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NRANS BARRETT, Attorneys at Law. Clear
Y , field, Pa. May i3. 1863,
l. JcRANs =: WALTER BARRETT.
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CLEARFlELD HOUSE. cLFasF,r,D
~ PA.-The subscriber having nu,cbased the
furniture ard interest from II Morrow in said
House, is now prepared for the reception of tran
sieht and permanent boarders. Every depart
rnent connected with his establishment viii be
cor 'rcted second to none in the county. He res
pectt1ily soiicits share of pu bile patronage
July II ISi0.-y tiEn n CuIBCRN
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/ oBERTJ J WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear
III field Pa Office in Shaw's new row. Market
HIeet opposite Naugle's ,ewelry store May 26.
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DIOHARD M0Ss0P, Dealer in Foreign and Do
L /, mestic Dry Goods. Groceries. Flour. Bacon,
Liquors dc. Room, on Market street a few doors
west OF JoHrH4I fce Cleariield, Pa. Apr27
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rROCERIES, of all kinds 10 be had at
VI Aug % MERRELLd q SifLEn o
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GAIT good article ard yerv cheap at ne
~ stnre of WN F. IRWIN rI-arT-'
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"ANTED-s5 600 worth of county bonds
w Those of longest dates lreferrea. Apply
TO- WALTER BARRETT.
iune %. 1855 Clear.aid Pa
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FItIioMAS ". MOORE. Land Surveyor and Con
veyancer. Office at his residence. mile east
of Pcnnville Postnffce address. Grampian Hills
Deeds and other instruments of writing neatly
executed June 7th iSS5-Iy
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II r. NAUGLE. Watch and Clock Maker and
i. dealer in Watches. Jewelry- dc. Room IN
Graham 9 row, Market street Nov. 10.
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The WAY To SELECT FLoUR-An ex-
change says: In selecting -four, first look
TO the color. If it is " lie, with yellow
i>h, straw -colored tint, buy it. Iii is white.
with blueish east. or with white specks
IN it, refuse it, Second, examine its adhe
Siveness-wet and knead little of it be-
tween your fngers-if it works soft and
sticky it is poor. Third. throw a little
lump of dried -four against smoothe sur
tacs, if it falls like powder, it is bad.
Fourth, squeeze some of the -four tightly in
your hand; If it retains the shape given by
tie pressure, that, too, is good sign 1t
Is safe to buy -four that will stand all these
tests. These modes are given by all old
hour'dealers, and they pertain to matter
that concerns every body-the staff Of life.
DRowNED.-We learn that Wm. M'Kee.
Esq, OF kncx township. was drowned in
the river at Lock Haven, on Thursday, Apr.
18th, under the following circumstances
1t seems that in running raft through the
break in the dam At Lock Haven, M.
NJ kee and two other men we're accidentally
Knocked off the raft by the front oar as it
dipped in the large nd violent swell of wa
ter, Immediately below the dam-the oar
striking Mr. M'Kee on the temple with
great force, and disabling him to such an
degree that he sunk to rise no more. The
ether TWO men succeeded in gettirg on the
raft. Mr.. NJ Kee was very estimable man
and kind neighbor. and his sudden and un-
ooked-for death will be deeply mourned by
ms family and friends, and sincerely lamep-
ted By the community in which he resided.
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IT A II 7 WICK & IRWI
DRUG lists,
GARFIELD, PA,

Having reitted and removed to the room lately v
occupied by Richard Mossop. on Market ST.. now
offer low for CASH, well selected assert 10 ent Of
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DIED /:

On April 20sh. 1866. at her fathers res
idence in New Washington, MARTHA Ma
HAFFEY. aged IL years.6 months aud s days
sBCentre and Lycaming county papers
are requested tn eaay
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LNIS1l, Salt and plaster in large qnantities
III tM,r - 'QSS p kRATZEH.
III TERRITORY AND LEASES sos
~ sale by u. b cWVofE,
elearaeid. Pa, MAJ. a, lass, As'y = ks~s
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THE RAFTsmAn's JouRnAl.

- Gle of ground alum salt. put up in patent
SACKS At 81 % per at the cheap cash OF
November u r. MoSSO
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A UCTlONEER.-The undersigned having
"A been Licensed an suc.ionser- would inform
the citizens Of CieaTfeld county that he will at
tend to calling sales. in any part of the county
whenever called upon. Charges moderaf
Address. JAMES III TURNER,
Woodland, Pa, Ciearheid Co. Pa
March q, 1866 -3t-p
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hUARTERI.Y REPORT of the First
NJ National Bank of Cuiwensville, on the morn
inv of Anr ISiS
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tVIN ALBERT 4 Bku' S. DeaIers in Dry Goods,
w I roeeries, Hardware, QUeensware, Flour,
5acou. etc. W Woodlana. Clearh field county Penn =.
Also extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed luu.
Der, shingles, and square timber. Orders soltei'
ted. Woodland Aug. 18th. 1853.
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SOMETHING NEW IN CLEA6F FIELD,
~ CARRIAGE AND WAGON SHOP,
Immediately in rear of Machine shop.
The undersigned would respectfully inform the
citizens Of Clear6eld. and the public in general
mat he is prep red TO do all kinds Of work "p
carriages huggies. wagons sieighs sleds dc. on
snort notice aud in 4Eworkmaniike manner. Or
ders promptly attended to- WM. MckIGHT.
CIearbeJ Feb L Iofi-y.
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1t is idle to say that, holding secession
to be constitutional right, they might
assert it at any tiau, and for any purpose
which pleased them. When war issthe
cost of the practical assertion of any right
it can be justified only by the fact of vi
tai grievance for which there is,no other
redress, or by the purpose for which it is
intended to exercise that right. That
was the justification Of our great revolu-
tion of l776. But what is Jefferson Da-
Wis as the official representative of the
rebellion Of 1861? He is man who
deliberately plunged his country into the
most fearful war, and flooded it with
blood that he might whip women and
sell children at his pleasure. His pre-
tense was State sovereignty, his purpose
was human slavery. That was the object
for which he and the other leaders ''fired
the Southern heart" For this they di.
rected the war. For this they starved
brave men at Andersonville and Belle
Isle, tortured them into idiocy, and shot
them like dogs. For this were Southern
Union men seized at night, and before
the eyes of their despairing wives aud
agonised children hung and shot and
drowned. For this they drove thousands
and thousands of couseripts to die upon
the field of battle. For this Jefferson
Davis's garments reek with innocent
blood, and his name is stencil.
Here is a pretty martyr, with his ham
and eggs and panned oysters Here is
christian hero; and General Miles must
beremoved if he does not bow low enough!
Here is model American, who must be
magnifed into a Spielberg victim and
sufferer of the Bastile if his mullins are
not toasted, and his beef steak is over
done Our readers will bear US witHess
that we have not advocated vengeance,
that we think the trial of Davis for trea.
son mistake, and that we are ready to
take, with fair precautions, all the neces-
sary and inevitable risks of the situation
But the maudlin sentimentality that would
drape with the dignity of a aityr for po-
litical opinion man who for such pur-
pose waged a war we believe will disas-
trously recoil upon those who foster it
We have no wish to revive dead feuds or
to use harsh words, but we can conceive
no greater misfortune to the manhood of
American youth than that,,thoy should be
taught to regard Benedict Arnold as an
honorable man, or Jefferson Davis as
guiltless and unfortunate patriot.-Ha,-
per's Weekla.
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"But consider, my dear ~

''But consider, my dear :"
~ won't go !"
"But what win Sarah think 2"
"Sarah Don't dare to mention Sa-
rah to me again I-I-0h II am
fairly choking!" and the little woman
threw herself into chair, in a fit of hys-
terics.
Next morning Mr.. Peters met Fred in
the street,
swell, old boy, how goes it ?"
"Fred," was the reply, 81 am the hap
piest man in the world ! have regained
my wife and domestic peace, and got rid
of a busy, tattling old maid, who under
pretence of loving my wife was everlast-
ingly interfering in all our household
arrangements"
"Then Mrs. Peters will not ascend 2"
ono. If Sarah is to be my second
wife, and step-mother to my children,
Mrs. p. has concluded that she won't 60"
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sons of Erin, who only await the signal
gun of war to step across the border with
out fear of neutrality laws.
Everybody familiar with the resources
of Canada and the FesisGs know that
had the United States government acted
upon the policy pursued by Col Turchin
OF the Nineteenth Illinois, when his reg
iment was at Athens, hungry, and he
called his Adjutant and said, in his Teu-
tonic style, "Adjutant, shutz mine eyes
one hour" today the entire Canadian
frontier would be in possession Of the Fe-
mans. Were Secretary Seward to say,
"Sweeny, Twill shutmy eyes for month, /"
God help Canada 1t would be an Irish
Republic when Seward awoke. Why
Canada docs not see this, am at loss
to discover. They are loyal and patriotic
people will admit but in all sincerity
| tell them that sooner or later they are
destined, confederation or no confedera.
tion, to be absorbed by the United States,
aud, instead of separation from Great
Britain and forming an independent ma
tion under the powerful protectorate of
the United States, with whom they could
live on terms of close friendship, by their
confederation scheme they menace the
United States and throw down the gaunt.
let, which the United States in the event
of war must take up, and, according to
the well accepted policy of the Monroe
doctrine knock over the confederate cas-
tie or give the colonies of North America
to the Fenians for breakfast Job.
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WEDNESDAY,, JULY IL, 1866.

of pawer by Alexander H. Stephens and
his friends. Why does not Mr.. Phillips
put it in, the other way, and say that he
fervently hopes for the success of those
gentlemen T? Mr.. Phillips did what he
could to defeat Mr. Lincoln in 1864 by
chilling the public confidence in him
He declared Lincoln recreant to liberty.
He hopes now to chill confidence. in the
party that elected Mr.. Lincoln by sim
liar declaration. It must be remembered,
however, that Mr. phillips,s position is
not partisan. He is critic of all parties,
and asks nothing of any. But all men
who, like John Bright in England, be-
lieve that great political and social results
are to be attained through party organi-
cations, will, like him, while they declare
equal rights to be the ultimate aim of
their efforts, yet cordially work with any
great party which shows the practical
power to advance nearer to that bourne.
1t is to secure the gains already made;
to intrust the completion of the work of
restoration to the hands which defeated
rebellion, that it is the imperative duty
of the President, of Congress, and of all
loyal men, to maintain the ascendenay Of
the Union party until its work is accom-
plished. Congress has evidently yielded
much to this great result and it remains
for the President to decide whether the
restoration of the Union which sho aid be
accomplished by an alliance of the late
rebel leaders, of the Copperhead leaders,
and of such individual recruits as Sena-
tor Cowan, would not be a reactionary
reconstruction, sure to plunge us into
further trouble, 1t would not be Presi-
dent johnson and Senator Cowan who
would control that alliance, but Mr. Ste
phens, Mr.. Vallandigham, and Mr. Pen
dleton. Whoever takes the responsibility
'of putting this Government into such
hands will have serious account to set
tie with the loyal American pcople.-Er.
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Canadian Confederation.
The Scheme ~ Menace to the
United States---Wlat Fruit
Will it Bring Forth?

The late Fenian movement upon the
Canadian border was lesson that the
Canadians should profit by, but it is not
thought they will, 50 long as they persis
in setting upa new nationality through
the proposed confederation The Toronto
correspondent of the New York Herald
asks: Now that confederation has been,
owing to various causes, rendered GER
tainty, it becomes an important question,
what will be its fruits !? The advocates
of the scheme claim that it will consoli-
date British power on this continent and
serve as check upon the expanding pol
icy of the United States that it will re-
duce the public expenditures, Tighten the
burdens of the people and become the
nucleus Of a great nation in the future,
with one arm clasping the Atlantic and
the other the Pacific ocean. I must con.
fess | cannot see it in this light. The
interests of the various colonies are 10
many instances so diametrically antago-
nistic, politically and religiously, that
confederation is. destined to breed local
jealousies, array one colony against an.
other, and in the end one after another
will seek safety in Withdrawing from the
compact and entering tho American Union.
The assertion that expenses Of govern
ment will be lessened is erroneous. With
ten or dozen local legislatures where
now there are but six, of course there
must be increased expense In all depart
ments Of the civil service. With many
new offices created for needy friends and
ministers, the colonies will soon find then
debt millions where it is nov thousands
That confederation will render the colo
nies more defenslble is all moonshine.-
The moment they aspire to nation, as
they will under confederation, England
will consider her duty to the colonies full
filed, aud say to them, as she has already
limited through the London Times and
other organs, that if they wish to have Q
nationality they must defend themselves
The colonists thrown upon their own re
sources, must tax themselves thirty Oh
forty millions per year to organize ant
maintain standing army or failing il
that, complacently await a war between
England and the United States, to fall {
| prey to conquering army of Americans
or witness the snufing out of their nation
atty and upon its ruins the erection of !
new Irish nationality by half q milliol
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The Pause in Europe,

1t is natural that the great powers of
Europe ahould pause upon the very edge
of war and reflect if there be no alterna-
tive. 1t is so long since there was gen
eral war upon the Continent, and every
war has such inevitable horrors and SO
doubtful conclusion, that it is not strange
there is eluctance::to strike the arst blow.
Once struck, there would be no reooil.-
Once begun, war could end only in re-
construction of the map, and an enormous
debt, weighing upon every belligerant
with crushing force.
Yet we do not see that war can be ca
silly avoided. If the considerations were
merely dynastical, they could be settled
in Congress. But they are national
and involve the most absorbing passions.
Italy will go into no Congress which does
not accept the cession oe Venice to the
Italians as preliminary. Yet Austria
can not consent to relinquish Venice
without fatally impairing her prestige as
a great power. Prussia can not consent
without some equivalent that France shall
stretch her line to the Rhine; yet where
is the equivalent that can be offered p
The call Of Congress is wise, if only to
show that no accommodation is practical
BILE. Italy is infamed already; Garibaldi
has been summoned to the head of the
volunteers. A large 4oui has been taken.
The people believe their cause to be sa-
cred. 1t has the sympathy of the world.
The eager Italians believe the long looked
for hour is already striking How can
they pause? If the ministry order Gar
ibaldi back to Caprera they must be ready
to face an insurrection. Austria must
therefore, as it seems to us, surrender the
Italian portion of her empire or there
must be war.
And if it comes and desolates Europe,
let US learn its lesson. 1t is simply this,
that any settlement of great political con.
vulsions which is reactionary will very
soon revenge itself upon those who make
it by plunging them into deeper trouble.
The English revolution of 1916 ended in
the death of Crom we'll by the return of
Charles III and the old Stuart regime.
1t was a reactionary settlement, and it
ended eighteen years later by the menace
of vast war, which was avoided by the
peaceful and "glcriors" revolution of 1858
md a settlement which was not reaction.
ary. The revolution of 1887 in France
was finally composed by the settlement Of
1915 which was reactionary. 1t was
made in the interest of certain families
and not of the nations nor of the people
of Europe. Consequently there have been
discontents and dangers and overthrows
until now, after fifty years, the settlement
is to be changed either by Congress
which is improbable, or by the sword.
In this country we are doing for the
Union what the settlement of 1915 did
for Europe. Let us take care that it be
not reactionary like that, but in the di.
rection Of the war itself, ike the glorious
settlement of England in 16S8.-Ec.
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Seleft POETRY.
,sHes veu'HE DOWN.


What legion Of "friends" always bless u.s.
when golden success lights our way,
How they smile as they softly address us,
SO cordial good humored, and gay.
But, ah when the sun Of prosperity
Hath set-then how quickly they frown
And cry ont in tones of severity,
kick the man, don't you see he Is down"
What though, when you knew not a sorrow,
Your heart was as open as day,
And "your friendsn when they wanted & borrow
You obliged and ne'er asked them to pay.
What though not a soul you e'er sighted,
As you wandered about through the town,
Yonr Hfriendsr become very near sighted,
And don't seem to see when you're down.
when you're cup You are loudly exalted,
AID traders al sing out your praise,
When SeusfT down you've greatly defsnlted
And they s.really don't fancy your ways
Your style was tiptop when you'd money,
SO sings every sucker or clown,
But now It's exceedingly funny,
7hngs are altered because you are down"
Oh give me the heart that forever
Is free from the WORLDS selfish rust,
Asd the soul whose high noble endeayor
Is to raise fallen men from the dust;
And when in adyersity's ocean
A victim Is likely - drown.
All hail to the friend whose devotion
win lift man up when he's "down"
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-Governor Patton, of Alabama, writes
that General Swayne, commissioner for
the Freedmen's Bureau for that State, Is
now furnishing FIVE thousand rations
week for the starving population Of that
section, and that the majority of them
are whites The Governor says there ars
one hundred charitable objects in Ala
bama. The great mass Of these people
depend upon the Freedmen's Bereau for
their subsistence.
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r-Asssts of the Government, acting

-Ayssts of the Government, acting
under instructions from the Quartermas.
ter Generals Department, since the ter
mjnation of the rebellion have been ao-
lively engaged upon every battlefield in
the Southern States, in gathering together
the bodies of the national dead, and
properly interring them in the nations
cemeteries. The work of establishing
these mute tributes to those who have
fallen in defence of our country is Of no
mean import involving as it does
months Of patient toll. Ia every South
ern State, from Virginia to Texas, ceme-
teries have been established, in so1se of
which repose the remains of more than
10000 of our immortal dead, whose last
resting places, although they have not
been adorned by costly monuments, have
been marked by simple, plain and express
siye head aud foet-boards, bearing upon
their faces volumes for contemplation
In order to prevent desecration Of these
sacred spots, and keep the fences, grounds,
&C., in repair. uperihtendents haye been
appointed to watch over them.
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ARrAuT,rrI IDEA.-That was a beau

A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.-That was beau
tiful idea in the mind of little girl, who,
on beholding rosebpsh, where on the
topmost stem, the oldest rose was fading,
whilst below and around it three beauti-
full crimson buds were just unfolding
their charms, at once artlessly expressed
to her brother. sSee Willie, these little
buds have just awakened in time to kiss
their mother before she dies p