Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-08-02
8aftst,lan's Jo,,rnat.
. CLEARFIELD, PA, AUG. ., 1865.
THE NEWS.

aIG ldIIulbS tUT tucluSSiscS III tuc
hood of Vicksburg, with excellent results,
doing much better than those who worked
by the month for wages. The government
is furnishing them with seed and other ar
ticles on credit, to be paid from the pro-
ceeds of the crops. This system is consid
cred the most suitable for the freedmen, as
it teaches them to rely on their own exer-
tions
The English elections show net gain to
the Liberals of seven To the evening of
the 18th, 1S4 Liberals and hundred and
two Tories had been returned John Stuart
Mill and Thomas Hughs and Baron Roths-
child are elected from the London and Me
tropolitan boroughs. The Liberals have
lost eighteen members and gained twenty
five. The returns so far indicate complete
triumph to the Liberals
In the Buffalo Police Court it was held
last week, that ladies are legally entitled to
nomore privileges in public conveyances than
gentlemen, and that when the latter pay for
seats they have perfect right to occupy
them SO long as they conduct themselves in
a proper manner. A conductor was ac-
cordingly fined $500 for ejecting man from
car because he refused to give his seat to
a woman
The Tredegar iron works at Richmond
have been leased by the United States to
itsformer owners, Jos. r. Anderson and his
partners, who have commenced business
again as iron manufacturers. These works
being held by Government agents as confs-
Gated property, revenue is derived by the
renting of them until proceedings under the
confiscation act shall be determined
The Congregation of thieves and other
disreputable characters at Springfield, Hi
nois, assem- bled to prey upon the soldiers
paid off there, is SO great, that the Mayor
has turned over the command of the city to
the military authorities, and the place has
been put under martial law,
The Philadelphia horses, used to draw
the street cars, by resting on Sunday, are
able to perform as much work in six days
as Boston horses, which work on Sundays
do in nine days. Sunday travel upon Mas
sachusetts horse railroads is said to involve a
loss of $50 600 per annum
The Little Rock Journal holds out strong
inducements to emigrate to Northwestern Ar
kansas, and dilates with great enthusiasm
upon Its soil and timber, its mines of lead
iron. silver, saltpetre, and coal to say moth
ing of the universal salubrity of It's climate
and purity of its Water
The old elm tree on Boston Common, on
which Mary Dyer was hung, two hundred
and thlrtyyears ago, for preaching Quaker
doctrines, is still standing Some of its
heavy branches are supported by iron chains,
and every possible care is taken for its pres
ervation
During the year 1868, the Southern Bank
OF Kentucky, at Carrolton, was robbed of
over 100000. A few days since officer D.
I. Bligh arrested in Louisville Beriah Rid
dell, as one of the parties implicated in the
robbery. Riddell was taken to Carrolton.
John Perdue of indianapolis, who has an
income of Sl07 700 (the largest in that city
formerly taught school for living at so
per month, and was once warned out of
township because he was so poor that it was
feared he might become town charge.
There are sixteen hundred male employ
ees III the Treasury Department at Wash
lngton at present, of which number at least
SIX hundred are disabled soldiers. Some
i've hundred female clerks are also employed.
A private letter, just received by gen
tleman from reliable party in Utah, gives
the details of a wholesale murder of family
of six persons by gang of Brigham S Dan
ties, or Destroying Angels.
The prize fight for one thousand dollars
side, between Clark and Heating, which
was to have come off at Cincinnati, has been
indefinitely postponed by the arrest of Keat-
ing, who is held in-S1O,oOj bail
The ground heretofore occupied by Barn
um's Museum and the burnt district has
been purchased by James Gordon Bennett.
Barnum receives S25O,OOO The entire pur-
chase will amount to S45O,O0
John Stewart, whose arrest was announc-
ed several days ago. on suspicion of being
implicated in the murder of the Joyce chill
dren, was honorably discharged, on motion
Of the Prosecuting Attorney.
1t is spoken of as coincidence, that on
the Sth of July the steamer Admiral Dupont
was blown up, Admiral Dupont himself
died, and a locomotive named in his honor
was blown to atoms
Gold is said to be found in considerable
quantities in Goochland and the adjoining
counties, of Virginia. Numbers of return