Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-12-02
Raftfman's gpurnal.
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE JOURNAL
Letter from Philipsburg, Pa.
PHILIpsBURG PENN'A, Nov. sd, Isf

PHTLIPsBURG PENN'A, Nov. 23d, 1868.
DEAR JoURNAE:-The past week has opened
another bright page in the history of Philips
burg. For great many years, ,and presume,
l am safe in saying, ever since this place had
an existence, the farmers Of Halt Moon have
brought the produce of their farms to our mar
ket, and exchanged it for lumber and coal
the staple products OF our town and vicinity.
The farmers always had the inside track, for
their produce was that which would prolong
both man and beasts stay in this 'sneck of
TIMBER, and consequently lumber aud
coal dealers had to come to the terms that the
Egyptians asked. They were dubbed E.
gyptians from the fact OF their chief article OF
trade being corn. Thus matters continued
for a long time The season for delivering
was the first snow,' or ..sledding." These
clauses were always understood in all con-
tracts, verbal or written, whether mentioned
or not. The '.Cleartlelders," :" for be it known
that the .Egyptians'' call all west of the noun
tain, ''Cleartelders,' - bore up under the great
humiliation that their friends from modern E.
gypt compelled them TO do--ofteu saying, no
doubt,
''if we catch them once upon the hip,
Wen feed them fat the ancient grUdge We
bear Them
On last Saturday, 2lst inst, the e.Cleartisld-
ers" threw up their hands for joy, having at
long last seen the day when the order of things
were reversed aht The Egyptians come to
Judgment" Ten eisht-wheeled box cars,
loaded with corn, came riding on the rail- To
the once held IN bondage corn fed critters of
Ciearneld. Glorious era-one that should
have a monument erected 10 its memory
This, the more grand and mag niticent since II
Is lnat The crops OF grain and hay have be.
failure with us, the past season. Oar log men
and iumber-men. generally were hard put to,
To get grain for feed, at any price. Some
days ago, one or two ..Egyptians' ventured
% trdfisCeu1 tha TINA hnn ,f.f.x "a,
ing Tor the ''first snow and hauled out
load OF corn with the wagon. II WAS an unex-
pected move, TOR our traders did not think
they would venture the experiment. The E.
gyptlaDS tapped the market in the nick OF
time. Buyers swarmed about them asking
the prlce,-the Egyptian" was afraid to say
Tor fear be would be taken up, and then have
the remorse that he did not ask more, some
thing similar To the ''Hebrews" OF Chatham
street. Finally, after closely reconoitering
the position, he said ST rs per bushei Snap
went the ''gum band - aud a yolley OF s.grseu.
Ca * tuSs Tss the result. The Egyptian" look
ed his bump OF accumulation, and crowded
his mathematical prognostic to say S 80, per
bushel-but Il was too late. The next morn
ing ere Hyperion had decked, in golden rays,
the topmost peaks of the Aleghanies. the az
was vending his way towards his
''native heath, - happier man. Immediate
ly on his arrival ,he sounded the ssgreenback"
clarion call and reported the entire success of
the eXpedtiou-tnat he had carried the
''Clearhelder's" pocket-book by storm and re-
iieved their gum hind of the outside pressure
oi an attack from the guerrillas. The 'sEgyp-
tians" at once determined to fit out an arma-
da of wagons, loaded with corn, and reduces
the surplus of ..greenbacks" that was in tn,
hands OF the H.Clearfie lders," to the augmen-
tatIon of corn. The beginning OF the past
week was the day appointed for the assault.
Long ere the God OF day had his round.
the well-fed Dags of the Egyptians" were
seen IN The distance. The '.hears'' OF North
St cond and Presqueislc streets determined to
''bull'' the market, and to the utter astonish-
ment of our nile" friends. they were only
offered / 20, and heavy at that. They reser-
we'd their sales, but finally had 10 capituIate,
and the ''bulls' went in on flank movement,
which turned the closing sales TO ST Is, de-
mand heavy at that. Tho Egyptians" beat
a retreat, and have only returned in squads of
one or two wagons at time since. The
bulls now, in town, become the .sbears,"
and they run up the price to country custom
ers at 81 40 a ,45 and tow: consumers who
we're the unfortunate owners of a swine or
-wo, thanksgiving, Christmas New Years
prospective roasts) were asked to pay 5 so,
But the ten carloads arriving on Saturday. a.
ike sealed the fate of .'Egyptians,' s.bulls,''
bears" and spectators in the staff of life
20 ''critters,'' generally. SO much tor the
Rail Road.
Your compOsitor made my letter OF the 9th
instant say, ssthat the iocks almost persisted
sith cold and hairy men of a savage and fierce
ispect, and marrow path" | am Inclined
O think that the fiocks had r s.hard road To
ravel," aud the soldiers greasy one, accor-
ling TO the typos ideas. But the readers will
please consider comma { } after cold aud an
NJ for (m) IN marrow.
The beautiful weather continues, though We
lad full days rain on Saturday-yet it cam.
Iown gentle a shower in May. | would
lot doubt. but a few more such showers would
'roduce November flowers. | noticed a cou-
lie blooming red few days since. They
'ere fiourishing on the cheeks of damsel-
ust sssweet sxteen.' | fell in love with them;
ut g moment afterwards she biushed and I
aw the rogue rise in fakes. The works of
rt are splendid, but the works of nature are
referred by LERo1
The question has been asked, why il is con-
idered impolite for gentlemen to go in the
resence OF ladies in their shirt sleeves while
is considered in every way correct for tho
aides themselves to aDDear before the penfle-