Bellefonte Demotic Waldo RY.-P. GRAY MEEK —To our talented and staunch friend,' Joe W. FUSE; Esq., late editor of the Clinton Dem ocrat, the readers of the WATCHMAN are Indebt ed for the editorials, locals and selections M this number of the paper; he 'eery kindly con sented to assume editorial duties, for one week, while wo were otherwise engaged. Ink-Stings —A temperance convention was held in this 'place this week. No drunken men were present.. 60—Stansr CAmettots calls Gov. CURTIN a "constitutional drunkard." Better be that than a constitutionaLthief, like —GRANT takes pride in showing the ‘'tine points" of., his horses. We'd like somebody. to sholus the fine points of the President. Has. BLOWIER has ceased to bloom in bloomer costume, and halide termined to bloom hereafter in petti coats. Sensible Bloomer. --The Bellefonte Wstchnion says the most popular line thereabouts4s a fishing Ilrmll 3 trout on the end. Wouldn't mind flghtlto4 it oOt on that lino If It took us all annltner.—Hol odoloburq Standad. • Guol fo6ou. Come down and try it ---A Radical paper mays: "Crowd -4.41 out—the Phil'a markets." And he might have 'added, "Truth out of our paper, and decency out of the Find ical pArty." —The people are slumbering and •.leeping while Radicalism is stealing away their substance and destroying their liberties. "How long, 0 Lord, how long?" —Paper petticoats have been in ‘ented for ladies. We shouldn't like oi go to seen girl who wore a paper pet. wont. We'd he afraid of tearing it— accidentally. Nutinte, the new ChiefJund ice of Idalw, spells _Gob with a little "g." Which illustrates about the amount of reverence the Radical party have for the Deity. s. Cnis challenges MI keoll.- Lssrle to fight him for a purse of five himdrtil dollars. This. amount of mo• ney, In the formees yossesaion, would certainly "raise Cam." —Some "Jenkins," in a letter to Philadelphia paper, describes the beau ty of a number of young ladies of liar. rieburg, whom he mentions by name. Such snobbery is disgusting. dying wag requested that no person be invited to his funeral, be cause, said he, "it is a civility I ran never repay." An emphatic instance of the ruling passion strong in death. The State Guard, a radical sheet nt Harrisburg, under the editorship of Wm FORNEY, has "played out." If the Telegraph wodlil oblige the coun try in the same way, it would be a _rest blessing. —A Radical editor tries to shift the imperial movement from the shoul der of his party to those of honest hearted Gen. Lee. But he makes as bad a shift of it 04 lie made of his cap taincy in the army. ----Corsonotte Nurr and Mine N • NIL WMUISX were married the other day in New Haven. We trust- they will get along happily and that the gallant Commodore will nut make irar•on his little wife. —A certain little Radical editor, down at the west end of the bridge, fol lo-wing the lead of his superior on Bish op street, makes another pusillanimous attack on the poor jail wall Stand from under, little one, or the commis sioners &night blow their noses on you. —Judging from the "pen and scis sor" column of the last Hollidaysburg Standard, we guess that that Traugh now gets himself tilled at Snyder's drug store. If Snyder thi,iks, though, that he is making money by the operation, why, then, that's a bully joke on Sny der—that's all. —We want to ask President° R• MT and Oen. LOGAN whether Oen. Lotto- STRUT, th't collector of customs at New Orleans, was careful to haibqhe graves of the Federal soldiers, buried in that city, properly decorated on memorial day 1 "Let us have peace." ANNIE, SURRATT, the sweet girl who plead, with a breaking heart, for her Innocent mother's life, at the door of the Executive mansion, was married, on the 17th instant, to the man of her choice—a gentleman from New York. We trust her future life may be as full of happiness an her past has been of sorrow. --:-- --GRANT appointed a villainous nigge r named Turner, postmaster at, Ramon, Georgie, for the purpose, its he said, of giving the "rebelsVa "severe dose." The dose, however, was so nauseous, that even the scalawags and earpet•baggers couldn't ° go it, anti the Probability now is, that Turner will be turn e d out. 4 EDITOR VOL. 14. " Alabama." Just now we hear a great deal about the Alabama claim. Most people who were attentive observers of the different phases of the lategrent struggle between the North and South, know what the term means and its derivation. They known that it is a claim brought by the United States Government against England, for damages sustained by our commerce at the hands of the "rebel " privateer" Alabama," under the com mand of Captain Sem MIRY, during the years of the rebellion. This privateer was fitted out in an English port, with the knowledge of the British (lovern• meat, which winked at the transaction, and failed to nip in the bud its content plated ravages against the commerce of the United State•, with which the Eng• Itch nation was then at peace. Accord ing to international low, such conduct on the part of our English cousins was •u heinous offance, for which, Since the war closed our Government has de. manded nn apology and damages. =I The party in power, feeling its pres ent unpopularity, and knowing that a new issue will have to be started, if it would retain its power and prestige, now seize upon thin Alahnrna matter as a joyful pretext for a war with Eng land, thinking such a war would be popular, and give them a still firmer hold upon the public purse. Indeed they are more anxious for a wAr than for the settlemetid of the elnini, and would much ratlier hear the roar of :he cannon thantven see—great title% es as they are—the public treasury ple thoric with England's ill gotten gold. They seem to feel that only such ui . .cr Him and such a di Version of the attention of the people from the present questions at issue will save them from vontl lett , annihilation arid enable than to retain in their hands the reins of Govern merit. Consequently they have intima• ted their determination to make this question an issue in the next elections, thereby hoping to agoin burnboozlethe people into their support. WILL IT P'? But neither England nor the Uniii-1 States can afford to go to war upon this question. The British Government has an much as she can du (and, we fear, a little more) to watch the mofemeets of Lis Napoleon, the craftiest tmlin arch in all the world, the different pha ses of the Irish question, and to% pre vent the Fenians from pouring out their enthaniastic boats upon the soil of Cam ada, besides being vexed to death by ninny other intricate and troublesome questions; and the United States Gov ernment has "white elephant "in the shape of the domestic troubles arising out of the late war, and the stupid poli cy of the present administration. Her hands are entirely and completely full, And she is Just about as able to go to war with England as England hi to go to war with her. Instead of talking about war, our Government and politi cians had much better turn their atten• Con to devising some speedy means of paying off the enormous national debt, lessening the taxes of the people, quiet ing our internal disturbances, and re storing the country to its former posi• lion of unequaled power and glory. I= The United States Government, how ever, cannotconeistently insist upon its claim for dainagea in the Alabama matter, because it is now committing the very game offence for which it as- PUMen to hold England responsible. This very day, in New York and other American harbors, privateers are fitting out to aid the dubana in their rebellion optima Spain, not only by piratical depredations upon Spanish commerce on the high seas, but by carrying men, money, arms and ammunition to the rebels; and the President and his ad -vises hare refused to even pro claim the existence of the neutral ity Jaws. With the government of Spain we are now at peace, have always been at peace, , and that nation was one of the first to recognize our independence of the British Gov ernment ht• the days whet - such recog nition-wartp, power to the patriots who, for bight -tong years,, struggled for the ppbuilding of the Temple of Liberty.— WWI *tabshow of consistency, then, can we insist upon our demand against England, when we are at the same time requiting with similar unkindness the very friend who stood by urt in the / •y BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1869. darkest days of our nittional existence The damage committed upon our commerce by the " Alabama,' , . during its brief career, although considerable, is not worth a war to obtain justice. In fact, no war is needed, because the English Government stands ready to liquidate all just demands. The Eng lisp people are opposed to a war with the United States, and they will do all they can, in honor, to prevent such a catastrophe. And our Government. owes it to this people and to Lbe chris tian world to be mapanitutms in this matter, and thus nave to this horror: stricken earth the sight of another de• vastating field of blood and carnage. • I= It is all very well for boasting Van keeilom to say that we can whip Eng land in less than no time, We can't do any such thing, and all such talk is simply the inconsiderate ravings of a parcel of conteMptible fools, and exact• ly of a kind with thnt erudite prophecy which declared that we could finish the Southern. Confederacy in ninety days. But even supposing this were true, would not the cost of such a war ex ceed by many millions the amount of damages we migtht force England to pay? Where, then, would be the gain? We may be told that we would in this way uphold our national honor. We reply,that, so fur its that i. concerned, our honor is not at stake. If England owes us anything and refuses our just tleinand Tor_payment, it is her honor that suffers, not ours. A war might force her to pay the claim, but it could not, in an) manner, vindicate our hon• or, because our honor is not imperiled. , Peace is what we want now, and pese is...worth more than the Alabama claihi a hundred thousand times over. I= TRe Radical party, or the party in power in this country at the ,present time, hair so far evhatisted their re sources that thetr tire forced to turn to a war with England an their last resort. Knowing the hatred which the people have for negro toitTragireally the true issue now between the. parties—and be log determined to on err it through, they are willing to plunge the country into widest with England, hoping M this 4i. vr up the 01010E10118 measure oi the coo-oderation of the seemingly mine iinisirtant question the war. ft is not tlar the sake of the damages done to our commerce by the " Ala bama" or to vindicate our national honor that the Radicals are apparent ly so eager for an English war, but it Is fur the sake of burying out of sight the vital questions uoii of so great in terest to the American people,—the real, TRUE issues before the country 7 -thus accomplishinitheirabominable designs by another great and infamoust, deap• tion of the masses. Another grand object of the Radical party leaders, in thus advocating this war..is their hope of catching the Ins!' vote. They imagine that by pretending great indignation against England and bolding out the idea that they will soon bring her to account for her action in the "Alabama" matter, they can secure not only the vote of the Fenian organi zation but that of the whole Irish corn. ;nullity in the United States' It in a, direct bid for the Midi vote of the coin try—an infamous attempt to deceive a galls- t people, whose love for their na tive Ireland would induce them to aid in almost anything that loolistbowsoever remotely, toward the ultimate libera tion of the ." Qreen Isle of.lhe Ocean." =! But in this, we think, they will be mistaken. We imagine that Irishmen hare not so soon forgotten the party that only a few years ago endeavored to ostracise all foreigners, and es pecially„lrishmen, from the privileges of American citizenship. They certain ly have not yet failed to remember how this same party, ender the banner of " know-nothingisni," attempted to bring obloquy upon out, oreign born citizens, and to enforce against them laWs that would have made them no better, politically, than were the serfs of despotic Russia. „ If they have not forgotten these things, or, in fact, if they have failed to remember that the party which now offers them its friend ship and solicits their acquaintance, has always been their bitterest enemy, and is to-day the same that it has ever been—the blackest, dirtiest / meanest, mok rascally and unprincipled politi cal organization that ever had an kin- "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION tence, they have less astuteness than we have given them credit for, and will, deserve all the calamities that will undoubtedly be their portion in case they shall give in their adherence to this many-headed monster of Radical - A )VAIINViII We warn the people, then, to give no heed to this new Redical dodge. rt is .a stupendous humbug—a most brazen attempt to impose upon credulity of the country. Keep the Radicals up to the work ; make them face the music; force them to meet the great issue of negro suffrage, and compel them to measure strength with the power of nn outraged and indignant people. Under compulsion, they will then he obliged to fight this matter on its osvn merits, and will most assuredly be oserthrown. Heretolbre they have succeeded in de ceis ing the people, tort now, if we re fuse to allow them to resort lowly oth er issue than the great one of Negro Suffrage, we shall-.strip them of all disguises and espost; - them to it scorn ful world in all their native hypocrisy. We do not want to be understood as being the friend of England. We have ns little love fur that Government as any other American citizen, but we have too much regard for our own hind to sit quietly by and see it plungedinto a cruel war for the sake of giting per manency to the rule of Radicalism. In case the blungaring stupidity and infa mous designs of our Radical rules should involve ns in a' war:with Eng land, the Democracy wi 1 have to fight it, as they havers - ha-nye had to fight all our foreign Wars. But until that time shall come, we feel it to be our duty to ,put our couatamen on their guard against the nefarious and. dangerous schemes of the Radical leaders, and to 30 what we can to prevent a consum mation %ilia, liewed in its most favor able light, would be an awful calamity. =I We want peace and prosperity in this country once more. We want low taxes and security for life and property as in the days of yore. The only way to obtain these great blessings is by checking the onward and desolating march of the Riitlical pdity, and by re fusing any longer to how down and tif,ribip the images which it has eel up. Let the people, then, go for peace and ignore war, and thus force this Radical, monster down from the throne which it has established, and compel it to come up to its overthrow as its great political Waterloo. Awake 1 0, Ye People 1 The duty of a sentinel on the watch towers is to sound the alarm when danger approaches. — So, likewise, the duty of an editor is to warn the people against the encroachments of a power which threatens to take away their lib. erties. Believing this, we say that it is use less to disguise the fact that larzatat.. ism is making rapid artides in this country. At first it appeared as a little cloud, no larger than a man's hand, but it has gone on increasing until now it darkens the sky of the Republic, and threatens to burst in an overwhelming storm upon the people. The advocates of IMperial Rule are able, Iwily,' - and fearfully in earnest. They are sowing a seed that will yet blossom into this flower of anarphy, nn• less the people shake off their slothful. news grid go forth into the held deter mined to root up this the vilest of all the rank tares that have yet attempted to impede the growth of the Tree of Liberty. Our institutions are in dan ger, and this, too, at the4taiids of the very guardians whom we have set to watch upon the bulwarks of the na tion. When will the people awake from their slumber ? When will they real. ize the fearfulness of their peril? Time is.precious, and every hour is bringing nearer the consummation °four:disaster. The storm is rising, and already its strength is swaying the reeds and rush. es and will soon burst upon the mighty Tree itself. Once this Tree would have withstood the blast, hut oflate years its culture has been neglected, and for want of care it has lost its We must shield it now from the arm of the hurricane, or it. giant form will he struck to the...pi - ph, and the , itation buried beneath. i ruik.i.ikia.lt,'O r ye People I .2 1I nt ' . —Among the humors Of ,e rent "Jubilee"'E Boston, last:4ol, we publish the °flowing funny iNfrom 11 the Phllade pia Sunday Aity'eufy We expect "Tim Bumblebee" has had his counter part in a good many places since the "Jubilee" began: With Nome Jolly Mende, Tim Bumblebee Bat In n room where rum flowed frau. And talked about the Jubilee. The Johflee that had begun, And they talked, and drank, and had their fun, ' Till within a short time bQhe rising sun. And so 'teas late When Tim went to bed, With unsteady lege and swimming head, And n pair of eywo that wore vary red. rinoreless eui quiet he peacefully lay,— To the lend of drt area he floated away— ' Till x ell nigh passed mat tit' ensuing day And he dreamed of n woman, bright and fair; And of wine and whipky, old and rare, And of Jvys that drive dull rare away lint his ins( Manton WWI thq hem!, He drank It In with earnest seen, It seemed so real t):at he felt blest He thought that on the MtAte Ifnume mph, Stretched on n conch of golden wire, Ile heard the far oft Boston choir. Ile heard Parepa's charming ♦nice, He heard the In.trmmente Hs heard, diltinetly, all the noise He heard, as on n zephyr born♦, Theae word., a, from n giant tern; " Let us hate peace:—lea, in a horn Then to hin ears a racket strong Came rumbling, tlitumfertng, loud and long, Continued like a mammoth gong. It WWI the big bya os•hide drum— And louder groin lie ,ivenmg boom, "rill Tun's own head began to hum And then tick notay rnli-a dub. That came from way down at tlor.flub. Seemed like the beating of a tub.t And then it lees like MOM seemed— He RlTllibet it rinees acreamed—, He then awoke—he had but dreamed. % The meld wne potintling •t the door, • nd yelling from the lending fluor, o know If Tint was now no (nor*. lie echoed heck the maiden's yell, And told her l lin nittlit..g9—ima tell Ilia friends that he nal sound - and Welt. • And surer name wan Bumblebee, He'd not regret the last night's epreo, Fur ho had heard the Jubilee' r P L. South Carolina's First Divorce We read that the first divorce ever granted in South Carolina, was grant ed about a week ago. The parties were a carpet-bagger and his wile, who, Un able to live together, took the Radical plan or n busting " up a n qnstitotion which kept them within the bounds of morality and eoninir n decency. It seems a little strange that while the much abused State of South Caro lina, upon who.e devoted head has been heaped alkthe vile invective which prurient Radical imaginations could conceive, has existed for more , than ninety years without a single violation of the matrimonial tie, the first dis graceful su.ndering of the bond between man and woman should come from those people who have all along exalt ed themselves above their Southern n ighbors and professed to be asps cially the representatives of the religion which enjoins that "whatsoever God bath joined together, let not man put asunder." We may it is a little strange that while time "God-defying 'rebels" of South Carolina have sacred ly observed an injunction of the Al mighty for more than ninety years, the "Heaven-favored" Saints fromYankee land, who now swarm like the locusts of Egypt over the Bunny South. violated that injunction openly, brazenly and without remorse. IPerhaps, however, unlike the laws of the Medea and Persians, in the estima tion of South Carolina carpetbagism the laws of God are changeable. In the hurried march of Radicalism on its way to perdition, .old things have prob• ably passed away,•and all things have become new. Rennet its rotaries in. terpret God's ordinances to suit them• selves, and the sacred one of marriage is to them of no more binding moral force than a civil contract to buy and sell: Be this as it may, we prefer the mor ality of the.old South Carolinians. We honor the manhood which was too high-toned to allow them to put away their wives, and respect the christian feelink that bade them reverence the command of God. More than ninety yeses existence risen independent corn monwtalth, without the record of a efn• gle divorce case. upon their statute books, speaks well for the people of the Palmetto State, and is a silent but sig nificant rebuke Xo States like Massa ehesetta, who* people ere alviaye standing.in the synagogues and on the street: corners, with loud voices hyp ocritically thanking God that " they are not as other men are, tior eveit ae this . „ . 26' YE JUBILEE Pepneylyinto: —The oven at 613 Betts eetinit 1111616 house contains 224 square feet. —The Compiler sap, that the granite for the nada:Fier hiaiinment at Gettriffifill fit alerfaing. —Strawberstea are. WIWI !la #atillaburg at ten rents a quart. ~That's as cheap as Radical honor. —Henderson township, In Huntingdon coun ty, is the fortunate possessor of forty-three spring colts. —The Adonis county agricultural fait will commence on the filth of September and con tinue three dare. —The 4th of July will be observed in Gettys burg. Buppone we bass a Wee little. oele.bra tlon In Bellefonte. —A Mr. Stephen/ion, of Pittsburg, formerly or Clarion county, was drowned In the Allegany river, a few days ago. —An old lady named Mrs. Maij , Amick, died in Redford county • eougle of weeks ago at the adranced age of 101 years. —Meadville le ambitious to Tr considered a monumental city. She wants to erect a mono. ment to her founder, Gen. Meade. —Alen. A. B. MeCalmoot has been mentioned, by A correspondent lo the 71tunalls flier, as a Democrat to candidate for Owrenter. —Dr. Paul Schepps, of Carnal', • titled last week for poisoning Misifftineake, waellwand guilty of murder In the first degree. —The Grand Lodge of Good Templars, of Pennsylvania closed its three days session at Scranton, on June 10th The attendance was very large. —The elegant new hotel at tha Kalalyeine aprlng, In Adams county, will be opened for guests about the 25th Instant. It has been furnished at a cost of 170,000, —Mr. J W Hyde, of Sharon, while engaged Ina friendly Pella* was thrown In such a man ner AR to knock hie ankle Joint onto( place, and break one bone of his leg. —We see It stated that there is not a single prisoner. il% the Warren conitty Jaii. Ifsuch be the cage there must be a great looseness in enforcing the lawn In that county. —The Radicals of Philadelphia made their nominations for (tonna Alcoa hut week. The corrupt "ring"- ruled the day, and the hon est, Republicans are digitated. —Mr David Stewart, a prominent and well known Iron Master, died at his rtistdence, at Colerain Forge, Huntingdon county, on the 79th un., aged 77 years. 8e was one of the ftrm of Lyou,Shorb *Co. —The anrion Democrat boas k of having De ceived eight new subsoribere from one town ship hut week. with • number of others frine different parts of the county. That la i.rcour• aging (iood for Brown —The eon' vereary Meeting of the Pennsyl vania Reserve Corps Association was held in West Chester on the lit inst. ThLOWILII the third anniversary since the organisation of the essoCiationeand the ninth of the corps. —The Democratic Association of Reading, on Saturday evening, pealed resolutions de manding of the forthcoming State ConvenUon ths_gopilostion of General Winfield Scott Hancock for Governor of PeEnsylvinia "irtlisth er he will or pot." —Levi Dubba. of Abbottotmen, York cattail., has an °mars tree with over two hundred orange/ upon it, Pont. of whicp measure fifteen inches in circumference, and a lemon tree containing three hundred and twenty-eight lemons, some measuring II incline, —The Brookville Herald has been ib44 by Capt. J. P. George to G. Nelson Smith, E.q., u old veteran Democratic editor, who continues the paper under Its old name—the lifersoreish. We •atend our editorial hand to Mr. Smith and tip our editorial straw hat to Mr. George. —The aureiving soldiers of the war 0(1111 w4ll hold a meedllg "at the Court Howie, in Erie, on the 41st of June, with the object of renewing old aequaintance, and asking Con gran to remember them iu their old age. If they wero negroes Congress would be sure to attend to them --Samuel Morrow, w old cilium of North Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, murdered his wife on Monday of last week, by besting her brains out with a club He Ls sup• posed to have been laboring under • fit of in 'unity, as he had previously shown symptoms of being on■ound in mind. L_TA. Montgomery county delegates to the Radical State Convention are inittruoted to vote for Gen Hartranft for Governor. The delegates from this county would] have been Instructed the same way, it the etlitore!o( the Republican here had possessed any inDuestoe. Gut as they didn't amount to anything, the delegates go for Geary, —Says the Clarion [Meta-eat : "Reader, did you ever think of the time and labor of prepar. lag copy for a newspaper—beside/ the work and expense of printing It 1 Last week the Do merit contained one hundred mid thirty different articles, budding advertisement"— many of them mere items—bat all on (Mesta subjects. Beyond oolumns were Written. la fact we write more than the length of an anti. nary sermon every week ; and what maks* It more difficulty, is changing the anbleot so often. But writing for a paper le not half the labor of reading, culling, sad extracting frail other papery. With nearly • hundred Weekly and daily exchanged; to “go throsgh" :each week, in order to be properly posted, and to cot out and condense all the late news, re quire. much time, patience and peresversnee. If all our subscribers ben each perform the duties of an editor for about a month, not one of them would afterwitids COMPIIIIII about the price of subscription, or censure any little mistake or omission on our pail. —The Petroieum as litsearl hes the follow ing account of a great storm stoll City: A ter rain wind AMMO on the 11th lust, at about four o'clock, extending sltmg Oil Creek for several miles. At 011 City the Reese is dmeribed as one of great exeltement under the canvass of Robinson ,t Kell7ol2'l circus end menagerie. The tent was filled with psople,and the centre poles were tore from thtilr fastenings and came down with • orash;but Ibtinnately, no persons were serioury injured. The Wiles Were not Mall moderate in testing the strength of their lung*, and it ie stated could be dis tinctly heard above the screeches of the wild besets. One lady received Ammer* oat in the head. Troubles do not come singly however. The canvass Was re-arranged tikt the efeninen entertatornetti,to the exclusion of the tent eoV hig, using merely the sides OT the cuiimea as a protdction from non-payleg attendants, sad ' the canopy of hairline as a protection over (1) Enema nothing more in %City.] At the close of the tienlares perifiratenete, seem tatty f preoestaessed plan, tha rope, holding the lamps wen ent, the , Impel fell to the ground, tear/ the MIA sementhkett-Ve:= , darkness, save the mock aid Mier This rm. a Weal thr the pickpockets to prose ere their calling.' One lady was . relieved of her parlasosie, and several gentleman emerged Om /be, canvass' 'lights*" than when they went In. IiZEI
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