Span in itn cit wr - ——. CENTRE HALL REPORTER. FRIDAY, NOV 27th, 1868. A ——— A Son EDUGATION. on gg The subject of Education is a very important one, both in its bearings and eflects upon society and upon us as a people and a Nation, It should be upheld by & liberal hand, and ev- ery possible progress sought, regard- leas of cost. It is our duty to seek en- lightenment, and thereby be better enabled to beaefit our fellow men. that in these modern times, this view of the subject of Education is lost sight of almost entirely, in many of S a ing, wher would term a “fashionable” or “fop Education, rather than to fitting the rising generation for the practical pur- suits of life. Many a yeung man and young woman leaves your fash- ionable boarding schoel more spoiled than benefitted. is not to blame for this, but the 1 on > light fessor, and whose system of instruction is a complete humbug. to run before it has learned to walk, would be written down a fool ; and the teacher who puts his pupil to plod- ding upon the higher and more diffi- cult branches, for the mere sake of ap- pearance and show, before his mind steps to knowledge, is equally as big until proper conceptions upen the mat. ter of Educating the young waken u in his brain, i And just such fools do we often meet We with, now-a-days. remember one of cur famous colleges. thing t a class of some fifteen youngsters edge, were good English readers or the first principles of English gram: mar, and all these studying Latin! We can also cite a later instance, where boys. of the same years, who were unable to read the simplest page of prose in the Second Reader, and barely able to pronounce a word cor- rectly, or scarcely understood the mea ning of simple prose, ing “Pollock's Course of Time”! a college graduate who played principal and professor. This system of Edu- oy + vu 1s getting to be an vil ; 1 walking, In this connection we add tha follow tem” in our schools : ¥ r the caption of ‘Teaching ming,” has a good article on the sub- ject of education. Itopposes the idea of ‘cramming’ and goes in for teach- ing. $37 ul worst possible system that could be followed. We have too much baokand not enough of oral instraction. Young children are frequently sent hone with a task that thewrminds are not cipable of mastering. . They may, of evening and two of the morninz to it, bz able to recite it whan school is eal- mark of disapprobation: but in two may be, has passed from the mind of the pupil, never to return to it. 1 “Every thing is too rapid im. this country ; and education; which to he brea r A OY wo ave 0 seminacics Henee onr schools, eollegas an oualy superfieial, no ad as they shauld be in the rudimonts of the dif- ‘alse. fiad the gradu a t oeroindg Sih ferent branches pratendod to ba tam zht - ir Y ex we kitow not, whether in the law, the superintendent. lirectors or teachers : hut thereis a lault somewhere, and that fault should be corrected. This, however, ‘wo dd know, that children should not be sent nome at five o'clock in the evening, vith fram ten to fifteen pa ges of histo- aphy to commit | ine - u 0 Mamao- HINARI i8LIC 10. Work od E tem,” and, ‘cramming evs That fis “the by act of legislature, or some other way, the ‘éramming system,’ should be abolished. An hour's conversation with pupils, explainirgto-tlen, on ra- tional principles, the rudiments of whatever is prefessed to be taught, is of more benefit to children than fifteeu pages hurriedly committed. to memo- ry. ; “The duty of the tutor and tutoress is to teach the children all they know themselves, in the first place; and then such books as contain more knowledge may be used to'advantage ; that is, if the teacher, in advance, has made him- self or “herself acquainted with their contents, and understands ‘them sufhi- ciently to make them lear to ‘the pu- pils; and until this' or some similar i | the commonwealth no great advantage | can be derived from them.” | The Congresiosnal Two Thirds. The election for Congressmen, held | during the last six months, have resul- ted in so many democratic gains, “that | the radical two-thirds in Congress has | been overcome. . These elections have made a difforence in favor of the Dem- ocracy of some G0 er 70, and will | check the tyranny of the Jacobins in | Congress, unless by some new plot they villainously oust a sufficient number from their seats, £0 secure them a two- | thirds majority. Alrsady they are ta- | king this villany into. considaration, (v2neral ba and preparing. eases. for it. will undoubtedly N Forster one members elect have been notified that | their seats will be contested. | that Gen. Grant will do their bidding, | by'sanctioning legislation “outside of | the Constitution” to use the } of Thad. Stevuans. emergency. This trifling with | an outrage whieh should not be sub ' mitted too; and if Congress will not heed the expressed will of the people, let the freemen of the country use | such means as will bring them to their The World says: “Deeply | chagrined at the evidences that on a | Senses, | fair vete of the American people Gen- | eral Grant could not have been elec- ted President by either the popular or | the electoral vote, the Radicals have | raised an astonishing clamor about | fraud. tion cheatories. of this party, waich have perhaps never been equalied ir sacs ——————— a ————— roi sms — ga BA forced it upon all the Territories, forced it upon the Southern States, and now these imps of satan are about to eva it down our throats here in the nerth. Will ths people submit to it ? We say they should not, ide ia Money matters are getting very'close, and tight times are in prospect. Busi- nessas gufforimg in our principal cities, and a crash is looked for. * Radieal domination is now about to have its effects upon the people and the country. Bankruptcy and ruin stare usin the face. turn whither we will. Radicalism has full sway, and the country is hreaking downu nder it, » on dition and from the whole crew there it not one ray oflight to ease and quiot the public mind. Radi- calism has no statesmanship sufficient for the terrible emorgency it has brought upon us. Why does it not bring the country relief? their measures ; they have made great boasts, eight years they have been ra- ling’ without opposition, had every- thing their own way, and now, as the result, to use a common expression’ everything is going to sticks. ns laf Mp —————————t Opinion Confirmed. day the following important opinion delivered by John M. Purviance, Reg- ister in Bankruptcy for the Twenty- Third Congressional District, in the ease of Joseph Burnett, who filed a pe- tition in bankruptcy on the 3d day of OPINION, The question upon which the opin- | i je done and improve the present auspi- cloud circumstances as our vast inter- ests demand. Let there bea move to clear up the uncertainty that exists and one more effort to secure this great desideratum of this Valley—a Rail- road.— Telegraph. pe J Bafaloe township. Sheiialisheh 13 12 hands high, four years old, lofi lig: foot white. Fifty dollars reward. is offered for her recovery. The thief al 80 took an open buggey with him as far as Mr. Hummels, in Chillisquaque, where it appears he found a top bug which suited him hotter, H» | therafore traded even Leainall himselt’) and left the fHhrmer, On last Sunday night, « valuable ) | Mt. Pleasant Mills P.O. i» SY ler | Chere is doubtless a number. of thiev i { | country, and owners of horses had hast guard them closley. — ( roar le. lo > > Tae AaricvrLrurar Conunie [the office of the States A ariel Society in this city yesterday, (or | purpose of choosing a president —peo tent Messrs, Watts, of Camber] | M'Allister, of Centre ; Kelly, | gheny ; Hiester, of Dauphin; W of Indiana: Jordan, Secretary of Com ' monwealth ; Hamilton, State Agriui- | tural Society ; and M'Kee, Vice Prosi: Hrd \ i y (3 fi Rib | dent of the college, ex-officio membors, ease, was filed on the 3d day of March, 1363, by the poititioner. © The said Barnett was adjudged a bankrupt on the 8th day of April following, As- signment of his asssts was duly made on the 15ch day of May, 1868, to the joing the town of Indiana, and Mr. White was anthorized to examine the the December next. - - Written for the Reporter. LITTLE THINGS. By Miss [t seems peculiar, and yet it is al- When we number and value of tha creditors who have proved their dahts, said bhank- rupt has not. been discharged The providing infer alix for tha arrango- ment of bankpupt's efizets and estate, is specifie in tarms, in this, that it pro- to the as- sy ! we the blessed little anzels, Every person feels the im he election, a most desperately sinoe { | villainous plot is on foot by its leaders to thimble-rig themselves ‘back into a | two-thirds vote Ti the House. The | necessity of this ‘vote, to co-operate | with a like preponderance. in. the Sen- | ate as. a breakwater that may be nee- ded against (ren. Grant, is so impera- | tive that gigantic frauds art'in pro- | gress to ‘reduce, it into possession. Heratofore the evidence of such intent | has bean seattered, but begins now to | assume w eongistency and form that | betokens the extremity at once and the | desperation of these fanatics who have so successfully perpetuated their su- | premacy behind tbe ramparts of Gen. Grant's military repute. ble that jn the House of Representa- | Republicans may, after all, have two-thirds majority, ‘and proceeds to justify this probability by the state- ment that it.imagines there are seve- | ral of the new Democratic members | elect “who will certainly not keep | their seats till the middle of the ses- | sion.’ Expulsion—utterly partisan. (unlawful, and shameless expulsion— lis to do the work.” dL T “| . Negro Suffrage. ‘Since theelection, the radical organs | are showing their true colors. They a are now clamoring for an act of Con- gress, establishing negro suffrage all | over ‘the ‘Union. We expect this | piece of radical villainy to be consum- | mated. It is just what we predicted, "all along, in the columns of the depor- ter, the radicals would do, if encour- aged by success at the polls. A radical n the states without the ‘people having an opportunity to vote for ora inst the The poente of Ohis, Kansas, Congress” will inflict negro suffrage o measure, Connecticut, and other taies, have voted down negio suffrage by over- wlrélming-sajorities ; if’ the. question iveré submitted to the people of the re- mainingstates we doubt whether the result would be different in a single one 6fthem.- Yet, in direct opposition to the known and expressed will of the peopie, this obnoxious measyre is to be forced upon them by an act gf Cons gress. The District of Columbia cast, an al- Most ¥unanini voie 30 negro {5 "A rod the vadipal } 131 3 1 suirage, yeti the radical hounds in Congress forced it upon them. They or entitled, or éntitled to have on tha day of the date of filing his petition in bankruptcy, and declares that “such arrangement shall relate back to the commencement of =aid proceadinzs in does bankruptcy.” The assignment ¥ u not relate to or t1ke eifac acquired property, earned by labor in that case. Tha whole proeeedings as provided for by the law aud ‘as indica- ted in the forms contemplate the bankrupt as to h's means and liabili- prescribad, saem to rae condition of the of the in bankruptey. Thereore, earned by labor oro proceeding after ©" + therwiss, pending proceedings in bankruptey, and before assets which under the bankrapt law passed by assignment to the assigneo for-the use of the creditor Taking the facts to ba asstated in the petition in bankruptey was filed ’ : } {Ji {ils \ live ethng the aoreat Opis } les 11 med | { be reluctant in those things though they seem small, ars in reali the source of real zreatne A man turns away | . } 1 . business, and sack J (3 i enters, Nd ovserves t ] reside, ces ar , * i thing in the most por some skillful hand ¥ | i { { i ! | | | | i { | i pring crop, eousisting of 1 i buckwieat and potatoes,” in as the the said ants, registar 13 of the opinion that the grain raise by bankrupt after the filing of hi: petition does not pass to the assignee as assets for the use of the creditor. The decision was submitted to the Court and confirmed. A RATLORAD, The subject of a Railroad throuch Buffaloe Valley isaziin being discus- sed in husiness circles. The transfer of the old Lewis) irg and Spra ++ eek Charter to the Pennsylvania Rail: road Company and that Company's action in extending a Branch to Lew- ishury from the P. & E. Road, upon this Uharter, which is now nearly com- pleted, and the well known ability of this Company to extend the Road to Bellefonte and Spruce Creek, has giv- en rise to a very general expectation that this long looked for enterprise of such overshadowing importance to the people of Buffaloe and Penns Valley's is finally to be consummated. May the good Lord grant it! will he the heartfelt exclamation of our readers, we know. We. certainly would rejoice to be able to assure our friends that these expectations are well founded, but we confess entire, but in newise blissful, of either of the parties concerned, In the meantime our friends should A little touch hor this pleasant and invit., though he felt tired something, he dio has shed a soothing mind, and he idly N of thines which he and noble, and grand. Perchance he i the aequirement " In imagination ho se the possessor of mim {eels proud of if, Of standing on the hill of fama, and esteem and sati on his poor 1 While he thus dvoan rad SUDDIS rad upp '" 1s Vo DI My ther; and when s weary and earewori. Al few common-place rem gives himself up to think, o quietly reads the news ol the dav: lit tle does he think that the gentle being by his side is hungry for his love, eri Richmond, November 20.—Chief Justice Chase will arrive here next Monday, to preside at the fall term of the United Staes Circuit Court. Jeff. Davis, it is understood, will appear by counsel, as at present arranged, unless quirement, es lp ae me A boy ¢en years of age, when ques- tioned “by an Englisn coroner about a future state, said he did not know anvthingabout heaven and hell, and rgd not toll wher Boys who teil lies i they are dead. « The Eng- | Hsu papers are publishing this acoount Lurider the heading of “Lamentable Ig- a $11! Ie | eity wepe to deliver a serinon cach on (the subject of the future state as be lieved 1 by their respective church organizations, the person who atten- dd them all in succession would he fin bat little betier condition of niud on the subject than that of the | lamentably ignorant” boy. i il » $e Count von Bis ow» Berlin, Nov. 23. mark, President the Ministry, makes no dezien to leave (the Federal party, with which he has been for a long time connected, and join the Liberal organization. | re el tf peers Sov. 24 —The niw Pius- Gazette. the semi” official organ of the government, to re the Huneartun red BAYS should ensue from the =chie- phite, the Germans of th tir would how the same enthusinzii, ond the rerinans of the South the sane patri- [otis as was shown in 18153. 0H! LR] 2: i Ia whit W111 Be iH, =i} my to 1 ry hook, 1 Ne 8 { ik bnitaod The Middletown (Conn.) man who wore a pair of pants thirty-three years, is rather taken down by a well-known citizen of New Milford, who wears a made forand worn by him more forty years ago, and. ood » v 5 ) Cattle sell down in Texas per dozén, and are kia tor tae and tallow. . - Richmond, Va., Nov. 24.—H. Rives po it him. and the writer would not sav that «’l very much so. Strange indeed, the little things which lite pleasant are so often Strange that a man’s mind much taken up with great wits, a to forget that she who shares his joys and sorrows, is a weaker, frailer being than what he is, and needs his love and attention to make her happy. Strange, too, that woman, whose mission is love —womapn wl by her gentleness maka '\ who, sweetness, loveliness, and purity, shou p shed golden beams of light aeross every pathway in which she lLing.rs should be so unmindful of her influence, and wander =o far from her path of du- ty, as to- become an inconvenience; a pest to her husband and friends, and yet this is sometimes the case. Many a man has bees driven from his hame, and sought refuge in drinking saloons, by the repiings and muyrmurings of hi wife, Woman has mauy lictic y herself’ attractive,and her lio tul, and happy is she who makes use of thém, tor by doing so, she wiil bacome a treasure to those around her, and experience a sense of pleasure, with which the careless woman never be- comes pequainted, | | | | licasion reflecting on the character of a member of Grant's family, a lady. mom df fn Naples, Nov. 21.—The eruption of Mount Vesuvious is still very impo- sinz and threatening. All the cones of the voleano emit rumbling sounds and eject large quantities of lava. The lava has set a whole forest of chesnut noire, causing immense devise [on wd lands are wind the popu- ire | UY) 2 i eri i the left Lsputing m to a 8 right _— sii todd a mo- kof wisdom Valuable Farm AT PRIVATE SALE! The undersigned offers the following val- ushle Real Estate, situate in Penn ship, Centre county, about one half mile CONTAINING 60 ACRES LAND under the best state of cultivation, and un- der good fences, and TEN ACRES being CHOICE TIMBER LA ND. Thereon are erected a two-sto- gy Iv weather boarded Log iy HOUSE, BANK BARN, and dr Bull necessary Out-buildings, a weil ol Water in the yard, and a Inrge stream of running water a few. rods from the door, and TWO ORCHARDS OF CHOICE FRUIT Christian Bame. ' Paun township, oct23 tf Milroy Warehouse. The undersigned having opened a Ware house for the purpose of receiving Grain t MLLROY, MIFPLIN COUNTY. would be glad to see all their friends at the above place, where the highest Cush priess - OATS, BARLEY, urd alikind:rof Grain and Seeds, : We keep constantly on hand PLASTER, COALL SALT and Fish., 743-The Rall-road depot i in the sume building. GEO. BLYMYER, JOS. P. BLYMYER. ce ———— —————. sicht to see a hands in soft he end » Oi 5. # LC -~ - willed John Sneath ast, on the Clearfield heen arres- «De Di ‘ . OW nn, hing L heavy ~aow storm is reported on Plains, {0 th aity of Fort Fie snow 13 saul to be two Lr Li vi eot deep. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOMMISSIONER'S SA LE. J. By virus tthe authority invested in the Co ' ‘Centre cont, i } ff Pennsyl- : A.D. ING they wiil © Dith ie i 10 WoO ery, the old. county jail pr viv. situntedl In the borough of Belief mon Monday the 0th day of November, A. 1). 1868, af one ! » LB » ’ o'clock P. M. Terms of sale made known ut the time, WM. FUREY, WM. KELLER, JOIIN BING, Commissioners, wania, apn “4 nova7, ORSALE! The undersigned contemplating a re- ATER. moval to the west, offers a fine § Ome, at private sale, situated \t Spring Mills, consisting of a Wosstory log framefhouse, sta- ble, aud other out-buildings, ground containing about three re 1s good fruit upon the prem- ies, and the ground under cultivation. Lerms will be made easy. For further par- ticulars apply to G. W. DUNKLE, and a lot of acres. The nav 27, 9m. Spring Mills. VLOTHING —Overgoats Pants, Vests, Hed ress (logts, cheap ts, Wolf's Store. BUOTS by the thousand, all styles, si- prices, far men and boys, just ar- rived at Wolf's well known Old Stand. SYRUP, the finest ever” made, just re- ceived, cheap at Wokt's olG stand try it. sepl8 Gm yArg BLE PROPERTY VATE SALE in Millheim. The undersigned offers the Howing valusble Real Estate nt Private Male, sisting of A LOT OF GROU containing one half of an Acre, thereon AY ¥ AXA), erected a two-story hoarded log-house, Anew - 5 EIT ig we COE’S COUGH B This long tried and opular Remedy is agin called to the attention of the publie. x '®&r rolls around, the pro- prigtors ‘annually make their bow rm people, and remind them that amongst the many things required for the health, com- fort and sustenance of the family through the long and tedious months of winter, Coe’s Cough Balsam should not be forgot- ten. For years it bas been a household medicine—and mothers anxious for the safety of their ehildren, and all who suffer from any disexse of the throat, chest and lufigs; eannot afford to be without it. In addition to the ordinary for ncego, long in the market, we now furhish ous mam moth family size bottles, which will, in cofimon- with the other size, be found at 411 Drug Stores. in ALBAM,. £ FOR CROUP | The Balsam will be founé invaluable, and treme cases. WHOOPING COUGH. The bestimapy of all who have used It for | this terrible disease, during the last ten | years, is, that it invariably relieves and cures it. ea » Lhe Lot containg yard. T u w » 1 : : zs. Aor further information apply SAMUEL BANE, . . Miltheim, & Yezie, gs Ey SAT mbion. ar iL New Warehouse at Hiilroy. ming the farmers of Centre county, they have leased “the Warehouse recently erected at the Stone Mill, and are NOW pres Cnsh at the highest market rates. ful for the liberal en them, they hope business, to merit sume, un and for sale at lowest market rates, M'ATEE & REED. Proprietors of Lewistown Mills. A. S. KegLixy, Supt. Warehouse, M ilroy. octd 3m —————— —.. Look Here! MNILROY éz Shoes Store, constantly on hand ASSORTMENT of NTS, TOUTHS & MISSES, iren’s Boots & Shoes, the we Are Tht + Via “ stOCK gannol oo» ali 1 markets, him every body, as his surpassed for durability and reasonable Three doors below M Aes & Kee! - Ware-house. Do not forged the novls, im CEN, place. J. L. MARKS, DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. A Letters of administration on the estate of Mathew Catzmyer, lute of Gregg to the vndersigned, he requests all persons knowing themselves indebted to said tate to make inmunediate payment, and those having claims against the same to present them duly authenticated according to Iaw for settlement. JOHN RISHEL, Administrator. “ 2 J * oct23, 6t T IS known to all in Bellefente and through the county if you want a JURNSIDE & THOMAS. AT BURNSIDE & THOMAS. ers of nll kinds, at BURNSIDE &« THOMAS, —————— ——— ———— s—— I IME, COAL AND LU) i The best WOOD COAL. BURXNT LIME, can be had at the Bellefonte Lina Kilns, on the Pike leading to Milesburg, at the lowest wrices. We are the only parties in Central enna. who burn in Patent Flame Kiln. which produces the — IBER. Best White-Wash and Plastering Lime, : offered to the trade. The best SHAMOKIN AND WILKESBAR RIE ANTHRACITE COAL, all sizes, prepared *Spvesly for family use Also Silver Brook Foun- dry Coal Also a lot of first and sec: at lowest prices. ond quality DEE MBE) / P 7 BOARDS, BROAD BAILS PALING, SHINGLES and plastering lathe for sale cheap. Office and yard, near South end of Bald Fagle Valley R. R. Depot. . ? roe SHORTLIDGE, & CO. aplO'OR Ty, = 597 ap Bellefonte Pa. SORE THROAT. | Keep your thraat wet with the balsam—ts- | king little and often—and You will very | soon find relief. i HARD COLDS AND COUGHS | Yield at once to a steady use ‘of this great | remedy. It will succeed in giving relief | where all other remedies have failed. AND LUNGS. Do not delay proeuring and immediately taking Coe’s Cough Balsam, when troubled with any of the above named difficulties. They are all premonitory symptoms of Consumption, and if not arrested. will soo- | ner or luter sweep you away into the valley ef shadows from which nome.ean ever re- turn. 3 i i i ! IN CONSUMPTION, Many a care-worn sufferer has found relief and to-day rejoices that her life has been made easy and prolonged by the use of . Coe’'s Cough Balsam. IN SHORT, The people know the article, and it needa no comment from ns. It is for sale by ev- ery Druggist and Dealer in Medicines in the United States, : THE C. G. CLARK CO. Sole Proprietors, Ne'v Haven, CY. Read! Read 1 Read!!! THE ATTENTION OF THE PEOPLE I8 CALLED TO THE World’s-Great Remedy, COE'S DYSPEPSIA CURE. This preparation is pronounced by Dys- pepties as the only known remedy that will surely cure that aggravating and fatal mal- { ady. For years it swept on its fearful tide, | carrying before it to an untimely grave, its ' millions of sufferers. | Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure has Come to | the Reseue.: | Tudigestion, ‘Sick Headache, SBourness or | Acidaty of Stomach, Rising of Food, | Flatuleney, Lassitude, W cariness, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, finally terminating 8 iv . Death, Areas surely cured by this potent remedy, 2¢ the patient takes it. Although but five years before the {opie whats the verdict of the masses ? Hear what Lester. Sexton, of Milwaukee, says: Milwaukee; Wiz Jan, 24 1868. i C. G. Clark & Co., New Haven, ‘onn. : # 2 { Both myself and wife'have used Coe's Dyspe win Cure, and it bas proved PER- FECTLY satisfactory as a remedy I have: no hesitation in saving that we have re-- ceived GREAT BENEFIT from its use Very respectfully. (Signed LESTER SEXTON. A GREAT BLESSING. [From Rev, L. F. Ward, Avon, Lorain. (5, 0.] | Messrs. Strong & Armstrong, Gentlemen, —]It gives me great pleasure to- state that my wife has derived great benefit from the use of Coes Dyspepsia Cure. She has been for 8 number of years greatly troubled with Dyspepsia, accompanie with © violent paroxysms of constipation which so prostrated her that she was all the. while for months, unable to de anything. She took, at your instance. Coe's Dyspepsia Cure, and has derived GREAT BENEFIT ‘ROM IT, and is now comparatively well, She regards this medicine as a great bles- sing. Truly yours, Jan. 13th, 1868. L. F. WARD: CLERGYMEN. - The Rev. Isaac Aiken, of itlleghen : testifies that it has cured him, sfter all oth- or remedies had failed. DRUGGISTS. Any druggist in the country will tell you, if you take the trouble to enquire, that ev- ery one that buys a bottle of Coe’s Dyspep- sia Cure from them, speaks in the most un- qualified praise of its great medical virtues. COE'S DYSPEPSIA CURE ‘Will also be found invalaable in all cases of Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colie, mer Complaints, Griping and in fact every -dis- ‘ordered condition of the stomach. Sold by Druggists in eity or country everywhere at 31 per Bottle; or by applica-. tion to + THE C. C."CLARK CO. Sole Proprietors "New Haven, Ox, a June 2 .eow, 1, y y % Ra £21 2% + &