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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

The Administration organs announce
their opposition to "a military despotism :
and to .,the capricious will of legislative
assembly, hieh means that they desire
complete abrogation of the military recon
struction bill, and that for the will of the
people, as expressed through their chosen
representatives, the DEGREES of the accidental
occupant of the White House shall be sub
stituted.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

Mr.. Seward says that he cannot be spared
from the State Department on account of
the pressure of unfinished real-estate bust
ness, which nobody else is capable of mana
ging. He does not mean to resign until he
has bought British Columbia and several
other choice pieces of property, including.
we suppose, st. Domingo, Greenland. and
the North Pole.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

In speech the other at Bangor, Hon.
Hannibal Hamlin said there was no hour
during the war of the rebellion when there
was greater responsibility placed upon us
than rests upon us to-day. We are NOT ont
OF our trials nor our dangers e
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

The failure of the National Labor Con-
gress to accomplish much good is partially
accounted for by the statement that its lead
ers endeayored to engineer it for the benefit
of the Democratic party. - 5
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

The OBJECT. The New York Herald,
which has suddenly become the favorite
organ Of the President, intimates that the
object of the removal of the district com
manders is to give all the disfranehised reb-
els an opportunity to vote at the approaching
Southern elections in defiance of existing
laws. This result is to be brought about by
a general amnesty proclamation releasing all
the secession leaders from the existing peu-
alties, and overriding, by an edict from the
White House, the laws of Congress. The
Herald contends that in this event it would
become the duty of the district command
ers to grant universal suffrage, and adds !:
1t may be in anticipation of neglect or
refusal to perform this duty on the part of
the original five military commanders of the
districts that the President has thought fit
to remove them, or some of them, prior to
the issue OF an amnesty proclamation The
present indignation Of the country at the
removal of Sheridan and Sickles will be
greatly increased If this conjecture of the
OBJECT OF these changes should prove correct.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

The Grand Jury Of Bergen County have
redeemed the character of New-Jersev bv
finding six bills of Indictment against the
monster Sigler, late Keeper of the Patter-
son Alms-h house.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

Gold is again on the advance. the ;nev;t-
able consequence of the extraordinary Pres.
idential performances.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

a APoINTED DEFINITIoN-''I do not know
the meaning of Conservatism, but as de-.
nined' !is' 1t Is worse than Copperheadism. It
Is legislation without authority, and recon
structIon by usurpatlon "-.Ihad. .Sterens
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04
A rMINISTRATOR's NoTICE-Let-

A rMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Let
4 ters of Administration on the estate of
Wilbur Robson, late of Pike township CIearfeId
county, Pa. d, having been granted to the
undersigned. all persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment and
those having claims against the same will pre-
sent them. prop erly authentic ated, for settle
ment. The books of the firm of j Robson &
Son, are in the hands of j Robson, or the under
signed, for immediate settlement 7-s
APGAR BLOOM,
Curwensville, Sep 4, tS67-6t. Admir-.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

Ihe National hateiiigeacsr has taken to
publishing Rebel poetry Rather bold for
the special organ}of the President but, af-
ter all It is no worse than supporting An
drew johnson, and it certainly is consistent.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

DUGGY FOR SALE.-An open buggy. as good
ID as new, will be sold at a reasonable price
Apply to Z. A Graham, at his store in Clearfeld,
Sep. 4. or to J. B. GRAHAM.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

. Not long since the lucid Andy declared
Congress was hanging on the verge of the
Governments. How far from the verge is
his Exccllency?
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

The Fenian prisoners, Coils Warren and
Nagle, it is understood have been released
by the British Government.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

The unreconstructed ofNew Orleans were
Z on Friday treated to another of Gen. Sher;-
dams SURPRISES. The City Collector was
removed for reasons similar tothose contain.
) ea si NJ the order appointing new City Coun-
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04
4fw Aarertissments.

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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

90 OOA AGENTS WANTED a sample
HU,UUU sent free, with terms for any one to
clear S25 daily in three hours. Business entirely
new light, and desirable. Can be done at home
or travelling by both male and female No gift
enterprise or humbug. Address w. III. CHIDES-
TER, 266 Broadway, n. Y. [sep. Alt,
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

{ GAUTlON.-All persons are hereby eau
" toned against purchasing or in any way
meddling with one bay horse, one bay mare, one
cow, horse gears, log g-sled, chains buckwheat in
the ground, corn and oats in the ground now in
possession of Jacob Thurston of Ferguson town
ship, as the same belong to me, and are left in
his care. subject to my order A. N. YOUNG.
Sept A. 1867 -3t-due 80 cts
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04

CAUTION.-An persons are hereby eau
- toned against purchasing or in any way
meddling with one gray horse, eight milk cows
two year old steers. four yearling steers, five
acres of wheat. four acres of rye, one wagon, and
two set harness, left in possession of Abraham
Matthew, OF Beccaria township .as the same belong
to me and are left with him subject TO my order
Sept. 4. Is6I-3tp. ISAH CITES
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04
Washington City Gossip.

The important fact has transpireds from
an official quarter, that the administration
has under consideration a supplemental pro-
clamation of amnesty. 1t is by no means
universal in It's terms, though it viii include
military officers of the rebel army below the
rank ofMajor General, and all of the navy
below the rank of Captain, There are 9th
er important features which have not trans
pired. 1t may be some days before it is
issued.
Secretary McCulloch's tenure of office,
which promised few days since to termin-
ate suddenly by his resignation, has un-
doubtedly been prolonged through the in
fuence of some of his prominent subordi-
mates, including Treasurer Spinner and
Commissioner Rollins, who persuaded him
to retain his position, notwithstanding his
desire to leave the sinking ship of captain
johnson and his copper-rebel crew.
Nine regular army surgeons have died
during the past three weeks, most of them
of yellow fever. z..:s
The President still refuses to allow the
publication of Grants letter.. protesting
against the removal of Stanton, but it has
transpired that it embraces an opinion that
the President could not legally remove Mr..
Stanton, and that he says very plainly that
although IAN astute lawyer might be
able to construe existing laws in such a
manner as to give him that power, the peo-
pie cannot be convinced of the correctness
Of such construction
1t is reported that Reverdy johnson, of
Maryland, had an interview with the Presi-
dent, during which the latter rendered the
former the position of Secretary Of State.
1t is not likely that Reverdy will accept the
position.
Senator Cameron has had an interview
with Gen. Grant. Cameron favors i'm
parchment 7--
The Washington Chronicle remarks that,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, we hear
but one voice from the loyal people, and
that is that the hero of Vicksburg and Ap-
pomattox shall be sustained against Presi-
dental usurpations
Gen. Grant has issued special order to
the Commanders of Military Districts, in
structlng them to make no appointments to
civil office OF persons who have been re-
moved by themselves or their predecessors
in command.
1t is understood that Commissioner Rol-
Inns, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, is
soon to be removed and replaced by Gen.
Steedman.
The President has not yet decided upon
the time that he will remove Pope, Holt,
and Howard. au
Judge Black has had protracted audi
ence with the President
The Republican Convention Of Columbia
county asserts, among other good resolu-
tions adopted, the following, which contains
the whole question of the campaign in
nutshell:
ResOlced, That while we scorn to assail
the character, either as a jurist or gentle
man, OF the candidate of the opposition for
the Supreme Bench, Hon. George Shars-
wood, we do assert that his known opinions
as declared in his public and judicial acts
make 1t unsafe to entrust him with a posi-
ton of SO much responsibility and import
ance. #.-
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
Capt. JAMES M. WEIGH, of Pike.
FOR SHERIFF,
SAMSON B. LINGLE, of Goshen.
r. t=sr ~ FOR TREASURER,
ARTHUR BELL, of Ben.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN q. FULF0RD, of Clearfeld.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
DAVID DRESSLER, of Union.
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER,
JAMES GLENN, of Ferguson.
FoR AUDITOR,
JAMES IRWIN. ST., Of Lawrence.
FOR CORONER,
WILLIAM R. BROWN, of Clear6eld.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04
REPUBLICAN, STATE TICKET.

FOR SUPREME JUDGE,
Hon. HENRY W. WILLIAMS,
OF PIrTsBURG
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-04
Raftsman's 9onrlla.
ST.. ROW, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

CI.EARFIELD, PA, SEPT. 4, 1867.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15
CanvaSsing the South.

The Washington correspondent of
the Worcester Spy, gives the follow
ing as Radical programme for can
wasting the South. After speaking of
Senator Wilson'S movement he says
OF the other leading Republicans, Judge
Kelley has already gone South. General
Butler will go during the summer. Senator
POmerOy will make few speeches in ViT-
ginia ere starting for the West. Gen. Nye
intends TO go South as far as New Orleans.
He will start in about a week. His col
league, Senator Stewart, will also speak in
Virginia and North Carolina before he leaves
for the Pacific. OF leading cOlored men,
there will soon be on the stump in Virginia
Rev. Mr.. Garnet Rev. J. w. LOquen, of Sy-
racuse, is also to start soon. John Mercer
Langston, of Oberhu, President of the Ma
tional Equal Rights League is slso invited
Mr. j. w. Forten of Philadelphia, will also
canvass one or more States. 1t is expected
that Professor w. Howard Day, one of the
most polished orators of the day, will be in
the field. The Congressional Committee
have also engaged leading Southern colored
men. Rev. Mr.. Turner, lately Chaplain of a
colored segment, is in North Carolina, and
Mr.. Dickinson in South Carolina. There is
a,great need of workers in Mississippi. The
work has only Just begun. Money is imper-
atively needed and ought to be freely given
If these canvassers are coming to
the South, to advise our people to re-
organize their State governments in
conformity to the Reconstruction act,
they will be gratifed to find that the
task is an exceedingly light one. We
believe that the minds of the Southern
people are fully made up on that point
The leading Republicans" aforesaid
may do some good by assuring them
that Congress viii not play false, if
they comply in good faith with the
proposed terms.
An attempt to array one portion of
the Southern people in hostility to
another, can easily be demonstrated to
be as futile as it is fiendish, and will
recoil with terrible effect upon those
who engage in it.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15
The infamous Jeffryes has been re-

The infamous Jeffryes has been re-
produced in the person of Under
wood, who presides over the Z. ;.
District Court in Richmond. The
following extract from his rece1t
charge to the Grand Jury in that city,
is published as oneof the events OF
the times which seem so completely
out of joint
Gentlemen of the Jury" begins
the Judge, eve thank God we meet
here in security DC. (The Judge
has for a long time INDUCED in the
mononadnia that he was to be assassina-
ted. } Then he gives a terrible wordy
blast at the rebels, and accuses them
of assassinating Lincoln. And then
the following:
Richmond, the beautiful and aban-
doned seat of the rebellion, looking
as comely and specious as golden
apple or a gilded sepulchre, where
bloody treason fourished its whip OF
scorpions. Richmond, where the
slave trade so long held high carnival I;
where the press has found the lowest
depths of profigacy; where licentious-
ness had ruled until probably ma
iority of births were illegitimate or
without the forms of law; where the
fashionable and popular pulpit had
been so Frustrated that its well-fed
ministering gay Lotharios generally
recommended the worship of what
they most respected-pleasure, prop
erty and power-corresponding to the
pagan and NEUROLOGICAL ideas of BAG
chus. Mammon and Mars.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15

The Registration Board has closed
its labors in Washington City. The
whites have a majority of about
nine hundred over the blacks. The
Chronicle states when the registration
commenced, many of the old residents
refused to register because they were
disguised with the new voting element.
Now they have discovered their blum
der and are anxious to have it correct
ed Consequently motion has been
made in the Supreme Court of the
District for a writ of naandanas to
compel the judges of the election to
register their names.
We trust that none of our people
will have to reap the fruits of such
folly in this State. Let every man
who is authorized to register, under
the law, avail himself of the first OBJ
portunity that offers, and make secure
his privilege to vote.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15


The dismissal of the Injunction
cases will cause no surprise to our
readers. The conclusive opinions
which have been published in the
columns of the Clarion from the pens
of Judges Harris, Yerger, and other
eminent legal gentlemen, have left
little ground for the indulgence of a
belief that the Supreme Court would
take cognizance of the questions in
volved.
The effect of this decision, we trust,
will be to convince all our people that
there is no authority which can
interpose between Congress and
the accomplishment of de
sign to admit the excluded States
on its own terms. 1t is for the white
people of these States, or Military
Districts as really they have become,
+ determine whether they will par
ticipate in the important business Of
recognizing their State governments,
under the pending laws, or by decln-
ing to act, to devolve its execution
entirely upon the new class of voters.
Organization in one form, may be
considered a fixed fact. If proven
ted, the best that could be hoped for
would be the continuation of martial
law, until the enforcement by Congress
of some other plan with provisions a
thousand fold more oppressive.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15


! A very sensible letter from MIR.
| Hughes, former editor of the Rich
mond Examiner, appears in the pa
pers. in which he urges the Southern
people to accept the situation in good
faith. He maintains that it is folly
for Southern men to resist the inevita
BILE results of their own appeal to
arms. I'VE formally seeded" he
says, and "by every imaginable act did
we estop ourselves from claiming to
be citizens of the United States en-
titled to the protection of the Federal
constitution" He adds, "if we are
subdued rebels and traitors we may in
deed appeal to the Federal constitu-
ton, but are by the same logic amen
able to the penalties denounced by
laws against the parricidal crimes"
Accordingly, he formally thanks Con
gress for adopting the policy OF treat
ing the Southern people as conquered
foes. He goes on to ask: "Why,
then, should our own political organs
deny to us the character of conquered
belligerents, insist upon degrading us
to the condition of fOiled rebels and
traitors, and claim for US rights under
a constitution to which, until we shall
be regularly admitted into the Union
as citizens, we are strangers and
aliens 2"
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15
Collection of Direct Taxes Sus-
pended.

An order from the Secretary of the
Treasury, dated the 1st instant, sus-
ponds the collection of direct taxes in
the Southern States The law sus-
pending all collection of direct taxes
until January 1st, 1868, was passed by
Congress in July, 1866, and the
closing of the Commissioners offices
naturally followed, though no act
closing them was passed until recent
ly. As far back as May, 1865, an act
was passed disseminating all sales of
land for non payment of taxes. The
direct tax originated in 1861, Congress
having at that time called for twenty
millions of dollars, "to provide inter
nal revenue to support the Govern
ment, and to pay interest on the pub
lie debt" The South was. of course,
not then in condition to pay her por-
ton of the twenty millions, and the
collection of the tax was not COM
menced in the Southern States until
the close of the war.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15

THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.
The United States District Court is in
session at jackson Hon. r. A. Hill,
of Tishomingo, who presides, is cour-
teous and accommodating to the mem
bers of the bar and gives great salts
faction to the public from the faithful
ness and competency with which he
discharges the duties of his Office
Hon Robert Leachman, L. S. Attor-
ney, is yigilant and prompt, perform
ing the various labors that belong to
his position. No better Federal APP
pointments could have been made than
Messrs. Hill and Leachman. Taking
mo consideration the number
who could qualify for these offices,
the country is fortunate to secure
the services of these gentlemen
in the positions they occupy. In the
same building in which the Federal
Court is held, Hon. John Watts, of
Jasper, is holding the Circuit Court
for the First District of Kinds county,
and Col. A. Y. Harper prosecuting for
the State as District Attorney. Judge
Watts is the oldest Circuit Judge in
the State, in fact he has held the office,
in the solemnity of legal phrase, "time
whereof the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary" and ought to
hold it as long as he is willing to serve
the public.-Meridian Gazette.
We cheerfully transfer the forego-
ing to our columns as a deserved
tribute to honest and faithful public
agents.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15

statement of the situation on one plantation
will illustrate that on hundreds OF
others In the latter part of December
visited one plantation, lying about ten miles
up the Tombigbee river; for the purpose OF
settling with the freedmen Thre was made
on the place less than one thousand pounds
of cotton to the hand and no corn. 1t was
an average cotton crop for last year IN this
section of the country. The freedmen We're
to receive as wages their rations OF corn
meal and pork, and one-fourth OF the crop,
which are the usual terms given this year.
They were sick some and had bought some
clothing, little sugar flour, ETC., from their
employer, promising their crop in payment.
At the settlement it was found that some
had oyerdrawn their accounts, some came
ont about even, some had five dollars due
them, and one or two had as high as thirty
dollars coming to them for their years Ia
Dor. All We're ragged, their children We're
naked All were now without food ana
many without money. Yet the government
tax ON the cotton belonging TO the freedmen
on this plantation was nearly s6oo
enough to have comfortably clothed
most OF them. Sad, naked and hun
cry, they left this plantation 70 look for
other homes, little dreaming that the gov
eminent, who had set them free, was now
actually taking the food from their mouths
and the clothes from their backs. under the
mistaken notion that il was only making
rebels pay part of the nations debt.
Such Is the actual situation upon hundreds
of plantations in Alabama. Yet bureau
officers are required to urge the freedmen TO
educate their children, TO save their money
in order to buy stock and tools with which
to farm on their own account. Congress has
now given freedmen the ballot, while 1t
takes away much of their bread and bacon
Had the freedmen themselves been given
their choice between the two, l fancy they
would have chosen the latter. They cannot
eat ballots, nor wear ballots, and judge
that about the first use they make OF them
will be toward removing this cotton tax,
which now bears SO heavily upon their in
dustry.
PIERCE BURTON,
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15
ssSOt TO Register and Vote ~ 10
Vote Against the South.

Several of the ablest of our ex-
changes have well written editorials
under this caption, and we hope that
the people will weigh well the meaning
of the words, which appear to us to
he based upon sound truth, provided
no legaL remedy arise before the time
for voting comes on. We know that
many of our truest citizens, at the
first blush of the subject, felt that they
would never vote again in this strlck-
en- land. We believe that this feeling
is passing rapidly away. Our advice
has always been, to register and vote,
if the time for registering and voting
roll around That somebody will vote
is certain; and if the best men do not,
the worst will, and truly they will get
control of the State in their own hands,
and assuredly will wreck it upon seen
and unseen breakers ahead. If our
best men do not vote, the condition OF
government in Tennessee and Missouri
will be repeated here, and ConstItu-
tion of cunning ills will be devised.
The foregoing from the Montgome-
ry Mail, is so different from the coun-
sells heretofore given by that able pa
per, that we transfer it with much
pleasure to our columns. 1t is but
one of the many gratifying indications
which are presented all over the South,
now since passion is subsiding and
reason is resuming its sway, that the
tide of public sentiment is moving and
swelling in favor of Reconstruction.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15
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