«= 4th 1868, FRID AY, SE P. ered menor Te OR PRESIDE INT : _HORATIO SEYMOUR, = of New York. of ws | EE Serr Soh: NT? GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR, Pen Ref STR MIN ATIONS TROR ATHroR GENERAL HONS CHARLES j O% BOYI L by add. Soi $H yO Co ity. ! y Yon Bury EYOR SRGENE RAL: SOREN WELTINGTON H. ENT, a oF Gobi bE Corny For C ongres ohn PR TW ulin ty. ody usb Bonide les wk Hrd dota lefonte, 3 a (3% fp a. 8 Pir. Ssgnably : oP. Giriy Mee Jol Bellefonte. © For Dis odd Attorney : {9 4 Hénry ¥. Stitzer, of Bellefonte. Fer County Survey ort . w 4 » $3 ® wwh ais ne For County Commissioner: 3 John Bing, of Unionville.? For Auditor: John Rishel, of Potter. «Deficiencies. » +TFheword “deficiency,” the tax-payer. pirty to cover-up its tracks of extray- bills.” “In Hiding its applogriatiors the UMP COMPross "cover up their thieving by “deficiency in upon the treasury in .the. tax-lists. The radicals have : been dealing in “deficiencies” “ly as follows: ses $657,000. a .« struction. expenses $278,000. Another deficieney im third district, for negroes in Dictrict of Columbia, | _S87.,000, ment. $1.900 ,000. 0 + partaicnt. i # a aid or TASIeY'S department. LM ® & » seid dat + easy, department. Iaraes s. Fibe Mige oh collector of cus- ge od #5 op ra A ev a a of the BECHSTY a i p a for it. amo iT lo pay Sides in he House, 3 HG 1 ey Ew "Phen second deficiency in the le a branch. i Adeficiency - in the pension office. wi hus we mich ogo + column of ale Teporicr, with these ye diedl"“déficiency bills,” “tax-payers are to be deceived, wher dical rulers are spending, appropriation bills, just ask them te the “deficiency bills” explanation upon them. wou vote for long rows of “ bills,” an inerease of the'debt, and hea vier taxation, & o> > eaté another 1 increase of .the debt. " Hons: “ment! So we go. Bright prospects, Hurrah ! for Grant! Hurrah for radical rule; entire Married, in Salt Lake City, “16tn inst. in the presence of the saints, Brie- Miss LM. Pendergast, Mrs. R. M. Jenickson, Miss Emily P. Martin, and y of Berks, England. No cards, A The Taxes and Expenditures ofthe Radieal Government. A my ite tearful attention of the fhe Rusongir, fo ah ox ¢ here Haris » Froud chief fir. Pendietd t i§ time a thet ax ayers of’ this country re fleet upon the alarming condition of | Radicalism, it will be | seen, is fast hastening the country on to | our finances. ruin and if their career of profligacy is | defeat at the taxgatherers next will | { not checked by a election, taxes and HS8LUS. up. Citizens of { Centro county, wa here | present You a truthful and alarming | picture, just see how fearfully we are drifting along. ; The amount of money collected by taxation in three years of peace, from July, 1865, to July, 1868, reached 81, Hod N 74, 006. Thave it from official “The Commissioner of Inter- 1866, |5061-, Tsources. nal Revenue re By L. A, Mackey. This gentlouign i i3.the nominee of the Domogracy of this dike det for Congress. Mr. Madkey ihn old citizen of Cline ton county, where he is universally bes ovod Hei 18 a ventleman of the pus post character, mand against hime the tongue of slander ein sy naught. Mr ' Mackey's popularity in his own county is so great, that his friends are confi: dent-he will recieve 500 votes from Ile i8 a man of ability and large knowledge of publie | affairs, and in every particular cope: tent to represont this district in con Mr. Mackey was an old line | hie, to which respectable organization or CSS, he clung so long as a corporal’s guard remained, He belongs to that class of whigs who never could be swallowed up by the abolition monster, which ent up the old whig party ; he never belonged to the modern party of negro worshippers, ‘ealling themselves Re- | 572,000; for 18068, 300,000, and 1867.856 L, 302,000; totaly $1,604,174, 000, In each case the gold collected at the Custom. louse is: estimated "at 1,40. Of this amount. the from the tariff reached $724,584,000. The expenditure of ‘the Goverament has been scarcely less than this enor- mous sum; for if you will look. atthe public debt on the 31st of August, 1865, you will find that it amounted { $2,757,690,071, and if you look at the you will find it stated to be | | 82 633,588, TH6, showing a decrease of 8124.108,215. The Commissioner of | Internal Revenue tells us that the 1868, lands, farms, houses, towns lots, money, stocks, bonds, railroads, steamboats, ships—all amounted to only $14,282. 826,088. Ifthe products of three years tion for three years has amounted to very much more more than one-tenth | ofall the property in the country, while the taxation of Great Britain has If the assessed | amounted to one-thirtieth part. taxation for these years were upen each individual equally, it would | amount in the United States to 834,25, | » | while in France, the taxation for the $22, and in $16. The public debt of the United States, if as. upon amount to 874,25, the public debt of | 9 -— same time would amount to Austria to less than | sessed each individual, would France, to $53 and of Prussia, to $1 I say to that made a | statement that I could not verify, and [ never youl | T hold in my hand this report from the Republican Commissioner | Revenue, Mr. Wells. | inspection of any geutleman. On 27th page of that book, which member of Congress for it is a public document, can furnish you, you will word I have Our Republican friends are very much find verified every . ‘ -1ter.] ‘Did you ever know a thrift'whei he was bronght face to face with the eondition of kis affairs, that was not very much aston’shed indeed ? They will’ turn upon with statements made by this same commis- sioner. Tn his letter ‘to Mr. Allison, he says that during the three years of which I have been speaking, the amount paid on account of the public debt, 1¥°8250,000,000 and that ought to save $15,000,000 annually in gold, by way of interest. Now if you look into tht report carefully; you will find the annual reduction of the puclie debt is But 134,000,000, and that the bal- us some in the Treasury “which is not there, if at all, for the purpose of paying the publie dobt, fut for the purpose of he- ingrused for the, ordinary expenses of the Government ; and if you look at this $134,000,000, you will find that of this amount, $71,000,000 have bean re- duced by virtue of the contraction of the currcney and the calling in the greenbacks, ‘which pay no interest at all; and if* you will put side by side with these facts that in three years the increase of the debt, which pays inter- | est in gold, has amounted to $602,000,- 000, you will see how much your bur- dens have been lightened, Then this same Commissioner tells us that the estimated surplus In the Treasury, on the 1st day ofJuly, 1868, is $34,000,- 000. Where ave they? They have not been paid on the public debt, that I' have shown you. They are not in the Treasury ; that I have shown you. I have unfortunately, for our Republi- can brethern, ‘a list of the deficiency bills that ‘were ‘passed’ during the last two or three weeks of the last Congress and thelist that I have, imperfect as it shows that they have appropriated out of this $34,000,000, the sum of $27 - 000,000 in that way. ‘I hold in my hand the’ list. eee el # The reason why Butler | goes for Grant’is because he goes for every- thing that looks spooney. ltl >— SUBRCRIPE FOR THE REPORTER. } ) He was a hater of Abol- itionism in all its hideous forms, all when the Democracy were powerldss, Mr. Mackey cast hiz ‘first Democratic vote for M'Clellan, and has been in sympa- Mr. Mackey stands squarely upon the Democratic pistforny; he endorses the platform of the New York convention which nominated Seymour and Blair. We tre, that he 1s as sound upon the politi- al issues of the day as the editor of | this paper. We have scen over his own signature that Mr. Mackey is op- | posed to negro suffrage in every guise. can assure the Democracy of Cen- | He is opposed to the present scheme of radical reconstruction. He isin favor of equal taxation. Ie is in favorof | paying in gold that which was express- | ly enacted should be paid in gold ; and | he is in favor of paying in greenbacks | that which does not carry upon its faco | the promise of gold. He isin favor of | an economical administration of the | | Government, that our be | lightened. Lastly, he is in favor of | returning to the old landmarks of the Constitution, as formed by our fathers, taxes may tore- and restoring the union upon | the basis of the constitution. } fongressional Nomination. Lockhaven,; August 28-—The PDemo- cratic C fongressional C ‘onference for the Tiogh counties, to-day nominated Li. A. he eounties were all | Mr. Mackey's election is considered - A S——————— dlp ron Apmis Philadelphia, Se ptember Hom Thomas x - sy -—=T'Wwo Jones, Associate Judge of Occan county, New Jersey, were killed by lightning yesterday atnaw. Jigypt, that..county. They were aged twelve and seventeen, A son of Mr. Jones was also severely injured. rm eas nl MP ———————— Fi rom South America, Progress of the War in Seunth America—The Paraguayans Get- ting the Worst of it. Lisbon, Aug 28,—~One of the stea- line between Rio Janerio and this port, arrived late last evening with advices from Rio Ja- nerio to. August 8th. Iler news highly fmportant. The tacties of the allied forces in at 18 fortress of Humaita by starvation have been entirely suceassful, The Para- guayans held out to the last moment, and on July 24th, when their stores were exhausted, evacuated the position and the allied forces marched into Humaita on the next day. Two hun- dred and fifty cannon and a large quantity of amunition, arms, &e. which the Paraguayians were compelled to abandon, were captured by the allies shelled on a taxed machine, measured in a taxed measure, taken in a taxed’¥ sack ad gropudon a taxed od pat, Stirre , sulted afith ta taxed bake pam; “baked inna a ta¥ed fi6ve laid outon a taxed plate, eut with a knife, and lastly eaten by a heavily taxed man, “Whew! well IN swang, that’s I declare to gracious T never looked at it that way before.” If it were not for the taxes you could buy a bushel of meal for what that peck cost you. Besides, it is not on on every thing you have to buy. A pound of gugar only cost three or four cents, but you have to pay from six- Wife Murder. Now, York, August 31—Ja teestod on the charge Po Hue aan bride 19d : rosning that og hor life, fo but WAS einer “The death of Thaddeus Stevens” says a cotemporary, “leaves the Radieals without That may be =o, but, us their road is all down hill, they won't need one, Thad whits for them below. ert se ene MEXICO NOT FOR SALE. Sax Francisco, August” 27. Phdsitent Jaurez writes to ( onsul Gane Day de- nying that there huve been any negotin- tons for the sale of the Stites Hf Sonora, Singlon or any part thereof to the U nited | States, ns reported. iy a leader.” rm —— A Radical paper says Grant “takes well.’ He generally takes old rye; and it has been | frequently remarked that he takes it very well, teen to twenty. A pound of coffee only cost ten cents, bat you fhuve to | pay thirty, and if it costs” you three family, yon may safely say one half’ « of this is tax. Now, is it any that times are hard and that you find | it difficult to live ? “It costs me more, than wl three han- | dred dollars a year to live. get only fifty lived a great deal better then than | do now on a dollar and a quarter. I see there is a great wrong sumewhere to cents a day, and I | and I am going to take your advice, for a change of rulers I'll try the ex- The retreating Paraguayans were pur- in grand Chace. Three of the Rrazilian iron forced their way through the obstrucs- tions past the batteries on the Parana, Lopez, at the mouth of the Febiguary. Marshall Coxias, der, was also advanci ‘ing troops on Lo- pez from the land side, and to surrender their position. - & Ap» The Her: ald’s money article says the terms proposed by the re presentatives | of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, to the rie Compary, are Uponsuch a platform, weean g y into | the contest for Mr, Mackey's ole etion | { with all our might. He bove principles, i has pledged | { himself to the a and willing | Dem- | and work. | being a man of honor, we are | to trust him. We now ask our | ocratic readers to join in | Wm. H. Armstrong, the ra-lical nomi- | nee for congress, is pledged to the op- | | posite of the above principles, and be- | | tween these two, the voters of the 15th | | congressional district must choose. - alin ’ | State Fair. | The Pennsylvania, State Fair | be held Harrisburg, commencing will at | September 20th, ‘68, and will contin- | | ue four days. rere dp en Apne We are » glad to notice the re-nomi- nation of Ron G. W. Woodward, the Judge for of Lau- zerne county. Woodward one of the ablest defenders of the Con- | Congress, by Democracy Is stitution and “the rights of the white people of this country. oe - Tax-payers of Centre county, the country is over!82,600,000,000 in debt, and this enormous burden, saddled upon us by placing the government in the hands of the radieals, instead of getting less. Irom year to year the Federal Go- | vernment collects from its citizens $300,000,000 to pay the interest on the above debt and other expenses. Besides this the various State Gov- ernments collect from the people some | 3300,000,000 by taxation, making the which ‘is collected in from the people, by State and Federal | Governments, yearly: 800 MILLION DOLLARS! pen..and this is more than six per cent. pes of the value of all the property in pz the country! and more than 30, ger~almost 50 per cent. of all the car- en.nings of labor and capital in the By country... sq i A ne Our neighbors, across at Lock Ha- ven, now enjoy the luxury of a daily paper, the fruit of our enterprising friends, Wm. P. & J. Wg I urey, who every morning issue the “D: ly Clinton Democrat, "a bright and =pir- ited five column sheet. We hope the people of Lock Haven will keep their new daily alive, by giving it a liberal : 7 *y N y support. We wish the I['urey’s suc CESS. . 1s growing amount, taxes — Ap lp . People want to know why Grant made a trip to the Rocky Mountains. If some inquisitive rad will write to Anna Dickinson about it, she, no doubt, will reply he went out to see his little “injung,” as there are such there who have a right to call Grant “pa.” cermin Yermont Election. On last Tuesday the election was held in Vermont, and as usual, the old tory State went radical by about 27, 000. One report elaims gains for t the radicals, another report says that the Democrats have it, gains. The ra- dical state ticket is elected, and also brie fly as follows: The road is to be £36,764,305; and the DBuffulo for the further sum of 81,382, The Irie ( Company i= to pay for same by assuming all the of OO, the Western Company, to the amount of 212.894.9900, and by issuing preferred | stock for the division] stock of the At- lantie and Great Western Company, to the amount of $16,169,275, amount of 830, 032.125 » Erie Company is, over, to pound sterh ing, for the interest pats st due on the bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western Company, in order to take the latter out of f the hands of the Re- ceiver, paying him, at the same time fees to the amount of £128,000. Th more IMPORTANT TO TAVERN KEEPERS the facet, that under the new caged in the tobacco trade, > Taxes. “Tey Can't Tax Me!” We have repeatedly heard poor men, laboring men say any property, they can’t tax me much!” We recently met one of this class re- turning after a hard day’s work, rying on his arm a peck of meal; accosted him, versation ensued ; Well, Jones, how do “Poor enouzh! eet on! youl than ever before. I work hard, live yet it is all I can do te live.” Well, that is not to be wondered at, when vou and other laboring men vote after year to increase your own Times will grow harder un- year burdens, til you change your way of voting, and taxes will inerease. “They can’t tax me mucli for I've got nothing.” oD or They can’t eh? Let's did that peck of meal cost you? “Thirty cents.” Do you know what it costs to What seo ! ’ ‘ raise a bushel of meal ? “No.” It costs about fifteen or twenty cents. “The loyal people say you copper- heads are mighty bad people, and try to deceive us working men, and I begin to believe it, for 1 know they don’t tax corn meal.” I think I ean prove to you that corn meal is pretty heavily taxed. “I'd like for you it, then.” Well, the corn from which that meal was made was raised on taxed land, plowed by a taxed plow, drawn by taxed horses, hitched with taxed gears. It was hoed with a taxed hoe, cultiva- rated with taxed impliments gathered a taxed drawn with to do wagon, the members of Congress nominated by that party. | periment anyhow, but I must not teil | | old Squeese, or he'll discharge me and | but a hundred and | fifty dollars tax is too much for me. | all me a rebel; ter's fuel, sugar, coffee, flour, &e., ‘and calico for my wife | this before, I begin to see now why old | | Bonds used to come round and see me | just before the election and be smiling and polite, and why Mrs. Bonds would | wife some little nick-nack | Bonls is rich he zats gold | | from the bank for his bonds. I work to | pay that. His bonds | I pay 2150 a year all in little things ; 1 send my or other. I I are not taxed. even a box of matches is taxed. thank you, Mr. Editor for this talk ; has dene me good, a new light has hy ken in on me—and I'll not keep it hid I'll talk to the “men aboutit, Itisnow all plain, Ide. clared I'll never forget meal !” We gave grip and passed on, more determi ned | under a bushel neither. that pack o .‘s . LL SE til » the honest fel then ever to work for the enlichtenms it | of labor.—0Ohio Statesman. rere th tlre Obitnary. Under the heading of “A Man and ' Brotheer” a Georgia exchange furnishes the following: An unpretending slab of | humble basswood at one end of the | square aperture in the sand where the emancipated dust of the veteran re- | poses tells the passing traveller, in | this simple manner, the tragic story. SAM, Born a Slave; Bred a Slave ; He starved to death a free American citizen. His Career was brief—an excellent field hand and a loyal soldier, and a patriotic citizen, who voted often and carnestly ; being sndden!y deserted by his earpet bag friends, he sickened and died of too. much Liberty and too little—grub. Yet cen these bones from insult to | protect, | Some frail memorial still erected nigl With uncouth lines and shapeless scul ture deek’d, ' Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. BuLrock ¥egir. 3 iy ac aie A POPULAR INSTITUTION. ‘here is, | learning in this country so widely known, and so extensively patronized, | as the Iron City College. | Fifteen Thousand students from Thir- | ty Three States have attended here du- { ring the past ten years. Young men come thousands of miles to avail them- selves of the advantages afforded by its splendid system of Practical Actual Business Training, which has given it such a marked superiority over any and all other business colleges in the country.—Pitts. '( Commereéial., Who shall be President ? The Phren- ological Journal for September con- tains all the Presidential Candidates (irant, Colfax, Seymour and Blair, with portraits and concise Sketches of Biography and Character. Also Hon. Anson Burlingame, the Chinese Min- ister; Franz Liste, the composer ; Ar- minus Vambery, the Oriental Traveler John H. Littlefield, artist. Who are the Yankees? Use Togs and have legs, A Key thought; the Developement Theory defined ; Our Daily Lectures; A New Class in Practical Phrenology ; Finding a situation ; A perfect Church on I& arth-—Is1 it possible? ? Only 30 cents or 83 a year. $1.50 for half a year. Address, 8. R. Wells, 389, Broadway, New York. i a Lie What is the difference between a hungry man and a glutton? One longs to eat and the other cats too long. A Little son of Henry Harenden, of Half Moon, Centre County, was run over ‘by i wagon londed with sand, and had=his logs | atid arm bi addy: broken, on Batrduy last. cp nll Mp Grandmother Po oy who was brie d the | other day i in Valle¥ Forge, hud ten chile deen, @ shty-one weandehitdeen, one hun- dred and "nineteen © gent grade hildren, { thirty three great=gre at-grandchildren, and | five great- great pete andchildren. rare old plant was Gra ndumather Porey. sr dp tlie Meme The Enterprise, of Nevada City, | Mic LL Kelly, in that city, who, toma alt, had sacha pow erful ! he acti wily sneezed his shoulder out ot joint, and it required a surgeon and a good deal of pulling) to pull-it in ngaing Toronto. August 21. —Te erific fires have | again broken out in the woods in the neigh- { hood of Bell Ewert and Sunmidale, on the Northern Railway, On Saturday the Sta- 4 tells oh | time the village, erabraoing twont y five thirty houses, was in ashes, of Sunnidale were taken to New Lowell, and are well eared for. The railway was destroyed for nearly a mile, but it repaired, and trains run regularly to-day. | The woods are still burning, “and other vil- destruction, | Ol gister, The Merchants” Protective Union, organ- ized to promote and protect trade, by ena- ling its subscribers | snfety in the granting or of credits, und the | nounce that they will, in September, 1868, | publish in one large quarto volume : | THE MercnaxTs' PROTECTIVE | MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER, ¢mn- taining winong other things, the Names, Nau- | th re, of business, Amount of Capital, Finan- cial Standing and Ri atingasto ¢ re «lit, of over $00,000 of the principal merchants, traders, bankers, manufuctors, and public compan- ies, in more than 50.000 of the cities, towns, villages, and settlements throughout the United States, their Territories, and the British Provinces of North American; em- bracing the most ituportan] information at- tainable and necessary to enal ble the chant to ascertain al a glance the eapital, character and Degree Jf Credit of such of i hi= ct natomers as i are pa] wer Directory, containing the title, char- price, and place of publication, with particulars relative toeae ‘bh journal, be- enide to the press of every U nited Stat sand inform towwiiDes min- Actined worthy of seme line of ad as the sane witl be based, so far ) upon the written statements of o part ihe miselves, revised and correet- Bk by well-known and re liable legal corres- | pondents, whose characters wil prove a | zunrantec of the correctness of the intorma- | furnished by them, it is believed that | the reports will prove more truthful and i and therefore, superior to, and of greater value, than any previously | full | 11 feouniy in Tire ropor vd to those ‘ redit 1 1 4 1..4 conivete P Lion complete, 1 i 8 issued, By aid of the **Mereantile Reference Reg- ister.” business men will be enabled to ascer- tain at n glance, the eapital and gradation of nearly every me rchant, manufacturer, der Fa and bis 1 ko territorial Hi On or about thetirst of ench monih, ™y sub-1 icle, containing among other things, ord of such imporiant changes in ihe name and condition of firms, throughout the coun- try, tion of cach hali=yearly volume of the cantile Reference Register. Price ofthe Merchants Union Mereautile Reference Register, fifty dollars, (330.) for which it will be forwarded to any address in the United States, transportation paid, Holders of five 310 shares of the C apital Stock in addition to participating in the Mer tile Register free of charge; holders of ten shares will be ¢ ntitl led to two copies; and no more than ten shares of the Capital Stock will be allotted to any one applicant, All remittances, or communicias | tions reladive to the book should be nddress- | ed to the Merchants’ Proteetive Union, | the American Fxchange Bank Building. | No.128 Broadway, i Sept, 4. ordel 3, (Box 2566,) New York. 08. =n. — oe t— | NEW an —— So ADV RT A ———————— CISEMENTN. Fras COURT SALE! i By virtue of Court of Centre posed to public Aaronsburg, ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th, "68, the following deseribed property of Jacob Bowersox, dec'd, viz; 2 piece or parcel of land, situate in Haiues township, adjoining Aarou