Raftsman's journal., June 13, 1860, Image 2

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8. B. ROW, ETHTOR AXD PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., JUNE 13, 1860.
TOR PRESIDENT,
HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Or ILLINOIS.
FOR TICK PRESIDENT,
HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
OF JTAI5E.
FOR 60TER50R,
HON. ANDREW G. CURTIN, of Centre Co.
The Fowler Dkf alcatios. It appears,! rota
the answer ol the Post-master General to the
ioqniries of Congress, that the Post-office De
partment was all the time conscious of the de
falcation of Fowler, and neglected or refused
to make it known. II is accounts hare never
legally been settled during the whole term of
the present administration, but have been ad
justed by a fictitious system, in flagrant viola
tion of the letter and spirit of the law. It has
been the practice of the Auditor's office in
adjusting the accounts during the last three
years, when a balance was found against Fow
ler at the end of a quarter, instead of requir
ing it to be paid, or reporting it to the Post
master General as the law contemplates to
credit him from the current returns of the en
suing quarter made to the Finance office ;
thus enabling him to use the receipts of one
to meet the deficiency of the other, and con
cealing a defalcation throughout. . In . this
way, the accounting officers of the government
bave become partners in the guilt of this rob
bery. They not only knew of it, but helped
to cover it up ; and the administration, in
stead of removing them, retains them in of
fice, as good and faithful servants. How ma
ny other defalcations are concealed in the
same way, the administration of "Honest Old
Abe" alone will be able to reveal.
v New Kansas Dodge. The Senate, on Tues
day the 6th June, by a vote of 27 to 33, refus
ed to take up the bill for the admission of
Kansas. Every vote In the affirmative was Re
publican, except two, Messrs. Pugh and Lat
ham, and every vote in the negative Demo
cratic, even Bigler voting no, on the ground
that the Senate was not full, and yet, all but
four Senators were present ! By the procee
dings of that body, it will be seen, we are to
bave a new dodge. The majority dare not
vote the bill down ; but they intend to amend
it by altering the boundaries of the State so as
to Include the Pike's Peak region, and sub
mitting the constitution to a new vote of the
,peoplc although neither the people of Kan
sas nor Pike's Peak desire it, because they
are isolated from each other by some hundreds
of miles of a dosert. By this movement they
expect to keep Kansas out until after the Pres
idential election ; and we have no doubt, that
the end aimed at will be attained. Kansas
. will not be admitted at this session, and the
- Democratic party must take the responsibili
ty of the exclusion. " ,
The Democratic papers are circulating a
charge that Mr. Lincoln voted against grating
supplies for the army dnilng the Mexican war.
The same charge was made by Douglas in 1858,
and Mr. Lincoln himself, in his famous debate
with that gentleman, flatly contradicted the
assertion made, in the following language :
"I did oppose the preamble to the war bill,
declaring that war existed by the act of Mex
ico because it was not true ; but I voted
for all the supplies to the soldiers, &c. The
record proves this fact."
. If further evidence is wanting, persons can
satisfy themselves by examining the published
reports of these debates, or by the official re
cord in the Globe, that the charge is totally
contrary to fact. . .
Quit Stealing axd all will come right. In
the United States Senate a few days since, Mr,
Hammond, of South Carolina, advocated the
restoration of high rates of postage, on the
ground that the Post-office Department does
not pay expenses. Of course it does oot,when
'democratic" Post-masters steal at the rate of
$150,000 apiece. Wouldn't it be better to
stop the stealing than to add to the taxes of
people 1 Or, what would be best of all, why
not abolish the Department altogether and
leave the carrying of letters and newspapers
altogether to private enterprise? Now that
the "Democrats", are about to go out of pow
er, they can afford to inaugurate so thorough
and so wholesome a reform.
Foster akd the Tarift. We see it stated
that Gen. Foster, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of this State, is at Washington,
begging Democratic Senators to pass Morrill's
tariff bill, as the only means which will secure
bis election this fall. Are we to have another
Kane dodge 7 It is said, however, that the
Senators 'see but little chance to secure the
vote of our State, and, therefore, have deter
mined to let the tariff slide for the present.
Meanwhile the industrial interests of the coun
try will continue to suffer until the election of
Lincoln, when we may look . for a change in
the present order of things. !
'i We have received from the publisher a beau
tiful colored diagram,reprcsenting the eclipse
of . the sun, on the 18th July, 1860. A copy
will be sent to any address, by enclosing one
dime and a Z-cent piece to Asa Smith, Post of
fice, Station E, 8th Avenue, New-York. "
Gen. Jeasupdied at Washington on the 10th.
T 1 1 1
ANOTHER FALSEHOOD NAILED.
The New York Tribune of Thursday, June
7,' says : One of those newspapers which Mr.
Buchanan has so liberally provided with mon
ey from the National Treasury, the Pennsyl
vanian, brings the following charges against
Mr. Lincoln t
"On the 5th of October, 1831, the first Re
publican State Convention, in the State of Il
linois,, was held at Springfield. .Abraham
Lincoln was one of its members, and Chair
man of the Committee on Resolutions. At
that Convention, Abraham Lincoln, beside
repudiating all association with the American
party, read the resolution on the slavery ques
tion, which was unanimously adopted :
"Resolved, That the times imperatively de
mand the re-organization of parties, and repu
diating all previous party attachments, names,
and predilections, we unite ourselves together
in defense of the liberty and Constitution of
the country, and will hereafter cooperate as
the Republican party, pledged to the accom
plishment of the following purposes : To bring
the administration of Government back to the
control of first principles ; to restore Nebras
ka and Kansas to the position of Free Territo
ries ; that as the Constitution of the United
States vests in the States, and not in Congress,
the power to legislate for the extradition of
fugitives from labor, to repeal and entirely
abrogate the Fugitive Slave Law ; to restrict
slavery to those States in which it exists ; to
prohibit the admission of any more Slave
States into the Union ; to abolish Slavery in
the District of Columbia ; to exclude Slavery
from all the Territories over which the Gener
al Government has exclusive jurisdiction ; and
to arrest the acquirement of any more Territo
ries unless the practice of Slavery therein for
ever shall have been prohibited."
This is nearly all borrowed from a speech
made by Mr. Douglas at Ottawa, HI., in Aug.
21, 1858. It was answered by Mr. Lincoln,
who showed that there was no Republican or
other Convention at Springfield in the fall of
1851, with which he (Lincoln) had any con
nection. As for this resolution, he had never
heard of it till it was read by his antagonist.
It was afterward ascertained, and was stated
by Mr. Lincoln in a subsequent speech, that
the resolution, thus attributed to him was re
ally the work of a public meeting in Kane
county, of which he had been ignorant until
after Judge Douglas had affirmed that its res
olutions bad been drawn up by him (Lincoln)
and adopted at Springfield.
Mr. Lincoln's statement of the truth fol
lowing, as it did, in that memorable debato,
immediately upon the false accusation of bis
unscrupulous adversary could not well be
unknown, even to Mr. Buchanan's journalists.
However, they are none the less ready to re
peat the charge, adding from their own imag
ination, that Mr. Lincoln himself read the res
olutions In a Convention of which, as it seems,
he was not only not a member, but which nev
er was held at all !
:. Mr. Lincoln concluded his exposure of this
falsehood with the following impressive words :
"I allude to this extraordinary matter in
this canvass for some further purpose than
anything yet advanced. Judge Douglas did
not make his statement upon that occasion as
of matters that be believed to be true, but be
stated them roundly as being true, in such
form as to pledge his vemcity for their truth.
When we consider who Judge Douglas is
that he is a distinguished Senator of the Uni
ted States, that he has served nearly twelve
years as such, that his character is not at all
limited as an ordinary Senator of the United
States, but that his name has become of al
most world-wide renown it is most extraor
dinary that he should s'o far forget the sugges
tions of justice to an adversary, or of prudence
to himself, as to venture upon the assertion of
that which the slightest investigation would
have shown him to be wholly false. I can on
ly account for his having done so upon the
supposition that that evil genius which has
attended him through bis life, giving to him
an apparent astonishing prosperity, such as to
lead very many good men to doubt there be
ing advantage In virtue over vice I say I can
only account for it on the supposition that
that evil genius has at last made up its mind
to forsake him."
. Do not these pucgent sayings apply with
quite as much force to those advocates of the
Democratic party who repeat the untruth as
to its original author f
Scmker's Speech. The Philadelphia Press,
speaking of the recent speech of Mr. Sumner,
says : "It has become the foolish fashion to
abuso Senator Sumner's late speech against
the South, and to hold the Republicans res
ponsible for the same. Now, if there is any
one thing more reasonable than another, it is
that Mr. Sumner's attack upon the South was
a pretty fair Roland for their Oliver. Tbey
bad set one of their champions upon him to
maltreat him, and he has chosen to respond
after his own fashion, ignoring the leaders of
his own party, and speaking for himself alone
This is the long and the short of it."
The Scientific American. This excellent
paper will commence a new volume on the
30tb Jnne. No practical mechanic or opera
tive should be without a copy. Everything
valuable in relation to the mechanic arts is
published with great care, and the illustrations
of new improvements in machinery are always
calculated to instruct and interest the reader
We consider the American an indispensible
publication, and therefore recommend it with
confidence to those engaged in mechanical
operations. The terras are' $2 a year in ad
vance. Address, Munn & Co., No. 37, Park
Row, New-York.
The Saw-Log Candidate. As an offset to
Abraham Lincoln's rail-splitting feats, the De
catur (111.,) Magnet exhumes the following
saw-log: "We have recently seen a saw-log,
cut thirty years and three months since by
Stephen A. Douglas, when he attended a saw
mill nights and Saturdays and taught school
the balance of the time. The log was some
what decayed, yet the heart was sound, and
from it we obtained a beautiful cane. The re
mainder of the log will be sent to Baltimore
for inspection by the Southern delegates."
Sharp. Ex-Governor Seymore, of N.York,
positively declines a nomination for the Pres
idency by the Baltimore Convention. - The ex-
Governor is sharp. He sees the set of the
tide, and gets out of the way ofvthe waves.
He abuses the Republicans in his letter of de
clension, which is a privilege no one of that
party would wish to deny him. .
Address of the Pesple't State Committee of Pa.
' To the People of Pennsylvania : We are a
bout to enter another great National struggle,
the issue of which must tell decisively for the
weal or woe of our common country.
The so-called Democratic party has been in
power for nearly eight years, and the fruits of
its policy are now felt in a prostrate Industry,
a paralyzed Commerce, a bankrupt Treasury,
and a large and steadily increasing National
Debt. "
The domestic peace and harmony that wit
nessed the restoration of the party now In
power, have been wantonly exchanged for sec
tional discord and fraternal strife ; and even
the sacred landmarks of the Constitution have
been blotted out,, in the systematic effort of
the Government to spread the blight of sla
very over the Free Territory, in defiance of
the popular will.
" Corruption has gained undisputed mastery
in almost every department of power, and
stamped its fearful stain indelibly upon the
Government; and shameless profligacy has
given us National bankruptcy at home and
National dishonor abroad.
The time has come when a thorough reform
is unmistakably demanded by the people. It
this great work, Pennsylvania must, as ever,
be potential. Always loyal in the last degree
to the maintenance of the National Union,
and to the compromises of the Constitution,
and faithful to the supremacy of the laws, her
people have no warfare to wage upon the rights
of sister States. They will maintain these
rights inviolate with the same fidelity that they
defend their own.
Our f ree labor is the basis of all our veaItb,onr
prosperity, our greatness. It has trus'ed and
appealed in vain to the party in power to pro
tect it. Its confidence has been ever betray
ed, its interests ever sacrificed. Our untold
millions of slumbering wealth, and our unem
ployed and unrequited labor,are swift witness
es to the suicidal policy that has impoverished
us.
The studied . purpose of the National Ad
ministration hns been to sectionalize the Gov
ernment, and give boundless dominion to a
system that has dishonored and beggared free
industry wherever its desolating steps have
gone.
Against this fatal sectionalism the friends
of a diversified and prosperous Industry have
protested without avail. Nothing but a radi
cal change of administration can give reason
able promise of respect for the great Indus
trial interests of our State, and redress from
the endless train of evils flowing from the
faithfulness of the Government.
The territories of the great,West teem with
beauty and richness. There, with free homes,
our sturdy sons would rear new Empires to
pour forth their boundless wealth, and add to
the prosperity and true greatness of our boas
ted Republic. They have escaped the wither
ing blight of servile labor thus far, only by
defying the whole power of two Democratic
Administrations, and leaving a history crim
soned with the blood of our brethren.
Failing to subdue, even by force, the strong
arms that are scattering the rich fruits of
peaceful and enlightened industry, the Con
stitution itself has been assailed, and its sa
cred aims perverted, to sectionalize the nation.
The startling declaration is now made by the
party in power, through its official exponents,
that the Constitution must defeat the wise and
benificent purposes of its authors, and carry
servile labor, under its own broad sbiald, into
every territory in the Union.
To restore the Government! to its original
purity ; to redeem it from its fatal hostility to
the interests of free labor ; from the corrup
tion, the profligacy and the sectionalism which
bave marked the party in power, are the great
pruposes of the People's organization in Penn
sylvania. To this patriotic end we invoke the
aid and co-operation of all who desire to join
in a common cause, to inaugurate a liberal,
just and faithful Government.
Our standard-bearers fitly represent the vi
tal issues involved in the struggle. Tbey
command the unbounded confidence of friends,
and the respect of foes. Even partisan malice
is impotent to assail them. That Abraham
Lincoln, the nominee for President, is spot
less in both public and private life, and that
he is "honest and capable," is confessed as
with one voice by his countrymen. His well
earned national fame, the offspring of no for
tuitous circumstances, points to him as the
"coming man" who will administer the Gov.
ernment honestly, frugally and faithfully, and
restore the Republic to domestic tranquility,
to prosperity, and to honor. True to these
great measures of reform, is Hannibal Ham
lin, our candidate for Vice President, as is
shown by his long and consistent public ca
reer in the councils of the nation.
Andrew G. Ccrtin, our nominee for Gov
ernor, has given a life-time of earnest, unti
ring effort to the efforts of free labor, lie has
advocated in every contest, with all his match
less power, the true principles of government
as declared by the Convention which has pla
ced him before the people. Measured by the
highest standard, he is faithful and qualified.
He will be in the front of the battle, bearing
our standard aloft, and defending our cause
We have but to join him in his efforts with a
zeal worthy of our principles, and he will lead
us to a decisive victory in October.
Whether our opponents will enter the con
test united or divided, our duties and dangers
will be the same. In any event the triumph
of the right will be resisted with tbe spirit of
desperation. Armed with all the power and
corrupt appliances of the government, they
will leave no means untried, no effort unem
ployed, to perpetuate their ascendancy. Al-
tnougn rent asuuder with intestine feuds, an
tagonized North and "South by irreconcilable
amerences of principle, and bleeding from
wounds inflicted within their own household.
yet there is one common bond of union that
will rally their discordant forces when all else
fails that is, "the cohesive power of public
piunaer." .
Our cause is worthy of an earnest, united
effort. Our languishing industry, our home
less laborers, our bankrupt treasury, our na
tional tranquility and national honor demand
it. With early, systematic and thorough or
ganization, by which the truth can be dissem
inated in every section of the State, we cannot
tail to triumph. Let the efforts of our friends
be thus directed without delay, and in what
ever shape and under whatever flag onr oppo
nents may choose to meet us, the voice of tbe
Keystone State will give a decisive victory to
our cause, alike in the State and National
struggles. A. K. M'Clur"e, Ch'mn.
People's State Committee Rooms,
Philadelphia, June 7, 1860. J
The House of Representatives has done the
handsome thing in ejecting Mr. Barrett and
admitting Mr. Blair as the member from tbe
St. Louis district. Mr. Blair was undoubtedly
fairly elected by the people, but was defraud-l
ed of the return by a resort to tbe tricks ao
well known and so often practiced bv the ad
ministration democracy. Justice has at last
been done' by admitting him to his seat, and
Mr. Barrett has leave to keep company, out in
the cold, with ooper, who was lately ousted
from a seat for the Detroit district obtained
by similar frauds. - .
The best way to condemn bad traits is to
practice good ones. . . , --, -
PE1TNSYLVA5IA ITEMS.
prepared for the "eaftsman's journal."
Cambria Countt. On Saturday night, June
2d, the cellar of L. B. Hickock,Esq.,of Johns
town, was robbed of some bread and butter.
Upon the discovery of the fact.the 'Squire re
membered of having heard that a suspicious
looking chap was frequently seen along the
towing path at unseasonable hours, and usual
ly had a bundle with him. Accordingly, after
breakfast he secured the company of Capt.
Orr and the Constable, and went in search cf
the unknown. About six miles below town,
they took a path that led into the mountain.
After going about balf a mile, they came upon
a camp, where they found cooking utensils,
an axe, &c, and a few rods therefrom found a
young man named Jesse Keoked, lying along
side a log asleep wrapped in a piece ol carpet,
whom they arrested, brought to town, and
committed to jail for trial. The bread and
butter was found in his possession. . . . Daniel
T. Jones, the man who so mysteriously disap
peared from Cambria township, about a month
ago, has tnrned up in Venango county, where,
according to a letter received from him by a
neighbor, he was engaged in seeking coal oil.
. . A miner, named Roes D. Davis, was se
riously injured on the 5th, in one of the Com
pany's coal drifts by the falling upon him of a
mass of coal, estimated to weigh 1300 pounds.
In addition to sustaining severe internal inju
ries, his back and abdomen were much bruised,
and one of the small bones of his right leg
was broken. Nothing but the bed of soft
coal upon which he fell Baved his life. ... A
little son of Mr. F. Kittel had his arm broken
by falling down the stairs of the Union School
House, on Friday, 1st of June. The arm was
set by Dr. Lemon and the little suilerer is now
doing well. -
Lycoming Countt. David C. Brewer, a
young man about 23 years of age, residing at
Linden, came to his death in a singular manner
on Saturday night, 2d June. It appears that
his mother was taken ill in the night, and he
got up to go for the doctor. He lei t the house
for that purpose, and was not seen again until
daylight, when he was found near the house
hanglngton a pale fence, dead. It is supposed
that he , was taken with a fit and fell with his
neck on the fence unable to help himself.
A serious accident occured on Monday morn
ing, June 4th, at Phelps' Mills. As Mr. John
Hagerty was hauling a load of lumber from
the Mills to the canal, one of tbe cars run off
the track. He stopped the team and placed a
wedge in front of one of the wheels for the
purpose of guiding it on the track, and then
started the team.. As tbe wheel struck the
wedge it jarred the car and a part of the load
fell on him and broke his back. He was still
living on Wednesday, though dead from the
waist to the lower extremities. He cannot
long survive. ... On Tuesday evening," 5th
June, a little daughter of James Louden, Esq.,
of Jersey Shore, fell into the canal and was
drowned. Her body was found in the Jock.
Westmoreland County. On Thursday mor
ning, May 31st, about sunrise Mary Clemens,
aged about twelve years, residing in the fami
ly of Mr. Steelsmith, at the foot of West Ot
terman street, Greensburg, started, to the
spring house, and slipping, fell, breaking a
saucer which she was carrying, and inflicting
a deep gash in her neck, which bled so freely
that she died in two hours. . . . Henry Crock,
of Middletown, a young man, aged twenty
three years, was found dead in his bed a few
days ago. He was slightly injured the eve
ning previous by a fractious colt, but paid no
attention to it, except rubbing camphor, &c.
Before retiring he played several tunes on bis
violin, and was in excellent spirits during, the
whole evening. He got up during the night,
and died while getting into bed on his return.
Clinton Countt. A large break in the
canal between Bald Eagle and Beech Creek
occurred during the late freshet, which wash
ed away nearly 100 feet of the embankment.
Workmen were immediately placed upon the
spot to repair and when tbey had fully com
pleted their work, as they imagined, down
came the torrents of rain, followed by another
flood, which carried away all of their work
and tearing out 100 additional feet for them
to rebuild, which they bave again set to work
to accomplish.
Indiana Countt. On Friday niget, Jnne
1st, some one entered tbe stable of A. T.
Moorhead, of White township, and cut and
destroyed several set of horse gears, two sad
dles and other articles found therein. Sus
picion rested on a man named Wm. Lowry,
who was arrested and held to bail to appear
at next court . . . Forty mails arrive at Indi
ana each week, making 20S0 mails a years.
The letters mailed at that office amount to
about 2G,00O a year, and about the same num
ber are received.
Centre Countt. On Monday the 4tb, a
heavy rain storm occurred at Bellefonte and
vicinity. .The lightning flashed, the thunder
rolled, and rain and hail descended, until some
of tbe streets were perfect creeks. The water
stood to the depth of several feet in parts of
tbe lower streets. During the storm, the
lightning struck a shed on the farm of H. N.
McAllister, and an Irishman who was in the
shed was severely injured by some of the fall
ing timbers.
A Desperate Cosvict.Shot. Wm. Lynch,
a convict in the Maryland Penitentiary, in
Baltimore, whose refractory conduct had com
pelled the prison officers to make him carry a
ball and chain for some time past, refused to
work last Monday, and threatened to kill any
person who would approach him. Upon the
officers attempting to seize him, be lifted the
iron ball, weighing thirty pounds, and assanlt
ed them, when one of the officers fired at him
the ball entering his abdomen, and lodging in
the groin. The wound is mortal. The Sun
gives a sketch of bis preceding career, of
which the following is a synopsis: At the age
of 15, while an inmate of tbe Philadelphia
House of Refuge, he set fire to that institution
for which he served out a sentence of 14 years
in the Eastern Penitentiary. He then went to
New York, where he was soon arrested for
theft, convicted, and served four years in the
Sing Sing State Prison. Soon afterwards he
was tried and convicted of piracy in New Or
leans, La., and sentenced to death, but the
sentence was commuted to imprisonment for
life. In four years afterwards be was pardon
ed and went to Baltimore, where he married,
and soon after was arrested, tried and convic
ted for assaulting his wife with intent to kill.
For. this he was sentenced to the Maryland
Penitentiary for seven years and six months,
in February, 1857, and was serving out this
sentence when his career was stopped as sta
ted above. , . . '
On Monday of last week during the terrible
tornado which visited so large a section of
country, a number of trees were blown across
the track of the Parkersburg branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. - About the time
tbe night train was due, an old farmer, near
the line of the road, discovered a large tree
directly across the track, at a point where an
accident must prove very destructive. He
immediately collected" wood and started bon
fires in the road upon both side of the fallen
tree, and lighting a torch, he proceeded in the
direction of the approaching train, while his
two sons went to work and cleared the track
before the train got up. ,
at Baltimore on Monday next, June 18th.
T0BNAD0 IK THE WEST.
A most destructive tornado occurred in Iowa
and Illinois on the 3d of June. The Lyons
City Advocate, of the 4th, gives the following
account: ,
"It becomes our painful duly to record the
most distressing calamity that has ever fallen
to us to witness the effects Of tbe tornado,
and the consequent loss of life and property.
'Last evening about 9 o'clock, a man came
from Camanche, about nine miles below this
city.oti the Mississippi, with the heart-rending
intelligence that the town had been visited by
a tornado, and that many of its citizens were
buried in its ruins. Tbe alarm spread from
house to house, and in a very short time hun
dred's of onr citizens were on their way to the
scene of disaster, both by land and on the
steamer Queen City, which Capt. Bristol im
mediately put in sailing order.
"We were among the first to arrive at the
scene of the disaster, and ouf pen-fails entire
ly to depict the sight that met our view. We
found the town as tbe messenger had reported,
literally blown to pieces, and destruction- and
death scattered everywhere within the sweep
of the devastation.
'Soon after arriving at Camanche, we lean
ed that the town of Albany, on the opposite
side of tbe river, and about one mile above
Camanche, had been visited by the tornado,
and was about as badly riddled as Camanche.
Upon the arrival of the Quecu City at Caman
che, she immediately put back to Albany, to
learn the truth of the rumor, and found that
scarcely a building in that town was left unin
jured ; but from what we could learn, the loss
of life was not so great as at the former place.
Those who returned reported twelve killed.
"The gale commenced about 7 o'clock p.m.
Its course was from the south-west to the north
east, and we may hear of further ravages in
Illinois. It is rumored at Camanche that the
farmers had suffered severely, south-west
from there, by having their buildings and
fences destroyed, and stock killed. . It. was
also stated that a large raft was passing Ca
manche at the time, and that all the men,
numbering apparently about twenty, were
swept off into the river.
"The condition of the survivors of these
two towns is such as demands the warmest
sympathy and aid of every one in this commu
nity, as well as elsewhere. Many of them are
left without a house above them, and scarcely
a garment to wear. Their dead are to be buri
ed, and their wounded cared for, and it is the
duty of every one, so far as is in his power,
to minister to their relief, for who can tell how
soon we may need like service."
The destruction was equally great at Morri
son, Illinois. At Lisbon, the depot buildings
and warehouses in the village were demolish
ed, and a train of freight cars, heavily laden,
were badly lifted from the track and dashed
to pieces. One current passed through Me
chanicsville, demolishing everything in its
course, and Killed sixteen persons. Another
current passed through Union Grove, kiMing
in that vicinity, seventeen persons. Near
DeWitt, twenty seven persons were killed.
The town of Camanche, however, suffered
most, and a much greater loss of life, than
was at first reported. From all accounts
there cannot be less than fifty-five persons
killed at this place alone, and one hundred
and twenty-five wounded, some of them fa
tally. . .. , ... j
The tornado is known to have travelled a !
distance of ninety miles In Iowa, and seventy
in Illinois. The loss of life cannot be less
than from one hundred and fifty to two hun-
dred. Northern Missouri also suffered severe
ly. The loss of property by this tornado is
immense, and will probably reach, over one
million of dollars.
Douglas at Baltimore. The outside pres
sure for Mr. Douglas at Baltimore will be in
tense. ' Arrangements have been made to
bring cannon from Cleveland, and all the ac
cessories of popular demonstration will be
called into requisition. His friends intend to
take the town by storm.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Advertisements set up with large type or out of usual
sty Ik will be charged double price for space occupied.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters
of Administration on the Estate of Samuel
Stroup, late of Ferguson township. Clearfield coun
ty, Pa., deceased, having Keen granted to the un
dersigned residing in Knox township, all per
sons indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment, and those having claims a
gainst the same will present them properly au
thenticated for settlement.
June 13, 1830-6tp. GEO. ERIIARD jdm'r.
STEAM SAW MILL AT PUBLIC SALE.
On Monday, June 2oth. 1860, at 1 o'clock. P.
M., will be exposed at public sale, in front of the
court house in Clearfield borough, a Saw-Mill, sit
uate in Jordan township, Clearfield county, con
taining a steam engine of 20-horse power, nearly
new, with circular saw capable of manufacturing
1000 feet of boards per hour. Also, 123 acres of
land on which the mill, dwelling houses Ac; are
erected The property can be purchased at pri
vate sale prior to said time, but if not previously
purchased will be sold without reserve. Apply
to Arthur Orr, with Morgan Orr e Co., Machinists,
No. 1219. Callowhill st., Philadelphia, or to
June 13, 'CO. L. J. CRANS, Clearfield.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE. Letters Testa
mentary on the Estate of Frederick Smith,
late of Pike township, Clearfield co.. Pa , deceas
ed, having been granted to the undersigned re
siding in township, all persons indebted to
said estate are required to make immediate pay
ment, and those having claims against the same
will present them duly authenticated for settle
ment. JOHN OUK.
. Jnne 6. 1860-6tp. ; Executor.
DANIEL GOODLANDER, BOOT A SHOE
Maker, keeps constantly on hand for sale at
his sh op, near Luthersburg, Clearfield county. Pa
BOOTS A SHOES, SOLE & UPPER LEATHER,'
Kin and Calf Skins, (French and American';)
and a variety of Linings, Bindings, Shoe Pegs,
Nails and Thread, Boot Webbing, Blacking, 4-c. ;
in fact, everything usually kept in a shoe-finding
establishment, lie has also Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
Tea, Rice, Soda, Syrup, Tobacco, Segars, Nails,
Glass, Ac, all of which can be had cheap for cash
Lnthersbnrg. November 2, 1859-lyp. ......
jEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS!
PATTON HIPPLE & CO.
The subscribers have purchased the stock of mer
chandise lately owned by John Patton, in Cor
wensville. and have just added a fresh supply of
I SEASONABLE GOODS,
which will be sold low. Please oall and examine
our stock. We respectfully ask a share of public
patronage. The books of John Patton, hare also
been transferred and will be settled by us.
II. D. PATTON,
E. A. HIPPLE.
may 10, 1SG0. DANIEL FAUST.
TI1E UNION RIGHT SIDE UP Since
the subscribers have started the Chair-making
business at their residence in Lawrence tp.;
i mile from Philip Antes' eaw-raillonthewest side
of the river, where they keep constantly on hand
All descriptions of Chairs. Settees, Boston
ROCKING CHAIRS. RUSH BOTTOMS A SPRING
Seat Chairs, from, the common Windsor up
to the very latest style of Parlor Chairs.
Tbe subscribers having an elegant water-power
by which they do their Boring, Sawing, Turnine
4c. thev are enahlo.I fn n r..F. r .v..-J
at reduced prices. The public is respectfully in.
, , luemwiTM. All
work warranted either new work or repairing.
Jan. 4, 1350. WM. M CULLOUGII A SON.
J. G. HARTSWICK,
PtfrsiCIAN AND SURGtOh
31 AT30. CLEARFIELD, PESS'a. '
BACON. A quantity of good bacon on k,
and for Ba4 at the store of s'1
may 30. REED. WEAVER 4
CAMF-MEETING. Frovidence penaitt:E
there will be a camp meeting held on th 0&
1S60, for Latkereburg charge, Erie Conference M
E. Church. Brethren ministerial andlajtrt
vited cordially to attend from adjoining ehtrint.
worship with us in the grove. No huxtering Kt.y
witted within the limits prescribed br law
roayl6 J.K MEX PENH jL
SOMETHING NEW IN THE PErv
FLL VILLAGE OF CURWENsviLLi:
The undersigned baling enterecV into partnership
in the Foundry Business, under the name iJ
style of Robison A Denmark, respectfully J
uounce to the public that they hare constantly oB
hand, or will make to order, Stoves, Plows, nI
all other Castings cominouly used in the countrr
which they will sell at the lowest ttes forn'
or exchange on the most adVafitageiias toraif
oM metal, or apprfYed country produce
JACKSON ROBrSOV
February 1, 1860. J. J. DENMARK. "
BROKE OUT IN A NEW PLACE T-im
PORTANT NOTICE TO THE RAGGED
9, -.. r- . 1 . 1 ?-.;
nounces that he is now ready and willing tomkr
Coats, Pantaloons, Vests, &-c, for his old custom,
crs, and as many new ones as may gire him a cu
after the latest and most approved stylos, or after
any of the old fashions, if they prefer it Br
doing his work in a neat and substantial mnntr
and promptly fulfilling his engagements, ht ti'.
pects to secure a liberal share of patron. tee
Jan. 13 I860. WM. RADEBAl'iill
TEW FIR3I AND NEW STOCKTh
1 undersigned take pleasure in announcing t
the citizens of Ansonviile and vicinity that the?
have entered into partnership in the mercanti!
business, uuderthe name of Swan Hart.-born
and that they have just received and opened out
a stock of Seasonable Goods, embracing everythinr
usually kept in a country store, which they wii
dispose of on the moat advantageous terms to par
chasers. They solicit a share of patronage, trust,
ing that they will be able to render satisfaction t
buyers. HENRY SWAN.
W. R. HARTSHORN".
The books of Chase V Swan, and those of Henrr
Swan, are in the hands of II. Swan for totlfttmn.
All persons Indebted are re quested toeJi and M
tle, as it is desirable to have the old acwu&ts
squared. marls, '(M
LOOK HERE! LOOK HERE '.'.-Ttscn
dersigncd take this method of informing the
public generally that they have entered into co
partnership in the Blacksmithing buine. and
can be found at the shop formerly occupied br Ja
cob Sbunkwciler, on Third street, in tne borough
of Clearfield, where they will be pleased to k
their old customers, and as many new ones a;cao
make it convenient, to give them a call.
Bring on your hoes, your spades, and picki,
Your log ehains and your pulling sticks,
Your 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 every hight,
Your eword too. shall then be wrought
To plough-shares such as Cain, ne'er bontht."
J.SHUNKWEILEK,
Dec. 6, IS58. GEORGE W. ORR.
FOR SALE OR RENT A VALUABLE
TAVERN STAND AND FARM of 80 acrti
of Land, 65 of which are cleared and under culti
vation, situate on Clearfield Creek, on the irxin
road leading from Clearfield town to ClearSrll
Bridge, in Clearfield county, Pa., and three mi
from the former place. The house is larpe. new.
well calculated for a iavern, ana will command
nearly all the custom of the watermen during the
freshets, which usually last from four to six weeki.
There are also a good Barn, Wood Shed, Wash ami
Bake House, and various other buildings necessa
ry for convenience and comfort. Tbe terms of a!
will be made easy say four annual payment
For further information inquire of L.J. Cram
Esq., Dr. A.T. Schryver, James II. Lsrimer, L.q
Clearfield, or L. V. Weld, Glen Hop. Clearfield
county, Pa. Possession can be given so that tfa
buyer or renter can have the benefit of the spring
business, which alono will amount to more thaa
double the rent A, T. SCHRYVER.
Clearfield, Pa., January 5, 1859-tf.
ON niS OWN HOOK ! JOHN GUELICD J
CABINET MAKER. The subscriber wisbe (
to inform his old friends and customers, that h 9
is now carrying on the Cabinet Making busicea. !
on '-his own hook," at his old shop on Market
Street, nearly opposite the "old Jew Store," where
he keeps on hand, and is prepared to manufacture
to order, every description of Cabinet-Ware, that t
maybe wanted ia this section of country ; con
sisting of Sofas, Lounges, Mahogony and Common
Bureaus, Writing and Wash Stands; Centre. Ma
inland BreakfaFt Tnblos: Mahogany and Com
mon Bedsteads: Sewing Stands, Ac., Ac. II? if
also repair furniture nnd chairs, in good stj
cheap for cash. House Painting done on short'no
tice. and easy terms. Now is the time to buy at
reasonable prices, as I intend to sell every thing
in my line of business at the cheapest cash rates.
Walk in and examine the article on hand, an!
judge for yourselves, of the quality and finish.
Country produce received in payment.
April 13, 1859 JOHN GUELTCII.
N. B Coffins made to order on short notice, sna ;
funerals attended with a neat hearse, and appro
priate aceompanyments, when desired. J. G.
KEEP UP THE EXCITE MEN T. Re
movals always cause excitement, and sine
the great excitement about the removal of tbe
Court House has subsided, the community gecer-
ally have become somewhat excited upon bearing
that Charly Watson has determined to pull np
stakes and remove to Virginia. But the latest :
cause of excitement is the fact that I have lerooT
ed my Saddler Shop from my old stand opposite
the Court House to my new shop on Market street,
nearly opposite the jail, where all who may favor
me with a call can be supplied with Stuldles, Sin
gle Harness, Double Harness, Tit Harness, lin
dies, Collars, Whips, Halters. Housings, Tjrttck
bands. Side Straps, and in fact every article in tbe
line of Saddling and Harness making. Thankful
for the very liberal patronage heretofore betowed
I solicit a continuance of the same and a call from
as many new customers as can make it suit.
Aug. 29, '59. GEORGE W. KUEEM.
P. S. My being connected with the Drag bair
ness will not interfere with my shop, forlhve
the Drug Store attended to by careful hands and
intend devoting my time exclusively to nr rega
larg business. G. W. R-
jEW FIRM AND NW GOODS!
JOHJT ft JEERED F. IKVIN.
The undersigned give notice that on the 13th A
pril they enterod into partnership in the mercan
tile business in Uurwensville. and that bereft
the business will be conducted by them jointly nn
uer the name and firm of John it J. F. Irvin.
They inform their customers and the public is
general that they have received from tbe Last and
opened at the old stand, a large and vari! rtuck
SPRING AND SUMMER
DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEENS
WARE, HARDWARE, C, iC,
specially adapted to the wants of the commnnitj
and will sell the same at the lowest ca.h prir-
Also, a large assortment of Boots. Shoes. H-
and Caps, of the latest styles and best quality. iH
of which they intend to seU at reasonable rat
Also, an extensive stock of the most fuskionaM
TwEADY-MADE CLOTHING,
at prices to snit the times. Now is the time t
purchase. Call in and examine onr stock hefor
you purchase your goods, and we feel confident
that we can supply you with all kinds of gis
at as Iqw prices and on as reasonable terms as Jat
can procure them elsewhere. Give us a trial.
JOHN 1RVIX. .
May 30, 1S6Q. JERRED F.IRVI .
N. B. Persons indebted to the old firm ar
quested to call and settle. may 30
The undersigned having opened a Tailoring ..
tablishmcnt in Shaw s Row, in tbe room recem;'T
occupied by II. F. Nanele as a Jewelrv Stor ..'