% Jwflj fifappMliM* it politics, faiptrantc, fiitraturt, Strait?, ®jje |yrts, Ptcfctaics, fgritaltoit, Cj|t Barkis, ©mtalira, ©intra! JnMligtntt, it., 3. S. A 3. 3. BEXSBUT, VOLUME 27, ®{jt Ctnlrt gtmocrat. fgPUBLU'HED EVERY THURSDAY, B.t J.s. &j. J. BRISBIN. Qfflei in the Arcade Building, Second Floor. Tsrms. $1,50 if paid in advance or within six ■onths 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 ot tho editor, until all arrearages are paid. BUSINESS CARDS. SJ. MURRY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, BELLBFONTR, PKNN'A. Office on High St., in th* building formerly occupied by tne lion. Jamd Burnaide, deo'd. [mar. 14, 1861.—tf. M'ALLISTER & BEAVER IjA ATTORNRYS-AT-LAVV, BELLE FUNTB, TA Cffi oe on Allegheny Street. Feb. 10'59 I? M. BLANCHARD- ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, BKLLEONTE, TENS' a. Office (•rinrly occupied by the lion. James Burnside. 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A CARD. Messrs. Hale A Hoy will attend to my business Auring my absence in Congress, and will be as eisted by tne in the trial of all causes entrustedto the in. ' J.T.HALE. jans'lß6o CURTIN & BLANCHARS. ATTORNEY'S-AT-LAW,BELLEFONTB.PENNA The undersigned having associated them ielves in the practise of Law, will faithfully at tend to all professional business entrustedto them in Centre, Clintion and Clearfield counties. All •ollections placed in their hsnds, will receive their promt attention. Office in Blanchard's new building on Allegheny street Nov. 30'58 CURTIN A BLANC HARD. JBJIJYJKIJVO MiOUSJE OF WM. F.. REYNOLDS & CO. BELLEFONT E, CENTRE CO., PE'TN'A. Sills cf Exchange and Notes discounted ; Collec tions made and Funds promptly remitted. Inter est paid on Special Deposits, Exchange on the Saltan cities constantly on hand and for sale. Deposits received. April 7 'SB WM. 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Your Pills have had a long trial in my practice, and I bold them in esteem as one of the best aperients 1 have ever found. Their alterative effect upon the liver makes them uu excellent remedy, when giVuu in small doses for bilious dysentery and dinrhwa. 1 heir sugar-coating makes them very ucceptabie aud conveuient lor the ud of women and children. Dyspepsia, Impurity of tlic Blood. From Dev. J. V. Dimes, Ihstor of Advent Church, Boston. DR. AYER: I have used your Pills >vith extraordinary Success in my family and among those 1 am called to visit in distress. To regulate the organs of digestion and purify the blood, they are the very best remedy I have ever and I can confidently recommend tlmm to my friends. Yours, J. V. lIIMJSS, WARSAW, Wyoming Co., N. Y.. Oct. *24, 1855. DEAIt SIR: 1 am using your Cathartic Pills in my prac tice. and find them an excellent purgative to cleanse the system and purify the fonuhnn* of the Monti. * JOHN G. MEACIiAM, M. D. 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[••W£ STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE--NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION. BELLEFONTE, PA„ THURSDAY MORNING. MAR. 28. 1861. 'TIS ALL ONE TO ML. FROM THE GERMAN. Oh, 'tis all one to me, all one, Whether I've money, or whether I've none. He who has money can buy him a wife, | And he who has none can be free for life. I He who has money has cares Dot a few, And he who ha3-nono can sleep tho night through. He who has money can pgie the fair, And he who has none escapes from such care. Ho who has money can go to the play, And he who has none at home can stay. He who has money can travel about, And he who has none can go without. He who has money can be coarse as he will, An d he who has none can be coarser still. He who has money can eat ojster meat, And he who has none the shell can eat. He who has money can drink foreign wine, And he who has none with the gout need not pine. He who has money the cash must pay, And he who has none says, " Charge it, I pray !" He who has money keeps a dog if he please, A nd ha who has none is not troubled with fleas, He who has money must die one day, And he who has none must go the same way. Oh ! 'tis all one to me, all one, Whether I've money qr whether I've none. How Douglas held Lincoln's lUqt. A Cincinnati paper gives the following in cident of the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln; " One of the representatives of this S'ate in Congress, reports an interesting and er funny incident of tho inauguration, w nieli, not having seeu in print, we record. On ap proaching the platform nhare be was to take his oath and be inducted into tho office of Chief Executive, Mr. Lincoln removed bis hat and held it in his hand as fie took the seat assigned him. Tho article seemed to be a burden. He changed it awkwardly from one to another, and linally, desparing of find ing for it. any other easy position, deposited U upon tho platform beside him. Senators and Judges crowded in, and to make room for them he remove] nearer the front of the stage, carrying his tile with him. Again it was dandled uneasily, and as Senator Baker approached to iutruducehim to the audience, he made a motion, as to replace the tile on the itage under the seat, when Douglas, who had been looking on quietly und apparently with seme apprehensions of a catastrophe to the hat, said, " firmitme, sir," and gallant ly took the vexatious article and held it du ring the entire reading of the inaugural.— Dug. mupi have reflected pretty 66riouly du ring that half hour, that instead of delivering an inaugural address from that portico, he was holding the hat ol the man who was do ing it." EXCITING SCENE IN A NEW ORLEANS THEA TRE.—The orchestra of the St. Charles thea tre were reckless or indiscreet enough one night to give at differeut intervals of the per formance several patriotic eld airs—Yaukee Doodle included—all of which were vocifer ously applauded. At length they struck up the dear and now thrillingly suggestive strain of " The Star Spangled Banner." The effect produced by its performance is thup describ ed by the True Delia, of that city ; " When Key's Star SpaDgled Banner was 9truck up it was immediately and ioudly ap plauded, and "Columbia, the Gem of "the Ocean," and its refrain, made the House ring. Que enthusiastic individual jumped up and shouted " hurrah 1" aud there was a tu mult. That audience evidently were on our side, believing with us that the airs should oever be ignored. That's right, atick to them, never mind what one-horse politicians and plao.e-rbunters say. Let all such as forget the glories of the past sing the Marsaillaise or any other national air—let the true native and American cling to our old airs, and re fuse to give thgra up to any faction, North or South. Looking around upon the large audi ence at the St. Charles, we recognized the abscence of mere politicians, and the pres ence of the people in whose hearts live 'he liveliest recollections of the grand memories nf the couutry of Washington, Jeffsrsori, Madison, Monroe and Jackson. H en <- e 'he enthusiasm when the orchestra sounded the notes of the patriotic soDgs of our patriotic song writers." A Good Joke The following good joke occurred not long since in one of the churches in the western part ot Onondaga county : " An aged clergyman, speakiDg of the so lecinity attached to the ministerial office said that during the whole term of forty or fifty years that he bad officiated therein, his gravity had never been but once disturbed in the puipit. On that occasion be noticed a man directly in front of him leaning over the railing of the gallery with something in hjs band, which be soon discovered to be a huge cbew of tobacco, just taken from his mouth. Directly bejow sat a man fast asleep, with bis head back aDd his mopth wide open.— The man in the gallery was intensely engags ed in raising and lowering his hand, taking an exact observation, till, at last, having got it right, he let fall the quid, and it vyent plump into the mouth of the eleeper below 1 The whole scene was so indesoribably ludi crous that for the first and last time in the pulpit an involuntary smile forced itself up on tho eonntenanee of tbe preacher." Constitution of the Confederated States. MONTGOMERY, ALA., March, 12. The permanent Constitution of the confed erated States having beeD adopted by Cmg ress, and the obligation of secrtsy removed, your correspondent is enabled to transmit the lmtin foatuies of that important docu ment. No person of a foreign State and not a cit izen of the confederate S:ates, is allow ed to vote for any officer, either civil or political, State or federal. Under the first census, South Carolina is entitled to five representa tives in Congress ; Georgia to ?°n represen tatives ; Alabama to nine representatives ; Florida to two ropresentatives ; Mississippi to seven representatives ; Louisiana to sis representatives : and Texas to s'x represen tatives ; each State to have two St nature. — The State Legislatures may impeach a judi cial cr federal officer, resident aod-Mn£~itt said State, by a two-thirds vote. Both branches of Congress may grant seais on the floor of either House, to the principal officer of each executive department, with the priv ilege of discussing the measures of hi de partment. The representation of three fifths of the slaves is eantinued. Congress is not allowed, through the imposition of duties, to foster any branch of industry. The foreign slave trade is prohibited. Congress is pro* nibited fropi making appropriations unless by a vote of two-thirds of both Hoqses, ex cept when the appropriations are asked by the head of some depqftment or the Presi dent. No extra compensation is to be allovy ed to any contractor, officer or agent, after the contract is made or the service Rendered. Every law or resolution having the force of the law. sball relate to but one subject and be expressed by its title. The President and Vice President shall serve for six years.— Tbe principal officers of the departments and in the diplomatic service shall be removable at the pleasure of the President, and other civil officers, when their services are unne cessary or for other good causes ar d reasons. Removals from ofSee must ba reported to the Senate, and pracically no captious removal are to be tolerated. Qther S-atos to be ad mitted into toe Confederacy by a vote of two thirds of both Houses. The Confederacy may spq-iire territory, and slavery shall be acknowledged and protected by Congress a d the Territorial Government. When five States shall have ratified the Constitution, it shall be established for said State-, and until ratified, the Provisional Constitution is to continue in force for a nfSriod not ex.ending beyond ope year. Marriages in the United States. Circumstances sometimes uni'e to give an extraordinary aspect to certain unions.— Thus, it is related tout, in the State of Maine, the driver of a raiiway train—too busy, no doubt, to be able to devote a whole day to his wedding—made bis bride aud a minister start in one of the carriages, and had the ceremony performed while tbe train was running. A still more original occurrence is the marriage of a young Virginia couple, in 1855, who had to cross a river to reach the minister who was to unite them. But a flood bad converted the river into a torreut; it vfas neither ford able nor ferriable ; and they Could not expect that, to crown their happi ness, the minister would brave Leander's fate. They, therefore, shouted to the peo ple on the ppposite shore, explaining what they wanted. Tne pastor appeared ; they folded the paper containing the necessary au thorization, tied it to a stone, and threw it to the minister, who, after reading it and ex changing tbe usual questions Rr.t] answers, married the adventurous couple acios- the riyer according to the rites of tbe church.— These marriages, singular as they appear in form, are not the less iu earnest lor that, and are followed by eyerj civil consequence re quired. Other eccentric weddings, not in earnest, are a serious blow to the respect due to matrimony, and to tbe law that sanctions it. Among other follies, certain young Americans have amused themselves by e< n tracting mock marriages, or rather by get ting married inj ik . If two persons with no serious intention of marrying, neverthe less, go through ail the formalities they oof, byway of pastime, tbey are well and effec tually married by a legal bond. A case of thi-, kind occurred in Pennsylvania, in 1857. Miss J. met Mr. Q. at a party ; they ex changed pleasantries on the subject of mar riage ; Mr. Q. aiked Miss J's baud, which was given. To continue the joke they went to the house of n neighboring minister, where the conjugal knot was tied. After the lady had recovered her senses a little, she did not choose to carry the stimulation of matrimo— nv further. But the bridegroom took up the matter in a serious light. The girl was ob liged to petition for a divorce, as the only meanf of escaping thp legal consequences of her thoughtless pngagsment. Another sim ilar fact is quoted; and in both cases the di vorce was pronounced.— All the Year Round. JB§y* "Do you pretend to intimate, sir, that my butter is old ?" " Not old enough to have lost its hair, deqr madam." IST" Be honest, induetrous, and economi cal Our Foreign Relations. It is probable that, our relatiqns wi'h for eign powers mav be somewhat complicated during the present Administration. The Se oessioD of the Cotton otate has produced dil ficuhieg at Lome which will very likely be reproduced abroad. The secession tnoyemont baa weakened the good opinion entertained of our Rspublio by European nations, and it ia quite prohabje that we may not be treated with the eanoe respect ae formerly. This, however, will de pend nioub upon tbe foreign policy of the Lincoln Administration, and the representa tives it selects to send abroad. Still, confi dence in tbe stability of our institutions is greatly weakened, and difficulties are likely to arise in respect to tbe recognition of anoth* er nation on American soil. We believe that both Ecgland and France will be loth to recognize the Confederate States, but unless our Government asserts the supremacy of its laws over that portion of the' country, foreign cations will be compel led to acknowledge sece.-sion to some extent. The necessities of commercial intercourse will demand this, however reluctant the trior alists of England may be glad to give aid and comfort to a slave Confederacy. Yet England is not going to do without cotton even for conscience sake, and unless the ports of seceded Stages are effectually block aded, it is probable that tbe British will feel constrained to make such a recognition of se cessionist independence as commercial inter course will require. But Englaud is undoubtedly resolved to tako steps to relieve her from dependence! up on the South fojr cotton. This cannot be ac complished at once, but- that it tyill be effec ted in time, there is little doubt. For the present it will probably be necessary to have a greater or lpss quantity of the Southern cotton crop, and Britain not be debarred from obtaining it by any conscientious scru ples. Qur new tariff law seems to give great dis satisfaction in some parts of Europe. It was not expected that it would please foreign ex porters, nor was it framed for that purpose. Its design was to protect cur own manfactu rgrs and producers, and the best argument in its favor is tbe ev'decce that it is unsatis factory to those who have long been enrich ing themselves a? the expense of our citi zens. The Southern Clergy. Parson Brownlow says of his "brethren ip the ministry" who are preaching aud wri ting in favor of secession : As it regaids the Protestant clergy, oi tho several denominations, who are preaching sermons in favor of secession, we regard them as incinere, hypocritical and ow ardly. They despise this whole secession movement in their hearts—their religioo, education and conscience teach them that the Union and goverment of our fathers ought to be preserv ed. But their bread and meat depeud upon their favoring a great Southern mob, in the name of sscession, nnd under the pretence of eßtablising a S -utbern confederacy. It is only here and there in the seceding States that a minister can be found v[ho has the pietv, independence and eourpge to denounce this viie conspiracy to break up tbe govern uient. The venerable Dr. Pierce, of Georgia, a native of the South, and n true man, has utteily repudiated the whole movement over bis own signiiure. CHEATING GOING ON. —Some years ago a gains of p >ker was being played in this place. Jim C was in it, and during the game contrived to steal the four aces and lay them on his knee, to be played at the proper time. The player who sat nest to hiia saw the move, and slipping the aces from their hiding piece, put'ipg four others cards in their stead. \Vhen Jim's turn came to deal, he called on all hands to go blind. "I'll go over all of you." When all were in deep enough tc suit him, he reached for his aces, and brought up something else. Throwing bis cards on the table, in a tone of indigna tion be exclaimed : " Gentlemen, I can't play in this game; tbera's cheating going on ! THE SECEDED STATES. —The following ta* ble gives the population of these States, as shown by the census rptums of 1860 : Free, Slave. South Carolina, 303,186 407,185 Georgia, 615,336 467,461 Florida, ' 81,885 63,809 Alabama, 520,444 436.473 Mississippi, 407,551 469,607 Louisiana, 363.245 312 I^6 Total, 2,296 647 2.165,721 From this it will be seen that the free pop* ulation of this rebel Coulederacy is fair be low that cf New York, and less than that of Pennsylvania. Thp Niagara J?alls Gazette tells a sto ry of two ladies who were promenadiug along the street recently, when one of 'hem slip; ed and came down on the icy payement "like a thousand of bricks." Jumping quickly up, jhe exclaimed, sotto voce, ' Before another winter I'll have a man to hang to; see if I gOB'l." Peace or War. Tbe Democrats seem very anxious to con vince tbe country that the policy of the Ad ministration towards the South is war. Sen ator Breokinridge, following the example of Mr. Douglas, made a very elaborate speeoh On Monday, of which tbo whole object* was to show that the President's Inaugural indi cated a hostile purpose towards the Southern States. Tbe language of the Democratic Press tho country i q ot the same kind. It is not easy to see what patriotic purpose jisto be served by these endeavors. The j President has declared in the most explicit ; terms which language will furnish, that h's i policy is peace, —that he abhors the thought j of war between the two sections of the c.opn | try, and that tbe public peacs shall not be | disturbed by any act of the Federal Qovern ! men?, so far as he has the power to prevent ! it. The only possible way in which civil war can be brought about is by the wanton, J hostile action of the seceded States. If they I wish war, they can undoubtedly have it. It I is in their power to bring about a collision. | They can commence hostilities by making an j attack upoQ either Fort Sumter or Fort Pick ■ ens—and where they would end when once commenced, no one can tell. Such a catas trophe would be deeply to be deplored ; aud it is unquestionably the duty, as it will be tbe policy, of tbe Administration, to re frain from everyth'ng which can give any shadow of justification for such a course. But no one can fail to see that, after all, the issue of peace or war rests exclusively with the South. If the leaders of the new Confederacy deem it for their interest to plunge the qountry ipto war, they will doubt less do so. It is quite possible that they may decide in favor of war. They will find it very difficult to keep so largo an army as they are raising, in the field, and they will find it still more d-fficult to keep the senti ment of their people up to secession-pitch, without a war. flow long they would sus tain themselves after war should be commen c°d, it may be worth their while to consider. But they may deem it necessary to the very existence of their new Government to force an issue which will fqr tbe moment override all prudence and all reflection. If this shall he their policy, nothing that tbe Federal Government can do will avert war, —if not, we shall have no war, —for the President will do everything in his power to avert such a calamity. The Democrats insist that war must follow any attempt to colleqt the revenue, to hoid the forts or enforce the laws in any of the Southern States. That will depend upon the manner in which the attempt is made and upon the disposition and policy cf the new Confederacy. If they wish war, they will seize upon this pretext to commence it. If not, tbey will avoid the issue unless it is so forced upon them as to render evasion im possible,—and of this we have little fear.— We believe the President will do everything in hia power to preserve tbe peace. In all such efforts ho will have the support of the people in both sections. If war is forced up on us in f-pite of his endeavors, by the mad ness or desparation of the seceded States, he will meot the issue boldly and promptly,—in full confidence of being sustained by those whose honor and interests are commuted to bis bands.— Y. Times. " Hidden Treasures" Among t'ue cases on the list now before the Supreme Court of this State a most curi ous one. It seems that awav up in Luzerne county lived a man named Elisha Harris.— He owned a large farm, and was supposed to have sayed considerable money. Ife was an eccentric apd closefisted individual, and he livd entirely secluded and alone. In July, 1858, he died. His administrators could find no property beyond the ordinary household furniture, &c. According to custom, they had H vendue was well attended, it being in fened that the money which it was sqpposed the deceased died posessed of, had bean con cealed somewhere, and old ebests aod bu reaus probably never before sold so well at an up country sale. Well, one David M. Huthmaoher, an honest Duehman, went to the sale, and a nondescript article of furni ture was struck off to him for fifteen cents. It was a square block of pine wood, about three feet long and four legs, each about a foot and a half in length. On tbe top was q horizontal wheel, with an iron spindb at tached to it. It was an outlandish affair, and it might, for ail we know, haye come out of the Ark, and been applied to antediluvian uses. David paid bis fifteen cents, hauled his purchased home, aod threw it on the wood-piie. In course of time it came to be split open for firewood, when, lo I it was found to contain $3,754,50 in gold and silver coin and promissory notes. David, though poor, was honest, and he informed the ad ministrators of his discovery. The result was that a cuit was entered to determine to whom the treasure should belong. Tbe lower Court decided against honest David, and he appealed. Such was the case that came up a few days ago, and it occasioned much merriment. No decision has yet been made. jSQj" Gossip is one of the meanest as well as one of the most degraded crimes that eoei etj tolerates. EDITORS & PROPRIETORS. NUMBER 19 Sam Patch's Last Leap. A jorrcspondent of the Rochester Demo crat tßkes exception to a statement concern ing the renowned Sam Patch which recently appeared in an onglish book, ami gives the correct version of tho story of that individosTe lat leap. lie nays: " Sara Patch's last leap occurred on the afternoon of the loth of November. 1523 . on a dark cloudy, dismal autumn d iy. The bsavpns, as it keeping vrith tha melancholy soectecle, were almost clothed iD saokcloth. The sue refused to look upon the mournful tragedy. But ten thousand human beings, more thougn tires, lined the banko of the riv er on both sides, perohed also upon the mills and houses, and in trees, abovo and below the bigh banks, to cheer and encourage the poor drunken suicide in bis self-immolation. A scaffold was erected thirty feet high, on the island above the fails as they then were, standing very near where the sawmill upon the brow of the cataract now is. From that, scaffold poor Sam dropped into the deep wa ter, as it then was, below. Ten thousand eager eyss watched bins as he went like an arrow down against the dark ledge of rocks, a distnnee of one hundred and twenty six feet. Ten thousand eager eyes gazed with breathless anxiety upon the spot where be fell, expeotiog to see bira emerge from tha water as he had done moat gracefully just one week before, after jumping from the precipice without the scaffold, a distance of ninety-six feet; boats put out below, and sailed around near the spot, ready to piok him up. Ten thousand people, like a great crowd of witnesses, still lining the cliffs, still, straining their eyas to catch the first glimpse of acy dark speck on the waters, no one dtu ring hardly to move or draw a long breath, for near half an hour, until one by one tbey' began to turn away and give him up, many with tearful eves, many with words saddened and subdued upon their lips, " Poor Sam—it was his last leap. How foolhardy 1 How wicked I" And soma whsre herd to say, " llow wicked to oountenance a miserable man in such suicide 1 If wo had not beoEj lookmg on, he \foultf not have done it 1" Fur two long hours, ot least, un'i! dark ness stopped their work, eager men hunted all over and through the watere below the falls, to find the poor remains of the misera ble victim of his own folly, but found them not, Next day the search was renewed.—• Indeed it was kept up with more or less dil ligence for some time; and yet all in vain fur that season. Searching, dragging, fishing in the water day after day, revealing nothing. But the next spring body was picked up by some qnkncvyn person ngar the mouth of the river, seven miles below, as it was floated out into the lake. It nad lain in the water all winter; bad gone down over the lower falls also; and still was in such a state of preservation as to be readily dentified. It was takeaup, and decently buried in a epo| of ground near at hand." American Humor. The most obvious charaeteristic of Amer ican bumor is its power of " pitching it strong," and drawing the long bow. It is the humor ot exaggeration. This consists o£ fattening up a joke until it is rotund and ru bicund, unctuous and irresistible as Fulstaff himself, who was created by SJhakspearo, and fed fat, so as to become for all time tliß very impersonation of huuaor in a state of corpu lence. That place in the geography of the United State* called " Down East" has been most prolific in the monstrosities of mirth.— Only there would a tree'd coon have cried to the marksman with his gun pointed, '* Don't fire, Colonel, I'll come down." Only in that region do they travel at such speed that th 6 iron rails got hot enough to serve the car riages with heat instead of hot-water bottles, and sometimes so hot that cn looking back you see the irons writhing about like live snakes, trying to wriggle off to the water to cJbl themselves. Only there do tbey tiavel so fast that the signal-whistle is cf no use for their engines, because, on one ooeasion at least, the train was in, and smashed in a col lision, long before the sound of the whistle got there ! Only there can a blow be struck so "slick" as to take an animal's ear off with such ease, that tbe animal does not not know he is one ear short until he puis bis forefoot up to scratch it. Only there, surely, are the thieves so 'cute that they drew a walnut log right out of its bark, and left IJve sleepy watchers all Dcdding as they sat astride cf a tunnel of walnut wood rind. North Caroli na, we suppose, can Dot be " Down East," else some of the storries that " Skit" tell* in hie " Fisher's Kiyer Scenes and Characters" have the old family features as like as two peas. Charles Lamb's idea of the worst pos sible inconvenience of being in a world a to tal darkness was, that, after makiDg a pun, you would have to put put your band and grope over the listener'* face, to feel if he was enjoying it. It would requite abroad grin to be felt. Borne of these stories ore of the sort to produce a broad grin which might be felt in total darkness.— North Bt iluJt Ee~ view. 6Qy Knowledge cannot he acquired with out pains and application. It is troublesome, and like deep digging for pure water ; but when onoe you come to tbeeprioga, they rifcj upandmwt you *