Ibe Centre 3HK Democrat. % Jiratilg Sttospptr—itbolti to politics, Ctmptrnntt, literature, Science, %tb, gtajjairics, Agriculture, % Itarkcts, ©ratatimt, Central intelligence, tic., J. S. & J. J. BRISBIN, YOLTJME 26, ®{rc Centre gtmocrat. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY J. S. & J. J. BRISBIN. Office in the Arcade Building, Second Floor. Tbrms. $1,50 if paid in advance or within six months after subscribing,otherwise $2 will invari ably be charged. No subscriptions received for a shorter period than six months and none dis continued, unless at the option of the editor, until all arrearaees are paid. BUSINESS CARP S* M'ALLISTER & BEAVER ATTORN hYcj-AT-LAW, BBLLKFOSTB, FA Office on Allegheny Street. Feb. 10 59 EM. BLANCHARD-^tokney . -AT-LAW, bcLLKoNTB, Pknn'a. Office furmrlv occupied by the Hon. James Burnside. Jan. 19, '60.-tf. WW BROWN-*TTORNEY-AT . LAW Bellkfunte, Penna. Will attend to all legal business entrusted to him, with prompt ness. May, 5 '59. -yAS. H. RANKIN, ATTORNEY-AT t)l LAW, UKLLEFoJiTK. Pa. will attend prompt ly to all legal business entrusted to him. Office next door to toe Post Office. [Sspt. 20, '6O, tf WM. P. WILSON -ATTORN EY-AT YY -LAW Cellfo.ntk, Pa , will promptly at tend to all legal business entrusted to him. office three doors North of the diamond. jan.l2'6o T? J. HOCKM AN, SURVEYOR AND 111. CONVEYANCER, Bkloefoxtb, Pa., will attend to and correctly execute all businesi en trusted to him. [June 14,-'6O, if. I? LIVINGSTON PATRICK, XL. ATTORNEY-Ai-LAW, BKLLF.FUNTB, Pa., Will attend promptly to all legal business entrus ted to him. Office "on Northwest corner of the Diamond. [Nov. 15, IB6o.—tf. GEO). L. POTTER. M. D. OFFICE ou High street, (old office.) Betlefonte Pa. Will attend to professional calls as heretofore, and respeotfully offers his professional services his friends and the public. 0ct.26'58 A. FAIRLAMB. M. D. JAS. A. DOBBINS, M D FAIKLAMB &. DOBBINS. DR. FAIRLAiV'J has associated with hiin DR J. H. DOBBIN in the practice of medicine xffice as heretofore on Bishop street, opposite the Temperance Hotel. March 19,57. DR. JAS. P. GREGG, respectfully offers his professional services to the people of Milesburg and vicinity. Residence, Daniel R. Boiieau'a National Hotel. Refer to Dr J. al. McCoy, Dr. G. L. Potter, Dr. J. B. Mitchell. [Nov. 8, IS6o.—tf. WM. REISER, SURGEON AND V V PHYSICIAN, having permanently located offers his Professional services to the citizens of Pine Grove Mills and vicinity, and respectfully oslicits a liberal portion of the public patronage. [Feb. 16, '6o.—ly. J. J. UNGLiE. Operative WSraBSStZ. and Meclianical Dentist, will prao- tice all the various branches of bis profession in tho most approved manner. Offioe and residence on Spring St.Bellefonte' Pa. [Mar, t. '6I"I. tf. TAMES KIDDEE- attoiuw-at tl DAW, UKLLKRONRU PA. Will atttend to all business entrusted to hira with care and prompt ness, Kefer to Gov. Pollock, Milton Pa. and Hon. A. G. Gurtin, Beilefonte Pa. Office with John H. Stover jan. 5, *6O. JR. MUFFLI, AGKNT FOB TH , LVKSITBRANCH INSURANCE COMPACT. Per sons wishing to secure themselves from losses by fire, will do well to call upon him at the store of J. R. Muffly A Co., N. E. corner of the Diamond, three doors above Allegheny street, Bellefonte, Centie co , Pa. Mar; 15, ' rivei at the Burnett House and took apart ments for the night at that well ordered ho tel. It was quite evident that the whole par ty were unfamiliar with metropolitan sights. The rooms, corriders. marble floor, gorgeous drawing-room and well spread table of the hotel drew from them the most ingenious re marks of surprise. In the evening they vis ited the opera-bouse, and were so astonished by its magnificence that even Mrs. Waller's wonderful impersonation of "Meg Merilles" almost failed to interest them. Nothing more was thought of the veidant trio till about one o'clock in the morning, at which time the boot black of the Burnett House, in making his customary rounds, observed one of the Benedicts seated in the hall, near the door of his room. He naively asked the pol isher of the understandings, if he was the clerk. Receiving a negative answer, he in formed the boot black that he should like to see that individual. In a few moment? one of the attentive office men was at his side, and politely asked what was wanted. " Couldn't you make mo a bed in the par lor ?" cried the disconsolate individual. " In the parlor?" echoed the clerk, " I'm afraid not." " We'll, I'd like to have one.spread down some where." " Why don't you go into your own room? 1 ' asked the clerk. •'I don't like to," said the bashful young man. " Why, what is the matter ?" eontinued theelerk. " Has your wile turned ycu out of your room ?" " No," drawling, " but you see I have never been married before, and so I ion't much like to go in, particularly in a strange place." "Oh 1 go right in," said the clerk ; " she won't think it is wrong." Here the door of bia room opened about an inch, and through the aparture came a voice, coaxingly 6aying— "Do come in, John. I won't hurt you. I know'd they'd think strange'of yer standing out there. Come in now, won't yer ? I've blowed out the it's all dark iu here." The odor of the room assured tLe clerk that she had indeed " blow'd out the gas," so pushing open the door he stopped the flow> raised a window and returned,to the hall to pursuade the verdant husband to retire with his wife. All arguments were fruitless, how ever, and he was compelled to assign the simple iudividual a separate room troin that his wife was in for that night. The Empress Eugenie While at Eaux Bonnes, in the Pyrennes, it is said that the French Empress charmed every body who saw her, and in a thousand ways WOD the hearts of the simple mountain eers with whom she came in eontraot. One morning, in clambering style, .with an oiled sack thrown over her dress, and a pointed stick in her hand to secure her footing Bhe bad wandered away from ber maids of honor, and while a'one, met a peasant woman gath ering the flowers of the linden tree, when ths following dialogue occurred: " What are ycu picking there, my good woman ?" " Oh, madam, they are lindens." " Will you sell me those which you have gathered ?" " Oh. madam, they are not worth selling, as I shall only get three sous fur them in the village ; but I will give them to you." The Empress accepted them, aDd taking from her purse three gold Napoleons, pre sented them to the astonished woman, and was going away, when tba latter seised her by the arm. " Oh, madam, I don't know this mor.ey. 1 have never seen such beautiful sous. Why, you must be th Emperor's#vife." "Yes, I am the Emperor's wife," replied her Mxjcaty, with her usual amiable smile. "Eh, how is your husband ?" "lie's very well, I thank you. How is yours?" "Mine—oh, he is over yondsr, picking up faggots, with his three children." "Three children I —then I must give him a sou more apiece for each of them." And the Empress handed her three more go.d Napoleons, and took her way up the mountain, the simple b'essing of the good woman echoing after her. A lofty City. Potosi, in Bolivia, South America, is the bigbeet city in the world, being at an eleva tion of 13,350 feet, considerably above the level of the summits of the Alpine mountain giants, and only 360 feet below the topmost peak of the icy Jungfrau itself. This is a tolerably lofty attitude for a city; but then Potosi is the metropolis of the richest silver mines in the world, which are worked in the neighboring Cerra ( Sierra, or higher ridge ) de potosi, at an'altitude of 16,000 feet above the sea level, a greater height than the top of Mount Blano ; so that the abundance of the precious metals, we may suppose, compen sates the 30,000 inhabitants ( about one half of whom are of the native races) for the rar* ity of the air, the rapid alterations of cli mate, which present the characteristics of the four seasons every twenty four hours, and the rugged barrenness of tho surrounding districts, Night. Night levels all artificial distinction. The beggar on his pallat of straw snores as soundly as the king on his bed of down. — Night—kind, gentle, soothing, refreshing night—the earthly paradise of the slave, the sweet obliyion of the care-worn 6oul, the nurse of romance, of devotion; how the great panting heart of society yearns for the return of night and rest ! Sleep is God's special gift to the poor ; for the great there is no fixed time' for repose. Quiet, they have none ; and instead of calmly awaiting the appro sch of events, they fret and repine and starve sleep, and chide the tidy hours, as i every to-morrow were big with the fate of some great hereafter. The torrent of events goes roaring past, keeping eager expectation constantly on tiptoe, and drives timed slum ber away. There ie something strangely beautiful in the contemplation of night—when the shin ing stars seem to do homage to their pale faced queen, and the clouds float silently through the tranquil sky, and the wind speaks in soft whispers as if fearful]of wa king the sleepers. Such is the sweet repose of a blameless conscience, But wh6u the dews of evening slant dimly away, when the oheerless curtains of darkness are closed, when aerial shadows loom up and flit along the vaulted arah, ''like grim ghosts trailing blackness through the heavens," Such is the fearful shadow that hangs over the bro ken slumbers of a soul in which there is no peace. Se&utiful Extract " Oh, the priceless value of the lova of a pure woman.l Gold cannot purchase a gem so precious 1 Titles and honors confer up on the heart no such serene happiness.— In oar darkest moments,"when disappoint ment and ingratitude, with corroding care, gather thick around, and even the guant form of poverty menaces with his skeleton fingers, it gleams around the soul with an angel's smile. Time cannot mar its I rillian' cy ; distance but strengthens its influence; bolts and bars cannot limit jts progress ; it follows the prisoner into the darkest cell, and sweetens the home morsel that appea ses bis hunger, and in the silence of mid' night it plays around bis heart, and in his dreams, he folds to hie bosom the form of her who loves him still, though the world has turned coldly from him. The couch made by the hand of the loved one is soft to the weary limbs of the sick sufferer, and the potion miDglcd by the same hand loses half its bitterness. The pillow carefully adjusted by her brings repose to the fevered brain, and ber words of kind encouragement sur vive the sinking spirit. It would almost seem that God. compassionating woman's first great frailty, had planted this jewel in her breast, whose heavenlike influence sbo'd cast into forgot fulness man's remembrance of the Fall, by building up in bis heart anoth er Eden, where perennial flowere forever bloom, and crystal waters gush from exhaust less fountains." Eecipes for Economizing;. PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO HARD TIMES. FOR LADIES. —Leave your purse in the bu reau-drawer at home, if necessity compels you to pass a ' cheap store 1" If you catch yourself thinking how "nice" it would be if you could have a new carpet, just transfer the adjective to another subject, and reflect how "nice" the old one still looks. If you see auything going " at a ruinous sacrifice"—let it go ! Don't subscribe 10 that doctrine of econo my which buys a shilling calico " to save," 'and then pays a dressmaker three times the value of the fabric to make it up. Settle in your mind just what you can af ford to buy, before you go to market, don't allow yourself to be tempted by Vp " surprisingly cheap" luxury. Have your purse big enough to hold the pennies and keep them there. FOK GENTLEMEN. — Get a porte-monnaie with a good rheumatic clasp to it—these pur ses that are easily opened are easily emptied. If you feel inclined to smoke a six-cent Havana, just put a good rye-straw between your teeth instead, and " chaw it" at your liesuro. It is astonishing how superior you will find the flavor. Remember bow superior water ie to sher ry-cobblers and brandy-smasbes on all oc casions. Don't think how long you have bad that old coat of yours—think, rather, how much longer you can make it last. Send one dollar and fifty cents for a year's subscription to the CENTRE DEMOCRAT. YOU will find at the end of the year that the mon ey has been well invested. DUTY.— Duty ! Oh, great word 1 oh, noble and beautiful thought 1 The faculty to think, the thought to speak the word, to feel its meaning and its power, attests our sub limed destination. Duty! It is itself but a purely ideal conception—the ideal of obliga tion to do right, • because it is light; yet purely ideal as it is in essenoe, it is an idea which, when embodied and realized, (as it may be,) in men's purposes and actions, gives to human life and human history all its nobleness—is ths sooros of everything most fair, and beautiful, and touching ; or eyerything great, heroic, and sublime, EDITORS & PROPRIETORS. NUMBER 48 True Prayer Would you see true prayer ?—would you know what prayer really is? Step iuto tbe Egyptian palace where Benjamin stands bound-—bis amased and trembling brothers grouped around the lad. Judah advances, lie bows himself before Joseph. Ilis heart is lull, llis lip trembles. The tear glistens in bis manly eye j and now, with tenderness thrilling in every tone, he pours forth, his plea of Mtrpissing pathos : ''Oh, my lord, fej thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let thine anger burn against thy tenants. Aly lord asked his seryants, saying, have ye a father or 4 brother ? And we'said unto my lord. We have a father, an old man, and a ch