Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, April 03, 1896, Image 1
nl a 6 es nn PEE PR ape BL See SE Er, rie ET AR OPT TT IRIE Aa $y pI ITI i des: AE. em Ink Slings. -—Spain wants allies now. What, to help | her whip Cuba ? —The CLEVELAND administration hasn’t been blamed with the recent advance in miner's wages. Strange, isn’t it ? —There is no doubt about this Congress being made up of seedlings, but we do hope it will fail in the reproduction of its kind. —Since QUAY is known as ‘‘the silent man’’ he is relieved of the embarrassment of explaining how it happened in Alle- cheny county. —The same Republican license law that does away with screens and free lunches in New York bars legalizes the sale of liquor to youths of 18 years. —The followers of Isaac WALTON will soon be convincing the public that they are not followers of GEORGE WASHINGTON. The trout season will open on the 15th., you know, and then the liars will have full sway. —Prince BISMARCK, ex-chancellor of Germany, was 81 years old on Wednesday. Though born on April 1st the German peo- ple long ago realized that he is not what might have been expected as an out-come of all-fool’s day. : —That Greensburg newspaper man who is lecturing on ‘‘the philosephy of love,” “must have a pretty good thing, for if any one ever has an opportunity to study love in all of its effervescing forms the news- paper writer is the man. . -—The NAPOLEON craze has all died out, leaving no trace of its popularity except the files of newspapers and magazines. Mec- KINLEY seems to have been the only per- son who has profited by it and he, only by its having furnished cartoonists a form to put his head on. —WILLIAM WANAMAKER, a brother of JOHN, has joined BALLINGTON BoOTH’S new Defender’s league. Piety seems to run in the WANAMAKER family, but we’ll bet WILL can’t raise as much for his De- fenders as JouN did, when he got up that $400,000 for the American protectors. —Politics and religion ought not to be mixed, but if we were to tell some of the schemes that were manipulated by politi- eians at the recent Methodist conference, at Williamsport, you would decide that the governors of the people and the governors of the church do mix things pretty well some times. — Because they threw diamonds at Lote i FULLER, the charming fire dancer, while | she was amusing foreign potentates she | thinks Americans don’t size up as they should. Now it matters very little to our people what La LoIk thinks of them, if she is gilly enough to imagine them throwing diamonds away. —The Standard oil company is going to make an attempt to tow an oil barge across the Atlantic ocean this spring. Of course | the success of the venture is problematical, | but there are those who are inclined to the belief that Pennsylvania has a Governor who would make a dandy skipper. He guided the pipe line all right. —The Tyrone Herald announces that ‘ ‘all persons having barrels belonging to the home mission band of the Presbyterian church are to leave them at the home of Miss BARR.” It is singular, but merely another instance of the everlasting fitness of things, that christian mission workers should have barrels that they take to al BARR, —General GRANT once said of a Union general that he was ‘bottled up’’ at a place in Virginia and now the New York Sun uses the same word to express general WEYLER’S predicament in Havana. If it be the fact that he is ‘bottled up’’ then he had better get away before the warm weather begins, else he and his campaign will both fizzle out. —Of all the idiocy we have heard of for some time, the Westfield Republican, exhib- its the most glaring example when it an- nounces that an abnormally large hen’s egg that was left at that office ‘‘will be put un- der a hen to see what is hatched out of it.” Now it is to be hoped that there isn’t a newspaper man in the country who would expect to see a hippopotamus come out of a chicken egg. : —In claiming that the people of Nova Scotia are more like their ‘‘cousins across the line’’ than they are like their kindred beyond the sea, the Halifax Herald enumer- ates many points of similarity in manners and customs, social political and ethical, that exist between Nova Scotians and us. The Herald does not forget to claim that their humor is characteristically American. That is to say they have some humor up there, for they don’t in England. —The question of military companies in- dependent of state or national direction should never be allowed to become a ques- tion at all. What does a free and liberty loving America want, or need, with bands of armed men organized at the instance of various civic societies. Such a condition would encourage dissension and jeopardize peace, and is really the beginning of so- cialism. If the American federation of States is to stand and American institutions to remain intact there can be no place for the military, but under the guidance of the government. A civic organization that wants to bear arms is a menace and seems to proclaim an anticipation of a time when arms will be needed. No, if the extremity of war should ever confront our people shere will be no trouble in getting soldiers. “4 er = \ % il BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 3, VOL. 41 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. NO. 14. An Old Offender. That old political sinner, JOHN SHER- MAN, is so far advanced in life that he ought to be fonsidering his latter end, and preparing for it, instead of increasing the measure of his iniquity with more political lying. No other term than this can be applied to the statement he made some days ago in speaking of President CLEVELAND'S finan- cial management. He said that ‘‘financial- ly his administration has been very dis- astrous ; expenses were paid out of receipts right along till he became President again, | and expenses have never been met since ; his fiscal measures have failed more and more with every opportunity to correct themselves.” Now the old hoary-headed Ohio prevari- cator knew well enough when he uttered this misstatement that the HARRISON ad- ministration was able to meet expenses be- cause the CLEVELAND administration had left a balance of over a hundred million dollars in the treasury ; yet notwithstand- ing this fund to start with, accumulation of four years of good fiscal management, af- fairs were so conducted by the HARRISON administration that at its close there was a deficiency of $69,923,651.17 in the federal revenues, as shown by the last annual state- ment of secretary FOSTER. Of so serious a nature was this pending deficiency that that officer had bonds prepared for the -is- suing of a loan to meet it, but at the last moment it was concluded that it would be better politics to unload this difficulty upon the incoming administration. As good a balance as possible was shown by resorting to a system of treasury bookkeeping that counted $56,000,000 of the bank note re- serve as an asset instead of a debt. In this way a loan was staved off. No person knows hetter than JOHN SHER- MAN that this miserable fiscal condition was dumped upon the CLEVELAND admin- istration, and that in addition to its heing loaded with this wreck, a Republican Con- gress has been doing all it can to increase ! its embarrassment. Speaker Reed in Trouble. Czar REED is likely to meet with op- position that will overthrow the despotic rule with which he has governed the House. There is threatened to be a combination of two thirds of the members against his autocratic determination to scale down ap- | propriations. It sounds strange to hear that the Czar is opposed to large appropriations. He won his greatest renown as a speaker when he presided over the billion dollar Congress, which allowed everything in the shape of an appropriation to go. No protest was put in by him against the most lavish expendi- tures, and in fact his willingness to go as far as any of them in wasting the public money was one of the secrets of his popu- larity with Republican Congressmen. What is now his object in wanting to scale down the appropriations, a movement on his part that is getting his former fol- lowers down on him? This question is answered by the fact that he is a candidate for President, and he wants to make a rec- ord for economy. For this reason he has made his rulings in a way that has inter- fered with appropriations, some of which are really necessary, and his control of the committees has enabled him to carry out this policy greatly to the disgust of many of the members. They fully understand that he is acting in this way not from a sincere disposition to be economical, but for an electioneering purpose, and it is said that the revolt will come about the time when the river and harbor and public build- ings appropriation bills come up for final consideration. Another Rotten-Borongh State. Preparations are being made for the ha- mission of another “‘rotten-borough’’ State into the Union to assist the representation of the Republican party in Congress. This time it is Arizona, which in the census of 1890 had but 59,620 inhabitants, including Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds. The total is now ‘‘claimed’” to be 80,000, which, if even it were correct, is about half the population that is fixed as the ratio for a representative. It is a population less than that of Scranton, or of” Reading, in this - State, but by admitting into the Union a territory that is so deficient in the constitutional requisites, two Senators, a representative and three votes in the efec- toral college will be gained for the Repub- lican party. oe : This would be but one of the outrages on the right of admission into the Union that have been perpetrated ior the benefit of that party. At least half a dozen of the recently admitted States were unqualified for admission, but they were run in to strengthen the hold of the Republican party on the United States Senate, and it is seen that this small number of rotten-horough concerns have more power in that body than great States like New York and Penn- sylvania, and can control or block the legis- lation of Congress. There is no form of violence to constitu- tional requirement that the Republican party is not ready to resort to for political advantage. | | | ban freedom. An Exhausting Conflict. Even if the United States government shall not recognize the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents it is probable that they will go on fighting until Spain shall be compelled to desist through sheer exhaus- tion. Taking this view of the contest there can scarcely be a doubt as to the final out come of the conflict. Spain is at best a bankrupt power and the knowledge that she is nearing the end of her resources greatly encourages the Cuban patriots to continue the struggle. The Spanish forces on the island are be- ing subjected to fearful loss, not so much by the ravage of battle as through the devas- tation of disease. The climate is the best ally of the revolutionists, against whose deadly effects the Spanish soldiers are de- fenceless. Diseases incident to the climate decimates the ranks of the Spanish army. Spain has lost 40,000 troops since the war began, a little over a year ago, and more than 75 per cent of this was due to disease. When it is considered that a hundred thou- sand soldiers are required to meet the desul- tory movements of the rebels, it being necessary to cover every assailable point on the island, an idea can be formed of the victims which this large force furnishes for the ravages of yellow fever and other tropi- cal diseases. > Such a drain upon her fighting material will soon exhaust the military strength of the Spanish government. Her financial re- sources are but limited and have been drawn largely from Cuba, which is now no longer a source of revenue to her on ac- count of its devastated condition. The in- surgents have adopted the policy of des- troying the products of the island in order to deprive their enemy of the advantage of Cuban revenue, which has been the main- stay of the Spanish treasury. With this source of income cut off and climatic dis- eases destroying more of Spain’s fighting force than are killed by the bullets of the enemy, there can be no other result of the conflict than Spanish exhaustion and Cu- The A. P. A. and the G. 0. P. The secret organization known as the A. P. A., will be a factor in the presidential contest and will make itself felt in the councils of the Republican party. Spring- ing into prominence since the last presiden- tial election, its proscriptive policy has not been objectionable to the Republican party, which has accepted it as a political ally and been benefited at the polls by its sneaking oath-bound methods. The recent sweeping Republican majorities were large- ly due to the vote contributed by this se- cret organization, it having the sudden ef- fect in politics that was produced by the Know Nothing movement at an earlier pe- riod of our political history. It would be morally impossible for such an organization to be allied with the Dem- ocratic party, and the advantage it gives to the opponents of Democracy can be but temporary. The character of its policy car- ries with it its own destruction. The A. P. A.’s will soon attempt to dominate the Republican party. The St. Louis conven- tion will be full of them, and they will make themselves felt in shaping its action. From a number of the States the dele- gates to that convention are members of this clandestine association and sworn to obey its mandates.” It is entirely natural that they should be for MCKINLEY, for so narrow-minded and proscriptive an organi- zation necessarily sympathizes with the narrow economic policy that would re- strict the commercial freedom of this coun- try. MCKINLEY will have the solid A. P. A. vote at St. Louis and that oath-bound fellowship is a power that will have to be taken into account by the Republican na- tional convention. The advantage of such an alliance has its drawbacks which the g. o. p. will discover before they are through with it. Charging Each Other With Corruption. It isn’t the corruption of the thing that the opposing Republican managers are ob- jecting to in regard to the use of money in securing the presidential nomination, but they are afraid that in this corrupt business one candidate may be more successful than the others. Thus it is seen that Mr. CHANDLER does not protest against the McKINLEY debauchery, on account of its demoralizing nature, but because it gives him an advantage over the others whose stock of boadle cannot compete with that of the tariff champion. - > To the charge made by his competitors that MCKINLEY is a boodler the reply is, “you're another.” The defence consists in a counter charge. OR, of Ohio, who is the chief promoter of the MCKINLEY boom at Washington, was highly delighted some days ago with the receipt of the following telegram from Chattanooga : ‘‘National committeman GEORGE W. HILL, of Tennessee, left for Washington this morning to dispose of his proxy to QUAY. He will accept money. Watch him.”” He showed this to prove that other candidates, besides the tariff Congressman GROSVEN- major, are using ‘money in the purchase of delegates. While this may be evidence that they all do it, it is only a fuller confirmation of the general corruption that prevails in the com- petition for the Republican nomination. The other candidates, however, can scarcely hope to compete with the corrup- tion fund which the wealthy tariff benefi- ciaries are contributing in the interest of the champion of protection, and which MARK HANNA is distributing where it will do the most good for the MCKINLEY boom. The Do-Nothing Congress. Speaker REED, with a political object in view, started this Congress with a do-noth- ing policy, but he may find that it will do a great deal, not only in interfering with his own nomination, but in bringing about the defeat of the candidate that may get the Republican presidential nomination. When the session opened, REED deliber- ately announced that but little more than the passage of the appropriation bills would be attended to. This announcement was made, not because there was no work that could be done with considerable advantage to:;the country, as was distinctly pointed out by the President at the beginning of the session, but the object of the do-nothing policy was to allow the situation to remain in the condition in which bad Republican legislation had put it, in order that it might be blamed on the Democratic admin- istration and used for political effect in the presidential campaign. The scheme has been worked for all it is worth. Absolutely nothing has been done. Three months have passed since the session opened and not a single act has been brought to completion. In response tothe Presi- dent’s request that a bill should be passed, that would avoid the necessity of frequent loans to maintain the gold reserve, a worth- less bond bill was concocted in the House and allowed to stick in the Senate where it is intended that it shall become defunct. Another response to the President’s request that the public credit should be protected, was the passage of a fraudulent revenue bill through the House under the pretense that it was intended to afford financial re- lief, when its real purpose was to restore MCKINLEY taxation upon a number of the most indispensable necessaries of life. This libgus revenue measure has also stuck fast in the Senate, where it will also be allowed to die. The Republicans purposely arrang- ed to give the control of the Senate to the Populists and Silverites, upon whom they intend to put the blame for the failure of these measures. The people are beginning to understand the object of this do-nothing policy. It has now continued for three months, and every hour it is prolonged will increase the popu- lar disgust with a party that is thus trifling with the most important public interests for political effect. Confederate Disability. Senator HILL got the old-time Republi- can bloody-shirt wavers on the hip when he sprung the confederate disability bill on them in the Senate in the midst of the Venezuela excitement. They were venti- lating their patriotism by defying the British lion when the Senator introduced the bill to remove the disabilities which, by a former statute, passed during the reconstiuction period, debarred ex-confederates from ser- vice either in the army or navy of the United States. As the Republican Senate were pretending to be spoiling for a fight with England it would not have looked well for it to refuse the assistance of such good fighting material as the ex-confederates had proven themselves to be, and so they repealed the foolish law that prohibited a class of American citizens from fighting for the old flag. : . Last week the bill removing this dis- ability, as passed by the Senate, was brought up in the House, and as a remarkable proof of how even this strong Republican Con- gress has become ashamed of the bloody shirt, its passage was practically unanimous, old BOUTELLE, the hard-shell Bourbon from Maine, being the solitary member that clung to the discarded and discredited gory garment. Well might he ask ‘‘where he was at,”” when he saw his associates, who had so long maintained their sectional katred, going back on the bloody shirt. It would appear from this incident that the Republican party will not resort in this ampaign to the sanguinary recollections do the civil war for its campaign material. They should have long ago been relegated fo the forgotten occurrences of the past, but the fire of sectional animosity was kept burn- ng for a political purpose. Since it can no longer be turned to political account it will 10 doubt be allowed to remain extinguished. The CURTIN monument seems, to have lapsed into a state of innocuous 'de- suetude. The project is not dead, by any means, but is merely biding a time when it san be pushed forward to an immediate sompletion. It is to be hoped that Belle- jonte wi'l not be as derelict in her duty to § distin, «ished son as New York has been in erecting her monument to GRANT. The broposition to have the G. A. R. take hold of the work will not be acted upon until hat body meets at Chambersburg for its pring encampment. Misguided Zeal. From the Walla Walla, Wash., Statesman. Posted on the telegraph poles and else- where about the city today is an inflamma- tory circular regarding the Marquette stat- ue placed in the capitol at Washington by the State of Wisconsin. It is wonderful how easy itis for a large class of people to excite themselves about nothing. Itis right and proper that the early explorers of this country or of any other country should be honored. There is just as good reason for objecting to the statue of Columbus, which may be found in every city in the country. Some time in the future, perhaps, the Congo Free State may honor Livingstone and Stanley in a similar way. 1 No one would object to a statue of the hero, Marcus Whitman, being placed in the capitol at Washington by this State, yet that great man was a sectarian. Washing- ton himself was a member of a sect, yet the man who would object toa statue of the Father of his Country would be thought disloyal. Have You Fondled It! From the Washington Star. ‘“We have done away with the two-mil- lion-dollar bundle of mony that we used to allow the brides who visited the vaults to handle, ’’ said a Treasury guide, ‘‘and they do not seem to be pleased with it. Ifany is the bride to who I have handed the bun- dle, marked ‘two million dollars,’ with the remark : ‘Now, you can say yor’: had two million dollars in your hands.’ It tickled them wonderfully, and they went away happy, but ignorant of what they handled. What was in the bundle? I don’t remember distinctly, but there was no money in it. The weight, I known, was made up of two old census reports. It served them as well as real money.” & Not Much Larger Than Centre County. From the New York World. The population of Arizona in 1890 was 59,620, including Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds. The total is now ‘‘claimed’’ to be 80,000. This is about half the popula- tion fixed as the ratio for a representative in Congress. And yet it is proposed to give this fraction of the congressional ‘ratio two Senators and a representative in Congress and three votes in the electoral college. It is a population less than that of Syracuse, and about equal to that of New Haven or Patterson. And yet it is proposed to endow it with Statehood—the equal in the Senate of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illi- nois. ‘ Their Frequency Looks Very Much Like Jobbery. From the Philadelphia Record. ? a The steamer Paris, of the International steamship company’s line, ran aground in New York harbor, yesterday, in the vicinity of the mud bank on which the steamship New York, of the same line, grounded a month ago, and under much the same condi- tions—a fog prevailing at the time, and the ship being in charge of a pilot. This latest mishap is unlikely to be attended with any damaging results to the vessel, and it may ‘‘blow some good”’ to New York if it shall result in’an adequate appropriation for the improvement of her channel, which certain- ly stands very much in need of betterment. How They Work. From the Westmoreland Democrat. It is charged that McKinley boomers sent a young lady to Senator Quay to apply for an open position as assistant to his private stenographer. The young lady was to act as a spy and make reports of Quay’s doings to the McKinleyites. Her purpose was dis- covered and she was not employed. That is the substance of a dispatch sent out from’ Washington. It is an open question as to whether the purpose is to disparage Mc- Kinley or give Quay’s presidential candi- dacy an air of importance. What Do You Expect, a Grand Piano ? From the Westfield Republican. Last week we noticed an egg brought here by Miss Pamelia Kessler that weigh- ed 4% ounces. That account did not half express its freakiness:. As the egg had been cracked, it was thought best to cook it, and when the outer shell was taken off an egg of ordinary size was found inside of it. To all appearances the ‘‘enclosure’’ was a perfect egg. It can be seen at this office. An attempt will be made to have a hen sit on the enclosed egg tosee what will be hatched from it. Where Silence Means Something. From the Doylestown Democrat. A cablegram, from Havana to the New York Journal brings the news that insur- gents attacked the town of Pinar del Rio, a place of 20,000 inhabitants, on Saturday, captured and burnt it. It is said the hot- test of the fighting was done by American artillerists who worked the Gatling and Hotchkiss guns. The attacking party num- bered 9,000 men and the garrison 4,000. The fact the Spaniards do not claim a vie- tory or anything like it is evidence success did not perch on their banners. He Has Nothing to Regret. From the Altoona Times. It is stated that Ambassador Bayard is tocome home on a visit. He will be in the country in a short time. ~The Tesidence of the ambassador in Wilmington has heen fitted up for his occupancy and will be soon ready for him. The situation shows con- clusively, therefore, that the ambassador will visit his native land, not intimidated by the censures that the house of represen- tatives has seen fit to pass upon him, and he will be welcomed in a joyful manner by the best portion of his countrymen. Philadelphians Bottle Theirs and Use it for Ink. From the Pittsburg Post Pittsburg hydrant water can soon be sold | by the cubic yard. —A pestiferous letter writer greatly an- noys Berks county officials. —Schuylkill’s judicial contest will cost tho taxpayers many thousand dollars. —Electricity may be substituted for steam in the Carnegie steel works, at Braddock. —There are 184,000 tons of coal at Hones- dale ready for canal shipment to seaboard. —A Pittsburg newspaper says the water as well as the air in the Smoky city is black. —Darius Schreffler, a Tamaqua grocer, committed suicide with a gun in an outhouse. —A fall caused Arthur Decker, a Strouds- burg boy, to bite off a portion of his tongue. —The water in the Susquehanna river at Wilkesbarre is 18 feet above low water mark. —A Reading newspaper says that muskrats arc eaten and greatly relished in Berks county. —As the result of burns received a week ago, Mahlone¢ Coller, of Pottstown, expired Sunday. —About 200 men and boys employed by the Eagle coal company, at Sugar Notch, are on a strike. —For winning a suit for Lancaster county, involving $175,000, two lawyers received a fee of $11,000 each. —Aged Mrs. Janet James was found dead in her chair at Towanda, having been asphyx- iated by coal gas. —Grip drove George Nusbaum, a Lehigh- ton insurance agent, insane, and he shot him- self to death Monday. —The coroner’s jury decided that an ex- plosion of gas and mine dust killed the 13 miners at DuBois last week. —Coal gas from the stove nearly suffocated Edward Bonsall, his wife and child at Brandamore, Chester county. —Charged with robbing the Elk club rooms at Altoona for a year past, janitor Wil- liam Burris was arrested on Monday. —A mad dog created a panic in the streets of Plymouth Tuesday, but was killed before it was known to have bitten anybody. —Work on the fine memorial gateway for Ario Pardee, at the entrance to the Lafayette college grounds, Easton, is under way. —The Williamsport express killed Theo- dore Deitrich and his horse at Deibler’s cross- ing, near Shamokin Tuesday afternoon. —W. H. Faulette is in Allentown jail, ac- cused of swindling George Seckendorf by telegraphing in the latter’s name for money. —Examinations will be held by the State Pharmaceutical examining board at Pitts- burg on April 15, and in Harrisburg on April 17. —City controller George has halted the paving of West Fourth street, Williamsport, because there is a deficiency in the appropria- tion. —Abraham Eckert, the Luzerne county murderer, who has been sentenced to be hanged on May 14, is suffering from append;- citis. —Two Bethlehem men fought about a newspaper worth one cent, and it cost them nearly $5, before they got out of the justice's office. : —The Pittsburg police have been notified that Frank Hean, a former iron worker of that place, committed suicide at St. Kild’s Australia. > —The board of public property at Harris- burg Tuesday issued to W. B. Stevens a war- rant for 40 acres of unclaimed land in Lacka- wanna county. —Cyrus E. Sandal was Tuesday taken from West Chester to Lancaster for trial on charges of numerous thefts in the vicinity of the Welsh mountains. —The premature explosion of a blast at Maple Hill mine, near Ashland, fatally in- Jjured Michael Toback and seriously injured John Runkel. —Frazer Watson, an 11 year old boy, who was missing from his home at Easton since last evening, was drowned in the Lehigh riv- er at this place. —Three Catawissa boys—Guy Rahn, Bert Hollingshead and Arthur Rahn, who started .on a tour of the world, were captured by the police in Wilkesbarre. —Deputy coroner Clemens, of Doylestown, has gone to Newtown to investigate the sus- picious death of George Ewen, who the phy- sicians believe was poisoned. —Many of the boys from the Carlisle In- dian school have left for their country homes for the summer season. The giris will leave April 2 for various farms throughout the State. *—Frank Shaffer, colored, one of the gang accused of the Mountain Cut Off murder, in October, 1894, was placed on trial in Wilkes- barre, the whole day being consumed in the selection of a jury. —Governoir Hastings on Tuesday, signed requisitions on the Governor of Indiana for Abe Lloyd, wanted for prize fighting in Law- rence county, and John Webster, for riot and aggravated assault in Beaver county. —Blair county Republican newspapers and leaders, since the recent primaries, advocate the passage of a law requiring candidates to publish at the close of every primary and general election a detailed statement of moneys expended. —At Williamsport shortly after midnight Tuesday, Leo. Frank, of Newberry, a brake- man on the P. and E. railroad, while assist- ing in making a flying switch, was knocked down and run over by about twenty cars. He was frightfully mangled. Deceased was 22 years old. : —The largest walnut tree cver hewn in Pike county was cut down recently near Mil- ford by William Angle, of Washington, N. J. for gunstocks for the United States Govern- ment. The first sixteen feet will make 2000 feet of lumber and will furnish enough gun- stocks to supply a regiment. —The First Defenders have completed ar- rangements at Reading for their journey over the route which they followed from Pennsylvania to Washington, April 15-16, 1861, when they were the first troops from the North to reach Washington under Presi- dent Lincoln’s call. The Defenders repre- sented two companies in Pottsville and one each in Allentown, Lewistown and Reading, and at the time of their departure for war, numbered 530. To-day there are 127 surviv- ors, and it is expected but 75 of these will be able to make the trip. En wi pr