Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-12-27
/. J. ROW, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
CLEARFIELD, PA, DEC. 81, 1865.
THE NEWS,

court-martial, of which Vice Admiral Far
ragut was president, for the trial of Com
modore Craven for declining to challenge
the commander of the rebel pirate Stone
wall, in the harbor of Ferrol have been pub
ished. The court sentenced Commodore
Craven to be suspended for two years. The
Secretary of the Navy returned the findings
and sentence disapproved to the court,
which reiterated its decision. The Secreta-
ry of the Navy then dissolved the court, and,
releasing Commodore Craven from arrest,
directed him to return to duty.
The Heralds Washington dispatch ssys
further disclosures show that frauds upon
discharged soldiers, by unprincipled claim
agents, in the matter Of procuring bounty
land warrants along the Pacific Railroad,
will reach $4,000 instead of $4,000, as at
first believed. The complaints of swindled
discharged soldiers, who have received the
advance fee of s25, are coming in at pain
full rate
The English press is doing we'll in de-
nouncing the horrible butcheries perpetra
ted in the island of Jamaica during the late
outbreak. 1t may reasonably be doubted if
so fragrant and unjustifable enormities were
committed in France during the Reign of
Terror, or in the most barbarous ages The
English people is divided between shame
and indignation and we'll they may be.
The question of the admission of the
Southern claimants to seats in the House of
Representatives, it IS now considered, has
been fully determined. The vote in the
House adopting the Stevens resolution by
two thirds, is regarded as conclusive evil
dence that they will not be admitted this
Winter.
The Pope's allocution against the Free
Masons has had strange effect 1t is said
that within day after it was published,
the two secret lodges in Rome received 2S
new members 1t is also asserted that
Pope Plus was member of the order in
the early part of his life.
The Freemasons of Massachusetts, having
chartered the Lodge of colored Masons, at
Newbern. North Carolina, the white Ma
sous are very much exercised about the
matter, and are striving to suppress them ;
it will not be done, however, while our
troops are there
The British authorities have come pretty
fully to the conclusion that no practicable
armor can render war ships shot and bullet
proof. As the power of the guns is increas-
ed the armor is made thicker but in every
instance, so far, the guns ultimately come
off winners.
The increase of population in some of the
English cities is quite rapid. Since the CEN
sus was taken in 1861 the population of the
borough of Sheffield has increased from lS5,
900 to upwards of 207 900 souls.
1t is said that JEFF Davis is turning his
attention, more than ever, to the concern of
his soul Well, he has much to repent of.
and should be dilligent, as his days are
about numbered.
George Grinder, the husband of Martha
Grinder, lately convicted in the criminal
court of Pittsburg on the charge of murder,
was also tried for the same offence and ac-
quilted.
The Committee appointed to select site
for an Ohio State Agricultural College have
recommended that Mama University, at
Oxford, be taken for the purpose.
The small poxis raging among the freed
men at Selma, Alabama. They are not al
lowed to enter the city, except under very
pressing circumstances
There is at present living in Sweden
young man aged 19 years, who is 9 feet
iaehes in height. At eight years of age he
was Ave feet 8 inches.
An immense lee gorge in the river near
St. Louis. gave way on the 10th, and sunk
. number Of steamers and barges, valued i:
$500, 600.
The railroad bill before the Tennessee
Legislature. jappropriates bonds to the
amount of q, 900 to eight railroads in that
State.
1t is positively asserted that General Lo-
gan will accept the mission to Mexico by
direction of the War Department provision
ally.
A fire occurred in Chicago on the 10th,
by which $3.50, 900 worth Of property was
destroyed, about one-half of which was in
sured
The Oregon Legislature ratified the Con.
stitutional amendment, abolishing slavery
in the United States, on December 18th.
On the 10th, the mercury indicated
degrees below zero, at Montreal, Canada.
ExHGov Allen of Rhode Island, died on
che 10th, At Providence.