expel more or less uv their preechers, fer irregularitis in swappin Losses, and fer ex treme conwiviulity sich, who er willin to be reseeved in' 2 our Luzuin. They air reddy—all we waut is meoes to set em aflote. Demittencis uv ten cents and upards thankfly reseeved. I'm President, S<cre tary, Treasurer and Board uv 1 rusteez uv the Associashen. Kernit lihrally to wunst The high karicter uv the offishary suffish ent guarantee that the mutiny will be prob ably applide. Petroleum V. Nash by, Paster uv sed church in charge. THE GAZETTE. LEWISTOWN, FA. Wednesday, August 24, 1864. 01. k O. R. I'KYSINGER, PUBLISHERS. *>, The dazr.tte is the onto paper in thi- part of the State printed on a pow r press, and hi* facilities for doing work of aij kinds equaled by few. We have three presses in oporaiion—an Adam- Power Pr---s Jo.- the Paper, a double medium hand press f.,r Jot and a Newbury Jobber for Blank-. Cards. Ac. TEEMS OF SUESCEIPTIOS. The <, \ZETTE i publish,-d every Wednesday by (iiotiDK pRT-iMOaa A .-so*, at sl.' • in advance, or i 2 a: the end of the year. T<> our wi'lr 4 eop e- will be nent for IS, 9 eojiien f.,r tin. or 20 copiesfor JS3O. These terms wiij be rigidly adliered to. FOR PRESIDE*"!', ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON. For Congress, A. A. BARKER. Of Cambria County. For County Commissioner, JOHN W. WILSON. Of Menno township. For County Auditor, J NO. H. WHITEHEAD. The patent peace democracy held their convention on Monday last, and having decided that Brown town ship was the banner district against allowing the sol lierto vote, nominated John Taylor ( pike; from that region to head their ticket for commissioner. Andrew iieed was recommended for Congress. U. J. Walters for Senator, and John W. Kearns for Assembly. OFFICIAL. KEILR.V. Ihe following is the official return of the vote cast for the soldier'? Amendment: Counties. 1t Amd't. 2d Am<Tt tor. Ayainst. Adams, 2.U80 1,491 Allegheny, 9,*63 896 Armstrong, 2,466 1,676 Beaver. 2.380 366 i Bedford, 1,922 1,696 ! Berks, 5,016 6^947 Blair, 2,505 223 Bradford, 4,970 229 Bucks, 4,*97 4 042 Butler, 2.679 U237 ; Cambria, 1,629 2,143 Carbon, 1.097 592 ! Cameron, 225 73 | Centre, 2,22* 2 319 Chester, old 15 U483 Clarion, 1,G13 '734 Clinton. 1,300 1,377 Clearfield, 1,298 2,0*3 Columbia, 1.533 2!-503 Crawford, 4.502 93-> Cumberland, 2.927 1,588 Dauphin, 3,711 l',BGl Delaware, 2,361 157 Erie . 5.029 1,083 Elk, 260 282 Fayette, 2,603 2,503 Franklin, 2.513 721 Fulton, 4,93 045 Forest, 77 1G Greene, 1.962 60* i Huntindgon, 2 505 360 1 an a, 3,296 o*9 Jefferson, 1.497 1,220 Juniata, 1.008 Lancaster, 10,537 POO 4 Lawrence, 2,2*8 '146 Lebanon, 2,498 686 Lehigh, 2.614 3,637 Luzerne, 4.575 4 024 Lycoming, 2 714 2 473 Mercer, 3,212 McKean, 570 18'- Mifflin, 1,304 57G Monroe. 458 1 644 Montgomery, 4,938 a'-.v Montour. 865 'fjo Northampton, 2.476 3 J74 Northumberland, 2,346 2 177' Perry 2,046 900 Philadelphia, 27,263 9,965 Pike, 167 841 Pot'er, 1.025 87 Schuylkill, 5.923 3 95s Snyder, 1,463 ""'OSB Somerset, 2,390 on 4 Sullivan, 316 • jnJ Susquehanna, 3.251 40.) 'fioW. 3.297 170 i n,UD - 1524 4h4 Venango, 2.530 goj Warren, 1.851 ojo Washington, 4,031 o 23* Wayne, 1.444 00*01 Westuiorelanti, 3.738 3*°B3 Wyoming, I.ISI. 719 York > 4,265 3,884 RECAPITULATION. Total for the Ist Amendment, 199 959 " against " •' 105^352 Majority for Ist Amendment, 94,607 lotal for 2d Amendment, 210,402 I " against '• 75,169 Majority for 2d Amendment, 135,233 Total for 3d Amendment, 207 837 " a g aiDßt " 75^913 Majority for 3d Amendment, 131,924 —The copperheads of Clearfield county lately held a cowards' meeeting, at which they magnanimously resolved to furnish neither men nor money for the war. The blue-lights are not all dead yet. The Seven Thirties-What are they? We tru=t that a large portion of our readers have pondered the appeal of Mr. Fessendeo, our new .Secretary of the Treas ury. The purport of it is that the People of the United States, acting as a body through their agent the Government, wi.-h individuals to lend them two hundred tril - lion ol dollars for three years, at seven and three tenth per cent, annual interest, pay able every six months. For this they offer Treasury Notes—that is, in reality, notes drawn and endorsed by every man in the countrv. 'J he loan is wanted for a great national purpose, to effect which every man, unless he he a traitor at heart it not in act, is solemnly pledged. The appeal is addresed not merely to a few great capitalists, but aLo to the many whose a<r<:re2ate means constitute the mass of the wealth of the land. The note? up on which this loan is asked are from §SO upward. Every man who has City dollars can take part in this loan. Apart from patriotism and the duty which ail owe to their country, no investment is so desira ble as this. It is secure. Every dollar of every man's property is pledged for the punctual pay ment of the interest, and of the debt when due. The sccuri'y is increasing in value. For some years before the war we were earning 1000 millions a year more than we spent. During the three y.ars of the war, owing to the high prices and constant demand for labor, we have earned more than ever before. No man who could or would work has been idle: and, except for the war, we have spent less than before. The total valuation of the property of the I_ tiited States, according to the census of I*6'J, was $16,159,000,000, of which §lO,- 657,448,950 was in the Loyal .States This valuation, according to the usual rule of assessment, was not more than two thirds of the actual cash value of the property. The increase of property in the Loyal States during the last ten years was over 126 per cent, or an average of 12 oln per cent, per annum. In three years of the war we of the United States have cer tainly earned 3000 millions more than we have spent apart from the war. The cost of the war may be set down at 2000 mil lions. Deducting this from our net earn ings, the people who are security for this loan are 1000 millions richer to day than they were when the war broke out. No other investment can be so easily convertible. The man who has a Treasu ry note for §SO, or §1J0. or 1000 dollars can turn it into money more readily, and upon better terms, than if it were invested upon bond and mortgage, or in railroad stocks The interest off red is higher than can be realized from any other safe and con vertible investment. It is, moreover, read iiy collectable when due. To each note are affixed five "coupons," or interest tickets, due at the expiration of each successive half-year. 'I he holder of a note has simp ly to cut off one of these coupons, present it at the nearest bank or Government Agency, and receive his interest; the note itself need not be presented at all. (Jr a coupon thus payable will everywhere be equivalent, when due, to money. Thus, while this loan presents great ad vantages to large capitalists, it offers spe cial inducements to those who wish to make a safe and profitable investment of small saving. It is in every way the best Sav ings' Bank; for every institution of this kind must somehow invest its deposits profitably in order to pay interest and expenses. They will invest largely in this loan, as the best investment. But from the gross interest which they receive they must deduct largely for the expenses of the Bank. 1 heir usual rate of interest allowed to depositors is 5 per cent upon sums over §SOO. The person who invests directly with Government will receive almost 5u per cent. more. I bus the man whodepos its 81000 in a private Savings' Bank receives 50 dollars a_year interest; if he deposits the same sum in this National Savings' Bank he receives 73 dollars. For those who wish to find a safe, convenient, and profitable means of investing the sur plus earnings which they have reserved for their old age or for the benefit of their children, there is nothing which presents so many advantages as this National Loan. It is convertible into a six per cent, gold bearing bond. At the expiration of three years a holder of the notes of the 7.30 loan has the option of accepting payment in full or of funding his notes in a six per cent, gold interest bond, the principle pay able in not less than five nor more than twenty years from its date as the Govern went may elect. For six months past, these bonds have ranged at an average premium of about eight per cent, in the iork market, and have sold at 109 to day Aug. l_th,) thus making the real rate of interest over ten per cent.; and i besides, to make the inducement even greater, Congress by special act exempts i its Treasury notes from state and municipal taxation. Could Shylock ask more.' Was patriotism ever so liberally rewarded ? Harper s Magazine. Peace, Patent Democracy ana Patriot ism. The Atlantic Monthly for August contains a full report of the visit of Edmund Giimore and Col. Jaques to Richmond, with a detailed account of their conversation with Jef Davis, from which we make the following extract: Col. Ja jues. "If [ understand vou, the dispute between your Government and ours is narrowed to this—Union or Disunion.'' Davis. "Yes; or to put it in other words —lndependence or Subjugation." •• 1 Ken the two Governments are irrecon cilably apart. Tiicy have no alternative out t,j fight it out. Hut it is not so with tLe peopic. ah y are tired of fighting, a,JU want peace; and. as they bear all the burden t and suffering of the war, is it not ri-'ht they .-houii have peace, and have it on such terms as they like?" "1 dun t understand you; be a little more explicit." • A eii Suppose the two governments should agree to something like this: To go to the peopie with two p'opositions: say Peace, with Disunion and Southern Independence, as your proposition; and I eaee, with I nion, Emancipation, No Confiscation, and Universal Amnesty as ours. Let the citizens of all the United States as they existed before the war; vote • \ es, or 'No, on these two prop ositions. at a special election within sixty days. If a uiaj jrity vote Disunion, our Government to be bound by it, and to let you go in peace. The two Governments can contract in this way, and the people, though constitutionally unable to dec ; de on peace or war, can elect which of any two propositions shall govern their rulers Let Lee and Grant, mean while, agree to an armistice. In is would sheathe the sword ; and, it once sheathed, it would never again be drawn by this generation." "Ihe plan is altogether impracticable. If the I*outh were only one State, it might work; hut, as it is, if one Southern State objected to emancipation, it would nullify tiie whole thing, for you are aware the peo of \ irgiuia cannot vote slavery out of South ( urolina, or the people of South Carolina vote it out of Virginia" "Hut three fourths ol the States can amend the Constitution. Let it be done in that way—in any way, so that it can be doue by the people. lam not a statesman or a f oiitician, and I do not juat know how such a plan could he carried out; butvou get the idea —that the people shall decide the question." "lhat the majority shall decide it you mean. \\ e seceded to rid ourselves of the rule of the majority, and this would sub ject us to it again." "Hut the majority must rule finally, either with bullets or ballots." "I am not so sure of that. Neither cur rent events nor history shows that the ma jority rules, or ever did iule. The contrary, I think, is true. Why, sir, the man who shall go before the Southern people with such a proposition—with any proposition which implied that the North was to have a voice in determining the domestic rela tions ot the South—could nut live here a day! He would be hanged to the first tree, without judge or jury." "Allow me to doubt that. I think it more likely lie would be hanged if he let the Southern people know the majority could not rule," I replied, smiling. "I have no lear of that," rejoiued Mr. Davis, also smiling most good humoredlv "I give you leave to proclaim it from every house-top in the South." "Hut, seriously, sir, you let the majority ruie in a single State; why not let it rule in the whole country?" "Hecau.-e the States are independent and sovereign. The country is not. It is only a confederation of States, or rather it was; it is now two confederations." "Then we are not one people—we are on ly a political partnership?" "That is all." Again at the conclusion of the con versation, Jef Davis said: "Say to Mr. Lincoln from me, that I shall at any time be pleased to receive proposals for peace on the basis of our independence. It will he USELESS TO APPROACH ME WITH ANY OTHER." Those then who talk of peace are no longer left in doubt as to the terms, namely, DISUNION and all the evils con- j sequent thereon, and it is no more than justice that all who hereafter talk thus should be called by their proper names, if Disunion was regarded as the great est evil that could befall this country at the commencement of the rebellion, what has occurred since then to make it either political or wise. The re bellion is on the wane—no man in his senses can doubt that —and another year even without any great battles would utterly ruin the South. Its men are exhausted, its currency is al most worthless, and the prices of the necessaries of life so stupendous even in the midst of the fruit and vegetable season that the entire wages of a labor ing man at two dollars per day for a year would be insufficient to purchase two barrels of flour! And if so now, what would another winter bring forth? Answer ye smoothfaced peace advocates —ayc, stand up in your na ked deformity, and give a single reason for dividing a country which nature has marked as one. No impassable i rivers or mountaii s divide us lroin the Southern States—no impediment* ex ist against marauding parties even into the heart of the Juniata valley, and yet your spirits would bow down to the Moloeh of Slaverv. and blot out this great country from among the nations of the earth. THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH The Rebel Cause Failing from Exhaus tion—Letter from Gen. Seymour, Late a Prisoner of War. NLW AORK, Friday, Aug. 19, 18b4. To th■ Editor of the Xetc York Tunes: I have just received the following most interesting letter from General Seymour, lately released from "under tire at Charleston. As an old West Point officer, with General Anderson at Sumter, and stationed many years in the South, he knows the Southern people well. He is a brave, true sol dier, devoted to the Union, and, al though at the time of the unfortunate battle in Florida, he was accused of lukewarmuess by those ignorant ot his character, he has proved, by his action on many a b: ttie-tieid, as" weil as by his plucky talk to the rebels at Gor donsville, when captured in May last, that he was every inch loyal to the old flag. Yours, No., AVE. H., Jr. M 1 J.1.1X USTOIVX, Mass., Aug. 15, IG4. Mv PEAR SIR: \uu ask lay impressions of the present conditions of the Southern Con federacy, and yuu shall have chem. Fur the benefit of our cause 1 wish they might be iiu. pressed upon every soul in the land, that the Confidence begotten of my three months' ob servations in the interior of the South might be shared by every man who has the least connection with the responsibilities of this struggle. And lam sure these opinions are not peculiar to myseif. Every one of the filtv officers just exchanged will express the same —every one of them, whether from the jails of Charleston, or the pens of Macon and Audersonville, will confidently teli the same 'story. The rebel cause is fast failing, from, exhaus tion Their two grand armies have been re inf-rced this summer from the lat resources ol the .South. From ever} - corner ol the laud, every old man and every h-.y capable of bear ing a ride lias been impressed, willingly or unwillingly, and hurried to the front. Lee's army was the first so strengthened It was at the expense of Hood's. Gov. Brown told the truth with a plainness that was very hit ter, but it was none the less the truth. ******* 1 here must, indeed, have been desperate weakness wiien Georgia, and the Southern cause with it, were -o neglected that L- e s army might be made equal t the ta-k of holding Grant to the Potomac or the James, and the People ol the South are iotel'igent enough to understand and to appreciate the fact, and they have lost heart accordingly. *******" There is certainly a no small proportion of the Southern people (despite the lying decla rations of their journals, as we had good oc c&sion to learn.) that not only favor progress of our arms, but that daily pray that this ex ! terminating war may soon be brought to a I finality by our complete and perfect success, i hey have had too much ol despotism— not f enough of tbe triumph promised them.— Many intelligent Southern gentlemen do, in deed, express strong hopes of their ultimate independence, but such hope is not shared by the masses. Disappointed from the first in not having been acknowledged by foreign Powers —mure bitterly disappointed in their general expectation that Northern cowardice or dissension would secure their ends, but a single chance remains, and that is the result !of our next election for President. If a Demo crat succeeds Mr. Lincoln, they profess to | feel sure of negotiations, and sure of their Confederacy. They believe a Democrat will be elected. In Mr. Lincoln's re election ' they see subjugation, annihilation, for the war j must tin n continue, and continuance is their failure and ruin. In military affairs it is an excellent rule never to do what the enemy desires—is it not equally true in politics? Certain it is that i the only remaining hope of the South lies in Mr. Lincoln's defeat. Now, I am not enough of a politician to j know whether the election of a Democrat can result as favorbly to the South as it antici pates. The wish alone may be the parent of ■ their belief. But I assured all who express ed that belief that the North, as a mass, is as united as the South —that no Democrat could be elected on a peace platform—and that | any President who would inaugurate any ; measure leading to peace on the basis of Southern independence, would be promptly hung, by loyal acclamation, to the lamp posts in front of his own Presidential ma sion. However that may be, if we are but true ourselves there can be but one result.— What ice now need is M'n —only men—not | substitutes or hirelings who go forth for any motive but the country's good, and produce but little beyond depreciating our armies— but MEN —such as realiy constitute the State, j and boast of being freemen and th; sons of freemen. If these fail to support mere coun try's cause in her hour of peril, 'hey are un worthy of continuing freemen, and should blush ever to exercise a freeman's privileges. But if bounties must be paid, let it be in Southern land, not in Northern gold; and ar ; mies of emigrants, whose sons may aspire to even the rule of the nation, will cross the s- as to win the broad acres that disloyalty has forfeited to the State. To every intelligent soldier who has fought through all these indecisive campaigns on al most numberless indecisive fields, the ques tion constantly arises, with touching force, why we do not overwhelm our enemies? Tens of thousands of lives are lost because our array of strength is so disproportionably less than that against which we battle. Eve rywhere we meet on nearly equal terms, where we might well have f,.ur to one. The cost to us in blood and treasure, of a prolong ed war. can hardly be foreseen—the econo my is infinite of such an effort as the glori ous North should put forth. The South wil) fight as long as the Strug gle is equal; it will submit to such prepond erance as we should show in every field. Glance at the summer's Sherman had but 50.000 or 75,000 more men near, the South would be lost, because Hood would be annihilated. II Meade had moved in the spring with reserves of 75,000 or 100.- 000 men, Lee wuuld have been hopelessly crushed. Even at this moment a third col umn of 40,000 to 50,000 rightly moved, would give unopposed blows to the Oonfed eracy from which it could never rise. VI hat folly then to struggle on in this way, when wo citn (ion,J to tho fi-M fiv-- lisne* the force already h-r-. Wh a*. iknes* in think wo cannot conquer the Smth. Behind the James unly boys ittnj eld uim are to ho pen, while here men buy and sell as in the <>hlen days of qui *t. and regiments of able-bodied citizens crowd the streets f our cities. There is but out- course consistent with safety or honor. L>-t the people awake to a sense of their dignity and strength and a few months of com in rati rely trifling exertion of such effort as alone worthv of the great work, and the rebellion will crumble before ius Fill this draft promptly and willingly. with good arid true ron ; send a few spare t thousands over ratiier than under the call, and the summer suti of iB6O will shine upon a regenerated land. There are some who speak of peace ! Of alt Yankees the Southron most scorns tbo-e who do not light, but are glad enough to em ploy them, as they do their slaves, to perform • their dirty work. Peace for the South will be sweet indeed; for us. except through S -uth i ern subjugation, but anarchy and war forev er. The Pacific, the Western, the Eastern ; States would at once fall asunder. The South would b- d omiiant. and the people of the North would deserve to be driven a field under overseers, to hoe corn and cotton for S >uthern masters. llut no faint hearted or short sighted poli < ey can set aside the eternal decree of the Ah mighty, who has planted no lines of disunion between the Atla tic and the Western deserts —between the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico —that signify His wilt that we should ; be separated: and unless so separated peace is a delu-ion, and its advo a-v a treason against the wisest and holiest interests of our country. It lias been with a that renewed hope and vigor might b- given, when vigor and hope are needful, that I have written, and you have my consent to using tins as please; and I am, Yerv truly yurs, T. SEYMOUR, Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers. To W. E. Dodge, Jr., Esq , New York, WAR NEWS. V bile the copperheads north who call treason free speech are desponding, the army is hopeful and sanguine. The Weldon Railroad south of Petersburg was still held on Sunday, on which day the rebels made an attack on our fyrcea and were severely repulsed. Continuous fighting is going on along : the line with varying results. From Atlanta we learn that General Sherman captured some rebel rifle pits with a number of prisoners, within dOO yards of the enemy's works. V\ heeler s rebel cavalry are operating in his rear, but thus far without se rious injury to the communication. A flight occurred at Summit Point, in tl e Shenandoah Valley, on Sunday last, resulting in some loss to both sides. Our forces at last accounts occupied the hills at lialltown, a posi tion tho rebels are iikely to attack. Some rebel cavalry occupy Martins burg, and liave occasioned another panic iu the Cumberland Valley. Judging from the lamentations of the rebel press Mobile will soon be captured. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, August 2U, 10 p. m. Ihe operations ol Gen. Grunt's forces are detailed in the following dispatches by the War Department : CITY POINT, Aug. 18, 8 a. M —Gen. Warren moved with his Corps this morn ing to aud across the Weldon railroad, about one mile south of the Lead works, to which point he met nothing but the en emy's pickets. He advanced from there towards Peters burg, uiecting the enemy early in his ad vance. We had considerable fighting dur ing the day, suffering some ioss, and in flicting loss upon the enemy. I have no report showing the extent of our losses, but judge them to be light, from the dis patches. Eome of the enemy's wounded fell into our hands, and a few other prisou ers. CITY POINT. Aug 18, 7.30, p. m Our troops are firmly fixed across the Wel don Road, there has been little or no fight ing to-day, either South of Petersburg or North of the James River. Gen. Warren reports that the enemy's dead in considerable number were found in his front unburied. Gen Birney tele graphs as follows: HEADQUARTERS 10th CORPS, ) August 19, 1864. J The enemy attacked my line in heavy force last uiglu, and were repulsed with great loss. In front of one colored regiment eighty two dead bodies of the enemy are counted The colored troops behaved handsomely, and are in tine spirits. The assault was in column, a division strong, and would have carried works not so well defended. The enemy s loss is at least one thousand. D. B. BIRNEY, Major General Commanding. We have a great deal of rain about Pe tersburg this week and a very grateful change in the temperature. CITY POINT, Aug. 19—9 a. m—The enemy came out this evening to Warren's right, driving in the pickets connecting between theui and the left of our old line on the Jerusalem Piank Road, and forcing back the two right divisions of \\ arren's Corps. A heavy fight took place resulting in the re establishing of our lines and the capture of a good many prisoners. 1 he prisoners were from Heth's, Mahon's and Hoke's divisions. We also lost con siderable in prisoners. i he last foregoing dispatch was received this afternoon and is the latest information received by the department. It is estimated that the loss of the enemy during this week, in killed, wounded anil captured, can not fall short ot 4,UUO, if it : does not exceed that number. The department has satisfactory intelli genet- from Gen Sherman, to 8 .">0 p V esteniav Reports at five o'clock this mnrnino from Gen Sheridan s front, represent a 1 ! t| liet at that time, aud that Giluiore with 40 or 50 men entered Martiosburg last evening. EDWIN M STANTON, See'y of War Correp'>ndenu of the Gazette. CAVP HAMILTON, Aug. 17, 1N64. Mr Editor : Enclosed you will find $1 50 f.r whi.-h please send me your paper, a 8 I always find in its columns encouragement f, ir the soldier and uodeviating devotion for the peace and welfare < f our. suffering Republic I have seen a copy of your paper with the returns from the late election for the Amend m-nt of the C> netitution, and am pleaded to see that the soldiers have a majority of friends in Mifflin county. 1 with other privates m the 152 d regiment deire to return ourthauks to those who have extended to u* the light of suffrage, but we fe 1 pained to think that any w uid wi-h to disfranchise us; and whilst \\"e censure them we would not rail on them in a spirit of vituperation, hut we pity theui and hope they may repent. Wnu d they take away our rights because we love our country, and are willing to suffer for her sake? Or because some of us are poor and have not paid our commutati ,n fee? The soldier has many hardships to bear, and he looks fur gratitude and sympathy from the nati >n and his fri-n is to buoy hi;n up in the hour of tri a!, and iuvite h:m to deeds of valor, knowing that if he falls he will be lamented, and if maimed be will bee >mpassionateiy cared f.r. 1 uui sorry to say that we have only this en cour.igement from part of the people, and the result is our aruiy is almost like an aruiy of mercenaries It lacks that sacrificing aud independent spirit which always pervades an aruiy of patriots, and which makes an aruiv harmonious and effective. I am aiso forced to say that a great many persons io the North wii call themselves p ari ts have been worse enemies to th- Union than open traitors They see nothing in the acts of the Govern merit constitutional nor wi*e; thus creating distrust amongst us. whilst it encourages our enemies; prolongs the war; depreciates the currency ; and swell our debts. Thev dis l credit Union victories, and herald anticipated rebel triumphs. They avow that we cannot bring the S .utn to terms by the sword, and exult over their bravery when compared with us. They maintain that the liberation of the slaves and not the preservation of the U'ni,>n is the object of the war, making it appear to the soldier that those in power wish to make us subservient to the negro, and for us to whip the South and liberate the slave would lie to depreciate the compensation of white iabor. They cry peace and mean disunion, they would tie our hands whilst our enemies are at liberty to stab us to the heart We desire peace, and hope it may soun come, hut we shall never beg it from a traitor; nor will we consent to a disunion. The rebels rely on the strength of their armies and their sympathizing friends of the North to estab lish their confederacy And you must rely on your armies to destroy it; in short if we want an honorable peace "we must fight and not taint. '1 lie South are putting forth ail their strength in the hope of keeping our Hl uiies at bay until their allies in the North cai ry the elections— hence their confederacy and promised peace. We would here cell on all loyal democrats to ponder well what thev do, and not be led by wolves in sheep's cloth ing We again thank our friends for giving us our just rights, and hope in the Coming election they will cling with us to the honor and integrity of our country, and never pros trate us in the attitude of supplicators at a traitor's feet. A TRIE DEMOCRAT. LOST! ON Saturday last, a small steel block, about one inch long and a quarter of an inch in breadth, with six irregular wire pro jections. A reward of one dollar will be paid to any one leaving it at this office. Lewistown, Aug. 24, 1864. Instate Isabella Campbell. Deceased. "V Ol ICE is hereby given that letters testa a. y nientary on the estate of Isabella Camp bell, late of Union township, Mifflin county, deceased, have been granted to the under singr.ed residing in said township. All per sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly authenticated Lr settlement. JOHN O. CAMPBELL. aug-4-6,.* Exeiutor. T ETTERS REMAINING UNCLAIMED J..J iii the Post Office at Lewistown, Stale of Pennsylvania, on the 24th of August, 1864. Buyer A. M. Miller David 2 Criswell Markley John Criswell Mrs. S M. Miller Alfred Corvison Elanur Moyer J. M. Davis George M. Major Ann Davis Miss Jennie Martin Miss E Ernes Lvdia Miller Miss Laura Furrell L. B. McWilliams Geo. W. Felmlee John G. McUsling Mrs. J. Fodg Samuel Stover John Gorsuck Joshua Sappier J. R. & G 11. Harison Caroline Slough Hiram Knepp Nancy J. Steuart Hubert Lewis I horn as A. Thomas Miss Amelia tiiS* To obtain any of these letters, the applicant must call lor 'adcerti.sed Itltirs,' give the date of this list, aud pay one cent for advertising. R B( 't called for within one month, they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office "k24 SAMUEL COMFORT, P. M. Vendue Notes to Jno. D Bell. r |MIE vendue notes given to John I). Bell. A due 'Jth September, are at the Banking House of the undersigned for collection, of which all persons interested will take notice. . . WM. RUSSELL. Lewistown, August 17, 1864-3t FOS SALE. TIIE valuable BUSINESS i ] | A 8 I AND and lot occupied by R- F- Ellis, in Market street. Lew £3fiflM"tovYi> Near one-half the pur coasts uioney can rpmain for a 1 rig period secured on the premises. Easy terms as to the balance. For terms apply to George W. Elde L or MARY DAVIS. August 17, 1864—4t LEWISTOWN ACADEMY. THE Fall Session of the Female Depart" uieut of the Lewistown Academy open on MONDAY, Sept. 12th, 1864, and con tinue the usual period as heretofore. M. E. PROCEUS. Lewistown, August 17, 1864.
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