Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-09-05

ing abolitionist?
! sca- Thomas ". Kay, who died near
{ Newbern, left his property to two former
/ slaves.
asa- Three English ladies recently tum-
bled over a precipice in Switzerland and
We're killed.
ESg~ The Philadelphia Loyal Conven-
ton met on Monday last. The attend
ance is large.
rea, The creditors of Culver, Penn &
| Co. and H. Culver have compromised
their affairs. The assets are represented
as exceeding the liabilities.
se7F~ The Fcniars are once more putting
the Canadians to trouble and we may eX-
pect every day to hear of war and umors
| of war in the direction Of the Provinces
8~ 4 gentleman who lately arrived
/ from the south, and who had lost the hang
of politics during the past year. was rather
staggered to find every seccSsionist Il John
son man
pa, Gen James Nagle. of SchuylkilI
county, who served with distinction in
the Mexican war and also in the war
against the rebellion, died at his residence
in POttsville on August 22d, of heart di-
! sease.
een The Augusta fGa.) Constitutional
d
flag all over hcfOuled with wrong,
and a black guard dcspotism that daily
affronts God by the vilIainics it does his
poor and prosecuted people"
Eay~ Colonel Seville late of the Confed-
crate army, last week received an appoint
mcnt as a Captain in the regular army.
He was formerly notorious fire-eating
secessionist. Verify we are progressing
under Johnson, the I0Ydi!
nsA. The shifts to which men resort
while cropping in the dark, is well eXem-
plified by neigh boring Johnson paper
asserting that the President has no pow
er to punish traitors! How did he try
Mrs. Surratt Il Co, Wirz, &c?
nFg" Gen. Custer. who now goes tooth
and nail with Johnson, in his cXamina-
ton before the COmmitteco RecOnstruc-
ton, stated under oath that the rebels
were all submissive and quiet until the
policy of the government was developed.
when they at once became bold and def
ant.
peA- In Mich, recently, Mrs. Alexan-
ander Rickard arose at night, wrote touch
ing letters to her eldest children and hus-
band, cut the throajs Of her two Youngest
children, cut her own throat. walked
some distance TO the bed, laid herself
down and died beside her murdered lit
tie ones.
Gsi- Peter BOta, who murdered a wo-
man named Phebe Ann Real, near Mon
louisville, four months ago, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree. at
Williamsport last Saturday. and sentenc-
ed TO be hung. He served in the 5th Pa
Reserves, and was Il man of low charac-
ter.
nA- \ rich joke, in reference to Cawan.
is going the rounds of the country press.
1t is to this effect: BY some mistake
bag containing Judge kelIey's speech in
favor of impartial suffrage was delivered
| to the COpperjOhnson Union Committee
Rooms at Washington, of which some
5000 copies We're franlled to PENNSYLVANIA
by Cowan.
ga The local editor of the Hannibal
Daily Courier is the wealthiest newspaper
man in the West. Hesums up his world
ly possessions in this wise: Mrs. Local
tpar value) 81 900, 900: one five wear old
Local, $500, 900; one seven weeks old Lo-
cal, $3.50, 600; cash on hand, 43 cents: due
on account, 81; sundries, y cents. Total.
81, 80, ,0Ol 30; yearly income, one Local.
psA- The Johnson papers are publish
ing ali article from the New York Times
claiming that the Baltimore and Phila-
delphia platforms are essentially alike.
vet the first resolution of the Baltimore
platform calls for the punishment Of rc2jeLs
and traitors, an important item not found
in the Philadelphia. See last Hunting
don Globe and Anti-Patterson Republi-
can Mifflintown.
Rss~ a French paper contains the fol-
lowing curious statement: " A Young
girl, ii years Ofage, attempted successiye-
ly the life of her mother and sister for the
sole purpose of drinking their blood. The
child has been examined by competent
physicians and proved to be attacked by
| the strange mania OF anthropophauy.-
Her extreme youth leads the physicians
to hope that her cure may be ACCOMPLISH
ed"
EEf~ The dinner of the Presidents bar
ty at Delmonico's, New York, was the
| most elegant and expensive affair of the
kind ever enjoyed 10y so large party i'm
this country. Dinner for two hundred
and fifty was ordered, and the cost was
| $4,000, or one hundred dollars for each
| plate. There were eight different kinds
of wine, costing from ten to twenty dol
lars per bottle. This was Il Dc1t0cr0fjc
dinner, and Is therefore we suppose all
right in city where the Democrat lately
complained that soldiers Were starving.
be- In addition to the mutilation of
Gen. Sheridan's dispatch published by
Johnson's administration, which entirely
( chahSed us meaning as 10 the New Or
| leans murders, it has been discovered that
another entire dispatch was omitted from
the published official respondence.-
The mutilated dispatch was in Johnson's
hands, and the infamy of the dirty act
rests between him and the New York
Times, edited by that Raymond who fig
ured so conspicuously at the Philadelphia
! Convention.
/ FfAp ThcDemocrat is hard run forsome-
thing to say when it alleges that Gen.
Couch has left the disunion Forney par
| ty," as Couch was run as the COP candi-
| date in Massachusetts year ago. Who
! ever noted his military doings in this
| State during the war, has no need to ask