9 f—• JSWF j&KE {JINTRE StEPORTER. nuts.cmiTx MUor Centre Hall. P*>, June H>. TERMS.— The RsroKTtK is published weeklv At S3 Pr vear, In advance. or S3,SO •when not paid in advance. Forsixmonth* half these rate*. Advertisement* fI.RO per square (ten linee) for three In*rton. Advertisements for 3, 6 *nd 13 month*, at reduced rate*. Any Wrraon tending u the name* of mx new suVwcribesr, with the oath will re ceive the BsFOWTX* one year free INIQUITY AT WASHINGTON A correspondent of the Sun draws a picture of tho shame heaped upon the country by high officials at Wash ington, who disgrace the natiou by the licentiousness they introduce into the departments, where females of doubt ful character are employed as clcrka and who owe their appointments to tho influence of i*enatora and congress men, whose mistresses they are. These are facts which all decent people should consider and denounce. This correspondent says many excellent ladies whom misfortune ha* overtaken accomplished, capable, and worthy to appear in any circle, art? earning their bread by what may be called hard labor in the departments. Others equally respectable, the ohildreu or wives of gallant soldiers who fell in battle and others agaiu no less meri torious maintain themselves in the same way. For certain duties they arebetter fitted than men and are worse paid. These classes have lost no es teem by the adversity which he* com pelled them to seek this mode cf sup port at some cost of pride and former associations. But an element has been brought in among these worthy women which is an outrage upon them, a disgrace to the public service, and a glariag scan dal seen of all men. It is notorious that Senators, Representatives, and officials have imposed upon the de partments loose characters who are utterly unfit for such employment aud unworthy to mingle with the ladies who are contaminated and insulted by their presence. There is no use of mincing phrases about a (palpable fact or attempting to extenuate it un der the cover of mistakes accidentally made. Members of Congress have pensioned their mistresses by scores on the treasury and the same thing is true of many of the more important officers in the departments through whose agency appointments are made. If the instances were rare some ex cuse might be pleaded, but when the proof that this evil has taken large proportions and demoralized every de partment, then it demands public crit icism. The truth if fully told would astound the country, not only as to those who are most responsible for its spread, among whom figure a large number of the Christian statesmen. Notorious women occupy places of trust in many of the offices the heads of which aspire to moral position and figure as churchmen. Others lea known but equally criminal are scat tered through the bureaus.by the in fluence of their "friends" in Congreer or the favor of other* having the ear of power. THE LANDLORDS IN COUNCIL. We noticed, in last weeks Reporter, a meeting of landlords at Tyrone. The Altoona Tribune, of 4th inst., furnishes further particular* as follows: 'A meeting of landlords representing the counties of Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, .Clearfield, and possi bly one or two others, was held at Ty rone, in the Ward House, on Monday. Mr. W. W. Coleman, of Lewistown, was elected President, and Mr. John F. Miller, of Huntingdon, Vice Presi dent. The fact that no official report of the proceedings had at the meeting was sent us for publication is prima facie evidence that the bonifaces did their work without the assistance of a Secretary. We learn from outside sources, however, that about a dozen landlords were in attendance. The counties named are all embrac ed within the limits of the workings of the law commonly known as "local option," or in other words, the anti-li cense law, and the prime object of the meeting was to devise ways and means by which to make good the losses dai ly entailed upon the landlords by the recent absolute abatement of the wbis ky traffic. It was proposed that a uniform advance in the price of board ing be made, with a corresponding increase for transient custom ; but, af ter consideration, the question was laid over for the present. Another object of this guild is understood to be undying hostility to any and all candidates who may run for office ou the local option platform, or who is understood to be a local option man. — This is the third meeting which has been held by this association." As. all the above counties went heavily for local option, the landlords must develope remarkable tactics — better than last spring—if they wish to reverse the decision given at the polls at the late spring elections, and as it seems they desire to carry the question into politics, which party do they intend shall espouse their cause per te t * —The Constitutional Convention on Friday, defeated section thirty-six of the article on legislation by a vote of 44 yeas to 60 nays. The section re jected reads as follows : SECTION 36. The sale of intoxicating liquors or mixtures containing the same for use as a beverage shall here after be prohibited. The Legislature shall within one year from the adop tion of the Constitutltion enact laws with adequate penalties forthe enforce ment of this provision. A Missouri girl washed all day, made a supper off twelve boiled eggs, and then danced'ull night. The in neral procession was nearly a mile "The Coolies Again."—"Pig-tailed ohnnv." —/km, IfslMmod. ■ j "Chinese Labor."— llrmcn'* llepub- I COM. lu the last week's Pern. Watchman ,nd Brown's Republican, we find n cague formed by those editor* to de- j •spitate the poor Coolie* that are' 'oming to this country — and we have jiveu the caption of each editor's ar- j icle, aud like Brown, we inquire, 'What doe* it mean ?" They run nearly the same language of denun ciation, aud declare war oftenaive and ilclensive against the "uaty coolie-." This is u little oiuiuou* in these politi cal antipodes. Brown becomes in fatuated with an itinerant howler, named Fairbanks, who mounted a box at "Strychnine" cotuer,aud howl ed for "well-paid labor aud opposed Chinese labor," and informs his read ers iu his local columns that "men are workiug for $1 50 per day, a! the ear works—working in mud and water at that." //a* Bvllefoute imported Coolies to work at the car works at $1 50 instead of 13 25? if so, uo won der the Watchiuau aud Republican have got their dander up. But ths Watchman, in this, as in every thing else, goes a step farther than ths Re publican, "is for cuttiug the Coolie's pig-tail" off, aud not "letting his corpse be sent back to his native home for burial and thus stop the immigration." Thi* humaue method will fail, unless the "cuttiug off" is carried farther on. As for Brown, he would not give the true reason for the radical increase iu population and its object. He sup ports the negro naturaliiatiou law to be found in the 15th amendment, aud adopted by the radicals. But the Watchman, cute in most things, has not a wotd to say about the descen dants of Ham, more ignorant, filthy, and debased than ever the Chinese were or ate, and who choose to steal rather than work or learn auy mechan ical trade ; the "cutting off a pig tail," or any other tail, will not help the matter—the radicals have takeu care of that in the 15th amendment, which declares, "The rights of citizens of the United States to tvte shall not be deuied or abridged by the United States or by any State, on accouut of row, color, or previous condition of servitude." The Chinamen are safe under this amendment.anditisallfor Buncombe to look to the legislature or congress to repeal the conetituiiou —all offi cials must swear to support the con stitution of the United Slates, and if the Watchman and Republican are tired of Coolies, let them advocate the striking out of the 15th amend ment in the manner pointed out by the Constitution—the only way to get clear of the Coolies. But the radi cals will not do that. The Philadelphie Age, of 12ib, gives a glowing account of the work ings of Denver A Rio Grand Narrow Gauge railroad of which over 100 miles have been iu successful opera ; tion for some; time as the subject of narrow gauge may be of some little iu j terest to some readers in these parts, jwe make the following extract from j th; article of the Age. The road has a gauge of three feet instead of four feet eight and a half inches, and from this cause there has been a saving of thirty-seven and a half per cent, in the first cost of con st ruction, a most important item to the stockholders. A narrow gauge I road will do all the bus ness required, and at the same time return a larger per cent, of profit per mile than a broad gauge road. In April, 1873, the expenses of a business at the rate of about $4,000 per mile per annum, was about fifty per cent, of the earn ing* which with ordinary labor at two dollars per day, all skilled labor very high, supplies coetly because of the re moteness from Eastern markets gradi ents seventy-five feet per mile, curves six degrees per hundred feet, a new road bed and small total business, must be considered as satisfactory. Duringthe first jearafter its opening the expenses on the Kansas Pacific Railway were seventy-nine and a half percent. ofiU groas earnings. The rates charged by the company are a. bout the same as thoae in use on most of the Denver Pacific. At these rates it is believed the present rolling stock is capable of earning a yearly revenue of $756,000 on the main line of one hundred and eighteen miles, which in • crease will give a great reduction in the petceotage of expenses. How cautious one should be in playing a trick or joke, and the seri ous results that often follow, it again witnessed by the following : A man named Anderson, living in DeKalb county, while lying at night to fright en the tenant on his brother's farm, was shot and killed by his brother. The brother is frantic with grief- The Supreme Court at Washington has just rendered a decision upon a question under the Confiscation Act not heretofore tried. A lawyer oftbis District joined the Rebellion early in the war. His property was confisca ted and sold for 920,000. Upon his return, the person who had purchas ed it paid the former owner 910,000 additional and received a deed in fee simple. A short time since the first owner died and his heirs brought suit to recover the property holding that the Confiscation act deprived the first owner of all legal right to the property during bis life and conse quently he had no power to sell it or give a deed. The court held that the first owner bad a legal right during his life to dispose of the reversionary interest and consequently, the sale in the praept case was valid, and his heirs have no a i#j,rn upon the proper ty- Horrible Drunkard— Wife and Children Killed. Hamilton, Ontario June 12. —This morning a man ogiped Fields attempt ed to split open the bead of his wife with an axe. She escaped from the house' but not before receiving a cut which will probably prove fatal. Fields theu deliberately cut the throats of his two children aged three and five years. Fields bad been drinking hard for seme time. WAIT FOR TIIF. WAGON: < IN tU.t'HTBATION WO in II ivX*l lit It [/VMH the Sew York NUM.] T The Treasury Department in Wash- 1 itigioii keeps two wagons to carry its ' mails and other package* in thai cit v. One of these is a two-horse office wag on Rtid the other a one-horse mail wagon. Yet it appears from tho re port made by the Mtpci inteudent ot ' ths Treasury Building on February t 3, 1873, and published iu Houso Ex- ' ecu live Docuiueut No. 182, that "the care of horse* for mail and cflitv nag ous and repair* of wagons and har ness" tor this sauie department cost | the Government during the twelve months of the last fi-< a al year exactly , $11,687.46. A considerable portion of , this money was expended for icpaits, aud the accouut ot this expenditure from July 31, 1871, to June 20, 1872 is set forth in the following table, which we take from the same official • document: THK COST OK REPAIRING TWOI WAGON* 1871. July 31 -J. McUtrwvtA Bro, re pairing wagons svl H Aug. St—J. StcDsrnwl ,V Bro, re pairing wagon* 10 60 Oct "J—J. McDermot A Bro. re pairing wagon* 87 75 Nov. 1 J. McDermot A Bro, re pairing wagon* I*l (At Nov. '.V—J Mcl)riuot A Bro re pairing wagon* 173 'Jo Pec. 10— J. McDermot A Bro, re pairing wagon- 53 761 1872 Feb. 1 J. McDermot A Bro re pairing wagon* 70 00 Mar. 2—J. McDennot A Bro, re l*airing wagon* SDOOUi April. 1 J. McDermot A Bro,.re pairing wagons....- 22 00 April I—J. McDermot A Hro, re pairing wugous..... 17 W | Ap'l 29—J, McDermot A Bro, re pairing wag0n*.......-.... l"-8S25• May 31 -J, McDermot A ltro, re pairing wagon*.. 228 00 Jnne 28— J. McDermot A Bro, re pairing June 29—A. J. Joyce A Bro re pairing wagons.... 00 I*B Total . f2.CW.98 The repairs of harness for these two wagons also cost the neat little sum of 11,131.88, On one single day June 29, 1872 these repairs amounted to 1384.73 ; aud besides the repairs of the wagon specified iu the above table the Superintendent likewise reports that the Jrenairs of carriages— observe this is in addition to the two wagons —coet in that year 81,176 70. The two wagons above mentioned, which cost $2700 a year for repairs, are employed uot mora thau two hours a day in carrying light loads These loads are made up ot mail mat ter aud packages of little weight. All. the heavy freight of the Treasury De-i partment is otherwUe provided for. The coal and wood are delivered by the contractors. So are the stationery and blank books; aud the wagons of the Goverment Printing Office deliv er at the department all the blank forms and other printed matter that are required from that establishment. The express companies receive and de liver all their freight at the depart ment : and the local express compan ies are employed when heavy burdens have to be taVeu about the city. As the report of the Superintendent shows, there was paid out of the con tingent fund to private parties for hauling between July 1, 1871 and June 30, 1871 the sum of $1,295 74. This would seem to leave but little work to be done by the two wagons with their three horses and yet, as this official report declares they cost near ly 81,000 a month to keep ruuing and $225 a month for repairs alone ! Along with these pleasant expen ditures under this moiel and high toned Administration, a large stable is maintained at the Treasury Depart ment a little south of the main edifice and in this stable some twenty or thir ty horses belonging to the department but not employed for mail or office work'are kept at the public expense, under the oversight of a Buperiuten dent of Stables and an assistaut whose salaries are reported as amounting to $5,297 54 ,a year. In these stables with such competent and high-priced j care there are also from fifteen to tweu- j ty handsome carriage* trotting wag ons and the like ; and every fine after noon the heads of bureaux and favor ite clerks in the Secretary's office ap pear upon the avenue with supcrd turnouts thus provided. Of these, carrirges five are said to be set apart for the special use for the Commissio ner of Internal Revenue, his assistant, and his female private secretary.' The hostlers drivers and footmen whoi perform their part in this elegant dis-; play ar#duly borne on the rolls of J the Treasury Department and are paid as messengers and laborers ; alb of them of course beinjjj appointed by competitive examination under the latest and best rules of civil service l reform. Thus it is that wherever this Admin istration is toncbed with the scalpel of honest analysis flagrant corruption unblushing public robbery and reck less immorality are demonstrated. Such is Grantism such is the present choice of the once pure and noble Re publican party. JUSTICE BAFFLED OXCEXORE Mr. Edward 8. Stokes, " the gen tlemanly and popular murderer, " ia to have a new trial. If ever there was clear and unmistakeable mockery of justice, it is embodied in the pro ceedings of the New York judiciary with reference to tliia celebrated caae. Though the Court of Appeals which yesterday distinguished itself by grant ing the interesting prisoner another chance for his life were to present a string of technical reasons twice as long as that wMch it does present the public would still entertain this opin ion—and public estimate io matters so easily understood is usually very correct. The points assigned as the basis for the decision will no found in another column. They are trivial enough any one may perceive at a glance ; but when a man is drowning he will grasp readily at a straw and that Stokes grasped at and caughi singular to say has carried him at lean temporarily, out the shadow of Death CAPT. JACK'S DEFENSE. Doyle's Camp, Juno B—B p. in. — An interview between Gen- Davis.Capt Jack, and Schonckin has just termina ted. The Modoc Chief says that he was incited to his cruel warfare by Allfiff David Chief of the Klamaths. He also having killed Gen. Canby and laid the bUwtftn his boys. Schonchin told the same story. THE CABLISTS AOAIN DEFEATED. Bay onne, June 15. —It is reported that General has defeated the CarlisU under Do*o££array near Villarea. Three hundred i'nsUrgsiitt were killed and wounded and seven hundred taken prisoners. ' '(INSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ! I'hil*dlphia, June 0. The convention | net at hall past ulna o'clock this morning, j President Meredith in the chair. The president presented a communion lion from the Church of God relative to the sale ofinteiicaliiig liquor*, which was read and tabled. The convention then, on motion, pro ceeded to consider the article reported by I the committee on legislature. The first section, vesting the legislative power in a general assembly, to consist vf a senate and house of repre>cnlntiv, was agreed to. The second section, ptoviding for the • lection of members every two year*, and the filling of vacancies in either house, was adopted after several efforts to amend by making their election annual. The third and fourth sections, Axing the term of tcnater* at four years, were agreed to without debate The fifth section provides for the time w hen the general assembly shall meet, it being the first Tuesday ol January suc ceeding the adoption vf this constitution, and at iho sama hour on the firt Tuesday of January every two years thereafter, unlets convened by the governor, and was adopted. Section* six and seven were consolida ted and refer to the qualification* neces sary to eligibility for senator* and repre sentative*. and the section wa* agreed to. Sec. 8. No senator or representative •hall during (he time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil of fice under this commonwealth which shall have been created or the emoluments of which *hall have been increased during such time, and no merubar of congress or other person holding any office iexcept of attorney at law and in tha ruilitia) under the United States or thi* commonwealth •hall he a member of either house during his continuance in congress or in office Agreed to. The 'Jib aeoti in prohibits the election of any person to tha general oseutbly wh* ha* been convicted of bribery, perjury or any other infamous crime. Adopted. Sections 10 and II prescribe the oath of I office to be taken by the member* and the manner in which it is to be adminislerad, together with the penalties impending over those who shall decline to take the oath, or shall ba convicted of having sworn falsely. Agreed to. Sections 12, IS, 14, IS and HI provide for the compensation of members, and prohib it compensation for serricat as members of committee*; the duties of the lieuten ant governor ; fix the quorum at a major ity of each house, and leava it with each housa to determine it* own rule* ; and re quire that tha doors of each house and of committees of the whale shall ba opan, un less when the business is such (as should ! ba kept secret. Sections 17 and 18, that neither house shall, withaut the content of the other, adjourn for more than, three days ; and that members, except tor treason, felony, or violation of their oath of office, shall b# free Irons arrest during their attendance upon the sessions of the general assembly, were adopted. The third paragraph on the Legislature, was then adopted—ayes, 47 ; nays 28— and the substitute entire a* follows : The stat# shall be divided into fifty sanatorial district*, of compact and conti guauv territory, as equal in population as possible ; and each district shall be enti tled tv two or more member* by possessing a population exceeding on* senatorial ra tio and throe-fifths of a second ratio ; and no county or city shall b* entitled to mora than one-sixth of the whole number of members. The bouie of representative* shall con sist oi not less than 160 members, to be ap portioned and distributed to the different counties in proportion to the population on a ratio of 25,000 inhabitants to each member, except that no county shall have less than one member and tbe city of Philadelphia or any county baring an ex cess of tkrre-illhi of said ratio over one or more ratios sbnll be entitled to an addi tional member in case the number ol 150 members is not reached by the above ap portionment, and counties having the largest surplus over one or more ratio* shall be entitled to one additional member until the number of 150 members is ar rives! at. Ai toon as this constiluiioa i adopted the legislsture shall appertioa thu ut in accordance with the provisions of the two proceeding sections. Couatiea and tho city of Philadelphia entitled to more than one member shell be divided into tingle districts of compact and contiguous terri tory, as nearly in population as possible ; but no township or ward, except in tho city of Philadolpbia, shall be divided in the formation of a district: /Vonderf, Thatjin making such apportionment for the bouse of representative* in the year 1881, and every ten years thereafter, there shall be added ta '.he ratio flee hundred for each increase of seventy five thousand inhabitants. A Con I Mine Horror. KXPLOSION NKAK SHAMOKIN. Eight Dead Bodies Found. Shamokin, Pa., June 10.—Tliie afternoon an explosion occurred in the Henry Clay 'colliery, operated by tha Philadelphia ' and Reading coal and iron company, inepr this place- Tho colliery had not I been inspected for some lime, but was al ■ ways considered safe. Conrad Drumhetter, inside hast, went into the old working, on tha water level, when an explosion immediately followed, it is supposed, by fire damp being fired, which communicated with the airways from the water level into the slope below, whero the men worked. The men in this section of the coal re gion, not being accustomed to black damp, thought it was powder that had been set on fire. They remained in tho slope un til overcome with black damp, and start ing to come up mat a body of after damp and fall senselaas ar.d smothering. The moro stronger men menaged to get out and giving tho alarm the others followed, and upon reaching the top of tha slope fall, be ing overcome. John Hayes, outside bota, hearing the alarm, immediately went to their reacue, After proceeding about 600 yard* he fell face downward in a pool of water and was drowned. Knoch Magenski wa* f >und drowned by hi* aide. Up to ten o'clock p. m. tea dead rainera have been taken out. Many of the men came from the surrounding mine* to ren der aaaiatance. The expitemonl was intense, wives and children rushiug to the scene of the die aster finding husbands and brothersdoad or gasping for breath, while others were esgorly watching the arrival of friends on the slope wagons from below. ■ ANOTHER CIIANCE FOR LIFE STOCK ES (IHANTKO A NEW TRIAL. —THE REA SONS THEREFOR. 1 Albany June 10. —The Court of Appeals were unanimous in their o pinion granting Stokes a new trial. There are two opinion* written. The charge in held to be erroneou* on the point that the law preaume* murder from the fact of killing and call* on the prisoner to mitigate or justify. Also that there were errors in ex cluding the proof of the threats by the deceased to kill the prisoner also errors in permitting Mrs. J/orse to contradict Jennie Turner in a colla- Jteral matter i/ji/.cji was called out in the cross-examination ofdennie, name ly : As to whether she left ifrs. Morse against her wish and because the de tectives were said to be after her soon after itbe homicide. There were oth er points discussed but these are the principal ones, A MONSTIIOI'S CONFRBHION. JO-KHI AI.TZ, THK MUKDKKKB (>K TliKHClSflOllH liKINI'KK A Very lit mm keltic Document Writ ten t.v the Murderer—dStriying to Kxce) at * Criminal- A Study for the Meta|t)tyaieiaiia. t'srsxii.t., N. Y , June 7.—On the night of May 1, Huriiu.ii llolrher, a scissors ' grinder, of Albany, was murdareJ nrar 1 thi* city. About the loth ull , Joaaph 1 Walta aa* arretted, charged with the crime He 1* a tall, muscular youth of about ltd year*. He ha* lang, light hair, •light beard and whiskers of the saius color, and clear blue eye*. I'.e ha* been indicted by the tirand Jury, and hi* trial ba* been et ior the December term. The following i* a copy of the eonfe*ion, i written by himself: JOSKI*I! WALTZ TO TOE FL'BLIU. I llot'aK or BONUAOK, Day 23, 1878. Mr Daaa Or ran nan arn Ktetran ' FatKKna • 1 beg laava to hare *ome re conciliation with you in ordnr that you may no longer ha In any doubt of my truthfuli!#** in regard to the terrible, ■ hocking, and Infamous deeU that I wa* forced by *orne inyiteriou* power to da. You acre already informed a f the princi pal and mo*t important rauea of all thi* agitation; hut it wa* an iiupo**ibility for tne or any ena els* *to explain to you at that time, the minute, and at tba *aina time mo it indif pantible detail* Ona day in January laat ilsesmed to ma that thara wart a great many people on earth who war# constantly riaking tkair lift and raputation in swindling, robbing, and deeei* ing their fellow -creature*, fer various reaaon* and cau* t. Since that day it sweated to ma a* if something hhd pl-mtwd itself in my mind, that kept urg ing forward t< perform sen to grand, hero ic, ai d eaterpriaing fral, a hetber good or bad I cauld not lay. I triad to forget it, but it. wrat avar be fore use. 1 began to lo* inuoh interest in my daily occupation, and the great appe tite for learning, and knowleda a, and wis dom, which I had wa* slo lessened My mind em#d to be clear, and the main ob|eci to which it wa* turned vrus to some thing wholly out of the euremt'n court*. About two day* after thi* 1 ooul>l no long er do without causiog some COM motion or eicitement. That vary night of tba third day I began my first robbery I 1 arose from my had at abaul 1 o'clock, A. M. and went out of door*. It wa* warm, but very windy. I went to my room again, but could not think of going to bad ; 1 wanted very much to route up s<-methlng or somebody ; when suddenly the thought came to surprise and causa j trouble to tome one. I thought of going over to the house of my nearatt neighbor, I J as. 1). Goetchiu*. and throw large stone* at the door of hia house and window*; when another thought flashed aero** me,' to go to the toll gate, about half a mile off,' and do something oftbe kind there WALTZ'S riner nonnanv. 1 put < n my boot*, and started for the latter Jn all ba>te. A* I arrived near the place, 1 began U> lose much af my courage, etui sat down on a snowbank far soma time thinking. I was about to get up and go home, and leave all in peace, when I thought of the red schoel house a short distance further off; my courage re j turned, and 1 was thara in a few minutce. I entered a window at the east tide, and found tba stove red hot and the roam vary warm ; this frightened me, thinking there might ho some one dwelling in the school bouse. However, I entered at last, and what I did there you all know. 1 had just the same books at home, and could have no use for tkem. The reason that I took them was simply U>. rouse sad eacita the pupils and teacher. Seeing all remain quiet, I did tba asm* deed over again a short time after, this lime leaving a not# there containing re mark* such as threatening lb sir life, and using very profane language. Peace still continued, and I was not satisfied. This yearniug and tempting wa* incessant. • About a month afterward 1 started on | another burglarieu* expedition. This was the Jeffereon Sunday School. I entered it forcing open a blind on the south side, about 2 o'clock A M By this lima 1 be gan to feel eome sorrow for theve cruel acts, and began to rend some of lb* most pious and and best of the library books I had thus obtained by theft. They t were, indeed, very good books; and having read the first one through. 1 began to real ixe and parceiva my great wickedness. I was much comforted, and read several more with good result. But I could not feel easy. I next broke open and robbed tbe school house en the Athens road and tha one at Leeds. After that I wanted to repent, and was about to confaM my crimes to the Rev. Father O Driscoll and Mr. A. M. Dehorn, a CaUkill lawyer, when i saw the toliowing glowing notice, in the CaU kill Recorder, which was probably tb# reason that I lost all desire to make an open confession of my guilt, for it wee stated in such a singular and inciting man ner that it seemed to relieve me of my sorrow and distress and rouse up the old desire to do further mischief: "The tohoel house in Leeds was broken open on Tuesday night, and in the morn ing the contenu of the desks, the furni ture, maps, Ac-, were found piled pro miscuously on the floor. A letter was left stating tha determination to commit depredations—Mid .they bad commenced at the small school house on tb* Atheas toad (the ona that was burned last night) —and that they were on their way Wast, Ac. They claim to be in the service of Belial—and no doubt are right here." Aa a counter-irritant I then read tha fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth chapters of St. Matthew, and retired to my night's rait, much relieved of my uneasi ness ; but my great ains could aevar be hidden or dropped from my .mind, and a spark of this intense desire to perform seme unnatural exploit was still smoul deringjin my braina TitK HCIMOR OBINDia. About the last of April wa ware visited by an old friend ef ours from Albany, who went about sometimes In the spring as a scissors grinder. He was an honest, up right man, respected by all who knew him. We gladly invited him on this eve ning to supper, and that he could pace the night witli us. After supper we had kapt up a pleasant ai d dalightftil conversation with aacb other, as is usually the case with true friends that have not seen each ether for e long time ; and in thia way waa that tveuing passed. We ahoweJ our friend on a aefa, on which were placed tome quilts and blank eta fbr a covering. My parenta then re tired up ataira. I waa now the only one up, and sat down by the te'slp and read for about half an hour, whan I felt aleepy and waa about to enter my room, when suddenly I waa aroused from all sleepiness by this strong sensation in my mind to execute some uncommon or unnatural and inhuman juggle. The pewer waa much atronger and more sudden than I had ev er experienced it before. 1 wanted to re lieve myself of it, but I waa utterly help less. I began to become very hot, my ears were wringing, and my heart beat very loud and quick for a short time, and the hair on my head seemed to be stand ing upright. AM this lasted hardly a minute, when I began to become cool agaia, and everything wae very quiet. I took up a small Testament and began to read. I bad scarcely flaished the first verse when some violent and electric force swept past my face. It was like a flash of lightning, if it could have been directly before my eyes, and without any noise. I dropped toy arm gf.d book with a loud clap on the little table before me. J be gsn to shake and tremble In every limb. Clreat fear salted me for a little while, af ter which everything loomed .to rub iuto my|brini Imt a few tpomeuti 09 my bed f In great confusion. Then I went out of : doors, lamp in hand, and searched foranl aiour hatchet, and went hack into my j room I could think of nothing lu'j of arniKinu MMI OHK on THR UITO. I pretted my forehead against a |>ane of giat, thinking tha sudden cold would liaco *lllllO effect in producing a ditTorant rental ion, hut all In vain. I turned down' |tha lamp ♦try low, took up tha hatchet | and enterad tha room of my friend, tha J scissor* grinder, who was ileeping sound- I ly, 1 placed tha lamp on the floor direct ly below hit head. 1 then cautiously bant' , over him to tea in what position hit head . lay. I look tha hatchet and raitod it up : 1 to tha height of tha coiling J 1 wat about to turn away aud leave tha man in peace, when I wat again seised by the demon, and wat forced la raita tha hatchet and give the fatal blow; but it: termed at if the itrangth and force of the blow that I wat about to implant tn tba > haad f tl.a peaceful aleeper had all enter - ed into the handle af tha hatchet. I with r held the blow, louk up tha lamp aud r hatchet end want back to my own rvom, . greatly troubled in mind and spirit. I wat | t 'about to giva a loud tcream, but I had no i . strength far it. 1 sat thai* as helpless as a | - babe, when alt at once a painfttl thrill or ( t ttlng pierced my heart and brains and i t roused ma up like a tuattigc. I took the i lamp and hatchet up onee mora and en- 1 s tared the raom of tha sleeping man, plac- ( ing the lamp where I did before aad rais- , a ing the hatchet quickly, but my heart tailed me. My forehead became wet r widi perspiration and I stood there in de ! Uriuru twinging tha hatchet up and down r above the bead of the man, when at length 'i 1 struck the man on the forehead! but the d blow teemed to have no force at I dealt it ;•, lie breathed with a deep voice, and doubi - usg of its fatality I tlruok him twice with >r the cutting part of the hatchet, not know ing U r certain where I hit him, and tank | i- fainting and senseless on tha floor. Whan n consciousness returned and I beheld the b dire tcane, tha mangled body, the pool# b of blood, and (ha awful thought of mur f der, 1 tank bark again with a feeling of n pail) aid horror. I then wanted to go ofl >• and cast wytetf into a bottom I eat gulf and I. bury iny.elfoul of sight of tbe world - Wiih these thought. I walked back and r forth in tha r.vlo • coofuted or de i ranged manner for some time , then with a fierce and enar.rwtic perception in mind and body. I want to the diewsat room, look • up tha corpse, earn ed it out and imd it 1 down botida a low Uooe fence. I then K wrapped tha body in t.ka blanket, and laid P many imall flat stones *rou'd to conceal v ' it, lit pod a short prays r, aad Japarted U Mho house Thar# 1 began to ctaar off all K traces of blood, and to carry tbo boot?. ■ coat, hat, Ac., off ander tbe barn Thr * machine I alto carriod off and placed be ; hinJ a fence in tha buthee, and covered- up with brush and stones. I 'hen eni ( ' to bed. but in five minutes my paiwwUj came duwa, and began lhair w ">rk ati usual. I got up again, and went to the' 8 bam to help feed the stock, when father r atkad ma what it was ha heard soma lime' r in the night, as if soma one were gurgling r or breathing with something in the; 1 , throat I told bisn that 1 beard it, too, but that I could not account for it, and it wa* prob ably the babit of this man to do aomatbing of the kind, as ba told us tba previous evening of bia having a bad oold. And now lb* thought came to ma of my wicked lie and of having thus deceived my good, honest father The scissor grinder u mmii missed. aad we feuad faint traces of blood about the floor and on una of the blankets, whan mv pareat* became (rmtl; excited, and when (hay found (ha blanket*, quilt and pillow missing. (bay wara astonished be yond measure. Tbey looked at ma and found ma in equal lurpriw. They than thought that this bad man had ink an the qullu and made off with ikatn. Father want in aaarvh of him along the road to ward Athant, but ha could find no trace orreetigc. 11# had too much work to do to tpend any mora lima searching for him or the thing*. Father went to *e tlia constable. But all remained quiet, and I began ho think myself clear of all stupic ion. That night 1 began digging n grave in Micb n manner and on such a place that it would be impossible to find it again 1 car ried the corpse to it on a wheelbarrow. Having laid it carefully in and wrapped it in the blanket, 1 knelt at ike end ofthegrave and prayed for an hour and a half to God for the protection and repoee of the soul of toy friend whom 1 had thus caused to leave this world unprepared and without a last look or parting word to his bereaved and aifllcited wife, and children, and friends. This being dene I covered up the remains of my friend in great sorrow, in tbe name of tbe Father and of the Son and of the! Holy Ghost, and proceeded to the house in i t very broken-hearted condition. I then I : locked every thing up in a trunk and went up to tha barn again, took up the clothe* and carried them down the lot and hid' them. What I did then Ido not to this day know, for the sun was shining and 1 found myself sitting at the foot of the; grave if my departed friend. When the long and tedious day drew, close I wrote a letter by the influence of] the same visionary agent, and was as a*tor. \ ished, not a little, when I read it to mysalf. 1 1 then tried to copy it on a separate paper,! but when I had it finished I dropped to the floor with aloud ringing and sibilant sound in my head, where I must have been du ring the night, fbr in the morning I found tbe little table upeet against tbe bed and myself leaning against the door with a chair over me! When I endeavored to get up I could hardly bend a finger or limb, being m rigid and inflexible as death. Thus I lay helpless until the fiery thought returned to preform tbe grand imposing.. or majestic work, moral or tragic I Before j this thought every morbid feeling fled. My hands became rod as fire, and with ' some pain in straightening my arms and! back I arose. I fait after I hud killed the man that it was not the great deed I want ed to do, for I was greatly disgusted and terror-strickon and overcome with sorrow and greif for hav ing caused the untimely death of my friend I and had lost all thoughts and desires of ever doing so aw ful and terrible a thing! After this I pass ed many nights sitting on tbe grave, for ray sorrow became so great, (he burden of sins so heavy, and my wounded spirit so rest leas, that 1 did not know half the time what I was about. I often walked off a lit tle way, and then turned suddenly around and went back again to tho spot, and want ed to do something, but never could think what. In about two week* the scissor grinder's > wifo accompanied by a youth, came to our bouse to inquire for him. 1 hurried to ll.i barn ami hid qtyseil, for f could not ap pear before them in such a broken-hearted condition. The tallowing night when all was quiet, | took everything in my trunk which belonged to the lost man, and hid them at diverse places. The books, Ac., I placed in boxes, and buried them also. A day or two alter this the search began. The officers, D. P. Dennett, Charles Ernst, and others, find ing the floor and sofas stain ed with blood, immcidately suspected me of having killed the man. J wanted to "own up," and tell them the whole truth on the spot, but I had not the courage. I began to defend myself by telling dreadful lies, that gave me such a pain within that 1 came near fainting several times. From this lime I did nothing but lie to the high est offioer down to the truest friend. Oh I the dreadful sting my soul received as I sgain dsnied my guilt before the venerable Justice I My dear, innocont father was taken with me, for the first time iti all our life, into bondage. I requested of Sheriff D. P. denngtt and J. B. .Mooch the permls soin and liberty of going to the farm ac companied by my father, premising them that I would throw the full light into the I whole mystery, t>ut they coldly refuted tol do anylhinpr of tlc kind, lolling mn that' tuch a thing wa nut allowed. Afterward they lot mo go, but I revealed nothing at that limej but 1 hate now told you. my trieuda oflltia whole mournful event. Ana I ntn, by the grace ©f my heavenly Father, that I received through the mercy of Ilit ■only hrgotlon Hon, Our Lord and Hvivour J vu* Clirial,'prepared to die, and prepar ed to live in bieed peace. JoaxrH W*u. lll 1 ■ ... .■. GIVEN AWAY. A Fine Germtin Chromo. We ud an elegant Chromo, mount ed mid teady for framing, free U> ever* Agent for OK LIFE BELOW HIKHUKIACE' II r 77/O.V ll' A'.VO.Y. 'A'l I'sgos Octavo. ISO Fine Kngravitt g*. Itflute* Incident* and Accidents beyond lla Light >f Day; Htartiing Adventure* ■n all part* of the World ; Mine* and Mode Working Ibeut; Under-current* of Society. Gambling and it* llorron ; Cav erna and their M yticrios, The Dark Way* ! of Wit kcduna* ; l'rimii* and their Su ral*; Down in the Depth* of the Ben; Strange Ktories of the Detection of crime. The book treat* of experience with brigand*; nights in opium dent and gamb ling hells; lire in prison; Stories of exile* ; adventure* among Indians; journey* through bower* and Catacomb*, accident* in miiie* ; pirate* and pirucy; torture* of the inquisition ; wonderful burglaries ; un derworld of the great cities, etc.. etc. AGENTS WANTED for thi* work. Exclusive territory given. Agents can make slOti a week in sailing this book, bend for circular# and term* to agents. J. B BURBA HYDE. Hartford. Conn-, or Chicago. 111. NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! A. W GRAFF, CKNTBK HILL. CENTRE UO„ PA., Has jut received a large invoice of Spring Good# ! Consisting of the hast assortment of READY-MADE CLOTIHXG! DHKHS GOODS. UKOOERIEK, PRO VIRION*, BOOTS A SHOES, HATS* CAPE, AND FANCY ARTICLES, ever brought to Potter twp. Also, a large assurtiuent of C A It P UTS! LOWEST CASH PRICES! Produce taken in exchange at highest i market pries**. • A. W. C.KAPF i myH-ly. THE PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE. r' Next door to Wilson iV Hicka' Hani ef ware store. Allegheny St., BKLLEFOVTR, PA , 1 R. F. Rankin & Co.. ** I (Succesaofs to Linn A Wil*on.) i DEALERS 1* f] PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES. VCIIEMICALS. PAINTS, OILS, DYK • STUFFS, VARNISHitS, BRUSH v ES. FKKFUMKRY. NOTIONS, j AND FANCY ARTICLES FOR THE TOILET. Ac. i PUAEVOR2& yeVQM n 1 ® for medicinal purposes. r SHOULDER BRACES, r 1 'jTRUSSES A SUPPORTERS in great < variety] a Also, Choice 1 CIGARS AND TOBACCO, ' and .11 other articles usually hept in first class Drug Store. it. *i PRESCRIPTIONS CARKFU Y COMPOUNDED. I tf.liune R F RANKIN A CO. J J fj el t j BOSTON 0 Boot & Shoe Store! nl • A NEW ESTABLISHMENT i| 1 With New Goods & New Prices! i r ] Having determined to engage in buaiaae* Jat tbii place, we have opened up in ] Room SO. 5 BUSH'S ARCADE, ; BELLEFONTK, FA., ih itrgwt. . moat complete and cheapest a lock of ' mJ 1 BOOTP, SHOES, GAITEBS, SLIP PERS, AC.. : that has ever been opntied up in this part 1 of the State. At our store yon can find in' the Boot and Shoe line Anting Ton Want, from the finest boot to tbe cheapest aiip- 1 ! per, and wo know if you once call and; • j EXAMINE OUll STOCK AND PRICES. you will concede that it it to your interest to purchase from ua. , . HENELL AT It ON TON RATER < K'pal ring ,\cn|lj Done. ji 11. L BATCffKLLKR A CO. |< July 19tf. : < ;i j, NEW HARDARWE STORE MILLHEIM Pa. • W. J. McM anioal of Milroy ha* Start i ed a branch Store in Millheim where he # intends keeping a full line of Hard warn and Cutlery, IKON, HAILS, OILS, fAIXTB, varnish en, a ai.uu AHP Pt'TTT, f also a flill line of Wallpapers aud Borders The Store will be in the charge of hi elev- '. er and obliging clerk James Montgomery. 1 Centre County, Farmers, bfechanics I and others call and examine goods, and compare prices—Jim is a clever fellow and will do all in his power to accommo date vou. I ALSO: Do not forget THE OLD STAND AT MILROY, - where yon will always find a full Stock to select from and price* to Suit the times. Being very thankful for the patronage and many favor* shown me by my Centre county friends, I still solicit their patron age atiJ I will guarantee to give satisfac tion in every way—Goods will sold very olose for cash W J M'MANIGAL. Tebtf.tai. n. O. Itfixtvaxft. A. f. MCMXK * MILLHEIM MARBLE WORKS. New Firm—Ntw Koterprw. DF. WINGER A MVBSER, (Huccaaaora to B. O. Drixivckb) ji We would moat reaped fully inform th public, that they >.* v taken charge ofM thU old and mccaaaful eateblithment, and j 1 propoae to carry on the 'am* under re- 1 netted auapicea. They have on hand, and will make to order MONUMENTS, COUCHEk. TOMBS ft JIJfADb'fONJtB. of auy pouible doaign, and price. I We ue the beat grade* of marble— ITALIAN; CAIAIA, AmCBK AWSTATI ABr. . I , . flim.AiH*r,, and tay with perfect awurance, "Our work ia oar reference.'' Shop, (t-aii f Bridge, Mlllhelm. aprap.ly. j J. ZELLEB dr SON DRUGGISTS • 9 No 6 Hroekerhoff Row, Bellefonte.Pa lkealcrw In Uruga, ( hriaieal*, Trrfuinrr), Fancy << !• Ac., Ac. Ture Winea and Ldquen far medical purpoac* at way* kept. may tf. 72. |y r * WIUKII THOMA* A. MS-'K*. ! JJAKDWAUE STORE H Ui wrrjsoN & hicks, 0 Bellefont*, Pa., IS' 'V; (Suocmaor* 10 lawis a WILSON,,) > HtUipertfully i;i Turin the ciUaess of ft „ Cesitre mnd other counties, that liry * • < UAVU .n. f ik* largest And beet ee "$ L. 'looted.tuck o! Hardware to ba found. ** ; -I consisting of Iron, Steel. Nails, £ Uorw Shoes, A **U, Spring Wuoo J - skeins Attd Rosea, Complete Mock of < r|ieni'tr toots And builders bard- ft war*, lock*, oil*, paint*, glass, VAT- ®| 3 nube*. brush**, cut-umber pnmp* sod c J tubing. Lamp* nf all kind., seats*, *L ~ "Utlery, J; WOOl* AND WILLOW WARE. 3 ] |Pill line of taddlery and coach man iker* goods, rood work for buggies ,! .land a agon*, plough*, harrow*, culti -Jj valor* and grindstone*. L<,k.i.g, H < jg!*#e* and mirror nlate*. Picture ® -■frame* made to order. Thty al*o M J have Ike fc'obrated cook (tore, 9 SUSQUEHANNA, > f. ievcrjr one warranted to give parfeel* d f~ MtUlction. All kind* of parlor j ~ Movn, W are tk-u-ruui.i to eell • it!< 'at the loamt pri *a for rak, or on _ i j abort credit—not to exceed three ? -j month*. Call and eae ue. at we take ;plea*ur In ehvwfgg (rur good*. -% wiuo* alkou. 2 jmarlMf. Belief©*.to, Pa. Q "| | 1 (Hit dfc Flory'a New Shoe Store ! J AT CENTRE HALL < They have now opened, and will conntant- ] ,1 v keen on bend, a splendid dock of new SHOES, GAIT&RS, A SLIPPERS, for men. women and chiUJrca, from the b> t man u fan arte* in the country, and now of-' 1 fered at the Lowest Prices. BOOTBtb} SHOES made to order, upon K *hort notice Tbey invite the peepb- of thi* vicinity to givp tfifim a call, at they ! will atriTe to merit a *b*ie of their pat r-naga. mylOtf , ■\T BW PURHITURX STORE. An J 1 DOOM iiuv Uorraa BELLEFOHTE, PA. GEORGE O'BRYAN, Dealer in i fuaai yu H 2 OE ALL KINDS, IIEDSTE ADS, TA BLES, CHAIBK. Parlor and Chamber Seta, SOFAS, LOUNGES, 1 BUREAUS, WASHSTANDS, WA&SK )BES. XATT&XSSCa, Ac Particular Attention to Ordered Work. f i R ERA IHI NO DONE PROMPTL P. I\I)KHTAHI.\G, '•j ,1a Ail Its Branches, MKT A UC, I'ALXUT, ROSESTOOP, AMD •j COMMON CASKET*, - . Aiway* on Hand, and Funerals Attended With an Elegant Hearse. apkt IStoveslFirelStov's! At Andy KeesmanV, Centre Hall, re I latest and beat atovaa out, he baa just 1 receiv ed a large lot of Cook Stoves, the Pioneer Cook, the Eclipse Cook, the Reliance Cook. PARLORS-The Radiant Light, eelf-fee der, Oa* Burner, National Egg. | Jewell, Ac. •; t2W.Bc sell* stove* a* LOW a* anywhere in Mifß in or Centre CO. Xt TIN AND SHEETIRON WARE The undrrsignad hrrsby inform* the 1 cititen* of Ponn*Tlley that ne ha* pur chased the Tinshop heretofore carried on jby the C. H. Mf g Co., and will continue . i the same, eltho old stand, in all Its branch es, in tho manufacture of f STOVE PIPE dfc SPOUTIIfG. i All kinds of repairing done. Be has | always on hand Fruit Cans, of all Sitea, BUCKETS, cu£s, DIPPERS, DISHES, AC. All work warranted and charge*reason -1 able. A share of the public patronage so licited. AND. KEESMAN, 2*p?oy Centre Hall NewClothingStore A. STERNBERG, ongagod to manage for L L. Beiaens gn, ' in the comer building, opposite Holler'* I store, Bollefonte, has established a new Clothing Store where the best bargain* in < the county are offered. ( < $7.50 to sls for Suits of the fln- ! i est Cassimere. i HATB, CAPS I and a foil and complete assortment of ev erjr thing in the line of Clothing. Gent's Furnishing Goods alt directly from their own manufactory. Alto. Jewelry, Watches, Ac. They have engaged their old clerk, Mr. A. Sternberg, to well known to thepeople. and who will be pleased to see nis old friends. ap&tf. Piece goods of every d>cription, sold ! low to enable everybody to have his cloth ing made to order. CENTRE HALL HOTEL. ~ JOHN STAKQLKb, Proprietor. Stages arrive and depart daily, fpr all point*, north, aouth. east and wesL ADAM HILD, PAINTER, offers his service* to the citiaens of Mifflin Centre and adjoining counties, in House, Sign and Ornmenatal Pntntlng. GRAINING Oak, Walnut, Maple. Ash, vlahogony.Ac. Plain and Fancy Paperbanginy. Or ders respectfully solicited. AU &n work done for other painteri. j June 7 y. NEWD.SCOV^t Dr. OABnnH TAn I' *1 ■* Cure Inclpiriil < • i t •• itlru. Dr.€-AVlX*!l TAH I. "TIT* Cure man I*. Br.OAIIVW iTAU . .- Cmt X th .n a. Dr. OABVITI Tan I - -> Cera Heart DU '■ Dr. CJAIt • 2 "* "t •' • ..!! If Ca ttkltt t '♦ . Dr. UAUVHK T 1 t*t! I IDfE* " / Bcgut-ta tS tlvw. Dr.aami TAll riEMEDID lUyuUu tWßtmttarhn 1 ##wrl* Dr.CJAIIViXn TAIt UEIEWD Cure *ll Female Wcikss.-■*•**. Dr. (iiHVUnt TAB BEXBDIISB Purify tha Blood. Dr, OARVI!P9 TAB KEIEOIES Cur. P*uo• • •** 'ZTsrool. Dr.tiARVIFi TAB REIEBIW Cure BrourhilK gm Dr. OABVIXB TAB BEJIEME* cwHmtC •hC^arFw r Dr. OAB Vl*** TAB BEIEWBI , Cure I.aa Dt*eM - Dr. UAttVIFK T.UI IIF.IEDID fl Cure € inform* tha citiaeiis f C'r county, that he he* constantly nia SADDLERY, now offered at the oii *t*nJ Designed e- • peciallt for the people and the turn, tkf lar (eel and most varied and complete a->rt ment of Saddles, Harnces, Collar*. Bridle*, > of every description and quality; "Whip#, end in fact everything complete to a fir.t claa* astahllshmeat, he now offer* at price* * which will sort the times. J A COB DIKUEt*. Centre!!til Ttm-rFoff^Amri^arU. tl Collections promptly made and specie attention given to those having hind* oi property for sale. Will draw up and have acknowledged Deeds, Mortgages, Ac. Of ' Ice in tkg diamond, north side of th court house. Betl.fou ocegfl&tf HKXKT naocKKßHorr, j a au#*r President, Casl ier. OIXTRE COUNTY BANKING CC (Late Mil liken. Hoover A Co.) RECEIVE DEPOSITS, And Allow Interest, Discount Npte*. Buy and Bel Government Securities, Gold ana aplO'tttr £jotieon. < TAS. M'MANTIS. Attorney e U~ U ..unaptly attends to all be lapse entrusted to htm. julß,Cßtf DIM F. FOBTNKT, Attorney .7 T7v e Relfofonte, Pa. Office over Kev 1 ' H. X. It A I.LISTS*, JAMS* A. BKAYKR & sia an a rroßXKrs-A i-la w. Bwllefonte. Centre Co., Pena a. apGdtt JMO. H. oar la. at. AMDSSII O.RVIS A ALEXANDER, Attorneys-pt-law. Office inConrau House Bellefonte, Pa. J. *P. GXPHART, with Orris A Alexander, attends to collec tion* and practice in the Orphan'* Court favorite*hotel U now if every ' , one of the moat pleasant country hotels in central Pennsylvania. The traveling com munity will always find the beet accommo dation. Drovers can at all times he accom modated with stables and pasture for any numborof cattle or horse*. july3'6t