Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-12
A Little of Everything.

JEFF. Davis endorses the Copperhead platform
The Catholic Church in Tyrone is being frescoed.
The editor of the Central Press" will CONSIDER
our tile lifted.
The enlargement of the Post-ofice is an ae-
ceptabe Improvement
The Pope has appointed six new cardinals-al
from the Italian clergy.
Centre county has instructed for Hon. VIM H.
Armstrong for Congress
The Republicans of Allegheny county are push
ing the campaign vigorously.
1t saii the Indiana Democrats won't allow
Frank Blair to SPEAK in their State
Lewisburg has 2SSa inhabitants and SCI fami-
lies 1857 attend church. and 932 do not.
Mcclellan is announced to take the spade for
Seyn our and Blair. He is to dig the grave!
Like many other serpentine productions, the
Dem ocratic ticket carries the sting in its tail
The Central Pacific Railroad is built to
Humboldt river go miles East of San Francisco.
One of the Atlantic cables has been broken near
New Foundland it is tn ought,by passing iceberg
Judge M'EnaIIy will hold his first Court in
Centre county. It will commence on the oath inst
Gen Fitzpatrick will return from Chilli this
month, and take the stump for Grant and Colfax
The Hon. John Cessna will be nominated for
Congress in the twenty first District 1t will he a
good nomination.
All the Blairs are to old family council this
week over political matters. The fate of the ma
ton will be settled.
sSweet william complains that the Seymour
and Blair mach inc runs hard. 1t wants grease
1t screeches badly
The Republicans in every township should or
ganize at oucc. To work, if you would nip in the
bud a second rebellion.
Torpedo Maury has been made professor in
| Lees Virginia College 1t is a rebel nest and
nice brood they II hatch.
Senator Buckalew is sp oxen of as the next Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor Geary will lay
| him out as he did Clymer.
! One hundred and thirty-three Thousand emf
grants have arrived at New YORK since January
! first. 4 fine chance for Wallace
The new bell for the NJ. E Church raised
1 to the beIfry Saturday last, and placed in po-
sition. 1t rings out clear and strong
/ Seymour is an immense letter writer, but he
doesn't know how to punctuate, The people will
bring him to full stop in November.
| Democratic banner in recent procession
read To HI with F. B.' Query: Did it mean
Freednen's Bureau, Frank Blair?
Valuable ores are being discovered in different
parts of our county. We have scarcely an inkling
/ of the vast mineral wealth of this region
Gen Franz Seigel is President of the Central
German Republican Club of the city of New York.
: ,,;,,
to fight nit Seigel.'
Boaz Lucas, of Curtin township, Centre county
was illed while cleaning a we'll, last week. He
was being drawn UP in the bucket, when he fell
and broke his neck.
white mans Government at Aiken, ). Carolina
last week His only assistants were two niger
orators, and a niger procession
Seymour says he caught up by the wbelm
ing tide The tide will ebb on the Sd of Novem-
Der and carry HIM back into the vast ocean of
political nothingness from whence he came
Don Platt of Ohio, says the Democratic party is
like "a blind horse in a bark -mil,that goes round
and round-round and round-perfectly indiffer.
ent whether he grinds tan-bark or birthstone so he
gets ms oats-''
The Cops ought TO ask Frank Blair their favor
1 lite question, How would you like to have your
daughter marry a nj ger ?"-inasmuch as Frank
says he would rather sleep with niger than
! with Democrat
/ Sweet William is 'bobbin around among the
/ Comfy Conventions, trying TO get men uomina-
ted for the Legislature who will vote for him for
/ the L ; Senate. The coffee pot Chairman is not
mbitious-not any.
There is niger Democratic Club in Meri-
den, Louisiana, having over 800 members. OF
course they belong to the White mans party. ;:
They are striving after social equality and find
it among the Copperheads.
There is law suit going on in Lancaster for the
possession of three goslings claimed by two DIFF
ferent peIsons- The costs alread yamoHnt to twen-
ty dollars per Gosiing, and the case has only got
through the Alderman's jurisdiction
"A powerful Democratic speech by Senator Hen
bricks at New Albany, Indiana, Saturday last
was followed by Republican gain of seven hun
dred votes at the municipal election on the Tues
day after 1t was logical sequence
We have no more enterprisiug citizen than Ex-
Gov Bigler lie is indefatigsble in his efforts TO
promote the prosperity and welfare of the town
We don't like his politics. but do ike his pub
lie spirit enterprise, liberality and pluck.
The Copperheads appear very anxious to know
what has become of the public money They had
better begin to prosecute their inquiry by apply
ing to Floyd and Cobb. who can enIighten them
on the .ubjec; up to the time they vamoosed from
Washington.
President Johnson gives Seymour and his
, friends shot below the water line when he
says IN his veto message, lit is well known that
portion Of tie iHha5'toHts of Nelo York and Vir-
ginia fcere alike engaged in the rebellion. True
for once, Andy
The court House party has hung another flag
over the street They intend to monopolize all
the corners, and make up in flags what they lack
in votes The Clearield bread nd butter brigade
has wonderful affection for flags with a dirty
smear at the end of them
The ''breezes of Heaven visited the last Sew
mour and Blair flag rather roughly on Saturday.
1t was blown down, sticks and all, and lay in a
dirty heap on the Court House steps The party
Will be IN precisely the condition, after the
whirlwind on the Sd of November
The last thing the rebels did before the war wa.
to vote the Democratic ticket. Their first act
since the war is to vote the Democratic ticket
lhere was but one step from Democracy to rebel
lion. and il is perfectly natural rbat tbara sb