Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-01-10

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Secretary Stanton's ffiendsin Wash.
ington dony that he ie going out Of the
Cabinet.
A sire at Racine, Wisconsin, ycster-
day, destroyed property TO the amount
ofsl00,00O
Secretary Stanton ard Judge Holt
have both declined to deliver the eulo-
CIV or Prest Lincoln. This is enough
to make an Angel weep, but not beng
ofthat host,wc are therefore excused.
! During the war AZ, 900 persons were
confined in the military prisons at
Washington. OF these 1880 were
State prisoners.
1t is stated that Senator Dooittle
has been offered the portfolio Of the
Interior DEPARTMENT and has declined.
During the year 1860, the Pension
Department admitted 40,262 pension
i. claims. and rejected 12,252. There
are still $4,000 claims to be consider
ed.
Semmes is still confined in the navy
ward at Washington He is strongly
guarded, and is not allowed intercourse
with any one but his counsel.
Mr.. Hubbell, Cashier of the Mississ-
auoi Bank of Sheldon, Vermont, who
disappeared some time since, is q dc.
Ifaulter for seventy-fve thousand dol
: lars.
The Congressional Reconstruction
Committee propose to send u special
commission to the South, to investi-
gate the ''loyalty" of that section.
Girard IIallock, the founder
land for many years proprietor
of the New York Journal Of Com
nerce, died on Thursday at New
Haven, aged 66 years.
Thirteen dead bodies were taken
from the surf at Nantucket last week,
ten Of which belonged to the ship
Newton, lately wrecked there.
1t is stated that Senator Jim Lane,
of Kansas, will make a speech supper
ting the Presidents restoration policy.
He can do anything from murder
down.
The internal revenue receipts since
July lst have been slSS, ,l64, ,437 ,04
Ex-Presidcnt Fillmore and wife sail
ed for Europe from New York yester-
day.
During the last two years the gov
ernment has received over S6,000,00O
from the sale of confscated property
in Mississippi.
General William Hickey, Chief
Clerk Of the United States Senate
died yesterday in Washington, ,aged70.
Three Irshmen have been arrested
lin Toronto, charged with threatening
10 raise the "green flag"
Assistant Secretary Chandler, and
: Hon. Harvey Wattcrson, of Tennessee,
. have been sent South to investigate
cotton frauds. This will add about
two more to the gang.
The Governor of Maine, in his
Message endorses the reconstruction
policy of President Johnson, and ne
gro equality. This is gigantic dose
for a fanatic. man with bnt one idea,
and that black one.
/ The Governor of Ohio. does not
exactly know what the Monroe doc
trine is He must be sort of Rip
Van Wrinkle. Why the last Abolition
convention that assembled in Balti-
more talked about nothing else, ex-
cept Lincoln loyalty and niggcrg How
it happens that he knows all about
thc three latter items, and not the
former, is hard to conceive. 1t will
take loyal soothsayer to define this
mystery.
Carringion the murderer of the
policeman Dill, in Buffalo, last winter
was hung in that city on the 9th inst
He was not yet 20 years OF age.
There are twelve hundred "prctty
waiter girls employed in the concert
saloons in New York.
4 ketehum, the great 'loyal" New
Yorker, who committed forgeries
amounting to over four million Of dol
lars has been sentenced to the Pen-
tertiary for four years and six months.
The Shoddyitcs at Harrisburg last
winter, would send a man longer than
this for being Democrat, which was
never known TO be a crime
Both Houses of Congress re-assem-
bled in Washington on Friday last.
Bet little business was done except in
the negro line, when they again ad-
-iourncd over TO Monday the Sth inst
REv. A. III. III BoYp--This distln-
gulshed Presbyterian clergyman, who
died at Winchester, Va, a few days
ago, was born near Martinsburg, in
1914. In early life he went 10 the
University of Rdinburg, Scotland. =
Here il was has pleasure 10 attend the
lectures of such men as the distin-