Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-08-21

refusing to admit negro testimony.
! John S. Pendleton, of Culpepper coun-
lty, Va, formerly member of Congress,
was arrested and taken to Richmond on
/ Wednesday night, on a charge of perjury
in having himself registered.
J. w. Pillbrick, supposed to be from
Lowell, Mass, died in July, at Ellsworth,
Kansas, leaving some property and
large amount of money, which awaits the
claim of his friends.
According to old democratic logic, the
majority of the people" constituted de-
mocracy. Copperheadism is now engag-
cd in demonstrating that the majority are
tyrants.
The Poor House Steward of Cambria
county has resigned. If the democracy
up there is at loss for Il proper person to
take his place, we can send half dozen
candidates to pick from.
The democratic papers, after asserting
/ for years that Durham, alias Conover,
was Il perjured rascal, are now endeavor-
ing to show that because he is lying on
their side he is an honest man.
/ Some twelve citizens of St. Joseph, Mo,
have been arrested for completely in burn
ing the Platte river bridge, on the Hanni-
bal and St. Joseph railroad, in 1861. Some
| forty more writs are in the hands of the
sheriff.
The colOred people of Delaware being
denied participation in the benefits of the
public school system of that State, four
teen schools have been established through
the aid of various associations, supported
! in part by the contributions of the parents
/ of the pupils.
1t seems that DR.. Cummings made a
| trifling error in his calculations concern
/ ing the total destruction 10 take place in
! 1867 In revising his work he found that
! he had overlooked figures which add
something like quintilIion of years to
the race which this mundane sphere has
! to run.
The democratic papers all claim the re-
cent election in Kentucky rs a democrat
C victory. Part of the ticket elected was
composed of rebels, and the remainder
were little better. Among the "demo-
Gratis" elected to the Legislature is Jesse
| ID. Bright, who it will be remembered
was expelled from the L. s. Senate in
1861 for being in correspondence with JEFF
/ Davis.
/ 1t is said that one of the causes of the
/ late rupture between the President and
Secretary of War, was the refusal of Mr.
Stanton to assign to militia company of
Maryland, composed mainly of returned
rebel officers and soldiers, battery of
light guns for which they had applied.
The President is said to have directed him
to furnish the battery, but that Mr.. STAN
+ ton declined.
In running TO catch "fiy ball' in
base ball game at Usage, in Mitchell CO.,
Iowa, Il few days ago, two players came
in contact with such force that one of
them had jaw broken and was knocked
down insensible, and was "crazy for twen-
ty-four hours thereafter" while the other
had his face bruised and the bones of his
nose broken.
The letter of Gen. Pope to Gen. Grant,
describing the progress of reconstruction
in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, says
the party which is in accord with the
northern democracy "are bitterly opposed
to reconstruction under the acts of Con-
gress; opposed in fact to any reconstruc-
+ ton whatever except such as would leave
them in precisely the same OOtticat con-
daion as if there had been no rebellion
and no t0dy."
: The Johnstown Tribune, has been Sc
lacted one of the two newspapers in the
State, in which the public Acts and Reso-
: lutiOns of Congress are to he published.
) What political infamy did this editor
commit 10 entitle him to this congresSion-
al favor? Probably he is only notorious
liar ar!-.Seiia$grOUe Times.
Tut, man, don't be jealous because Il
brother editor has secured a good job
Besides, if political infamy, or that other
r thing, is worth rewarding, you may some
: day get the same take, in which case your
own preaching would say ''Thou art the
mani"
COpperheadism is just now engaged in
: ascribing every evil under the sun to Con-
= gress. Thus not long ago the Southern
people of the rebel States could not work
because they had no representation in
Congress-neXt, although there was an
immense crop to be harvested and de-
mand for labor everywhere, the country
was going to ruin-and to cap the climax,
an editor in an isolated town which gives
dancing picnic once or twice week, in
complaining of dull times there, says it
/ is all the fault of CongressI
A few days since a girl about ten years
/ of age, named Cruson, residing in Groes-
beckville, while out berrying, about ten
miles from Albany, was attacked by rae
coon and pretty seriously injured. The
girl was engaged picking berries under a
tree, which the raccoon ascended. While
thus engaged the animal descended the
tree and made an attack upon her, seizing
+ her leg and biting from it n large piece of
: flesh The Express says, after the coon
had been beaten off, and the party on
their way home, the animal followed
them three miles, and then made for the
woods
: The Democrat seldom, if ever, makes
t acknowledgement of wrongful charges.
1 Thus although we reDrOduced the eY.