Be!ldeate Democratic Watchmao. BY P. (MAY MEEK lirS W. FLIREY, ABEIOCIATE EDITOR Ink Slings —.key ntleturu to execute (lie Force or Ku-Ithix bill by force should be re. sisted by force. And it will be. Humpunay Mmtsuni,l , , of Kentucky, it is said, now weighs 400 loa 's. What a whopper ---of a man I —A e on of the Emperor of Russia is to visit this country in June next. What a flutter this will make among "our girls." —Tito tax on matches, yields $2,000,• 000 a year, but our match on taxes was never seen is any country the wide world. _l.vtn Sell AMYL, the CirensFkian pa triot and hero, was 93 years old when he dird. Seven more yearn, and he nonld have lived a century. --Thr. "mow unkindest cut of all" is to cut off a dog'n WI and then give bum the bone for bin supper, an we nee a hungry vagabond dill recently. -During (;RANT 1111 , 1 MORTON ' S rice iinneermg tour through the WeBt, Ntiiittioi does the speaking find (tnANT he drinking. A , l it cirinkest, (;R NT has uu superior. - -Miss Pot, %TT, of Mereer,haB become the wile of Mr FR \IK Mt 'll. W e oUvlit now to e peCt HOMeth log po etical from the Indy. filliCe she has Ho queeessfelly wooed time Muse. LONEIIER.:KR Elaym that the reason he en eeldnm path on his Sun Ina go to myelin' thine is bee t ti= looks a m ot so toll in the that the won't let hum alone. Handsome .loastsv I —The editor of the Republican went to Harrisburg last week, on a telegrauhic summons Since he came liaek,he avows it as his firm beleir that the "14einocrats "•skre playing 11-11 down there." Oh, good gwanions The iirsaht4 ettudidate for Prowntlent ( win I, r ont—r,..(l Ihrollgh ryrnno on Thrum day night on hI way In Worthington. Ile real the Herald regularly —Breirnertf. Yev —the New York !Pruitt But why BRAINERD should take such pains to putt old BEN•ETT'S paper, we can't unagme. I,e President, although created krtmor by a fanatical Radical /1)0r- ~,11 find that it is easier to be that „ ,•••ie reahly, when he WI lo rl,iket4 to I•CCWIPO his usurped pow ,•r•• "God and Liberty” should be the slogan of people. —The East Brady Independent "goes tor" a humbug doctor from Philadel phia who has been pliyinck mg the peo ple in that place for 801110 time, rough. Ilia name is and by the time the Independent gets done with him he will be done doing business in East Brady. --Rev .1. 1, Wri inert, of Washing ton, Michigan, get rid of the family when his wife died. HIS airier in law now sues Lim for breach of a pronnae to her, claiming that it will take not less than ten thousaa dol lars to repair the damage to lier lace rated heart. • —A drunken fellow in Lawrence county entered a bowie where a was making bread and drank tip all the "sole " The inference in that re was hard up and wanted to "make a raise." Am "mote" mimes things, the probability is that he felt a deuced rariong of thing.; in his howele, shortly after. —Tho lllosnorn Oto will Irmo New York on Monday next, for an excarnlon to Califon nla The Illonnom l•Inh In a I ,ortioeratli• organ lamina, and the badge of membership In worn On Ow nose The editor of the Watchman in the only editor with a badge, in thin !section Tyrtnw Herald Evidently, the editor of the Herald forgot to look in the Ringo before he wrote that item. Howe% er, the glasses he in in the habit of looking into nre too tli:ek at the bottom to be very good reflectote. • —That the Ku Klux do exist in the South is proved beyond all doubt by the following warning which has Just been received by JouN CONNER, a colored preacher near Beattie.; Ford, in Lincoln county, North Carolina: Ray 111111 DIMS .—You must either quit primp:6l:4 or quit *lading hogs. (Signed,) K. K. K. The darkey hoe been showing the letter around, in great tribulation as to what he had batter do. We would ad vise him to quit preaching and go to 'Waling hogs right. Some Radical Journal; having aicused Gov. linglish, of Connecticut, of an in• tention to force himself upon the peo ple, Whether elected or not, the Gov ernor has countermanded the order for the villal parade on the day of the con• vexing of . the Legieltture of that State. the duty of the Legislature to can vass the votes, and the Governor is de termined that there shall hot be even the appearance of force on Ws part. ~~~'~"_ c~~i MIME Ku Klux Outrages If our own citizens, or the Northern people generally, would know fully how maliciously and basely the Radi cals lie—how they misrepresent the truth in regard to the Southern people, avliom Oreeley. Forney A: Co., oorn. moldy stigmatize 114 Ku Klux, they should- take one or two of the many papers published in the Southern States. In hastily glancing' over the columns of the ,% a ll i erm H ome , a pa per published in Charlotte, North (lar olina, we Observed the following in stances of outrage by ordinary despera does and scoundrels, such as are of everyday occurrence in the Northern States, but upon which ‘dreeley & Co. put another and comely difJrrer t eon struction "Burned, on (he night of the 12th Mt., the barn of I'Ltra liiv rte, together with a valuable horse and a valuable mule." By whom ? By one FnAsk rra,one of Ifoi, noes LOY U. Militia. BM the Radicals say the Ku Klux did it. Here is an other: "On the night of the 15th two negroes went to the house of FitED i:11111C Co-yrs:F:li," an old and respecta ble citizen, who has been living with his son and daughter in-law ; and while one of the villians forcibly de tained the young man on the outside, the negro inside the house attempted to violate the person of Mrs, ('ostner Ile was thwarted in his hellish pur pose by the cries of her husband and father in law who were calling for the gun. These scoundrels, (one of whom was afterwards discovered to be Cald well Hartgrove) then ran ofT, and on the same night went to the house of Mrs. Sarah Stroup, a widow lady, and demanded admittance, arid when Mrs. S. asked "who was there 7" they' re-' plied that "it didn't make a d--41 bit of difference ; II she did not open the door, they would break it lown'' Mrs. Scrimp then told her daughter, a girl Id or 14 years of age, to open the door. The negroes entered and asked if she lied any company, to which she an' owered, "Nobody but the children." one of the negroes, pointing to the girl, said, ''1)o you call that a Mold?" and then addressing the girl, "Come here, d you, and let's see how heavy you are f" In the meantime, 11 , 4 arigrove bad seated himself on the bed by Mrs. S., who had retired, and preAenting a purtol,told her to be quiet. The other negro then threw the child on the floor, and laying a knife by her sole and saying, "If you are not quiet, I'll cut your d--d throat," outraged his powerless victim. Ilartgrove was then relieved from guarding Mrs. S , and lie in turn violated the child. Here 11. was recognized, and he has since been arrested, and is now in jail." These is o instances will suffice for our purpose With facts like these staring IN in the lace, and despite the tact that everybody knows that such acts are committed by the outlaws and vagabonds with which every COMMIT4II - is infested, the fis.itenls unblushing , ly attempt tit IA tee iL. .tilium of these hellish mutt - 1 ., the better classes of the Southern people by crying "Ku Klux t Ku Klux I" We know some thing about this Ku Klux. We had its originators among us during the war. They destroyed printing offices, arrested Inoffensive men, outraged the persons of innocent women, played the spy, the pimp and the informer, and committed every black and damnable crime in the long catalogue of They are the accursed scalawags, the carpet baggers, the mean, low, demper a,te, despicable, Yankee inter lopera,w bo crept in the wake of the arm ies of invasion and settled their slimy carcasses 11111 m g IL nohle and generous people only to alms,: them p and that people would do God a service and con fer a blessing upon mankind in gener al by hanging every mother's so.l of them. It we had a MAN for President in. stead of an Ass, if the Southern Stales had decent, honorable, upright white men to govern them and make their haws, instead of Radical nincompoop; and ;sinews; if order were enforced and maintained by the strong arm of the civil Fa*, .14e; gutirMiteml by the State Goipititittione, instead of anarchy and disorder being encouraged by base, malignant, Weak ind cowardly satraps; iu shot% if shim white judges occupied the Bench—in the ;daces:that are now tilled by siggeessand logrpet-baggers iii "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION." BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1871. those States,the crimes that now shock the people and bring rnieery and sor row to the hearth-stonee of en many outraged families, Would mon eel*. lint the instances that are Cited above, are prated of by Greeley A; Co., in thefr papers, as being the outrages of a clan organized to drive "loyal" men from the South They will tell their own sad stout to every one. The only .vonder is that the South ern people do not rise in their indigna Lion and slay, without hesitation, e rs ry earpet•bagger, nigger and unl o rtned pupry within the hinds of their:•stateß. It is alit - lost incomprehensible how they can remain quiet under the inhimotoi outrages that are daily and hourly heaped upon them by that wretched band of Radical cnamiaraktrs at Wash ington. and the abuhe and vindication of the Radical press. The Legal Tender Act Decision - ,_The decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States, It short tone ago, that "all debts exuding prior lo the passage of the legal tender act iii February, 18f,2, and the interest on the same are payable in gold," has been reversed by the same Court, the Chief Justice and three of the assori rites dissenting. Congress packed the Court to obtain this very decision in favor of the railroad companies and other monopolies, arrd Chi T ferci.di oil the disgusting material in the per sons of STRO vii and Ilitiniry, his ap pointees. When the former decision was rendered the court was compos , sl of eight judges, five of whom decided that all obligations to pay in gold, giv en prior to the passage of the legal ten der act, were binding, and that Congress had no constitutional power to impair those obligations. Tins didn't suit the Radical monopolists in and of Con gress, hoWever, and (hey managed to get an act passed cresting an adition al judge for tire Supreme Court. Judge Musa withdrawing shortly after, left a vacancy on the bench, and consequent ly GRINT had the appointment of a judge to fill his place arid also the ap pointment of the additional judge. For these two positions he selected lirsoso, of Pennsylvania and Tlit DI.EY, of New Jersey, both in the interest of tire monopolists of the country, and both of whom were known to he op posed to the former decision of the Su preme Court, as they were bound to be, or lose their pay. Thus it has hap petted that the court has *Tided that air obligation to pay in gold is not an obligation to pay in gold, and that the sanctity of a contract ?nay be violated. Without saying anything about how such an indecent reversal of its own solmnly rendered decision will look in the eyes of the world, we may ask what confidence can the people have in tribunal whose decisions aro so unstable—so liable to be reversed by their own authors? Well, may the Chief Justice and the three unimpeach able men who have sided with him, hang their in Joinie at this ac tion of their amsociates! TERRIBLE. COST or RAISIC•L The present Radical management of the United States Republic has been a terribly expensive one, and the end can never be seen to the innovations of debt. After six years of peaceful sway the administration owes a public debt far exceeding two thousand millions of dollars. and the admission has been made that the interest alone can not be ps,id. The principal of the debt six years ago was upward of two thous and millions of dollars, and is no less to day. The five year's rule of the carpet-baggers in the South, now hap pily dra*ing to a close, has almost im poverished that section. North Caro lina has been plungdd into a debt. of $19,000,000; Georgia into a debt of $40,000,000; Florida, 5,000,000; South Carolina, netirly $20,000,0001 Louisi -41114 $12,000,000; Arkansas, $5,600,- 000; Mississippi, $8,000,000; T e x a s, $7,000,000; Alabama, 5,000,000; ginia, $33,000,000; and 'l'enessee, $3O,- 000,000. litre is a debt of nearly $200,000,000, most of which is due to thrreuernplion and speculation of the .cliarlit:terleas adventurers who have had PoWasion Pf the Southern State governments since the doss of the war. —Democracy and liberty I , a /1/oto, 1t".,.., Unhappy' France Poor, unfortunifte bleeding France I Sad and evenfhil indeed is her history I What nation can show a dark er cata. ague of blood•shed and crime, or boast a Crigliter record of glory'? But her bpightness is Wing—she has wrought her own ruin. In assisting Prussia to take her place among the powers of the world, she has fastened the yoke upon herself. Seorpiondike, the child she fostered and reared, has turned and stung her. If we sympa thised with her when the German hosts were overrunning her soi I, laying waste her cities, and spreading desola• iron over the country; how must our hearts bleed for her now, when by, her own folly she 14 flooding the land with fratiacidal blood ! Alas, poor France I She now reek all the horrors which must ever follow when the hellish, bloodsheding arts of the highest eivi lization are united with ignorance and inexperience I From the leader of all the grandeur in the civilized and fashionable world,she has fhilep:to the lowest stage of barbarity and igno• minyl Anil what brought about and keeps up this reign of terror? what lint the vain, foolish attempts of an ignor ant, unschooled, inexperienced and superstitious people to govern it proud and powerful nation ?. The liberty of self government is, indeed, precious to every freeman , lint when to acquire it brings on such awful and unprece dented horrors, it were better done without. \V b ite men— Negro wor shipers, look at the woeful condition of France, and read the doom to which you are hastening our cotintry by cast ing time governing power into the hands of %Kb an unskilled, illiterate race of beings as our negroes. If the high toned, pure blooded white men of France so utterly fail in governing themselves, what must be the effect of throwing the ballot into the hands of a set of newly freed slaves, who have scarcely received the benefits of,civili cation I Newspaporial —That staunch old Democratic Journal, the West Chester Jeffersonian, is one of our best exchanges, careful always in editorials and selections. Last week it published an able article on the platform of the party for the fu ture, the sentiments of which we fully endorse. —one of the raciest, boldest and liveliest papers in the United Stittes is the Lexington (Mo.) Caucasiata, edited by Col. Donan. The Colonel makes Radical whipper-snappers get out of the way When he gets alter them, and his paper is fast attaining celebrity Donau uses the Queen's English, ane never fails to call things by their prop. er names. Keep it up, Colonel, until Carpetbaggers and Radical rapscal lions generally are buried out of the sight of decent men. ---The Stay County Democrat dose good service for the Democracy in Ohio. It hits Radicalism some hard blows, and we are glad to see 'it pre senting so many evidences of a cordial and lucrative support. Such papers WI the Democrat are worth supporting. —The Warrenton (Va.) Sentinel has kicked thn buckettitc . to its manes. —The Georgetown (Tessa) Watch. man, in reply to our question of a num ber of weeks ago in reference to the eon of GEN. Sep Housrom, states that lie is at present a Republican poettnaster in a Texas town. Glad to hear, of him, but we fear that he le a degenerate eon of a worthy sire. —The Waukesha (Wisconsin) Plain- Dealer and other journals, copy our political poem, entitled "Fight Skunk, Fight Viper," by hitxisms, and fail to give tie .oredit therefor. We'll get • after you, gentlemen. —The Woman's flights movement seems bound to win• Gradually, but surely, the protestant, against it arp being won over, so th ' at'brelong ie may expect to see the fair gut united in their determination to wear the breech es. We see it elated that him South , worth, the authoress, has given in her adhesion to the causejthcl her examples. is being folloWed„iiy other distinguish- , Indlaiu. To the 0181. to ths polls!• Let your cry' te i • Willa,' "the so#raglr ot itothingri ;•, ~t,,~;,.,,~ SII A D.—This being the shad season, it may be interesting to our renders to huvo some account of this delicious fish, so many of which have been sold hero Ow spring. We find the following ar ticle on the shad in the Patriot, which prints it without saying where it came from : With the exception of trout and sal mon no fish is wore highly prized for faint than the shad. It is large, sweet, and juicy, richly flavored and altogeth er exceedingly palatable. Tim fish are akin to the herring tribe. They are abundant in almost every part of the globe. America, England, Europe Asia nod Africa have 1111 ample supply in their writers. 'there is n vast differ- Orlon in their size, flavor and quality The most highly esteemed are those fre quenting the coolest waters The shad of Chinn are of n brownish color,strong ly tinted with the bitter salt flavor • the hot river waters. and are small sized The Russian species aro of n blue tint, large, mid of a very pleasant flavor Those caught in the rivers of England, France and Spain are of is similar size rind taste, but of a whiter hue'! All of thesg. Wive a strong resemblance to lie herring The American shad Cr,, the largest, handsomest and best flavored of all They exceed the size and weight of the herring, are more deeply notched in the upper jaw and have a larger and cleaner scale. They will Average about three pounds. When first taken nut of the water they are exceedingly benuti• fel The scales glitter with ninny bril liant tints, the back having a bronze or copper hue, and the lower side being of R very light pearl color Soon lifter death this almost phosphorescent bril linnen is dimmed, and a dull, dark hue succeeds. Although of a salt-water family shad annually ascend the rivers inn the early spring, leave their spawn, and "walk the waters" until midsummer Know ing this the fishermen trap them in nets, of which there era several varieties Tho depth of water and the force of the current determine this. In some places there are standing wires and stake-note, one hundred fathoms long, and set on stakes fifteen feet apart In those all sizes of fish aro trapped. In other places drift nets aro used These are from twenty to thirty fathoms long, and aro sunk to the depth of six teen feet, with the meshes of four to five inches space, which only catch the larger fish The Ckmnecticut arid Hud son river fisherman quite generally use a "gill net," with the meshes three 'inches in diameter, through which the shad protrude their heads and are Caught by the "gills." An immense number are thus annually caught in thesn-swo rivers. Vast quantities are also taken in the Delaware, James, York and other south ern rivers, but aro not equal to those found near home. Tho earliest supply comes by rail from the South. The shad come northward as early as February, and by the middle or March ascend the various rivers from the Pen obscot to the Hudson Billions of eggs are then Oposited Vast shoals of them appear in - the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, early in February, and soon after aro caught near Baltimore The season ends in June, when the shed become poor and soft, caused by their spawning. Before the erection of dams in the Sus quehanna at Columbia and the placing of fish baskets in the stream north of Harrisburg, thus preventing the largo majority of fish from coming up In the spring and migrating southward in the fall, shad were caught near Thomas and Independence island, at this point, in abundance, as many as 3,000 having been drawn from the water in ono haul. The fish could be seen to approach in large shoals, and fisherman, always on the alert, would promptly spread their seines before and entrap thorn. For many years but hero and there an iso. later! shad has been caught, and until the obstructions in the river aro remov ed this state of affairs will continue to exist. A IloAx.—On the first of April, there appeared in the Macon (Georgia) Telegraph, a full and particular ac count of the seizure of a prominent Radical, near that city, by a band of masked Ku-Klux ; of hia being flayed alive, and, finally, skinned and roasted whole at the stake. The very extrav• agance of the particulars, the name of the pretended victim—Adam Mikes— and the circumstance that the narra tive appeared on the firstday of April, should have been stifiicient, with any sensible reader, to stamp thestory as a burlesque of -the broadest and most transparent character. But the bait was greedily swallowed by the Radical pl!pers in the North,. which• printed it with all the prominence of display beads, and called upon Congress to en act the Xmg,lttx bill without delay, to prevent a generalroutiag of the peo- Th i plc in e South. This s a fair speci men of the manner in which Radical journals act in re atiott to matters in Ike South, fnd, worse iliac this,'leg islation is based upon, sAtelt miserable. stupid appeals to passion and preju dice, alike damaging to the nation, .and injurious to ; the interests of the people, ..liorth and Boutb,—ExcAange. _At the We, ilection"in Washing ton, pity come women °Aired to Tote, hut, were reijectiel iby the election offi cers: The? hitve ;ace indicted the °fficeraAnd ~ able 000nsel to rekeeent them.., irily , tisk world • • , . , Equality at the State Capital. Harrisburg correspondent gives the following account of the free and easy manner of the Radical legislators among their dusky allies, in a descrip tick of a negro ball at a negro hotel, in that city, recently : "On Wednesday night the dusky beauties and sable braves of our city 'end neighboring towns assembled in the spacious dining room of the Slate Capital hotel to trip the 'light fates tic. Delicious tousle, lovely ladies and gallant ineti, made the dancing a sight to look upon and enjoy. Our times are strange, and therefore the galaxy of inky nymphs attracted oth ers besides the beaus of their own col or. Like silver stars peeping through the black clouds the beaming faces of our radical politicians shown among the moving mass of ebony. Along the wall sat the herd of Republican legirk lators, while on the floor, in promi nence, stood Senator Billingfelt and Representative Iteinhiel, the first trust- Big to Ethiopian supportin the race for' Auditor General by &claming that if ever he danced, he would -here seek for congeniality, and the other whisp• ering in dulcet and amatory tones, Stupendous yetty Smith. late Phil& delphia,l 'Kis whole enunatince glist ening with delight, and his hinge sides shaking with mem men', capered about like a fairy, showing his list of engagements to evince how successfut he wins in conquering the 'waits of sooty daMsels. Everywhere BIOTA groups of rads arid colored ladies, mu nail • • limited. And in the dance tie colors mingled uo oil and water ,elements in these congenial spir its. Ilere stood lion NVin. .1. Ovens, sergeant-at arms of the House, with an ace ot spades partner: next wits Mr. I~illrnlnr, ..I the Pennsylvania railroad, with a cream and coffee hued virgin, and opposite a grave legislator held a genuine Dinah in loving embrace. Here Thompson of Philadelphia, his face wreathed with smiles, was seen 'dancing attendence to the lemon cob ed lasses. lie declined an introduc tion to any of the darkey beauties. ff We believe he is a recent convert to Radicalism.] Tittermarv, of Philadel phia notoriety, with a dark skinned beauty leaning lovinliy on his arm, and the gallant Ovens breaking tales of love into the ears of one of Africa's fairest daughtep, led the quadrille to the soul inspiring notes of "St. Pat rick's Day in the Sforning." The post of honor was given to a Philadelphia delegation, who were seated in easy chairs and were furnished ice cream and cakes at the expense of the com mittee. With anus encircling the waists of their jetty partners, while on their manly bosoms reposed the Crisp, velvety curls of the yielding beauties, gracefUlly did they tread the mazes of the dance. After the danre,srm in arm •vitli their Lucuidas, these consistent Radicals promenaded the room. All indulged in refreshments, over which faces, black, white and taffy-colored, bent together, and tongues cooed sweet ly in accents of admiration. We do not know how the lion. Wm. Ov• ens anil friends 'peened in escorting the African mnider.s home. Is this the dawn of social equality and a fra ternity of all colors 7 Durnbell, Cloud, Lemon, Johnson, Albright and Griffiths also joined in the festive gathering. The aspiring Johnson was exceedingly anxious to display his social felling for his brother Africans by promenading the room arm in arm with the master of the cer -Plii/a. Mercury. ,NO. 18 MEMO Remarkable Mirage A correspondent of the Rochester Ex. press writes as follows: The undersigned was one of the hun dreds at Mount Hope on Sunday after noon, who witnessed, probably, one of the most perfect and sublime mirages aver seen in this country. On the en• tire north sky as far as the angle or bi son, was lilted the blue waters of Lake Ontario, while reflecting from her bo som could be eeen the mountains, hills, valleys, bays and rivers oil the Cana dian shore inland for miles. The COttat could be plainly seen over a stretch of fifty miles, and so perfect at one time that the forests could readily be distin guished. The reader can form some ides of its grandness by knowing that. a country separated from Rochester by a lake seventy to one hundred miles in width, was, as if suddenly, by the great hand of its Creator, painted upon the heavens so plain as to be seen from a standing point one hundred miles distant. Gentlemen present who were familiar with the Canada shore could readily distinguish Rice Lake, Belvi dere and other prominent points in Canada. The lake looked as though it had by a great tidal waverolied up on Rochester, and covered one entire half of the city, and uo building could be seentorth of Main street, or any land between the city and the lake. —The capitulation of Fort d'lsay on the south of Paris, which is report ed, is a serious lose to the Paris insur gents. This forces them back to the defences of the walls proper, which of fer little resistance to the mOdern.sieg,e guns. It now looks as if the grand struggle, spoken of by the exuberant Hugo, would take place at the barri cades. The Vereailio government has accomplished more than 'the Prus sians did in the way of overcoming the cordon of forts around Paris. If it be true that Cluseret has been displaced from the headship of the ministry of war, by the commune, it is possible that Parie,nuty refuse to invite 4«, struction h assisting to the bitter end, Al prase* Ike rants of the insurgents are reernited by. force from the oiviliuto 4t,lpSittlitre Whiob Gainot make, the d e N, c• eificiooL • fotittbe salts of France, Slim the ouliatlkoib= hellion is near. But it is imposeible to 1111,r. what new • turn eha tit* mil take.. 7 -Drlperat re .y Palik aukidlt
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