Bellefollto Domocratic Watchmali. liY I'. GRAY MEEK JOE W. FURNY, ASSOCIATE EDITOII Ink Slings —Chignons appear to be going out of fashion. What then —Wilkeebarre is said to be happy in t h o iKieseesion,of a white hearse. _Why is a mulatto brigadier. lik4 a high officer in GRANT'S cabinet. Be cause lic'e a tawney general. —The California "injins" now n umber lees than seven , thousand. Truly,the "Lo" iltmily there is getting —The latest "bitti.re" are named after Iliemenca. Appropriately, too— lor wasn't BISMARCK a "bitter" to the Fiencliman 7 —flaws Poipaor was presented with a 51,500 diamond ring by his em ployees the other day. BR!CK always was a lucky chap. --lt ix said that Gov. GEARY was at leered to tears on reading the effusions of the "immortal mix" in reference to the law library bill. --The Ti[lefts government i n France IA showing itself a 3 barbarous as the Commune. It is executing, in cold blood, every man it captures. —Gen. HOBERT Took us, of Georgia, recommends his people to have noth• ing to do with men who talk of "dead issues." (hen. Toosrus is about half right. -it if; paid that ANDREW JOEINEON would junt AEI leave be the candidate of the Democracy for President in 1872, its no t. We might take him up And rew it. —Livery liorwea and carriages are protected from injury and canine by a late law of the Legiatlitiire. Fast young bloods and inhuman brutes will take notice. —Captain Cooctit, the Democratic nominee for Surveyor General, was the commander of the celebrated "Cooper's Battery," which achieved so much re noun during the war. LtyiNuatnnt is to have seven teen "decorations" when he gets back now Africa. lie may get them made iio.t hide with a butcher knife, if ho get out of that heathenish conn ft, pretty soon. 1 . 1. i• mei - , ants at the White House the- , -ttd in, livery. An ex XIISM dint this iii done in order mat they inay he diatinguished from Ith large number of h verymen who call, holy, to talk !write with the Fred dent. —The Republican Id out with an other pull' for WARBURTON'S hate. That gentleman having furnished Itsown with something to put on his head, lie would confer a great favor on the public by next giving him some thing to put In It. STANTnv, the radical nominee for Auditor General, was a surgeon in the army with the rank of Major. Ills uncle the Secretary, afterwards raised him to the rank of Lieutenant rolonel. Thiel la his whole war record. Ile never fought a battle. —HENRI rto,HEFORT, the French agitator, had been tried by court mar tial and condemned to death. As he was one of the principals in stirring up the fearful struggle between the Com mune and the Government, we judge his fade is a just one. --We stated in this column,a couple of weeks ago, that PETIIt HERM(' had Leen elected hiayor of Williamsport. We do not exactly understand how we got that impression, but, at all events, it was incorrect, as the Democracy elected Maj. PSHILINS by• about 250 majority. - Thome two tough old dnc•ke c M 1 2 14. SIN B. ANIIIONY And 31Irm. Cctn• ST.,,,ToN, are about starting to Cali fornia on a quacking expedition. If they should happen to fall in wV.II that old DRAKE, formerly of the 4a•nate, what a virtuous time they would have, to be sure. —A woman down east thought 'it mighty hard that she couldn't be al lowed to clean house if her father was She didn't know what a man wanted to die for, just when the carpets were all up and every thing topey•tur vY• We can ourselves sympathize with the feelings of the old girl,in such a dilemma. But some fathers are so unreasonable. —lien. Cf.taearr, the French officer so prominent in the insurrectionare movement of the Commune against the ' rtinces' government, in t yrance, has been shot by TII lERWS o?dere. CLU. MIXT fol4glit in our late war againal the South, and was made a brigadier genera! of volunteeps by President LIN . 2OLN. lie was essentially an ad• venturer, with no fixed principles. ts a r , trc xiff it , / 51/) V • II I l e rr VOL. 16. Democrats, to the Rescue I 1 I From,,the day the Democratic party Was displaced from the control of the government until now, the uniform, constant' and determined tendency has been toward centralization. Insidi ously, step after step has been devised and taken by the cunning and unprin cipled lenders who have pioneered the march of that great revolution through which our country hae been passing. While, with an avowed intention to preserve, they -were employing the mighty energies of the government to crush a supposed adversary of the UNITED STATES, in one section, they have been wickedly blinding and de ceiving the honest masses in the other. While they have been craftily stealing from the people and the statee those reserved rights, upon which the per.• sonal liberty of the citizen and the prosperity of the government depend, with the stealth of a midnight robber they have gathered rein after rein of power into their hands, and, when alarmed by the fearful cry of some watchful patriot, they have attempted to silence the cry of apprehension only by saying, "Be not frightened, oh, ye lovers of Republican liberty ; we aro too good and too pure, to ever use this power with wl•ich we are arming our selves for aught but your good and the welfare of the country." Too inany,lorgetful of the truthful maxium of the illustrious author of the Decla ration of Independence, "Eternal vigi• lance is the price of Liberty," have thus been lulled into an apathy truly alarming. To awake the liberty loving masses from this apathy to a realization of the danger which threatens our sacred in• i-titutione, is the work of the next two years. With this thought in mind, although the offices to fill at the elec tion of next tall are not the highest or most important, no effort should be spared by any democrat—by any citi zen who prises our sweet heritage of political liberty, to awaken the slum bering energies of the whole country and achieve a victory whi.r.ra will assure triumph in the Presidential contest of next year, when everything will he at stake In every county the Democra cy should nominate for the respective offices to be filled, the very best men in the ranks, and spare neither money nor effort to pole every possible vote for the ticket. It is no mere individu al contest—neither a struggle for the spoils, but we verily believe that every thing heretofore held dea by American citizene,as sucholepends upon the over throw of the party of usurpation, tyr anny and revoliition,whose bold strides are already reaching the very verge of despotism. The 13th, 14th, and fifteenth, (su called) atnetiiimente to the constitu•' lion and the legislation under them,' including the infamous Ku-Klux bill, are each and every one,but ingeniously contrived steps toward despotic power. Centralization means despotism s No country of such vast interests and ex• ',ended lerrc ,,,, can be gov erned by any other form than the unon• archittl. Therefore we say, Damorat TS NOW TO TOE RESCUE The record of the pant ten years is well calculated to call forth the moat serious apprehensions for the future, tf a further term of pow er 6e permitted to the achemers and plotters who, forjtheir own selfish pur. poses, have already well nigh over. thrown our boasted Temple of Liberty. To All Whom it Conoerns EXICUTIVIL OrrWC, AUSTiI, 111nrell 25, IM7I I take groat pleasure In calling the atton• tion of my flared-, end of the members of the l.egl.lanure eml when gels vlvitlng the city, to e <cell. Cl MILLI Ileac the capi tol gale, by Mr. Itrown I have fre quently partaken of them and round them ex cellent Mrs. Itrown is an excellent antrm, and loyal In her wentinients, mid deriervils en couragement from our people I feel It my duty to caution 0111 people not to patronize a cal lain white woman calling herself Mrs. Warren, who ham n stand near that of Mrs. lirown's, for I am credibly in formed that she in ter) , dkloyal m 'ler ayinpa. tides, and that tthe lust two so, In the Raid Army. F. J. D fru tint urn or of 'feces. 'rile alto% e is a speeinteii of the sort of a Mail the present Radical Goyern or of Texas is. 11 . e ColliCri do term Iris high potation to, commend Mrs. pies as against those made by Mrs. W A RREN, f o r the reason that the former is a "Yankee" and the lat ter a "rebel." This, of werse t inakee a big ditierence in the pies. Governor DAN is has, of course, a right to choose "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION." BELLEFONTE,. PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1871. whichever suit him the best, but, for our-part, we think wo should prefer Mrs. WARREN'S. We judge they are made by an honest woman. But note the prejudice of the man. lie talks about 'our people.' By this he means, of course, all the Yankee arpet-bag gers, scalawags and niggers in the country. He don't mean the white folks, for notice how contemptuously he speaks of Mrs. WARREN Rd a 'cer tain white woman' Judging from the way he speaks and the fact that Airs. BROWN'S name is PM 1.1.1 R, we take it for granted that she is a darkey. 'l'hr• will account for DAVIS . B preference. But note also the inhumanity 01 the man. 'lie cautions that class' of peo plc whom he calls 'our people' against Mrs. WARREN, because 'she lost two 80113 in the rebel army.' This great be reavement, which ought to commend the poor mother to the sympathies of every christian man and woman, is made a reason by this contemptible Radical hound for advising the peo ple not to patronize her. What a chivalric chap this DAVIS must be I But such is the material of which Rad icalism is composed. Thq "Decoration" Humbug We suppose that the custom of deco rating the graves of the dead soldrtrs originated in a good motive and is an appropriate way of showing respect for them and a proper remembrance of their heroic dead.. This custom has been in vogue both in the North and South, ever since the war, and will probably continue in the North so long as the "Grand Army of the Republic" exists as an organization. We have no objection to it, whatever, other than that it. seems like a foolish waste of money, which would be used more to the purpose 'if appropriated to the support of the wiNto ttyjutl children of the dead soldiers. Besides this, there are hundreds of one-legged and one armed men hobbling about over the country, grinding hantborgans for a living, or doing something else equally Aft humble and unpretentious. This class may be Peen in large numbers, in our great cities, at the corners of the streets, solmiting alms Isikeep them from starving. blow, wihold that if the money that is spent, annitnlly, in decorating ceretnoniee, wax applied to the relief of this indigent and helpless ettrars of live soldiers, it would alleviate a great deal of actual misery and do infinitely more good than for scatter it in the shape of flowers over the graves of the dead. The brave fellows who sleep beneath the sod, are beyond the reach of human sympathy or comfort, but the brave fellows who yet live, armless and legless, may still be aided and consoled by the hand of charity. Whjch then, shall we attend to first-- the dead or the living? Let the form er be honored and lamented—tile lat ter fed and clothed. On this subject, we find a letter In the Cincinnati commercial from lion. Geoaus N. DAVIS, President of the Board of Aldermen of that city, which we here Pirpend To the Editor of Ma thmmerriat. I see by your report of the meeting on Decoration of Soldiers' Graves held yesterday, that Mre. Rev. Dr. Moody rose to a question of privilege. I do not know what she intended to con vey by this, unless it was a woman's privilege to scold, which she proceeded to do most effectually. As my loyalty to the country or to the soldier will need no endorsement in this city. I will not reply to thecharge of non sym• pathy, but give my reasons for wishing the observance of all such public days to cease. Our war wag between breth ren of a common country, and a com mon ancestry. Our prowess and our history was one. it was an unfortu nate strife, but I believe a necessary one- In no other way could the great questions of the country be decided. The issues of the war 'are made, and they will stand.' Whether Abolition ists or Slave-holder is most to blame ; whether both or either were really to blame at all, except in so far as their motives were bad, it is not worth while to discuss for 'many men have many minds.' The war is over, and peace was declared many years ago. The re sults are written in blood, bringing stir row to many hearts. The question to be considered now is, how can we best secure to our country the results of peace. We talk about kindly feelings between the North and the South. We can h.trdly find terms severe enough to_ characterize the reported ill feelings in the South toward the North ; and yet we keep up anniversaries and dec oration days, and permit men to repre sent us as orators who use language that causes unfriendly feeling and stirs up animosities that do only harm. would do as much as any one to honor the memory of the noble men who stood between us and our enemies, and gave Their lives to duty. I ant thank ful that I can honor those of my Nmi ly who returned from the army alive, rather than be compelled to mourn the sacrifice of their lives. But is it the best way to honor the men who fell in the service of their country? Would it not be better to spend the sums de voted to the dust of our fallen heroes, and give it to the living? If the two dozen persons present yesterday after noon, having a good time (all to them selves) abusing their fellow citizens, could have been in my office at the same hour while I was paying to the soldiers' widows and orphans of the Eleventh Ward the monthly stipend provided by taxation, they would have witnessed a ceremony much more grateful to the survivors of our soldiers than that of marching out with ban• tiers and music, and loud parade of loyahty, to scatter a few 'red, white and blue' !lowers on the graves of the dead. I commend to these friends a verse from the Sermon on the Mount, which reads : 'When thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee • * * in the street, that they may have glory of men ; verily, I say unto you, they have their reward.' Let the mother, the widow and orphan go in the quiet sorrow of their hearts and plant the livir.g (low ers on the graves of the dead ones ; but do not go with blare of trumpet and noise of drum, had turn it into a gala day of gladness. I have an old fanhioned notion that I have a right to exprens an opinion in public or private, and, while I am sub ject to criticoon, I am not to game. May 3d, 1871. fleoace F. Dnvis. The Pittston Mine Disaster A terrible accident occurred in the coal shalt of BLAKE Jr Co., at West Pittston, Imzerne county, on the 27th nit , caused by the break taking fire in the top ruller from friction. About sixty mei, were in the mine at the time, thirty seven of whom failed to be rescued from their perilous position. Whey hey discarereltheir danger and saw uat all hope of escape was cut off, they rected a karricade of coal to pre serve themselves for a time front the fire, and Ines calmly awaited death or a rescue t y their friends above ground. They lie. I a prayer meeting and sung hymns in.l made other preparations for the great ange that was so soon come o som of them. Of these thir ty set en,,,_item were afterwards taken out lead, and several others have since .lied. This calamity was all the result of careletemesm and willful neglect of the proper means to preserve the lives of the men in the mine. In the first place, there should not have been ai.y fric tion of the machinery, and in the sec ond place there should have been an• other shaft for the egress of the men when danger threatened. The legisla Lure, shortly after the great Avondale disaster, passed a law forbidding any mine to be worked without two shafts —one for entrance and the other for escape—and also enacted that there should be one or more inspectors to see that everything was in proper and safe condition. Each and every one of the-e provisions seem to have been dis regarded in this instance. There was but the one shaft, the machinery was out of order, and the inspbctor had grossly neglected his duty. The re sult has been that about twenty-five men have lost their lives, and a num ber of poor families been plunged into grief and mourning and the means of their subsistence taken away from them. Now, the responsibility for all this woe and desolation must rest some where, and where else should it rest but upon 131,1e5& Company,the opera tors, or upon the Lehigh Valley Rail road Company, which it. the owner. They operated this mine in open and contemptuous violation of the law, and they should be made to pay the pen alty. The only way to put a stop to these awful accidents is to hold those who could prevent them responsible for them. We trust the operatiog par ties or the railroad company may be prosecuted, and made to at least for ever maintain the families they have rendered fatherless, husbandless or brotherlesa. —And now we are told that Paris fears an epidemic from the stench that arises from the dead bodies that are lying in her streets. What a commen tary upon the horrorsof war I Thous- ands of bodice have been so slightly ly buried that the lightest rain will wash the earth from over them, and leave them exposed in all their ghast ly and rotting hideousness. What a fearful thing is war, and how terribly are men's passions revisited upon them selves ! Had the factions and revolutionary spirits in France let NAPOLEON alone, all this terrible misery and all this enormous sacrifice of life would have been saved. Paris, the Featitiful, would not now be Paris, the desolate, and Feace,with her arts and industries, would have 7- made the land a paradise. But a few discos tented spirits would make a hell of heaven. --In the article which we pub lished from the Pittsburg Post, in our last issue, we overlooked the fact that it included in its commendation of our platform the odious and infamous "Ninth Resolution," to which we can not and will not subscribe. We can never accept the "Fifteenth Amend ment" and the illegal and unconstitu tial legislation that has followed it as the act of a constitutionally appoint.. ed authority, in the face of the fact that the niggers and scalawags, who obtained their seats in Congress by force and fraud, were allowed to parti cipate in such legislation. The Fif teenth Amendment was forced upon the people by the hand of power, and was never ratified by the States in the constitutioaal way. Hence, we cannot accept it, and we say that it should and of right ought to be repealed. And we hold that it will be the duty of the peinocracy to repeal it whenever they get the power to do so. If we thought they wpuld not do so, at the proper time, our faith in the integrity and purity of our party would he greatly shaken. No issue is dead or can ever be dead that involvea a principle. Hence, we cannot agree to forget the past and overlook all the gone by iniquity and treachery of liadicaliem. But, as we give our views on that subject more at length, in another place, we shall say no more here. -SIMON CAMILRON succeeded in electing to the State Treasury a man who allows him to use the money of the State for his own private pecula. Lions. If he can now succeed in mak ing his tool STANTON, Auditor General, he can use the State funds as he pleases, and have the accounts audited to suit his own interests. With the gallant General Mt,CANDLEaa in the Auditor General's oflice,SlNON . l3 specu lations will be stopped, and the ac count.' of the State carefully audited. [For the W•*cink TREASURE TROVE. =I Out from the room 1 went—the dance wan o'er, Thu lights were lessening from tho burners all,— When nomething brilliant lying on thu floor My eye attracted al I left thu hall, And, atooping, quietly took up an ear-drop bright, And pinned It In my pocket,by a (indeed right Lucky—thought I—to be the final gueet, Favored of fortune thus the gem to find— owner found I now should hare no rest, Fair Cintierolla's story filled my mind; But Ulu not now to be,for all bad gone away; My hope's fruition must await another day. My sleep that night was plethoric of dreams— Dreams of an ear-drop and a countless throng Of fairest women, casting mellowest beams From bright eyes on me through the whole night long ; Each one and all a claimant, for the gem Pd found, From ma ; another Paris on Morphean ground The scene Inspired a wish, and it was this, To duplicate the Jewel without end— And thus to multiply my future bliss, And one grand yearning In • thousand blend : 0, that some fairy would, by men power well known, Combine these beauteous maidens into one oleos. The answer came upon the instant quick, Belore title wish was scarce a second old ; Alas I that I did e'er Invoke the trick I For all had vanished, save a blue coat bold, Whose eyes,and star and buttons gleamed:and shone full bright, As fiercely loomed he up before my troubled sight. Policeman true he wee, and spectre none, To pull me fetm my couch he coon began, And then his voice, unmusical In tone, Bald : "Como along, my pretty little man! I saw you ctib the trinket—Ohl I know yer waye— And you are good, my awry dear, for sixty dsys I" Pummurau. Spawle from the Keyetoee. —Mifflin county thieves rob smoke houses. —The COl creamerieb are doing • brisk ME! —ltodrord county has 1w0.m.1114017 compr —Scranton had four trotting races on 811illiu day in which twenty horses contested. —Benjamin Sawyer, colored, was hanged to the 29th, at Evansville, Ind., for the murder of his wife. —Col. R. Conyugham, U. B. A., son of this late Judge Conynghsni, died on the lab, at, Wilksbarre. —On Tuesday night last, Cattle Lee. aged about 18 years, took poison at Titusville and killed himself. NO. 22 —Two of the Committalanent of Allegheny county have been held to ball to answer a charge of bribery. —The democrats have 'nominated a Black man for Aseociate Judge in Bedford county ilis name is John C. Black. —Joseph }torn a soldier of the war of ISUIi died at EanCon a few 'days since. The deceas ed had six brothers in the same war. —lt costs the Lehigh Valley railroad com pany tete per day for hands employed In th• machine and repair shops at South Foster. —A eltizen of Phoenixville, M. John our, hen fallen heir to a nice little fortune of $l5O, 000 by the death of a relative in England. Lucky ChM —Mr. JIMIPH McClelland, former post master of Ptttehurg, who died In that city on Wed nendny, was a brother-In-law of lion. Janina all S. Black. —Rev Stephen Smith, a colored preacher of Columbia. Lancaster county, has built a OM 00) ilO,llO for aged and Indignant colored pea. phein Philadelphia —ln 'lndiana county, it man named Belmar, aged over ninety-nlno pmtp, Mel trod twenty our milt, the other day He en pecta to Hire several yearn longer —FI eery Michaele, the Cambria county eel er of weights and measures, ham been &mooted and held for trial for exacting Illegal Nos off a Johngtowner named Haneinger. —There have been more murdera,robberien, rapom and other crime, committed In POOl2- sylvointa and New York within the lasi We week*, than In •II the Hon thorn States. Why Ia not the cry of Ku-Klux raised here? —Samyel Wormeher, a soldier of the Wee of 1812, refildlng in Robeson township, Barks county, died on Saturday the 29th, aged N. He had been to Reading a short time previous ly, to draw his pension, inking his first Mir in a railroad car. —William Norton, a wealthy miser wad sixty years, of Hyde Park, died suddenly sit the breakfast table on Monday morning. With all his gold, ho would never allow a light in his house after sunset; but the miser has gone leaving behind all Me treaeure. --A man mimed Connor was killed In Allem 'own lent Thuredey night, at the saloon of John Fetter Rumor has It that Fetter threw him over the railing of the stoop at the entrance of the enloon, where he was found about midnight a ith hie neck broken. —'Leona Savage, Eng , of East Coventry township, Cheater et,unty, caught os. catfish. ~ s . Thursday the lltli Inst., to the Schuylkill. at Yankee dant, Ita . ll weighed four pounds. and measured 4j incline between the eyes. It was taken within hook and line. —on Saturday morning Mrs 0. FL Knight, of Reading, w hilo laboring under Intensity horn protracted tllnoee, ..hot mad killed her Mid boy, n child between three and four years o f ago. dadresama affair has created a melancholy lippromeion in the community. —A men named Monne/say, a boss on the Catawisas Estoniston, shove tills place, WAS brought bele,' A. Rankin, Erg.. on Monday of hest week, on charge of killing a deer out of tomato,. I t was a doe with (awn. Hennessy , was lined fifty dollars anti coat..—Monty Lase- MB —À man named Jordan rualdlng In Very. •ill, Jellernon county, ID a fit of Insanity mur tiered bin wife WI.III an axe, chopping her head nearly from her body and mutilating has many placen. ❑er body was covered with Pugs gavliem from head to foot. Ile was tad and Is now In Jail et Brookville. .--George Francis Train said In Memphis, the other day, that the killing of two men et Scranton, Pa, was disposed of in a dispatch of four lines, while the killing of a single man In Florida occupied tour columns in the Monty ern Radical papers. George Francis Isn't AS crazy on the Ku-Kit: z question as he is on some others. —The people of Monroe county are determ ined to not their doge upon the fellows whit drag their trout streams and carry home the fl.h by the barrel full, Instead of using the hook and line in a sportsmanlike manner. They nay that permienlon will be granted to all who 5.h decently but let net haulers look out for the dogs. —A gentleman named Isenburg, realding Franklin townellip, Huntingdon county, has • dog that hat learned to fish Ile goes along a race, from day to day, and catches splen did fish A few days ago (he race was drawls off and this annimal caught seventeen large fllsh which he delivered to Mr. Iseaburgal Children on the bank. Pea Is Couses..— We have received the catalogue of this institution for 1870 and 71. From this we learn that the present Weal undergraduates is 144, while there are 63 prep aratorlans, making a total 177 pupils. The art, nual commenemout Is held on the last Than. day of June, and the first term begins nine weeks later. The price of tuition for each term Is $l3, and this, with other necessary es pouse*, makes the total collegiate year coot • little over 1900. —The Penneylvsola Reserve Aasociatzloa„ celebrated their tenth annivereery at Pale. delphia on Tuesday loud. Gen. Meade prey's!- ed. The annual address was delivered by Gen. W. H. Ent, of Columbia county. Ex•Ooc. Cui:tiu was eleoled President for the ensuing year: Our gentlemanly Prothonotary, SAC. McGinnis, Eeq„ was elected one of the boar& of Directory and Capt. W. McClelland acre selected orator for the next re-union, which takes place at Williamsport next year. —A. Fellows, wife and four children, as their way from Nebraska to Scranton, between Waveily and Owego, when a man represent= ing himself as a merchant from Scranton, ea* es having freight on train, on whioh money wee required y inimedlately, offered a check kir Vl,soo—and only wanted two. Another mat came on the Scene, representing himself as freight agent; he must have money from tbok bogus merchant fofttiallet, Mr. Fellows pit. led him and lent him Sarton his check, whit(♦ was "bogus," and Ike swindler got off at Owego. IVhat is that Which must. play ketors t can work T A, Um engine.
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