Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-06-21
BY 8. ]. ROW
CLEARFIELD, PA, JUNE 81, 1865.
THE LATEST NEWS.


basis of National development. He thinks
it better that the debt should remain for
some time rather than to be paid off at once.
The following is the paragraph which gives
the spirit of the entire article: ''Let us ac-
cept public debt as public wealth, as bond,
both political and National, of safe guard to
our industry, and as basis of cur banking
our orphans and widows fund, and our
National debt rightly managed viii be ma
tional blessing.
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, writes to
Hon. James Harlan, Secretary of the Inte-
rior, that there are apprehensions of an ex-
tension Indian war in upper Arkansas-5,-
600 warriors having banded together to
make war on exposed white settlements.
Senator Doolittle thinks war may be avoid
ed if justice is done the chiefs, they having
lost confidence in the whites since the butch
cry of the Cheyennes, on Land Creek, an
affair in which the whites were to blame.
The Secretary of War will give the matter
his early attention.
John NJ. Bolts has defined his posi-
ton" He is not opposed to the division of
the State, (Virginial, regards F. II. Pier
pont as the lawful Governor, accepts the
abolishon of slavery. doubts the validity Of
the Alexandria constitution, and asserts
that Gen. Patrick has appointed dislOyal
men to Office in Richmond, and disapproves
his action.
The returns from Colorado to the General
Land Office show great rapidity in land OPP
erations in Denver, IN that Territory, under
the preemption and homestead laws. Two
thousand and fifty-six acres at that place
have already been taken with bounty land
warrants, and a number of sales have also
been made at Saginaw, Michigan.
Alex H. Stephens application for spe-
cial pardon covers about - pages Of fools
cap paper. He reiterates the old State
rights doctrine in justification of his course,
and upon this principle demands exemption
from the amnesty proclamation. Such eff
frontary needs a little ''snubbing"
A delegation of prominent democrats wait
ed on the President, last week, and had a
pleasant interview. The President told them
that he intended to administer the Govern
ment for the good of the whole people, and
not for any party
The Independent says it is reported that
subscription paper for Gen. Lee is being
circulated in New York on which 100000
ace already subscribed. We presume no
tnly loyal mans name will be found there
c..
Gen. Howard has a very satisfactory let
Carolina coast. Nine thousand colored
children attend school, and forty thousand
freedmen are at work cultivating the crops.
Ben Wood, editor of the n York Daily
Ne,os, it is said will be arrested on a charge
of treason. This, according to Copperhead
logic, will be an innovation on the freedom
of the press.
On the lst of May there We're one million
one hundred and forty thousand men on the
pay roll. Since then about one hundred
and fifty thousand have been mustered out
and discharged.
The official list of casualties of Gen.
Grants campaign, from the crossing of the
Rapidan in May 1864 to the surrender of
Lees army, feots up nearly ninty thousand
1t is said that in a short time 5000
Southerners from Texas will be in Mexico,
and that the sympathies of the leading men
of that party Will not be with Maximilian.
The Presidents amnesty proclamation
created much excitement in New Orleans
The classes excepted from pardon were more
numerous than had been expected
Harry Gilmore, the rebel guerrilla chief
who robbed a train on the Baltimore and O.
hio railroad, about a year ago, is to be in
dicted and tried for treason.
1t is still uncertain as, to where Jeff Davis
will be tried, but the opinion is prevalent
that the trial viii take place at Baltimore
before Judge Chase.
Large numbers of paroled rebels, officers
as well as soldiers, have recently arrived in
New Orleans, and settled down to the quiet
routine of private life.
A very destructive fire occurred in De
troit on the night OF the 15th-loss about
$4,000. The State prison was damaged
$4,000.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the laying of the corner stone of the
Gettysburg monument on July 4th
Robert E. Lee and Alex III. Stephens,
have petitioned the President, asking special
paSdons to be granted them