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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20
DELIEF NOTICE-The Board

DELIEF NOTICE.-The Board Of Relief
IL for the county of Clearfeld, will meet at the
Commissioners Office in Clearfeld, on Wednes-
day and Thursday, the 9th and 98th days Of
July. 1854.
The Board of Relief have directed that the wife
of the soldier must appear before the board, and
produce her sworn statement. detailing name O!
soldier, regiment and company. and when ens
ted the number of children, with age and Of
each the township in which they resided at the
time of enlistment, and their present residence;
and that she is without the means of support for
herself and children who are dependent upon her.
Two witnesses of credibility from the township
in which she resides must also be produced " hose
certificate (sworn to before the Board of Relieh
must set forth that the applicant is the person she
represents herself TO be, that the statement Of the
number and age of her family is true that she s
in destitute circumstances and her family in ao-
tual want, and that all the facts set forth in her
application correct and true
Forms containing these acquisitions can be OBJ
tanned at the Office of the Board of Relief, when
application is made and the witnesses appear.
n. B. Illness of the APPLICANT, properly proven.
will excuse personal attendance.
July 13, 1864 WM. BRADLEY. clerk
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More of the Same Sort.


Two weeks since We published accounts of
4 number of papers, which heretofore had
been opposed TO President Lincoln, coming
out in favor of the Union nominees. Here
are few more of the same sort:
''The Belleville Denokrat, one of the
strongest among the German journals In
Illinois to advocate Fremont before his NOM
ination, has backed square out and hoisted
the names of Lincoln and johnson.
The Buffalo Journal, the new German
daily recently started in that city, under the
editorship of DR. De Hass, as the organ OF
the German Radicals, which was expec-
ted to support the nomination of Fremont,
and which, since the Cleveland Convention,
has maintained an attitude of political un-
certainty, came out recently squarefooted
and decided for Lincoln and johnson
The Waechter ant Erie, an influential
German paper published in Northern Ohio,
and which was favorable to the Cleveland
Convention, speaks as follows: The Ere
mont who wrote that letter accepting the
Cleveland nomination., over which the cop
perhead press is rejoicing, does not appear
TO us like the Fremont OF 1856. How
can we recognize the document as coming
from one who has always been leader OF
the radicals? Is it not bid for the Chica-
go nomination, or has the man become an
other?
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President Lincoln has issued Proclama

President Lincoln has issued Proclama-
ton appointing the lst Thursday in August
as day of humiliation and prayer by the
people of the United States. The appoint
ment is in obedience to resolution of Con-
gress passed before the adjournment of that
body, recommending the people ito confess
and repent of their manifold sins, and i'm
plore the compassion and forgiveness of the
Almighty" 1t is at all times proper that
we should give thanks to God for his mer-
cies, and at the same time as a Christian
people we should not forget the duty of con
before Him. Thus alone can we hope for a
continuance of His mercy and loving kind
ness.
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Mark we'll the malignant, treacheror

Mark well the malignant, treacherous
copperhead in this crisis in our country S
cause The shadow of adversely quickens
his whole perfdious powers into life, and he
scatters llnmanly treason on every side along
his pathway. He would yield to treason
because he loves it-because he hates the free
institutions so sacred to every patriot, and
he serves the purpose of JEFF. Davis with
more effect than his murderous soldiers if he
can make loyal hearts despair. Let faith
full men rise in their majesty and declare
with one voice that the UNION SHALL BE
Preserved, and THAT TREASON WILL DIE
Repositoyy
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DR.. j. P. Wilson, Surgeon of the lS4th
Pa. Volunteers, and brother-in-law of
Gov. Curtin, contracted fever in the field,
and was brought to Harrisburg, on Satur-
day July ID, in very exhausted condition,
and was taken to the Brady House. On
Tuesday morning while his wife was at
breakfast, in fit oftemporaryjderangement,
doubtless induced by his disease, he cut his
throat with razor, and was found dead in
his bed. While in the field he had devoted
his whole time to the relief of our wounded,
and constant labor and exposure brought
him to his sad and untimely end, He was
a most worthy and accomplished gentlemen
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By Tuesday Evenings Mail.

An official report to the Post Office de-
partment shows that the mails for twenty
eight different cities were burned by the
rebels at Gunpowder.
On the 18th a collision took place on the
New York and Erie railroad, by which Six
ty-four Union and Rebels soldiers were
killed
The probability is that the rebel raiders
will make good their retreat with most of
their booty gathered in Maryland.
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The hour of danger is the test of fidelity
He who is ready to bow under the shadow of
adversely, because the hosts of crime con
front both Grant and Washington, prefers
anarchy to order, and starless despotism TO
Constitutional freedom He would cloud
the graves of our martyred dead with dis
honor, and doom the living to humiliation
and lawlessness. Steady, faithful mem
steady An imperiled nationality is to be
rescued-the hope of the living and the fame
af the dead demand it
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NEW CALL FOR TRooPs. 500, 600 MORE
MEN-The President has issued call for
100000 additional men. IF these troops
are not put into the field, by volunteering,
on or before the 5th day of September, 1864,
u draft will be Immediately made thereafter
for one year from that date Volunteer.
will be accepted for one, two or three years.
A credit for any excess of men furnished on
former quotas, by sub-districts, will be al
lowed on the present call.
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RALLY ROUND THE coUNrFR, BOYS"
-Neig Song.
THE I'D SERIES
OF Grand Races have commenced on
the Lumber-City course!
OPEN FOR COMPETITION

OPEN FOR COMPETITION
Erery day, Sundays accepted 4 prize
for eresybody. 4ppb Immediately 10
the prOpTietors, KIRK d, Spencer,
ut their Neic Cheap Store,
IN Lumber City, Penn q.
The fact can be no longer denied-the people
have said it, the people know it, and everybody
believes it, that the new store is the place 10 ouy
cheap goods, to buy new goods. to buy fashions-
BILE goods, to buy any kind of goods you ~sh'
The summer stock, now opening at Kirk spen.
GERS is the largest, the best assortes-and 6s'f
that ever came to the place.
Ladies find delaines, alpacas, merinos'
cashmeres, French and American ginghams lawn
plaids, nankins, berege eeambrics muslIns oalmo
raj and hoop skirts, silk and cloth NANTES, Ve''
edgings, lace braid nets, corsets belts, colisies
hosiery gloves, ribbons bonnets, hats trlInnIAes
bobinett, null and swiss muslins, shaHls colhoS
wristlets linen handkerchiefs, toilet articles a0
Gentlemen can find coats, pants. vests oGo.' %
shoes, hats, caps, collars, neck-uesr suspehu04'
shirts, handkerchief, perfumery &c. IL.
Children can find toys in great variety canu''''
nuts, &c.
1t is the place TO buy your dry goods your 81
ceries, your boots and shoes, hats, caps anu 10 I
nets your notions your hardware, scytnes' iSi
shoveIs, hoes, rakes; your brooms, cedar anu -, w.
low ware; your clocks and looking glasses youi
stone and queensware; your -four, hsh ana paoo -
your glass, putty, paints oil and varnish S0TIT IT
nails and spikes; in fact anything you wan
you wish the hlghest casn pilce ioi SO~- -,
your butter eggs, grain. fax-seed, rags tlmDe
boards and shingles, it is the place to exenaI ot
the best advantage to yourselves ANY af' ed;ss
on hand will be ordered on short notice Lao-.
wishing bonnets or dress goods can have them J
dered by calling at Kirk Spencers c6eap st hat
as special arrangements have been MADE ''i
purpose. -,any-
We do not wish to wound or SERIOUSLY nute 1s az
BODY but will do our utmost TO maintain 'n ti,,I
utatiou we have won, Of selling gooas
lower than anybody else. =. ,on-
Rally round the counter boys an"
vinced of .he truth of our assertions sc,vrrrR
Lumber city; June "a KIRh 3 sfhH'A
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20

Speaker Colfax is renominated from the
9th Congressional District of Indiana. He
has been nominated seven times and elected
FIVE; representative for ten out of four
teen years.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20

The citizens of Swampscot, Mass, have
voted to assess every man liable to the draft
$50, for the purpose of ofproviding substitutes
to fill the next quota.
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A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.-Lettess
IN of Administration the estate of Thomas
Cowan, late of Beccaria township. Clearfeld coun-
y,dec'd., having been granted to the undersigne ned
all persons indebted 10 said estate are requested
to make immediate payment. and those having
claims against the same will present them duly
authe henticatedIf for settlement.
SAMUEL HEG ARTY.
July 6. 1864. Administrator
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20

4 drafted Pittsburger furnished a substi-
tute last Saturday a week for whom he paid
$1,000, notwithstanding he was disqualified
for service,
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20

ARebel writer speaks of Vallandigham
reception in Ohio as favorable to the '' Con-
faderate cause. This is what was intended.
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OF CIearhaId county, there viii be exposed to
public sale
On Saturday, August Goth.
At the Blue Ball hotel the following described
Real estate, late the property of Peter Smeal
decd, to wit: certain tract of land situate in
Boggs tp., Clearheld county, containing IO9 Acres
beginning at a white pine. thence by land of "
Smeal moth ITO perches to post thence west I5O!
perches to post, thence by lands of g D. Morgan
& Co, south lis perches 10 post, thence by land
of jeremiah Smeal west 1871 perches to place Of
beginning, with about "a acres cleared thereon.
Part of this land is we'll tim mbered with white and
yellow pine, and is supposed to contain inexhaps-
tible quantities of stone coal
TERMS One half cash at sale, and the remain
der in one year thereafter. with interest to be
secured by judgment bonds. Sale to commence
at = o'clock p. m, of said day, when due attend
ance viii be given by CYRUS HOWE, Admir-
July 20 1864. MARY SMEAL Adm'I
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9ew Adrertisemrnts.

darerttSenaentss set IN large tyye, eats. oro,,,.
tamil be charged double p1Iee for a!
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20

Tolnsure attention, the CASH must acco-.-
ny notices, as follows ALI Cautions NO
Strays, u; Auditors notices, 81, SO: ADJ I 81
sTa.ors a ana executors notices, 81 so, each sb5
Other at 81 per So ara for
insertions Twelve lines Tor less count as.s
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-20
BY s. j. ROW.
OLEARFIELD, PA, JULY 20, 1864.
NATIONAL UNION NOMINATIONS.
YoR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JOHNSON, of Tennessee.
UNION ELECTORAL TICKET.

UNION ELECTORAL TICKET.
SENATORIAL ELECTORS.
MORTON M'MICHAEL, of Philadelphia,
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM. of Beaver
REPRESENTATIVE ELECTORS
Robert King, Ii Elias W. Hall,
Geo oMorrisonCoates, Il Charles Fl. Shriner,
Henry Bumm, Is John Wister,
William II. Kern, l6 David M'Conaughy,
Bartin Ii. jerks, II David W Woods,
Charles NJ Runk, Is Isaac Benson,
Robert Parke, l9 John Patton,
3 Aaron Null, 90 Samuel B. Dick,
John A. Hiestand, 81 Everard Bierer,
10 Richard ii. Coryell. % John p. Penney,
ii Edward Holiday, % Ebepezer MJunkin
L Charles Z. Reed, "a John w. Blanchard
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ORPHANS COURT SALE

By virtue of order of the Orphans Cour;
Of Clearfald county, there will be exposed to
public sale
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.AkE $3.50 NoIICE;IThe Commissioners Of
Il Clearheld co. will be in session on Non5.v
the 10Th day of July, 1864, for the np-nnss
paying the veterans accredited to CleaTfe5 conr
ty; at whicn time all persons having antb",it~t
receipt for veterans will attend By ordar os ~ "
Board W : RRA6I EV =, "a inc
lCearheld, July 20th. 1864
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CAUTION.-Ali persons are hereby ,,n,;..
~ ed against purchasing meddling with ~,
tain household property now in the hand. &c W ger
g. Thompson, of Chest tp., as the same bs,orl, u
TO US ana mas only been left in the care Of SAD
thompson, and Is subjec to our order AZ am ,;'
July 20, 1864. A. PFARcF a 6pm t1le
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26

/. In granting authorities for Supply Stores here
after, ! am instructed TO give the preferelce, in
every instance to disabled soldiers and sailors The
applicants Of this class are be served before other
persons receive authorities.
2. If they do not apply in sufficient numbers 70
take cut all the authorities granted am next TO re-
ceive applications from soldiers and sailors-not dis
abled-who have served two years or more, and
have been honorably discharged. In all cases must
require the applicant to present the original certif-
cate Of his discharge copy of which viii be fled
in my Office In cases of disability, am instructed
TO require the certificate of some Surgeon in charge
of military hospital chat it caused while in the
service, which certificate viii also be kept on file
2. Soldiers sailors, disabled or otherwise not
haYing capital at their command will be allowed to
take in partner, but they will not be allowed to
seH their authorities indirectly make merchandise
of their privileges in this respect
T. If soldiers and sailors, who have been disabled
by wounds and disease do not apply in sufficient
numbers to take up the amount Of trade allowed.
after they have had sufficient time viii proceed to
give out authorities to loyal men already business
and if these do not apply, applicants will be re-
ceived and considered
D. The allowance per month will he 50. 900 to each
store and to enable me to facilitate business and to
do justice to all parties viii require the applea-
tions TO be made during the FIRST ten days Of each
mouth.
E The acts of Congress and the Treasury Regu-
aons contemplate only the furnishing Of necessary
supplies 10 loyal people in insurrectionary States
'ciR lines and not to the fostering of trade by
encouraging commercial enterprise for purposes of
speculation.
z In all cases shall carry out these regulations
As the Agent, am only the instrument of the law
and of the Department., and do not feel myself at
liberty 70 grant any special fayors outside Of the
regulations w G. BRowNLow
Asst. Spec dgt. Treas Dept
OCTOBER 70, 1864.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26

On the 18th of January, 1851, Hon. George Fl.
Pendleton made speech in Congress from which
we make the following extracts It viii be seen that
he advocates disunion pure and simple. In the nonl-
nation of Pendleton the Chicago Convention finds
a fit exponent:
my voice to-day is Tor Cancellation, my voice is
for compromise, and it is but the echo of the voice
of my constituents. beg you, gentlemen, whe with
me represent the Northwest; you who, with me,
represent the city of Cincinnati, beg you, GENTLE
men, to hear that voice. If yeu viii not If you
find Cancellation impossible; fyour differences are
great that you cannot or will not reconcile them
then, gentlemen, let the seeding States depart in
peace; let them establish their government and en-
pire, and work out their destiny acccrding to the
wisdom which God has given them
Further along in the sans speech, he says
ssIf these Southern States cannot be recotsciled
and if ycu gentlemen cannot find it in your hearts
to grant their demands; il they must leave the fam
fly mansion; would signaize their departure bv
tokens of love; would bid them farewell 80 ten
derby that they would forever Be toucd by the re-
collection Of it and if in the vicssitudes of their
separate existence, they should desire to come to-
gether again I'M our common Government there
should be pride to be Inundated there should be
no wound inflicted from any hand to be healed They
should come and be welcome to the place they new
occupy
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26

We have on our table The carlnville Spectator. Of
Illinois, edited By y r. FINN and r. " pa,s Dsren
two coppcrheads remarkable only for their ignorance
and low associations. In editorial they charae.
terise 4old thief and scoundrels We take
this as a compliment coming from pair of editors
whose deeds would long since have confined them to
the State prison had the laws Of illinois beer in
forced
In second editorial they pitch into Mr.. Iinecln
for his negotiations with Gov Letcher, of Ss.sth
carotsa.a.' We supposed that a copperhead editor
would at least know what State old John Letcher
was Governor of
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26

It is melancholy fact, that many Union men d
Knoxville and its surroundings coming into de
repute daily both with the Federal officers and tne
loyal rnen of our country. And this Is not without
Just and sufficient cause as we honestly believe. The
complaint made-and it is Just and true-is that nc
rebel great or small, can be arrested imprisoned
but list Of Union names come forward attached @
petition asking his release; and in half the cases
that occur Union meh actually certify to their 10y
atty Many are loosing their influence by this
course, and they ought to loose it all The authorl-
ties owe t to Themselves and to the Federal cause,
to treat with and contempt the signatures Of
men who lend their names to every rebel scamp to
turn him loose spy, and issformer, to do the
dirty work that nine tenths of them have proven
themselves capable Of. Some who were listened to
with respect for a time have allowed their names
to become so common that they now have no weight
whatever.
There are others who are eternally abusing the
administration, and through IT the Government
they find fault of the military authorities and moth
ing done by the civil military rulers suits their
taste or their views of proprety. That many things
are wrong and irregular and not they ought to be-
every candid man win confess. But could it well
be otherwise, in war of such huge proportions
Why give aid and comfort to the enemy, by joining
with them in the abuse of Government and a set
of civil and military rulers who when compared to
the Confederacy and its thieves and cutthroats
PERFECTION
Gentlemen may say the Constitution is violated
that great outrages perpetrated; and that this
or that department of the service is badly managed
but the honest truth and the whole truth Isl when it
comes to light, these men have lost their negroes
They say they care nothing about the negro, and
they have said it SO often that many OF them have
got to believe it. But the Niger is at the bottom OF
all their complaints and is the of their disaf
lection.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26
Frauds in the Name Of ..Dem ocracy. .

Politicians, ambitious ofpower and place,an who
have for more than thirty years plotted the over
throw of Democracy" have, during all thst lime,
been guilty of great fraud upon the COMMON
MASSES of the country. The object of Democratic
institutions is to promote the security, happiness,
freedom and prosperity of the PEOPLE, under q
government of their own framing and under laws
enacted by representatives of their own choice
The government of the United States is of this
kind, and in the name of Democracy bad men
have sought for years to overthrow it. and still seek
to do that thing.
In the name of democracy they have secretly
pledged themselves to overthrow the rights of the
Democratic masses.
In the name of Democracy they have ruled
the country for nearly thirty years for the purpose
of building up an aristocracy who should maintain
their power by virtue of their peculiar property
In the name of Democracy they have attempt
ed to make property in workingmen (which is the
most anti-democratic property the great object of
legislation to the neglect of the other interests of
the country.
In the name of Democracy they have endea-
vored to shut out free workngmen from the South,
and from the Territories, by making slave labor
profitable and free labor unproHtabIe and disgrace
full
In the name of democracy" they have held
high positions in the gift of the people, which they
used only to betray and sacrifice those who trusted
them.
In the name of Democracy they broke up the
Democratic party, in order to prepare the way for
carrying out their plans.
In the name of Democracy" they are advocating
a dissolution of the Union
In the name of Democracy they declare that
the American Union is not Union but Confede-
racy.
In the name of Democracy they declare the
Government has no right to defend itself against
traitors.
In the name of Democracy they have stirred up
the laboring and have filed the streets of New
York with boodshed, arson and riots, and have dis
graced as in the eyes eff tho world
In the name of democracy they denounce the
heroic soldiers of the Union as BULL DOGS and
HE'LL HOUNDS" who are engaged in murder
and arson, and not in q noble effor. to save -our
democratic Institutions from destruction.
To cap the climax of villainy now, when these
traitors have filed the land with bloody graves and
desolate homes there still generation OF poll
ticans bad men, who call themselves Democrats
who are still fighting the GOVERNMENT and
the PEOPLE, under the pretense of saving the
country by electing Mcclellan. Voters of Tonnes
see The men who advocate such doctrines and is
found in such company, is not the friend of Dem
ocracysn of Jacksonian Democracy, but an enemy to
true Democracy, and the foe of every laborer who
is not the owner of slaves enough to carry on his
working operations. Nay more, he is the friend of
the Southern rebellion, and all tre patriots should
guard against him they would against the men il
rebel uniform and in command of the guerrillas of
JEFF. Davis.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26

As general thing, persons who have taken me
Presidents amnesty cath have acted very badly,
giving rebels information as TO the Whereabouts q
Union scouts. and excusing themselves for having
taken the oath the ground that it was done under
eopatsion, when in the OATH they swear they have
taken it Of their oses free ,rin
However, We know some men who have taken Il.
and several of them reside ia this city, who are act
ing IN good faith preserving their honor and doing
all they agreed TO do This all honorable man win
DO.