SKE S?ENTRE . '"O-CtjiaT* .............. Kditor. Centre Hall, Mar. F876 1 RRMS.— f2;>#r ytar, ot ndcant*, 2,it' eAsn not pnid tn adranor Adoeot\*rm*nt* 3KW* ptrlinr tor thrrf i-i --rsrfiaa*. and for&ttnd 12 month* A* nl eontraet. Win. A. Wallace was elected sr-xatori l delegate to tin democratic state ivn vontion. frxxnr Ibis senatorial district. The Now Hampshire election, last week, went radical by S,2x> majority. They evidently are not vet quite disgust ed with Grant, Rabovk, Belknap A Co.. tip there. It is rumored at Washington that Marsh will bo back sixoti from Canada, ami tx.tify on promise that he will not be prosecuted. The Senate passed the bill mlucing the president's salary to $25,000. \ci 2t>, Nays 20. The Commissioners of Bucks county are in trouble, the grand jury having disapproved oftheir financial statements and it is proposed to prosecute tbctn at the next term of court. If an investigating committee once takes Grant in hand for present-taking, it will be sure to fiud him guilty on any - thing from a corner lot up to a IKXX of ci gars or chaw of tobacco. Somewhere out west they Kmst of a rain of flesh. In Washington they have a great reign of corruption. The democratic state convention met at Lancaster, on Wednesday, of this week. In our next issue we w iil give its doings. We trust wise counsel# may prevail, and that the gixod of the state and party may be the sole aim of the representatives of the democracy. Joseph Jeukuis Roberts, ex-president of the I.iberian republic, died at Monro via on the 2-t of February. M'(lure'a Philadelphia Times has now entered its second year. New daily pa pers seldom pay during the first three or four years of their existence, but the Times became a success—an established institution—before it was one year old. This is almost unparalleled in the histo ry of daily journalism. The Times has been conducted in a manner to merit its success. Still closer. A gentleman has inform ed Mr. C'ymer's committee that he is willing to testify that a certain individ ual made personal application to the president for a post-tradership. The president gave hiui very little attention, whereupon the applicant told him that lie owned two of the finest Indian po nies that he ever saw and his intention was to present them to Mr. Grant's bovs, that the ponies were out at the trading post, and were subject to the president's orders. The man got the poet-trader ship ami the same day the president sent a despatch to the trading-post Jto have the ponies sen? in forthwith. If there is protection given to witnesses, and the administration does not shut their mouths by threats of prosecution, the day of nasty revelations will only havf commenced. isooy the defaulting state treasurer of of New Jersey was sentenced to confine ment in the State Prison for three years and until the costs of prosecution art paid. He wept bitterly on hearing the sentence. Xow pass up the next rascal and give him his dues, and so on until every scamp in the land gets his due. A Lancaster radical has come to grief. District Attorney John W. Johnson was arrested in Lancaster on the 13, and held for a hearing on a charge of issuing forg ed and fraudulent naturalization papers prior to the Gubernatorial election in IS?:!. Johnson was a member of the Re publican State central committee at that time. MORE IS FA MY. Among all the scandals that are now being unearthed, and which will make Grant's administration a reproach for all time, the most detestable is that ol speculating upon the bodies of dead Union soldiers. In last week's Reporter we furnished oar readers an account ot the swindling in tombstones, we now have a companion piece to itof a horri- ble revelation relative to the swindle in the bodies of dead soldiers. The X. Y. Times is a republican paper, read what its Washington correspondent says: "The National Cemetery Ring i 9 the vilest of the whole. It is the strongest that has located about the national capi tal—though Heaven knows the other are strong enough. It had its origin just af ter the close of the war, when they got contracts to remove bodies from the bat- tie fields in the various Southern States to the several national cemeteries. Of all the fraud* in the world, this shocking scheme is one of the most wicked. The contractors received a certain sum for removing each body; and to make the job profitable, they actually cut the body into pieces, and made several of it, thus increasing their pay. Often, where a great number were found, buried in one ditch, they would take out a half dozen bones and nail them up in a box, and get paid for it as one body. "I do not telegraph this on hearsay evidence. I have positive knowledge that these things were done—were of daily occurrence. A rule was afterward made that nothing less than nineteen separate bones would be paid for M a body, but this did not break up the fraud carried on at the graves of our hero dead. The work of burying these bones was another job, by which many thous ands of dollars were robbed from the Government. This finished, then the fur nishing of headstones came, and it is es ti mated that the money out of which the Government was swindled in these transactions counts up in the millions? And yet these chiefs of the Cemetery King are allowed to retain their illgot ten gains; and if one word is said against them, the old cry ot disloyalty is rais ed. "Rufus Ingulls, the present illegal (juarter-master-General, who made the present to Mrs. Grant, has a fund of knowledge on these frauds, and it is to be hoped the Committee on the Expen ditures of the War Department will make him divulge,or force him to resign from the position he now holds. He will, it is said, be relieved by Gen. Meigs within two weeks, Gen. Meigs having l>een ordered home from Europe." We may soon look for cheaper sewing machines, the patent upon which the large manufacturers have held a monopoly will soon run out and congress has refus ed to extend it, leaving room for compe tition. The first cost of a sewing ma chine is from $lO to sl2 and they have been sold from SOO to $73. With the ex piration of the patent tlie.se machines can be sold for s2sto S3O and yet be profi table to the manufacturer. The democratic financial caucus xx ts in session on Tuesday night, H, at Wash ingion and linallv agreed u|on tin Payne hill by a vote of t'dto In This bill provides fur tin gradual resumption ot specie payments by making it (lie duty of the Secretary of the Freusnrv annual ly to retain in coin an amount oxptul to three |>ervcnlum of legal-tender note outstanding. to constitute a rc-nniption fund, and also, tvipiiring the notional hanks to set aside an Hluount m coin equal to three pi i cent, of their i it. ulu ting notes, fire bill, in addition. pi< x'idct t" Mho repeal of so much ot the specie resumption act of January It lS?,x, ns designates the Ist of January, isrtt. as the ditto of resumption Manx amendments xti re voted down includ ing that of tho minority of the cam us committee for a simple repeal of so much of the act of ISTa as fixes the Ist. of January. IS7O, as thelimc fot ti sumps tion. This rect rv*wl only I" votes. ■" ■rn i - • ♦ • Washington. March it> liu tipuhlt can senators held a caucus this luteins t. for the purpose of determiuing what should bo their general pohe\ in regar. ti the sweeping reductions already made ir contemplated by the house ol repre -enlatives tu the annual appropriation bills No i Delusion XX.,S Iv.tchcxl, a.d the subject w ill be further discussed at ait adji'ttrned meet ing of the i-m us to morrxxw. The republicans ate very sou v •tl e cutting down of oxpendit.ui - bx the democrats of the house \s thi v hold all the others, thev do mi relish this c'uttiug off of their fodder. At the adjourned republican -cttatr caucus held next day it a.i> resolved t> oppisse the [H'licy of the house to iut j down salaries 10 jwr cent. A movement to increase salaries would umloul'texlly meet with favor among the republicans Let the democrats of the house do their duty and let the responsibility of a de feat of retrenchment measure- u-t xxi'.b the radicals. A> to how the men appointed to p-x-t --traderships could afford to pay such . big bonus to Belknap and wife, and still make money for themselves, is slioxin bv the following prices charged the poor Indian and our own soldiers, at Fort Sill: Two bushels of in.>tuto*s, $lO. Five gallons of coal oil, $lO. Two jK'Uiuls of cheese, 80 cents. 1 >ix Is'Xt -of matches. To cents. A bottle of soothing syrup. $1,50 A broom, sl. Flat irons, 35 cents per pound, i A tin |>an, $1,50. ( A halt bushel of potatoes, $3,25. A jsi per of needles, 25 cents. Two pounds of crackers, $1,20. And from this kind of bleeding and 4 extortion the wives of cabinet officers at . Washington are enabled to wear costly . diamonds, dresses, and give brilliant en > tertainurents, and tbe fellows xxfio rt ceived invitations to these parties and t showed off at them are now heaping an . manner of abuse upon Hiester t'lymer j because he did not white-wash iht thieves and cover up the rascalities oi , the shoddy tribe which now flourishes j at the national capital. A WITSESb, WHO WILL SOT TELL One of the committees investigating the Washington rings, has a witnv— who will not tell what ho knows. The mat ter on 14, was brought before the hfoae. oUr Glover, chairman of the Select Committee on the Keal lis tale Pool an.; the Jay Cooke- indebtedness made a re port on the contumaciooanesa of a wit 'ness namcti Hallett Kilbonrne, who re fused to produce the books of his linn 01 to answer certain questions as to whi composed the reul estate pool. Tin proceedings of the Committee were.reai from which it appeared that the* rea estate pool consisted, first, of five peraont who had contributed $5,0U0 each aiu who were subsequently assessed f2,0u0 each and of Jay Cooke A Co., who ii id contributed |25,000 but did not pay any assessment. His firm was the a'gen. y through which the operation was to be conducted, and had sulisequently pur chased one of the original five thousand dollar shares, paying for it the .exact amount, with interest, which it liad cost the owner. He declined to give tin name of the person w hose interest had been thus purchased. He also declined giving any testimony relating to indi viduals composing the pool. He said that if it could be shown in any way that ihe government was interested in it or chat his testimony would promote the in terest of the government in any way lie would tell everything about it. In reply to this, the Chairman informed him tt.a the committee did not propose to look into his private affairs but only int. those that affected public interest. In further response to his counsel, Mr. Blark i the witness stated that the mat ter had no relation whatever to any pub lic affair; that it was purely a private transaetion[and that there w'us no ■ finer of the government of the United .Stales -r of the government of the District ol Columbia directly or indirectly connect- Ed with it. The conclusion of the com mittee is that it is necessary, for the etfi cient prosecution of the inquiry, tha Hallett Kilbourne shall be required t. respond a subpeena duces tecum and t< answer questions which he had n-fusee to answer. The Sergeant-at-Arms appeared at the bar with Hallett Kilbourne, the recusan witness in custodav. On being asked whether he was prepared to answer the questions put to him, he asked leave t< be heard orally by his counsel (Mr. Black and Mr. Dudley Field I. During the consideration of the question .Mr Glover intimated that he understood from the witness that lie would be satis tied by having read a written argument prepared by his counsel. Mr. Page insisted upon the .witness' right to be heard orally by COUIIM 1 and that view was advocated hv Mes-r- Hoar and Conger andjwas op|>osed In Messrs liolmanand Jenks. Finally the proposition to be bear orally by counsel was laid on the tahh and a written argument was read from the Clerk's desk. At the conclusion oi the reading,the Speaker called upon tin witness to rise, and addressing him In asked whether Ire was now prepared P answer the questions put to him bv tin committee, (Reading them to him in de tail). Mr. Kilbourne responded that In respectfully declined for reasons hereto fore given. The Speaker then asked him whether he was prepared to produce his books and papers in obedience to a snbpo-na duces teenm. Mr. Kilbourne replied that he was not. Mr. (Hover then offend a resolution [ committing the witness to tin- custody jof the Sergeant-at-Arms and requiring that otficial to keep tlie wit new in custo dy in the coininon jail of the District of Columbia until he should purge himself of his contempt. The resolutions were agreed to and the witness was removed by the Ser gcunt-at-Arins. Oi n RAILROAD. I Beaver dam tunnel is through, and • I'addy mountain tunnel, the great bug f bear, we are reliably informed, can I>< i finished in three or four months at the • rate at which the work is now progress ing. Then what is there to hinder the cars from running into the valley by next fall .'The road-bed tip to l.eniont is graded and ready for ties and rails. The Pennsylvania railroad company, accord ing to its recent report, is in a nourish ing condition and abundantly able to go right ahead with our road. Now what is to hinder the work from being com pleted up to this toint by next Novem ber? We see nothing. The road-Led will be ready for the rails, and the Penn'a It. R. has the means, and if it | has the will, the cars can be seen in our valley early next full. There should be no more delay. Our people have given j their money several years ago, and our; farms have been cut up, and 83 yet there litis I t I II in. In in 111 ('• I || nil 111 'III I 1 II- I'll' 111 itl'l.l\ till' IllMll lll|t|£l ■ I XI lllllil I!• nil i Utrilgc Hlnl :i xxr iij. Hi' Irilsl tli.it ti c President Mi Miller, mill the direct' i , will nut • :-!• t.i urge lli( Peitn'a KK ixtlif.uls uti in tliin mutter, :itil leave tin in in 11 .11 until 11.i• v iniiii ti|i tn then duty. mill tlnish the ruiul right ahead I'hey should emu tni'lii i lii vx :ii I iiiii ltuii ulul |>ut ill xx n the inii xxolxx.trxl. It Mi Miller'niixlx> any thing to put tin xvuik under sjcrdy headway. li t Inn, i| imi inixx He hut* In en ilr.txxtt r - a i .hl milutx fur x■ ry lit tli rirxiii tlnis f.n It In- nui lint ilu any thing, tlx n let us hi'Ve some xx Ilu..in i.ml if the j>ii -ident amounts tu a lucre li||Uti' html, I in-ti there should be no pay fx i hit;' mill that m< aiey might In .. |>j•l nI tu I'Usli! g> u tin xx. i k Mi klnnx that the xx hole matter resin xiilh tin Pettn'u ruth,..nl , •.tiipanx ainl that njHili them ti'iits the real lesjHi|itliiht*, tit let the prr-idewt, the director* ami the stiH'k-lii lilx'i# not erase in g udtng that hu|* % i\iijiorutii'tt on to its work, ami a fulfilment of its promise* to our people. rui iAU 1 i \ 11> 11 i /-./.■> Pott-x. le. Pa March IT Governor II art run ft having j. ivli-insl Messrs Pietuier, t'ntirox and 'inn', the convict ml Schuylkill county eoioinissioners. ibex xx ere this morning released from jail, hi \ tug be* n imprisoned-is month*. fhe crime these commissioners eotu united xx.is letting the iMiitract for build l tg a b. rn to a party that xxi re not the 1 >xxc-l In hler>, thus p..x itig out more ol I e public : inks than others had bid to do the same work for. ♦ ♦ ♦ Fit 11 l s IXI U>TM AFFAIIIS. Flie |>ost.il affairs are conducted xxith about the -aim mistiness a- are found m the xx ar and revenue departments of the general government. On 17 inst, the house Committee on Postoffices and Post Koads examined Wru. A. Panfortb, >f Chicago He testified that Sanders, ol the firm of lfarh vx -.inders .x Co., had informed him they paid large sums ot money to officers in the Pus to thee IV partment under Postmaster General CressxvellV admiuistration to secure valuable xxesteru mail contracts by means of straw-bidding devices. San- <.lers livet) with the witue-s in Kansas City and they were intimate friends told him the firm were hied heavily by po-toffiie officials and that they paid to one of them not less than five thousand dollar- per quarter To another they had given a carriage and a pair of horses, and to . nother a dia mond pin worth .1 thousand dollars. No Hi lues wete given by >andcrain making iiese assertions. The witness said he had seen one of the books of the firm whiih showed they set a-i.Io a consid erable' { r< portion of their receipts from mail contracts to be devoted to such pay nent.s. Barlow lived east and attended to paying •ut the money. Witness said that subsequently banders informed him they had borncd their books, and sug gested he had better not remember what had been told him on this subject. The Committee w ill next examine the book keeper of Barlow, Sanders A Co. Si 11 / \ CPS Ml SIOXATIOM. now THE i'KHSIDENT IIDKU THK 6HI.TT MIMsTKk Tl> UCarKriOM KSI.LASD. Washington, March 14.—Secretary 1- ;-h i ommnnieated to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House to-day so much of the correspondence relating to the resignation of Minister Schenck and .ill other correspondence which lias pa*-- ed by telegraph and letter between the state department and our ex-Minister t ' England not heretofore received si :he time the first batch ofotfieial corres pondence in relation thereto was for warded to the committee in February. This correspondence will lie submitted .o the committee at their meeting to morrow. The main j>oint which mem oir- of the committee say it establishes i-that the i'ri sident either intentionally >r innocently aided Schenck to escape from Great Britain while ofiieers there were only waiting for him to drop the I oak ofollicial immunity before arrest ing him fvrs of the committee say be left Kng ind nnder false pretenses, st-eiuing to )>i- and rt c .gnize.l as the American Min ister w hih lie was not. The committee •eel that they are humiliated by the ac tion of the President in accepting •vhenek - resignation. I f the committee as seem- very probable from the present risifs in their possession, find the ear Minister guilty of gross misconduct in dfice, the President has no longer tin rsiwcr. if he chose so to do to imlu! eiisnre upon Schenck and remove him from office w hen the notice of his Min- ls ter's wrong-doings is brought to his at tention by the committee of the House who are investigating |tlic same. The President's policy of "Let no guilty man escape " seems to be interpreted by him with the proviso. "If he doesn't tender his resignation." And (the manner of getting Schenck out of office was very -inptilar. I'.efore the Belknap disrlocum he cabled a dispatch in substance as fob lows, and very nearly in these words "I again tender mv resignation if my re maining here is to embarrass aduiinis ration." To this Mr. Fish replied: "Your iespatcli requires no answer." Schenck hen asked "May I print my despatch and your reply in the London* daily pa er- Before this came the Belknap matter came out and Schenck was thun -1 erst ruck at receiving something like the following 'lt has been decided to n< - i ej.t your resignation." In reply he ex ■■ressed his surprise at the sudden change and asked, "May I lie granted leave of abs nee to appear before the committee, my resignation being held in abeyance ?" To this Fish sent as the huil, "Steps have already been taken looking to appointment of your succes sor."— M rld. The Schuylkill County Commission ers, says the Times, who with one ex ception are the only persons convicted of malfeaaar.ee in office in Pennsylvania in recent years, have been pardoned by loluitlie e..r|m, nn.l I lull aj.eilkc volumes lor iheir worth itml neieniii •flu o. Her lucl up|H\i!,ii)i e in piihlie WIIN 1 1 Mou.lny lust, win 11 she ntten.lril Ihfe. •nlerlitiiiineiiia, lie lii-t tin . leg.inl dill ier |, w ilh the awor.l remtv l"> full irtd dewtroy hot and her husband. I Ater the w 1 ut lo the I uol le. option given lo Mt Itigr.'". the proiiiitienl luinker nn.l tia daughterc; Aiid still later to n leap j .ent jMitv given by A.luiirnl nn.l Mrs I'ort.-r 11. 1 .'iistuuioofahimbioiiiig silk | vns half hidden under the drapen ofi '".utill) easily line, worth, they ray, u •fiu.e'a raiiMito Her oiuatuentK, ,0 I! h 'aid the next da), wen u co*! ly [ul lit r.'l ■f iliatnouds, w huh glittered glut llnsh ed forth a thouoiiuil eolor-. worn for the irsl tune Mie wns sill rounded all the evening hy file tola, and wan aeknowl e Iced lite most eiev'atill) .Irev-eil lad) el the evening. 1 loin the New llgleli Kegistn lh lti. I'll. I'nl.invl la.he* in Wanhinglon, tl • said,have held a ineeiing and voted hut lltex .ease to tvivajliiir Mr* Mel kunj. It in further said that Mr Kobe ■ott wa- the UIOM sex ere against her rinse "t'abiuet ladies" nlto.il.l move -lowly, or they uiav hint themselves "without a .pioruiu!" From the Hart ford Times I'eui.) Zaeb ("handler rvinnrks "1 would as aooti be 111 hell without a fan as to be Neeretarv •f t!e Interior with a Henioeratic House in c n He is ii..w realixiug th. oiiifnrta of T !>* latter position, ami tit AN uTc iflt r tiinl oat "bow it if himself" in! the other. EIXCVTIJt'. Ml KHl.lil.kf nv Kuphuh rv. The Scientific American dianiMee tiai>i;ii)|£ as a mode of capital punishment and prvp-ra u subetitutiou ofelectrn.it> for the gallows. It recommends tin following as the way in which to huv executions conducted: "The battery and coil should l>e of siiflicient strength to deliver an eighteen inch apurk. In cose of there being more than one per son to execute, nil of the condemned would be conducted, w ith all due cere mony, to the place of execution, the left hand of one man handcuffed to the right hand of his neighbor, and the conducting wire fastened to braceletaon the disengaged w risia of both criminals if only two are to be executed, or to the w rials of the outer men if more than that number are t<> rutler. The culprits be ing seated so as to 1 o .-ecu by the legal * itnesses. the fhenll presses a button The current is iiiolantly established from the eoil, passes through the bodies of the men, and all is over." Employment Scarce iu Philadel phia Ma. Ki-iToK : I'lease sav to any of your reader, who may be thinking ol coming P I'biladvlpbia to tln.t work, that tboy Pad better 'lot C-.e. The City l* flooded with men from ail l'*r:s ol the c -ur.trv, jwk have imagined that th, Centennial' w* u.! bring w tit it plenty of employment for everybody I They have furg Hen the far! that thousands of good workmen, resident in the city, are now out of em ploy men' because of tba stoppage of the wheel* ol industry in foundries, nulls, shops, and •tor.s— a- J while the Exhibition has giv en. ai.d Will give, work to thousands, yet the supply already far exceed* any possi ble demand. The new coiner* art not on ly bitterly di-appointed, but Worse, for ;ieir little means it oon exhausted, at d ibty are driven often to the very Verge ol starvati n. while hundreds havelosr. k tl • heller o! the stnlion-housea, or walk th -treeta the whole nigl.t long. In response to an inquiry made of the President of the Houan if Corrrelic n, tin following has just been received : Orrin OR " FN K Hopai or CVIHHXVTIOX.' PillLaPKl ruia, 31 sr. 6, 14*76 Joa* WANAiiAkEK, Esq., Dear Sir • In reply to your favor u the 2kth u't., I havo had prepared the en closed statement, exhibiting the numb* of admissions to this Institution during lb' months f December, January, and K<-b ruarv last, and alto the proportion of lha number who were committed at their owi request. Ol twenty-two hundred and forty-1ev ,2242 admissions, no less than eleven hun dred and fifty one (1161; were self c m milted. The supposition that, as a clasr. the oc cupaht- of the House of Correction ar< thove who seek its food and shelter only i avoid labor it erroneous. On the c-nlra ry, at a rule, they work cheerfully enougl even at the hardest and most disagrecabh ot out-door employ menu—stone-quarry ing, ditching, etc., though in very mari.v cases, the men have horn educated to c 1 er ieal rather than to manuel labor. Th remit i, therefore, startling, n> nr. index of the overcrowded condition ofma . ny branches of industry, and I own full) . endorse as excellent, the idea suggc ted m your note, namely, to urge throush lh< columns of the country papers, young nier to 'lay tchtrt thry are, and not crowd K the city in anticipation of obtaining cm ploy men t, at least at the present time Yours, truly, WILLIAM UI'I.AGEH, I'rcs'dent •statement K A I> XI ITT XI). J3lsle. Females. Total. December, 9".6 i M* Itatu January, 103 lift 7'JI February, 354 79 433 Total, 196*1 Ih*J 2J42 SULP-CoiIXIITTED. I'ecember, 659 15 674 January, 299 14 3|3 Februury, 150 p 164 Total, 1111 37 1161 I hn writer is led to send this cotntnuni ation hecansc of the large number of let era and calls he is constantly rrceivin •rom persona in great distress, whose ex erionca is suggested in the foregoing ■ and he feels that he cannot do n kindlr •ervice to the young men outside of Phil, •delphia, than to urge them, fur thru eu-t. I'iKr, to remain at home, unless they havi the positive promise of something to <]•' when they eoine to the eity, and Come foi die purpose of claiming the promise JOHN WANAMAKKH, President of tho Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association. • HAW POKKK A KNAVE BEAT* THEyCKEN. The Tribune take* kindly to the Buck eye bo of Emma Mine, and compliments him thus There has been a lingering suspicion until now that the Great Republic had ' never been fulljr revenged. Other differ ence had been adjusted, but we may as' well confess that till Schenck's reembnrk-'i ation for home we harbored u feeling oil I revengs. Hut now old scores are squared j We have "placed 1 ' the Emma Mine on the British public, and taught tho Eng lis!) people the game of draw poker. Ours is the prjud satisfaction of having not on- 1 ly given to Great Britain the originul rules ' of this noble game, but of having added one more, and illustrated tho piny, that < "our knave beats a qtooa." Wo entcr tuin none but kindly feelings toward the constables on the shore; it is his misfor tune, that he represents the paw of the • British Lion, while it is the glory of our homewnrd-hieing diplomat that ho wears , the pinions of our own noble bird, and that he could unfurl behind him to the wondering gaze of the constable who had ' been rofernd to, Lord l)erby, these thrill ing woids of one of Freedom's own poets: ® Keep your eye ever lived on the Atnori- J can Eagle, Which wens the proud Biid of Liberty i hail, u Kur that wise fowl you can never inveigle 0 lly depositing salt on his venerable tail. H And its fur Mr. Dougali, who is the owner of Tho Hour newspaper and the representative of the stockholders in the v Emilia Mine, WO shall be sorry if Mr *' Schenck's somewhat nhtupt departuie t shall prove to hare deranged any of his • plans. But he should remember that it rarely happens in thi world that any one ~ ,'ay bis band simultaneously upon tb * Hour and tli Man The Hour i hi*. Tim ! Mm. . el. tl.e At X'Mfila, and refer* l.y pel ll.ltsi.lll 1.1 l.i.r.i Ul'l t'), Hut nil, how good it was 111 our nob . I'ioml. tit to lo.td on to ili.< resignation, | f till the boat "I ihe returning Sclienek wsi' oil lite Sea and III* tmrk wa> 011 tha lids , if we limy he HIIOM>.I .IIP n tiguie o! < apeeeh from the g.cal A lio't ienn guior the I'll old. ill "l sued I v. I y hod V elo iiul' j i.n.l 1.-t Koh. rl "get awny vv it >l the |i I So eoitiiAh li. lileWittd S. hrliek l osio". pr< I.HI.I) xx ill. s "full Italtd liiougl. tl. ill' We 11, ill 10l know till I lie A l.y 11118 in k'g , 11*!. .1 S! nil we not publicly receive him .1 Si, y w ith lie tiitirine Ha ml ? (V • pro.o* >t,.i. y Whet, sts the tuen who ware lai* lv t.d. gt .phing eoiigistulatiotiit.i llabcoi i. , and gctiing uj> .. üb*erlpllon for htm T | bet then, platt it And lit U> ho Hire our , welcome reach. l (eaward and w.deiis till, lit take* l.io. o. iu wll 01 embrace And j when xa "call him, though lie tuny net aiowar bin k "a lull haiut, 1 ' we may bei s attain thnl be will throw down n< thing , I lot* than 11 "Ja> I, m! the top." l.ct u* web : come lout then cordiallx and heartily. He ( tiles f.oto a cotiital h". Htm en his I shoulder is Hie finger-print ofdepotiin W'HV FKtl> Hit AN 1 V s SKNT I \\ 1M IW ashington Spci iul to Itoslon 11. mid j No lu'.henlo evplanutioi. of ihe (udd.'lt and une*pet.d departure of Col. Fred Urai.t f..r the plail t has xel been obtain, d . but that there was a very in.j.orlant rea son is .11 undoubtedly appear it. dua to.lo j f tie tm t ',bl all ihe n 1! eslule ope. at lot • i here of ihe I'rcsiJeni and (10 latttilv to about to be investigated, ttlny have > 'HI. thing lo do with tins hasty departure .1 the young titan f.r the fr ntier The iti vestigatlon ofll.e re.l .olute j.o.d which is now going n will i.ist-p * oil <• tnui. liiglily ittiporlanl discliHurw, atid among fie 111 1 g* likely 1 • be shown 1 thai I redj Urant reenved a large Mini of nton. v trout Boss Sliephcrvl. which he put itilo reul cs Isle. This is understood to have been o.Uimbiy a gdl by BOM Shepherd, slid it i-is fulhermore believ ed thst it was this Kind of an obligation which lis* attached the President so tirnily t<> the Isle Uuii l nor of the District of Columbia. THE 1 MI'EACH MENT PROJECT. The Delay in the Judiciary Coturuit tee. Washington, Marrh 12 Some d> must nece.mr ty elapse before the com mittee on the judiciary will be prepared to report ariiclr* of iiupcurbim-nl against Belknap, no material tuld cut of An head which sflows our friend Delano to liav. been a man af discretion, if not honesty. NN Hshingt.in, March IK The investiga tions which were in progress at the (.'apt tol to day were most remarkable for the testimony of an entirely reputable witness that $40,000 were paid by a firm of postal contractors to have an investigation dis continued in the Forty-second Congress in which they were interested This witness i. Mr. Barlow, President of the National Bank at St. Albans, Vt., and senior part ner in the mail-contracting firm of Bar. low, Sanderson A Co., who formerly had • ••veral routes in the Territories and west ern States. This firm obtained contracts for traii-poriing tho mails at enormous prices by use f straw bidders The wit 1 ■ nMi *s extremely reticent, and had for ' gotten most of the transactions of the firm J within the past len years. ♦ • THE VALUK OK EDUCATION. j h'ru Hl fAr .ttfnofn OiN'fifnfii)a, Jake was heard culling across the fence to his neighbor's son, a colored youth who guri to school at the Atlanta Colored uni versity : "Look tivar, boy. you goes tor school, don't yer?" "Yes, sir," replied the boy. 'Gitlih' eddykushun, ain't yer'" "Yea sir." "Larnin' rithinetick and liggerin' on a slate, cb?" "Yes, sir." "Well, it don't take two whole days to make a hour, do it " "NV'y no 1" exclaimed the hoy "You was gwine ter bring tint hatchit back in a hour, warn't ye '.'" "Yes, sir." 'An' it's bin two daysseneoyer borrow ed it ' Now, what good's eddykaahun gwine ter do you thick skulled niggers when yer go to school a whole year an' den can't teli how long it lakes to fotchl back a hatchit ?" The boy got mad and slung the hatch!) over the fence and half way through an! ash barrel • ♦ • We would mteeni it 1111 especial fa vor if every friend of the Reporter would icrid us the 1111110 of at lensi one subscriber, with the Cash—for three months. 50cents;i six months sl,)*), and 0110 y0 ir $2. Read er, won't you try and do tin this little fa vor. and will repay you by improving the Hepoiter. Send us the names of six new lubscribers, with the Cash, andwu wRI wid you the Reporter one year frffe, 1 For the ItepOfter. A IT A UK. NT CoNTR ADICTIONH. NO. 1 . Tito Mirscit* f Mom and the Kgvi>t lan Borcarer*. p;. HI, || and John il I, 2 .N l. d. utu, a Judicious. en*ibl<-and in .jui.iiive mail aays Nun.no can do ll.e Wol k • tI.OU (Je its) dos.l eiCCpl kucli xvotk* *1 llow may ttiesu statoinei.U be harmonised '' An I. Mosep and Aaron wrougl.l their inua. Irs by tin. power ofQod. 9 1 1.. KgypUaoJuggloriwrottcMthoin cllhei by legerdemain, of H leHgue with Slie devil, ot hy (iod llllcfl.osing aid changing their rod* into reaf seij.ei.l*. which ware after ward* swallowed hy A ron'* kerpsnt No man-power .... or cp| in Ibe slight of hand No II The I ar.l enctit j of l'liara.di 1 liCsrl Ki, If it, 1. nd dames I Id, ft God leu. plat It 110 man How may Ihe Contradiction he ei ' y A. (iod dot* not pettoade, leni| t, >r | harden men in at.ylhtiig, which it in lis own nature, evil but fsod doe* hr 1. n men in sucA courses and d*ngcr..ti* .t --tempts as shall and arc intended by ts d to prox e eitber a very tore punishment o them or their utter ruin So 111 'I he unjust charger, Ks 8' !!i E* 'J< Ita. How may the borrowing ofthe lrs . lite# from il.* Egyptian* and nH f. turn ing wlmt th. X hoirowe.i, he reconciled Willi the prohibition, not to sU-al ? A Burrow in th.a ease tu. aiit to atk rs.| J'-sl, and spoil tn. ant to recover prop ' rty. wngis. .tl , of which the Israelii'* had been U' justly deprivrJ by the Kgxpi j lans. Hen. .. (his wa- God - method of balancing account* lot wean the injur... 'and the injurious compelling those w u Ihad done wrung to n.aka restitution i<< sit* upon ll.e lbr.ttu-judging right. No IV Tl.e S.n of ui.bel ef. Es 17: 6 N.n . r-V' 1 - flie - niiiiig of the rock at Kejrhedin. >vas rij'u at Kadesh wrong t,' . s then, not a contradtt tien h. re* A. 1 (i.nl had ordered Muaea only bi -J.i'ik to the rock at Kadesh and *mit# il. Ihe smiting of (lie rock w** a type of the sinning of CbiuL and I. ceded no (• petition , for as the r be p..k.n to to ChrLl nerd only to he' spoken to bv the prayer of faith and the! water w ill flow. No. V. The number of the children of 1-rael. Gen 46:26 27. and Acts 714 Mote I sy 70 came into Egypt and .Stephen saj s 76 h) Call thi* discrepance he reconciled''' A The 6 son* of Manaatah and Kpbra mi mentioned in 1 Chruli. 7 14-JR, are u-j Ibe reckoned to the 70 mentioned by Mo* e. No. VI God's count'nance Ex. S3. 11,20 The Lord spake to Moses face to face— Thou earl* t not *et* my face—no man • halite* my face and live. L* How may these lexis be harmonised' j A. I. MoaeasawGod symbolically, by I lii-ral signs- -in the piliar of cloud by day *i d of tire b.v mght 2 Ksventtajly no man can see Gad—. His essence is inv i-ible No VII The l'ro.- bearing John I't 17, and Ml 15:21 ) John .ys Christ hor it, and Mik Says jSiin on b.-ra It How re< oncde tho*r Evangelists * J A Christ carried th cross nil be taint-1 >• . under it. and il.—r. tli- -i.l4.rrt, in- leari | h>- might dl. an. l future i ruellrea he pre vt ted, com lulled bnuat to l>*-ar il for' I him, i. e assist him j. No VIII. The angels in the grave. Mb 10 6.i John 2ft 12. J hn mentions 2 and Mark 1 I,' I this not a contradictory record * A. Mark, I suppose, notice* the one the woman s*w rr-t and that spake to 'jtb- m, and hence there is no real contra-' i Julio,.. No IX Three da>s and three riigt.U Mall llt ,40 and Jn 1.17. Inihu Book of Jonah, I il i* said. The Lord prepared a great fish, etc, Matthew sa> s a great whale If How may this difference be aceouut • eJ for 1 A. Aw yo.fof (II ) and A'cioa (G I in. an-a shark, or any large fi.li There have been suark tn the M'dilorraocan | w.igbihg 4 (Mi pounds- and such a fob ' c uid c.-rtainly swallow Jonah. No X Christ's testimony of Himself. John 5 51, and Ik 14 It I bear witness of tnvself 1 my witness is not true —Though 1 "bear - record of myself, my record is true if. H>w may litis discrepancy he ac- I counted for. A. 1. According In the common rule of judgment among men. what I say of my , s.lf, though infallibly true, will no' b ( allowed by you, (Jews) as testimony and J evidence. t X Hia credentials were fully satisfac tory, i e. the nature of his doctrine and f the power by which He worked his raira • clcs. No XI. The right use of earthly goods Lk. 16: Matt. Ill: "23, 24 Make lo yourselves , friend* of the mammon ol unsigtieousnew*. . A rich man shall hardly enter into the) kingdom of Heaven, if. How may Matthew arid Luke l>. : 1 reconciled 7 A. 1. It is J:ffi,ull to convert a richi man. r X It is exceedingly difficult for a rich man to be a g-od man S I'se your worldly goods so, thai when you die you will be received intc . heaver, make "the poor vour friends. No. XII Two different events. Luke 7 36 50, Matt. 2b 0 13, Mark 14: 3-9, John Pi r 1-H U How may the differences of the rec .•r.fs ol the four Evangelists above quoted be harmonised? A 1 The name and place of the wo man that a a sinner are unknown. 2. The other woman w* Mary the Si*-- ter of Laxarut and Martha of Bethauv, No XIII. Two different rule* l'rov. 26. 4. 5. Answer not a fool according to hi* fu!- ; ly. Answer a fool according lo his folly. (J. Does not the wise man contradict himself? A. No 1 Don't answer a foolish man in a fool ish wav, e. g . If he boast of himself, do not answer him by boasting of thyself it. Answer him so at ts expose his folly and humble him and prevent htm fron deceiving others. No. XIV. Two different burdens Oal. 6: 2, 6. j Bear ye one Brothers burdens Every man shall bear his own burden. (j D e- not Paul contradict himself? A. No. 1. We should feel lor one another- Syn patliixe with one another, etc. 2. Every man thai' carry bis own re • portsihility—n • r for himself to God. No XV. Hearing and not hearing Arts 9. 7 and 22 9. Luke says; They ithoso that sojourner' w ilh Paul'heard a voice but saw rot man Paul says : They heard not the voice ot lli:n that spake to me. (j How may the want of agreement hi accounted for? A. Tliey heard l'nul speak, but saw not Aim to whom he spake, nor heard dis-j tinctly what w as said to him. No. XVI. Standing and not standing. Acts 9 7 and 26: 14. Paul fays, before Agrippa, where we were all fallen to the ground Luke says, the men that journeyed with hitn, stood speechless. | (J Howie this? < A. lli* companions fell t the earth but toiu- again without being bidden. (i'nul did not) but stood speechless after they hud gotten up. No. XVII. Repenting nnd not repenting, 1 Sum Ifi: 2l, and 3o: 11. The Lord repented, cte. What • repentance mean in d A. / change of method. way, dtepen-l intion, conduct, and not llow can these passages be recnn-| cited ? A. God in his es-encc it invisible, but! was seen in Hs son who was the image > fj his Father.—Seen : 1 By sight. 2. By faith No. XIX. To be and not to bo. John]: 21, Matt. 11: 11. O. How reeonoile these text*? A. 1. John, the Baptist was to bo and not to be. 2. He was not to bo Elijah in person, but in spirit and power. He was the Klias God promised. Matt. 11:14—not of which tho Jews boasted. No. XX. Temporal and Eternal. Eccle. I: 4. 1 2 Peter 8. 10 The oarth nbideth forever.—The earth; and all the works that arc therein shall be burnt up. How hartnonixo these quotations? I A. Tho earth will endure to the end of time, und then it will bo burnt up. The harmony of lho Scriptures, a proof, ol their divinity. X, Auroniburg, Pa, A MATTER OF POPULAR INTEREST. Wo pon lollHall. In A / f...lhlnr/r- 111 America" A V tailor and >t|. ii.laiiW? < (ha speakers : I mini "VX hat earner U the Building iju*r feet -BA on Market. And lMi odd ou hlilli. All •torla* high, l.u over three acres uAn.a.flgf and I'uvenipiMOlm occupied bymuyOiou twenty UlUcJcnt bust hrai places 'me V. Ihi v. uTiar dram js.werT" A. " A gUut young angina furniahe* power fur (he freight and poaaenear aks.valoia.aud the 1 rupee■ tors room i.u Boor V. " !■ nrat onermUonT" A " No, air. measuring the g.-o you manufacture ait your own good* * A We do. and in'gf rarrftinv. Our rx aiiiiiit-rt ldiptri every tJU.L md IMIL I*4 certify to every garment a* eztm wcli mad# beforw we jut < ur ticket on it and become reaponktt.le tor h . v ; l.* aut *•> ttt care you a gmot deal T M A ' In every dire tion lr 1l U lifb sjrst. in nude- onoat) w r praitn. all Ua utluvugis, that ciiahiea u U. put utii f the Ja "pie aa u . V. - After inspecting the work, whatbeeumca of II?" A Beforw it goe■ into Block It Is tuktUiJ Every oingle garment haa 1U nutshrr oi.d other polnu Doted un ft, a<> thai ft* enure hi* Jory ran be ironed without flul, upon our book* ' V. " You must taxe 30 or th aalear.rnV A. " W by ir. on huy day* you may/oec 100 In ihe voriou* room* and aulte* oy ruuuu aeiiing to the Ihrongiof r uotomerr / \ " do lUi order buAee/ by W* and ezprew*" ' X. "Verjr great. All o* tbecouiiUy Our HOUSTON WATER WHEEL! 2 Mar. Jim. 6HOHTLIDGE & CO COAL, HUE.St., WILLI AM SHORTLIDGK, BOND V ALRNTINI SHORTLIDGE fc CO, Buruert and Shippers of the celebrated Bellefonte X WIIISimEi iLdiMIE. : Dealers in the very bel gtades of p i^T ,, 1 j ACITK^ )Al^ The only dealers in Centre County who aeli the W I! Li Iv E; Si B A R RiE CO A L from the old Biltunatt mine* Also SHAMOKIN AND OTHER GRADES of Anthracite Coal dry ly homed expressly lor house use. at tfce lowest prices I) EJLE It S /*Y G RAI ,\. They |>ay the highest prices in cash or grain that the Eastern markets will afford WHEAT, CORN, RYE, OATS, CLOVER SEED &C.. Bought or w ill be soi lon commission when desired, and full prices guaranteed In-1 ' formation concerning the grain trade will be furnished at all times, to farmer j with pleasure, free of charge. RIFLE and BLASTING POWDER J FIREBRICK AND GROUND FIRE CLAY*. DEALERS IN CAYUGA GROUND PLASTER. which is always sold at low prices, and warranted to be as good a fertiliser at an other plaster. tifflS£ AMI) TfjDlD NEAR SOUTH END B. E. VALLEY R. R. DEPOT. BKMIFOKTK. PA. THE NEW "DOMESTIC," A DOUBLE THREAD LOCK-STITCH MACHINE. r retains all the virtues ol the bight-Running "DOMESTIC," including die Automatic Tension, which was and is the ht to om * " * AW Please notice our PATENT HARDENED CONICAL HEARINGS on both the Machine and Stand. Our new and old ideal,worked cut *|th buud new Machinery and Tools at our own new works, in the buty cily of Newark. Now Ict.i y. have given as a standard of MECHANICAL EXCEL LENCE, Minimum of Friiiion, Maximum of Durability, and range of work, never heretofore reached in the Sewing Machine world. TO THIS STATEMENT AND THE MACHINE ITSELF We Invite the attention of all, especially those having high mechanical skill or Observation N I).—All Machines folly warranted. < DOMESTIC SEWINC MACHINE CO., Nt-tv York ttxxti Chicago. LADIES, USE "DOMESTIC" PAPER FASHIONS. ! perfect *y*U-m add rule* of aelf mmenrcananl m*ka lti*lj>re. The i.annent M< k Roota. Ttui iUMwtdac Room, The Order department, named before. The H]riai I nlfomia In-pert ment The Delivery brpajunont, with IU acore of mNwenger*. The—" V. Hold, hold I *lr. enough P* A. "le not half through! The Advertising ltrpartju. nl, with It* bllLand sign duuibuior*. adult.( and publish lowa buatnea* and popular Srual, r>rrulaA.tr Mi.ttCcnptr* monthly 1 all your nrtHA.*-nd lorltt. The Mru i jeotment, witlnt* many room*. Tha Boyif I* *it*iiL The YnuUur IteeartmaM. Ik* Children a Department. with it* special entrance for lad lea. The Telegraph Depart ment The Chief (Ink • Department, with lie book keeper* and awlwanu. Ueuervi Man agrrs L* pernornt, Final,. nr i f'ttie. and othar oftrea of tha tirxaJ all bury aa baa* thinking. planning, eaWiitlne buying, mak lug. registering. re. ■Mrlafc.annding out, wiling, ai d In a th-.-iwi.ilWp joining their foreea to carry on a Wuinaaorfth the people urn...ant ing to between sol u/m/mid an busily" V. 'l-tg-peadoaaf A "Indeed it I*l i forgot to nunc the Cashier * Department which handle* it* s£.;jui of retail sale* on ct<-m of business dealing— J. On* price, no deviation ; 1 Caah for everything I. A guarantee protectlfig the purchaser: The money returned U the buyer can t utherw Um t attiind." V Nothing oould be fairer " A- " N.nhiog And the j-ople aa* It" V. " Well, 1 thank you, air, for your polite attention." A. "Not at all. It's a pleasure to aafre you. Call again, and be aura of the pen w ana maker A brown * (>ak llailAugft EM cor ner Clxih and Market" V - Thai.k you! lab*., b* happy to AoW. lied BOW**." HARDWARE STORE. v A£ J - "arris. No. ft. DROCKKRHOFF ROW. A new and .complete Ua.*dwnre fliora ! ft "i 41 "*?,. , wh ' *tU, Champion H Mil '?•*•. Circular and Hand bnw. Tcnnon Haw*. Wcbh Saws !< • Cream K reoxer*. Bathtub., Clothna *.> *' £. "•ortnn f (itiu and iLi fr °M U •" Frama*. .. Urr " w ' Coal Oil Lamp*, Belttng, Hpokcr. Fellow, and Hub*. J lowi, Cultivator*, Corn Flows, Plow i oiiita. Hhcat Mold Board* and Cultiva tor Teeth, table Cutlery. Hbovala, Rpado* and Fork*. Lock*, Hinge, Hcrowi. Harh spring*. llnrae-Mhno*. Nails, Norway K'i, Oils, Lard, Lubricating Coal, l,tf>er i Tann.r*, Anvila, Vice*. Bellow*. Hcrew plate*, lllaektmith* Tool*. Factory BI*!|, Tea Bei|. Grindstones, Carpenter T and k It*., • EN Nickel plated Irooe, net*, par act extra. Any party ordering ttve aete will PW* reive one net extra a* a premium. Thoroughly reliable bgeste w anted. Addree* UHUUKI.IKMUIHOVfO., IS lint Eh, Broeklya, E. D, I. T. **— hep. *** mm Ma. tMm tt WO ***** n.o lUUMiuMt ~ a. o. au*u*' Established, 1843. MILLIIEIM MARBLE WORKS BY DEININGER & MUSSER Tba old, reiinblo place, whore Monuments, Couches, Headstones, and other marb work i* made, in the vary beet style, and upon ro*onable terms. W*r Thankful for pool faoort, toe re~ tpictitelv solicit tkc patronage of the public. Shop** K*t of Bridgw, Miiiboim, Pa. Apr. n. y. _____ CENTRE BTaTL L COACH SHOP, LEI Ml HKAY. •t b establishment at Centre Halt. keep >n hand, and tor aale. at the uial reasona ble rale*. Carriages, Buggies, A Spring Wagons, PLAIH AKD FAKCY" and vehicle* of every description made to order, and warranted to be made of tba boat seasoned material, and by the moat skilled and competent workmen. Bod is* tor bugge* and pnng. wagon* Ac.. of the moat inpruved pattern mada to order.aUo Gearing of all kinds made to order AH • ind* of repairing done promptly and at he lowasl possible rata*. Person* wanting anything in hi* line are equeatad to call and examine hi* work, hey will ft no it not to be excelled tor dur ability and wear. may Sit. LETIXIKBA V. NOTARY PUBLIC. SCRIHNKR AND CONVEYANCER. CENTRE H A L L, P A. Will attend to administering Oath*, Ac inowle jgement of Deed*. Ac. writing Ar icle,or Agreement. Deed*, Ac, mavlh JOHNSON'S HOTEL, aauLtroKTE. ra. Ji'bnmß A Son'*, proprietors. having refitted and newly furnished lb it bout# are now prepared to accommodate travelers p the moat satisfactory manner. if r. snxaatrr. j.r. Miun Keystone I'ateru A Model Works, J. F MILLER A CO. PATENT OFFICE A EXPERIMEN TAL MODELS OF Ift OX. WOOD OR BRASS, H ADE ON SHORT NOTICE. 67 W afcr Strrrt and 80 Firtt Arenve, PITTMII'IM.II. Office with J. 11. Shcrriff A Son, Works, 3d Floor. lapr.jr. TASTI.MANUS. Attorney at Law t/ Br llefonte. promptly attend* to all hutianat entrusted to him iui2.'f4t Chas. H. Held, Clock, W nlchtnukt-r <1 Jewries .Millh>mi. Centre Co., Fa. all kind* ol Clock*. Watches and Jewelry .f the lte*t style*, a* also the MaranvilU latent Calender Clock*, provided with a complete index of the month and day o. he month and week on its face, which i*. warranted a* a perfect time-keeper. \* etches and Jewelry re, nnired on .hort notice and warranted (J rT M M 1 HQS HOCiTlp BallUhMts, PA. ISAAC MILLER, Proprietor. The Cummingt House, on Bishop street, it one of the pleasaatest located hotels in ihe town It hat the best stables in the place, bat an excellent livery attach d and very attention will be paid guests. No *am will be spared to make it a pleasant ai agreeable stopping place for tbe pub •e Boarding by the day or week, and -www charged will always be found very tune 17 O. GUTILIUB, Dentist, Millheira. OBers his professional service* to the public. He is prepared to perform all operations in the dental profess on. S*~He is now fully prepared to extract Voth ■*.!,'nfr/y irtMosif , ,