fr— nr —————————— CENTRE HALL REPORTER. ——— FRIDAY, MAR. 6th 1800. The Constitutional Amendment. After a great deal of backing-and- filling floundering, the negro suffrage amendment has at last passed both Houses in the following form : Be it resolved, &e., two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States be submitted to the Leg- islatures of the several States, and when ratified by three-fourths thereof, it shall be part of said Constitution. ARTICLE 15. The right of the citi- zens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the Uni- ted States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. SkcrioN 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro- priate legislation. The World says: This differs from the bill as it came from the Senate by dropping the right of the negroes to hold office and omitting religion and education. We have strong hopes that this amendment will not be rati- fied by three-fourths of the States. should encourage the friends of State rights to make a vigorous opposition to the amendment in every State where there is an inch of ground to fight up- on. Judge Woodward made the point of ment ought to be submitted to the President for his approval. His point of order was ruled out by the Speaker, new, and cited various authorities, Court, in support of his ruling. The language of the Constitution, taken but almost necessitates, Judge Wood- ward's interpretation ; and the author- ities on the other side, so far as the re- ved, give no satisfactory reasons for de- viating from th: strict language of th Constitution. 0 . Speaker Colfax also gave no reasons, relyinz upon mere pre- they are strong enough to justify an opinion that the precedents will never he reversed. to the President for his approval ? Evi- dently as a sceurity against the possi- ble haste ar mistakes of Congress. REL DL UL The Cause and the Remedy. The Metropolitan Record. in discus- gesting the means of getting rid of it comes directly te the cause and the remedy. Jt says: “It is idle to speculate upon the eases of the lax morality that almost ey.ory- where stares usin the face. It is the worst affectation in the world to pretend mot to be eonseious of them. A wick- ed civil war breeding corruption at every pore of the body politic; the ele- vation of bad men to office ; the degra- dation of labor; a debased paper cur- rency, stimulating false values, and giving free reign to all manner of ex- travagance and luxury tell the whole story. The corrective, no doubt, will come in good time, but the very first step to a change for the better, it seems to us, is the annihilation of the wicked party, to whose baneful influences di- rectly or indirectly, so many crimes, social aud political. are justly attribu- ted. Tothat end let good men labor, and the labor, we are p rsuaded will ded — | A Strange Claim. | Mr. Summer has been a number of | days past, pres Compay. of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- company have been sold to the amount of twenty millions. With the comple- tion of the road, both coin and currency | : . | Hydrophobia on Long Island, N. Y. be youd question. Whet sume of the | Within a mnoth no less than thirty courts have heretofore held was a mat- dogs, supposed to be mad, have been shot on the island, most of them in the ' neighborhood of Flushing and Hun. ter's Point. children of Mr. Kromenacher, at IFos- | ter’s Meadows, were recently bitten. Their wounds were properly dressed principal of its first mortgage bonds | ter of honor has now become an obli- gation, and must enhanced the market | value of these securitics, The present | high price of governments offers a fa- | vorable opportunity for holders to sell | at a profit of $100 to 8140 on each bond, | seemingly as well as usual. Nothing | and obtain a security equally as safe | further was thought of the matter until "and really more valuable, on account | oy WLI Age, wher The of the . | ghildren, on attempting to drink a glass | of milk, was taken with hydrophobia. land reinvest in Union Pacifies | uf the longer period before maturity. es > reno FROM WASHINGTON. | WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—A delega- | { tion of Pennsylvanians visited Gen. | Geant yesterday evening to ask him Lif he wold urecommended them to draw up a memorial requesting him to appoint Mr. Moorhead of Pennsylva- Inia to a place in the cabinet, which | should be signed by all the delega- ation. Gen. Grant read the paper, they had | death the body was so fearfully vulsed and draw up, as to be hardly recognizable. malady, and it is possibly that he may not recover. At Astoria a little girl who was bitten recently isin a critical day last, a mad dog made its appear ance, and was not killed until a gen- tleman named Carter, who was shield- ing a little girl from its attack, had been bitten. Nearly six weeks a; gentleman named Ludlam, of Brook | lyn, while attempting to whip a little 1 | and said that on the whole | better not, and suggested that most of the members had already sicned a re- | the members had already signed a ro | quest for another man ; some had sign- led several. If all these memorials should become known some of those | ed a slicht bite on the hand. who had put their names to them might | themseives put in a ridiculous | 1 Many persons who know the deg assert that it was not mad either after | position. Gen. Grant said that he | the bitine. Indeed, it is even said that | thought he should beallowed to choose | a fow moments after the whipping it | his cabinet witnout interference from | canme very hunbly and licked iis mas- l any one. They are his confidential ad- ters, as ifnsking to be forgiven, Mr. | visers, and he must know whom he | Ludlam, however, laboring under a | wishes to call to him in that capacity ; | popular delusion, had the animal shot. | for the other positions under the Gov- | The wound healed, and all was thoueht ernment he is likely to welcome sug- | gestions, for there are a great many of | them, and he cannot be expected in | every case to know who are the fitted men ; but in selecting his cabinet he | | may properly act without suggestions One thing he would | feel before or | ! } | Ludlam was stricken. At one time it | required the united strength of four men to hold him down. During one of the spasms he was tied to the bed with twisted | them to tatters. | so broken. | from any source. The bedstead was al- | ul He died a day or two ago. | all be men who were loyal to the Uni- | —N. ¥. Sun. lon during the war, and who gave | strong and faithful support to the plat. Death—A Man Falally Strangled While Swallowing an Oyster. A few days ago, Col, Walter Brooke. of Vicksburg, inn company with several friends, were partaking of some ovsters, when the Col. attempted too swallow an oyster of unusual size. It lodeed in his throat, and in an eflort to expel it, a portion of it was drawn into the trachea, and it was tho firmly imbed- ded, one halfin the trachea and the They might not prove to be the | | change at any time in that ease. There | | was no difficulty about that. The | | men he had selected wonld not remain lin the cabinet, he thought, if it was | not agreeable. He had originally in- | tended to write a weck agow a letter | to each of the gentlemen whom he bad | fixed upon for a cahinet position ask- | ing them to serve, but he was glad he | had not done so, and he would keep the | whole matter to himself until the ap. | pointments were sent th the Senate, | S0fferer continued until insensibility | That saved much trouble to him and | ensued. A physician was summoned | as early as possible and sttempted to remove the the oyster by thursting his | the gentlemen he ment to eall around him. But he had already made up | © lingers into the pomt of its lodgement through the mouth, l his mind. He could send in the whole | accomplish this as be desired, and feel- | cabinet at that moment ; still he might at anvhtime change his mind, and so g as the names were known to him | ing assured that death would be the re- alone he coule do so without offence | sult of delay, he immediately opened | the trachea with a knife, and, insert- ing his finger in the incision, he forced to any one. his incautious utterance to the Pennsylvanians the other day | : © | the obstructing substance back into the mouth, and then endeavored to seize had already given him and them some | and extract it from thence. In this he needless trouble, Some people seemed | ignated Mr. George H. Stuart for a | failed, but succeeded in forcing it into place. He had not said anything of | the esophagus, The protracted con- the kind, and did not mean to say to | tinuance of Col. Brook in this suffoca- any one whether he had or not. Bat, | ting condition produced effusion of as the people had spoken against My, | blood upon the brain, which soon after Stuart, he wished to say to the Penn. | eaused his death. Oi iin. sylvania gentlemen that Mr. Stuart ‘hh was a loyal man during the war, and Judge Lynch in Texas, A young man in Texas was court- and an honorable man. That did not ing a daughter of Mrs. Roach. The imply, however, that General Grant would or wonld not appoint him. The | mother objected to his visits and he shot and killed her, in such a secret delegation then withdrew. Light continues to be thrown upon | manner that it would have never heen the general principles which will oov- known who committed the deed, but ern. Grant's administration. It can | that a piece of newspaper which had now be said with certainty that he de- | been used as the “wadding” was pick- pends largely upon the doetrine of the | ed up, scourched and plackened, near responsibility superiors for the acts of | the murdered lady. In the pocket of their inferiors. which prevails in the | the murderer’s coat was found a news. army. He has recently said he shoyld | paper which was foleed together; one hold his cabinet officers responsible fur | corner of the folded package was torn the proper administration of all mat. | off, and left a hole near the centre of ters belonging to their departments, | the sheet. The strip picked up exact- As a consequence, Ire should give them | ly fitted this place, so perfectly indeed full powers over their subordinates, for | did it that when both pleces were spread whose miscorduct they would be held | out in their proper places the matter responsible, and which, should they | could be read with ease. Unto this fail to stop it, would eventuate in their | evidence Judge Lynch pronounced own removal. He has therefore said, | sentence and his officers executed his when applications for places, sueh as | edicts by instant hanghing. heads of pureaus; have been made to | TTT ee him, that he should not promise sueh SuBsCRIBE.-~For the Reporter. course produced almost instant suffo- cation. In this painful condition the asking payment.— Pittsburgh Post. Great Heidleberg Tun Rivalled. Maemilln’s ~~ Magazine from Goethe's journal the following : “The Bishop of Maine once delivered a sermon against drankenness, and, af ter painting in the strongest colors the The translates evils of over indulgence, concluded hs follows: But the abuse of wine does not exclude its use; for it is written that wine rejoices the heart of man, Probably there is no one in my con- gregation who cannot drink four bot- tles of wine without feeling any distur- bance of his senses; but if any man, at the seventh or eighth bottle, so for- gets himself as to abuse and strike his wife and children, and treat his best drinking eight, or even ten or twelve bottels, he can still takes his Christian neighbor by the hand, and obey the orders of his spiritual and temporal superiors, let him thankfully drink his modest draught. is seldom that Providence gives any one the special grace to drink sixteen bottles at a sitting, as it has ena bled me, its unworthy servant, to do without neglecting my duties or losing my temper.” days! But it is a pity the good bish- drukenness! * > | A Nezro Suffrage. is genuine, and not a fancy sketch, heard against female suffrage : A negro preacher of the Gospel, and asked if he was in favor of woman suf- frage, replied with great pomp: “No, | sar, 1 is "posed to dat, it will not do at all. I tell you dat de woman was the | first to commit sin, sar. | the Baptist, sar. | God made man, he gave de man power Lover all living, and made the man | boss over de Wont, sar, I tell you | dat God let the man name everything, Land de man named, Eve, because she was the Mother of all Eveil. 1 tell | you sar, it will never do, sar, for I am a preacher and my father was | preacher before me, and I am a bet- | ter preacher than he ever dare be; 1 tell you what, sar dat I undeastand de Bible a or wd deal better before | could | read, dan wy ole missus ever did, sar. [ tell you it will never do to let dese women vote,” * >» —— — An Empress’ Toilet, When the Freoneh Empress is about to pass from her apa tment to her dees- sing remOM, the first fe mme de chambre touches an eleetrie bell that ponds with the room overhead. There- upon a trap door in the ceiling of the dressing room opens, and the toilet Fmpress has signified her intention of wearing i= lowered from above—petti- coat, #'ip, doess, tunies, all ready to put ton, one inside the other, with their trimmings of flowers and ribbons, | lounces and lace. A quarter of an | hour after she is dressed, necklace. Ljewels and ear rings in their place, and the: th. hai: dresse. 1s summoned—for the Empress, contrary to the usual fashion, leaves her coiffure to the last. The whole process is completed in less than half an hour. corres- a - The Copper Tariff Bill. The New York Post, the leading R - publican journal of that eity, referring to the veto of the copper tariff’ bill by President Johnson, remarks: The President's veto of the copper tariff bill is a brief and pointed sum mary of the leading arguments against it. The facts set forth in outline by Mr. Johnson conclusively show the bill to be a scheme for plunder, sure to prove injurious to the revenue, and unjust and oppressive to the people. They were given in detail in the Post ( while the bill was pending, and no an- | swer was made to them, either in Con- gress or in the press, by the represen- | tatives of the monopolists. Against a demonstration of its wrong the bill was passed through both Houses by a ma- jority which feared to offend the band of conspirators that were to profit by it. Ln The following passage appears in will of Sol. Smith, the actor, who died a few days ago in St Louis: “I re- quest that no one will wear mourning for me, as I expect to go immediately into a world of happiness, at which my friends should rejoice. It is my spe- cial wish that my body may not be dressed up in a suit as if alive but that it be dressed up in an old-fashion chroud, the head resting on a small pillow, if conveniently at hand.” eerie it A am———— A correspondent of the Country Gentlemen says that if a sheep or a calf is covered with a rubber or leather spread, or a thick blanket, and a tobacco smoke be made under this covering, every tfck or nit will be des- troyed in halt an hour or less. Tuesday was the second day of the trial in Richmond of James Grant, in- dicted for the murder of H. Rives Portlard, and out of one hundred talesmen only one juror was secured, making two, one having been accepted out of the twenty-four regular jury- men on Monday. > a — A serious explosion of a beiler, oc curred in Evansville, Indiana, on Tuesday, resulting in the death of Wm, Parsons and seriously injuring five others, On Saturday night two brothers named Luten and one Dibble started to walk across the prairie from Carroll station, Towa. This morning the elder Luten and Dibble were found frozen dead, and young Laaten so badly frozen that his feet and hands will have to be amputated, ———— A b— J. Gi. Revden, a German Teacher, in endeavering to cross the track of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail Road in Chicago on the 23d inst was | run over by an engine and instantly | killed. * > - A Dispatch from Cheyenne states the Railroad Pacific has been ed. No effort was making to open the | | road, * > | | | Bes - The most infamous bill of the | sion, the Philadelphia Metropolitan | Police bill has been defeated in the | State Senate. All fair minded men will rejoice. - p-» Clyde, Ohio, has what is called a | A Crowd of la- “knitting machine.” | dies walked into a drinking saloon, | take possession of all the seats, and | quietly settled down at knitting. This | stops tho customary business of the | i place. | rears etl Mr ——————— | The Nevada Assembly reconsidered | the vote rejecting female suffrage, ad- | | opted the amendment, and then rescin- | | ded its action, striking out the word | | i white from the Constitution. ! > >» When do young ladies eat a mus’- | cal instrument? When they have a | piano for tea (piano forte.) | | | | NEW GOODS! | i | Now Opening. The undersigned having purchased the i i 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 of all whe want to buy goods, to give them a call be fore purchasing elsew here, They have placed tl} tore under th control of Mr. Jas. M. Lavshell, who ha had many years expel ence in selling god » 0 ( = 1 1"( d and who will at all times he pleased to show purchasers and others, an object for them to purchase. The stoek consists of a general ment of all Kinds of goods usually kept in a country store, such as Dry Goods, goods, and make nssord Groceries, Queensware. ADRHWARE, BOOTS and SIHOES, Hats and Caps, Drugs, Oils and Paints Wood aid Willow Ware, als Wall Paper, Fish, Salt, Leather, &e. Give us a eall and you must be convinee | that Centre Hill is the place to buy goo | and cheap goods, 3 GrAYF & Tuowrsox, Centre Hill, Jan. 22. "64, P. S.—We also buy Hides and Calf Skins for which we will pny market price, eithe: in Cash or Trade. (“.&T THE CHEAP New York Store. Emil Joseph & Co. We have now opened our ne ALLEGHENY STRE ET, Bellefonte, where we cheap and well assorte Ww store on (McBride's Building keep on hand a fine d Stock of yur O04 ; 1 dry goods, : the finest and best, notions, every variety and kind ov . ! clothing, aginost splendid stock, furs, furs, Sota Intest style Furnishing Goods, $a Coverlet, Napkins, Towels, Timbre 20 to Jno. Moran...crersin, to Boro. of Bellefonte fe for Water Pipes, &¢ to bridge— Liberty twp to Bellefonte Gas Conmpminy for B mds PEEP RiTIRITNAN 0s TT 20 OJ. S. Parsons. .iccoceie. 10 Andrew White... cceenenss ‘0 J. H. Orvis, Commissioners Attorney .....ceaesees . Orders for refun i «Phe? or Bond fosnenedds dedued sana mg account te wi’: bond: and notes lifted orders for road tax. U. 8. Lands to Supervisors : orders for Collectors overpaid ae: counts 222 orders for state Tax on Loans...» orders for redemption of U. 8; Lands eau SEARS SEAELAARE ans SERDESS orders for B. Galbraith, Mercl andize, courthouse to Jno. D. Lieb for lumber to R. McKnight, Gas bills......... & J. Harris, Merchandise... to Insurance Policies and Assess: ments; oe to J. NS. Parsons house an an FREE SH RRERIE SASRIIPIL SS IIIININ to A A Sus=man, merchandise..: to Keller & Musser do i. to W W Montgomery, postage; to George Livingston for blank books and stationery : toJno Ma lory for Shackles........ to I Haupt for stove te revenue stamps...... sas esses annnes - to H White, pens........ Sasasesnises Fi : to Sternberg & Brandies, merch- andise sesssiass Sansnans # in aund tid abd diuddd Shortlege & Co. Conlirriice Pied D M Wagner, merchandise ....... H Harris for DesK.ciicisiciiivaiss E M Glenn, lce........ ek cana Registers Docket............... “Reiter Jno latte, wood..iiiie be svsease Jno Boa! do : ; A dvertising US Lands...i......o» Stove for Treasurers offive.......... Medical UE CNAAICC oriss0ns cossonniiic Washing, &c . for pr soners.....x Merchandise for Juil.. esis anes sei ansan wiserinss $102,881 83 1s ‘ -r rown's sass » se RECAPITULATION. DR To amount indebtedness Jan, 1, 1868.....cccceermei ‘0 amount notes isstted,; AD, 1868 By amount notes bonds lifted 1868......... Balanee..oeeese sases ctietienite 50,061 40 380 90 y¢ ee $85,442 20 To amount of indebted- : R— ding for 1868 by nmount county orders lifted 20.656 76 104,005 87 ness Jan. 5, 1859 ......... 826,380 90 We the undersigned Commissioners and Auditors of Centre county, do hereby cer- by amount exoner- ations—per cent- age to treasurer and collectors...... by amount allow- ance for statiorery 6 5 10 00 = $145.813 04 By balance due treastirer. oe. $9,626 42 IN ACCOUNT WITH HELYEF FUND. DR. January 4, 1869. Toamount outstan- ding at settlement January 1, 1868.... to am'nt overpaid accounts coe... esenee militia fund...oovesvesenss ioe sir 7,1 $ 15,202 81 794 126 62 ———— CR. * $15,386 57 Jaruary 4, 1869. give us a call, jan22,3m ding tax. vinnie $3,020 09 tify, that we have examined the fore oing accounts of A. C. Geary, Treasurer of sa county, and find them correct as above sta JNO. KINNANE, SOL. ETLINGER, JNO. RISHEL, WM. FUREY, WM. KELLER, Clerk. JNO. BING, feb19,4t Comm'rs, DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE = Letters of administration on the estate of Thompson Deviney, late of Gregy township, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, he requests all persons knowing themselves indebted to said e=- payment, and t the same to udifors, Attest , A. J. YOUNG, an8t6,” Administrator,