Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-06-14
BY s. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA, JUNE IA, 1865.
THE LATEST NEWS.


labor is SO despised by the white population
that they actually prefer starvation or beg
ging to work in any form, and even in their
poverty and wretchedness they show the
most virulent spirit of dissaffection. Mill
tary protection is necessary against the de-
struction of the whole population by an
archy.
Secretary Seward still experiences great
difficulty in speaking and eating, his lower
jaw being fastened so as to be immovable
The lower part of his face is completely en-
veloped in the mechanical contrivances for
keeping his jaw in place so that it may heal.
He is able to attend to business. His son
Frederick is now entirely out of danger.
The wool growers of Canada have fixed
the price at sixty cents per pound. The law
of demand and supply was too much for the
growers, and wool had to be sold at forty to
forty-two cents In various parts of Cana
: da it is selling down as low as thirty-fi five
cents per pound, at which price American
buyers are taking it up rapidly.
While a body of two hundred men were
engaged at battalion drill at West Point,
a few days since, low cloud discharged itself
of its electricity, seemingly through the at
traction of the two hundred bright gun bar
rels. Several men were stunned, and large
portion of the guns were knocked out of
their owners hands
The Mqmtrers Washington special, Civ
ing an account of the review of the Sixth
Corps, gives long history of this Corps,
with some figures, from which it appears
that altogether forty thousand men who
have been attached to this Corps during the
war, were killed or wounded.
The Government has sent FIVE hundred
men, with ambulances, intrenching tools,
and coffins, to the Wilderness battlefield,
administrations to decently inter the remains
of all dead soldiers, both Union and rebel,
there exposed to view.
On June 9th, at clock, p NJ the ex-
tensive buildings in Nashville, used for quar-
termaster and commissary stores, were dis
covered to be on fire, and were consumed
with all their contents. Loss, between eight
and ten millions.
John Minor Bolts arrived in Richmond on
the 5th instant There are rumors that he
intends to oppose the policy of Governor
Pierpont's administration, and also that he
will be a candidate for the United Safes
Senate
1t is stated upon good authority that the
Government is now feeding 200, 900 of the
inhabitants of Virginia, of all classes white
and black 1t is said that l | 900 rations are
issued to citizens in Richmond alone
A dispatch dated Lexington, KY, June
10th, says Reliable information has reach
ed the friends of John G. Breckenridge, at
this place, that he has arrived safe in Cuba.
How he got there they refuse to say.
Advices have reached Washington that
the forts at Sabine Pass, Texas, surrendered
to the United States Steamer Owasco, on
May 26th-the American flag being hoisted
over the works at o'clock, p NJ.
The HeraldS Savannah correspondent
says: Sedden the rebel Secretary of War,
Judge Campbell and R. NJ J. Hunter, have
been taken to Fort Pulaski for confinement.
Payne, the man who attempted Secretary
Seward life, has been recognized as Rich
ard Lee, son of the rebel Admiral Lee, and
nephew of Gen. Lee
Great activity is reported at Wilmington
North Carolina, in shipping North cotton,
rosju, etc The former dullness has entire
iy disappeared.
Nearly two and-a half millions of Nation
al currency were issued last week, making
the total amount now in circulation, $37,-
772, 705.
According to accounts from the Shenan-
doah Valley, the people there have gladly
settled down to the changed condition of
affairs.
Kirby Smith, it is reported, has gone to
take up his home in Mexico, carrying with
him large amount of money.
The conspiracy trial at Washington is a.
bout to close-all the witnesses having been
examined.
Governor VIM. Smith, of Virginia. has
delivered himself under arrest and has been
paroled.
Mrs L. a. Sigourney, the poetess, died
at Hartford on June 10th, aged y years.
President johnson moved into the White
House last week
1t is thought that Vance and Letcher will
be paroled.
Gold has been selling at l36 to l3s, in
New York