IP)* Centre i&fe fflemnrrat SIIUHKRT & FOKSTF.K, Editors. VOL. 3. ' . ®he Centre ,51 era a crat.; Terai t1.50 por Auuam.ln Ailvano*. S. T. SHUOERT snd R. H. FORSTER, Editor.. Thursday Morning, July 7, 1881. THE COUNTRY'S PERIL ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT. Story of the Crime ami the Criminal's Capture. Condition or the President Still Critirul but u Reasonable Hope of Recovery. Ou Saturday morning last the coun try was horritietl with the startling an nouncement by telegraph from Wash ington that President Garfield had been shot. It was an appalling dis patch, and many were at first inclined to doubt its truth, but, alas,subsequent information only proved that it was • too true! Whilst waiting at the de jot of the Haiti more and Potomac railroad, in the city of Washington, whither the President had gone in the early morning for the purpose of tak ing a train for his contemplated jour ney North, he was suddenly stricken down by the hand of an assassin, and has since lain in an extremely dan gerous condition in the narrow con fines which separate life from death. Well may the country stand terri fied in the presence of this monstrous crime. It was a deed of atrocious wickedness; for it there can l>e no excuse or palliation, and the life of the miserable and desperate wretch will be hut a poor penalty for the calamity lie sought to bring about. Thank God, there is still a ray of hope which gives-assurance that the stricken Pres ident may yet survive his injuries, and not only throughout the length and breadth of our own land, North and South, East and West, hut through out the entire civilized world, there is but one sentiment among good people * —that of profound sympathy for him in his suirering, and of earnest and sincere desire for his speedy and perma nent recovery. Late Telegrams. On Tuesday alternoon ex-Gov. Curtin received the following dispatch from Philadelphia: „ PHILADELPHIA, July 6,1881. Ex-Gov. CCRTIN Attorney General wires the following condition of the President: "Very encour aging and every one feet* quite hopeful of bis recovery." The following were received at tele graph office yesterday : WASIIINOTON, D. C., July 6—4.45 A. M. Garfield's recovery is *aid to be sure. WASHINGTON, D. C., July fi—B A. M President Garfield sleeping quietly and breathing naturally. Pulse 100. LATER. At 2 P. a., yesterday, Governor Cur tin reoieved the following from Pbiia delphia: PHILADELPHIA, July 0, 1881. President's condition growing more fa vorable. The Story of the Crime. President Garfield was shot on Satur day morning, at 920 o'clock, in the Ilaltimore and Potomac Depot in Wash, ington. The President was about leav ing for a trip to New England. He and Secretary Blaine were driven to the de pot. There were fifty or sixty friends of the President in the depot waiting to see him off. Among them were the Postmaster General, Secretaries Hunt and Windom and their families. Col. Rockwell was there in advance with his son and Harry Garfield, the little son of the President. The President and Secretary Blaine entered the depot to gether. As tbey were passing through the main reception hall Cbaa. Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker and pro nounced by some to btflnsane, stepped ■ up to the President and fired. He had a large California revolver, known as a "bulldozer" and carrying a ball of large calibre. The ball entered the Presi dent's shoulder, although aimed for the * heart. This wound was not dangerous. He immediately fired again, aiming for the stomach. The bullet entered the President's body between the tenth and aleventh ribs, on the right side of the spual column, and passed down- "KQLAL AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OT WHATEVER HTATK OH PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OH POLITH'AL.-JVLBTWIU ward into and through the lower end of the right lobe of the liver and finally lodged in the anterior portion of the abdomen. The President fell to the tloor, bleeding profusely. The would be assassin turned and attempted to pass out by the H street entrance to a carriage which he had in wailing, but was stopped by Officer Kearney. "Ar rest that man !" shouted the crowd ; lie's killed the President 1" and the officer feil upon him. "Yes, I have finished Garfield," he cried. "Arthur is President now. I am a stalwart of the stalwarts." And then he was hur ried off to jail. Secretary Blaine at first rushed towards the assassin and then returned to the prostrate Presi dent. The Presidential carriage, still outside, was quickly dispatched for Dr. Bliss, who found the President in a very weak condition. TAKEN TO TIIE WHITE HOUSE. The excitement was intense. The uews traveled all over the city in an incredibly short space of time and in a few minutes the depot was surrounded by thousands of people. The President was conveyed to an upper room, where he vomited. This made liiui so weak that the gravest doubts were expressed for his recovery. An ambulance was sent for and drew up to the door, and at quarter past ten the victim of fanati cism was borne mournfully from the depot, while the thousands without stood with uncovered heads. It might have been in the quiet recesses of some old forest, so respectfully and tenderly quiet was the assembly. Before the amliulanee they gave way to the street above. Once on the smooth asphaltum of Pennsylvania avenue the ambulance i t< am was urged to a gallop, and, sur rounded by mounter! police, the caval cade swept clattering up the street to ward the White House. The waiting j-üblic hsil just begun to understand that the President was still alive. There was a great commotion along the nve- I nue. Word was passed from mouth to mouth with much greater rapidity than a horse could tly that the President was being removed from the depot to the White House. The crowds rushed to the curb and awaited the approach of the procession. First came a mounted - policeman, on a gallop, about sixty 1 yard* in advance ot Die police ambu- j lance. In front of and surrounding the ! ambulance were eight other mounted officer*. The vehicle was drawn by a pair of gray horses, which, under the > iush of.tiie driver, went at full, gallon up the south side of the avenue. Col. Corbin, of the Adjutant General's office, sal on the seat by the driver, and three t or four men on the steps in the rear. Several physician* preceded the CAval cade in carriages, and the rear was cov ered by four mounted officers The gates at the east entrance of the White House ground*, south of the Treasury building, were thrown open a* the am bulance approached, and the mournful - procession entered. The crowd# of |>eo pie on foot who ran at full speed behind the escort were prevented from enter ing the ground by the closing of the , gales, and policemen were stationed at every entrance to prevent people from invading the grounds. The ambulance was driven to the south entrance ot the ' building and the wounded I'resident was carefully carried to the northwest chamber on the second lloor. Before the removal was effected the Secretary of War had ordered four full batteries J and a mounted battalion numbering 150 men on duty, the firt as infantry and the latter as cavalry. The gleaur of bayonets shone around the Baltimore : and Potomac depot within a few nun- j uti-s and glistened over the green sward [ about the Executive Mansion. When the Deputy United States Marshal ten dered bia assistance to the Secretary of ' War Mr. Lincoln gravely said: "1 have ! charged myself with the public peace.'' j He was very moody and much affected by the unhappy tragedy which so terri bly reminded him of the death of his father by the hand of an assassin. An other military provision was the order ing of the District Militia to guard the District jail, where the prisoner Guiteau had been taken. Ooce at the White House the Presi dent was made as comfortable as possi ble. Hail a dozen of the beat physi cians in the city were called in. At first the news was given out that the wound was not necessarily fatal, and the President, who had never once lost consciousness, dictated a nolo to his wife at I/>ng Branch. It was this: MRS.GARFIELD, Elbcron, Long Brunch: The President wishes me to say to you from him that he has been seriously hurt. How seriously he cannot yet say. lie is himself and hopes you will c-oine to him soon. He sends his love to you. A. F. ROCKWELL. As the afternoon wore on the Presi dent's symptons grew worse and it was telegraphed all over the world that there was but very slight ground (or hope. The President conversed freely with those about him and was very anxious for the arrival of his wife. Hhe left !/>g Branch shortly before 1 o'clock on a special train, placed at her disposal by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The distance is about 200 miles and she reached Washington in less than six hour*. From Gray's Kerry to Bay View, a distance of 9ft miles, the trained trav eled in 100 minutea. What a journey that was to one sorrowing, grief stricken woman I Hhe was accompanied by a special agent of the railroad and mem bers of ner own family. From I*wg Branch to Philadelphia the distance was made with but a single stop. Hhe was shown no dispatches at Philadel phia. Members of the party, with trembling hands, received a dispatch saying the President's condition was encouraging, yet what hope could be BELLEFONTK, l'A., THURSDAY, JULY 7, IKBI. given her where all was uncertainty even to the President's physicians? Mr*. Garfield arrived at>out half-past six. The President was conversing with Secrelary Hunt and others around his bedside and bis quickened ear caught the sound of the carriage wheels below. "That is she," In- said, turning his face with a glad smile towaid his watchers, and so it was. Attorney General MacVengh assisted Mrs. Gar field to alight ami conducted her up stairs to her husband. She was weep ing. Iler eyes were ird and swollen, but she liore herself with much forti tuile. "She is a plucky little woman," said the President, when he was ques tioned as to the propriety of her being shown to his bedside, and so she proved herself. She took oil' her things as she went up and going to the bedside sp>k<- cheerfully and hopefully of his recov ery. Dr. Bliss had said : "You have one chance ol recovery." "I embrace that chance," replied the President. Mrs. Garfield smiled through h-r tears and spoke sweetly of his dearness to her ami the impossibility of her being call ed upon to lose him in such n way and hour as this. All through the inter view she showed herelf strong and self-reliant, as if she had effectually schooled herself to bear the worst. Mrs. Blaine, Mr. MacVeagh and all members of the Cabinet were present, besides the attendant physicians. THE SCENE AT NIGHT. A large crowd assembled outside t're grounds early in the -lay and throngs of excited ami anxious people paraded up and down all the afternoon, catching greedily at every rumor that catne from within the gates. The crowd was great ly augmented at night ami the anxiety increased with each report of his con dttion. Up in the White House offices M*t-iubled a Inige lecial cor respondent#, some about the door* of the Private Secretary, in whispering gn-upe near the great windows, ami writing out their notes at various offi cial desks. Reports of the situation came out ev--ry minute or two and were greatly conflicting. The mn-t hopeful took their cue from Dr. Bliss, who ap peared to be the ni't sanguine of those in attendance. He thought the Presi dent improving. A number of promi nent Washington ladies and the ladies of various high official household* sat in the ante room* below stair# waiting to hear various bulletins a* tbey came from the wounded President's cham ber. (if all these people watching and wailing not one was as cheerful and self posseted as the wounded Presi dent. He bore hi* suffering without a murmur, had a word and a smile for every man who entered and a joke for the ladies, Mrs. Garfield sat at hi* bed side, "a* lively as a eneket," a* Mr. Blaine put it. in the library was a re markable group. Around the colored globed lamp on the round table sat Mr. Biaine, dictating dispatches. Gn the opposite side was the Postmaster General, who, with Robert Lincoln, en joyed their cigar while wailing for re turns from the sick room Secretary Wmdom could lie seen through the o|-en folding-door*, pacing slowly and meditatively up ami -town the corri dor. Attorney General MacVeagh, the small figure in the group, stood look ing on with hand* folded behind his back. There was Mrs. Hunt on a sofa on one sole, talking in whispers to Mr*, ■lames, while on the opjswite side, over against the wall, sat the Secretary of the Navy alone with his cigar. Young Harry Garfield stood looking into the lamp without a word. It was a group for an srtist, and all the while all eye# •ought the oj>en door of the wounded President'# cbam!er. All remained until a late hour and retired with a more hopeful feeling. ( THE SMASHN. Uharle* Guiteau, the man who shot the President, is a man ot no character whatever. When taken to the jail he had this letter in his pocket : JI LT 2, 1881. To THE WHITE Hotsx The Presi dent's tragic death was a tail necessity, but it will unite the Republican party and save the republic. Life i* a flimsy dream and it matter* little wh--n one goes. A human life i* of small value. During the war thousand* --f bravo l*>y# went down without a tear. 1 presume the President ws* a Christian atiu that he will la- hap pier in Paradise than here. It will tar no worse for Mr*. Garfield, dear soul, to part with her hu*band this way than by natural death. II- is liable to go at any time, anyway. I had no ill will toward the President. Hi* death was a political necessity. 1 am ,a lawyer, a theologian and a politician. lam a stalwart of the stalwart*. I was With Gen-ral Grant and the rest of our men in New York during, the canvass. I have some ps|iert for the press which'l shall leave with liyron An drew* and hit co-journalists, at 1421) New Yrk avenue, where all the reporter* can see them. lam going to the jail. CHARLOR GUITEAU. This showed that the crimo was premeditated, and on the way to the j ail Guiteau said lie went to Ixiog Branch to kill the President there, but the condition of Mrs. Garfield awoke his sympathies. He seat a letter to General Hherman, stating that he bad ahot the President and was going to jail. Byron Andrew# declares that he knows nothing about Guiteau. He is a native of Illinois, about forty year* of age, and has been known in Chicago for the past ten yeare as a shyster law yer. He was always considered as "strange," to say at least. For several months he ha# been in Washington and was a persistent applicant for a Consulate. At one time he tyied to lecture and was looked upon out West as a dead beat. He was a fanatic on temperance. The offioe he wanted was the Consulate to Marseilles. Gultcuii, the Assassin. HIS IIROTHEH'A ACCOI'XT or in# LIFE. BOSTON, July 2.— Guiteau'# brother, in this city (John W. Guiteau), in giving an account of the assassin's early his tory, says: Charles Julius was liorn in Freeport, Illinois, in IMI or 1842. Ho was one of the children of L. W. Gui teau, late cashier of Second National Bank, of Freeport, Illinois. Mr. Gui teau, Sr., died recently, aged seventy years, and was one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of the place. A# a youth Charles Julius is reported to have been a good, tractable boy, with nothing to mark him as either better or worse than the average of his associates. Several years before be became of age while preparing for college at the Uni versity of Michigan be conceived the idea of joining tin- Oneida Community and di overy. Her Majesty withes lor full and immediate reports a- to hi* condition. LORD GRANVILLE. A MESSAGE PR'ill THE WHITE HOI *E. WASHINGTON. July 4.—The Secretary of Stale furnishes the following with a request that it be given the widest pos sible circulation : EXECUTIVE MANSION, I WASHINGTON, July 4, 11 p. M I To the /Voi • On behalf of the President and Mr. I Garfield I desire p, make public acknowl | edgetnenl of tbe very numerous messages "f condolence and aff'-tion which have j U-en received since Saturday morning. ! From almost every State in the Union, from the South as bountifully as fr-m the North, and from countries te-vond the wa have come messages ~f anxious inquiry j and tenJer words of sympathy in #uch I number* that it ha - been found im|~---ihle jto answer them in detail. I,'therefore, a-k the rie*>paters to expre**, for the i President and Mr*. Garfield, the deep gratitude which they f.e) f,,r the jl.-vuti. of their fal!liH twill—ll and friends j abroad in thi* hour >-f heavy affliction. JAMK* G BLAINE, Secretary of Stale. Hopes and Fear*. j vvEVINO REPORTS FROM TIIE nEDSIIIt Ol TIIE WOUNDED MAN, Spr-rlaJ fk*|i*l'h totbs I'lliDwl—lJ l 111* Pl-u WASIIINOTON, July 4, 'hi. —Yarying re |>ort* of the President's condition were given between the official bulletin*. I'he news wa* verv unsatisfactory. Dr. j Hamilton bad ssid in the morning that if the pulse of the patient si id not rise he should regard hi* chances of recove ry favorable. The next bulletin shower] the pulse bad gone up from Ida to Ilti. It wa* difficult to obtain satisfactory in formation from the physicians. They j talked both wsvs and hoped for tbe ' bet. The members of the Cabinet, ex cept Mr. MacYeagh expressed them •elve* with great hofie and confidence of the President's recovery. Mr. James in particular wa* very sanguine. "He ; is not going to die.'' said the Post mas i ter General. "1 never hud believed he would die, and I am more convinced now that he will get well than ever be i fore. There i a fighting chance for the President and he will win." Secretary Kirkwood at 3 p. m. said: "The l'resi denf appears to be doing s* well a* could be ex|>ected. He I* not growing worse, and in my judgment that i* much in his favor. F.verv hour tbat passes now i important, and if he doe* not fail it seem* to me he mutt be do ing well." SKumrr.utv WINDOM may lock the report showing the fraud it lent doings in his depnrtment in his desk, hut he was too late in doing so. Public cu ritssity had already been too much ex cited by the developementa given, ami the public interests arc too closely iden tified with honest administration, to rest satisfied with Windora's stifling process. John Sherman was seriously smirched, his subordinate were shown to be robbers and thieve*, and the Department a mere retuleivou# from which to dispense their plunder to the initiated ringsters. These things were made too prominent for the Secretary to cover up as a hidden mystery under the key of his desk. His continuing to do so will add strength to the lielicf already existing that it only re quires a brief service of four year# in the Treasury L>epartment to convert a jWHir man into a millionaire. SENATOR JOHNSON, of Virginia, re port# the prospect* of the Democracy in tho Old Dominion, as very flatter ing. He my# the party were never in better condition, or more certain of success. From advices in bia po##eo aion, from all part* of the State, ha claim* a Democratic majority of from ' thirty to forty thoueond. TKItMS: Sl."d> per Annum, In Adrnticc. TIIE Albany content for Senator still continues in a dead-lock without affording much hope to any of the present contestant* of a successful issue. It has already been fruitful of sufficient scandal to prove that the legislature of New York is composed largely of a dirty set. The last scandal pluees ex-Senator I'latt in questiona ble association with lewd company, discreditable to him certainly, but not more degrading or mean than the means used by the half-breed* to de grade him, even if it were not a set-up job of their own. Their job, or es pionage into the private habits of the ex-Senator, which ever it be, was ef fectual however in driving hirn out of the contest, lie withdrew. THE canvas* of apirants for the next Speakership of the House of Representatives is assuming consider ! able activity amongst the Republican Statesmen. The most prominent can didate- spoken of are Hiscock, Har rows, Judge Kelley, Robeson and Has san. It might, and it is not unlikely that it may occur, that Republican Statesmen will not have exclusive control in the election of Speaker in the next Congress. Party line* close ly draw, will not admit of much bragging on either side. Gov*. FOSTER, on a late visit to Washington, i reported a- having ex pressed doubt of Senator John Sher man's sincerity in favor of hi* re-elec j tiou a* Governor of Ohio. It certain j ly would be strange, and show a degrt-o of meeknc- that would be difficult to j credit to Sherman, if the Governor's -uspieion i- not well founded. After J the treachery of which he wa a vic tim at Chicago, Sherman would be more than mortal if li • failed to cm brace a favorable opportunity to re ' sent it. ■. - I. A TARTY of Hungarian miners, it said, were recently poisoned in i Ikes bar re by lunching on bologna -ausage, and washing it down with bad whiskey. It might lie worthy of inquiry by some of our temperance -tatistieians, whether it was the bologna or the bad whiskey that poisoned the party. It is reported that five of the thirteen composing the party dies! from the mixed dose. Jl'tMiE Unicoi*, of Philadelphia, is receiving very severe and ap|>arently just criticism of hi* course in a late trial of a pair of hallot-ftuflcrs. If these strictures upop his official integ rity and fitness to administer impar tially the laws for the punishment of crime, are warranted by the facts in the case, thev arc certainly, to say the least, not flattering to judicial decency in Philadelphia. OK the Ivmly-fire persons placed upon the pay rolls of the last legisla ture a* employes of the State, from the city of Philadelphia, it is said that only nine discharged the duties in person. 'The balance either em ployed substitutes at low figures in ; compensation, or failed to perform any of the services for which the t>tato ! paid them. THE expressions of sympathy and condolence that reach President Gar field in his great atfiictinn are not bounded by sectional lines. The en tile people of the South are as fervent, and sincere in their sorrow, and detest the baleful crime of which the Presi dent is the victim, as ho people of the North. • TIIE Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany are still extending their line#. On Friday last the company assumed control of the Philadelphia, Wilming ton aud Baltimore rood, which gives them an unbroken connection between New York ami Washington. IT ia not a pleasant thing to con template Vice President Arthur in the Whita House. This fact give* fervency to the hope that President Garfield may recover. NO. 27.