Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-09-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

field, Ohio, the other day-but no
occurred.
The editor of a pepcr in Indiana
wants to know If Western whiskey
was ever seen "coming through the
rye"
Abner Marks, charged with robbing
Adams Express Company of S3l 900 |
in Tennessee, about year ago, was
arrested in Richmond on Saturday.
Colonel Geo. X. Childs, a Mexican
war officer, and prominent Mason,
fireman and politician, died in Phila-
delphia, on the 18Th, aged sixty-six
years.
The Democrats have majority of
20 on joint ballot in the new Legisla
ture of California. The RAIDS had 66
majority ia the old one. That is
considerable turn-round.
Thad. Stevens has gone to take an
iron-tonic at the ruins Of his late
lamonted works, by way Of screwiug
his courage to the confseating point,
before the meeting Of Congress.
An exchange says it takes three
editors TO run paper in New Orleans
One to get killed in a duel, one to die
with the yellow fever, and one to
write an obituary of the deiunct two.
The New York Tribune charges
General Butler with rascalty on the
currency question. If the General
was no rascal until after he began TO
CAB about the currency, he has been
terribly lied about
Hereafter Gen. Grants name is TO
be Urgent S. instead Of Ulysses 5.
His three successive urges in his
letter to the President exhibit such
spasm of urgency, that he ought to
be known hereafter as Urgent Grant.
The Government is steadily reduc-
ing the paper currency, and gradual
ly approaching the specie standard.
-L0ydl Exchange.
This is evidently joke. Gold at
150 is strange "sPecie standard"
]. Ross Brownies second report on
the mineral resources of the Pacific
States and Territories will soon be
completed. He estimates the product
of gold this year at seventy millions,
and Of silver in Nevada at nineteen
millions.
The Boston Post is "personal" on
Theodore Tilton TO the extent Of say.
ing that his "libellous weekly reminds
one that for real ferocity, all secular
dogs of war are tame enough CON-
pared with one of the regular blood
hounds of Zion"
An exchange says that "Petroleum
V. Nasby," or Nasty, who is so fond
ly cherished by Radical organs, is a
Universalist preacher; was expelled
from Masonic Lodge and enjoys,
generally, the reputation of being a
sneak, as black morally as he is po
Ilitically We have no doubt Of it.
Mr.. Greeley asks pathetically, "whor
shall we have peaceY We answer
"whenever Horace Greeley, aud th,
like of him, cease TO be stirrers-up OF
hate and revolution, or are dead.
We can name the insignificant mum.
Der of hundred men, whose impris.
onment or death would give peace {,
the country Immediately,
The Jacobins are beginning TO tel
on one another. The Tribune hai
found out that Forney is using tn,
electioncering funds contributed b,
tho "party" TO distribute advertise
mcnts, for his "tyo papers, boil
daily among the barbarians OF tn
South, and protests against it accord
ingly. Horace must be getting dis
loyal.
The Savannah, Georgia, Ne,rS an
Herald says: "Private advices fror
Washington intimate that Benjamin
+, Butler, who must have been borl
with a silver spoon in his mouth, Wi
probably get the Endorsement of Con
gress for Military Governor of th
Territory Of California, the Stat
which recently seeded from No'
England.
The party which ropudiated a por
ton of the interest of the State debt
will not hesitate to repudato tn
principal. In 1864, the Radical l.,
gislatureof Pennsylvania passed la'
changing the payment of the State in
terest from specie TO "depreciatc
grecnbacks," Holders of all kinds {
/ securities will remember this on thei
way to the polls.
The stain of Reputation has bee
, indelibly fastened upon Judge WI
lams, the Yankee candidate for tn
Supreme Bench of Pennsylvania
Nominated by the Allegheny repudi,
, tors, if elected, he will carry out n
their views, as he has pledged himse
TO render his decisions in accordand
J with the opinions Of political mi
jority.
A MURDERER ARRESTED. - Dea
Graves-charged with completely j
, the murder of Mrs. Mcdonald,
,, Jefferson county, for which Charl,
Chase was executed about two woel
ago-is reported TO have been are
ted in one of the western States, an
: is now lying in jail awaiting a requ
f, sition from the Governor of Ponnsy
vania Thenewspapers say the arrel
was made by Mr.. Kcpler, Of Crav
, ford county.
TAXPAYERS Your attention:
q Cost Of the loyal Legislature Of 1857. S265,sGl
Cost Of the Legislature Of lsl7.......... 42,25s
s22s.5 .5ss
Behold this difference taxpayers
{ Your Legislature of 1867, with Joh