CENTRE HALL REPO FRIDAY OCTOBER Lith, 1870 Baby’s Richts. BY THE BABYS UNCLE, Baby has a right to rest In peace upon its mother's br ast. Let him rest. Jaby has a right to sleep Where the angels vigils keep. I.ct him sleep. aby has a right to dream, Like a lily on the stream. : Let him dream. Baby bas a right to crow, And clap his little hands, and grow. Let him crow. a right to ery well as you and I. "Let him ery, Baby has And scold, as we Baby has a right to crawl, Before it walks from wall to Let o talk— h young the stalk. | "Let him talk. wall. him crawl. Baby has a right t Old the head thou er o a right to be T's knee. “Let him be. Baby has ht t A king upon his fathe Baby has a right to tear Ls The ligaments that babies wear. Let him tear. a right to spurn burn. Let him spurn. Baby has Medicines that bite and w Baby has a right to sip Sweetness from his sister's lip. : Let him sip. abv has a right to strings, Jack-knives, tops, and other things. “Give hon strings. Baby has a right to twist His coral beads and shake his fist. : Let him twist. Baby has a right to he The darling of the famil — Demorest's Young America. —————— lf -~ 3 y : ; “Let him be. Curious Natural Phenomenon. ——— Mirage in the British Channel: Mr. Thomas Waring givesin the Meteo- rological Magazine the following descrip- “oy ¢ . TTT New York, October 6.—There were sev- eral murder eases before the courts to-day. The jury in the ease of Orchard M atthews, accused of the murder of Hugh M' Gall at midnight on Wednesday, brought a vers dict of guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree, with a recommendation for merey. Before Judge Ingraham Valentine Reicher pleaded not guilty of killing Christhpher Higgins, George Wheelan did the same when accused of killing his wite, and Dr. Wolf, indicted tor killing two women by abortion, also pleaded not guilty, * pp * The Patriot has a lengthy and inter- | . . | esting article concerning the business | of the Surveyor General’s oflice, from that we make the following extracts, which will be of interest to many of our readers. Suys the Patriot: It appears from tha records that ahout fifteen thousand tracts of land, upon which surveys have been return ed, scattered throurh every county mn the State, vet remain unpatented, as | against one hundred thousand which have ben patented, The titles to patented tracts are com no diffrence whether they contain | more or less acres than are called for | in the patent, as the monuments, or has no further claims against such lands, unless, as was frequently the case, the patentee gave a mortgage or special lien thereon. The amount vet due the State on the several unpatented tracts are not pro rata the same, because the price of land was not uniform in all parts of the State, but was fixed at different rates, per hundred acres, ine diflerent sections and at different periods. Ou some tracts part only of the pur- chase money for the warrant was paid for m full, but a larger number of acres was re urned than the warrant called | for, which excess, with interest from the date of the warrant, and the fees remain unpaid. There are two classes of titles known ' remain unpatentea ) the State has nev- er recaived one eent, and therefore the whole amount of the purchase money, with interest thereon until paid, and the fees, remains due. These are tech- | nically known as applications, which | are situated mainly in the eastern and middle portions of the State, and as tion of a mirage of unusual splendor: on her passage from Alderney toGuernsey, witnessed a phenomenon in these latitudes so rare, that Tam tempt- so striking, ed to send you a short accou wind was light, from E. N. E., cloudless. the sun very hot, and the The re had been 1 2 the ny barometer steady at 30:21. some signs of fog in the morning, but they the small # it afternoon we observed over island of Herme a peculisr hazy re which became more defined, until it pre- eeLion, sented an exact inverted image ol the land A similar affect was soen visib! whole The Islands Guernsey, Jeysey, Sark and ¢ ey +b ¢e bend ati. round the Alderney, Herme seemed raised to more than lwice out 1) ing horizen. their height; sharp-pointed, rocks were capped with inverted images of balaneed upon themselves, apparently ing stones. g The Casquetes with its three light houses, presented a most curious appeaaance. The light houses were drawn oat into colossal pillars, on whose summit rested a huge mass of rock, clearer in the outline than tho real island beneath. Ships were sailing keel upward through their, every sail and spar distinet, and insome cases the images were reduplicated. Several of the vessels thus reflected were below the hori- zon, and invisible to us: The end of Guernsey, where the land runs low, was twice reflected in the air so distinctly that even those who were familiar with the island found it hard to recognize it. We seemed to be looking at some half merged Seen northern country, where countless still lagoons were divilel from each other by narrow strips of land. beeame mirage was becoming more wonderful still aver Alderney. Here the deep marked cliffs were magnified to an apparent hight of many hundred féet, andnoscene painter less distinet, but meanwhile the devising a grand transformation scene over dreamt of more fiuseinating groups of basal- tic colanma, grottoes and rock arches, with the tide flowing beneath, than was exhibi- ted by the island, and the isolated around it. Having remained visible for more than three hours, the panorama of wonders gradually faded and by seven o'clock the horizon was clear, or stuck 3 away, save where a dark line or eloud mist hung low in the nor:lieast. 1 may add, for the information of weather prophets, that this unusual state of the atmosphere was not the forerunner of high win, or any change in the weather. A Terrible Swim for Life, Saturday, at a post court-martinlat New Statés soldier, was found guilty of deer tion and sentenced to one NEur 3 ment at hard labor. Yesterday morning, between the firstand second roll calls, hie was marched out the guard house under two soldiers and towards the ‘Licking river. Bache broke his guard and plunged info the Licking, not to drown himiceif, but to swim to the opposite side, where he believed he was liberty, while behind him he a galley service The ouards eried It was no use. Bache swam on. The guards fired, but did not hares him. whole post guard was: called out und or- confine- ol al world leave hall. Wo Thi Bang, bang, went the guns. Bache not touched by the scores of balis that plashed the water around his head, swam only the faster toward freedom; nwa from hated restraint as the whiz of the minnies increased. The banks of tire Lick- ing were lined with people, excited intenze- by, not he=ding the deadly missiles that screamed . after the struggling fusirive ; One soldier was swimmisgz for life; soldiers were sending death’ eengers affer him. Hewas struggling with the waters with an utter contempt for dun- ger. Six hundred yards from where he plunged in he came out of the liver, fell exhausted but unhurt upon the ground, and forty 8 fis WPCCeSE H1EeS- was made an easy captive. About a hun- dred shots had been fired at him.—Cincin- nati Gazette, Oct, 3. re ne ga Ap Subscribe for the Reporter. which are located north of the Ohio | and west of the Allegheny rivers. Numerous acts of Assembly have | been passed with a view to induce prompt payment of arrearages on, and the rapid patenting of these lands, but they were generally inoperative for want of power to enforce payment. \ mong these we cite the act of March 22d, 1820, and the supplements; the act of 10th April, 1853 (known as the | “Graduating Aet,”) and supplements, Land the act of 21st March, 1560, | The acts now in force are those | the 20th May, 1364, { of 4th April, 1863. Under the provis- lions of these last acts the Surveyor | General was required to make out and of | are now in the office of the prothono- | tary of every county in the State for | the convenience of the land owners in . - rr