Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-26
A Little of Everything.


Butter continues high and scarce in Clearheid.
The campaign progresses finely all over the land
Ii Won want to know where to buy goods cheap,
read Grahams column.
Vermont has produced tomato measuring 2ot
inches in circumference.
Maine promises to give Grant and Colfax over
twenty thousand majority.
A snake % feet long has been killed at Will
lou ghby lake New Hampshire.
Jack Frost paid Cambria county a visit, last
week So says the ALteghsafan.
The organization of Grant and COlfax clubs is
the order of the day everywhere.
Aprotectorate over Mexico by the United States
is again revived in that unhappy country
/ Congressm en- Poland of Vermont promises 10000
majority in that State for Grant and Colfax
/ An old rebel cavalry regiment. in louisiana
has re organized as Seymour and Blair club
The authority of mob is equal to that of a
/ Government ''-Horatio Seymour, July 4, 1864
TIE Raleigh North Caro'ina) St4ndara guar
antees 50 600 majority for rant and Colfax in n C.
The first snow storm of the season took place
on the top of Mount Washington, on August 18th.
There is not foreign paper of any shade of
politics which does not denounce the Democratic
platform.
Minneapolis letter says: "Tbe people of
Minnesota are good for ten thousand majority for
| Grant and Colfax.
Woodruff wants the Democratic watchword to
be s'action. action'' Wouldn't suction sue
ton ~ suit better?
Very rare-two total eclipses in the same year
one of the swn in August and another of Sey-
mour in November.
If the Democracy should succeed this fall, which
would be worth the most, United States dollar
or a Confederate dollar
Pennsylvania is good for 10000 Republican
majority in October, if friends go to the polls
and vote. Remember this.
Robert Ould, ex rebel Commissioner for the
change of prisoners, has written the latest Dem
ocratie campaign document.
The Democrats of Meriden, Claiborne Parish.
La, claim to have a negro Democratic Club of
over three hundred members
The Democracy have been trying to raise the
| wind for a long time. They got whole bag full
| when they secured Frank Blair.
1t is calculated that the election this fall in
! Alabama will cost thousand lives To be a
Union man down South means something
One hundred and sixty mur ers, within the last
six weeks, reported from Louisiana Democ-
racy to be fiourishing in that State.
The New York 7tmss says, that with the Re-
publican party united New York State will give
Grant Republican majority of at least 50.OoO.
The emaciated survivors of the Libby and An
dersonyilIa prisons asked by the Democrats to
vote with the wretches who scourged and starved
them.
The Raleigh Stan9ayd puts and answers this
question Who stole DIR. Little's library and got
most heartily id for Northern Vandal? Frank
P. Blair,
All Democratic papers are trying to prove that
Seymour was loyal during the rebellion. Nobody
takes the trouble for Grant, because it not
necessary
Union soldiers "Lincon's hirelings." Now the
Northern COpperheads call them Grants myrmi
dons Certainly; like beaets like
The Ottawa Ne1sS (ecmocratic) says "They
have Pam many Democrats in Sandusky city
All ight so far the Tam is concerned but
the many are somewhat split up just now.
A Democratic paper in Illinois urges the cleo
ton of General Singleton to Congress from the
Fourth Illinois District, on the ground that he
had the confidence of JEFF Davis during the war
The Chicago TIMES says: IF the Democrats
vote as they fought, they will vote for Seymour
against the infamy of reconstruction. and against
Grant Never spoke the Times more truly and
honestly.
Since the popular dem onstrations in memory of
Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay we have had
nothing to surpass the funeral honors to Thad-
deus Stew vens but those which rponrpe5 ,ho ,,a-
tyred Lincoln.
Gen. HallecK, when he heard of the pomipa-
ton of Seymour and Blair, said "Itmay do for
some, but it won't for me- No true Union Gen
eral who ever smelicd powder will go for sey-
mOur and Blair
Wade Hampton, B. Forest, Howell Cobb. and
other paroled prisoners of war it is rumored will
be brought North by the Dem oo racy as speakers
during the campaign, to teach their captors their
political duties.
-Four billions of dollars. in rough figures, was
the cost of the late rebellion. A rather expen-
| sive Democratic k"rnry, The people don't
want another such, and hence they will elect
Grant and Colfax.
Three churches have been burned in Bacon's
/ Castle, Virginia within three weeks by Ku- Klux
Ineendiaries Nothing better could be cxpec-
/ teu-'heir friends In New York, during the
war, set them the example by burning Orphan
! Asylums.
! Already the Southern papers noticing the
fact of the large increase of the corn crop TO the
acre this year OF what is planted acre now
yields much greater return than heretofore
This is the first result of free labor Others will
come in time
Our soldiers run we'll this year" was thu sneer-
ing remark made by Seymour, after a series of
reverses in 1862. On which the Newburg Jour
nal comments: They will run well this wear.
too, and are already after his nimble excellency
with sharp stick ~
Fallandigham is repudiated by the honest. u |
nion-loving Democracy of his district Gen Van
deveer and hundreds Of others have promptly re- |
pudiated the traitor, and uounce tn cir intention
to vote as they shot'-against rebels in every
guise, now and hereafter for all time to come
We are glad to learn, as we do from our Demo
cratic exchanges that '-the Democrats have open
ed the campaign with a tciH." 1t shows a be-
coming resignation to their fate 1t is a good
plan,too to make a will, though a little Gu
rious to know what upon earth they have to devise