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Thl honw. prnmin*nl in ■ tity fam*4 for It* roin fortald* hot* I*, I* k*pt In **ry r**p*rt oqntl to any Hr.tclaM botals In lh e>iiintry. Ow tn* loth* rtrln- F*ncy of Ih* tlmaa, lh |itirn of board b* lia*n radnrad In rnait nvtUMpar day. J M KIMHIN, W Sawasr. 13R0CKERH0FF HOUSE, J ' BF.LLRFONTR, PA. HOUSEAL k TELLER, Proprietors. Good SampU Room on Fint Floor. Ft** RUM to and from nil Train*. Special rat** to a itri***** nnd jnn.ri. • l-ly ©tie Centre BELLGFONTE, PA. The Largsit, Cheapest and Best Paper PUM.tHII KD IN CKNTRS COUNT*. ULAINR—CLAY. From Ihti Allwny Arirnn. Blaine is being called "the Henry C'luy of the Kcpiiblicun party." This pleases the Conkling ami Sherman organs, inasmuch as Henry Clay nev er became President. But it is a proof of the facile flippancy of journalism, and of the grave injustice it docs to character. No man was ever horn who thought Henry Clay a dishonor able man. There is no man living who thinks lllaine an honorable man. Eulogy is exhausted as to him when he is called a brilliant rascal. The strictly disreputable and for-sale-ole ine ts of politics exclusively praise him. Henry Clay's legislative acts shaped party politics for forty years. There is no law on the books of which Blaine is the author. There is no pol icy of which Bluine is the originator in American affairs. Clay was chosen speaker at once, because of the emi nence he won before entering Con gress. Blaine was an unknown before he entered Congress, and had to job, barrow and bargain for years before fie got to be s|>eaker. Clay left the House to go to the Senate by promo tion. Blaine went to the Senate to avoid expulsion from the House, be cause of flagrant ami ferocious corrup tion in his office. Clay had the faults of gaming, drinking, dueling and gal lantry. Blaine has the crimes that made him market his rulings for mon ey, pack committees for pay, and sell his soul to the devil and Tom Scott for stock and railroads. Clay was the soul of honor, lie entered Con gress poor. He left it poorer. Blaine entered Congress joor, and in Congress 1 he has become rich by money he nei- j ther married, earned nor inherited, j Clay saved the Union from civil war three times by his statesmanship. Blaine has never professed nor disclos ed one act of patriotism or statesman ship. There was no public trust that j would not have welcomed Clay to its j side. There is no business dejiendeut i on qualities that inspire confidence ihat would let Blaine come near it. ' Clay led his party in the Senate, j Blaine is despised by Edmunds, scorn-1 cd by Conkling, and ignored by the whole Senate in any other role than that of a common villificr. To liken j James O. Blaine to Henry Clay is worse than absurd, it is outrageous. The one was eloquent, the other is tonguey. The one was accomplished ami learned, the other glib and ignor ant. The one honored his State aud country, the other devoted himself to infamous enrichment. The one was a glorious statesman, the other a glitter- j ing demngogne. The one was repeat edly made the candidate of a great party, the other was pitchforked out ;of the only convention iu which he j I ever sought a nomination, 011 the ex- ! pressed gronnd that his career was such i a negation of public virtue that his party would be at war with the mor- 1 ality of the age if it named him. In the work of saving his country nnd composing the feuds of the people and nations, Clav came to his liest. In the >■ work of fouling the judiciary o' mid nights, to decree the theft of a l'rcsi- j dency or a State, all the qualities of Blaine come to their greatest eminence j of shame. Likening him to Henry Clay forsooth! If the shade of the; great Commoner should revisit the place where he so long and so well served his country nnd the world, it would, with its unspeakable contempt for dishonor, strike such terror into the soul of Blaine that the very appa rition would sear his eye-balls, and either he would fall dumb to death, or make fast and furious confessions of his crimes against liberty and integri ty, to a world which would find that such a confession comported with his whole conscienceless career. PITTSBURG and HICKORY JACK HON FIUOI Iho Washington Capital. It is not generally known that Pitts burg and Western Pennsylvania was extensively the cause of the salvaliou of General Jackson and his men at New Orleans. The month of Decem ber, 1814, was the most critical month in the entire history of the war of 1812. The British had swept the coasts, captured our City of Washing ton, penetrated the lakes, held Balti more almost in the hollow of their hands, and were menacing the great port of the south, New Orleans. They anticipated the capture of that city, and if it fell they knew that the juve nile republic would be pretty thor oughly strangled. These anticipations were natural, inasmuch as Jackson was out of ammunition, and it seemed almost impossible to obtain any; quite a jportion of the country wherein was the wealth, the Northern Htates, were very neutral, if not positively opposed to the war, and would lend no helping hand ; there was little means of ob tain powder or lead in the Houlh, and, as is usual under such circumstances, the prices increased to an extortionate value. It was then that Pittsburg came to the front, and with the steamboat. Enterprise, the third that ever sailed in Western waters, sent relief to Jack son and saved New Orleans. One of its most'prominent men, old Mr. Fos* tcr, swore no ICHS emphatically than Old Hickory thnt the little army should be saved. He was warmly aid ed by the other people of western Pennsylvania, and men, women and children entered briskly into the work of supplying nna is for munitions of war. Powder was purchased aud made, bullets moulded, cartouche boxes were manufactured and muskets supplied with a vim and energy peculiar to this day to the live people of that section. The Enterprise was loaded on the l. r )th of December, nnd though it was twilight, and the ice was thick upon the river, Captain Shreve, its comman der, cast off and sped down the river with the God-speed from the peoph on the hank aud the cry of "Dou'i lose any time." "I'll get there ahead of the British or sink the boat," was the laconic pa triotic reply. The munitions on board this boat were complete. Foster sent everything precisely that Jackson didn't have and wanted. From wearing apparel to gun-wipers the outfit was perfect. The trip was dangerous and most trou blous. There were no wood-yards nlong the Ohio or Mississippi in those days, ami the crew were necessitated to chop wood and cord it as they trav ersed down the route. Brave hearts head off obstacles however, aud the Enterprise kept its word. It arrived just in the nick of time. I/caving Pittsburg on the 15th of Decern her, it reached New Orleans on the loth of January, just three days before the at tack of the British. There, then, did it pan out its wealth of warlike im plements of death, and the use that the American troops put them to is a matter of history written in the blood of the invader. NAPOLEON AND MARIE LOI ISK. R-t jew arcnt. could assume the responsibility of a decision.) 'I shall leave it in mv daughter's hands,' ex claimed the Emperor, warmlv, 'for I will never constrain her; and I desire, before consulting my duty as a mon arch, to know what is her wish in the matter. Find the Archduchess, and let me know what she says to you. I will not myself sjieak to her on the subject, lest it should seem as though I wished to influence her decision.' " When Metternich saw the Arch duchess, she answered as follows: "I wish only what it is my duty to wish where the interest of the Empire is concerned, that interest must be con sulted, not my will. Ask my father to consult his duty as a ruler, and to subordinate to that any interests con nected with my person." This reply being reported to the Emperor, lie ac cepted Napoleon's offer with an ex press reservation that on neither side should any condition be attached U> the alliance, and added that there were "sacrifices which must not be contaminated by anything approach ing to a bargain." "This," continued Metternich, "is the truth respecting the marriage of Napoleon with the Archduchess Marie Louise." A ruT crow belonging to a lady in Savannah, Ga,, recently died of old age. The owner mourns for the lost caws. THE school-boy who swallowed his slate pencil has since thrown up the sponge. Sanguinary Duel Between Two tilrls in Virginia. IIOTIf ENAMORED OP ONE MAN WHO WAS IN DOUBT AS TO WHICH HE 1.1 KKD BEST— ONE TAKES A CLUB AND THE OTIiEK A I'lTcarOMK. Onanoock, Va., Feb. 10. —A san guinary duel was fought here between t wo women lust Saturday, which ended in the probable fatal wounding of both. Miss Louisa Wise and Miss Margaret Downing had for some time excited much comment in the little village be cause of their jealous cjuarrels over the attentions of a young man named Benjamin Young. On one or two oc casions they had come to blows in his presence, and were only restrained from seriously injuring each other by the efforts of Young. This ycung man seems to have been in doubt s to which of the maidens possessed bis heart, and renli/ing'tbe force of the axiom : How tin|*|y I oonld L* with Hthnr, Wert) t'other tlr churuier away, temporized-with them and bad little difficulty in convincing each that she was the object of bis admiration. At length on Friday evening he went to a party with Miss Wise, and while dancing with her the assemblage was thrown into intense excitement by the sudden appearance of Miss Downing, ! who, in a tragic manner, stalked up j to the couple and forbade her lover to ! dance with her rival. As she stood facing the couple, with her eyes in fhitued with passion, it was not thought that violence would be the next act in the drama. Suddenly, however, with j a piercing shriek, she sank to the floor 1 in a swoon, frothing at the mouth as though suffering from an epileptic fit. She was removed by her friends, and Young and Miss Wise withdrew. The following day Miss Wise re ceived a note from Miss Downing, re questing her to call upon her, as she wished to see her about au important matter Miss Wise went to her rival's house, as requested. She entered the yard, walked around to the kitchen entrance, pushed open the door, and, stepping inside,saw her rival setting bv the stove, with her head resting roood ily upon her band. When Miss Downing caught sight of Miss Wise, she sprang to her feet, and seizing a stout club, rushed at her, shrieking with rage. Miss Wise ran into the yard, and, seeing the other following, she picked up a pitchfork, and facing her enraged rival, warned her to stand off. Miss Downing exclaimed : "All right; we will fight now. You have a weapon, so have 1." Both being strong, healthy,country girls, they found no difficulty in wield ing their weapons. As Miss Downing rushed at the other, she was met hv the three-tioed fork, which was driven into her breast. The next instant she struck Miss Wise a stunning blow on the head which staggered her, and fol lowing it up bv a second blow which felled her to tfie ground. Miss Wise soon regained her feet, and assuming the offensive, impaled Miss Downing'a hands ou the prongs of the fork. Agniu she received a blow on the head from the club which felled her to the grnutwl. While in this position she thrust the pitchfork into Miss Do wir ing's face making three tcrribie wounds. By this time both were weakened by the loss of blood and drop[KNl to the ground insensible. In this ]>osition they were found by some neighbors, who gave the alarm. Dr. Drummond was summoned and was soon in attendance. Both girls were terribly ftijured. Miss Downing hav ing been wounded fourteen times by the pitchfork, and Miss Wise shock ingly bruised and beaten aIMWt the head. They are now suffering from a high fever, and the physician has lit tle hopes of their recovery. In lucid intervals they gave the particulars of the fight, and at the same time each begged pitcously to see Mr. Young. The latter, evidently not relishing the notoriety into which he was brought by the strange infatuation of the two girls, has left the town, nnd no trace of him can be discovered. The affair has rausi-d the most intense excitement here, at d the usually quiet little town has been in a turmoil since the par ticulars of the fight were made public. SKATINIJ FOK LIFE. That skating has been in certain circumstances something inore than mere elegant accomplishment is well illustrated by two anecdotes, told by the author of some entertaining "Rem iniscences of (Quebec," of two settlers in the far West, who saved their lives by the aid of their skates. In one case the backwoodsman had been captured hy Indians, who intended soon nfter to torture him to death. Among his haggngc their happened to lie a pair of skates, nnd the Indian's curiosity was so excited that their captive was told to explain their use. Ho led his captors to the edge of n widelnke, where the smooth ice stretch ed away as far as the eye could see, and put on the skates. Exciting the laughter of the Indians hy tumbling about in a clumsy manner, he grad ually increased his distance from the shore till he at length contrived to get a hundred yards from them without arousing their suspicion, when he skated away as fast as he could, and finally escaped. The other settler is said to have been skating alone one moonlight night, and, while contem plating the reflection of the firmament in the clear ice, and the vast dark mass of forest surrounding the lake and stretching away in the back- ground, he suddenly discovered, to his horror, that the adjacent bank was lined with a pack of wolves. He at once "made tracks" forborne, followed hy these animals ; but the skater kept ahead, and one hy one the pack tailed off; two or three of the foremost, how ever, kept up the chase, but when they attempted to close with the skater, by adroitly turning aside, he allowed them to pass him. And after a few unsuccessful and vicious attempts on the part of the wolves, he succeeded in reaching his log hut in safety. HI X DOWN AT THE IIEEI.S. A man clad in the habiliments of the tramp knocked briskly on the hack door of a Cincinnati residence on New Year's day, and bowing low to the girl who made her appearanc \ said : "The compliments of the season, fair maid, ami may each recurring New- Year—" "Oh, go 'long !" said the girl, inter rupting him. "I am not the only man who has run down at the heel. "No, there were seven ahead of you this morning." ".Seeing you keep open house, I i presume thev were admitted at the i front door. But the back door is I good < nougli for me. lam not proud. | You will observe I did not come in a carriage ; but no matter. I am hun gry. I would like to get a bite to eat." "We haven't anything for you." "Don't be to sure of that until you know who I am. You probably never heard of people entertaining angels unawares." "Yes I have ; hut I don't believe it." "Homer was a beggar." "He never got anything here, toy good man." "Cervantes died of hunger." "He ought to have gone to work." j "Diflenhacker had nineteen trades, and starved to death with all of them. However, that is neither here nor there." "Try the boarding house over the way." "Spencer died in want." "I know it. He depended on this . shebang for his victuals." "Tasso, 1 taly's celebrated poet —" "Oh, I suppose he was shot." "He was not; but he was often hard pushed for a nickle. I mention these facts to prepare you for what is com ing. I am the. individual who first mentioned Grant for a third term." "We arc all solid for John Bherman," said the girl. The man walked slowly to the gate, paused, scratched his head, and turn ing once more to the female, said : "Wouldn't you give a future cab inet officer a cold jwtato?" "Couldn't think of it." "What if the next Minister to the Court ofSt. .Jamesshould ask for one ?" "He couldn't get it." "Yerv well. I will not withdraw my good wishes for the new year. I presume you are acting according to instructions. A man who is just en tering upon the primrose paths of politics can afford to he magnanimous." And, kissing his hand to the hard hearted housemaid, he took his leave. AX ELOtJI ENT I'AHSAUE. The following is from the pen of the late George I>. Prentice: It can not be that earth is man's only abiding place. It cannot he that our life is a mere bubble cast up by eternitv to float a moment on its waves and then sink into nothingness. Klse why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temples of our hearts, are forever wandering unsatis fied ? Why is it that the "tars that hold their festival around the mid night throne are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their inapproachable glory? And, finally, whv is it that bright forms of human beauty presented to our view arc taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of our affections to flow hack in Alpine torrents upon our hearts? There is a realm where the rainbow never fades; where tha j stars will be spread out before us like the islands that slumber ill the occau ; and where the beautiful beings which pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. TWO KINDS OF REITBLICANB! From Tmncrl|f, (R+p) February 16. By the aid of the evidence lor the first time procurable from the enemy, this board of West Point officers unan imously found and reported that, so far from betraying General Pop! and his army, General Porter, in fact saved him and his command from ut ter defeat and possible annihilation. 80 far from deserving the brand of traitor, which General Porter has worn for the best part of his life, he should have been acclaimed the savior of the national army. It Is monstrous that a man who has suffered as Fits John Porter has done should again he made the victim of party passion. Yet it is evident that his wrong is to he used as the foot-hall for the opening of the ¥ime of partisan politics in Congress. he head kickers are getting readv, according to the Washington despatch es, for the rough-aud-turahle which has been so long delayed, and' which is absolutely necessary for the warming up of politics for the year's campaign. The unfortunate Porter finds even the Democrat*, in whose name he ban been made to Buffer so long, disposed to shirk the proponed righting of his position lest the jms sioim of war-time be reawakened by the indiscreet speeches that can no doulit be wrung from the Southerners by the challenging oratory ready to lie opened on the occasion. " Hut it will be, all the same, a lasting disgrace to Congress and to the country if, with the undisputed truth as to Porter's patriotic services now before the world as it will stund in history, the bill for his relief from stigma and restoration to rank and rights should not pass. As for General Porter himself, it mat ters far less. He has already received his real vindication and nothing can take if from him. Mow a Yankee Itoy Iteeanie a Russian fount. A correspondent of the Merrimac (Me.) Journal relates the following interesting history, showing how a brave Yankee hoy attained raok ami fortune over half a century ago. In 1730, Kev. Himons Finley Williams, a graduate of Harvard, and a son of a distinguished clergyman of that day in Massachusetts, received a call aud was settled by the. town of Meredith as their pastor. He lived in what is now known as the Williams house. The letter of acceptance written by Mr. Williams is now found in the records of the town of Meredith. He preached for quite a number of years in the town, and afterward became a chaplain in the United Htates navv, aud died, 1 think, in the service. In the old parsonage was born a son, who was bound out to service to a prominent business man of Meredith Bridge, now Laeonia, when seventeen years of age. He went out one evening, it is said, to interveiw some fair girl of the js riod, and upon his return was soundly thrashed by his employer. The following night he took a longer j pilgrimage, taking with him S3OO from his master's desk. He reached the town of Ossipee, aud there hired a young man who was at work as a car |*,*nter, afterward a well-known mer i chant of Meredith, Samuel Bran, Ksq., to carry him to the city of Portland, where he shipped on board a Russian ! merchantman, a short time before a J party arrived in pursuit of him. | On the way to Russia the vessel | was attacked by pirates. The captain seeing no hope of escape, was about to surrender, but young Williams told him that if he would order two men to assist him he would take care of the pirates. Having found an old swivel on board he loaded it with scraj* of iron and such other ammunition as lie could obtain, and sank two boatloads ot buccaneers, and reached St. Peters burg in safety. The tidings having reached the Fmperor he sent for the captain, who corroborated the Rtorv and gave the bov due credit for his valor. Young Williams was ordered to the palace and places! in the navv, and became admiral-iu-chief of the Russian navy, and was created a no bleman, his title being Count Zinclicr schoff. He came to this country about the year I*3o, and drove from Boston to I>acouia in a coach, called to see his former employer, and paid him iu gold, principal and interest, saying be should return to Russia an houest man. He visited his father* old par id!, and stopped over night with Dearborn Wadleigh, father of John Wadleigh, Adjutant-General of New Hampshire, who from his recollection of the admiral, pronounced him to be a fine-looking and intelligent man. He soon after returned to Russia, hav ing made his first, and, as far as is known, his lad visit to his native country. Cooking a lobster. " Rridget, what did mistress say she would have for dinucr?" "Hroil the lobster." "Broil the lobster? Are you sure, Bridget ?" "Kntirely. (et the gridiron." Mary got the gridiron and placed the live lobster on the gridiron. .Intermission of five minutes, after which the dialogue was resumed as follows: "Did vou broil the Idfister, Mary?" "Divil a broil. The more I poked the fire, the more he walked off. The haste's haunted. I'll try nomore. No good will oome from cooking a strad dle-bug like that." "And where is the lobster." "Divil a bit 1 know. The last I saw of him he was walking out of the Imck door with his tail at half-mast, like a wild maniac, as he was." Brid get started in pursuit of the wild "man iac," and was still after it when our informant left. It is on record that Meyer Anselm, the founder of the house of Rothschild, entered Hanover, iu 1763, barefooted, and with a bundle of rag* on his back. The present capital of the dif ferent Rothenilds is said to be at least $<">00,000,000, and they can control as much more. The reticence of the Rothschilds as regards their business, except in open transactions, is invaria bly profound. One of them is reputed to have said to them, "One great rea son of our success is that we know how to hold our tongues." "A Won AS After All" is the title of a lwok Iwfore us. That . it. That is the thing they are usually after, aud they get it, too.