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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27
Government Credit.

Massachusetts, has recently negotiated a
loan of three million dollars for twenty years
at four per cent. per annum. The Ma
tional Government pays six per cent. gold,
and our bonds are taken cautiously at that.
In other words, the United States pays six
per cent. gold for one thousand dollars of
currency cy-Massachusetts can for four per
cent gold borrow one thousand dollars IN
gold. Now this two per cent. loss in inter
est, and twenty five or thirty per cent. loss
in the principal, accurately represents the
influence of the presence of the Democratic
party in the country. In the Bay State the
Democracy is substantially unknown. As
an element of power it has no meaning.
Reputation, of course, is not only never
mooted or discussed, but never so much as
breathed With her sixty thousand Repub-
lican majority, a reflection on the CONNER
cial honor or credit of Massachusetts would
be resented similarly as an aspersion on the
virtue of ones wife or daughter. Repudia-
tion there is treason, and repudiators are look
ed upon as traitors, and we see the result We
as a. nation. are paying dear for the being
in our midst of the disloyal organization.
One half of the taxes now paid by the peo-
pie of the United States are directly char
geable to the Democracy. 1t costs US Just
twice as much to borrow money as need be,
by reason of the dishonest policy and course
oftais reckless and desperate party. y.--Phila.
Press.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27

I'm sitting on the style, Mary, as Jox
SAID when he sat down on his wife's bonnet.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27
BY S. ]. ROW.
Select goetry.
THE CLEAR VISION.

did but dream. never knew
What charms our sternest seasons wore.
Was never yet tho sky SO blue.
Was never earth SO white before?
Till now never saw the glow
Of sunset on yon hills of snow;
And never learned the bough's designs
OF beauty in its leafess lines.
Did ever such morning break
Al that my eastern windows see?
Did ever such moonlight take
Weird photographs of shrub and tree
Rang ever bells so Wild. and feet
The music of the winter street?
Was ever yet sound by half
So merry as yon schooIboy's laugh
o Earth! with gladness overfrausht,
No added charm thy face hath found;
Within my heart the change is wrought,
Ny footsteps make enc 1anted ground.
From couch of pain and curtained room
Forth to thy light and air 1 come,
To 6ndin all th at meets my eyes
The freshness of glad surprise.
Fair seem these winter days. and soon
Shall blow the warm west winds of spring,
To set the unbounded rills in tune.
And hither urge the biuebird 8 wing.
The yaies shall laugh in flowers the woods
Grow N ysfy green with lesfng buds,
And violets and wildfowers sway
Against the throbbing heart Of May.
Break forth my lips IN praise, and own
The wiser love severely kind.
Since, rich Ter for its chastening grown,
see, whereas once was blind
The world, o Father. hath not wronged
With loss the life by thee prolonged
But still, with every added year,
More beautiful thy works appear.
AS thou hast made thy world without,
Make thou more fair my world within;
Shine through its lingering clouds of doubt,
Rebuke its haunting shapes of sin.
Fill. brief or long. my granted span
Of life with love to thee and man.
Strike when tn ou wilt the hour Of rest,
But let my last days be my best.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27

The REAsoN.-At certain college, the
senior class was under examination for de-
grees. The professor of natural philosophy
was badgering in optics. The point under
illustration was that, strictly and scientiti-
cally speaking. we see no objects, but their
images depicted on the fetlna. Inc worthy o1ain
professor. in order to make the matter PLAIN
er, said to the wag of the class. Mr.
Jackson. did YOU ever actually see your faith
er2" Bill replied, promptly, ''No. sir. y
Please explain to the committee why you
never seen your father. because" replied
Mr. Jackson. very gravely ''he died before
/ was born, sir. -
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27

A gentleman was chiding his son for stay
ing out late at nights-or rather early next
morning-and said "Why, when l was
your age my father won d not allow me to
&C cut after dark" ''Then you had gay
old father. you had," sneered the young
proHigate. Whereupon the father very
harshly vociferated, II had confounded
sight better one than you have, you young
rascalp'
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27
Grant on Methodism. /.

The Phiadeiphia correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Times writes:
Grant, Grow and Curtin occupied the
Generals pew IN our fashionable uptown
Methodist Church last Sunday to the per-
feet astOnishment OF everybody. For short
time the distinguished party sat incognitso.
but gradually the name of Grant was whis
pered around, ana finally first one and then
another OF the audience arose and took a
coed rear, or profile view of the little man
of destiny. When the salvers were pass
ed round for the collection, the almoner
walked quickly by the pew without even the
usual pause, but Grant was not to be passed
here anymore than on the road. He quick
ly made his feet, and extending his hand
over the elegant salver, dropped green
hack in the plate. The deacon bowed his
thapks, and as each moved up to the altar
With has collection, he winked and blinked,
nodded, and made other significant but ut
terly unintelligible signs to the minister and
two of the elders in the pulpit 1t was all
to no purpose. The reverend gentleman
preached as he had first intended, upon the
subject of the need of more general char
ity among the people In behalf of the great
work of the Church.
why do you like the Methodists. Gen
eral?' asked Curtin, wht n they had come
out.
Because their religion is one of hard
knocks. They take hold of man and new
er let him drop until they have either con-
veited him, or scared him so he will say his
prayers some time in his life, and thus ue
saved. Then, too, it is an American reli-
gion. We Method SIS are entirely Demo-
cratic. yet no church appreciates the value
Of union, liberalization in government more
than the Methodists. wish that our Ma
tional Government had the liberty and the
strength that it ought to have from prop
er exercise of these principles.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27
TREASURER'S SALE
OF uNsEATED LANDS
FOR TAXES
For 1867 and previous years.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pur
suance of an Act of Assembly, passed
the 18th day of June, A. d. 1915, entitled
An Act to amend an Act directing the
mode of selling unseated lands. in Clear
field county" will be exposed te Public
Sale or outcry. for the taxes due and
unpaid thereon, at the Court House IN
the Borough of clearfeld, on the Sec
ond Monday in June. A, ID. 1868.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27

Robert Watson, a well known colored man,
recently died in New York city, aged II
years He began life as house servant.
and could neither read nor write. At the
time IF his death he owned eight houses
and over 800, 900 in personal property.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27

THE CAPTAIN's TRoUT.-A gentleman
who resides. in neighboring town tells a
good story about one of his trouting excur-
sions. He was about setting off, with a
friend. for days fishing, when an old ac-
quaintance, sea captain, drove up, and was
invited to join them. The captain said he
should be happy to go, for he had never
caught trout in his liie-and being furnish,
ed with rod and line, they all set off to-
gether Arrived at the brook, they separa-
ted, one going above and one below, leaving
the captain to try his luck where he was.
After an hour had passed. the gentleman
who was fishing above the captain, came
within hail, and asked if he had caught
anything
NO. replied the captain, .''it's these
confounded things that. jump off the bank
and go 'kerchug into the water that your
after, amt it ?" as ~
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-27

The Racine Journal says that the acoult-
tai of Andrew johnson don't affect its poll
tics but it gives its religion an awful strain.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-03

~Ires peace, but
-.ussla peace Is indispensable {;
.iench Emperor is now undoubtedly pre-
pared for a conflict, but his policy is uncertain.
Bismarck has been ordered by his physicians to
remain for several hours in the day in the open
air, inhaling the odor of the pine trees, in his own
woods in Silesia, their resinous exhalations being
discovered as most valuable. The doctors have
also forbidden him to read any letters for two
months.
Latest and most reliable accounts from Para
quay show that before retiring from Humaita the
Paraguayans gained two signal victories over the
Allies under the Marquis de Caxius, and that
their new position on the Tibicuary is impregna-
BILE. In short, the Allies are completely check
mated, and will have to give up the war.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-The following particulars of
the events preceding the evacuation of Humaita
by the Paraguayans are believed to be authentic
On the 10th of July the Marquis de Caxias,
commander OF the allied forces, received informal
ton that the Paraguayans were leaving the for
tress. He Immediately ordered the advance of a
column of $4,000 men. They crossed the bitches
and entered the enemy's lines, and took possession
of the redoubt. They were making preparations
to occupy the rest of the works, when the Para
guayan troops opened a fire, which had a terrible
effect on the allied column in its crowded and dis
ordered condition. The Paraguayans then adyanc-
ed on the Brazilians, jumping into the redoubts
and attacking them with the bayonet. Meantime,
they kept up a sharp artillery fire on the column
which had commenced TO fall back. The attack
ing party of Allies were driven from the redouht
and the whole column retired to Its camp, having
suffered severely in killed, wounded and prisoners.
The lowest estimate of their loss in this attack
places 1t at 600 killed, and wounded. Some di-
visions were almost cut to pieces. 4 large num-
Der of men were missing. \ few hours later the
Allies assaulted the Paraguayans in a fort in
Grancho. The attacking party was received with
u heavy Ere of artillery, which created a panic
among them, when they commenced TO retreat
in disorder. The Paraguayans then left their de-
fenses and pursued the retreating troops. The
latter again suffered a heavy loss, especially on
the retreat; their killed and wounded amount
ing to 500. On the 25th of July it was discover
ed that Humaita had ut last been actually evacua-
ted. All the heavy guns left were dismounted and
spiked, and the garrison retired in good order,
interruption, to a new position on the
Tibicuary, in fertilization there, which Lopez had
been building for nearly a year. They are believ-
ed to be impregnable. The communications with
the interior are secure, and the Paraguay river
has been so Instructed as to be inaccessible to the
allied iron-clads.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-03

mcclellan in thu
var Democracy, and the Re
-n majority exceeded that Of any preceding
election. This year the Vermonters are again
Copperhead, and Blair, the avowed revolutionist
and they have fired a signal gun which will inspire
Union men in all the States with fresh confidence
Paci fc Coast Items.
The restrictions of the existing law as TO the
Overland Mail have been so modified as to permit
after the Goth of September, the ransmis-ion OF
printed matter at the ordinary rates Of postage.
Sherman. the highest point on the Union Pacic
ic Railroad, is 1902 feet above the level of the
sea, and ! ,292 feet above Omaha.
The bet of so 600 against 5000 that Seymour
would carry the State of California, made by
McCauley with Newton Booth of Sacramento, has
been recalled, McCauley drawing his money.
The Christian movement to have but one service
in the churches on Sunday is meeting with much
favor on the other side of the continent.
FAST TRAvELISG.-The Rocky Mountain excur-
tionists were conveyed from Cheyenne to Omaha,
a distance of SIT miles, in fifteen hours, an aver
age of nearly 30 miles per hour. During the run,
at one point, So miles was got over in the space
of sixty minutes. Very neat travelling for a road
on which the first tie was laid about three years
ago.
superiority of the California wooden goods is SO
well demonstrated that the largest dry goods deal
er Of New York has recently ordered several hun
bred bales of San Francisco wooden blankets of the
highest grades to be shipped by steamer for the
Fall trade.
VICTORIA, Sept. THE last section of the new
cable connecting this island with that of Juan
was successfully laid yesterday, thus placing this
city in direct communication again with the main-
land.
A new mail contract has been concluded be-
tween the Government of this Colony and Holiday
& Brenham, to the effect that three steamers q
month will run G. this port from San Francisco
and Portland, with extra vessels if necessary, for
which the Colony agrees to pay them a subsidy Of
one thousand dollars per month for carrying tie
mails the Steamship Company have also agreed
to reduce the rates of steerage passage TO Sl5 from
San Francisco by the direct steamer.
DEDIcATIoS.-The chapel which has been built
at Oakland Point for the use of the Second Con-
gregatiOnal Society, Rev. Eli Corwin, pastor elect,
was dedicated with appropriate services on Sunday
last. The sermon was preached BY Rev. DIR.
Stone, of San Francisco. Prof. kellogg and Rev.
Mr.. Beckwith assisted in the exercises. The
chapel is small, but neat and well arranged, and
is an ornament TO that part Of the city. The total
cost of building and furnishing was S3,450 all of
which was paid or provided for before the dedica-
ton, except 1906. OF this sum S232 were col
lected at the meeting, leaving now a debt Of S74.
The pastor Is expected TO take charge of the
church early in October. !
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-03
Shipment per R. C. Wylie.
JrsT RECEIVED, CONSISTING OF
DRY GOODS, &c.

WyALEs FANCY PRINTS. SUPER QUAIL
II ITY AL Ssw styles.
" hifs Cottoos. BIss Cott5f O. Brown Drills, Blue Drills.
Heavy Blue D-nia.-a ssp@rer article, Asst COLr.d Baniing.
Large size Cotton ADD NoOlru Blankets % assorted Coisu,
ZINE Black Bar tth~As. Basek and Cold D-lafnss, CashnSrss, &c
Black. " bite AMI Bio. CobgFzs and Aipae@s.
sap,rior Wais~ apd Dr.b Nol-sEin, White srd Blue Flann-ls,
B1sek SILK 10 pieces. B4r-xe tr Nsls, sc. Back Crap
Fine Black AMI Biu- Brgsdetoth. Checked poslas,
PsniaIooa Stuf, vicfora LI~us, Mesquite MEETINGS,
Bcrl.ps .nd nsui4ns, f.ncy NeFinoss and Csshnsres,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-03
Hosiery.

A Choice Ao,rtn.n, q Meu's Cotton, half Wool. Merpo and
Silk Under.hirtS and DraseTs-an large sizes,
A complete Invoice % Meas Socks In Cotton and Wool-white,
eolored and Fancy,
LADIES' PIns whi,s and Black ~stOeAinss, superior quality.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-03
Hats,
Saddlery, Sc,

Meas Superior Engiish, German and French Saddles,
Ladirs Saddles, Brdl-s % various s;ylsr,
Bits, Spurs, Saddle Cloths, &C
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-24
TENNESSEE.
country.

1t is evident that if the leaders Of the
Abolition party are permitted to carry out
their designs, says the Columbus (Ohio) Cri-
sis, they will carry the whole country to that
last extremity of social war which threatens
the people of Tennessee. The agitation Of
the telegraph in connection With certain local
disturbances in Tennessee, looks like pres
monitory symptom of the revolution ceasing
to be bloodless, and of its coming to that point
where musketry and artillery are the only
arbiters. There does not exist unon the face
of the globe more outrageous usurpation or
scandalous tyranny than that Which pretends
to be the government of Tennessee. Violence,
crime and confusion are the natural attendants
Of such an absolutism as that Of BRoWNLow S.
The oppressed, gathering strength by every
days duration of such swindle as BROWN
Lows burlesque, make head against it, and
so far frighten it that the recreant ugurpers
arc compelled to dispatch messengers in hot
haste to Washington for succor. To states~
men, or to men truly great, the disturbances
in Tennessee would be surcharged with signifi-
cameo and responsibility; but to the wranglng
dcmagogues at Washington they amount to
less than the result of an election, in q. Loyal
League club. infatuated with malignity and
consumed with the greed of power and
plumber, the Jacobins at the Capital drivel
through and gap over speeches Of the value
OF one shinpaster, while everything precious
goes to wreck, and the whole country is men
aced with 4 social war whose horrors no imagi-
nation can magnify.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-24
Bold Express Robbery.
4 Messenger KnocA'cd Dozen IN his Car and
$4,000 Stolen.

At about 9.45 last evening, as the express
train of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton road, due here at 10 o'clock, was leaving
Galcndale, man entered the express car in
which a messenger Of the American Express
Company was standing before his open safe,
making up his money for Cincinnati. This
messenger, Mr.. S. i. IIaymen, entirely I'm
suspicious Of any danger, had no warning Of
the attac!; that vas about to be made upon
him, for almost simultaneous with his first
glimpse Of the man, as he instuctively felt
his presence, he was tclled to the floor, sense
less, by heavy blow as of pistol or metal
knuckIes-a blow that cut his head and drew
protuse stream Of blood, while it entirely
deprived him of consciousness. Having done
this part of the work, the bold robber kneeled
down by the side of the messenger, and hur-
riedly examined the packages Of cash, bonds
and valuable papers. Having secured all the
money he could find, estimated at from Sl0,-
600 to $4,000, the scOundrel pulled the
bcli-ropc, checked the train, sprang from it
into the darkness, aud made his escape, near
LOcklaud. \ brakcsman saw him jump from
the car. but did not suspect what his object
was. The robbery was not discovered until
the train was near the city, and then it was
first noticed by the baggagc-mastcr, who,
upon entering the car, found the messenger
lying there as if dead, with the papers scat
tered all around. When he revived SO as to
be able TO talk, the wounded man became
dclirious. He lives in Newport, but was ia
ken, last night, to the house Of one of his
relatives in this city. Up to midnight he
was still unable to converse sufficiently to tell
anything save that, as soon as he discovered
the man the blow came, and he fell Gin
emmett Commercial, Nurch 12tA.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-24
A Boy Of Fourteen commits Suicide in
Baltimore.

4 case of suicide causing great excitement
occurred yesterday afternoon at the male
grammar and primary school, No. Is, on Re
publican street, near Saratoga. From the
facts learned it appears that lad named
Arthur Campbell, aged fourteen years, son
of Mr.. Charles Campbell, who is in the en-
ploy of Thomas Winans, Esq, was a pupil
Of the above mentioned public school. For
some reason he had fallen under the dis
pleasure Of mis- teachers, resulting, as is al
legged, in his dismissal. He was again re-
ccivcd into the school, and by way of pun
ishment for his transgrcssiOn, he was, it is
stated, not allowed to play with his school
mates. lie told one Of the female teachers
of his feelings in the matter, threatening, as
is alleged, to kill himself if denied the priviI-
eye Of playing with his schoolmates. No no
tee was taken of his remarks, and yesterday
afternoon, as one o. the little children of
the school was going into the yard, he found
the body Of young Campbell sus pended by the
neck in shed of the yard attached to the
school The boy ran into the schoo-room
and informed one of the lady teachers, who
at first thought nothing Of it. She after
wards, however, informed the principal, Mr.
J. s. Arthur, who went into the shed where
he found the boy hanging by the neck, with
lis knees resting on the ground. lie was
} Immediately cut down, but life was extinct
The startling news spread Ike wiIdfrc among
the scholars, numbering some two or three
hundred, and occasioned great excitement
The schools were dismissed and Sergeant
Handy, of the Western District Police, with
a force of men, were promptly at the scene,
and succeeded in allaying the excitement.
Coroner Greentree was notified, and summon
ed jury of inquest, which, after hearing
some testimony, adjourned to meet at eight
o'clock this morning. The body Of the i'll
fated lad was removed to his parents resi-
dence, No. Il South Fremont street-Buiti-
more lSn3,.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-24
The Herald's New Candidate,

The New York HeruM continues to push
the nomination by the Democrats Of Admit
raj Farragut for the Presidency. 1t thinks
that his name would be rallyiDg cry which
would bring out entire anti-radical strength
and ensure success. Says the LGra2d:
''They (the Democracy must organize
their fight around the name Of Admiral Da-
vid G. Farragut, the Old Salamander, the
hero Of Forts St. Philip and jackson, the
hero Of Mobile, the little MILDLY Of the glori-
Gus old frigate Essex under Porter in the
Pacific. This is the man for the Democracy.
Much Of the strength Of the republican strug-
Gle in New Hampshire seems to have been
due TO the fact that Grant w&s kept forward
50 prominently that the issues of the war
were fairly brought up again. Farragut is
the card to play against this game. Grant,
standing on the stump Of his Appamattox
apple tree, is 4 very pretty picture of abstract
hcroism; but more magnificent presentation,
one that will catch the popular eye with its
moro attractive charm, is that Of the sailor
hero in the shrouds Of his ship, his whole
figure lighted up by the fire of the battle
raging below. This is the case for the de-
mocracy; let them fight it earnestly, and
they will inevitably Win"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-24
Renuhlican mninrit-

The returns from 223 towns give Harri-
man, Republican, 39, SO l; and Sinclair, Dem
ocrat, 36:923, showing Radical majority of
zoos The remaining eight towns last year
gave Democratic majority of l Is, which will
probably be increased, thus reducing the
Radical majority of 3.l46 in 1867 to 2,492
in 1868, a Democratic gain of 654. The
Lower House of the Legislature stood in
1867, 203 Radicals to l28 Democrats; Radi--
cal majority 70. This year the Lover House
stands 100 Radicals to 141 Democrats; Rad
ical majority, 40, a Democratic gain Of 26.
1t will be observed that the Democratic
vote will exceed $1,000, majority of the
legal votes of New Hampshire. a glance at
the map will show that New Hampshire is
surrounded by the intensely Radical States of
Vermont, Maineand Massachusetts,. This fact
shows whence the increased Radical vote was
derived The vote of New Hampshire has
hitherto never exceeded Il 600.
An examination of the vote by towns will
show the damning fact that tie Radicals haze
gained only IN those tours bordering on, Maine,
Massachusetts and Tern,ont while in the
interior the Democrats gain largely. Colonial
ton beat US, but that cannot be done in No
vember.
1t will be remembered that the Democratic
gains here made were made on the vote of
1867, when the Democrats carried everything.
Similar gains elsewhere will give US Connccti-
cut by 5000, aud New York, Pennsylvania
New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, West
Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Wis
consin, Nevada, California and Oregon by
majorities that cannot be shaken.