"CENTRE HALL REPORTER. CENTRE HAL, Ba, APRIL 8h, 1850: EE ——————— to —— a —— From Washington. V Jefferson. Davis a'ludes to she states ment made by Senator-Cameron in the Senate, that whan Tavis withdrew Cameron told hin that a negro would succeed him. Mr. Duvis says that Cameron made ne such statement to him at that or any other time ; that be made ro remarks at the time Mr. Davis retired other than the expression of his good wishes. 'He'ulsoi states that he has expected Mr. Camieron, as a mat- ter of ‘duty to himself and. to truth, to deny having made thestatement in the Senate imputed to hinx by the’ newspa- YES. : The House, in committee of the whole on the tariff bill, "has agreed to a tax of twenty cents per’potind on alt qualities of tea, and four cents pound.enall kinds of coffee. An e ort was made to put tea, on the free list, but it failed. The commitsee, by a large | vote, sustained the Wiys and Means The Louisiana members wanted coffee put on the free list and an, additional tax of five cents inposod en sw : sugar, but this also failed Thess. ds L no possibility of the ‘ation of the eom: mittee being reversed , when the bil comes:into the House: + + The latest matrimonial, “sohsation is the reported engagement of Chief Jus- tice Chase to Miss Constance Kinney. re tp App The R.R. Subsviptions A return of the amount of subscerip- tions, taken in the different Yownshis along the line of our: projected rai road, must be made to Rh President of the company, Mr. Geo. ¥. Miller by the 20th of ue As to cone ditional ‘stock; or subscriptiots made on condifion that the road through certain localities such will net be ac- cepted. Mr Miller, ina Yetuer = Mr. Wm. Welf, of this 5. : that in his return he shall “state if ov por- tion has been subscribed upon condi tions, ane if so, how much, and what are the-eonditions.. Conditional stoek | will not be eounted.” All the stock taken in Centre county, was subseribed with the understand ing that it be spent apo the work in the locality where the same was sub- | seibed, which is fair, and the assa- vance has been repeatedly givem by Mr. Miller, that it shall be so applied. There is none or very little, siehscirbed in Ceutre.county upon any other eon- ditions 2 ls Led ee Connectieut Democratic. At the election, held in Connecticut, on Monday last, Eaghsh, Pemoerat, was elected governor ys “00 ma- or ity. a a The yeas and mays on the passage of o radlroad bill whereby nine and a half million dollars of first. class secu- rities are taken from the Sinking Fund, and second mortgage bonds of the pro- jected railraod “substituted in their | Yd stood as follows: 12. In the House :—Yeas, 53--Nays 34. From this it will be seen that the bill passed by a large wote, and that Mr. Meyer's vote, and that of the memn- bers of Union and Hunt , conld not have defeated the bill. Afr. Mey- er was sick thé week the bill passed, hence was-unable to vote. Proclamation Announcing the | Ratification ofthe 15th Ament ‘ ment. The followin 8 proclamation vas issued to-day by Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State : To all whom these presents may come call greeting : Know ye that the Congress of the | United States, om or about the twenty- seventh day of February, one thous- and eight hundred and sixty-wine, | passed resolutions, in words and figures as follows, to wit: Resolution proposing an ansendinaent to the ‘Constitution of the United States. Resolved by PER House. of Reprosentatides of the United ‘States of | America tn Congress assembled, two- thirds of both Howe concurring, That the following articles be props=d to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the Unit :d States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitu- tion, namely : ARTIOLE 15, Sec. ‘1. The right of citizeng of the United States to vote shall not be denied of abridgéd by the United States, or by any State, on ac- count ef race, "color or previous condi- tion of servitude. SEo. 2 Oongress shall have power to enforee this aiele by apprepriate legislation. And further, Tha i ibappenrs from of- ficial documents on file this depart ment, that the amendjiiiexst to, the Con- stitution of the United States, _prepar- ed as aforesaid, has been ati by the legislatures of North Caroli, West Virgimia, Massachusetts, Wis. consin, Maine, Louisiana, Michi. Tan, South Carolina, Pennsyliania, A rare. gas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Tow ; Kansas, Minnesota, Rhodo Island, Nebraska and Texas —id all tweuty- nine States. And further, That, the States whose legislatures have so ratified the propos: ed amendment constitute three-fourths of the whole number of the United States. gd i from ture and of which official notice had been filed in this department. And further, That it appears from an official document on file in this de- j partment that the legislature of Geor- by. a resolution, ratified. the proposed amendment, Soe therefore, be it known that I, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of the State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of said section of au act of Congress, approved the 20th of April, 1818, entitled An act to provide for the publication of laws of the United States and for other pu I do hereby certify that that amendment has become valid to all intents and puaposes as part of the Constitution of the. United States. In testimony andicaused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Dune at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of Mareh, one thousand v | ight hundred and seventy, and of the independence of the United States the niliety fourth. HamiLrow Fisn. a A The Income Tax, ‘Senater: Sherman, on. Tuesday, pro- continues this tax indefinitely, but re- duces it after this yean to three per cent. ‘Congress has dlready declared that this inquisitorial, unnecessary and most annoy iy tax shall cense this Year. [t wasa war measure, that onght to be abandoned when the military necessi- ty for ie; ceased. . The people haye barne it patiently, in the hope that the pledge already given b ress of its ending i in 1869 would be. fait fally eb- served. The attempts to eontinue it have been met by sition every- where, from men of a alk:sections.. It has been denounced as a ‘most anworthy and indefensible means of raising revenue; as offering a premium upon falsehoodrand deception It is a measure that ought to have been erased from the statute book long ago. Senator Shorman eannot afford to defy | public opinion by any endeavors to continue, this most unjust tax. The | people have determined that this ex- | action must cease, and they will re- | member to his discredit any palic ser- vant mo matter what his profession, who tries to fasten it longer upon them. | Philadelphia Ledger. Anotler I Earthquake in Catifornis. San Francisco, April 2—At 11:50 a.m. yesterday a sharp earthquake ocenrred here. Its duration was six seconds. There was no damage to life, limb or pr poriy, but thre was inlense excitement for a few moments. All animals were terribly frightened, and several runaways resulted. The City Hall, where court was in session, the Merchants’ Exchange, the Mercantile Library, the Custom House and other public “buildings were instantly vaca- tesd, angh a great panic was created in ‘the hotels, The strees swarmed with people in a moment. Jt was raining at the fume. Prior to the shoek the barometer was observed io fall very rapidly. isn pa SD AL it turns out mow, by the report of the Military Committee, unamimously | agreed upon, that there was not the re- motest evidence given before it that Mr. Golladay of Kentucky was i cated in the cadet business, Had Golladay remained in his place in Con. bets who were falsely charged, and for pedisienl effet, with complieity i in the mefarious business, it would have been better for him. It is ereditable, though, te the hutegrity of Pemocratic mom bers of Congress to thus reeeive tho official assurance of their’ political op- ats sihat not even one of f their num n found t this s cies of eorruptiom t Solr o been "4 cislly fastened aupom so many Repub. lean Congressmen, and which they enold not even successfully. deny, and the punishment for which they snped A A er Joba Schalia made a desperate at- oir Tuesdiy might, in New York, his wife. Schultz two years age went to; California, at /' which: time ho made over to his wife; to guard against twenty’ thoueand dollars’ and siwee his return his ‘wife has refused to allow him to have amy control of the operty. Armed with a razor he cut bis wife’s thiront three times. finishing by knock: ing her down and kieking her brutal- She is not expected to reeower. iia was committed to await the result. 3 ey The Cousin of 0 on Revels’ We have been having a haird time, wid the nager. Sinator, Mishter Revels, since mé lasht letther. It was found necissary to give the blaek divil some instruction about votin, because he was jist as liable to casht his vote for one party as another. We thirvied for several isto make binx vote right, by eompelling him to wagels Sumner, to, take Sumner for a Dimeerat, we ok Lie BSumner to wes 2 worse: in Ins bittontuns, {hich the mger leept watéh of, hut Bathler, just to Kape bis hand ing, shtoll2. the rose from Sumner for a joke, and guve it to Mishter Cox, not thinkin of the eonseqmwnces, and begorra, the nager. watched Mishter Cdk, and thin an impdrtant measure eame up, he voted the sume as Mishter Cox. Cox is a Dimeerat! That won't dv, you know. But the'grethest throuble we have had wid the nager Sinator was about a spache, The Dimecrats kept taunt- ing us wid remarks about our nager, saying that he couldn’t rade or write, And further, That it app-ars from the official documents on fil2 in this and couldu’t make a spache to save hese thing fhether he gould or ‘hot. So we ot a carpet. bagger thafe nam- ed Bullock, Governor of Georgia, to write out a spache for the nager, and the divil’s own haird work we have bade bating it imgil , his *head.c The spache was moNiy shorty \ands yer would think aven a monkey could it—butoder been every night for three wakes committing thatspach, to that nager's memory, All us promiuent men; yor as‘ Butler, Sumndr, Logan, and 'm and me cousin Ulisses, have a taking turns sitting up wid Revels; teaching him that spachesuntil we dre tired out. But it is all over now: Yestherday hé gotiap: in’ the Sinnte’ and . repated it, and~did: pretty well only bo got it wrong ind firat;' but the reprothers fixed it all right. - He held up a shate of paper formnst' “him, ‘ant made paplé belave he was rading| Afther ot through ‘we all wint and shuck wid him, and he felt relaved. But I hope he i& the Tast nager we wil have to tache,—T. M'Gratit ii the N. Y, Democrat. rere wt Meese A Short Story With a Moral. [From a volume of sermons by Robert Laird Collier-of Chicago] 5 English* writer says: +“Thag. night I' was out Tate ;T “rétafed’ by approached I saw a strange-looking object cowering under the low caves. Aseold rain was falling ; it was autumn’ I drew pear, and there was "Millie, “wet [ to the skin, Her father. bad driven lain down to 'listén for ‘the “heavy snoring of his drunken slumbers so that she might ereep back to bed, Fexhausted, ani she fol) into a troubled sleep, with rain-drops _pattering upon (her. ltried to take her home with me, but. no, true as a martyr to his faith, she struggled from me and re torned to the now. dark amd silent cabin. Things went on in this way for weeks and months, ‘but. at length Leo grew less violent. éven in “his dranken fits, to his self: denying ebild; and one-day, when he woke from a slumber, after a debauch, and found (her preparing breakfast for W and singing a childish song, he tufed to her, and with a towne almost tender, said: “Millie, what makes you stay with me?” “Because you are my father, and I love you.” “You love me,” répeated the wreteh- ed ‘man ; “you love me I" He lokoed at his bloated limbs, his soiled and rag. ged clothes, “Love me,” he still mur: me? 1 am a poor drunkard ; every body relse despises me; why don't you?’ “Dear father,” said the girl with swimming eyes, “my mother taught comes from heavew and stands by my your father ; he will get away from that rum fiend some of these days, and then how happy you will be.” The | quiet, the re emption of this man. a a The Richardson—M’Farland Case. paneling a jury in the M'Farland murder case continues slowly, too many persons summoned beimg biased 6ither for or aguinst the unfortunate prisener. Among those inthe court reema are a- brother of the late A. D. Richardson and Mr. Sage, the trouble. The court adjourned a few minutes before fouraielock, only six jurors having been found out of one hundred and sixty-eigt persons examined, y Postsville, April 2. — Almost all the col- beries in this and Mahanoy region have the miners to Seoebt, the new basis offered by the operators. at. present, but no. — after to-day. A number a Somme an work in the adjoining regions. “°° The operatory express themselves deter mined to stand by their reselutiens in re- adopted at the meeting held here on the 15thult. The strike promises to be a long one, should both eperators and men con- tinue firm, as from present indications they will ~The Freeborn county. (Minn) Standard gives the following particilass of the free- zing to death of an entire family: “On Tuesday night of last week, in the midst éf the most fearful -part-of our late storm, a house belonging to one Griswold, in the town of Seeley, Faribault eounty, took fire and burned to the ground. Im it lived a family by the name of Bates, consisting of the heads, and three’ children. The house appears te have been remote from other settlement, and the man went in search of assistance. He became bewils,| dered, and wandered about on thie. prairie came chilled with cold, and erawled into: some out-shed for protection, where they | all freze, and their lifeless” bodies were found the next day. The same paper gives AroDWNts of the freezing to death during the same storm, of two brothers named Coleman, living: at | Lake Belt, Martin county, Minnesot;a of a German named Dauhrdsand a Nierwegain, name unknown, at Speneer, Clay county, Lowa ; éfthree other men, names unknown, at Cherokee, Towa, and. angther at Herron Lae, Jackson, county, Iowa. Lo iii gua pit Miss Adendi Vanse!, a maiden lady of uncertain age, who resides near Waverly Morgan county, Ill, is the owner of four farms, containing one thousand acres of land, six huhdred of which are in cultiva- worth over one hundred thousdnd dollars, all of which she has earned by herself, and she manages and controls her estate with a Judgment and skill that is UNSGFPAEST By years of ; age, horn. in 171, under the | rnment of the Elector Max Joseph 411, 1812 she was the wife of a soldier, and | ‘['wént though the Russian campign, (In Inter years she has sustained herself by. the, sald of fruit, She. is still in good health, " Ray ME SOR 190 | eee Julius, is der'any” place in the ible why a cullud puassou is mentioned? said old Owesnr to his fiend. is, an’ ifyou’ d'been tomeet'n Sunday you | hoard the" preacher read how Nijger! Demus ‘wanted to be born again. ‘wh. Wh’ what he want te be. bora again for? “I dunno; I spec he thought he night be born a white maw next time, snd vda's on good many nigger: alibé mow jes like old Demus, but dy 1vallers be “Sifuroh, any« | how." " named Hertzag, living near Hang Reh were “aordylontly RX mixing, an Arsghie inhoud ved » tric Jy nm Ae hit ee were killed. Ima the quantity of corn alone ng by each raf during the course of a year, at. tbe small quantity of ope ps ae doubt, than they have was p nd we find that a a rat hunt in Turnbull coun-. 4.3351 bushels. ¢ have been saved for the distil thro’ the slaughter of the Jittle beasts. mb Hn Ay tlle A APRIL COURT, —Graxp' Jvkbns,’ Puttoa—G WR wer, Haines<=W H Walker+-T Rau ery Wy McEwen, Benner—G W Loneberger, J J Beazer. Union—J € Peters. Burnside<~J K Boak, M Murphy. Howxed-~Thos Ac ( G Johnson, a hey i mos Ruble, J M Lashell, Jno A Munson. Ble Walken, Al, lefonte—( ei ineston, A Sus Fergipon—J3 J heen, Taylor—~EL Merryman Ponn-—M Ulrick, J Snook. Gr —JneoD Bitnen Spee —N Leas. TRAVERSE JUROKS 1ST WEPK. Bellefonte —C DF Keller, S A Brew. Bennor— QC Hile, J Huvihilton. 0 Bogs Poorman, Join. Beker, Const. wrtin, Curtin—F Rebh Gregg no Grove, Fr Juiseson, Hirrs—H Potter, H Jd Moyer. Hrines -Mich Musser. Ferguson —L Kreps, IF J Gates. Marion—=S Betta, Howard Geo Ntevenson. § Moon—Wm Kreps, Liberty —Jno Bechdol, J Jd Delong. Miles—P Woodly, Patton-=R 1 Meek. Potter—Davis Evens, J Aruey, C F ner- Swab. Ruich- iT wiggs, 1 B wileox, men Post, | FM Muy er, Snowshoe—Ed Ide . Spring—M Willie, R Burnes, James Armor. Penn—Geonge Pete swe 4 v nion—A& Cal hb, Worth— Eh Recorgls, i K Zimmermmn, Theo Gorden, Ph Walter, A rumgart, S Poatius, DD M' Kean. : SECOND WEEK. Pater ap Potter, W Colyer, Jas Alex- ander Benner—R F Holmes, David Lohr, Ad Krumireiwe. 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