BSR C. T. ALEXANDER i Sob Ww FUREY. | [Editors "BELLEFONTE, May 8th, 18 Ww. W. Brown vs. Centre. County. The trial of this case at our last term of Court had been looked forward to with a great deal of interest, both by the friends of Brown, who were half disposed to believe his sevmingly carnest protestations that he was an honest man and not a defanlter, and also by the tax paying people who believed that the county had been egregiovsly swin dled by him out of a large amount of mon ey oped by the trial. . The County Auditors. who met last Jun uary for the purpose of settling the accounts . ns Treasurer of the Coun- of W. W. Brown ty. found htm indebted to the State for mon- ies colleeted and not paid over, in the sum | OF SZ 385,00. To offset this, and m Brown's favor, hey found that he had paid Centre county. and for which she was indebted to ; Deducinng te, him in the sum of $7.689 &2. this amount from what he owed the The trizt 1s now past and, m order that the people, who are all interested in this matter, may understand the true state of the case, we propose, as briefly as possi: le, to acquaint thom with a few facis as devdds tinted with as .nany hues as the rainbow it- scif. which, as you attempt to approach it. vanishes into vagor. S> with the defence — except the $1,496.96, which had vanished sometime previous into Brown’s pocket. To illustrate the nature of this remarkable defence, for such we must call it, we will eit2 one item. The Yaw allows the County Treasurer five per cent. upon all monies re- ccived, ard paid-out for county purposes.— It appeared in the evidence, that on the day of the Commissioners had made their note for $2000. payable at the Bank of Humes, McAllister. Hale, & Co., at 90 days. The note was discounted there at the rate of one per cent or twelve per cent. a year, When it'fell due, another note was given to lift it, and the discount paid again ; and thus it was kept up time after time for a year. Brown's wiley counsel claimed for him his five per cent. commission upon every re newal —four renewals in a year, and the note not paid, making twenty per cent. on the two thousand dollars of a debt against the county claimed by them for Brown. If this elaun had been allowed by the jury, the county would have been paying twelve per cent. to the Bank and twenty per cent. to Brown—in all thirty-two per cent. a year, that these $2000 would have cost the hard working people of this county, It was, however, very properly disallowed by the jury. who, at 7 o’dlock on Saturday evening. returned a verdict 'in favor of Brown and against the county in the sam of $5, 1 463 12. It wust be born in mind that his toccount with the Sta‘e was not adjusted in this suit, which remains just as it was vig: #12 335,00 Dedaet judement mm favor of Brown against the county, Which shows the amount of bis defaleation still to be, 5 463.12 6 871.88 The c unsd for the county we are con- strained to say, did their whole duty, and although justice was not attained as be it left a balance amainst him of 34 645,18. — j tween the tax paying people and their late This amount as it then stount of his d faleation. The laws of his Sa'e give unto the County Commissioners the right to appes within sixty days from the report of the Auditors to the Court of Common Pleas.—- The advent of the new Traasarer into office, soon brou ht to light many facts which did not appear to the Auditors. and which, upon a fair settlement would tend greatly to dis minish the amount of the indebiedness of the County to Broun, a d increase the | amount of his dcfaleation to the Siate. The | modest fact thus discovered was, that Brown Thad received fiom a numb roof collectors Targe uminunts of taxes fr which he had given his receipt but had neglected (or with an intention to defrand. we don't know which) to charge himsdlf with upon the books. The Auditors did their duty, of cour: ¢, and settled his account a recording to the hooks, knowirg nothing of the wones | thus reecived and not clarged. This fact soon being discovered however an appeal was taken to the Court of Common Pleas, and a trial reached on F.iday morning last. Centre county was represented at the council table by A, O. Furst and his brother Cline G Furst, of the Clinton county bar who opened the case for the county, and proceeded to show the amonnts of noney received by “honest Brown,” for which he ° . had not accounted, as foliows : Schoo! and Road tax on unseat ed lauds. and with which he bad rat charged himself. An order for the pavment of Cap tain Foster's military compa: ny, with which he had taken credit, but had not paid, Fwo orlers for discount on notes in bauk. which he had betore received eredii for in charging up the notes to the county, Money received from the county ta pay for the support of a lu. ratic at the {isane Asylum, ond which he had not paid over, 3 3972 Outstanding receipts upon the collector's books, for monics reecived on county tax for 61, bot not charged to himself in the Looks, and of course not settled by the Auditors, Quistanding reecipts for Siate taxes for 1861 on the Collees £1,008 21 1541.62 tors’ books unaccounted for, 406 06 Outstanding receipts for taxes in 1860 not charzed to himsell in the books, and not settled by the Auditors cither in their ve- port in 1860 nor in 1861, 1000.00 Making in all, £4220 18 Which should have been deduct- ed from the balance due him by the county. as sseertained by the Auditors, which would have left a balance due him from the county of only And made his defalcation to the State, F8.874 36 But as this was an issue, directed 10 as- certain the standing of accounts between $3,460 64 Brown and Centre county, the $496.96 of State tax received and unaccounted for, was stood, was the ruled out of evidence by the court, and the one thousand dollars of taxes received in 1860 and unaccounted for. was ruled out of evidence, because property belonging to the year 1860. and the time having gone by al- Jowed by law in which an appeal from the A report of the Auditors of that year could be taken, the report had become (inal and con- clusive, and the county was barred from setting that up as an offset to the indebted | ness of the county to Brown in the year | 1861. : O ] ‘Treasurer, it was not their fault. The in- { exorable rules of law which excluded evi idence of the outstanding recaps of 1860. and of the State tax of 1861 —unaccounted for —was the knot hole out of which Brown ard his wiley cou scl dragged the $1496, 96 right before the eyes of the people, who by their counsel, could do nothing but ob- ject and protest, as they were disabled by the law itzelf from patting forth their hand to stop the theft. From this sammary of “acts, we now ar- rive at the following result, viz : Centre county swindled clean birch ont of the $1,. 496 96. Brown's defaleation. (not including the $1 496 96) to the State, after deducting the jud:ment in his favor against the coun. ty, 86.871 88. Brown's bail are responsible for this amount, and, we understand. have been secured hy Brown by collaterals to the amount of $4,500, so that even they can't loase more than two or three thousand %n any event. Well might he have secured them, when $1 406,96 are so easily made, and when by so doing. he was released from a criminal prosecution after an indictment found by the Grand Jury, which was done. These are the facts in this case. so greatly misunderstood by the people, which we have endeavored to state fairly, s> that all may understand them. We may say ‘his, however, in conclusion, in Brown's favor, that the people have been actually swindled out of the $I.196 96, not because Brown was so wiley a thief, but be- cause the revenue laws of this State only give the Commissioners of the county sixty days in whith to appeal from the Auditor's Report, and which the Commissioners of 1860 did not do. Why they did not we cannot tell. It may have been because they did not know their duty. and it may have been | ecause they did not know there was any error in the report. —— eta HavrLeck AND McOLenuan.-—The New York Journal of Commerce has good author- ity for saying that a letter has been written by General Halleck to a member of his fam ly in that city, in which, with a soldier's avxiety for the giving of honor to whom honor is due, he ascribes the credit of the entire plan of movements at the West, and the successful combinations which have re sulted in the repossession, by the Union. of Missouri. Kentucky, and Tenneessee, to Major General McClellan. This handsome acknowledgement 1s creditable to both the distinguished Generals concerned. General flalleck takes nothing from his own title to the gratitude of the people by such a state~ ment. In all the qualities constituting a great military leader he has no superior — It is a subject of profound gratitude that the nation Las two such soldiers as Gens. McClellan and Halleck, men who are above ail political intrigues, in an age when politi- cal connections seem to deter.nine the fate of personal reputations, and who do their work with steadfast devotion to duty, heed less of the attacks of faction or the criticisms f popular leaders. A short time ago, Gen. Halleck was. by a radical paper, denominat- ed “this upstart Halleck.” was a blessing to the Union, and if General Mis upstarting Ic Clellan planned the Western campaign, to Halleck is due the equal praise of cxcent- ing it. No soldier wishes honor which does not belong to him, nor is any true soldier © nvious of the reputation of a brother in arms. There is much of the secret history or the war to be written when it shall be Thus these two items, amounting to §1, ! ended, and in calmer times of reflection the 496 90, being ruled out of evidence, they are | country will remember with praise those a clean loss to Centre county, and a clear | Generals who, throughout the whale, shall gain to W. W. Brown, because not being | have kept themselves free from all political able to recover them against him in this | connections with any party. and who shall suit, the county can ncither hold him nor | | his bail. Thus the cause on behalf of the county closed, having proven, however, beyond dis- 1ave pursued the plain path of duty for sol- diers of the Umon. C—O eee To Be Mawriep, —The brave Union sol pate, and cfter deducting the two last items | dice who carried captive the hart of a beau, ruled out by the court, the sum of $2722 | tiful and wealthy heiress at Richmond. and 22 of monies received by Brown, and not ac- | counted fur, | is soon to be married to her, is Sergt, Moul | ton, of New Haven, ot the 3d regiment. — | Lie wag taken prisoner at Bull Run, sent to Brown's connsel— and they were legion — | Richwond and attracted the notice of the and we may here mention their names, viz : | Yung lady, who supplied t he object of her 2 r a.) . | affecty ith clothing, | i Swope, of the Clearticld Bar, MoAilister, ey foliation, ee Dondy, Blanchard Durham, Wilson and Hale, com. eloped from the rebel capital in order to maneed their defence--a novel ane indeed-— | share his fortunes. The Terrible Hive of Wars It is difficult to conceive what fearful hav- oc the custom of war has made of huwan life. Some of its incidental ravages seem to defy belief. Tt has,-at times, enurdlv de populated immense distriets. In modern, as well as ancient times, larg: tracts have been left so utterly desolate that one might’ ‘pass from village to viiltge, even from city to city, without finding a solitary inhabi- tant. The war of 1750, wag: d in the heart Europe, left. in one instance, no less than twenty contiguous villages without a single man or beast. The thirty years’ war, in the seventeenth century. reduced the popu- lation of Germany trom 12 000.000 to 3.000- 000—three fourths ; and that of Wirtem- burg from 500 000 to 48.000 —more than nine tenths | Thirty villages destroyed ; in many others the population entirely died out ; and 'n districts once studded with towns and ciiies, there sprang up immense forests. Look at the havoc of seizes; in that of Londonderry 12 000 soldiers. besides a vast number of inhabitants 5 in that of Paris. in the seventeenth century. 30 000 vie ims of were hungr 3 mn that of Malphiquet, 34 000 soldiers alone 1 in that of Ismail 40.- 000 5 of Vienna 700.000 ; of Ostand 120 000 Mexico. 150 000 ; of Acre, 300 000 ; of Carthuge, 700,000 ; of Jerusalen, 1.00, 000 ? Mark the slaughter of single battles —at Tepanta, 25.000: at Anstraliiz 50,000 at Eylau. 60.000 ; at Waterloo and Quaria Bras, ene engagement in fact 100 000 ; at Borodine at Fontenny. 100 000; at Arbdla. 300.000 ; at Chalons, 300,000 of Attilla’s army along : 400,000 Usipetes slain by Ju- lius Cgesar in due vattle ; and 430 000 Ger aus in another. Take ouly two cases. The army of Xo xes says Ur. Dick. must have an ounted to 5 288 320 ; and if the aitendants were only one third as great as common at the present time in eastern countries, the sum total must have reached nearly 6.000 000. Yet, m one year this vast mulitude was reduced. though not enurely by death, to 300 000 fighting men ; and of these only 8 000 escaped de- struction. Jenhiz Kihn, the terrible rava- ger of Asia in the (thirteenth century, shot 90,000 on the plains of Nessa, and massa cred 200,000 at the storming of Charaism. In the Herat district. he butchered 1,600, 000 ; and in two cities, with her dependen cies, 1,700 000, During the last 27 years of his long reizn, he is said to have massa~ cred more than half a million every year; and in the first fourteen years, he is sup- posed. by Chinese historians, to have de stroyed not less than 18 000,000 : a sum total of 32,000,000 in forty one years! To any view, what a fell destroyer is war | Napoleon's wars sacrifice: d some 6 000 000 ; and all the wars consequent on the French revolution, some nine or ten millions. The Spania ds are saia to have destroyed. in 42 years, more than 12.000.000 of Awmerican Indians Grecian wars sasnified 15 00.000 : Jewish wars. 25 000 000 ; the wars of the twelve Ciesars, 30 000.000 ; wm all the wars of the .vmans before Juhns Cwsar. 60,- 000,000 ; th: wars of the Roman Empire. of | the Saracens. and the Turks. 60 000 000 each : those of the Taars. 80 000 000 ; those of Africa. 100,0000 000! «If we take into consideration.” says the learned Dr. Dik, *the number not only of those who have fallen in battle, but of those who have perished through the natural c nsequences of war, we will not. perhaps, be over rating the destruction of haman life, if we are to affi-m that one teuth of the human race has been destroyed by the ravazes of war ; and according to the estimate. more than 14, 000 000,000 of hawman beings have been slaughtered m war since the beginmng of tae world.” Edmund Burke went sull furs ther, and reckoned the sum total of its 1av ages, from the first, at no less than 35 000,- 400,000. eee) BP Br me How We were Surprised at Pittsburg. A Chaplain of an lllinois regiment sta- tioned at Paducah, in mixing and convers- ing with the inhabitants of that place, who almost unanimously side with the rebellion, discovered several davs before the battle of Siitloh that an attack in force was about to be made by Johoston and Beauregard upon our army The Secessionists at Paducah asserted that the rebel army at Corinth was rapidly being augmented to a force 150.000 strong ; that thie plan of the rebel leaders. as avowed in camp and wale known to their friends abroad, was to make a sudden and tremend- ous attack upon (zen. Grant and annihilate his army. The information gamed by the Chaplain, was so evidently reliable, and made such an mmpression upon his mind, that ne eft his post and went to Pittsburg Landing. to lay the matter befure Gen. Grant. and urge him to make vstant preparation wo meet the at tack which he was confident would take | place. He reached Pittshury on Friday, the 4th inst. and sought an anterview with Gen. Grant. It was a most unsatistactory one, ~~ After giving the information that had made him so anxious and uneasy, the commanding offi cer, instead of exhibiting the interest in it that had been expected, dismissed the Chap- lain with the remark tnat he ought to be ars rested for leaving his post without orders. Disappointed in his interview at head- qa rters, the Chaplain sought the quarters of the division commanders, but found none of them at home except Gen. Prenuss. To Gen. Prentiss he revealed the object of his visit, stated th information apon which he, based his conviction of an impending attack, declared with emphasis that “the enemy would be upon us within forty eight hours,” and urged the vital nnportance of prepara- tion to meet him Bat General Prentiss hardly listened to him with patience, and repeated General Grant's rebuse that he ought to be arrested for leaving his post without orders. Gen. Prentiss admitted that every thing was in confusion, and that the army was in no son dition for an attack ; but when the Chap lain suggested that some-thing might be done to place the camps in readiness. he d smissed the subject with the remark, ‘Lei them come, we can whip them any- how.” On Sunday morning following the Chap laiv, who had slept on une of the transports at the Landing, rose up with the subject still pressing heavily upon his’ mind. He felt confident that the attack would take place that day. All was quiet at the Land- ing, but when he ascended. the bluff, and started to the front of our Ines, alout three mules distant, he heard, for the first time, the roaring sound of the enemy's’ guns, and shortly afterwards, saw the first lot of wounded soldiers borne past him. In a few hours the vicums were bronght in bv hun- dreds. and laid upon the shore and upon the unladen vessels which had not been pre pared to receive them. : The medical and hospital department was in the same confusion and disorder ‘ha: characterized everything else ; and the few surgeons that made their appearance upon the boats, though laboring till they fell down with fatigue, seemed scarcely to make a beginning of the herculean work before them —St. Louis News. (* The editor of the San Antonio Ledger complains of having been ‘picked up.” - Probably, if he hadn’t been, he would have perished where be lay. | The police recently closed PEN, PASTE & .CISSORS. IZ" Pleasant but cool-- The westher. I7Coming —T he gel-lorious Fourth. 177 Look well— The grain iiclds. 0Z7At band -@orn planting time. JZ Read the new advertisements. [Gone to Jersey Shore—Our friend Cassiday. 17 Handzome —The B.llefonte girls.— So says cur Sian 2 I77It seems singular that the fierce flame in the bosoms of some of our charm- ing Rebel women does not set their cotton on fire, — Prentice. Z=Gen. Ord, 1t is stated, is to be pro moted toa Major Generalship, and will probably succed Gen. M’Call in command of the Pennsylvania reserves. 07 After the battle of Shiloh, a man could have walked half a mile by stepping from ove dead body to another,” The dead were as thick as graves in a fashionable ~emetry. IZA person wrote from here to the Cleveland Herald last week hat Louisville was the dirtie st eity he ever saw. He shoud have added that he himsell was the dirtiest fellow in it. —- Prentice. 1t requires little acquaintance with the heart. to know that woman's first wish 1s to be handsome. and that conscquently the readiest method of obtaining her kindness 1s to praise her beauty. TA gentieman lately heard a laborer gravely inform two comrades that a seventy four pounder is a cannon that sends a pound ball exactly seveutv four miles. [IZ The Mobile Register responds to the call upon the people to bring forward their brass to be moulded into cannon. It thinks the lawyers and members of Congress now bave a chance o relieve the wants of the Confederacy from their large store of that article. Prentice. 177 The Rebels have made a great many infernal machines that won't explode. Their rebellion is an infernal machine that will. —~ Prentice. [77Curtis has driven Price oat of Misso- uri and is driving hin out of Arkansas — ‘ No blame is attached to the driver. —Pren- tice. : IAs there can’t well be too much of a good thing. pretty rebel women shon'd be pressed and re-pressed:— Prentice. 17 The terms of the Watchman hereaf ter will be one Dollar and fifty cents in ad | vance. No new subscriptions will ‘be re- ceived except upon these terms. TZ78omeboly who writes more trathfully than poetically says» * An.angel now a days. without money is not thought so much of as a devil with a bag full of guineas.” 1=They have a pig in Hamshire so thor oughly educated that he has taken to music. They regulate his tune by twisting his tail ~—the greater the twist the higher the note IZ An Irish juize said, when address inz a prisoner, *¢ Yon are to be hanged and I hope it will prove a warning to you.” 77 lhe New Orleans Delta contains an advertisiment for round steel rods and la dies worn out steel hoops, The Rebels find that lightning had struck them so frequent ly they are going into the manufacture of lightning 10ds for their deferce.—Pren tice. 174 correspondent of the Jackson Miss issippian prowises to take the stump to raise volunteers if his friends will find him a horse. Certainly if he does tak: the stump, his friends will find him an ass.—Pren~ tice I" Reports say tha! the Russian govern- ment has objected to receive ex-Secretary Cameronas L. S minister to its court. — The Czar is probably afraid sucha resident would teach his officials some lessions that would be detrimental to the financial vauolis of the empire. I77Building a Picture car—J. S. Barnhart is building a picture car, on the hill by the Court House. Smith is about ‘0 resume his old business. Hope he may find it more profitable than editing a newspaper. 0Z7In clover-—Our friend Kurtz of the Central Press has been elested Chief Bur- gess, of Bellefonte. We congratulate onr cotemporary on his newly acquired honors, and hope he will wear them with becoming modesty. Really editors are coming up. IZ7Mr. Charles A. Dana the managing editor of the New York Tribune has ceased his connection with that paper. 077 The Anstrians have an odd way of increasing the circulation of newspapers. — twenty seven coffee houses in Venice because they refua sed to take the Verona Gazette. T7An army of 600000 men. eat 600 tans of provisions. and drink 1.200 hogs heads of water per day. T7Prentice says + We shouldnt wonder if. wherever rebels against the con. stitution, such ag Wendell Phlillps. make appointments to lectare. the patriotic hens there commenced laying rotten eggs a week beforehand. 17> Thurlow Weed, in a recent letter from Europe, says that the persistence of our volunteers mn facing batteries and storming redounts, under fire has won the commen dation of veteran wil ary officers’in Europe who look for no sach results in raw volun- teers. It is stated that Mr. Archibald Gracie, who figured conspicuously, a while ago, in anti secession excitement at 1 zabeth town, N. J., has turned up as a major in the Eleventh Alabama regiment. [eis said to be a relative of Gen. Scott. Oy With mortar, paxian and petard, We tender old Abe our Beauregard. These lines wer: gotten up by newspa per wags on the occasion of the surrender of Fort Sumpter. The Kentucky Banner, gives a retort which 1s good, though we have waited long for it: With Rebels all routed and flying in fear, We tender Jeft Davis our Foote to nis rear. 77 A weather beaten veteran in the ser. vice of General Alcohol, crawled in before the fire in a public house in this town last week and seating himself began to cough tremendously. «+ Mister,” got a cold.” Have I!" said the other, “ pon my hon- or, Pm glad of it. ['m so wretched poor it's a consolation to get anything.” 1770n a tombstone near San Diego Cali fornia. the ius>ription reads thus: ++ This yere is sakrid to ‘he memry of William Henry Sharaken. who caim to his death by bein shot "y a Oolt’s revolver one of the old kind brass mounted and of such is the kingdom oi heaven.” 177Dr. Johnson, traveling in the North of Scotland, could uot see a house or tree 10 riding a great many miles, nothing but desolation and barrenness every where pro- senting themselves to his view, till at last he cast his eyes on a crow that was perched on the stump ofan old tree, chawing with violence for the want of food, which the Doctor observing, could not help crying out, ** Caw. caw, and be d—d to you, if you Tq 1, saysa by stander, ¢ you've stay in such a country as this you oaght to starve.” Yorktown Evacuated! DESPATCH FROM GEN. McCLKLLAN. Occupation of York'own and Gloucester pont - The Cavalry and Flying Artillery in Pursuit — The Gun boats in York riv- er Transporting Troops. HEAD QUARTERS ARMY ov Toe Potomac May 4-9 o'clock, A M. Jo the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War : — - We have the enemy's ramparts, their guns ammunition, camp equipages, &:, an hold the entire line of his works, which the engin ers report as being very strong. I have thrown all my -avalry and horse artillery in pursuit, supporied by iufantry, I move Gen. 'ranklin’s Division, and as much more as [ can by water. up to West Point to day. No time shall be lost. Our gun boats have gone vp York River. T omitted to state that Gloucest:ris also in our possesion. [shall follow the enemy to the wall. (Signed) G.B Mc(LELLAN, Major General. Yorktow:: Evacuated by the Rebels. The United States Troops Now in Possess won ~A Large Number of Cannon, and Larze Quantities of Camp Equipage Cap tur ed Fortress Monroe, May 4, —Y rktown was evacuated by the Rebels last night, and our troops now occupy the enemy’s works. A large amount of camp equipage and guns. which they could not destroy, for fear of being seen, were left behind. Despatch From Gen. Wool. ForTrE