Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-02-07
s.y. ROW, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA, FEB. I, 1866.
THE NEWS.

ment OF the war, 1t is shown by official. fig
ures that In four years ending June 80. 1865,
the wool shOddy and woolens imported make
! an aggregate of $3.50, ,000, 900, of which the
unmanufactured wool amotnts to 2S7, ,000,-
600 lbs, costing S45, 5,000,n00 Nearly all
of the imports of wool under the tariff came
IN either at three or six cents per pound,
the duty averaging less than FIVE cents
The wools of Australia and South Africa,
which are fine merinos, are invoiced at less
than twenty four cents per pound.
A Washington dispatch to the Trtbu.e
says: 'Rumors, with more than the ordi
nary foundation for sensation reports, are
! rife that JEFF Davis is to be speedily brought
to trial before military con mission. The
gathering of major generals, to which yes
terday's dispatches alluded, it is said, is
with referenceto this trial, which is to bemade
imposing with distinguished names. 1t is
certain that the generals are here ostensibly
to consult upon military matters, but really,
if we may believe the report, to organize a
court for the trial of the head of the late
| Confederacy
Mr. Seward says that there is no danger of
| a rupture between the United States and
! France, but that the French troops must. be
removed from Mexico, and the Mexicans al
lowed to decide for themselves who is to
govern III that country Napoleon declares
that there Is no necessity for a rupture be-
tween his Government and that of the Uni
| ted States, but that he will not retire from
Mexico as long as there is doubt about
the secruity of the throne on which he has
placed Macmillan. Here is dilemma
which diplomacy alone can settle
The Legislature of ''Old Virginia is very
anxious to restore the boundaries of the State
as they existed before the rebellion. West
| Virginia, however, is not solicitous on the
subject. The rebel portion of the State is
now loaded down with burdens incurred by
treason, which the traitors are solicitous to
share with the people of that portion of the
same State which refused to be party to
secession. 1t is not very likely that the
people of Western Virginia viii acquiesce
in this proposition.
Governor Edmuuds, Of Dakotab Territory.
raports to the Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs that large body of Sioux, numbering
from FIVE hundred to eight hundred, are
making their way southwark having been
driven out of their country by the preva-
| lence of deep SHOWS, and the consequent
scarcity of game As their intentions ap-
pear to be friendly instructions have been
| L,-+ -, = I'll q
fairs to supply them with food
The opinion expressed IN some parts of
! the West that trade and travel would. now
that the war is over, return from the rail
road to the steamboat routes, has been dis
sipated by the recent horrible steamboat
accidents on the western rivers. Railroad
travelling is bad enough, but steamboat
travelling is utterly out of the question,
where it is possible to avoid it.
| From information furnished by the agents
/ of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, &C.,
it appears that there is somewhat over 81
100000 deposited by freedmen in the differ
ent saving banks throughout the South. a
bout 5000, 900 of which is deposited with
the Freedmen Savingsand Trust Company.
A fire occurred in the oil regions on Jan
uary 3lst, the flames communicating to
twenty-five wells and destroying thirty thou
sand barrels of oil, besides immensely DANA
ging other property. The loss is estimated
at quarter of a million of dollars. The
fire originated in brothel
The Mormons intend removing to the
Sandwich Island, report being current
that Brigham Young has purchased one of
those islands as a future home for the saints.
Brigham has doubtless had vision of
what he merits at the hands of outraged
law and decency.
NJ M'Cermiek, the inventor Of the reaper,
has given SO, 900 to Robert E. Lee, to en-
dow professorship in the college of which
the traitor is President. During the war,
NJ Cermiok refused to give dollar to any
purpose, the object of which was to relieve
Union soldiers.
The value of the taxable property belong
ing to the colored residents of Washington
is 81, ,233, 600 OF the "a, 900 colored resi-
dents of this city, the Freedmen's Bureau
estimate that !, 400 can read, and that abont |
5000 subscribe for newspapers.
Albert Starkweather has been convicted |
of murder in the first decree, at Hartford.
having killed his mother and sister. He |
was completely self lf-possessed upon the rem |
dition of the verdict,