancaster
county by drafted men.
TIt is said that Gen. Banks is going to
Texas, and that Gen. Grant will command all
the Mississippi river region.
NThe Government bounty OF S402, now
given to recruits entering the regular army,
will be stopped on The 25th inst.
GCamp Curtin ii seems, has been aban-
dOned, and new site selected about three
miles from Harrisburg for camp.
TAny number of papers can be sent by
mail under IA two cent stamp. provided they
do not exceed four ounces in weight.
10 VIM. 5. Lavely, Esq, oGe of the oldest
and most respected merchants in Pittsburg,
died on the ing of the 18th September.
GVThe banking house of Reynolds & Co.,
Beilefonte, was entered through window one
night last week, and robbed of about 81 900.
ggThe citizens of Pittsburg have proposed
to furnish homes and educate fifty of the chil-'
dren, made orphans in the recent Lawrence
massacre.
Gy-It is estimated that the single State of
Michigan has produced this year nearly or
quite eight million pounds Of wool, worth so
cents per pound.
Manufacturers of wooden goods in all
sections OF the country now doing crush
ing business and making more money prob
ably than ever before.
Uy-A Peora editor compares himse # to the
American eagle. The comparison is good
the more he attempts TO soar the more he
showS-ths truth OF it
Oy-It is confidently stated thatthere is row
stored at the South more than three million
bales of cotton. How much is pledged TO
John Bull is not mentioned.
GyHon. William f. Lehman. Democratic
member of Congress from Philadelphia, and
of the ableSt and most eloquent leaders of that
party, is out for Curtin and Agnew.
Uy-The Hanover GaeeIe, the German or
gan of the Democracy OF that part Of York
county. has come out for Curtin and Agnew,
and is zealously advocating their election.
0ykit Carson has had fight with the Nav
ioes, near Fort Candy, defeating them, killing
thirteen. and capturing over twenty women
and children, without suffering loss himself.
CCThe war debt of the 'sSouthern Confed-
eraCy' is estimated at 5 200 .000, 900.
= m wi n firsaaf il.
Picayunes the probable cash value of said debt
five years hence
rTThe 31th Iowa regiment called the
''Gray Bearded Brigade - is composed of men
whose average age is 81 years One of the sol
diers is 81 years old, and has 2 Children Is
of whom are in the army.
OEThe Copperheads, and chief among them
Mr. ValIandi- ham, have been publishing the
declaration that not a man. woman or child
in the ''Southern COnfederacy' desired a re-
turn to the old Union. We see, in General
Burnsides triumphaI march to Knoxville,
singular comment upon their veracity.
~Vermont and California have been car
ricd 10y he Union men by overwhelming ma
iorities. Is there man in the country so i'll
informed-so incapable of knowing the truth
as to believe that the liberties OF the citi-
zens OF those States will be abridged by their
support Of the cause of our nationality at this
juncture
GG-A boy about II years old, named Hol-
land was killed at Johnstown, last week whilst
taking COW to pasture. He had one end of a
rope fastened to the head of the aud the
other around his body, and attempted to ride
the animal, which became frightened and
threw him of and crashed the side of his head
to such an extent that he died in a short time.