Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-01-24
NEWS ITEMS.


In Harrisburg on Tth of March.
Messrs. Marvin and Call. scns,..
elect from Florida, are in washinr,o'
The messenger of the Farmer.
Citizcns Bank, Of New York. ws
knocked down in Williams street
that city, on Friday last, and robbs
of sSl, 900.
Gov. Curtin, and family arrived /,
Harrisburg on Saturday morning la,,
His ExcelIency has greatly improves
in health.
The Shoddyites of Allegheny conn
ty have nominated General Moorhead
for Governor of Pennsylvania.
The military district of Western
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delawars
the Eastern Shore and Western VIZ
ginia have been discontinued ARA
public once more.
The Queen Of Esgiand has NOR.
Catholics under her temporal swav
than the Pope, and more Musselmen
than the Sultan.
Two prominent mountains on III.
wagon road between Denver CITY and
Utah have been named after Generals
Grant and Sherman.
The loss by the last ice food At
St. Louis is now estimated of $500 4
900.
Secretary Harlan will retire from
the Cabinet on the 1st Of February.
Governor Stone, of Iowa, was in.
augurated on the l1th inst. The Gov.
erDor in his message advocates negro
suffrage, and opposes the admission Of
the South without guarantees"
Secretary McCulloch is said to in.
sist that his financial bill must Pass
without amendment. Unless this bs
done he cannot successfully conduct
the affairs of the Treasury.
The subject of cotton stealing in the
South was considered in the Cabine.
on Tuesday. Men in both the civil
and military service are implicated.
Judge Field, of the Supreme Court,
at Washington, recently received q
letter from California, which enclosed
an internal machine. When exploded
it was found to contain eight large
slugs.
By order of the War Department,
all persons, both government employ.
ees and citizens, who were at any
time in the rebel service, have been
banished from Fortress Monroe and
its vicinity.
A man arrested for rape, near AL
bany, N. T., in May last, has been
ever since at liberty on bail, and re-
Gently escaped, while his victim ba,
been kept in prison us a WI hess, fol
the whole timc-eight months.
The ex-Confederatc Generals Heth
Hood, Pillow and Longstreet have re
Gently been in Cincinnati and bough
eight hundred cotton ploughs and en-
gagged 900 white hborers for South
ern plantations.
1t is reported that Mrs. Stephen A
Douglas is about to bo married to As
sistant Adjutant General Robert vii
liams.
Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, ha
been reelected United States Senate
from that State, defeating that notet
masked battery fghter--Gen. Schenck
two to one.
1t is said the President will vet,
the negro bill, passed for the Distric
of Columbia. Wheneverhe does that
then our faith and respect for th
Plebean, will begin to expand.
John Van Buren, called to SEQ tn,
President on Tuesday, and was after
wards on the floor OF the Senate.
Carl Schurz has been cxtensivel,
through the South in the last fey
months, but though General,h ,he didn'
get there during the war.-Louisrill
Journal.
Schurz was n little like Butler, oiteI
bottled up,or runing northward hence
while there were Confederate General
in the field, our General had no incl
nation to meet them.
1t is estimated that every freedma
in the South has cost every white ma
in the North five thousand dollars.
| i b Nelson, wife ofa very respect,
bic citizen of Rockford, Iowa, reccn
ly poisoned her little child and olope
with one J L Welch, her former schoc
master
| A very large swindle, implieatiu
detective LAFAYETTE G Baker, is'allere
by New York paper. Some $1,000
it is said were fingered.
! In Mr. Summers scrap speech
quoted from correspondent who sal
the thieves were all whites; bm Ge1
lSaxton, in his speech to the nevoes
South Carolina, urged them to Civ
up stealing and falsehood, and 90
work.