flHß|r]|uaaMiaaßaa HßHßMMßiaMMliiMM^ni CENTRE HALL REPORTER. 0 Centre Hall. IV, February, 10,'7 L TERMS. The CVNTRK It M ' Uvv-'K TKR f* published weekly st S'i per year in advance, or iS2,I when not paid m ne insertion*. Ad*ertisoment for a longer period, at reduced rote Ru-ines* cards of live lines. #•> per year. Communication* recommending pei -on for office, o cents per line. Communica tions of a privata nature and obituary •* ticcs exceeding five line*, five cents per line. Business notices in Weal column in cents per lino, for ono insertion. Notices of deaths and marriage-inserted free ofwharge Our Iriend-. in all part- of the county *0 oblige by sending us local items of interest IVom their respective local ities. The figure* set to the addrc** upon each subscriber's wiper indicate that the tuWriptioft I* puid up to such rho answer the same a* a receipt. Person* re mitting by mail, or otherwise, will under stand fW-ni a ehange in these dale-that the ■any ha* been received A new party, calling itself the Na tional Labor party, is organixing itself for the next presidential campaign. Delegate.* from all the States are to meet at Colntnbus, Ohio, on the third Wednesday of October forth# purpose of nominating candidates for the offi ces of President and Vice-President ol the Unite*! States. The land grabbers are not all dead yet. On Tuesday of last week alone, eighteen millions of acres were asked for in the house hv these land sKaling sharkes. If I'nele Sam's congress men ain't careful, there will not be enough of territory left, to bury the old tellow should be ever kick the bucket. We hope a few acres will be kept in reserve for a "rainy day." The radicals feel the close quarters they arc getting into, and that theii organization is growing weaker. They have become alarmed as to their chances in the next presidential cam paign, and are endeavoring to fix up some electoral votes out of the nu/rf* territories, by admitting them as slates. From Washington we learn that the rads in congress are reviving the rot ten-borough system for the Preside n tial campaign. The Senate Territori al Committee reported tyo bills, oui of which they hope to get six electoral votes, for the admissiou of Colorado and New Mexico as State- into tin Union. These euablingacts are to bt passed this session, so that local gov ernments may be formed in time foi the admission of the Territories into the Union as States in the next Con gress.* Colorado has a population, ac cording to the recent census, 0f30,906. This shows a marked falling off in The population since 1861, when a population of 60,000 was claimed for the Territory. The explanation made is that the floating mining population of that day has gone to other points. New Mexico has au area of 110,000 -quare miles, and her population, ac cording to the census just taken, is 144,000, of which 86,000 are whites and the remainder Indians and half breeds. Orleauist Intrigue. Advices from London say that the Orleanist legitimists have formed a powerful coalition, thc,priuci|>al head quarters of the movement has been se cretly advanced, and is rapidly gain ing strength and influence throughout the whole of France. Many individu als of power and influence have been i attached to the cause, the majority embracing the proposition of a resto ration of the Orieanist Dynasty to the throne of France rather than have to submit to the recall of the house of Napoleon or to endure the danger and interna] strife which must shake the country to its foundation during the formation and establishment of a re public. Agents have been appointed in every department throughout France for the purpo>e of dissemina ting the principles of the movement and proselyting for the cause. The Grantkes, it appears, have no other fodder to feed upon, than the Ku-Klux weed. If Ku-Kiux don't serve as an invigorator, why then they will die an early death of desponden cy. Grant's chances to lie re-elected, depend upon his getting the electoral votes of the southern states; without these, he is a dead duck. Grant un derstands that, and how to "fix" the southern States, that's what he ] now wishes to get at. He can't de pend upon the nigger—for Sambo is j the millstone around the neck of radi calism that has driven the decent re publicans into the democratic ranks, and Cuffy himself will not stick to his white rad breddern, as elections al- j ready held have shown. But, what's j to be done? Ah, Grant's got it.: the south again, for the ; dozenth time: He got it into his ! brain to have a congressional commit tee go down to Dixey and investigate, I and seo whether the terrible Ku-Klux-1 t-rs can not be used as a pretext to re construct, since the south persists in giving democratic majorities not-, withstanding she has. been told over again, not to do it. The congression al Ku-Klux smellers have gone down, and we expect soon to hear some hor rible stories of outrages, and that the 1 only healing balsam is reconstruction, < which means, bayonets and such con- gressioual enactments us will give the j administration every facility to estab- "republican" 6tate governments down there and secure them tfie ut- j most freedom to vote for the re elec- I tion of Grant, and none other, and j even be magnanimous enough to assist from Washington, as was tried in the' ' late elections in Philadelphia, New ( York, and a few of the states, where j s however the sovereign people hail the 1 impudence to vote ferninst Grant and | his bayonets. As soon as these congressional Ku- ' 0 Klux smellers return, we expect to see n every radical sheet filled with stories of dreadful violence in the £outh, hor- li rible muttlere, <&•-, fal& anti real, tbfc ft latter furnished to order hy ecoundrels (Vom the north, and charging them upon the Ku-Klux, of which we have frequent instances, and the cry will ho, the couth must be re-coiwtruc ted. Not one of these congressional Ku-Klux smellers is to good to do hie share in raping southern or northern ladies, in the south, and then incorpo rating his deviltry in the report a* a Ku-Klux outrage. On 2nd iust., the St. Croix and su perior bill met a defeat in the house ot representatives, at Washington, which it is refreshing to chronicle. This was a huge land grabbing scheme, by which, as one of its friends stated on the tloor, "only a little over one mil lion" acres of the public lands were to be given away. Our member, Hilly Armstrong, a usual, voted with the laud grabbers. This session ends Armstrong's congres sional career, after which we will be represented by Mr. Sherwood, wjio i# pledged against all these disgraceful tharles Summers Rebuke to oran Washington, Feb. 1. — When the Senate wcut into executive sessiou to day. Senator Chandler moved to dis charge the Committee oh Foreign Re lations front auy further consideration of the nomination of the Rev. Mr. Cramer as Minister to Denmark. Mr. Suutner sprang to his feet and said; "I object for the reason that in two mouths the Committee has been unable to find any reasoti whv he should be confirmed, except because he is the President's brother-in law" This defiant remark fell like a bomb shell into the Senate, and the Vice- President said : "Objection being made, the motion cannot be entertained to day." I'he Republican party in OoßflW seeius to bo drifting around without any leader or uuitv of purpose. In the Senate the Democrats and Repub licans combined to put Joshua R. Hill ■n as Senator from Georgia, and in the House ther again cowbiued to abolish the test oath enable rebels to hold office, wherever President or people will give it to them. Mr. Chandler, as i> bis wont, made a fierce reply to Sumner, which brought >ut an exciting discussion on all the relatives that the President had appoin ted to office. Mr. Trumbull made a caustic speech in defense of the action of Mr. Sumner's committee. A Sena tor got up and read a list of twenty seven names of the President's relations who had been appointed by him to office. J"his fact seemed to squelch the irate Michigander for the Senate soon therealter voted that the Foreign Re lations Committee should go on with its investigation of brother-in-law Cra mer. In 1868, during the month of May, the Radical party declared in conven tion to Chicago, that the question of -uffrage belonged of right to the Slates. In 1869, for the purpose of forcing the obnoxious Fifteenth Amendment upon the country, the leaders of party asser ted that Congress might interfere so far as to secure the right of the elec tive franchise to all persons, but might not go further. Iu 1871, thev declare that all the elections and registrations come directly under the eye of the general government, which has the right to appoint its agents to conduct all electious regardless of State and local laws. All this was done, and is being doue, to establish the rigbt of supreme control in the central government. That principle firmly establshed and it will declare elections unnecessary xiid assume monarchical authority. To this end and this alooe are the Radical leaders working.— PitUburg An unhappy couditiou of matrimo nial affairs is developed in the state of the divorce market in New Hampshire. During the year 1870 three hundred and thirteen applications lor divorce were brought before the Supreme Court of that Stale. Of the whole number two hundred aDd fifty-seven of theae divorcee were granted. A year's re cord such as this must give food for serious contemplation. And all this in moral New Kngland ! ■r* wira]iuuueai 01 me iiusourg Commercial from Brookvillesays: "There han been discovered io Jef ferson county a mountain of iron. It may be named the greatest iron moun tain in the United .States. From all reports it will furnish an inexhausti ble supply of good ore. No portion of the state so urgently needs railroad fa cilities as Jefferson county. If we con tinue to bring to light new evidences of mineral wealth it may be possible we will one day have better mean# af communication with the outside world than at present. A heavy force of men will, it is said, commeuce work in a few weeks on a railroad to connect Brookville with the Allegheny Valley railroad at Redpath." County Law Library. On .Saturday Jan. 28th afier the ad journment of Court, a meeting of the officers of the Court and members of the bar was heid* to consider the pro priety of repealing the law appropria ting the fines imposed by the Court iu Centre Co., to the purchase of a public law Library. On motion Hon. C. A. Mayer, President Judge was elected President of the Meeting aud John Moran, Esq.. Prothonotary was elected Secretary. The County Com inissioners were invited to participate in the proceedings, and did so. After the subject had been thoroughly discussed by several speakers the following were unanimously adopted; Retired, Thst this meeting composed a* , it is of the Judges, Members of the Bar, ' officers of the Court and the Commission er* of the County of Centre, most respect fully but most earnestly remonstrate and Firotest against the repeal of the act of the 4th, February IWHi relative to the pur chase of a Law Library in the County of Centre, under 'which a respectable library for the use of the County ■* being collect ed, bclenving as they do that the same is not only beneficial to the Court and mem ber* of the Bar but conduces greatly to euononiy in the administration of justice. 2. That a committee of three consisting of Jno. H. Orvis, H. N. McAllister and Win. H, Blair, Esqrs., be appointed to pre pare an address for publication on the sub ject. JNO. MORAN, Srrfy. ADDBHB. (Owing to want of time, we are not able to print entire the address pre pared by said committe, the following extract#, however embody it# main feature#. — ED.) But it is contended that the Centre Co. Law Library is not in auy proper sense a public library, ljut is an insti tution established at the public ex pense for the exclusive benefit of a favored class, the lawyers, and for the purpose of paving them the expense ' jf buying books. This is an entire j misconception of the case. The act of j lie Legislature providing for the es aklishmeot of this library was sp- ; 1 jroved by (jov. Cujtyj Jteb. 14,1& up port thia Library. The contributors to the library fund, are tha violator* of tha taw. The cruaker* and vlsWAg ogues, however' allege that three An** and forfeited recog zances were wont to be paid into the County Treaeury; that they belong to the tax-payers, and by thua taking them to buy law book* w th, we are robbing the people. AU fintr and forfeited recogni zance* belong of right to the Statt, and •he can donate them to whomever ohe please*. It i* true that before the paaage of the Library Act; the commonwealth had by different law* given *ome ol these line* to the county, some to school dis trict*. some to the poor of township*, and some to informers or prosecutors. None of these recipient* however had any right to complain, if the State, withdrew her do nation and afterwards gave her bounty to other purpose*, it was a matter of graft and not of right that th* counties townships and school district* even re-* ceived any ofthis fund. * The/esl and substantial cause of cota ■ plaint is tbi* ; that since the postage of .the library law. the recognizances forfeited, ' and fines imposed, have been collected ac cording to law, while before that no for- F feited recognizance was sued out and a targe proportion of fines actually iuipo*ed by tbeCouit were, through various influen i ce, remitted by the County Commissioners i without any legal authority and in direct contempt of the law. This cbanga in tha administration of criminal justice falls ' haavily upon the law breakers and their friends, and hence their opposition to the County library. By reference to the re cord* ofthis County it appear*that iiß is the whole amount of fines collected from 1X62 to Iftifi the date ofthe library act, aperiedoflfi years being an avera|e of $78,47 per year. This sum was divided between the county treasury, the schools, . poor, and the prosecutors in different pro portions. The reader can thus tee what a pitiable sura ha* been diverted from the County Treasury and given for the pur pose of this library. It is so insignificant in amount that none but a demagoage of the most ignorant class would make an ado about it. On the other hand every citizen who takes pride in our county and its institutions should feel an interest in the support of this library. JOHN H. ORVIS, j H. N MCALLISTER, > Com. W. H. BLAIR, j A Preacher Loeea his Wife and Three Children. Rev. Robert 8. M'Williams, ofthis city, ha* been visited with a bereave ment during the put two weeks whose parallel is cot often recorded. In j that time three of bis children and i wife have yielded un their Uvea to the | inexorable commands of death. Scar let fever was the agency which deprived : him of the former, aud the mother | doubtless died from the trouble in-! duced by the poiguant family afflic tion. The loes of two of her children so wrought on her mind that it became Impaired, and yesterday she breathed out her IsaL The third child (an in fant) died ou Tuesday. Both will be buried together to-morrow afternoon- Mr. M Williams' family two weeks ago consisted of six persons. Now it is reduced to himself and one child. His is a bereavement almost insup- < portable, in which he bu the warmest sympathies of all who have heard of < it. —Harris burg Patriot, Ist San, Francisco, February 3.—The j Chimauhuevis and Mojave Indians bad | a pitched battle at Williams' Fork, on , the Colorado river, a few days since. I The Mojavrs were routed with the leg# ofthirty-six braves. The Chimauhuevis c Iff feefd chief, ftyest j th'evep ever pord.wnj * > J 4 Tkc Array of the Knst Finished t'p and flrlvt'n Into Switzerland. Iepm intent |of Bns- Rhine. dated tin* morning, slate* that HO.OOo men of Botirbnki'* triny were driven into Switzerland,near PontarlL er. Many thousand Fwtch Mlilirni l!KI> VRUftt STARVATION in the Jurn mount num. Fifteen thou •ami prisoners were taken, among wbonie were two general* and ItNlotli cwra. Ten caution, seven iiiitrailcum-a. and two cag)c were captured. Only B,olM> >rn|Kil In Lvoni. Manteutfel was in pursuit. Vivo 'I Kiuperour. Londou, F'ehruary I.—A letter front Col. Doncau, of Kent, New York,a*ial ing in the War ih.'|*nrtineut at lior draux,nays that there is immense re action in otticial circles, and among the |opolace uguiitsl the Proviaioual Government, and that ten million* ol people would vote for the re*toration of the Ktnpire to-morrow. France will continue the war. The Mobile* are arriving at Bordeaux and shout "Viye'l Kaipereur." —— ♦ ♦ l*atmt front France I The latest nsw* (Won the ral of warstaU' that there it a complete rupture between the Pari* am! Bordeaux authorities. Jules Kav re ha* rril(ri*p|w BOLD BANITBYKGLAKN A Pretty Confidence Game—The Cashier Warned by One of the Guff—The Porters Gagged SIOO,OOO Stolen. Philadelphia, February 3.—About 7 o'clock last evening three men, dts guUed a* policemen, went to the Ken sington Bank, at the corner of Beach and Laurel street*.called out the watch man and told him that the bank was to be robbed that night and they had been detailed to remain in the bank in order to capture the robber*. The watchman admitted them and was immediately overpowered, gaged, *and handcuffed. The robbers then went to work and did not leave the premises till 3 o'clock this morning. The par ticulars of the affair represent that the cashier had beed notified of the inten ded robbery by a confederate of the robbers, who represented himself as a policeman, and that he (the cashier) gave direction* to the watchman to ad mit the (supposed) officer*. There were two watchmen in the bank, but the robbers tent out one of them to get something for the party to drink, and during his absence the other watchman was overpowered, and on the return of the second oue he was serred in the some manner. Three other confede rates of the robbers were subsequently admitted, and while the gang attacked the safe one man stood with pistols pointed at the beads of the watchmen, though they were gagged and bound. The burglar* were foilwl in their efforts to open the main vault, and only suc ceeded in forcing the safe containing special deposits belonging to the cus tomer* of tbe bank. The amount ta ken is reported at about SIOO,OOU. As far as can be ascertained about ; Ifi'i.OOO have been stolen, mostly iu coupon government bonds. The burg lars were very careful in making their selections of funds to discard register ed bonds and to take only those they j could dispose of without much chance of detection. The police have as yet obtained no clue aa to the robber*. '1 he vault of the bank was so damaged that it could not be opened to-day, disar ranging business considerably. i The Evils of ChhcaonM—A Foolish Fashion. [Here is what a lady says of throe tijtly thing* in the Evening Mail. Whftc are the independent women who dare to ignore the chignon '] The head and front of wotuan'a of fending against the lawa ot good taste and aounu h