Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-11-10
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demands shall be liquidated in the same
kind of money that they deposit; that is to
say, that greenbac& debts shall be paid in
greenbacks, and gold debts in gold. On the
other hand, borrowers should take care to
have the same agreement with those from
whom they borrow or with whom they make
contracts. A resumption of specie pay
ments may be so remote as to make these
preparations unnecessary, but they can do
no harm even should the contamination be
as remote as the admirers of paper money
| hore.
a Richmond correspondent of the Balti
more Sun writes that the movements of the
negroes to the far South, under the in
ducements of more genial cline and high
wages. is assuming large proportions. The
colored labor of the country is gravltatlng
to the localities it is best adapted to, and
leaving clear field for the northern and
| European emigrants The writer was told
| by railroad men that the negroes are daily
leaving the State, under contracts, in par
ties varying from twenty five to one hundred
They do not all go dirc;tly to the cotton
| field and sugar plantation hun lred, for
instance, being called for, and rapidly re-
spending, to work on Chattanooga rail
| road
| Mr. Vallandigham nominates Mr.. Chase
| for President. BY pursuing "a liberal
policy towardsthose not hitherto acting with
u.s." says he, which we are sure the De
mocracy will pursue, all will yet end well.
The essential principles of the party must
be preserved, or all is lost. The Democrat
ic organization can be preserved, then, while
at the same time cutting itself loose from all
dead issues and obsolete questions. The
party must indeed be in bad way when it
hopes to improve its condition by taking up
| MIR. Chase.
| The vote of Nebraska for the fifteenth
amendment will be given the moment the
/ Legislature, largely Republican, is IN ses-
/ sion. The next regular meeting is not to
the winter of 1870 a. Governor Butler is
urgently invoked by the Republican parers
of Nebraska to call special session within
thirty days, and their wish is warmly second
| ed by many journal. in other States. The
Governor would crafty his friends and
help the good cause by acceeding to this
/ iervent invocation.
1t is estimated that by the end of the
year 1869 there will be laid in the United
States, in round numbers, one htmdred and
ten thousand tons Of &teci rails, equal to e.
leVen hundred miles of steel road and Of
/ this amount thirty six thousand tons, equal
to three hundred and sixty miles, will be
/ laid during the present season. These rails
are in use on more than fifty different roads,
and are parrly of American, principally OF
| English, and, to small extent, of Prussian
manufacture.
! a letter from prominent Government
official at New y York contains the intorma
tion that Government secuities generally
have downward tendency, and forcshad
owing crisis in Wall street. which, in its
results, will equal the fatal effects of the
late gold conspiracy Tie same authority
predicts a resu nption of specie payment
within six months if the present financial
| policy of the Government is continued
Agricuiturists in California are turning
their attention to the raising Of opium. Ths
poppy plant, it is found, will grow there al
most without cultivation, and the gathering
of the juice of heads, of which opium CON
sists, is as simple an operation as the max
ing of maple sugar Raw opium is worth
about $50 pound and it viii be seen that
the pecuniary inducements to embark in the
business are very great.
The Reform Convention of Jewish Rabbis,
in session at Philadelphia, Friday, adopted
resolutions fayoring change in the marital
laws, acknowledging the woman Is the c.
quail of the man, and providing for an ex
change of rings as a part of the ceremony,
and also abolishing divorces by the Church
and leaving the power of divorces entirely
to the judiciary Of the States.
The West Visginia Legislature will stand
! 8 to in the Senate and - to 24 in the
House, for the Republicans In these fig
ures, the Wheeling Hteliigencer comedies
the extreme opposition claims, in counties
not yet fully reported About one third of
the Republican members are favorable to
the abrogation of existing restrictions upon
the franchise
, In Cincinnati, recently, majority of the
Board of Education decided to exclude the
Bible, as a reading book, from the common
, schools. Upon application to the Courts,
an injunction was granted restraining the
majority of the Board from enforcing then
decision. There matters stand at present.
What the final result will be, remains to be
seen.
London journals speak regretfully of the
death of George Peabody. His philanthro-
py and private virtues made him as con-
spicuous in England as in America, and as
keenly susceptible of appreciation by peo-
pie whose poor he cared for as children.
Gov. Geary has issued ihc death warrant
Of John Fields, convicted of murder in Ly-
coming county, and Zachary Taylor Hook
inberry, both of whom are ordered to be ex-
ecuted December 7th, the former at Will
Transport and the latter at Butler.