ENTRE HALL REPORTE de IR. ENTRE HaLL Pa, April, J 1869, adical Picture of the Legislature. The readers of the Reporter have een posted from time thstinre the ledhittre of this which ranks among the is haracter of tate most orrupt and unprinepled bodies of the cand ever Known, That the demoera: ic estimate of this *loyal™ body is thout corract, 1S verified hy the fol- Forney's Press savs!? State legislature is expected to adjourn, begin to inquire what has been done and what has been left undone, adjournment of this body will proba- | bly be a relief to the State, whose sense of dignity, honor, and’ self-esteem has more than once been injured by its pro- ceedings, Tt is with no feeling of pleas- ure or satisfaction, certainly, that we come to speak or write of the body which has passed the Twelfth and Sixteenth-street Railroad bill; which pany, and which, last week, outraged Commonwealth 1m the “lemon” scene. & >» . The Licutenant.Governor of Louis- ¢ + at ina is a negro, black as the ace o spades, Ilis excellency was up Washington the other day, to get a look at his white radical brethren, and ception by them: The colored Licutenant Governor of Louisiana was upon the floors of Con- oress some time to-day. While in the Senate quite a number of Senators went up and spoke to him. Mr. Wil- son went over to Senator Garrett Da- distincuished colored individual, but Mr. Davis goodhumoredly declined. Mr. Dunn is copper colored, of fine proportions, and very respectable looking, with an. intelligent cast of and English fluently, He was attived in aj suit of black. with kid aloves, the colorofhis skin, Amongst nin lev and Lyman Tremaine. he has been in the city it is said that Dunn has roomed with one of . Sinee (Gov. the effect to cause certain other house to leave, pains to pay him particular attention to-dav. After satisfying himself with the Senate, the Lieutenant Governor strolled over to the House of Represen- tatives, and was there also received with open arms, Occupyinga position in the northwest corner of the hall with Senator Cameron, who came over from y, Mr. J. R.'Sypher s usher, and one by one marche ed the republican members up and in- dn them. Lieutenant Governor sdomed to appreciate the | Senate with hin ] i (he “2 aq a ES v wh $s 2:3 3 ta % fic Tr u situation, asthe stood there his conunanding figure towering above all who were introduced to him. the intense radicals were verv o 1 kd Fg pi 4] : atoll ions 3 aquisus, but others of the republicans walked up™ With apparent reluctance, i and left as soon as “ila th thotr or +4 hands wiih Lai! gucesL, ed particulaiy anxious to attract tention to the vast amount of res they were disposed to show him. | : Others seem- at te lL” ¥ i { at { wot eB pl The plunder rads dos are dividgd, and what is most enrious, 1 i yn in the two gpposing wings are led by hrothers, Hamiltons, the . - Ad rin nN “Jack” béingont of them. These fel- ging for recognition—one ever the other. The Age's special says, “Jack” Hamilton'and his brother, Morgan C. Hamilton "heading two distinet dele- th «ations ‘from Texas, were before the =u ealied Reconstruction hi x i sion of that upon the thiustrious “Jack” retorted {hat he had bi todizn of his .ewn gounscienee, and hag it was 400 late for bis brother to wy: dertaks toe eaitrol or influene: his (Jack's) judpment eo eonduet, Bad Hoy ; the Radics] shanty in Texas is *“divi- on the propased reernstruction of the State until next session, The Dellefonte Bepublican, in its last week's issue, gives Gov. Geary the sold choulder, and lets its readers know that if is opposed fo the re-nomination of the hero of Spickervilic, giving a number of res- sons therefore Poor Geary! one after another do the radical argans and leaders give him 4 side- thrust. Poor, verdant, vain creature, he never was fit only chose him because th TE sau Ae we, and Lis party knew he was up of fitting mate We ict shim be renominated, Bis party for gover ey - y > 3 ia} for a tool, 3 i SAV, owes hima this much, and the state owes him and his foul and corrupt party a de- feat. which wiil be measured out in the t rinmphant election of Gen, Cass, Be ind Napoleon, to conciliate his army, is sow granting pardons to soldiers con- victed of minor offences, TREAT “ Next Thursday the railroad mee ting at Millheim is to be held. Our | people have, for vears, heen clamor- through . « voranl-road BE . . . . "this portion of our county, and it has | been persistently asserted all along f y . : that the want of a rail road was owing of the legislature and the (rovernor. | i | not the slightest dancer that the Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania will teach the ring a lesson which its members | as much ns to any other cause. Millheim meeting will ben test of the Land Buffalo vallies, upon the proposi- Bure to Bellefonte. Let there be no [hanging back now, on the part of the citizens along the line, and let them a will throw all blame from their 1 shoulders should we fail to have a § there was not enough of earnest in the ratl-road. 12 true, that heretofore matter of subscribing stock, many, | have reaped great benefits from a rail- road, nat offering a dollar's worth of | aid in furtherance of the project, This | will not do, wad we hope all such have ‘since learned to know that they have been standing in their own light. We | have reason to believe that this illibe- ral spirit has worn away, and that our | people will come up fully to all ex- pectations, Let there be a full turn out on the 15th at Millheim; let all go thither 'with the determination that some sol- id work shall be done, and that our | people are not too close-fisted to do | what becomes them as deeply interes- ted parties in the matter. * >» John R. Bowen, of Tioga county, mw Pl | revenue for this congressional district, has been appointed a or of internal was disabled in the late war. Bowen i . » *" Cwas only a shrieker for “lovalty. ) ARLLA Gen. Knipe, who served bravely | during the whole war, has been re- and a thieving mule contractor, Geo. The rebel, General Longstreet, has been appointed to an important office ‘at New Orleans, by Grant, and apphi- f L |cants who stood by the Union, se aside, In Ldical erew reward the Union soldier. > > - Harrisburg. the to "any sentence of death to an imprison. { L his way does Grant and his ra- From House bill to authorize (rover ‘nor of this Commonwealth reduce ment for life passad finally—Yeas, 19; nays, 7. | Anacttoaathirize ths payment o eartain bounties contract21 for by ma- o i nicipal corporations in Elk anl Con- ter. i Mi Mack real a bill (1311) enti- Pass ry wheel in Centre county, which was passed. ¢ EINE tO Inve Also a resolution tigate the accounts of the state printer—passed. rl ol Ape BE Joxeeutions without trial continue to (zevernor Caballos. Pres mend: tory of the tenure-of-offiee act. the polificiens. and there will now be a . 1s a surrender of Grant to | wholesale sweep. . > ® Mr. George Bubb has bec ‘s nm appoin- ted collector of mternal revenue for his congressional district, and J. T. Both appointments ate. oo The election in Connects | firmed by the sci | crib on fast the radical eandidater for governor. : The democrats have made some gains “in memberzofthe legislature. THE LYCGWING COURT SESSION. IN yaszed a bill which hs also been sign- ed by the Governor, to dbatroy his judi- cial district. Where is Peter Herdic's quo wapranto ? What a commentary 18 this on the legislation at Harris hurg! infamous seleme to trainple out a ju- dicial distret refle:t on the disgrace» a sense of smalliess must overcome them! Is this all that Geary's signa- ture is worth, thatthe judge whom it was intended to unseat is quictly pre siding aver his cowwt ms if he had nev- er heard of Geary? Wheae were the Governor's legal advisens that they permitted him {6 blunder into. Peter Herdie's pitfall ? Did they not know that tiie ring had no pswer to destroy the courts of this Commenwen]th 7 That learned: body in the House: which is facetiously styled a Judiciary Committee still refuses to report the vepealing bill, which bas already pas- sed the Menate. By dsing this and enabling the House to receds, the leg- lature wil] be relieved to soma extent om the disgraceful position in whiel it: has been. placed, They will not then be put to shame by 2 unanimous deeision of the Supreme Court that such an iniquity as Peter Herdice’s bill cannot sweep away a Court fo this rm They will avoid that exposure which the discussion of this a PP i ‘ J Y > 1 will long remember. Smee writing the above, we have for a writ of quo warranto to be direc disobeys a law of his legislature. Now, | ing the bill, and let his friends in the legislature off? Tt hard that he should hold them up to the work, | when there is not the slightest pros- | pect of anything but more exposure of | the corruptions that cling to Harris- | burg legislation. There isa door of | honorable escape by the passage of | this repealing act. There is a decided | majority in the House ready to vote for it. port it and it will go through with the same velocity which marked the pas- sage and singing of the original bill on that unlucky Monday night. Let Peter Herdie be persuaded to drop his quo warranto !— Patriot. 1 | 1s too . lr Corruption ofthe Ruling Party. The Pittsburgh Post says: Proofs of the astounding corruption of public men are multiplying every there 1s little relief to the sad picture. | The nice sense of honor and high toned | longer to be found; unscrupulous ve- 'nality and depraved cunning have taken their place, and make up char- the one condition ef success, Mammon as it power, power as it secures mammon, are the SCCUres | which they are sought; and winning them, crowns the possessors of" both, | with glory and honor. The dishorored | feather against the solid fruits of sue- | cessful chicanery. | Some men occupying seats in the | Senate of the United States, are flatter- led and fawned upon, though it is us | certainly knowu that they secured their | seats by bribery, as it’ the money had been counted down before the vy at noon day. It no longer requires audacity to ' buy those seats. It has become a set | tled business, at any rate, at Ilarris v | world. | pee ing to be bou sht, look upon their | votes as merchantable, and | . ! ' Sd tnem Lor caring for the baseness of | acter implied by being the giver o | bribes. A President of h» United Stats | openly takes presents, great and small, | and as openly rewards the givers, | this he is not even censured by his pa:- | ty ; whilst his preda | presents, who defended the Constitution (and who maintaine l a purity wort! Li 4 [OIL measure. There ean be no ni; import of all those | morals are in a d The affairs of Governmen | ted to mereenary hands, and as a ne | cez=ary consequence, they are | lously mismanaged. Class alone bestowed : the public reas sure 18 squandered, and the burthens | of taxed mdustry are increased. | A conspicuous leader of the radical 1 “Ao i le io {ae ’ublie ¢ mdition. t ~{ is thins. plorable i i Are commit seandi- favors avn sei l | party, the late Governor of New York | has la tely had official corruption fas- | prevalent. He is proven to be of the same school of buyers and sellers, | whose graduates fill nearly all public positions, and against whom the people | their remaining property and liber ties, swarm in this State, monopolizing the Executive and Legislative Depart- Yorker. The World has the f{ollow- ing on this subject : ordered an investigation inte alleen. ( TOV. railway bills, here | the passage, during term of certain | Sensor, Mr. Thomas Muiphy, and to Mr. Hamilton Harris for Governor Fenton.” This testimony is corrobo- Mr. Thompson, another Erie Direc | tor, who 1s recorded as having said | that ‘he was present when $20,000, in { two checks of $10,000 each, was paid gwo or three hours from that time, and it was signed within two or three hours of ths time he said it would be. Upon whieh the evening Post and ots Jo rials of the same sort affected a sudden amazement and horror and ery ot bitterly aginst this corrupt Fenton, and implore the President to send him to Coventry and the Senate not to confirm the nominees ts. office whom he may indorse!l Gut upon wech wretched hypocrisy | ii ili- mijltoy Harris is the chairman of the State Commtttee of the Hepublican party. Ms: Fenton is a Republican Senator from this State. Here they stand cayghi and exposed with Gwo checks of ten thousand dollars each’ | honor of the State and. of its: highest offices, Is it wpoin them that the in- dignation of the people should descend, ’ but the authors of Fenton are the real ity upon us, Is a Cameron the glory of Pennsylvania? Is a Chandler the honor of Michigan? Are not the Rad- Cumback for some post of distinetion ate of the United States is the deliber- ate work of the very men whe now party cliques becomes the public scan- dal of the community, - - Confession of George S. Twichell Jr.—ie Implicates His Wife in the Murder of Mrs. Mary E. Hill. Philadelphia, April 3.—The citizens of this city were startled on Suturday calternoon by the anouncement that | George S, Twitchell, Jr. had made a | confession implicating his wife in the | murder of Mrs Mary E. Hill. The | news spread rapidly, and the subject | Was everywhere discussed. One of our reporters, as soon as the confession was made known, proceeded to the County Prison, and had a conversation with Mr. William B. Perkins, Super- | intendent, and Rev. George Bringhurst | in reference to the matter, and gleaned | the following particulars: Ever since | Twichell’s incarceration he has declar- crime for ed himself innocent of the | vious to the 20¢! a week—cvery Monday, Wednesday Land Friday. On I'riday week Mrs, Twitchell last visited him. The inter- VICW Was as on former [ oceasions, and when she left the pris- oner requested that she should call on Monday as usual. Monday eame, but ‘not the wife. This occasioned some Paneasiness 1m the husband's mind. | Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and | Saturday passed, but the woman did not put in an appearance, On Wednesday last Twitchell ap- peared depressed in spirits and won- dered concerning his wife's conduct and whereabouts. He was informed | by a visitor that she was sick, but was afterwards assured that she was not ill by a person who had been conversing with her that very day. Oa Thu the doomed man did not app t pleasant as raday in | bright a mood as he had formerly sand L when Mr, Bringhurst ealled upon him l rave [ ardor, | Satard \V ir is concernine the Wils information his dictate information on | and by | Twitchell in the presence of Rev. (1 Dringharst and William B. Perkins, Ksq. It is as follow: “1 went to my ro on the night of the murder imstead of gone to | bed, laid down on the lonnze whieh | was in my room and fell asleep. My | wife was mn bed at the time. I was | aroused at her repeated ealls, and ran down to the dining-room, where 1 found her mach excited saying : 11} iil "oo SIUC ’ Wer \ i « Hie Hil ' 3 . rr; ’ > . iI fieve lvra «a qrrre / with moth r ant killed he “1 (to 1105 = y ’ 1 KNOW whetl 1) swindow to make Cirs and washed my face at the hydrant; then n, u sed, and went My wile came ; tinto b v we statd until Campbell) rane the bell. “I think we were in bed ten or twen- ty mimites. I made asolemn vow to eternal God that mieht, hat I would never reveal it, but I cannot keep it any longer. I am sorry that I said ‘1 "but I did it with the vow in my mind, and to save *my wife, “I now make this disclosure that | ' may have peace with God, “(Siened ) Creorge S. Twitchell, J.” In the of Rev. inghurst and William B. Perkins, To Mv. : pressed a desire to have his confession 1 wh ' | Yo» res Wil). to had. and 4 . 1 wari ny 1 i i . meseilee 1 (reorge Is \ . t “excitement consequent thereon was in- P tense, tor, that Mrs. Twitchell, about a week azo, had inquired of him, Creorge spoke much about her, and was answered in the aflirmative. She also directed her inquiries to the day of make anv statement on the seafio d. This brought out the inquiry as to whether any newspaper would be present ; and when she was told that such would be the case exclaimed: “I'nat would be bad!” | Mrs. Twitchell has not disappeared rom the city as reported. On Satur- day she was in consultation with her counsel, SOs y A Man Kills His Room Mate, and Commits Suicide Memphis, Adril 6.—A.. J. Walt, a well-known citizen, and before the war | a prosperous merchant, struck with an i axe and killed his room mate and bed- flow, II. N. Gibeon, about sunrise this morning. He then leaped from the third story of his own building, she Bradicy block, a room of which he geeypied, He died almost instantly. For sometime past his mind has been impaired. | { a ——— A man iy the city, delirious: with smgllpox, jumped Som the fourth: sto- Pi to the pavement this evening, and thei ran several squgres. [Fis head was eit, but the injuries, it js thought, will uot prove fatal. | { i | | Grand Jury—He Tells some Wholesome Truths. ‘mrLApELPis, April H—Judge water, in his charge to the grand jury, said: “It is to be feared that we deal too leniently with these who make erime their profession, and that we, at times, endeavor to atone for this error by rushing into the opposite ex- treme of indiscriminate prosecution of the innocent along with the guilty, I would recommend you to see to it. that no eriminal goes unpunished by our remissness, and that no innocent persons suffer the delay of an hour in securing his discharge. It is time that the bad should be made to feel the power ofthe law. It has come to pass, gentlemen that men are shot down or stoned to death upon our highways, and that the law scems as powerless for their vindication as it was for their protection. The grand juries hesitate Lt fal teas bills, aad pti juries of- | ten refuse to convict, except of inferior grades, and frequently coupling these verdiets with recommendations to mercy, and even in an occasional case of great atrocity, when a conviction is followed by sentence to death the ISx- | ecutive is besieged for a pardon. tis owing to these effects to thwart justice that it has come to pass in Philadelphia that it is more dangerous for a man to pick a pocket than to take a life. The thief is much more certain of being punished than the murderer. This | will eontinue puntil ublic opinion un- | aergoes a change.” | | | { fp Pen Freaks of an Elephant. The most remarkable events in the carcer of any menagerie occurred in CFlorance, Miss, last week, during the ‘morning exhibition of the great Mexi- | can Gymnasium and Menagerie. The huge clephant Hercules, which had been pevish and unruly for several days became frantic when a rustic foisted on him a piece of tobacco. The elephant broke his chain after some violent struggles, during which the large crowd fled in the wildest haste. The ponder- ous beast attacked a freight train that was swiftly approaching, striking it with such force that he broke a tusk, was overset and instantly killed. The locomotive was thrown off the track, ran intothe canvass tent crected be- side the road batted into a lion's cage, killing the lioness and freeing her mate. The latter took to flight out of town, searing the plodding country folks nigh unto death, upetting hor- and wagons, smashing chicken coops into flinders and otherwise viola- ting rural etiquette. At last advices twenty mounted horsemen with guns and dogs, were in wary, pursuit of the roval quadruped S Sq FR Ty, Rn m— A heavy robbery was committed to day at St. John’s Safety Fund building, corner of Twelfth and Chestnut street, The watchman left the building at six o'clock this morning, and when he re. turned at six this evening he found the safe broken open and its entire contents, amounting tr $320,000 or &1,00,00) in value gone. Of’ the property stolen, over 8670.00) was in available funds, creenbacks, &e. &> >. Anaaxation of Sau Dominro. + 1 i - 1 i i the President to open negotiation for the annexation of San Domingo, > a Lonwostrect. Who was on Satur lay eonfirmad as 8 1 General called on Roeretary Boutwall the other day, anl hal an interview with him in reference to business matters. this medicine all others are traumas, world for all Billions dizeazes, Female Liver Complaints, &e. ‘the blood, remove all cleanse the skin of all pimples blotches, and are perfectly sure safe in thew operation. We ask and antl vou Use Morze's For sale by al] ap2:69,2m. ant ioas wia Lamertine was asked by a friend if spend too much money in 3. “No,” was his reply, “advertisements are absolutely neces- (sary. Ewen divine worship (lz bo n dieu) needs to be advertised. Else what is the meaning of church bells.” ett Cincinnati, April 2.—Andrew Price was hanged to-day at Ironton, for the murder of Halgenberg, October 16th, 1868. He alleges that Andrew Spear, | bis confederate, sent to the peniten- tiary for life, was more guilty than he. : - ee A fe een A five: and burghar-proof safe, weigh- ing two hundred and fifty tons, was shipped to Pittsburgh to-day, in see tions. It occupied twenty-one cars, is twenty feet long, eighteen feed wide, twelve feet high. It was made in Cincinnati, and its: construction eecu- pied eight months. re et At en London, April 2.— Another explo- sion at Arley Colliery, in Lancaster- shire, to day, killed twenty eight per- sors, and badly injuring many others. ree i Ape Madrid, April 2.—Troops are going forward to the Pyrenees to prevent parties of Carlists from crossing the frontier into: Spain. cs ————p oii In Georgia, recently, a negro wo- man chopped upa little gizl with an axe, in order to secure $3 10. Dealers. | advertising. 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