HALL 4 — — w -— oc —— — smn a 1) UGGRIES! BUGGIES! J. D. MURRAY, Centre Hall; Px. Manufecturel of all kinds of Buggies, would Tyre fully inform the citizens of Centre. Os Ant ho da: ca and N E UGGIES with and ; without top, snd ‘which will be sold educed prices for cash, also a rea- sonable credit given. yo horse Wagons, Spring 2 ., made to order, and warrante to §ive satisfaction in every re spect. All kinds of repairing done onshort notice. Call and see his stock of Buggies before purchasing elsewhere. aplo 8 Seience on the Advance, C. H. Gutelius, : Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, who is permanently located in Aaronsburg in the offite formerly oceupied by Dr. Neff, and who has been practicing Xith, tire svacess—baving the experience ofa b or of years in the profession, he would cordi- ally invite all who have as yet [not given him a eall, to do so, and test the truthfulness i ted withpy pain, - Es ai pCLeC HENRY BROCKERHOYF, ¢ + TEE President, Cashier. ENTRE CQUNTY BANKING (Lafe? MINK, Woofer &iCo.) RECEIVE DEPOSITS, And Allow Interest, 5 Dikcount Notes, : Buy and Se Governmadnt Securities, Gold and aploestf Coupons. FORTNEY, #ttorhdy at Law \ F. _Pa., Office over Rey- Dy sicher iv > may 14 60tf A Oe y ttorney y at Ww, ¢J + Béllofonte, promptly attends to all bu- iness entrusted to him. juld esl ) D, .. Physician and Sur- Hall,” Pa., offers his services to the citizens of Pot- ter and adjoining townships. Dr. Neff has the experience of 23 years in the active practice of medicine and surgery. apl0'68 H, NM ALLISTER, 2 i NEFF, M. . . eon, Centro profession | JAMES A. BEAVER, MCALLISTER & BEAVER C "ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Bellefonte, Centre Co., Penn'a. -,> apO8tf Chas. H. Hale, Attorney at Law: Bellefonte. deed 60tf ILDER'S HOThi, Woodwird, Pa. M Stages arrive and depart daily. "his favorite Rotel is now in every respect one of the most pleasant country hotels in central Pennsylvania. The traveling com- munity will always find the best accommo dation. Droversecan at all times be accom- modated With ‘stabléy und pasture tor any. numbetoficatile or horses. «~. & july3 68tf GEO. MILLER. PD ECK’'S HOTEL; 312 & 314 Race street, a few doors above 3rd, Philadelphia. 1ts central locality makes it desirable for all visiting the city on business or pleasure : A. BECK, Proprietor. ap'88. (formerly of the Siates Union hotel) WAL H. BLAIR, H Y STITZER, JLAIR & STITZER, Autorneys at Law, Bellefonte, Olle. 3; on the Diamond, next door to Gar- man’ 4 hotel. Censultations in Germay or Engl sh. feb1W outf CALES, at wholesale and retnil, cheap, - hy + IRWIN & WILSON. 0QTS, large stock, all styles, Jsizes and B%: or men and boys, just arrived ___at Wolf well known old Stund. WATHER, of all déseriptions, cs.f skin, spanish sole leather, moroc- com sheep RN s, linings, Everything in the leather line warranted to give satis- faction, at BURNSIDE & THOMAS. INE ABLE CUTLERY, including ted forks; spoons, &c, Drea TTHIVIN & \ TLSON. [ETERS and Thermometers, at IRWIN & WILSONS. NOFFIN TRIMMINGS, a large assort- C mentat IRWIN & WILSONS IT AND BELLS and Door Bells, all si- " zes and kinds at ap10’ IpwiN & WILSONS FRO YS of all kinds, at T "BURNSIDE & THOMAS SYRUP, the finest ever made, just re- ceived, cheap ut Wolf's old stund-—~try it. A Large Stock of Ladies Furs, horse — ‘Blankets, snd Buffalo Rohes at "BURNSIDE & THOMAS } UGGY —new trotting Buggy for sdle t & bargain, at Wolf's old Stand at “"QOentrehall. , b » ‘at Millheim, Centre ogumly ical x Office Offers his services to all needing me attendance. : Calls promptly attended to. Early settlement cordially requested, when A liberaldisbaunt will be glowed, al t ged on unsetiled accounts after six ent charged gh sete A alum 1. BE. CHANDLER, M.D, HOMEPARHIC PHYSICIAN AND SUR- @EON, Bellefonte, Penn’a. Office 2nd Floor over Harper Bro's Store. Residence at the Office. eferences—-Hon. CA. Mayer, Pres’t Judge, Lock Haven, Pa. Hon. L A. Mackey, Prevt Is Nation] Bank, Bo; Harper ‘Bros, Merchants; viPa., and others. © 7 19novbote "ER, Attn at Law. yromptly made and gpecia Ro ih ¢ haying lands or r sale. - Will draw up and have d Deeds, Mortgages, &c. Of- fice in the diamond, north side. of the courthouse, Bellefonte, , 1 i 0ct22 69tf “CLOTHING Over coats, Pants, Vests, ind D 4 ats, oheap, at Wolf's. MPSON BLACK, Ph rgeon, Potter Mills, Pa., ssional services Lo the ei mr26,69, tf TE BELLEFONTE ‘Boot & Shoe Stor e ‘Next door to Post Office, 3 llections tl Attention given to tho kos We'have always on hand. ' GENTS CALF AND KIP BOOTS ¢ assortment of Ladies and ' Chil- A ny other place in town. im Shoes, every style, make and size. ‘We ask an examination” of our goods, before purchasing elsewhere. oct i ~~ 17 GRAHAM & SON. JORSE COLLA Hired U RS, if yon don’t wha shoulders galled and ] herse collars at SIDE & THOMAS’, VHE ANVIL STORE is now receiving Pied a 2 and well ‘ascarid Stoek of ar ‘Stoves, Nails, Horse Shoes, Sad- diery; Glass; Paints, Shoet, Bar and- Hoop Iron also Buggy aid ‘Wagon Stoek of every deseription.~Call and ‘supply your- selves atthe opest iss Tates ub aple'68,. ~. »: IRWIN & WILSON. T Ti i iv TE PETE £3 Tre oa ER. ae Tr - A Tremendous Stock of Goods : |] nside 4 AE as 8 Whitman's cel chocolate, Buker’s cheeolate, Smith's ¢hocolate, China Ginger, English Pickes, American Pickles, a t BURNSIDE s THOMAS’ ny a Philadelphia Store, In Brockerhoff’s block, Bishop Street, Bellefonte, where KELLER & MUSSER, have just opened the best, cheapest, largest i well us the best assorted stock of Geod, in Bellefonte, HERE LADIES, Is the place to buy your Silks, Mohairs Mozambiques, Reps, Alpacas, Delains, Lans, Brilliants, Muslins, Calicoas, Tick ines. Flanels, Opera Flanels, Ladies, Coat. ing, Gents’ Cloths, Ladies Sacques, White Peay. Linen Table Cloths, Counterpanes, Crib Counterpanes, White and Colorec Tarlton, Napkins, Insertings and Edgings, White Lace Curtins, Zephyr & Zephy r Pat. terns, Tidy Cotton, Shawls, Work Baskets SUNDOWNS, | Notions of every kind, White Goods of every description, Perfumery,’ Ribbons- ta and Bonnet, Cords anc Braid. Veils, Buttons, Trimmings, Ladies and Misses Skirts, HOOP SKIRTS, Thread Hosiery, Fans, Beads, Sewing LADIES AND MISSES SHOES and in fact every thing that canbe thought of, derirdd or used in the FANCY GOODS OR NOTION LINE FOR GENTLEMEN, they have black and blue cloths,, black ahd fancy eassimeres, sattinetts, tweeds, mel- orns, silk, satin and common vestings, in short, every thing imaginable in the line ot gentlemens wear. Reedymade Clothing of Every Dis: scription, for Men and Boys. Boots and Shoos, in endless variety Hats and Caps, CARPE TS, Oulcloth, Rugs, Brown Musling, Bleached Mus- lins, Drillings, Sheetings, Tablecloths, &c., cheaper than elsewhere. Ih Their stock of QUEENSW ARE & G RO CERIES cannot be exceiled in quality or price. ] “er Cull in at the Philadelphia Store and con- vince yourselves that KELLER & MUS- SER have any thing you want, and do bu- siness on the principle of ‘Quick Sales and Small Profits.” ap30,69 GRAIN AND PRODUCE ARE TAKEN NEW FIRM at ALL NE New Store. New Goods. “The undersigned 1espectfully informs the citizens of Centre Halt and Potter town- ship, that hé has opened’ a new sture at the well known stand formerly occupied by C. F. Herlacher, where he is now offering A Full and Complete Stock of SPRING & SUMMER GOODS cheap as anywhere, His stock is entirely new, and the publie are respeetfully invited to call and exame ine for themselves; Goods will be offered at the lowest possible prices, and L a gen- eral system of fair dealing they hope to merit a 'air share of public patronage. Call and Examine our Stock NO TROUBLE TOSHOW GOuUDS, z#~ Only Give us a Fair Trial. @f We have a full and complete assortment of the latest Styles, Dry Goods, Groceries, Queensware, Gentlemen and Ladies: furuishing Goods, Ladies Cloaks and Qirculars, in Silk and Cloth, all kinds of Groceries, the finest Syrups, the best Coffea, Tobacco, Pause, Dyestuffs, Oils, Fish, Salt, Stationéry;.an everything else that is to befound in a well stocked country store. The highest market price Store Goods for’ COUNTRY PRODUCE. Don’t forget the New Store, at Oentre Hall. where goode are now offered at a bar- in. Call and see us. ie Ey J. B. SOLT. paid in Furniture Rooms! J. 0. DEINIXGER, respecttully informs the citizens of Centre county, that he hasconstantly on hand, and makes to order, all kinds of BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS ) SINKS WASHSTANDS, CORNER CUPBOARDS TABLES, &ec., &c HoME MADE CHAIRS ALWAYS ON HAMAD His stock of ready-made Furniture is large and warranted of good workmanship and is all made under his ownimmediatesupery i- sion, and is offered at rates as cheap as e}se- where. Thankful for past favors, he Solic its a continuance of the same. Call and see his stock before purchasing elsewhere. ap24'68,1y. ISHING TACKLES, rods lines, hook flies, sea hair baskets, etc. Rig you out to catch trout at BURNSIDE & THOMAS APANNED TOILET SETTS, AND other Japanned ware, at the Anvil Store. apl0’6s, IrwiN & WILSON. (SIT RED FRUITS, peaches, tomatoos J: pine ShDles and peasiin great vario ty, at - BURNSIDE & THOMAS’ ] COEINGGLASS PLATES of allsizes forsale by Irwin a WiLsox. LAPIS. 1 on ol NION PATENT CHURN, the bes in use at Irwix& WrLsoN 's. BLANKETS AND SLF LLS, at low prices, ii 42 uf i sox OALTS for Buggies and Carriages all Baa: in use; Fire Bolts, ditto, at 10°68 IRWIN & WrLsoN's Centre £ Oenxtee Harr Reror- TER is published weekly nt $1,060 per year in advance; and $2,00 when not paid in advanee, Reporter, 1 month 15 cents, Advertisements are inserted at $1,60 per square (10 lines) for 8 weeks. Advertise- monts for a your, half year, or three month at a less rate, All Job-work, Onsh, and neatly and ex: peditiousiy executed, at reasonable char- ges. : sc ———— ——- TERMS, —Th A ——" ——————— "CENTRE HA Only A Trifle. Mr. Boutwell furnishes the publie with an elaborate statement of the national ex- penditures during the ten years (rom 1800 to 1870, which shows how very economnical- ly the Radicals managed the finances of the country duringthat time. + The follow- ing ure Years, ABUL Sittin iisieins Expenditures, waenanshes sao dasnes $08,020, 789 60,667,127 BB, i crasrasesossi sucernuestnernenals 474,744,781 1863...... Mee sibistetd sagranens saveaduben 714,700,905 ¢8 NG 806, 234,087 8H 1,200,812,082 41 FEBS, p000ipavasesnmens ensussavavesassnsny 620,809,416 99 BRB ein conse ri dst se ssiesne nal 42.478 71 BBB... iii stiri ierisansi semesies vB oH, 204 80 JE scp cunshe xis gages shrssases savnssnaton 821,49 ,697 70 TU asarrins aRavS PEER ETSY oY 202 118,269 31 a— 8 2 22 $5,308,700,811 28 The most striking poiat in the above is a comparison of the expenditure tetween the war, and 1869-70 in a time of uninterrupted peace. One would naturally have thought that in time of peace the expenditures of the government should be lightened , but such is not the case. Deducting the interest paid during the years 1860-1, namely $7,177,487, there was actua'ly expended during these two years $122 499,429. Say that we have increased in necessary expenditures consequent upon territorial expansions, &c., one. fifth, and the sum total of expenditures during the years 1869-70 should not have exceeded $146,990, 314 But how does the account stand? After deducting $280,000,000 from the expendi- tures of 1869-70 for the payment of interest over and above the interest of 1860-1, we find the actual expenditures of the two latter years to be $333,003,867, which re- duced to plain words, means that for every dollar of governmental expenditures in 1860-1, there was more than two dollars and twenty-five cents in 1869-70. This is very good specimer. of the wonderful re- trenchment and reform introduced by Grant's administration. But a few hun- dred millions here or there are a mere tri. fle, and why should the tax payer trouble himself? (Pitsburg Post.) - > oe Our Delaware friends who are about to have School Superintendents in that State, have been conning over the last reports of the county superintendents of Pennsylva- nia, for the purpose, it seems, of getting some ideas or suggestions which might be useful to them in their experiment, but, according to the Wilmington Commercial, they have sought in vain for one. This is what the Commercial says about the mat- ter: ‘We have been looking around for some time for a plain and sensible report from some eouty scperintendent of public schools in _ Pennsylvania, wishing to condense it for our readers who feel just new interested in such matters, in view of the probable appointment at an early day of a superintendent in this city. We have thus far been upable to find one. They are all strung out to the largest possible extent, and Sophomoricin matter and style. They talk toomuch about the ‘‘g: eat cause’ of education and too little about the meth- ods of the very practical and unpoetic work, of teaching. They luck fofde, dignity and point.” - i In refefénce to this the Miner's Journal says: ‘For the ‘mass of them, we have no doubt that the criticism of the Commercial is merited; for we'do not believe that ca- pheity had as maeh to do with their selee~ tion as partizanship and personal favori. tism. Whereis Wickersham ? amt Ta as oe et S®@. An act of the last Legislature, to en- force the attendance of wilnesses upon court in certain eases, ought to receive general publication. In yery many instances wit- nessess in important causes seems unwil- ling to testify, and evade the officérs of the court, or, after being subpenaed, fail to ap- pear. The punishment for such offence was by arbitrary process, which owing to its ‘unpopularity, was rarely resorted to The recent act is the following : That if any person shall have been re- quired by virtue of any writ or subpenaed or other legal process to attend and testify in any prosecution for forgery, perjury or felony, before any criminal court, judge or justice, or any other judicial tribunal in this Commonwealth, or who may have been recognized or held to bail to attend us a witness on behalf of the Commonwealth or defendant, before any court having ju- risdiction, to testify in any prosecution, as aforesaia, shall unlawfully and wilfully, from this Commonwealth or from the jur- isdiction of such court, and with fntent to defeat the ends of public justice, elope or eoncenl-himself,.and refuse to appear as required by said subpena or other legal process or recognizance of bail, shallibe guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thé¥eof convicted shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or un- dergo an imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court, : | u donnie rer that there ‘are ‘five’ colored voters ‘in Snyder county, and that they are all Democrats, - They are more sensible than the majority of their race, that's certain. . A woman, in Cedar Falls; Iowa, only 68 years of age has 125 decen- dants. The bankrupt law has been nmended by a recent act of Congress in some few pars ticulate whieh are worthy of public notice. | Proyison is now wade thut the circuit judge, in cases of the sickness, wbsence or other disability of the district judge, may make all necessary rules and orders causes of bankruptcy. The law provides also that the provisions of that section known as the fifty per cent clause shall not apply to these debts, from whigh the bankrupt secks dis- charge, whic re contracted prior to the 1st of January. In other words, a debtor whose assets do not pay fifty cents on the dollar must now obtain the assent of a ma- jority, in number and value, of those credl|- tors only, whose debts were contracted since the 1st of January, 1868, A clause of the thirty-ninth section makes it an act of bankruptcy that a person ‘being a banker, merchant or trader, has fraudulently stop- ped or suspended, and not resumed pay- ment of his commercial paper within a period of fourteen days.” Much difficulty has been found by the courts in the construction of this clause, especially asto the meaning of the word ‘fraudulently. All ambiguity has been removed by an amendment as follows: “Or whobeing a banker, broker, merchant, trader, manufacturer or miner, has fraudu- lently stopped payment, or resumed pay- ment of his commercial paper within a period of fourteen days.” The bankrupt law is improved by these amendments, @ A — er Washington, August 1.—Jefferson Davis paid a visit last week to Lookout Mountain, his first since, as President of the Con- federacy, he went up with General Bragg to look at General Rosecrans’ armny in the plain below. On returning to Chattanooga he was serenaded. When he appeared in answer to calls for him, he was introduced as Hon. Jefferson Davis, and he spoke as follows : “My Friends: —It affects me from the very bottom of my heart to receive this demonstration of your kindly feelings to- wards me. I had retired in a double sense for the night and from public life. In view of the past, no man ¢an blame me for my determination to let those who have power dictate how the country shall be governed. But standing here to-night upon the sacred soil of Tennessee, I will say to you that I | wish you all the prosperity that is possible | Looking back on the vast and forward to | the future, I can see nothing that should | taint your honor. It is mot the part of | brave men to brood over the sorrows of the | past, but rather to look forward with bright hopes to the future. You have as brave and high minded a people as ean be found, and as noble women as live on earth ; and I wish you all the happiness and prosperi- ty that is in human life to enjoy. Again I thunk vou for this manifestation of your | kindness." { i nsbitmsappedi settle The speeches made by negroes at the Fourth of July celebration in Columbia, South Carolina, show the aim and intent of the black voters of that State. They bold- ly proclaimed a direct issue of races, ad, repudiating all their white allies, assert their determination to have the power and the entire representation of the State. Two of their most prominent negro politicians called upon the assemblage to aceept the next political contest as an “issue of races’ only, and were enthusiastically applauded. This, then, is what it must come to at last. Either the white man or the uvegro must rule. Which shall it be? Which ~hould it be for the best interests of the nation? > Superstition of the Alaska Indians. A correspondent of the Ban Francisco Bulletin writes as follows from Sitka: “Jt may be unknown to your readers that the Indians of some portions of. this territory have been inthe habit of sacrifi- cing the life of one or more slaves on the death of any of their chiefs or medicine men. This custom is based on the suppo- sition that in their spirit land the services of such slaves are necessary to the comfort and well being of the departed, and to avoid the treuble of employing such in that happy hanting ground théy despatch one ot his human chittels at the same moment the spirit of the warrior chief takes its up- ward flight. An instance of this occurred here three wecks ago. About ten o'clock at night the sentinel on the palisade gate, leading to Indiantown, was attracted by the wailing ery of a squaw ; inquiring the eaude of her distress, she gave him to un- derstand that her son was tied up prepara- tory to being stabbed—the usual mode of dispatching them-—for the purpose men- tioned. The commander of the post was notified, nd an officer was seat to réscue the intended victim of such barbarity. On the officer's arrival a strange sight presen- ted itself. Ona bed lny the dying chief; an intelligent looking boy of ten or twelye years of age, bound hand and foot, looking the incarnation of despair; around him with drawn knives stood the relatives of the dying man, at whose signal they would be buried in the vitals of the trembling youth. The sombre gloom of the apart- ment, lit up fitfully by the smouldering fire; the wild, unearthly sound of the tin- tin, and wailing death-cry of the tribe out- side the house, made up a picture to be ap- preciated only by a witness of the scene. The officer immediately released the boy and brought hime the garrison, where he was kept until the family of the dead war- rior promised not to molest him in future. This has been the sccond in tance of the kind occurring here since our occupation ot the territory." 1 & a Ore me A Negro Governor. The South Carolina Radicals are not content with Gov. Scott. Judge Carpenter, an ambitious aspirant for office, who was elected to his Judge- ship on the Republican ticket, has organized a party of his own, and con- trived to have himself nominated for Governor. + The negro element in the party propose, in retaliation, to nomi- nate for Governor, Cordoza, the pres- ent negro Secretary of State, Of course, the negro vote will be ablé to command the election of the negro —— — —— —-— A———— —————. 1 3 ial of Mowing and Reaplug M chines, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, August 1st, 1870. To the Editor of the Reporter :—~ To impart additional interest to the Hurvest Home instituted last year, it was thought best this year to afford manufacturers and agents an opportu- nity of testing the relative merits of their mowing and reaping machines :—~= The trial of mowers to commence al 2 o'clock, P M., on the 27thy and of reapers at 10 A. M., on the 28th of July, 1870. The trial of mowers was witnessed by four or five hundred, and of rea. pers by fifteen hundred or two thou: sand of the citizens of the state, most of whom seemed much interested. On the 27th, after a plot had been assigned to each machine, and two or three had opened their respective plots by cutting a swath to and fro,~—the committee, the exhibitors and the spectators were all driven by a heavy storm of rain and thunder from the ground to the house and barn upon the Experimental Farm, On the con- clusion of the storm, after the lapse of about an hour, all returned to the ground and the trial was resumed, and concluded under circumstance most admirably calculated to test the merits and defects of the several machines, The ground assigned for the wowing trial was on that portion of the Expe. rimental Farm allotted to the eXpiri- mental plots, but not yet appropriated, in the rotation of crops impressed upon it, to any specific tests. It was cov- ered by a third year’s crop of timothy fourths timothy to one fourth clover. The first growth of clover had died and the second crop started to grow. Beside this, after the mowing of last year there had been a vigorous growth of timothy which had died during the winter and which, after the rain, form- ed a material to clog and choke, diffi- cult even for the best machines to over- Cowie, The plots foggthe trial of the mowers were sixteen F77S8in length and three in width, Thefwots for the reaping machines were in the large oats fiel on the College Farm, and were forty- two rods in length and three in width. Both the timothy and the oats were heavy and in many places falien and tangled. We tried to preserve a por- tion of our latest wheat but it ripened ten days too soon for the exhibition, The President and trustees, impress ed with the extreme difficulty, in the present state of excelience of our ma- chines, to avoid injustice in awards, inclined strongly to the opinion that the committee selected with great care for the purpose, should regulate and control the trial but make no awards, allowing the large and intelligent com- pany convened from every section of the state to form tueir own judgment upon the relative merits of the ma- ehines. Thissuggestion, however, met with the disapproval of every exhibi- ter. Each, with confidence in the pe- culiar merits of his machine, demanded not only the appointment of the com- mittee but the nward of merits. Enclosed, for the information of the readers of your valuable journal, is a copy of the Report of the ' committee, whose laborious painstaking and abil- ity were only exceeded by their mod- esty. I am happy to ndd that we had quite a pleasant nnd encouraging week. Ev- ery thing passed off satisfactorily, ex- cept that on Thursday, though the preparations for 500 guests’ were am: ple, yet the intrusion of more’ than that number of uninvited persons ‘de- ranged our plang and ran the supplies short.” Next year measures shall be adopted to prevent any similar occur- renice. Yours very truly, &e., Tos. H. Burrows. } ' i * REPORT, To Thomas H. Burrows, President and Professor of Agriculture and mei- ber, ex office, of the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural College of Penn- sylvania :— » The undersigned committee appoin- ted by the Trustees of the College, at the instance and request of the exhibi. tors, to award upon the relative merits of the several mowing and reaping machines entered for competition at the Harvest Home ‘on the 27th and 28th of July, 1870, respectfully re- ort :— That the committee, after the two days spent in the trial and examina. tion of the machines, had only time, prior to their separation, to exchange opinions and arrive at general conclu- sions. They therefore authorized their chairman, R. R. Bryan, to report the results, appending the names of the committee; which he now does, as follows : Of the eight machines presented as mowers, two, to wit, the Kirby and the Champion, were single mowers ; and of these two the Champion was considered the best, The remaining six, to wit, the IEx- celsior, the Keystone, the World, the Hubbard, the Dodge, and the Ohio Harvester, were combined machines ; and as such we considered the Hub- bard the best mower of the whole eight machines on the ground. ; It is proper to say that this particu- lar Hubbard machine is the property of the Experimental Farm connected with the College, has been run during this season, and was on the occasion driven by the agent, J. R. Alexander. The same machines were entered for the reaping contest, excepting that the two single mowers had, on this trial, their combined machines which ar- — ———— EE —— rived too late for the mowing contest Three of them, to wit, the Excelsior, the Keystone, and the World, were operated as droppers; and, as in our own experience many farmers prefer the dropper on account of its simplici: ty of mechanism, we selected the uxcelsior us the most satisfuctory dropper. Toe Champion as'n self raker, in view of the superior arrangement of its reel-post, and in other respects, was, in the opinion of a majority of the coms wiittee, the best self ruker. And ag n machine best ealculated to render satisluction for ull purposes of the farmer who only desires to invest in one, in view of simplicity of con- struction—Tlightuness of draft and other important features, a majority of the committee ngreed that the Excelsior was most desirable. Want of time (rain having occurred both days) and the fact thut prepara. tions had been made for a thorough formal exhibition, oceasioned the omig gion of many tests and rules, in a future exhibition it would be proper to suv. ply ; among which may be mentioned, a rule that all machines exhibited shall he such as are made for sule and not finished especially for exhibitions, Sufficient time should be taken to test each machine thoroughly, and all persons except the Committee and the exhibitors excluded from the immedi ate vicinity of the machines during such examinations. If the Committee have erred in any of their conclusions, due allowance should be made for the adverse circura- stances under which they lnbored. Frank, B. Isett, exhibitor of the “Dodge,” and who was a former stu- dent of the College, had a Binding at- tachment of his own invention on the ground, which appeared simple in con- struction and likely to be easily mau- aged and controlled, but want of time prevented its exhibition in the fieid. The same want of time prevented the examination of many points of ex- cellence in the machines claimed by their exhibitors, and which commended themselves to the Committee. The machines all performed well, and no farmer should hesitate about purchas- ing any of those exhibited, the mere fact of vicinity to their place of manu- facture or storage, so as to readily ob- tain duplicate portions. being sufficient to determine his choice where all are good, All which is most respectfully sub- mitted. GEor SamueL McKeax, Ceutre L. H. Grarayn, Washington George Y, McK&eg, Allegheny” R. R. Bry ax, Huntingdon “ Committee, Oa err ee Presence of Mind. From a pair of scisssors upwards to the System of the Universe, every agency, moral or physical, seeins to be compounded of two antagonistic forces, controlable and performing cor- fectly the duties assigned to them as long as they work in unison; but un- controllable, and prone to run into ex- cess of their functions, if separated from each other. Take away the force of gravity, and centrifugal force uncontrolled would scatter us in fine dust through space. Abolish one ofthe constituent parts of any well-organized governmeut, and the result, in a moral sense, wculd probably be pretty much the same. Even the blade of a pair of seissors won't work without its fellow. Nar is the brain an exception to this rule. An eminent philosopher (Dr. Richard- son), still living, in experimenting re- cently on animals; with the object of testing the comparative ‘value of vari- ous anacsthetics, discovered, that at least two antagonistic forces recide in the brain: one having its abode in the anterior ‘and upper portion (the cere- brum); the other in the lower and pos- tefior part (the cerebellum). In his experiments, he obscrved that if the cerebrum of an animal be rendered ingsensible, and its powers thus tempo- rarily destroyed, the animal is immedi ately impelled to rush forward; on the other hand, the cerebellum being para- lyzed, retrograde movement is the re- sult. Thus he accounts for that im pulse which many people feel to pre. cipitate themselves from a height: the cerebrum, which contains the thinking and directing facu'ties, under, such circumstances becoming pamlyzed— dizzy—and so the control which it nor- mally exercises over the cerebellum being partially removed. the influence of the latter declares itself. The learned professor having opened the gate for us, we may walk in and observe for ourselves. Many things come to our recollection which we can now account for by this double brain force. We can comprehend why that patridge dashed madly forward after the fatal charge struck him; and why the other, althongh flying at the same speed, fell back in the air like a tum- bler-pigeon, fluttering still backward to the ground. If we take up the one, we find a grain of shot has pierced the gkull a little above the eyes; and we see the death-wound of the other at the back of the head. We can now unde- stand why those overcome with fright so frequently rush into the danger they wish to avoid. Nor need we confine ourselves to examples of a purely phy sical nature. We may place in the same category the bashful man who talks nonsense when he should hold his tongue; the awkward man, who only is awkward because he is nervous —the directing power of his brain is in gE. McDoweLL, Clinton Co. ws ‘‘ whose words and actions Aare uncohe - a ee Vol. 3.—No. : 16. lled by bh redaoni pi In tro y his rea og powers. | a word, we can trace half our foolish words and actions to a want of equili- brium between these two forces that inhabit our brains, and it ls only when the balance is correct that we gre fit to govern ourselves, Presence of mind is the popular term to express this mental equili- bir, The question has been frequently discussed in gocinl circles whether men presence of mind. Lucy, jnst seven- teen, says: “Oh, men, to be sure. Why, self-possession is an attribute nlmost peculiar to woman; a young girl entering society is quite at her ease, while a young man is sure to be awkward | nervous. See how we get out of a scrape: never at a loss for an answer. A man would stutter and mutter, and get deeper into the mire.” “Yes, but,” says Tom, who is just home from school, and not wuch troubled with nerves—*just look at you girls how you scream ; if your life depended on silence, you'd betray yourselves by u scream.” Then the ‘ladies reply: Oh, we don't pretend to be as brave as men.” And wo the question res mains unsettled. Lucy, no doubt, is correct, nor is Tom less so. Perhaps the fairest arrangement would be to grant the waeker sex pre-eminence in the absence of physical danger; and yet, en the other hand, instances of calm thought and deliberate action of women under trying circumstances are so numerous, that they cam, scarcely be held as mcrely exceptions to the rule. Amongst the tales of shipwrecks are recorded noble instances of pres- ence of mind amongst, women in the most appalling dsuger. What could be more heroic, for instance), than the conduct of the women on hoard the ill-fated London? Indeed, it is gener- ally in circumstances of comparitively trifling peril that the balance of the female mind is disturbed—when, as Tom says, they shriek. The following story, exemplifying remembering presence. of mind in an old lady, has never heeu in print. It is prefectly true. This old lad But stay, she shall tell the tale , as she used to tell it to me, her little nephew. “You know, my dear, I was living in the country at the time, my little grad daughter being my companion. We had two female servants and = maneservant, but he did not sleep in the house, but on 2 loft over the stable. One night, late in the autumn, I went up to bed at my usual hour—nine o'clock. 1 was early, you see, for Fanny was only seven years old, and I did not care to sit up alone afier she was in bed ; besides, by the time I had read my chapter, and said my prayers, and undressed myself, it was fally ten o'clock. Well, on this particular night I went up as usual. 1 first uo- dressed the child, and put her into bed ; then I made myself comfortable, and got my Bible, and sat by the fire—it was very cold for the season, and I kept a fire in my room—and after I had finished my chapter, I knelt down to my prayers: my position as I knelt was with my back to the fire, and my face toward the bed. I had scarcely got on my knees, when I eaught sight of something unusual under the bed ; on looking more attentively, I could see that it was u man's foot. My first impulse was to screani, but fortunatel I restrained myself; and the Noch over, I was ab'e to think, I had no doubt that it was a robber, and that if he found that he was discovered, he might not stop short of murder. I dared not go to bed, and pretend I did pot know he was there ; and yet, how to ge the child and myself out of the room without exciting "suspicion, could not imagine. These ts passed through my mind in half the time 1 have taken to tell you; and I was about to rise from my kwees, when 1 suddenly recollected that my doing so as pnce might, in itself excite be somé pune who knew iy habits, per- haps even my own man-servant, though I had no reason to suspect. At all events, [ determined to remain some time longer, as if. engaged in my devotions. I need not tell you that I could not give much heed to my prayers, but I did ask for protection aud guidance. You know, dear, that I am a slow, methodical old women, und’ that I seldom get through my ravers ii less than a quarter of an our, 80 I now determined not to stir for at least ten minutes. What an age these ten minutes seemed! I never took my eyes off the foot until just be- fore I arose, when it was slowly with. drawn out of my sight. When I saw it move, I felt faint with fright, for I feared lest the man had suspected, and was going to come out; however, he remained quiet, and then I got up from my knees. The next thing to be done was to get the child out of bed without causing any alarm. Speak- ing