Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-06-26
Odds and Ends.

Several arrests have been made in Vii
ginia of rebel whites for perjury in get
ting themselves registered as voters.
The Cambria Freeman is troubled about
spoons at New Orleans. Wonder what
became of the spoons" at Tyrone last
fall?
Why could not the Cambria Freeman
have said a soldier produced the lines he
comments ON? The poetry was his pro-
duction and gave his opinion of Jef Davis
and III. G., not the Gazette's.
In all of the twelve resolutions adopted,
by the Democratic State Convention, not
"a syllable is uttered on the subject of a
Free Railroad Law. According to cop
perhead logic the Pennsylvania Railroad
must have bought up the convention,
lock stock and barrel.
1t appears that the southern rebel who
addressed the recent copperhead State
Convention has the title of reverend pre-
fixed to his name. Preachers it seems
are only political hypocritcs when they
talk patriotism; when copperheadsm is
their theme, they are democratic saints.
Gen. Sickles, commander of the Caro-
lima District, has asked to be relieved from
his command, in consequence of Stan
berry's opinion of the military reconstruc-
ton act. He says if that opinion is car
ried out, the late rebel States are menaced
with ruin.
The Harrisburg Police made another
grand raid on houses of i'll fame in that
city last week, and arrested Mrs. Mary
Glassmire, Mrs. Eliza Snyder, Jennie
SomerviIle and Sallie Coyle, the keepers,
and quite a lot of visitors One of our
citizens thinks that raid or two by our
officers on few disorderly houses in this
town, and the arrest of all they almost
nightly contain, would be worth dozen
sermons on the subject.
Those who can call to mind the veto of
President Johnson of the military recon-
struction act will rememberit was charged
that it would place ''all the people of the
ten States therein named under the abso-
lutte domination of military rulers, and
the preamble undertakes to give the reason
upon which it is justified. 1t declares
that there exists in those States no legal
governments and no adequate protection
for life or property, and asserts the neces-
sity of enforcing peace and good order
within their limits" That act became
law, and now the President declares that
the act gives the military commanders no
power at all over even the worst rebel
officers
Two men named. Rapp and Jacob Tau
sig have been arrested at Harrisburg for
receiving and selling books and documents
alleged to have been purloined from the
State Capitol, and sundry messengers were
also bound over for their appearance at
court. 1t is time stop was put TO these
stealngs, which have been carried on for
at least thirty years under nearly all ad-
and some punishment me-
ted out to the guilty. The documents, it
is claimed, were given to the messengers
by members, but as some old and valua-
bic books from the library were recovered
they at least must have been stolen. AS
an instance of the depravity existing, and
that it was not confined to one
party, it is said that when the democracy
vacated the land department, hardly
pen, ruler, inkstand, pencil, Digest, &c.
was left. Gov. Geary has determined to
rect the evil.