ECAR TT RMT TT RT CR TIRE CENTRE HALL REPORTER. FRIDAY, JAN, 22nd 1860. - ——— ———————— To CORRESPONDENTS. «Communications hould not be written on both sides of a cheet of paper. Be brief, plain and to the point. Communieations containing person alitics will be rejcced. MONEY MATTERS. Qur radical statesmen have run the country’s finances into a dilemma from which all their combined wisdom has not yet been able to propose a plan by which to get out again, and every speech made upon the subject leaves | the public mind more confused than before. As Gon. Butler's recent speych upon this quostion has attracted consi- derable attention, wo furnish the rea- ders of the Reporter with a digest of Lis speech, copied from a cotemporary : Gen. Butler, in his speech on the currency question, made on the 12th inst., he has manifested more talent: ani research, and farnished more usc fal information than Sherman and] Morton and the whole company of Ra- | dical currency tinkers put together. | We look upon his plan as complica- | ted and theoretical —difficult to under- stand and hard to carry out—-because, | 3s we think, much of its success will | on the monecy-lenders and bankers, | al. But Gen. Butler has made a of the nations of world. l nows to Lis sorrow, that our financial svstem has another great and aover- : ‘ SR perity and developement of the mdus try and resources of the tive of capital our money is enormously y jcar! WL He estimates the average rate at 12 per cent, which we think is too | for we know that banks de ¢ dividends of from 10 to 18 per Y, the idl ble sums to the eredit of this surplus fund, while the South, he says, has to pav twenty-four per cent. interest for | capital with which to grow cotton and | tobacco, and can get very little of it at | that. Cotton ean be produced in Af- | rica and India, he alleges, on capital | that costs bat four por cent. Gen. Butler i: opposed to specie | payments altogether, now or hereafter, He rtable papor currency, to be issued | bythe United States alone, (whieh he | proposes to call “certificates of value”) | in swims of une dollar and upward, and | which is to supercede both legal tender | id national bank Of specie | i'2 l stunds up, he declares for an incon- | id Holes, ryt it IYMmMeoens i I SUVS! This, iT it ean be done, of course | would bring every United States bond | at ounce to par in gold, as well as all | lazal-teaders, if the return to specie | paviuént by the Government did not | iposa the substitution of gold for | om. No one deubts that however! rv late such a change is effected wet eiuse the greatest depreciation giwulne in every species of property cx fept debts held azainst the govern- mens aud the individuals. Every bond | gud note would be appreciated, say thifty per cont.; all “ether property would be depreciated the same amount as compared with the present valuation. Sach an unsettiinz of values the world as evar seen nor any nation endured. 1: would be equivalent to confiscation hy legislative aet of one third the value of All the property of the country, ex- | conting only that held by the creditor | CLASS, There 12 no denying the truth of this | ev ' Lis Nila & vay bE i} wgument—and the General enlivens | ris reflections with a nice little piece | of sarcasm, which, we fear, will make the virtuous Greely angry and he will probably eall the General names—i | villain; ora “beast” for mstance: “Out says the way to resume specie payments is to resume.” Suppose the physicians should say to the sick man, Pipa way not to be sick is to be well,” might noi the patient ask the doctor howe Lio get well? So, a few years sue may remember that the way get } | U 1 3 4.70, nropozed for the Union armies to ichmond was “On to Richmond,” I trusp that I may not be consid 13 reatieipus in calling to my mind tha: sur armies found some difficulties in earrying out that suggestion, which resulted in such disaster that it was to be hoped those whe blindly advocated it would never again dogmatize upon any subject th: difficulties of which they neither appreciated or under- stood, The General contends that a convor- tible paper currency 18 more fluctua- ting, more productive of panics, than a currency of ‘inconvertible paper can possibiy be. His arguments and his historical proofs of this position are in-; genious, if not entirely convincing. He asserts what eapnot be disproved that 1 we resume specie payment, eyery bond we owe in Europe, will romp hpme for redemptiom—and he 10 IL 1d erad a 3 ; D0 Sw 3 ew whe vy 4iQ - “> Ra ——— in maintains that the gold value of our bonds in Europe (varying from 74 in London to 78 in Frankfort) fixes the gold value of our currency and our bonds here at home. The reason why English consuls are 92 and our bonds 74 is curiously stated, to say the least: “Nobody dreams the British debt will ever be paid,—but as we paid off our national debt once, those investing in our securities fear this may happen again.” Well perhaps it may—but not till afte John Sherman has wheedled bonds in lieu of six per cent. bonds! “I py oY Shakesphere alive, Geary would un- doubtedly be immortalized in classic sport. In the language of the great Covode, Geary is about the “humbug- gedest” governor out, and we are not surprised that there is a movement to defeat his renomination and we think our Jim Beaver would command more respect. vw — i A ————————— In Delaware, on last Monday, the legislative caucus, nominated a father and son, for U. S. Senators. Hon. Jas. A. Bayard, father, was nominated for the short term, and Thomas F. Bayard, son, for the short term. ce rene A Hp think,” says Gen. Butler, “I have pro- posed a currency as valuable as gold and for all the purposes of'a cirenlating medium better than gold, but which 1 desire shall not be redcemable in gold and silver.” Then he denounces coined gold and silver as “the handmaid of er; the supporter of thrones; the en- gine by which the privileges and pre: devouring the substance, and absorbing the unrequited labors of the masses.” In order to show the relative values of gold and silver in different countries, he states that while in Japan gold is only three and a half to one, with us the standard is fifteen and a half to one, He differs in this, from Jay Cooke and be made rich by the processes the Gen. deseribes : When the Government wanted mora money to pay the soldiers and to carry ier notes as money 'and paid their debts: Having provi- ‘ded that these notes might be funded into a gold bearing six per cent. bond, the capitalists bought them up when | their own legal ten ld at that premium and had refused to loan to the govern- ment, and funded this, which they now lent, a return to specie payinents, they now howl at the doors of the Capitol, unmindful of the distruction of value, the starving of the laborer, and the ru- war, what petition has come up to you hand=? What meetings of the people have heen held to make to you petitions Not one; not one. I stand here, therefore, for inconvertible paper money, the greenback, which has fought our battles and saved our coun- try; which has been held by us as a just equivalent for the blood of our sol- diers, the lives of our sons, the widow- hood of our daughters, and the orphan- aze of their children. I stand here for und suecesstully done, which, founded on the faith, the wealth, and property of the nation, is at once the exemplar and engine of its industry and power— happiness in peace. men owe their emaheipation from sla- very; to it labor isindebted for eleva- which it has been enveloped for ages. I stind for that money, therefore which is by far the better agent and instru- ment of exchange of an enlightened an | free people than gold and silver— th» money alike of the barbarian and an‘ despot. We think we can safely promise to whomsoever may read General Butler's speech, that they will be instructed, even if not convinced. No original GOV. GEARY. John W. Geary is anxious for reelection, but theer is not harmony in his party upon that question. Some of the radical prints are “down” on the hero of Snickersville, and a number of the leaders are opposed to ut Horseback,” or “Geary before the Battle,” The fact is, Geary never was fit to be governor-—he is the big- gest humbug that ever filled the gov- ernor’s chair in this state, and altogeth- er the softest specimen we ever heard of, brearing the title of goveraor. His vanity renders him rediculous in the eyes even of those who profess to be his frieads, and they chuckle over his doings and sayings, As a specimen of his vanity, we have it from good authority, that the gover- nor had hanging in his parlor, (and may yet have), pictures of himself, such as “Gov. Geary en Horseback,” “Gov. Geary before the Battle,” and “Gov. Geary’ in variens other monkey ‘shines. Wedid not learn whether his Excellency ever had himself pictured as the hero of Snickersville, capturing spittoons and stove-pipe guns, a Ii man, would De something like “Fal- staff mustering his recruits” and were What is Congress doing ? nothing, but talking about Sue Murphy, who had a house destroyed by the federal troops during the war, and now wants Miss Sue was a southern | damages. irl, but is said to have been “loyal,” | & ! . . . . ‘and the patriotic fellows in congress i { Care making miles of speeches over her | case, as to whether she shall have dam- yo ‘ | ages or not Vive lu radical rump. | | ————— i Carl Shurz, radical, is elected U. 8. Senator, from Missouri. Hannibal Hamlin radical has been elected U.S. Senator from Maine. Drunken, profane Zack Chandler, radical, has been re-elected U. 8. Sen- | ator from Michigan. Alex. Ramsey, radical, has been re- elected U. 8S. Senator from Minnesota. re-elected Sumner, radical has been U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Gov. Fenton radical, has been elec- ted U.S. Senator from New York in an, radical. aL 1 Harrisburg place of Morg: Fron Harrmispure, Jan. 19.—The Sen- | ate met at three o'clock to vote for | United States Senator. John Scott | received seventeen votes and William | Wallace thirteen. Wallac2 voted for | Hiester Clymer. McCandless and H. | White had paived off. | The House met at three o'clock. | Scott received sixty-one votes, and | Wallace thirty-eicht. Mr. Nellson, | Demoerat of Wayne, was present | but did not vote. By Mr. Burritt, of Susquahanna— | joint resolution amending the Pennsyl- | vania Constitution by embracing uni | versal suffrage, white and black, male | and female. | The Dauphin county Domoera i | Convention to-day elected Louis Heck | and Setwart Rodszon Delegates to the | State Convention, and instructed them | for George W. Cass for {vovernor, and | Hamilton Alricks, of Huntingdon, fu: Supreme Judge. } . | i { { & >> | Senator Morton introduced a bill in | the U. 8S. Senate granting Mrs. Lin | eoln a pension of five thousand dollars | per year, from the death of her hus | band. This is the first instance in which a | pension is asked for the widow of a | President. Those radicals know how the money fly. to make rr lp A pe Jefferson Davis. It is said, intends spending the win- ter in southern France. His health is much improved. iin The Democracy of Clearfield have instructed for Wm. A. Wllace for | Governor, and for Géo. R. Barrett for | Supreme Judge. PP The Keystone State on Fire. We learn from parties, in whom we believe we may place the most impli cit confidence, says the Washington Examiner, that a great conflagration is now at the heighth of its progress in the celebrated Millan coal mines, on the Monongahela river, at the mouth of the Youghiogheny, fifteen miles southest of Pittsburg. The fire began some time since, and great efforts have been made to extinguish it, but to no purpose. An attempt to check its fierce career was made by the erection of mud walls and the pumping in of large quantities of water, and by this means the fire was partially smother- ed, but the heat became so intense and the pressure of gasso great that the walis were burst, and the flames are now sweeping onward . with greater force than ever. The fire is spreading through the old mines at the rate of sixty yards per day, and it is feared the entire field may be destroyed. So much progress has been made by the flames that it is estimated that the cost of extinguishing them before they have spread over a thousand acres will not be less than £150,000. Twenty- two loaded wagons and all the too.s of the mines have been lost thus far, The coal field over which this great subterranean deluge of fire is sweeping, is one of the most valuable on the Mo- nongahela, and extends a distance of some eight or ten miles. It is difficult to say what will be the result of this underground conflagration if it is not checked very soon. Wherever a vein of coal extends the fire must follow it, and the whole Pittsburg coal region may vet be endangered. Let some great lake of Pennsylvania oil be touch- ed by the resistless stream of fire, let | the underground gasses be tnrped on, strength, and the old Keystone State, or at least a portion of it, will form the vent of a subterranean hell inferior only to those which in other quarters of the globe break out in blazing vol- eanoes from the surface of the earth. lp - Lisbon, Jan. 15.— The regular mail’ steamship from Rio Janeiro arrived here late yesterday, having left Rio on December 24. She brings the follow- v hh A —— : The allied army had made a vigo- rous assault on the Paraguayan strong- hold at Velleta, and after a desperate battle succeeded in carrying it. Lopez's army was utterly routed and destroyed. The allies captured five thousand priso- ners of war. Lopez himself, with bare- ly two hundred followers, made his escape. This important victory open. ed the way to Ascunsion, the Para- guayan capital, to which place the Brazilian iron clads have gone. — Pew-RENTING IN MR. BEECHER'S Caurcn.—The sale of pews in Ply- mouth church-——Mr. Beecher's—took place last week Tuesday. There are 208 pews in the church, the majority accommodating either five or six per- sons ; and, as there are always mauy persons willing to pay largely on seats, the only way to dispose of them seems to be to give them to the highest bidder tor a choice. After a few remarks from Mr. Beecher, preceding the sale last week, the auctioneer began the work of the evening. The first bid for a choice was $200, and this was speedily run up to 8420, Mr. H. C, Browen's bid, at which the competi tion stopped. Mr. Browen selected pew 81, the annual rental of which is 8120. The next highest premiums | were of 8350, awarded to Mr. H. B. | Claflin: $360, R. S. Benedict; $340, H. \V. Sage; 8300, Moses S. Beach ; and so down to $112, the lowest re- | ported. The bidding was lively, the | interest very great, and good hamor everywhere prevalent. The amount | of premiums footed up $41,959, th rouals of worunt to 812,028, and the chair rentals to $700, making vive on 851,683; more by about $5,090 than that of tbe prece- ding year. Oa Thursday evening the annual meeting of the Plymouth Socie- ty was held. showed that the receipts the previous ELEN ET 350,000 were from pew-rents. total expenditures had amounted $62,115 97. The tax for water for ran were attended to, and Messrs, Freeland, R. S. Benedict, and HH. R Claflin were re-elected trustees. —— olf Anna Starcy, of Hamilton township curious history. A year ago last spring. she entered the township attired in a man's clothes, bought forty acres ot land, with a house partly constructed, completed the house with her hands, grubbed out by hand fourteen acres of heavy oak, and fitted the soil for the plow ; chopped her own wood, Own fence in the township. She has eight acres of land in wheat ; has a ditch on one side of her land regarded as «a superior affair; made a firsterate bob- sled (she dug un ranners out hy zed to supply herneighbors with axe- helves and splint baskets. After she clothes and called herself’ | The account adds that woinan's Ann Starcy. | ef tle Apes Five young men in Berlin lately made an agreement for a waged, to see who of them could keep awake for | a whole week. They all held out for | about five days and a half, by drink- | ing largely of strong coffee, and keep- | ing up a constant round of active ex- ersises and exciting amusements. At the end of that time two of them yield- ed to drowsiness; a third soon fell asleep while riding, tumbled from his addle and broke his arm; a fourth making use of the same stimulant of | strong coffee, but they did not suc. | ceed in driviug away sleep for more | than four days. sensei A The Throne of Mexico. London, Jan. 14.—Special dispatch- | es received iu this city to-day from Madrid state that one of the late Maximilian’s Mexican generals is se- | cretly engaged in that city, making | arrangements with a number of Span- | ish scientific and military officers, with a view of placing Count Girgenti, brother of the ex-King of Naples, on the throne of Mexico. Two hundred officers of high rank are wanted to carry the movement in- to execution. Their pay will be se- cured them from the time they enter npon their duties. Several of the Eu. ropean governments assist secretly this enterprise. Gereral Prim grants a number of officers desirous of joining unlimited leave of absence for the pur- pose of taking part in the expedition. I'he Emperor Napoleon, it is said, se- cretly favors the project. ee An Inhuman Monster. Louisville, Jan. 14.—A few nights since a man named Weathers, living in the lower portion ofthe city, while under the influence of liquor, asked his little boy, four years od. to spell a word, which it was impossible for the child to do. Weathers seized it by the hair, picked up a stick and beat the child until the flesh upon its body was lacerated in many places. Heeding not the cries of the little one, who pleaded for mercy, he then picked it up and held it over the hot fire in the stove until its whole body was burned to a blister. Weathers was subsequent- ly arrested. rr ep lp re em The Luthearn denomination in the U. States has now 1,800 ministers, 3,182 houses of worship, and nearly 4,00,000 communicants. Evy neat ee A man died ip Washington from He had driven a horse ——— . ] physicians, after a post mortem exami- nation, and several scientific experi- ments have decided he caught it from the horse. Sa te Ap ems nett A party returning from church at Hannibal, Missouri, last Sunday, were attracted by the cries of a colored wo- man weighing 300 pounds; who had sunk into a mud hole. A derrick of fence rails had to be raised to get her out. A Hog was killed in Springfield Illinois, the other day, in whsoe stom- ach were found thirty-six ten penny, nails, halfan old file, and a suspen- der buckle. This is supposed to ac- count for the recent mysterious disap- peatencs of a small boy in that neigh- orhood. cet smsin — A lady living at Shrewsbury, N. J., weighing two hundred and seventy pounds, has had ten children, seven of who are living, each oi’ tuem weigh- tug over two hundred pounds, cede WASHINGTON, duniuary Lins morning a coun: vi tae Colored Meus Natiouul cirascbioil, receatly nl secdion Ubiled Upon Urenerind Uraul DY appuinbiiciii, lis Cy, tei la ——————— The Cuban Insurrection. . Telegraphic advices from Neuvitas state that the insurgents were concen- tratinga force of 10,000 men for an assault on Puerto Princi. The Spanish force inside numbers 3,500 men and is actively engaged in fortify- ing. I'he Peace Co had ar- rived at Neuvitas, and had sent a mes- senger to the insurgents to prepare a comprorise, PUBLIC SALE. ‘Will be sold at public sale, at the resi- dence of the subscriber, in Meiles township about mile east of Wolf's Store, on Thursday, February 11th, "69. the following personal property, viz : One four year old horse, one breeding mare with colt, one yearling coll, one or two cows, one English wagon-bed good as new, one sott of hay-iadders, and other farming im- plements, too numerous to mention, Sale to commence at 12 o'clock, on said day, when due attendance will be given and terms made known by jan22 WM. ERHARD, jan22, R ‘New Warzhouse at Milroy. Attention, Farmers. The undersigned takes pleasure in infor ming the farmers of Centre county, that they have leased the Warehouse recently erected at the Stone Mill, nnd are now pre- pared to purchase all kinds of Grain for Cash at the highest market rates. Thank- ful for the liberal patronngo heretofore give en them, they hope by a stiiet attention to | Lo thelr address Urea. Writ “1 hank the conveulion feinicd Us | i 1OUUWS ul | { i far wil 4 UPS SINCEreiy wlan wit ¢oauied 1 ’ ald Lucy suall Dave My cudoie woos All) DINE WOrLlly os ali wie paiviieges Lae poverneal has ves N ow Upou thc, vy Laer duluie cullauct prove Clalills. Lae committee were then severally Alu leaving head quaricrs vil proceeded 8pecCi Jl © rig iat.d wloh Ww Opie td JO ad. W asinogion sural. fhe corcesponient of | the boston Gerad gives Lie lollowing : Surratl 13 pow Suu America, Whit retura AMI a 1 earn from one of nis frieads tuat he hus prepacved a tall and ox pli it tate melt of the conspiracy which resuted in the death of President fancoln. In this he denies all knowledge of any as sassination plot, bat confes-es treely that Booth and himself and others were in a plot to abduct Mr. Lincoln. He declared that assassination was never spoken of to him, and waz not agreed on by Booth and Payne until abl i ul Here wlonth., sists on the innocence of his mother, be remembered, caused Mrs. Surratt’s Surratt proposes to tell and indifferent, and make oath to it. ETI : Under the new ruling of the court of Topeka, Kansas, a lawyer is requir- ed to stand up while questioning a wit- ness, and, if too drunk to stand he can- not practice. . . On Saturday night one hundred armed men from Pium Creek, Free- mont county, Iowa, broke into the jail p ® hung them to a tree over a intle distant from the town, mimi tn ; In the north part of'Saratoga coun- ty, town of Greenfield, N. Y., recently there was a trio of weddings in one house, at the same time, on which veca- sion an old lady and her two daughters were led to the alter. The mother was a widow ; the first daughter was a wid- qusiness, te merit a continuance of the =e PLASTER 3ALT and COAL, on hand nnd {or dale nt lowest market rates, MATE & REED, Proprietors uf Tew istown Mills. A, S. KERLIN, supt., Warehouse, fan din Milroy. NEW GOODS! Now Opening. The undersigned having purchased the i a — ——————— —————————————— Centre Hill Store, and replenished it with new goods just pur- chased at the lowest Cash prices, feel confi- dent that it will be to the interest ofall who want to buy goods. to give them a call be- fore purchasing elsewhere, They have placed the store under: the | conirol of Mr. Jans. M. Lashell, who has | had many years experience in selling goods { and who will nt all times be pleased to how purchasers and others, oy and make it an object for them to purchase. The stock consists of a general assort- ment of all kinds of goods usually kept in a country store, such as Dry Goods, | Groceries, Queensware, HARDWARE, BOOTS and SHOES, Hats and Caps, | Drags, Oils and Paiats, | Wood and Willow Ware, also Wall Paper, Fish, Salt, Leather, &e. Give us a call and you must be convinced that Centre Hill is the place to buy geod and cheap goods. Grary & Tuomrsox, P. S.—We also buy Hides and Calf Skins for which we will pay market price, either in Cash or Trade. G. & - — THE CHEAP widower of four months; the other was | a girl of seventeen, and the espoused | a man of about thirty years, who had | recently obtained a divorce from a for- | mer wife. The minister wus consider- ably confused to know when he had finished, an 1 it was understood that he was to be paid at wholesale price, and receive the equivalent in fire-wood. ul tne lf ensmmmonstmsnen session A man named Cunningham has been swindling along the Hudson, and mar- ries in every town he visits. biem————— rade A young man named Smeltzer jum- ped offa train of cars on Christmas whilst in motion, at Irvin, and receiv. ed injuries from which he died. Be can Bonner feeds his horse from a box on the floor, he believing it is natural for them to take their food from a level with their feet. —— The two women nominated for School Committee, in Worcester, Mass., were choson by a handsome majority. A womam was clected to the same office in Grafton Mass. re af se Shot for Outraging Women. Memphis, January 19.—Three ne- gro military men who last week, out- raged Mrs. McGee and Mrs. Galloway, were shot at Marton this morning by order of court martial. EE A man wes killed at St. Louis, on Thursday, by the bursting ofa grind- stone, a piece of which dashed him against a wall, and drove him through New York Store!