THE GAZETTE. LEWISTOWN. PA. Wednesday, August 22, 1866. G. ut the usurpations of the peo ple's representatives in Congress, is eo\ - ertly exercising powers and privileges which a Dictator or Desj>ot only could openly. Thus, while contending that the Southern States are in full relation to the government, on occasion of the riots in New Orleans, he interfered with the Gov ernor's prerogatives, set his authority aside, and directed the military to re ceive orders from the Attorney General of Louisiana. If Louisiana is a State, Governor Wells is as much Governor as Andrew Curt in is of Pennsylvania, and we think no one will undertake to say that the Mayor of Philadelphia or the Attorney General of this Stase could call on Andrew Johnson to quell a riot except through the Governor. Law, however, or form of law, is of small account at the White House, where rebels are more wel come than Union men. In furtherance of the design to with draw public attention from the usurpa tions of the President, and possibly by the advide of rebel leaders, a proclama tion has been issued giving notice that the blockade declared by Maximillian to exist at Matamoras, Mexico, will be dis regarded. At sight, this would appear a small matter, but when all the facts con nected with Mexico are taken into con sideration, that proclamation is in reality a VIRTUAL DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST FRANCE! Napole on may or may not be ready to engage in a war with this country, but the recent relinquishment of his designs on the Rhine frontier indicate that he may have had such a contingency in view, and if he had, we may look for a long and bloody struggle, for an increased debt, for in creased taxes, and in the end for an alli ance between the rebel leaders and France, when the "Southern heart" will again be fired—probably by some of the men in attendance last week at Philadelphia as peacemakers— and another rebellion. — Napoleon never forgives an insult nor an injury, and even if war does not ensue, he is henceforth an enemy ofthiscountry who will bide his time. The Dummy Convention. The gathering which had been h, raid ed forth for some months, assembled at Philadelphia last Wednesday, 14th Au gust, the anniversary of Jef Davis's proc lamation exiling Union men from the rebel States and confiscating their prop erty. The assemblage was said to be re presentatives of the people, yet strange to say, not a single delegate was elected by the people; on the contrary, State and county committes, appointed without re ference to such a body, or a knot of office- hunters, hastened to announce that cer tain men, representing neither the people nor their interests, were delegates. Well, this l>ody met, and instead of meeting the great questions of the day with freedom and discussion, 110 set of slaves could have been more subservient, or more readilv ratified all that had been prepared. There was 110 opposition to anything, for the simple reason that no discussion, no in terchange of views, was allowed. It was to all intents a Dummy Convention, with .Doolittle as presiding officer, Cowan as ventriloquist, and Keverily Johnson as bottle-holder. The rebels who came there with halters 011 their necks, acting up to the advice to creep in, steal in, or get any way into Congress, of course voted for everything proposed by the cooks; the copperheads, looking for political aid from the southern rebel democracy, did the same; and the bread-and-butter brigade, with the emoluments of office in sight, could not resist. Thus all was as harmo nious as that company which was told any one might leave the service who chose, but that the first man who did would be shot! Raymond of the York Times pre pared and read the address, which is a mere rehash of Johnson's assumptions thai rebels are loyal men as soon as they are tired of rebelling, and anathematizing the doings of Congress, because Congress will not prove AS false to its professions JIS the one man in the White House. The only thing of importance in it is the ad vice to vote for members of Congress, without reference to their antecedents, whether rebel, copjierhead, bummer, de serter, or skedaddler, who arc willing to admit the rebels to Congress. One of the principal subjects secretly discussed, was the mlc of the Oeniovracy! And this, in part at least, was accom plished. Although the delegates would not agree at once to relinquish their old title, yet it will he significantly observed m the pnncipa l committee is dubbed the National Union Committee which of course supercedes in authority the democratic and all others, and will liefore long swallow them up. This is already evident here. rv Tl ? e Lewistown Gazette says "Gea pot. Hollidaytshurg Standard. We suppose you know all about it, as you were in the-really we forget-what corps was it ? The S3OO or the disability? rn- • passed over De Kalb • ' i l , lolß ' u few weeks ago, which lestroyed almost everything in a striD Of two or three miles in width P RECOIfSTRFCTIOM. The Falsehood and Deception Practiced by the Johnsonites and Copperheads. There is not a copperhead paper, a cop perhead stump speaker, a Johnson paper, or a Johnson advocate, led on hv such po litical weathercocks as Montgomery Blair, Cowan, Doolittle, &c., who has not studi ously endeavored to fill the public mind with the belief that Congress is keeping the rebel States from being represented, when in truth nothing could he easier for those States to restore their full relation to the government merely by passing the constitutional amendments submitted by Congress. Those amendments are so just, and withal magnanimous, that there is truly room for wonder in finding any man who wishes well to his country opposing them. It disfranchises only the prime movers and leaders of the rebellion, so far as offices are concerned, and would make this, what copperheads prate so much about, a WHITE MAN'S GOVERNMENT by basing representation on white men, pre cisely as stated by Andrew Johnson in his conversation with Geo. I/. Stearns.— AV e republish them, and ask our readers to hand them to their neighbors, for we feel assured, when properly understood, none but political bigots in pursuit of of fice, or men who think more of party than of their country, can find fault with them. Here is the i moil I'latform of Reconstruc tion. Tennessee was Admitted on this Platform. Joint Resolution proposing an Amend ment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, By tiie Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely: ARTICLE XIV SECTION 1. All persons born or natu ralized in the UniteiUrates, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where in they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State de prive any person of life, liberty, or prop erty, without due process of law, nor de ny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. SEC. 2. Representatives shall he appor tioned among the several States accord ing to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of ]>ersons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Rep resentatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participa tion in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall he reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. SEC. 3 No person shall he a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or re hellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in sup pressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the Uni ted States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. SEC. O. That Congress shall have pow er to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. In brief, the Ist makes all persons equal before the law, as is the case in all the eastern, middle and western States —that is, crime is punished alike whether com mitted by white or black, which is not the case in the South. The second makes voters the basis of representation; if this is not adopted, the late slave States will gain 24 members of Congress in 1872, as each late slave will then count the same as a white man north, and thus make 60 white men south equal to 100 white men north. The third disfranchises the perju rers; and the fourth secures the National public debt as inviolate, JIS well as pen sions and bounties, and will forever pre vent any assumption of the rebel debt.— There is no negro suffrage in them, as po litical knaves make out, as any one can see by the second section that the States regulate who shall vote. That the rebel leaders should get up a cry against the amendments is natural, as all power to organize another rebellion or to hold a majority of the offices would be effectually destroyed. This they well know, and it is therefore nothing won derful in advising Andrew Johnson to usurp the powers of government, and rec ognize them as good citizens and law-ma kers; nothing wonderful that they should call those most instrumental in defeatitig their rebellion " disunionists," and them selves Union men; nothing wonderful that they should pander and cringe to northern copperheads so far that Massa chusetts and South Carolina delegates should enter arm in arm into the mon grel convention held at Philadelphia last week —because the defeat of the amend ments will give them honors, power and place, while their adoption would do something towards making treason odi ous. But the old leaven is still at work. The following extract from the August number of De Bow's Review, the leading Southern literary magazine, will serve to show that the erroneous ideas which brought on the war are not yet eradica ted, and that the Southern people pre dict a "good time coming" yet: " State sovereignty, though suspended, remains intact ; for the Soothers States are still, originally and anatomically, sov ereign. They have each a soil and a peo ple, a militia, cm executive, a legislature, a Judiciary, and separatt and distinct /airs, customs, habits and institutions.— So soon as the Inderal troops arc remov ed, and the Southern States fully restored to I nion, they will become again watchful and efficient- guardians and de fenders of the liberty of the South. In the meantime we must keep cool, evince the same fortitude under a temporary op pression that we exhibited throughout the war. never become ' terribly in ear nest,' like to radicals, and, by losing our tempers, cloud and upset our judgment." And if there are people who imagine that they will never be taxed for the rebel debt, they can dispel that illusion, for Governor Orr of South Carolina, a fire eating rebel, in a speech to a Olymer Club at Philadelphia on Monday a week, said he was not only willing to aid in paying the debt of "your Government, but also of my (the rebel) government! Our inference that the Augusta correspondent of the Selinsgrove Times, who professes to write rebel communica tions for that paper, was some northern traitor, has awakened theireoftheeditor, ami lie calls us all kinds of names in re turn. He also complains that we have been assaulting him fortlie past five years. Not at all, Mr. Times; we have only been showing you tip as a consistent disciple of modern democracy, and cited you as proof that Southern democracy and North ern Toryism were one and the same thing —the only difference being the southrons took up arms to uphold their treason, while you didn't, but hissed them on. To show our readers how a northern copper head classifies the Gazette, we copy the following from the Times of the 10th : "The Lewistown Gazette, a 'moral-idea' organ that is always filled with articles on temperance, religion, 'moral instructions,' sabbath school items, pious songs, ac counts of lying missionaries, etc., etc., with holy sprinklings of pious ejacula tions and anathemas against copperheads, traitors, 'the sum of all villainies,' dis loyal scoundrels, anil such other phrases as are used only by people who batten up on 'moral ideas.' We trust all our friends have the same opinion of the Gazette as the Times, as we ask no better from friend or foe. The 1 nion State Central Com mittee of Pen'a to tlie Patriots ofthe South Greeting. PHII,ADEI,PHIA, Aug. 10. The Union State Central Committee of Pennsylvania send greeting to their brave Union brothers of the South, and extend to them a hearty welcome, on the occa sion of their meeting in this city, on Mon day, the 3d day of September next. History furnishes no parallel to the pat riotism, courage and fidelity of those men who, from the beginning of the rebellion to the end, fought the good light, and kept the faith. The question to be decided is whether loyalty is to be proscribed and punished i?i the persons of patriots like these, or treason rewarded and honored in the per sons of the guilty authors and agents of the rebellion. .Shall the loyal masses or the baffled and defeated tniitors govern the country? In these great issues all are vitally concerned, and our Southern com patriots have instinctively turned toward the spot whence the Great Charter of American Liberty was first proclaimed, and propose, within the sacred shadows of Independence Hall, to renew their vows of fidelity to the principles of that immortal creed, and to take counsel with their Union friends. On behalf of the loyal men of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, this Com-' mittee hereby gratefully extend a cordial welcome to these patriots and friends from the Southern States. All who come will be received with open arms and warm hearts. The Union men of the entire Common wealth are cordially and earnestly invi ted to come here and honor the occasion with their presence, and to enable all to confer together upon the present and fu ture of our imperilled country. It is also suggested and recommended that our friends from other States send delegations hereon this important occa sion, not to sit in convention, buttocheer and co-operate with these tried champi ons of libertj* from the South. By order of the Committee. FK. JORDAN, Chairman. Ludicrous Scenes til Serenades to Joluisonites in Philadelphia— A Happy People Ridiculing the Joliny Itehs. * Cheers for Geary Jiang in the Ears of the Traitors whom Geary Whipped. About 5 o'clok on Wednesday after noon a kind of impromptu meeting WHS organized on the Ninth street front of the Continental, which was kept up amid great confusion, for several hours. A band of music had gone around from ho tel to hotel, serenading the delegates to the Convention, and as everybody tho't that speeches would be made, a large and promiscuous audience assembled iu and about tiie Continental. Mr. Gtonte Frm ,is Train led(off in hi, uauai slffe He was followed by Wm. H. Miller. It was not until after they had spoken that the amusing scenes occurred. There was not the least disposition manifested to indulge in any overt act; the entire crowd seem! having a merry time. The Hon. George W. Curtis spoke for half an hour, amid calls for Mosbv, Jeff. a\ is and others of the defunct Confed eracy. On the question of the social of th , e negro, he spoke as follows: F " CITIZENS— I am opposed to the negro [Laughter, cheers, and cries of 'boo, boo/] if any man appears |£ ore you for suffrage, jusf look if one-half ins lace is black and the other half is anrtW' t bouts ''Bring out a candle and let s see yours!"— Laughter mingled with applause.] It is impossible to make the negro equal to the white man. [Cries of "we know it; tell us something new A Shouts —"How are you, Andersonville?" "Mosby! AYillandigham!" Tell us some thing about Jeff Davis.''] My friends, I was going to say—"[Three i cheers for the Dead Duck!" "Three groans for the Dead Dog!" "Three cheers for John AY. Forney!" "Three cheers for Thud. Stevens" "Three groans for Jeff' Davis!"] lam not in favor of ne gro equality. [Laughter, cheers and clap ping of hands.] But while I am not in favor of suffrage for the negro, I would : protect him. lam a friend to the negro. [Tremendous shouts of "Oh! oh! bully!"] j I am, I was going to say—[Go black your • face!" "You're a friend to the nigger!" ; Cries of " Oh. you are!" Cheers for almost everything loyal and I groans for all traitors drowned the speak | er's voice, and he finally retired. The next sjieaker was introduced as j Gen. Epsom, of Texas. As soon as the meeting heard this, such ejaculations came up from the mighty enthusiastic crowd: " Where did you get your com • mission from." "Who did you fight for?" Fellow Citizen*: The Southern States 1 are now reorganizing and preparing to ; come into the Union ; to acknowledge the Constitution and to hear true allegiance to the.Government. [Cries of "You had ;to do it —can't help yourself."] The ' speaker hesitated a moment, whereupon j some one in the crowd, with a sharp, shrill voice like a clarion, reiterated the cry, "What flag did you fight under?" — ! "What kind of a General are you?" shout icd another. [Roars of laughter, cheers i and groans.] We have come, fellow-citizens, from all i parts of the country. [Cries —"We didn't I ask you."] Wo have come to mingle with ; you, and shall it be said that an Ameri- I can citizen, in a free country —[Cries of | "Oh! oh! who made it free?" "Oh! gobag ! your head." Three cheers for Lincoln. — Three cheers for General Grant. Three j groans for the "Bread-and-Butfcer Bri ' gade." Roars of Laughter.] Fellow citizens—[criesof "How arc you j Johnny RelY?" f Laughter.' "Three cheers for General Geary!" They were given | with a tremendous shout] —Fellow citi zens: AVe arc from all parts of the coun | try. You certainly will not refuse to hear jme speak. Shall Igo home! [Here the ; speaker was again interrupted with tre { mendous shouts of " Yes?" "Go home! go home!" "We don't care about hear ing you!" " Bring out your next speak- j er?"] I General Epsom retired, and presently ' i another candidate for public favor essayed j to speak. We did not hear his name. The ! j meeting was quiet for a moment, and the j i speaker said : T am from Alabama. This is the first | time in my life that I have ever spoken ! | in Philadelphia. [Shouts, "What did you i | come for?" "Who are you?"] "Gentlemen," said the speaker. [Cries iof "AWre the Boys"—Three cheers for , the boys in blue"—"Three cheers for Gen i eral Geary!"] ! ■ _ The speaker now exhibited evidence of I losing his temper, and said something about "renegade Pennsylvanians." His voice was now drowned by several hund red joining in full chorus: " Down with the traitor, Up with tlie stars." While this song was being sung amid the most deafening cheers, in which it really seemed the entire assemblage of five thousand people joined, the speaker retired. At a little after ten, this singular and truly comical meeting was dispersed. A portion of the people then proceeded down Chestnut street, singing "John Brown," "Rally Round the Flag, Boys," Down with the Traitors, hurrah, boys, hurrah," I and cheering for Gen. J. AV. Geary, Thad j deus Stevens and Col. John AV. Forney. "VTOTICE. In All persons knowing themselves indebted to Samuel Barr, bv fees for pro eeedings in Orphans' Court, Recording Deeds, &e., are requested to call and set tle without further notice, with M. Hinev Register, Ac. aug±Mt' ' WANTED, A Small Tract of Land, 17TROM 5 to 15 acres, with or without J improvements—though the latter pre ferred—on the Juniata river, not more than six miles from Lewistown. State price per acre, cash, and address GEORGE P. MILLER, aug2_>-3t* Altoona. Claims for Bounty, Pensions.&c., T> ECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION 1 v bv the undersigned at his office op posite the Red Lion, Lewistown augoo-3 m T F MCCOY. PROPOSALS. 4 , , Will he received by the under signed for Ditching from 500 to 600 rods laying the Tile, and refilling the ditch' until Friday, 31st August. The work to be commenced immediately thereafter.— The tile will be delivered on the ground by the subscriber. aug22-2t JAS. M. MARTIN. Estate of Enoch Moyer, dee'd. V'OTICE is hereby given that Letters Administratimi on the estate of ENOCH MOVER, late of Granville township, Mifflin county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, residing in Deny township. All persons indebt ed to said estate are notified to make pay ment immediately, and those having claims against the same, will present them duly authenticated for settlement. . . .v. HENRY BOOK, l,u g— fit Administrator. T" E , SE f°*° QUARTERLY 1- Meeting for McVeytown Circuit, in connection with the reopening of Gruber Chapel, will be held in the above church to commence on Saturday, the first day of September, at 10 o'clock. The reopening sermon will be delivered by Rev. Thomas Barn hart, presiding elder of the district, on Sabath morning, at 10 o'clock. The public are invited to attend. JOHN 8. REED, 4 _ OWEN OWENS, I Com aug22 8. D. RAMBLER, J PLO W S. r PHK well known and desirable JAMI- A S 2?. p,ows a "d Points for sale bv aug22-4t. p j HOFFMAN. DR. JCHIT J. DAKLEIT. Practicing Physician, Belleville, Mifflin County, Pa. Dk. IMHLEN has been appointed an Examining ■ urgeop for Pensions. Soldiers requirini: exarn 'nation will find him at his office in Belleville. Belleville, August 1!2, 1866,-y TfYAniYATIO* of TE U HRRji ; The examinations of teachers fop ! the Schools of Mtfllirf county will lie'held t as follows; Gerry ami Granville, in Lewi*town ' Sat., Aug. 25th. ' Newton and Wayne, in Newton Ham. ilton, Thursday Aug. 30th. ' Oliver, McVe.vl'n and Bratton, in M O . Veytown, Aug. 31st. j Decatur, in Stroup's School Hoiwe I September Ist. ' i Menno, in Allenville, Sept. sth. Union, in Beliville, " 6th* Armagh, in Milroy, " 7th. Brown, in Reedsville, " Bth. Stragglers, or those who, from any j cause, fail to be present at these examina tions will please meet in the High School room, Lc\vistown,on Saturday, Sept. 22d~ No private examinations will* be ho!*d*ex , cept under very peculiar ciroutiistaixva j It is highly important that directors he ; present at the examinations, and it is ; hoped they will. The public are invited to attend. Examinations commence ! promptly at 9 o'clock. MARTIN MOHLER, aug.B. Co. Superintendent. LEWISTOWN ACADEMY. r OHIS INSTITUTION will lie opennl t September 17th, and it is the desire of the Principal to render it worthy of the patronage oft he community. Male pupils prepared for entrance into college. Par ticular attention paid to 13OOK-K P K P I N a by double entry. A record of attendance recitations and deportment will be kept daily, and furnished to the parent or guar dian as often as they may desire. Price of tuition as usual in institutions of thi* class. J. H. NOURSF, aula Princ'l Male and Female Dept. Farm for Sale, / iNE-HALF mile east of Lewistowu V / known as tlie Banks place. It con tains XSO ACRES, and will be sold together or divided to suit purchasers. For further particulars call on or address the subscriber, residing on the farm, au 15-31 DUTTON MADDEN. PUBLIC SALE 1 ATI ILL be sold at public sale, on the V t premises, on TUESDAY, August 28th, 1866, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the fo'lowing valuable farm, situated in Kishacoquillas valley, Brown township, about 5 miles west of Reedsville, adjoining lands of Si meon C. Yoder, C. K.Davis, Robert Cum mins, James Caley and others, contain ing EIGHTY-SIX ACRES. The above is all cleared except about six acres, which is well timbered, with a Bank Barn and a two-story plank fire proof painted DAVEL LI N G HOU SE, Oven House, Wood House, Dry House Hog Stable, Wagon Shed, Corn Barn,' &c*., a Well of excellent water near the door, and one of the best ORCHARDS in Kishacoquillas valley of the choicest of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Grapes, &c., &e. The farm is one of the most sirable as to quality and location in the Valley. A part of it has been newly lim ed, and new post and rail fences were put up on the premises. Further information can be had by ap plying to the undersigned. twß* JOSEPH W. BYLKR. BOV \TY ! J Important to Soldiers! By a recent act of Congress, all soldiers who serveu three years, or those who were discharged by reason of wounds re ceived in the service, and the WIDOW, MINOR CHILDREN' OR PARENTS, Of any such soldier who died in the service of the United States, or of disease or wounds contracted whilst in the ser \ ice, are entitled to an additional bounty of one hundred dollars. BY GIVING THIS MATTER YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION, And calling on, or writing to the un dersigned, these claims will secure prompt attention. Also, BACK PAY, PENSION, And all other kinds of claims against .State or National Government will re ceive a safe and speedy settlement JAMES M. SELLERS, aul-4t* £>4 South Fourth st., Phila. A TTENTION ! iTTFATIOY ! -la Soldiers ! Equalization of Bounties ! All Soldiers of 1861, '62 and 'O3 are entitled to an INCREASE OF COUNTY. Send on your discharges and you will re ceive a receipt for them by return mail. Apply in person or by letter to J. B. SPIESE, Att'y at Law, and Licensed Claim Agent. Third st., Harrisburg, Pa. * v. All letters answered on the same day they are received. auß-3t SEED WHEAT. I HAVE now on hand a variety of sam ples of Seed Wheat, selected in New ork by myself, which are worthy of the attention of Farmers, and which they are invited to call and examine, either at the Mill in Lewistown, or Warehouse at Reedsville. augl WALTER B. McATEE. SEED WHEAT FOR SALE!! A BNER THOMPSON is receiving la two car loads of Silver C hall'or Wee vil-proof Seed Wheat, raised in rhe Gen t-see valley, near Rochester. This wheat is recommended very highly iby practi cal farmers who have been raising it) 3B a hardy wirfter wheat, and not liable to freeze out. Samples of this and the Sol's wheat, a beautiful article of white, can be seen by calling at his warehouse at Reeds ville, where it can be obtained on liberal terms. augl-tseplO LETTERS remaining unclaimed in the Post Office at Lewis town, Pa., on the -Ist of August, IS6B. Amnion Alex. Harris Annie Auhner Henry Jones A B Raker Sophia* Killinger Mary Bates S D Kendal James ('outlier MeKean Kaufihian Adam Carter F E 2Kintzer Anna Daniels Disliue Mecledagh Carrie Davidson Mrs MaryOrt Mary Eckley Miss Kate Mache Kattie Esworthy Miss C L Pendagast M Frishmuth John Smith Emma Gazette Mrs P Withworth Path® Gearhart J Wellconi Annie Groover D. Wilson Mary aug 22. E. C. HAMILTON PM*