. . 'BOW, RD1TOB ASB PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., DEC. 22, 1858.
"WHO ABE THE AGITATORS !
The Administratioa Party hare been two
years deploring the agitation of Slavery, and
ever since last Spring have insisted tbat the
Slavery question was finally and conclusively
settled. There has been no new attempt at
agitation on the part of the Opposition. Bat
how w it with themselves 1 The President
sends in his Message, and two mortal columns
of k are devoted to fanning the flames of sla
Tery agitation. Congress meets, and on the
first day of the session, Mr. Mason, chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations, act
ing in behalf of the Administration, takes the
earliest moment to revive the Slavery agita
tion by calling up the claim of the owners of
the Am is tad negroes. The Sonth Carolina
Legislature assembles with a conceded Ad
ministration majority in both Houses. Its,
whole time is taken up with discussions of a
proposition to re-open the Slave Trade, and
the revival of "agitation." The' Arkansas
Legislature, also in session, devotes its time
to Pro-Slavery Resolutions. The North Car
olina Legislature is agitating the subject of
reducing free negroes to Slavery. The Ala
bama and Florida Legislatures are agitating
the Slave Trade. The Mississippi politicians
are issuing manifestoes, all to a greater or less
extent agitating the Slavery question. All
these are Democratic bodies. Well may it be
asked : Who are the "agitators V
The UorsE Committees. The Washington
correspondence of the New York Courier $
Enquirer says tbat th Honse Committees are
made np by the Speaker for this session with
something more than the accustomed partiality
and unfairness. The sectional proclivities of
Mr. Orrhave been so often exhibited that it
creates little surprise, though more than a lit
tle suppressed indignation, that he has given
the Chairmanships of fourteen important com
mittees to the South, and but four to the
North i tbat on nearly every Committee which
has any actual participation in legislation, he
has placed five Southern to four Northern
members, though the Free States have more
than three-fifths of the House ; tbat on the
same committees he has allowed the Opposi
tion but two or three members out of nine,
and that be has appointed Southern men to fill
all the vacancies caused by death or the re
tirement of former Chairmen.
A difficulty occurred on the 18th inst., in
Washington City, between two Congressmen
Mr. English, of Indiana, and Mr. Montgome
ry, of Pennsylvania. They met for the first
time this session on Pennsylvania Avenue, on
the day named, wben Mr. English, extending
bis hand, said, "IJow are yon, Mr. Montgom
ery V Mr. Montgomery withheld bis hand,
and passed on without making a reply. Mr.
' English stepped after, and struck hini over
the head with a cane, knocking bim into
the gutter, but not entirely down. Mr. M.
then picked up and threw a brick at Mr. Eng
lish, but did him no injury, the brick striking
him oo the foot. This is the newspaper re
port of the affair.
A Good Paper. The Pittsburgh Gazette,
(Daily and Weekly,) is now in its 73d volume,
and a paper which we can cordially recom
mend. It has all the latest news, is beautiful
ly printed, and is a firm and unflinching sup
porter of the Republican cause. The Daily is
furnished in clubs of ten or more at $5 per
Annua, aiogle copies 8. The Weekly, an
immense sheet with from 27 to 30 columns of
reading matter every week, is furnished at $1
per annum, to clubs of ten or more ; 1,25 in
clubs of five, or at $2 to single subscribers.
Now is the time to subscribe.
It is said the chair of Mr. Douglas in the
Senatorial caucus is to be draped with black
as a hint that he "has departed" and that it is
"recorded" against him. We have mistaken
the character of the "little giant" if he does
not walk into the caucus, take his accustomed
eat, and prove that black is white or that the
craped chair is the emblem of the defunct Ad
ministration. We shall hear of some strange
doings before the ides of March.
Fcsr Ahead. A well posted correspondent
of the Chicago Pre, in a letter dated Wash
ington Dec 8th, says: "Bigler and Green
are going to bring in an anti-Polygamy bill to
show their contempt for Squatter Sovereign
ty, and at the same time to make Douglas face
the music on it when be comes here."
The Philadelphia Bank case was terminated
last Saturday, and Messrs. Allibone and New
hall were acquitted of the charge of conspi
racy to defraud the Bank of Pennsylvania.
It is said that Judge Douglas has prepared
and will soon publish a declaration of bis in
tention not to be a candidate for the Presiden
cy in 1860.
Delicious free-stone peaches, fresh picked
irorn the trees, were for sale in the Memphis
market, last week. They were selling at fif
ty cents per peck.
Robert X. Riddle, for many years editor of
the Pittsburgh Commercial Journal, died on
4fce 18th inst. in thai citj.
For the "Raftsman's Journal."
POT COUNIT.
For a number of years past the inhabitants
of the South-Western portion of Clearfield
and parts of the adjoiniug counties of Cam
bria, Indiana and Jefferson, have been exert
ing themselves to procure the formation of a
new county to be called Pine. Active prepa
rations are now being made by the friends of
the project to have it brought before the Le
gislature during the approaching session, and,
judging from the number of influential men
engaged jn it, as well as the determination
manifested to press the matter to a conclu
sion, their efforts bid fair, at last, to be crown
ed with success. Tbat such a result will meet
the approbation of every right thinking and
unselfish citizen of either of the counties in
terested, can scarcely be doubted.
By the lines, as they are proposed to b5 run,
the new county will embrace the townships of
Burnside, Chest, part of Ferguson; nearly nil
of Bell, and a small part of Beccaria, in Clear
field ; the townships of Canoe, Montgomery,
and part of Green, in Indiana ; part of Gaskill
in Jefferson; and Susquehanna, Chest, and a
small part of Carroll, in Cambria. This wilt
give it an area of about four hundred and
twenty square miles, and a population, (taking
the census of 1850, as a guide,) of about eight
thousand. There is scarcely an acre of the
soil, throughout the whole extent of these
boundaries, that is not susceptible of cultiva
tion, and it contains, in addition to the large
quantity of excellent timber, immense bed of
coal, as well as iron ore, limestone, and fire
brick clay. The necessary devclopeuient of
these rich resources, consequent upon the for
mation of a county, will make it one of the
most thriving and prosperous of those forming
the Allegheny tier.
While the people o this region are thus
possessed of all the requisites of a wealthy
county withitl themselves, the majority of
them are compelled to travel more than thirty
miles, over the most wretched roads, to reach
their respective Conrts of Justice. Their
lands, to a great extent, lie idle and undevel
oped, whereas the formation of a county would
enhance their value and draw out their pro
ducts. That they should be relieved from
these difficulties, and be permitted to enjoy
the benefits to which their neighbors aro en
titled, is their prayer a prayer that should
meet a response in that inate sense of justice
which swells the bosom of every upright cit
izen. Under the recent amendment to the Consti
tution it will be necessary to submit the ques
tion to a vote of the citizens of Clearfield, as
more than one-tenth of their population is em
braced in the proposed boundaries. That a
majority of them will vote in favor of the erec
tion of the county, is generally conceded.
The principal business men of the borough of
Clearfield are active supporters of it, and as it
leaves us over a thousand square miles of ter
ritory, and over thirteen thousand population,
it is scarcely to be presumed that it will meet
with serious objection from any considerable
number of the citizens of other parts of the
county. Nearly all are convinced that the
people asking it are entitled to a new connty,
and they are willing they should have it.
Those who may oppose it, (and there are al
wajs some,) are only the few w ho have a di
rect pecuniary interest in preventing its for
mation. Should Pine connty bo formed, it will at
once receive an accession of population from
the surrounding counties, which, together with
the concentration of the means of the people
within smaller limits, will give an impetus to
every kind of business, develope the resour
ces, open the roads, clear the land, increase
the value of property, and promote improve
ments of every description. It would start on
its career with as many thousand of popula
tion as Clearfield bad hundreds, for as late as
1810, we had only eight hundred and seventy
five ! In a very few years it would rival its
neighbors, and take its stand among the very
first of those that compose the fifth class, or
the bituminous mountain counties.
. It is not the design of this brief article to
present or elaborate the arguments for the e
rection of Pine county, (as it would require
more time than the writer can now devote to
the subject,) but simply to bring the matter to
the attention of those interested in the move
ment, and urge upon them the necessity of ac
tive eJtion. There can be no doubt, if the
claims of the people of the proposed county
are properly presented to the Legislature du
ring the coming session, their prayer will be
granted. If the project is not successful this
winter, it will be owing to the apathy of its
professed friends. Let there be activity and
combined effort, and Pine county is "a fixed
fact." n. b. s.
The Pbesioest Relents. Forney writes
from Washington that the President lias given
up his social proscription of the Republican
Congressmen, but without accomplishing any
thing, as will be seen by the extract we ap
pend :
'The President ha3 reconsidered his social
programme, and yesterday invited a number
of Republicans to take dinner with him. I
understand that, like most of his hospitalities,
these latter came 'too late,' and that the Re
P" b. "cans, having been compelled to appease
their hunger dnring the long session outside
the Presidential mansion, have resolved to ap
pease it in the same way during the short ses
sion. It is now given out that not a single
member of the Republican party will consent
to put his legs under the Executive mahog
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C0HOBESSI05AL PROCEEDINGS.
Dec. 13. This day the Senate Committees
were appointed, the list agreed upon in the
Democratic caucus being adopted by a party
vote, with the exception ot Messrs. Bell and
Broderick, who voted in the negative. Mr.
Clingman urged the abrogation of the Clay ton
Bulwer treaty. The Pacific Railroad Bill was
taken np, and Mr. Gwin spoke at length in its
favor. The House was occupied with the im
peachment case of Judge Watrous, of Texas.
Dec. 14. The Senate to-day devoted the
session to the Pacific Railroad question. Nu
merous suggestions with reference to the lo
cation of the road were made. A motion by
Mr. Mason to lay the bill upon the table was
lost.' Mr Wilson moved to postpone the sub
ject until Monday. Without taking a vote
the Senate adjourned In the House, Mr.
Washburne ot Illinois gave notice of a bill
providing for the establishment of an emigrant
and mail rou".e from some point in Minnesota
to Puget Sound. The residue of the session
was devoted to the case of John C. Watrous,
Judge of the District Court of the U. States
for the State of Texas. Two memorials have
been presented to the House, praying for his
impeachment, one of them by Eiiphas Spen
cer, and the other by Jacob Mussina. It is
allcgein the memorial of Spencer that Judge
Watrous engaged in extensive speculations in
real estate in his judicial district, where he
knew the ti:les were in dispute, and that be
employed his Court as the means of promoting
the interests of himself and partners in the
speculation, and to secure an advantage over
others with whoru litigation was apprehended.
Dec. 15. Mr. Cameron delivered an inter
esting speech on iron duties. A motion to
take up the Pacific Railroad bill was lost by a
tie vote. l a the House some Tariff modifica
tions were proposed and referecd, and then
the Watrous impeachment was taken up. The
resolution ta impeach the Judge was nullified
by a substitute saying that the evidence pro
duced is insufficient to justify such accusa
tion. The Baltimore election business, of
Nov. lbo7, was called up, pending the discus
sion of which the House adjourned.
Dec. 1G. The Senate adopted a resolution
calling for information as to the landing of
slaves by tlie Wanderer. An attempt to take
up the Claj ton-Bulwer treaty was voted down.
Mr. Bell spoke in favor of a Pacific Railroad.
Adjourned to Monday. The House had a mes
sage from the President covering information
as to recent eveats in Central America, which
was sent unread to the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. The resolution requiring a new elec
tion in the 3d congressional district of Mary
land was discussed and tabled, 106 to 97. in
Committee, the 1812 and subsequent pensions
bill was discussed, but nothing done with it.
Dec. 17. The Senate was not in session.
In the House, a bill to provide for the pay
ment of the claims of citizens of Georgia and
Alabama on account of losses sustained at the
hands of the Creek Indians gave riso to a long
discussion.
From 'he Philadelphia Press.
BIOLER AND HIS BOSWELL.
The immortal bard was not wide of the
truth, when he said that "some men have
greatness forced upon them." In fact, this
sort of fame is wont, upon some peculiarly
fortunate individuals, to fall in a perfect show
er. The more unpretending and the more
diminutive the apparent virtues and merits
of the individuals in question, the more pre
tentious and avalanchinc the weight of glory
that overwhelms them. Tho' Gray may t-llus,
'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And wawte its sweetness on the desert air.'
there are many others, even of a sun-flower
delicacy and brilliance, who were never born
for this prosaic, unroaiantic destiny. They
are never content till they figure before the
world's eye, and intoxicate the town with their
peculiar fragrance. They are gleeful at agri
cultural fairs, and at the annual meetings of
horticultural societies; for they are ambitious
then and there, by ventilation of their sweets,
to win "that medal" which is to stamp tfceni
as fairest of the fair and brightest of the
bright. If taken abroad as exotics, their
cup of dew is full to overflowing ; and if
brought back again to their native and accus
tomed vale, they are apt to snub and look
down upon the poor little "dafly-down-dillies"'
and modest primroses who used to be fellow
companions of the field in earlier diys. If
they prove generous enough to still smile on
these early friend., despite the new accession
of renown from foreign wanderings at Court,
they are pronounced as condescendingly good
and great, and tip-top specimens altogether.
We were abruptly reminded of these trite
truisms in reading a paragraph in a late num
ber of the Clearfield Republican. It was a
source of delight for us to learn a satisfac
tion which we would not prevent our readers
from sharing that "a distinguished son of
Pennsylvania has been spending five or six
months in bis old home." The phenomenon
is, perhaps, not altogether a startling novelty,
and per se does not call for any peculiar force
of exuberant ecstacy, were it not accompanied
with facts of most significant suggestions.
The authority in question, like Virgil in his
account of .Eneas" wanderings, embellishes
the simple fact with a classically graphic ac
count of the attendant circumstances. "The
time" of this distinguished son "has been oc
cupied in friendly and unreserved intercourse
with the frieuds and associates of tbe humbler
days of his early life." What marvellous and
refreshing condescension for the noble and
'distinguished" to thus find a solace from the
cares of State in loving communion for five
calender months with the "humble!" And,
can it be ci edited, as the Bosweliian biogra
pher relates, that "during that time, no man
ot his acquaintance, even the commonest
farmer or most ordinary log-roller of the
Clearfield region, be his condition in life
what it may, can say, that tho hand has been
withheld from him by or destinguished citi
zen!" If this isn't a stooping of Jove-like
majesty to notice "the lower classes," we
should like to know what else is. If this be
not unbending from "tbe frown which sits so
well on kings," we should like to learn. To
have given that hand with such generous
looseness, however "weak in the knees" may
have been the Administrative force that lent
if muscle, was, under the circumstances, a
degree ot affability rarely seen outside ot the
court of bis Imperial Majesty Faustin the
First. Neither Crichton nor Chesterfield ever
touched this sublimity of self-sacrifice, and
the only wonder is that the generous hand
survived the rash experiment.
But there is one consolation in knowing
that this angelic complacency is not thrown
away upon any constituency." However fear
fully the gigantic labor of shaking hands with
a whole county may tell upon the wrist joints
of the "distinguished" shaker, hq can find a
sweet balsam for his "bruised arms hung up
for monuments" in the gentle voice of his
fellow-citizens, thus expressed by the Republi
can : "There can be no more gratifying sight
to the American citizen than to behold the
perfect freedom from ostentation and official
pretention witnessed in tbe bearing and habits
of many of our Senators, amoug whom, in this
respect, Senator Bigler stands pre-eminently
conspicuous." We certainly think "the A
merican citijzen" at least the Clearfield coun
ty specimen must take the premium for hum
bleness from Uriah Heep, if his heart cannot
conceive of anything "more gratifying" than
a condescending notice from "a distinguish
ed Senator."
The Senator does well, (m, jn not making
the gulf too wide between his Majestic High
ness and his "humble" fellow-citizens, lie
does not dine on gold services, nor revel in
damask curtains, nor drive bis coach-and-six
little luxuries, which might do very well for
common men. but never tor such distinguish
ed wonders as he. "Although tbe Senatoi"
(according to the Clearfield paper, which must
know all about it) "has ample means at his
command to gratify a taste for display, yet
his residence is as unpretending in its appear
ance and fts appointments as that of a private
citizen in moderate circumstances!" How
very kind and condescending to live just like
other private citizens, instead of lording it in
a princely mansion, as he is certainly entitled
to do by right of his "distinguished" position !
How cruel-hearted, his -constituents must be
not to build him a marble palace !
That they have not done this tardy act of
simple justice is mainly due, as we are glad
to learn from the Clearfield chronicler, to the
fact that Senator Bigler, like Shakspeare, is
"not a man for a day," or even "five months,"
"but for all time." His greatness is too great
for a single county Clearfield county cannot
contain it, and if it could, and if it were kind
enough to do it, has no right to such "dis
tinguished" monopoly I "The people of
Clearfield are justly proud of being able to
claim Senator Bigler as one of her adopted
children, but she can no lorger claim bim as
exclusirelyher own. His varied and command
ing taleats, and bis political experience and
sagacity, have already marked him as one of
tbe nation's statesmen, and hereafter his his
tory will be part of the history of tbe country
whose legislative halls he helps to adorn!"
We do not wonder that the Cleartielders are
all in tears at their incalculable loss. The
sudden vanishing of such a brilliant light
from their horizon must plunge the "Ameri
can citizens" of Clearfield into saddening
gloom. It must be a poor consolation to tbcm
even to feel that their loss is the country's
eternal gain. It cannot relieve their agitated
and bereaved bosoms a particle to know tbat
their ''distinguished son" is "helping to a
dorn" the National Capitol, on whoso adorn
ment so much expenditure has already been
lavished that the addition of Bigler seems a
piece of pure wasteful superfluity. They
cannot be quieted with such cold comfort as
this. They want the "distinguished son" ft
home, or Clearfield must go into sackcloth
and ashes. Hinc illar lacUryma. But they
need not pine as those who are utterly without
hope. Three more revolving moons, and the
"commanding talents and political sagacity"
of Clearfield's "distinguished son" need not
answer at the Senate's roll-call. The short
agony of the Thirty-filth Congress will soon
be over, and tho immortal Senator, "whose
history is to be the history of the country,"
may pocket bis perquisities and mileage, and
travel home as fast as steam and his own con
descension can carry him. Then Clearfield
may rejoice once more, and clutch that exten
ded hand. If Clearfield is content to get him
back, the country will be satisfied to spare
the Senator, and we question whether it would
ever feel a single throb of agony if his county
should keep the "distinguished son" at home
for the rest of his natural life.
Note. Boswell was the biographer of Dr.
Johnson. Macauley says "ho was always
laving himself at tbe feet of some eminent
man," it he could thereby secure the least
notice. When be remarked on one occa
sion that "the world said Johnson was a bull
dog." the Doctor replied that "the world said
he Boswell was a tin-kettle tied to bis tail."
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
PREPARED FOB, TUE '-RAFTSHAX's JOURNAL."
Ikdiaxa Colstt. The store of J. it G. S.
Moore, of Saltsburg Borough, was entered by
burglars on the night of the 3d inst. Tbe vil
lains succeeded in boring off the lock, and
gained an entrance, but afterwards became a
larmed, terhaps, and fled before they succeed
ed in securing any great amount of goods.
On the 9th inst., Mr. John Swan, met with an
accident, at the R. R. engine house in Indiana,
by whicli his face was badly burned. He had
thrown aquantity ot coal into the stove, there
by smothering the fire. Shortly afterwards he
approached, and opening the stove door, with
a large poker commenced stirring at the fire,
when on a sudden, the gas whicli for a time
had been confined burst out, enveloping him
in a sheet of flame A few nights ago
some person entered Dr. Mitchell's.Jiarn in In
diana, and damaged his horse gears' by cutting
them in several daces. Such conduct shows
a moral depravity capable of committing a
crime of a higher grade On the morn
ing ol the 13th, a little son of Mr. W. II. Kerr
ot Indiana borongh, was riding a horse to
water, and w hile going at a rapid pace the an
imal stumbled and fell, bringing the lad be
tween it and the stones and bruising him bad I v.
On the 3d Dec, Mr. John B. Riddle, of
East Mahoning, shot a large grey eagle, which
weighed 12 pounds and measured 8 feet be
tween the tips of the wings We learn
from a reliable source, says the Rtister, that
several farmers in the north of the county,
have been herding a drove of over one hundred
hogs on acorns, in the mountain, to tbe right
of Luthersburg, in Clearfield county.
Lehigh Cocxtt. On the night of the 8th
inst., a valuable roan horse was stolen from
the stable of Mr. Lorenz Klein, in Salsburg.
He was however subsequently recovered near
Trexlertown. The suppositicn is that he was
taken from the owner's premises by a lunatic
recently released from the Almshouse, who
formerly owned the animal The good
people of North Whitehall, in the vicinitv of
"Egypt," seem to be much afflicted with a
gang of nocturnal house breakers. Eatables
seem to be the main want of the thieves.
Within a week or two past, the cellars of Dr.
Wm. S- Kohler, Joseph Stein, Aaron Kohler,
S. Schmidt, Edmund Kohler, F. G. Bernd,
William Falk and Solomon Steckel, have all
been ransacked in succession. At some places
they did not even leave enough to furnish a
respectable breakfast to the astonished fam
ilies. The granary, of Daniel Kohler, we
learn, was also robbed of several bushels of
rye On the night of the Cth inst.. the
Store of Messrs. Shitz & Ochs, at Bunker Hill,
two miles below Quakertown, was burglarious
ly entered and robbed of between $400 and
$500 in gold and .silver. A German,
named Nicholas Hauk, was arrested and 5100
of the money recovered Another Ger
man, known as "Dutch John," on the 27th ult.,
stopped at the hotel of Mr. f ellers, in Quaker
town. On Monday morning, be turned up
missing, having helped himself to a number
of coats, hats, pantaloons, shirts, &c. No
trace of him has since been discovered.
Blair CorxTT A little son of John Schu
berts, in Bush Mountain, was severely burned
on the 10th Dec, by his clothes taking fire
from a stove The horse thieves are about
again. On Thursday night, the 9th, a fine
horse belonging to Jacob Nofsker, residing lu
Freedom township, was stolen from his stabl;.
The Horse Company of which Mr. N. is "a
member immediately started men in every di
rection, but they found no trace of the thief.
. . . ..On Sunday, the 12th, as tho family of
Seth R. M'Cunc, Esq., who resides near Hol
lidaysburg, were returning home from Chnrch
in their family carriage, one of the horses be
came unmanageable, backing the carriage over
an embankment and upsetting it, to the immi
nent peril of the life and limb of those inside.
Fortunately, however, they all escaped serious
injury, save hU eldest daughter, Miss Eliza
beth, who received a severe hurt in the face.
.... Gen. George Potts, ot flollidaysburg,
has been appointed, by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, Weigbmastef at Altoona. . . .
Some petty thief stole several articles ot cloth
ing from the Store of Messrs. Dean, Neff & Co.
at Williamsburg cn the night of the 11th. He
got in through a window. . . . . On the 17th
inst., a house occupied by Wm. L. Bender at
Fostoria, was destroyed by fire, and three lit
tle children, horrible to relate, were consumed.
Warrex Cocstt. On the 4th Dec, the
gunshop of John Hahn, of Warren, was broken
into and $200 worth of guns, pistols., keys,
tools, &c, stolen. He offers $2o reward. Mr.
Hahn bad just commenced business
Capt. Nathaniel Kidder, living in Conewango
township, two miles from the town ol Warren,
has just received information from England
that he has inherited property valued at half
a million of dollars ! it has been in chancery
some ten years, unbeknown to bim. The final
decision makes a hard working though suc
ccssfullarmer among the hills of Warren Coun
ty, the lucky but unexpected possessor of
English wealth. He expects to leave for the
land of his fathers in a short time.
Somerset Cointt. On the night of the 1st
Dec, a rogue entered the premises formerly
owned by Mr. Norton, in the town of Somerset,
where half a dozen hogs were hanging that
had been butchered the day previous, and ma
liciously did cut off and carry away certain
portions of them. About five pounds were
taken from each hog Isaac Ankeny, of
Jenner township, killed a hog on the 2d Dec,
weighing five hundred and fifty six pounds'.
Who can beat it? There must have been "10
gallon of ile" in him.
Lawrexce Cocxtt. On the Sth Dec, Mr.
Robert Law of Slipperyrock township met with
an accident which will probably, if it have
not already, prove fatal. He bad unhitched
a pair of horses from his wagon, and mounted
upon the back of one of them, when the other
(a stallion) became unmanageable, and both
horses fell carrying Mr. Law under them and
fracturing his spine.
Clarios Cocstv. The Grist mill of Messrs.
Richardson -it B.iker, near Shippcnville, was
entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday night
the 11th, with all its contents, books, papers,
&c. It is supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary. The mill was fortunately insured.
J effersox Cocstv. The rain which fell in
the beginning of last week, raised the creek,
Redbar.k, over a rafting stage. Tho roads are
very muddy.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
CAUTION. All persons are notified not to
Meddle with the following property now in
possession of Luther Barrett, as the same belongs
to we and subject to my order: 2 Horses. 1 Cow.
I Heifler. 1 Calf, 2 Hogs, I pair Timber Sleds, 1
Raft of timber. JOHN PATTON.
Curwensville. December 22. 1&5S.
TVTOTICE. A meeting of the stockholders of
1 the l'hcenix Lumber Company will be held at
their office. No. 2 Forrest Place. Philadelphia, on
Monday. January 3d, 1S59. at 12 o'clock. M.. at
which time and place an election will be held for
officers to serve the ensuing year.
X. W HARKNES5. Seey.
Fhil'a, December 11, IS5S-d22-2t.
CAUTION'. All persons are hereby cautioned
against purchasing or meddling with the fol
lowing property, via : One Gray Horse. One Gray
Mare, One Brindle Cow, One Ked Cow. The above
property was purchased by me at Sheriff's Sale,
and left with Isaae Dunlap, on loan onlv. and
subject to my order. JOHN PATTON.
Curwensville. Nov. 6, lS53-dec22.
SHERIFF'S SALES By virtue of sundry
writs of Venditioni Fjrpona issued out of the
Court of Common Pleasof Clearfield co., and to me
directed, will be exposed to public sale, at the Court
House in the borough of Clearfield, on MONDAY
THE 17TH DAY OF JANUARY. 1359, th fol
lowing described real estate, to wit:
A certain tract of land, situate in Decatur town
ship, Clearfield county, and Kush township. Cen
tre county, beginnins at a hemlock sapling close
to a white oak in tbe line of Thomas Dillington
survey, thence by lands of A. Goss north 30 d. ea.t
I,o perches to a post by a small ran, thence south
40 d. east 159 perches to a post in the dividing line
of tbe tracts of Andrew Allison and John Libley.
thence south 50 d. w 8(J per. to a small beech on
the west branch of the ifoshannon creek, thence
s. fi?i d. w. ITS perches to place of beginning, con
taining 109 acresTl perches being part of Thomas
Edmonson and John Sibley surveys, on which
there is a saw-iuill erected. Seized, taken in ex
ecution, and to be sold as the property of Orsimus
Irish and Irvin P. Hinds.
Also a certain tract of land, situate in Burn
side township. Clearfield county, containing 100
acres, bounded by lands of C. llorabaugh.
Rowles and others, with log house and barn and
about 80 acres cleared thereon ; and a young or
chard thereon. Seized, taken in execution, and
to be sold as the property of John Ryan.
Also certain lots of land, situate" in Curwens
ville, bounded by Filbert street on the west, an
alley on south and cast, and George street on the
north, having thereon erected a dwelling house,
tan house, and other out-houses thereon. Seized,
taken in execution, and to bo sold as the property
of Samuel B. Taylor.
Also a certain tract of land, situate in Morris
township, Clearfield county, containing 10.1 acres,
bounded by lands of John Price. Frank Johnson
and Peter Khahoin, with about SO acres cleared,
with a house and barn thereon. Seized, taken in
execution and to be sold as the property of Hen
ry Stueal.
Also a certain tract of land, situate in Bell
township, Clearfield couoty. adjoining lands of
Geddes & Marsh. Agnes Miller, and others, con
taining about 100 acres, with 25 acre cleared
tbereon. Seized, taken in execution, and to be
sold as the property of Jesse Weaver.
Also By virtue ot a writ of Fieri Farias, the
following real estate, to wit J
The uudivided fourth part of all that certain
messuage, tenement anl trnct of land situate in,
lying and being on the waters of Trout Kun and
Moshannon creek, in the townships of Kush and
Decatur, in counties of Centre and Clearfield,
State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
follows : Beginning at a post near the Moshannon
creek, thence south 51 deg west 23 perches to hem
lock, thence south 63 deg. w. 53 perches to pine,
thence n. 15 deg. west 27 per. to white oak, thence
n. 24 deg. w. 43 per. to hemlock, thence n. 8 deg
east 66 per. to post, thence north 0 east 12 per. to
pine stump, thence north 55 deg. west 50 per to
hemlock, thence n. 25 deg. w. 56 per to hemlock,
thenco n. 66J deg. w. 152 per. to post by hemlock,
thence north 67 deg. w. 47 per. to post by hem
lock, thence s. 45 d. w.61 per. to hemlock stump
thence s. 52 deg east 14 per. to post, thence s. 09
dog. c. 30 per. to post, thence s. 60 deg. w. 22 per
to post, thence south 1 2i deg e. 29 per. to a pet.
thence s. 81 i deg. w. 23 per. to post, thence b. S7J
w. 58 per. to post, thence n. 12 deg. w. 9 per to
post, thence south 46 deg. w. 724 perches to post
by white oak, thence s bS deg. east 272 per. to a
beech stump, thence north 60 deg. east 33:$ per to
stones, thence 33i east 214 perches to post, thence
north 52 deg. south 19 per. to a laurel on left or
western bank of Trout Itun, thence down said
team to its junction with Moshannon creek and
down east or right back of same by the courses
end distances thereof to southern line, of John
Harrison tract opposite the town of Oceola. thence
60 deg. east along said line to place of begin
ning. conUioing seventeen hundred and five acres
and allowance. Also the defendants interest, it
being one undivided fourth part of the town of
Oceola. on Tyrone and Clearfield Railroad, includ
ing within town plot eighty acres and allowance,
-eized. taken in execution, and to be sold as the
property of J. J. Lingle.
Also all the defendants interest in a certain
tract or piece of land, situate in Pike township,
Clearfield county, bounded by lands of Daniel
brinks estate, land of William Bennett and oth
ers, containing about 75 acres, about 50 acres
cleared and having a log house arid other build
ings thereon. Seized, taken in execution, and to
le sold as the property of Joseph Bennett.
FREDERICK O. MILLER, Sheriff.
chenfTs Office, Clearfield, Dec. 22, 135S,
KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LICENSE NOTICE The following n.mei
persons have filed in tho Office of the Clerk ef
the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clearfield Countv.
their Petitions for License at the JANUARY
Session next, agreeably to Act of Assembly of
March 2S, l&'C, entitled "An Act to regulate th
Sale of Intoxicating Liquors," ie.
Augustus Mulson, Covington township, tavern.
Samuel Robison, Boggs township, tavern.
I.vonel V. Weld. Lawrence township, tavern.
Dcc22-75!J GEO. WALTERS, Clerk. .
IN the matter of the Estate of Samuel Fy, late
of township. Clearfield county, deeeae4.
At an Orphans' Court held at Clearfield on tha
2d Monday of November last past, tbe undersign
ed was appointed Auditor to distribute moneys in
the hands of Eli Fy, Administrator of the said
Samuel Fy. By the Court.
All persons interested will please take notice,
that I will attend to tbe duties of the above ap
pointment, at uiy office in Clearfield borough, on
Saturday tho Sth day of January, 1359, at 10 o'
clock of said day, whrn and where vou can attend
if yousec proper. TilOS. J, M'C'tLLOl'GH.
December 22. IS5S. Auditor.
COl'UT PROCLAMATION. WHERT.4.
tbe Honorable JAMES BL'ItNSlDE, F.squira.
Preident Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of'
the twenty-fifth. Judicial District, composed of the
counties of Clearfield, Centre and Clinton and tho
Honorable William L. Moore and Benjamin lion
sall, Associate Judges of Clearfield county, have
issued their precept, to uie directed, for tho hold
ing of a Court or Common Pleas, Orphan's Court,.
Court of Quarter Sessions. Court of Oyer i Termi
ner. and Court of General Jail Delivery, at Clear
field, in and for Clearfield Co.. on the Third Mon
day, the 17th day of JANUARY next.
NOTICE IS, therefore, hereby given, to the Cor-;
oner, Justices of the Peace, and Constables, in and
for said county of Clearfield, to appear ia their own'
proper persons with their Rolls. Record, Inquisi
tion. Examinations, and other Remembrances, to
do those things which to their offices, and in their'
behaif. pertain to be done, and Jurors and Witnes
scs are requested to be then and there attending,
and not to depart without leave, at their peril.
GIVEN under my band at Clearfield, this 22d day
of Dec, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight, and the eighty
first rear of American Independent.
FREDERICK G. MILLER. Sheriff.
rnitl AL, LIST, FOR JANUARY TERM. lS59r
A commencing on 3d Monday, the 17th day.
Keed k others, vs Reed ai:d others.
Thompson vs Irvins heirs.
Thompson, vs Chase.
Passmore, vs " Bloom,
Ooojier, vs Kelly.
Tagart, vs Michaels AWorrell-
Irvin, ts Fleraming.
AlexanderiFergnson.vs McFarland.
B. D. Hall 4 Co, vs Gaines.
Patchin, vs Carson
Morgan, vs ShofTf.
Kcrim, vs McGarvey.
Shoffs, vs Jamison,
Long. vs Kaarr.
McBride A Wright, vs Michaels 4 Worrell-
Hooper, vs French.
Hol'opetcr, vs Patton
Leonard, vs Ardry 4 Totter.
Dunlap, vs Beyers 4 Green.
Luiz. vs Barrett.
Curry. vs Evans.
Lutnadue 4 wife, ts Bloom.
Bloom, ts Bloom.
Barmoy, vs llugenot
Urian. vs Roynton 4 Forrest.
Leonard, vs Mock 4 Leonard.
Dec. 22 GEO. WALTERS, Prot y
LIST OFJl'RORS, FOR JANUARY TERMr
(commencing 2d Monday, 17th day.) US9.
on nd jruous.
Pell Charles Smith.
Bogg .1. hn Huff. L. Stone. A. Banghman.
Brady Reuben Bonsall. Philip Kuntz. John;
llcigus, (i. B. Goodiander. Fred. Korb.
Burnside Thomas Mahaffey, Nicholas Beck.
Che?t lames Thompson.
Clearfield J. P. Kratzer, John F. WeiTer.
Covington John Yothers, John M.Reiter.
Ferguson Greer Bell.
Girard Adams Spackman.
Graham Moses C. Evans.
Lawrence John J. Read.
Lumber City John McDcvitt.
Penn Banson Davis. :.
Pike Abraham Bloom, sr.
Woodward Robert Henderson.
TitAvrnsr ji kuiu.
Beccaria William S. Wright.
Bell David McCracken. John Baker.
Boggs Charles Cadwalader.
Bradford Samuel P. Wilson.
Brady B. P. Stebbios, John Wall, L Fltegel.
Burnside Samuel Biss.
Clearfield Isaac Johnson, Geo. W. Rheem. II.
W. Parke. Samuel Mitchell, Alex. Irvin.
Chest Robert M, Farrin. George McCully.
Covington John Fortney, F. F. Coutriet, John
B. Gormort, Charles Genoft.
Curwensville John F. Irvin.
Decatur Stephen Test, David Kephart.
Ferguson James Glenn.
Girard John Smith.
Graham James McGuire.
Knox William Witherow. James T. McCraeken
Lawrence Hugh Orr. A. T. Bradley. John Mo
Gaughey, Milton McBride, A. L. llickock, John
Shaw, jr., Abraham Ogden.
Morris Jonathan Eiueigh, G. F. Hoop. Fredet
ick Nebcl. Daniel B. Will. S. C. Thompson.
Penn A. Hile. Chas. Cleaver. Elah Johnson.
Pike George Leech, sr., William Glenn.
Union Henry Whitehead.
Woodward George Wolf, Robt. Alexander.
CLOVER II lTLLKKS. The subscribers tsk
this method of informing the Farmers of
Clearfield county, that they manufacture at their
shop in Mill Heiiu, Centre county. Pa., the cele
brated IltHsecler'g Improved 1'rrminm. Clorrr
Hnlter. Theso IluIIcrs can be attached to any
power for either 2 or 4 horses, or water power iu
mills; are warranted to work well, and with good
seed will clean from 25 to 30 bushels pcrday. An v
person wishing to see one of these machines, and
learn more particularly of its operation will please
call with Mr Wm. A. Reed, farmer, 3 miles east
of Curwensville, who purchased and had one in
use last season. Machiueg will be delivered at
Curwensville. if desired. For further particulars
inquire of Wm. A. Reed, Clearfield P. O.. or tho
subscribers. j;. & s. HAUPT
Mill Heira. Centre eo.. Pa , Sept. 15.1 85i-3m.
N. B. All orders promptly attended to.
LOOK HERE! LOOK II ERE !! Theun
dersigned take this method of informing the
public generally that they have entered into co
partnership in the Blacksmithing business, and
can be fonnd at the shop formerly occupied bv Ja
cob Shunkweiler, on Third street, in the borou-h
of Clearfield, where they will be pleased to set
their old customers, and as many new ones as can
make it convenient, to give them a call.
Bring on your hoes, your spades, and picks,
i our log chains and your pulling sticks. .
our sleds, your sleighs, your horse and mare,
No three-year old, shall then go bare.
Your spears we'll work up then just right.
To pruning hooks for everv hight.
Your swords too, shall then be wrought
To plough-shares such as Cat ne'er bought.
J. SHUNKWEILER,
P0- 6. 1333. GEORGE W. ORR.
TAKE NOTICE ! TAVERN KEEPERS
and the public, that Gross Kunkel, whole,
sale Grocers, Canal Street Wharf, Harrisburg,
have on hand a large lot of Liquors at reduced!
prices, by tho barrel or otherwise, to suit pur.
vurai9. iuuniBg oi zae louowina
l..r P, .i iv- r
Pure Brandies.
New England Ram,
Old Rye Whiskey,
Domestic Brandies,
Monongahela Whiskey
Blackberry Brandy,
Peach Brandy,
Lavender Brandy,
Cherry Brandy,
Scotch Whiskcv.
Lisbon v ine.
Pure Holland Gin,
Rectified Pitts.WhUker
Port Wine.
Maderia Wine,
Pure Holland Gin,
Domestic Gin.
And other Liquors.
tiesler x Piiro ('!,.,. .? .
"Orders promptly attended to.
GROSS 4 KUNKEL,
r.t c. . . . Wholesale Grocers,
Streets, Harrisburg, Ta.
7 Tr 'Lln' '"'tween Walnut and
State
MartO-"5S-l v.
FLOUR, Oata, Rye. 4c., for sale at the cheap
store of JOHN PATIOX, CnrwensviUe.