Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-12-05

Tho state DEBT OF illluol., on tue lhl
instant, was s22,2s2, 1870 This is
pretty well for new State.
Twenty cars loaded with cotton,
pass over the "air line road from
Memphis to Norfolk every day.
Jefferson and Joseph Davis's plan.
tations in Mississippi have been leased
to an association of colored men.
Johnson's large nail factory at Hol-
lidaysburg, was destroyed by fire on
the 9th ultimo The loss is heavy.
Hon. Cave johnson died at Clarks-
Vile, Tenn, on the 2sth ultimo. lie
was p. NJ. General under President
Polk.
A person lately set an investigation
on foot But he complains that II
hurts him. Let him put it on horse
back.
A disloyal sheet in Virginia, favors
the senatorial aspirations Of IL. g.,
"becausc he was an influential seces-
sionist."
Our faults afllict us moro than our
good actions console US; il is always
pain that carries the day in conscience
as in the heart.
Hon. Herschel v Johnson has re-
signed the Office of United States Sen
ator, to which the Georgia Legisla-
ture elected him.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana has bought up
the old material of the New York
Herald, types, presses, &c, for his
new radical paper.
A man named Parkinson, who shot
the seducer of his daughter, in JAS
per county, Indiana, has been tried
for murder and acquitted,
Two hundred and eighty-five gal
Ions Of sorghum molasses were made
from one acre Of cane this season, by
Rockingham, Va, farmer.
The Boston police arrest people for
playing cards on Sunday in private
houses. This is indeed strange
amusement for q religious town like
Boston.
Advices from the Upper Missouri
state that the Indians are again trou-
blesome, several boats having been
fred into and a number Of passen-
gers killed
Forney says "hc has not committed
any Of the crimes that Andrew John
son sin the habit of pardoning" No,
Forney your crimes are such that no
body can pardon.
"Did the minister put a stamp on
you when you were married, Mary y
"a stamp Charlie ! What for, prayy"
"Why Matches amt legal without a
stamp you know"
Major George L. Glenn, a paymas-
Ter, was robbed at Fort Boyes, Octo-
Der 9th, of $4,000 in legal tender
notes, and $4,000 in vouchers for
money paid out to troops
L. f. Pillsbury, late Democratic
candidate for Governor Of Maine, has
been appointed, by the President, Pen
sion Agent for that State, in the place
Of loyalist named Potter.
Female clerks are now employed in
the Dead Letter office at Washington.
What paradise of enjoyment for Gu.
rious women We know of few that
such situations would just suit.
/ President johnson may not be q
"Moses." but we see that he gives
more money to aid the children OF
Ham and hominy than all the RAIDS
from Maine TO Iowa, put together.
Gov. Geary will be inaugurated on
the 18th of January; the election fol
| United States Senator will take place
on the same day; the election foi
Treasurer will be held on the 9th Of
January.
Dennis F. Hanks, Mr.. Lineoln's re
lation and old preceptor and friend
writes that Mr.. LincOln's "whole Pres
idential career was a continual strug
gle against the rapacity, the cruelty
and the recklessness OF the Radica
faction"
1t is said that Judge Bond, Of Mary
land is TO be impeached Better turn
him over to the Freedman's Bureau
under whose care all the late bond
men arc now luxuriating, and toward
whom he seems to have such stron.
affinities.
Neither Chief Justice Chase moi
Judge Underwood were in Richmonc
on tho 26th, the day for the com
mencement Of the United States Cir
cult Court consequently the trial o
Jefferson Davis must go over till .h,
May term, in 1867.
General John A. Sutter. the Cali
fornia pioneer, is now in Washington
endeavoring to get claim against thu
government allowed. 1t will be re
membered that it was upon the Gen
f erals farm that gold was first discov
cred in California.
: Mr.. VIM. Oaks, of Burrell town
/ ship, Indiana county, while carryin,
= a soap of bees across a field, on Wed
: nesday night last, stepped into q ru
and fell, striking his chin upon tn
box, which dislocated his neck, kill
ing him almost instantly.
General George H. Steunrt, former
ly Of Baltimore, and late Major Gen
eral in the Confederate service, and
graduate of West Point, has been par
doned upon the recommendation @
General Grant, the Attorney General
and other prominent persons
GolNo BACK ON MS "FRIENDs. -
The New York Tribune, in summing
up the result Of the election in Massa