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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04

NJ MiSS E. A.P.RYNDER, Teacher Of Piano
Nl Forte, Mclodeon, Cabinet Organ, Guitar,
Harmony and Vocal Music For the sole purpose
of keeping inferior Instruments out of the conuty
Miss Rynder has secured agencies for the sale Of
really good and durable Pianos. Organs Guitars
and Melodeons. AS chief among large list Of
good instruments may be mentioned,
Chickering's and Sons Grand, Sqnare and Up
right Piano Fortes. Iindeman's and Sons
patent Cycloid Piano Gutenberg Vaupels
Grand and Square Pianos Mason s Hamiin's
Cabinet Organ. Etzy's Cottage Organ. Treat b
Linslcy Organs and Melodeons. Halls Guitars.
&C.. VIII ich she will sell at very tridng advance
on Manufacturers prices. thus enabling purchas
ers to secure Instruments that will be pleasure
to own. for no greater outlay Of money than would
be required to get inferior artices-that are 'I.as
at any prics.'
Music Books, Paper, Guitar Strings and Sheet
music constantly on hand at the store of Mrs. II.
d. Welsh. September, 20. 1865.
DUBLIC SALE.-There will be exposed to
Il sale, by Public outcry, at the residence Of
the 10th day of April. 1866, the following personal
property, to wit . Horses, milch Cows, head
of young cattle, 2 set harm ess, set buggy har-
ness. Wagon and hay ladders, Dearborn wag
on and spring seat, Log sled, Log chain, Wheel
barrow, Fanningmill, Cornsheller, cross-cut saw,
Cutting box, Rakes and Forks. Plows, Shovel
plows, Harrows, Cultivators Cow chains Hay
by the ton, Corn and Oats by the bushel, Dining
table Cookstove. Churn, besides other articles too
numerous to mention. r-sl
Sale to commence at o o'clock, A. NJ. Of said
day. liberal credit will be given.
March 81, 1866. G. p. GUELICH.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04

The division of Texas into two
States is agitating that State. 1t
divided it will be a line running
Northsand South, making an East
and West Texas.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04

THs WEATHER AND RAFTINa.-For q
week past brs little rafting has been done
the water being too low. Some rain fell on
Saturday and Monday, which raised the
riye,, but not sufficiently high for safe run
ming. The warm sun on Tuesday, however,
melting the snow still in the woods, raised
the streams and this morning RATS are rum
ming o,lite briskly.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04
TRRORs or YoUTH.-A eentleman

LNRRORS or YOUTH.-A Gentleman who
~ suffered for years from crvous Debility,
fremature Decay, and all the effects of youthful
indiscretion, will for the sake of suffering human
ity. send free to all who need it, the recipe and
directions for making the simple remedy by
which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit
by the advertisers experience can do SO by ad-
dressing JOHN B. OGDEN,
Jan. lS65-1y. No. Is, Chambers ST. NY
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04
SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENT.

STRANGE. But TRuEeEvery youns
~ lady and gentleman N the United States can
hear something very much to their advantage by
return mail free of charge,) by addressing the
undersigned Those having fsars Of being hum
bugged will oblige by not noticing this card All
others will please address their obedient servant
- IT - TH0S. +. CHAPMAN
Jan. 5. lS66-ly. SSl Broadway, York.
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Ths sSSaApEL.-The Al the number of this
spicy quarterly has been received. 1t has
los. none of its interest or independence in
the discussion of the subjects on WHICH it
treats. It is really refreshing to read DIR.
Dixon's productions, and all admirers of a
fearless and truthful exposition of quackery,
should send for the "Scalpel." Price, SO
cents number. Address, Z. Warner, No.
. Vesey St, (Astor House, J New York.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04

HEAVY FAILURE Banking house OF
Culver, Penn g. Co., New York, failed last
week; and, in consequence, the notes OF
the Oil City Bank, Venango Bank, Petro-
leum Bank, and Crawford Bank, have been
refused by the banks in the several cities
According to report, however, the Petro-
leum aud Venango bank notes are secured
by deposit of public stocks with the Au-
ditor General at Harrisburg. aGE
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-04
sTVO DRUNK ARDS.-A reformed incl

ITO ODRUNkARDS.-A reformed inebriate
Il would be happy to communicate. free Of
charget to many of his fellow-b beings will
address him, very important and useful infor-
nation, and place in their hands a sure cnre for
the love of Strong Drink of any kind. This in
formation is freely offered by one who has mar
rewiy escaped drunkard grave. Address,
SETH B. HENDERSON,
Mar IS, lS66-3m No Broad Street. NY
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

q Z q
"A London correspondent of the Manches
ter (England) Guardian states that the young
King of Belgium is strongly attached to the
political principles of the Ultramontane party,
and that he is expected to use his whole influ-
ence in behalf of securing to this party the as
tendency. 'J-1 sEiilAI
Mr.. Thomas Barring has been elected d.
rector of the Bank of England, in place of the
Right Hon. G. j. Goschen. nd 5fztsr
AT York, England, prize fight has been
funavoidably postponed on account of one of
the intending combatants being committed for
theft. - ~
The town of Chic, in the island of Scio.
has been almost wholly overthrown by an
earthquake, the two lighthouses in the port
only remaining uninjured. The people, faying
from the ruins have encamped without shelter
in the neighboring fields. .
Bordeaux port is nearly flied with Ameri-
can ships, which will take away great part of
the wines of the present year.
The death of Sir John Easthope is report
ed at the age Of 81. He had represented St.
Albans and afterwards Bambury in the Liber-
al interest and was at one time proprietor CT
the London Morning Chronicle
An Italian letter-writer says: "There is
some truth in the rumor of Prince Humbert's
probable betrothal with the Grand Duchess
Maria of Russia, though matters have not pro-
ceeded far enough to be acknowledged openly.
the King spoke great deal, and the crown
Prince danced, with that Imperial young lady
at the municipal ball given in honor of their
Portuguese Majestics. Perhaps this was all
the source ofnews, but I have tolerable authori-
ty for repeating that the rnmored event is not
founded entirely on fiction" -
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
New Telegraph Company,

A correspondent of the Wing is out with q
long article against chartering a new tele-
graph company through this State. and saws
| Augustus ID. Brown and his associates, aided
by F. o. j. Smith, are making strenuous efforts
to obtain a charter for new Telegraph Com
pany for a competing line from Portland to
Calais. The writer is doubtless interested in
the old company, and don't like the idea of
having his monopoly interfered with. Mr.
Brown mentioned above, is an active honor
able, enterprising citizen, and to our certain
knowledge his associates are gentlemen of the
highest responsibility and responsibility. Mr.
Smith is in no way or shape connected with
them, though ifhe were it would be no reason
for heading off their enterprise. Mr.. Smith
favors general telegraph law, so as to allow
any parties to putup a line upon their settling
local damages. 1t is unmanly if not cowardly
to undertake 10 head off pressing business
necessity, by appealing to personal prejudice
against an individual. Were Mr.. Smith the
sole petitioner and to be the only owner in
the enterprise, we would wish him hearty
god-speed in an effort needed to create CONNIE
tition in one of the most lucrative kinds Of bus
mess in the country. l5lr -a1a. ~.
There is competing line westward, from
this cityto Washington, and we are mistaken
in the temper of the legislature of Maine if
they are willing to say "thus far shalt thou
come, but no farther" Let competition be en-
couraged in these days of high tariffs and ex-
acting prices, and then if competition viii do
its proper work the business community will
get their rights.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

Gy~ There are rumors of important nego
tiations for newspaper changes in this CITY, bu
as eveay man should have the privilege of frs
announcing his own business, we do not feel al
liberty to publish the street reports. :" =
D1- AS practical joker we will match the
argus against any other paper, in the city OF
out oft. For example, in its issue New Years
day it gave as the reason for its great success
the excellence and correctness of its financial
and commercial reports, and its enterprise gen.
orally That win do. Our neighbor may go
to the head. His assurance entities him to that
distinction. IL. .fr,stas ,4f7-s-
E3- We learn from the Rockland Free Press
that DR.. Teft, by special request, again deliver
ed his lecture in that city, "How to make the
mostof Maine" and as one result the Rock
land Home Improvement Association was
formed. 'a si-ff sf7 i0 s24tss
va We have not learned the result of the
mission of the Inspector, Hon. Joseph Carr, in
relation to the charges alleged against Mr..
Bradford. 1t is reported that the investiga-
tons are likely to disclose much more revenue
due the government from the Frenchmen, than
has yet been received by Deputy Collector
Bradford.-[H oulton Times.
EB- The Wing says it is stated that Mr.. N.
K. Sawyer, publisher of the Ellsworth Anaeri-
can, has been appointed Collector of the Dis
trict of Frenchman's Bay, vice 1. H. Thomas,
removed. Pc 7s.r =. ..sf,, ...-.-.. .r....
Vs. The Pennington Chronicle is informed
that the children of Mr.. Gilbert Wellman, of
Chesterville, have this year dried 1850 pounds
of apple.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
A Ghost with an Offensive Body,

A place called Grand Traverse, Mich, has
been if it is not now, excited by singular
story ola ghost with material and very often
sive accompaniment. 1t seems according to
the account, that spiritual medium, whose
husband was disbeliever, promised him on
her death bed, that she would appear to him
in the body before his death, and convince him
of his error. When he was Oh his death bed
spiritual rumpus was kept up in the house,
and about midnight heavy and irregular foot
steps were heard in the hall, the door was
burst open, and the stenchful remains of a hui
man body, reeking with prutrescence, stallxed
'ato the room, and in muf1ed voice remind
ed the dying man of the promise, and, as he
died, fell horrid mass upon the floor. An
examination of her grave proved it to be emp
ty. The story created intense excitement.
and the house where the affair was said to
have occurred was burned by the friends of
the family.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

Old 3Oth, ships Uncle Joe, SewalI, New Orleans;
Jacob stamler Sampson, Havre; Graham Polly,
bermuda; Amos NJ Roberts, Doak, Maranzas; n
Showers. Showers, Cardenas; Abby Thaxter Walker,
Arroyo Pr; sehs Nellie Tarbox, Pendleton, Will
mlngt0n; Com eaut Sawyer. Fernandina; $ P Adj
ans, Talbot, Jacksonville; Corvo, Perry, and Geo w
hlmball, Crockett, Portland.
rMEWPoRT5;Ar 10th, barlue Cephas Starrett,
"resory, Providence for Philadelphia.
~ IN port goth, brigs Mary Thompson, Dix fiom
tr Tor Boston; ) Counce Co., Providence
port ior Mobile; Frank Parker. Bnckminster Raneor
ior 6aiIp9re; Gen Grant Orchard Portland tor do
cSo,ol e. phQLE-Ar 29th brgs Crmea Clifford,
Philadelphia for do; sch Ocean Ranoer barter from
Philadelphia tor Portsmouth N"''''' "oA
Sailed barques Ellen Stevens and con Eaar q.
briggs Ortolan, Harriet, C Il Kennedy Snow Eird {,
scbs Tyrone Nancy r Heagan, Maria. Leesbure'
Eugene: Harper Convoy q o,o,,o.
Valencia, CriInea schs Ocean Ranger, Louis walsh
Anna Gardiner, and S E Nightingale. v" "'''
BOSTON-Ar 30th, brigs Water Lilly, (Br) Farms
worth, Havana via Portland; Crocus, Manson, from
Phips1urg; sch Abaco, Fullam, Bangor.
Cid 3Oth, sch Champion, McDermott, Bangor.
Matthews, Belfast: Convoy Merrill, Rockland: VIM
Penn. CurtIss, Kennebunk
s. AT lst, Sarques Young Turk, Harding, Malaga
starlight, sparrow, New Oreans briggs ii Kenne-
dy, Clark, Philadelphia; Mary Lowell, Parsons, from
lElu5abethport; schs Van Buren,, Mo tgomery, from
crew OF brig Harriet of Bathosee Disasters.J '"'-
Also ar, sehs Leesburg, Smith, Philadelphia; Mora,
Chadwick, Elizabethport. '
Cid LIST, brig j MCINTYRE. Marshall ST Jaoo. sch
Niatha Maria, Colson, Jacksonville Pilot, Thomp-
SALEM-Ar 3Oth, schs Arno. Wbipple. St John NIB
before reported ashorel; Shooting Star, Marshall.
Calais for Wilmington; VIM Penn Phillips, Bangor
Bullwinkle, French, Rockland for Bridgeport CT
NJ A I'VE vEhs-Ar 26th, sch Minnie Cobb, Snow I'm
NEwBURYPoRT-Ara both, sch Durcc, Hodsdon,
PORTSMOUTH Goth, sch Adeline, Hatch, for
EastpOrt.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
The Brutality in Jamaica,

When the first news of the recent brutal
massacre in Jamaica came to hand, everybody
was expected to believe, as matter of course,
that the brutality began, continued and ended
with the negroes; and copperheads and other
pro-slayery Democrats almost split their Threats
in shouting, "Did,'t ave tell yoa so F' The
whole thing was held up as evidence of the
natural and instructive brutality OF the Afri-
can, of his unfitness for freedom, to prove that
emancipation thirty-odd years ago had work
ed badly, and that IN this country the negroes
should not be alloaced to cote
These We're the lessons of the Jamaica re-
volt, as it was called, drawn by copperhead
apostles of negro-slavery Democracy; and it
was openly said and published that the oppor-
tune news from Jamaica would do much to
simplify the process of reconstruction in the
South and to satisfy the public mind that the
whites were indeed the only legitimate "ruling
Glass;" and that the negroes had no civil rights
which white men were bound to respect. =
But since the first instalment of the Jamai-
ca news was received, the whole thing has
gradually changed; and it turns out that the
blacks were perfectly peaceful, that they only
refused to work for starvation prices, that they
were goaded in all possible ways, and that
for simply insisting upon and demanding their
rights, like free men, they were charged with
sedition, and upon them were let loose set of
official brutes, clothed with British power, in
comparison with whom the Choctaw and
ChQrOyQn Indian 10 ~e 1;ol,4
barbarisms perpetlated in Jamaica by these
officials, viii constitute chapter in British
Colonial rule OF the darkest and most damning
character: 1t is refreshing to know that the
| chief instrument has been temporarily sus-
pended in his official functions, till a most
thorough investigation can be had. The To-
ronto Globe hints, however, that the appoint
ment of Sir E. Head on the commission of in
quiry, is only an indication that the iniquity
will be CLOSED over as much as possible, and
| that Gov. Eyre will be let off with thick coat
of whitewash
The Cincinnati Commercial, referring to
those commentators on the Jamaica atrocities
who seek to show that it proves the brutality
OF the negroes, and that they are beyond the
reach of fertilization, with equal truth and JUS
tice, says: n4=s sus sEatslSi
The fact in the case is, that those who prov
ed themselves brutal and barbarous murder
ers, were not the negroes but the British
| Therefore the moralizing OF our contempora-
ries should be applied to the Anglo-Saxon race
and not to the Congoes. It was the remote
descendants OF the subjects of Alfred, and not
the King OF Dahomey, who displayed barbaric
traits SO terocious and sanguinary.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

BB- Mile Parepa was born in Edinburgh
Scotland, in 1889, and is therefore about 26 years
of age. sssL T.
GB- The Quebec Mercury says the Rev. DR..
Potts, avagabond, who has been pretending to
cure diseases at London, G. W., by praying and
laying on of hands, has been fully committed
for trial, for a criminal assault on Miss McTag-
CART, and bail refused. mn
GY- At a late public ball in Vienna an Off
Ger became entangled by the crinoline Of his
partner, and falling, broke one of his legs; the
lady, rolling over him in her turn, fell on the
other leg and fractured it likewise.
GY The Washington correspondent of the
Hartford Press attributes President Johnson's
changed policy in relation to the treatment OF
traitors to the influence of Mr.. Seward He
says =" Mr.. Seward wanted to forgive the reb-
els long before the war was over. After one
years fighting he said, the less fighting the
more certainly will reunion come He was
finally cured of the preposterous idea that the
rebellion could be put down by the blowing of
horns, or the saying of pleasant words. Sew
ard backed up Mcclellan to the last. McClel-
lans policy just suited his Stewards tempera-
ment. So from the moment of Mr.. Lincoln's
death, Seward pleaded for the pardon of the
entire South, and would have let the whole
body of traitors back into Congress without
pledge for the future. This able man has i'm
pressed himself on the President very deeply
and the latter has abandoned all his favorite
plans of Furnishing treason" ioF
gy Augustus Doolittle had been in store
about three months when his employer asked
him what part of the business he liked BEST
To which the elegant youth replied, "Shuttin'
up, sir
6y~ Paddy's description of fiddle cannot
be beat: sit was the shape of turkey and the
size of a goose; he turned it over on its side
and rubbed its backbone with a stick, and och,
by st. Patrick, how it did squale,"
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

OCEAN INSURANCE CoMPANY.-At the an
nual meeting of the stockholders ofthe Ocean
Insurance Company, held yesterday, the fol-
lowing persons were elected Directors for the
current year, viz; William w. Woodbury.
Jacob Mcclellan, Jonas III. Perley, Joseph
Hale, William Chase, Joseph W. Dyer, J. s.
Winslow. ~ .T-- l-
At meeting of the Directors subsequently
held, VIM. w. Woodbury. was reelected Ptesi-
dent, and George A. Wrigh tSecretary.
A semi-annual dividend of six per cent, free
of government tax, was declared, payable i'm
mediately Last July asemi-annual dividend
of ten per aent. was declared, making sixteen
per cent for the year, and with handsome
surplus left.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

SAID Martin Luther: "Once upon a time
the devil came to me and said, Martin Luther.
you are great sinner, and will be damned 7
Stop! stopp said L; zone thing at time. 1
am great sinner, it is true, though you have
no right to tell me of it. confess it, What
next? Therefore you will be damned
THAT is not good reasoning. 1t is true am a
great sinner; but it is written, "Jesus Christ
came to saoe sinners )" THEREFORE, shall be
sdved. Now 60 your way So lieut. the dev-
IL OIL with his own sword, and he went away
mourning because he could not cast me down
by calling me sinner a l1s..l,6 a73
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
Independent Lecturas.

The eighth lecture of this course was given
last evening at the City Hall, by Rev. A. L
Stone, of Boston. The weather was mfavor-
able, and the sidewalks wet and slippery, still
the hall was well filed by an appreciative au-
audience, who listened to the speaker with the
closest interest, and manifested their approval
of his remarks by frequent bursts of applause.
The subject OF the lecture was "Public Spir-
it," and he treated the theme in manner pc
culiarly happy. He began by saying that if
any man, under the teachings of the last four
years, can be narrow, local or selfish, his case
may be set down as hopeless. If anything
could teach us breadth and largeness of view,
we must have learned, or at least begun to
learn it in these days. The very extent OF our
country educates us to largeness of heart
The blue lakes are ours, and the waters of the
Gulf; the dark pine forests of Maine and the
wide sweep of the prairies; the waters OF two
%oceans wash our shores, and the Rocky Noun
tains rise as land marks, not as barriers, in our
path across the continent. The mind that oy-
er-arches all this as its own dominion must
be domed up to vastness of soul. No man
with little soul has right to so grand
birth-right. The diversity of our population
was also stimulus to liberality. The chill
dren of the Englishman, the Irishman, the
Scotchman, the German, the Frenchman, here
make one family. Even the dusky children of
bondage have seat at our national table. If
any do not like this they can leave, but all
these are here and will stay. We have no
room for Castilian or Saxon prejudices of race.
The speaker denounced in scathing terms the
doctrine that this is a "white mans govern
ment" 1t is no more a white mans govern
ment than the sun in heaven is a white mans
sun, than God the Almighty Father is white
mans God. fa
The Speaker then proceeded to touch upon
some of the duties which a noble and enlight-
ened public spirit must exact of man living
in the midst of free institutions. The duty of
all to labor, and to labor not for themselves
alone, but for the community, the political and
the social duties which lest upon all, were ex-
hibited with clearness and force, and in a
manner which ELECTED the hearty applause of
the audience. The tone of the lecture was
liberal as beftted its subject, not especially po-
litical, and in no sense partizan. 1t abomded
in happy hits, in telling illusions, and in pas
sages of great eloquence and power; and we
think we are safe in saying that no address of
the season has met more general and cordial
approval. @ n.-...-
The speaker for next week is not announc-
ed with positiveness, but on the 10th of this
month lecture may be expected from George
William Curtis, Esq, of New York.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

NARROW EscAPE-Yesterday afternoon a
"wee" urchiu named Willie Mcdonald, whose
parents reside on Stone Street, while crossing
Congress Street, was knocked down and run
over by horse and sleigh. The little fellow,
though sustaining severe conclusion, was
happily uninjured, though his proximity to
death was but hairs breadth, the horse step
ping over him, whilst the child's body passed
between the runners of the vehicle. The
driver kindly carried the little one to his pa
rents. -E
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

Put the question generally to your friends
as to what preparation they use for their teeth,
and the response, nine times out of ten, will
be, SozoDoNT. IT'S no longer necessary to
impress its merits upon the public mind; ex-
perience has taught the world that, as a means
Of identifying and preserving the teeth, invig-
Grating the gums, and giving pleasant aroma
to the breath, it has no rival in either hem
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

THE people of Leyden, Holland, recently
made raid on the cats of the town, and in
one night slew some six hundred. The feline
race had of late multiplied to such an extent
in that city, as to become regular nuisance.
Such raid in Portland would be favored by
by many.
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

VERDICT SET AsIDE.-In the suit brought
against Mr.. William Merritt, the Superintend-
ent of the Boston & Maine Railroad, by j. W.
Brackett, for causing him to be arrested with
out warrant for refusing to pay his fare, the
jury OF the Superior Court in Essex county,
last week, returned verdict of $519 Judge
Wilkinson, before whom the case was tried,
Immediately ordered the verdict to be set aside
on the ground that the damages were excess
siva
The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02

SKIFF & GAYLoRD's MINsTREIs had full
house at Deering Hall last evening, and their
performances were much applauded. Tie
second entertainment will be given this even
ing at the same place. The singing, music
and jokes were all good. The panorama of
Sherman's Grand March through Georgia,
with instrumental music, added much to the
interest of the entertainment, and was highly
appreciated by the large audience.