Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-09-30
A Little Of Everything.
,,.os 10 ,.x Racbelors

Belgium proposes to tax Bachelors
Cincinnati has black 40 years Old
HUNGARY has at last got coinage of her own
Peaches are selling at fifty cents bushei IN
Texas
The Democratic defeat proves the efficacy OF tne
Maine lick-er law.
Senator Kelios of Louisiana, says that state IS
as sure for Grant as Ohio. Good
I,is feared that Gottschaik was lost in the re-
cent earthquake IN South America
| .P,sb the debt and taxation says Horatio,
4 which means don I touch my record "
! Organize thoroughly Canvass closely Watch
/ vigiIantIy. Work diligently conquer glor'ou'y
/ The echo of despair-that .-congratuiatory ad-
/ dress'' of Mr. Chairman Wallace. on the result IN
Name.
The Arkansas Senators say that Arkansas is as
! certain for Grant as is Vermont. We accept the
/ tidings with gIadness.
Gen. Stokes. of Tennessee. says his State viii
give Grant at least 81, 900 majority and that every
! Congressman will be Republican.
Daniel Brubaker. Democrat and Northern
manwas driven from Hickman Ky. for ne other
reason than that he was Northerner
..You can't catch old Lee the Democrats used
to tell US but did. You can't elect Gen
GIANT" they tell now; but we will
Judge W Emerson has positively declined
the nomination for judge of the 18th Missouri Ja
die al circuit rendered him by the Democracy
Senator Abbott of North Carolina. says that
Srate will give % 600 majority for Grant and Col
faxapd tn at the re uels wen I elect Congressman
The Democrac don't like to recur to the past
don't want TO revive dead issues. We should think
they would-tha. they would like to revive their
party,
Senator Conuess, of California. has just received
some letters from his friends at home assuring him
that California will cast her vote for Grant and
Colfax.
The motto of Maine is Dirigo-I direct It's
election on the I4th is the index finger of the
campaign. pointing out the direction of the pop
| ular vote in November.
The rebel Democrats are angry at Gen Dix
for his against their candidate for President
T as they are enamored of Dixie for its constant
devotion to their cause.
The Democratic critics think Grant no General
If so the Democratic rebel Generals must have
: been most consummate blundsI heads to be 80
badly whipped by Grant!
Senator Wiley is confident that West Virginia
will cast her vote for Grant and Colfax, nctwith-
standing the ex-rebcs openly f-rjure themselves
in order to get the registry
A month sgo Mr.. Seymour wrote to his friend
2 IDgerson that he did not know which way the
. canvass would go. Wonder if he has any better
idea of the way it will GO?
: The Democracy of Tennessee have issued a
proclamation pledging themselves to negro suf-
! frage if the negroes will vote their ticket. A
! pretty white mans party truly
Minnesota farmer says We raise four hun
: dred bushels of potatoes to the acre here, which
would be big thing. if we didn't also raise bags
a enough TO eat EN- all up" Just so
Stop that tide"-is now the slogan of the De
j mocracy; but it won stop. Its force is irresist-
able and will -overwhelm'' the hull of EN-
:, rebels and all-at the \ ovember election.
i, The KuKlux have an organization IN New Je-
sey IN rue nrgi''vf '''0--~.s as Sentember tn eY
+ waylsid and nearly killed Lieut. Bynner rim Belle
: viile-having previously threatened to do so.
Congress met on the 2Ist per adjournm ent
: and adjourned over TO October 18th Only six
" Democrats present, who stolidly sat in their
seats refusing to vote, in order to prevent quorum
c Wisconsin exchanges promise us 20, 00O MAORI
ty. Less will do. Don't take all the credit from
o Pennsylvania Wisconsin's majority lat year
was less than 5000. This thing of quadrupling
" the majority is unfair to the rest Of
correspond ent writes TO the Cincinnati Ga --et.
that, to his knowledge $50 900 has been raised
. in Louieviiie to i'm port rebel voters from Ken.
tucky into Indiana That's the way the Cops in
| tend to swell their aggregate vote everywhere.
At meeting of the Crawford county Republi-
| can Committee Monday. Sept 2Ist. Newton
Pettis was declared the choice of the county to
: fill the vacancy in Congress from the Twentieth
y District,eaused by the death of Hon d. A. Finney
t Surratt has been released on a technical point
=, The leniency of the court in permitting him TO
. ! plead pretty much as he wanted finding one spe-
. cial plea after another and never allowing the
Government the advantage OF its own demurrers.
" is at least extraordinary
At the Democratic Convention of the Ninth
: Kentucky Congressional district held at Owings-
vile on the 18th inst, the following resolution
4 was passed with only ssenting voice " r =
[ sofrea, That we deu ana of Andrew johnson the
pardon of John Breckenridge
, One of the marked features of the pending cam
psign Is the extreme solicitsie of those recently
3, in arms against the Government for the Union
! and the Constitution Three years ago these men
j were very anxious for the election of Mcclellan.
/ and for precisely the reasons.
: The Syracuse Journal says The sleight-of,
1 hand manipulation of the election returns from
Maine and Vermont, in the New York Worla is
at last accounted for Signor Biitz has been added
to the WOrid's editorial corps, and the motto of
: that paper now is-Pyesto-shaRSs."
OF course there extra mileage for the
late session of Congress will there be any for
D the session for October and November. The Re
} puhlcaus stopped that Democratic abuse long ago,
and the Democratic effort to charge it upon the
present Congress is as silly as it is transparent
, Mr.. John Gephart of Snake Spring township.
Bedford county, few days ago while pIougbing.
turned up nest of ninety snakes They
were of the viper species and averaged foot in
, length After brisk chase they were all cap
tured and killed.-Er. Therell be a larger lot
of the species copperhead, dispatched by the
/ Union October 18th
An Old Song in New Dress.
What has caused this great commotion,
. Motion mo otion,