Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-08-16

CLEARFIELD, PA, AUG. I6, 1865.
THE NEWS.

PapatOpam and the town OF Sac0talpam
were recently sacked, and manv outrages
committed by the French navy. The Egyp-
tan troops have burned two hundred and
forty houses, inhabited by workmen in Co.
cinto, and the unfortunate people are living
in the greatest misery The French have
laid waste over seven leagues of cultivated
territory on the rivers Cocecite and Halesro-
yam, carrying devastation everywhere, with
out any pretext, but merely because the
people will not make war upon those who
who resist French aggression.
The last of the immense boilers designed
for the formidable ram Dunderberg was on
Saturday a-week placed on board the ram.
Dunderberg has six boilers in all, and which,
in all probability are the largest ever con-
structed in this or any other country. One
of the boilers weighs over sixty tons. is sew
enteen feet and halt in hight, and its
front twenty-on and a half feet Each
boiler has fire surface of 81, 900 square feet
and CRATE surface of 1,200 feet. The
work of placing them in the vessel was a
very critical one, but was accomplished in
the most satisfactory manner.
A curious snake was recently found at
Lee, says the Springfield Republican, 1t
was nearly four feet in length, about the size
of a mans finger, and shaped like whip
lash; and, on close examination, the whole
body was found to be composed of small
worms, about half an inch in length, with
large black heads and semi-transparent body.
On separating them into fragments they
would Immediately reform into the snake
shape and crawl slowly off, One or two
other similar snakes have recently been seen
in that vicinity.
Dauphin county, during the war, paid
1874, 653 bounty to her volunteers. In ad-
dition, SIS, 5000 were paid to nine months
men in 1862, and one hundred days men in
1864. The county during the same period
also paid relief to soldiers families amount
ing to Sl46, 600.
Bishop Lyet, of South Carolina, who Is
now in Rome, and Miss Cora Slocum, of
New Orleans, have been pardoned by the
President. The confscated estates of Miss
Slocum have been restored to her, on re-
commentator of General Butler.
The downward tendency of wages has
been felt in Erie county Some of the ma
chine shops reduced the wages of their en-
ployees about twenty per cent, few days
ago The men acquiesced cheerfully in the
necessity of this movement.
1t is reported in Washington that Gen.
Benjamin d. Hill, of the late rebel army,
was arrested in that city, on Friday night,
for drunkenness, and not having sufficient
money to pay his fine, was sent to the work
house for thirty days.
A colored man in Eufala, S c. undertook
to burn out a hornets nest he found in
cotton warehouse. His triumph was COM
plete so was the destruction of the building
and the l, 500 bales of cotton which were init.
On Saturday afternoon, July %, between
three and four o'clock, McConnelsburg was
visited by a snow storm, which lasted several
minutes, as can be certified to by many citi-
zens. The day was quite warm.
An account of the defeat of Cortinas by
Lopez, comes to us by the way of New Or
leans. Cortinas lost some 400 men; the
Imperialists, only some five or six men
wounded.
Paris letters say that French officials have
strong hopes that our government will re.
cognize the Mexican Empire before long.
The French are proverbially a visionary
people.
The Erie Pa.) Observer says that H. D.
Sherman, of the famous Sherman well,
is reported to be yorth $1,000, 900. Five
years ago he was poor man.
The formation of new county out of por-
tions of Venango, Crawford, and Warren
counties, is still being agitated, and will
probably be accomplished
The Colored Equal Rights State Conven-
tion will meet to-day in Harrisburg. The
Convention will adopt measures to agitate
for the right of suffrage.
The Matamoras papers say that among
the rebel officers making their way to the
city of Mexico, was Kirby Smith, Price,
Magruder and Preston.
Some members of the lst Ohio Cavalry
under the effects of liquor, recently robbed
and destroyed goods in Florence, n c., to
the value of $500
There is much sickness among the Feder-
al troops near Monterey. General Steele,
with three of his officers, are down sick with
back bone fever.
The Huntingdon journal says that
better crop of grain than that of the present
season was never cut IN that county.