BELLEFONTE REPIELICIN.
W. W. BROWN,
A. B. HUTCHISON . , f
Terms, $2 per Annum, in Advance.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 15, '69.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
POR GOVERNMt,
dren. Jno. W. Geary,
Cumberlaud Counts
FOIL SLPRENE JUDGE ;
lien'y W. Williams,
Allegheny County
COUNTY TICKET.
FOB. ASSEMBLY,
JAMBS P. COBURN, of Haines
FOR SHERIFF,
JEREMIAH B. BUTTS, of Bellefonte
FOR TREASURER,
H. P. CADWALLADER, of Potter
FOR PROTHONOTARY,
SAMUEL L. BARR, of Bellefonte,
FOR REGISTER AND CLERK,
WILLIAM CURTIN, of Boggs
FOR RECORDER,
DANIEL H. ROTE, of Haines
FOR COMMISSIONER,
LEWIS HESS, of Rueb
TOR AUDITOR,
ENJAAIIN F. LIGGETT, of Liberty
FOR CORONER,
Dr. WILLIAM F. REIBER, of Ferguson
ADVERTISING. - The BELLEFONTE
REPIMLICAN 7 tas a larger circulation
than any other Republican paper pub
lished in the county. Our merchants
and business men will please make a
nate of this.
REPUBLICANS, TAIL NOTICE.—The
Chairman of the County Committee
suggests that the Republican voters
of the several election districts in this
county meet on Saturday the 25th
inst., at such places as may be fixed
on by their• respective Vigilance Corn.
mittees, for the purpose of nomina
ting candidates for the various town
ship and borough offices. All borough,
municipal and township offices, ( ex
cept the assessors,) must be voted
for at the coming October election.
Remember this, Republicans. Nomi
nate good men and elect them.
To What Dire Straits--The Twitch
ell Letter--Meek, Burns, &c.
The peculiarities of politicians,when
defined and fixed by local reputation
and status, very accurately describe
the will and intent of the political or
ganization of which they may be"burn
ing lights," or, leastwise, representa
five members. The internal workings
a the lowest hell where Gambrinus
reigns and stenches in eternal dark
ness, has its correspondingly degraded
Tepresentatives upon the outer walls
to seduce and inveigle within creatures
alike lost to sense and shame. But
there are gradations in degradation
and it; surroundings in ceme, as with
in the realms of respectable and edu.
eated society. The laws and applian.
ces usual and applicable to the one, are
in no case permissable in the other.
The carpeted, perfumed, blazoned and
entrancing surroundings of the higher
resorts of the fashionably wicked, have
little, in common, that would mark
them as being a thousand-fold worse
than their less pretentious, and, really,
less injurious confreres. To illustrate.
The lesser lights of Democratic jour
nalism— permitted, in the all-powerful
kindness of a forgiving Providence, to
encumber His footstool, wherever their
own cupidity, or the ignorance of de
luded men suggests the existence of
"rations"—with an air of respectable
mendicancy do attempt a logical sup
port of Mr. Packer, and their local
tickets. They attempt argument, how
ever sorry the fitilure, and like shiver •
ing outcasts of better times, not whol
ly.given over to the degradation of
common beggars, endeavor to keep
their faces clean, although their pock
ets be empty. While they are sinners,
there is hope of their salvation, while
they are villains, they are "little vil
lains," and while they are liars, their
needs and their ignorance break—in
sympathy, break—the effect of that
just and righteous condemnation all
good and respectable people are dis
posed to heap upon them. Of this
type of Democratic journalists, Fred.
-Kurtz, Esq., of the Centre Hall Re
porter, furnishes a striking and perfect
illustration.
The higher class of Packer's sup
porters in the field of journalism, are a
radically different set of fellows. They
are better educated: better dressed;
own blooded horses; dabble in stock;
build brick fronts; encompass twenty
cent drinks, and live on the good
thinss of earth, They manipulate the
campaign fund; go to Harrisburg;
build itp.• or. tear down whom they
please; give the' ne to their gullible
fblloWers, and reign the King Hornet
_of thoharem. An unusually apt il
initiation of this type of Packer'sjour
nalistic supporters is furnished in the
person of Hon. P. Gray Meek, of the
Bellefonte Watchman. The sugges
tive lesson taught Mr. Meck by the
. late:OenocratiC county convention, we
have already sufficiently explained.—
But in gaining the information, par-
AdOxical as it may appear, Mr. Meek
found himself - immensely distanced by
;lass pretentious crafts. or that he had
j)eett squarely `:, , et back" a very long
ay. That he had lost, none knew
-.better than Mr. Meek. Thathe must
. regain the ground., be was alike aware
s desirous. How did lie attempt to
accomplish this? No ordinary hand
yc rile win, and the yerfearatuop
ances of argument, persuasion and
facts, would be ineffectual. In his des
peration he applied to his adviser and
court friend, Hon. James Burns.—
That astute politician and intriguer,
suggested the course, and it was adopt
ed by Meek. Burns knew the mur
derer, Twitchell, and, while in conver
sation with the confined assassin had,
doubtless, been made the confident of
I his desires and hopes. Twitchell had
suggested that, in case of either his ac
quittal, or escape, he would go to the
territories and build up again under an
assumed name. Burns told this to
Meek, and suggested the letter. He
could write the letter, and Mr. Meek,
could make the appropriate sensation
al comments. It was done. And it
was overdone. It was premature.—
Mr. Meek confidently believed that he
had escaped from the woods, regained
his lost ground, was entitled to the
everlasting gratitude of Mr. Packer,
and that his puerile abortion would be
greedily clasped by every Democratic
Editor in the Commonwealth, to be,
with heavy head lines, served up to
their astounded and insulted readers.
Nothing of the kind resulted. After
the first spasm of surprise had passed,
and the common sense of things tip ,
peared, a sense of shame and indigna
tion asserted itself, and the author,
with his abortive spawn, were most
inhumanly pelted and plastered with
curses and maledictions, ad libitum.
But two papers in the State had the
temerity or hardihood to copy it—the
leading Democratic journals not so
much as giving either author or child
a soothing line of comment. While it
has fallen, like a wet blanket, upon
those immediately connected with its
authorship, upon none has its . damag
ing effects reacted more seriously than
upon Gen. Peter Lyle, Democratic
Sheriff of Philadelphia, into whose
keeping Twitchell was confided. Upon
that officer, rather than upon the Re
publican party, devolves the refutation
of this foul slander. The Watchman
has deliberately forged the chain, and
welded it about the neck of Gen, Lyle,
which that officer must unloose, or sink
under its weight. The matter rests
entirely between Mr. Meek his vic
tim and co-laborer, General Peter
Lyle. How they settle it, is, as Toots
would put it, "of no consequence."—
That it was as futile and senseless a
canard as was ever manufactured by
the veriest partizan in the country, ev
ery thinking man of either party under
whose eye the calumny has fallen, has
already settled to his own satisfitetion.
Mr. Meek can now go back to his
place in the rank where Fred. Kurtz
and the Ring placed him, and from
which the almighty ingenuity of Mr.
Burns, and the shameless impudence
and venality of Meek were alike pow
erless to advance Min. Itis but a step
from fame to infilmv.
ICDITORS
Political Murder
The Democratic Party Responsible for
the Avondale Slaughter— A Diabol
ical Record.
We can remember when the Demo
cratic party was an honorable, goner,
ous and ehiValrous opponent. When
statesmen and patriots counseled, and
Thugs, murderers,. and assassins - had
no voice in the guidance of local, State
or National affairs. Its leaders were
not pot-house pigmas, but men emi
nent for their breadth of thought,gen ,
erosity and chivalric bearing. Organ
ized force to overawe and defeat the
will of the people was not the lever
employed to secure political prefer
ment in those days. Argument and
appeal then, supplied the place of bul
lets, clubs, Thugs and assassins, now.
Order and . peace then, the place of
riot, rapine and turbulence now. It is
safe to assert that the Democratic par
ty, since the bloody days of the Kan
sas atrocities, has been a party of ra
pine, murder and cold-blooded asassi
nation. Its leader have counseled it—
and its money has been expended in
organizing and maintaining armed bod
ies of bruisers, assassins and murder
ers. The sickening atrocities—the
damning record of the Kansas troubles
will never be half told. The victims
of Democratic devilishness in those
fearful days, have never been all coun
ted but by Him before whom they
were summoned while hewing out the
rafters of a free and glorious State.
The horrors of the South during the
late rebellion followed as naturally as
that the rain should descend. The
spirit was there,and the incarnate dev
ils like Forrest, Morgan, Wirz, Tay
lor and Winder, displayed it as they
slaughtered prisoners on the Opelou
sas railroad, massacred the helpless
sick in hospitals at Homer ; murdered
and quartered at Fort Pillow,and shot,
starved and assassinated at Anderson
ville, Belle Island and Libby prison.—
The record of the party has been no
better since the rebellion was crushed. -
Throughout the length and breadth of
the South hai the ciy of murdered
freemen gone up amid scenes of mur
der and conflagration. The bloody
deeds of rebel Democratic Texans—of
organized and armed bands of Ku-
Kluxes, and cold-blooded assassination
of peaceable men, women and children
for none other than opinions sake, are
all too familiar for record here. The
damning story . of. murdered colored
men, and destruction of Orphan Asy
lums by lawless, infuriated and mur
derous Democratic Demons in N. York
city, we need not repeat here. It is
but another chapter in the accursed
record of the party of murder.
The past ten days have furnished us
with two additional chapters in this in ,
famous record. In the city of Phila
delphia, a prominent Democratic Al
derman while in the discharge of his
official duties, takes occasion to warn
his Republicat aSsociittes that in case
the Beg-istiy act is enforced in his
ward, there would be " four thousand
Melt let loose and there would be mur
der committed." He declared that
there should be club-law on the day of
election and he meant it. • More than
this. The man who claims the honor
(?) of securing the nomination of Mr.
Packer, publicly asserted in a leading
Philadelphia hotel; that before Gen.
Geary should be permitted to be re-in
audurated "there would be murder."
Brick Pomeroy told his minions to
take the life of a President, and he fell
by the hand of a Democratic assassin.
But the most sickening, atrocious,
and damnable record of this party of
blood, we find told in the horrible
scenes at Avondale—in the terrible and
heart-rending holocaust within the si
lent walls of that doomed mine, and
amid the cries of lamentation and des
pair of six handed strick' n widows and
beggared orphans. One hundred and
eight brave, devoted, toiling husbands,
fathers and sons sacrificed at one fell
swoop through the malignity and po
litical chicanery of the Democraticpar
ty! I !
the last Legislature had before it a
bill for the better protection of the
lives and persons of miners— -providing
for additional guarantees of safety by
compelling mining companies to fur
nish better ventilation and safety from
explosions, fire-damps, etc. The bill
provided for the appointment of an
overseer, or superintendent, whose
duty it Tfould be to examine, thor—
ougly, the condition of these mines,
and devise the best means for ventila
tion and safety. To their shame, be it
said, some half dozen Republicans vo
ted against the bill. With these ex—
ceptions the•entire Republican party in
the House voted for it. How stands
the Democratic record? With scarce
au exception the entire party voted
against it. The party press fought it—
the members argued against it, and the
Democratic party defeated it.
he vote of Democratic legislators,
impelled by party malignity, encom—
passed the fearful, agonizing death of
108 toiling fathers and sons in that
fearful mine ! ! !
Is the party content? Has the spir
it of Murder been satiated ? Or are
there other and more diabolical
schemes of murder concocting? It does
seem that the hopeless, tearful and
stricken faces of the bereaved at Av
ondale—their agonizing supplications
for the voices of their loved dead no
more to cheer them with their tender
and lovhig accents—the prayers and
moanings of bereaved and desolate or
phans—orphaned by the party of blood
—should satisfy leaders of the Democ
racy for the nonce. We ask, in the
name of God and Mercy, if the people
of this State are going to place this
party—this creature of insubordina—`
tion, rapine, violence and blood, in
power in this Commonwealth ? We
have faith that the bottom.heart man
hood, integrity and christianized sym
pathies of the people of the Keystone
State will never consent to so fearful
and suicidal a step.
Know Him
We append the following genial no
tice of our distinguished townsmen,
Hon. P. G. Meek, which we clip from
the Harrisburg Telegraph. Mr. Meek
resided at Harrisburg two winters. If
he could win the complimentary notice
given, in two years, what may we not
have expected hadn't Kurtz and the
Ring defeated him at the County Con.
volition ? The Telegraph writer in
speaking of Meek in connection with
the Twitchell canard, says :
"We may simply remark, however,
that Meek's story about Twitchell be
ing alive is a creation of his own., and
that it is as vile, filthy, abominable,
unscrupulous, unmitigated, malicious
a❑d damnable a LIE as was ever con
ceived by the most despicable scoun
drel on earth. Its author would rob a
henroost, steal a sheep, gamble upon
his father's coffin, or dig into his dead
mother's grave to steal her winding
sheet!"
ANOTHER PECULIARITY.-It is not
surprising that a man who becomes so
inflated with pride and self-conceit as
to cause him to change his name from
plain Moyer to Meyer, should be at all
scrupulous in his dealings with his
own kindred. We dare and defy J.
Moyer, alias Meyer, to deny that be FO
misrepresented the status of the Att._
ronsburg oil company as to inveigle his
own brother into an investment of $BOO.
That said investment beggared his
brother, and reduced him to actual
need for the necessaries of life ! That
said brother,owing to said investment,
and the loss entailed upon him by the
misrepresentations of his brother, J
G. Moyer, alias Meyer, is to-day in
indigent circumstances.
Xe - If Jacob G. Moyer, while Pres
ident of the Board of school directors
of Haipes . tp., could, by virtue of his
position,appropriate $3OO of the town
ship money for the purpose of secur
ing a substitute, for himself, whatmay
not be expected of him in other and
more important positions of trust and
honor? A good many poor Demo -
crats will agree with us that it is a good
thing to have the handling of town
ship money during draft times.
Wa...The Watchman has a sensation
over a 15 ft. black snake in Penn tp.
We learn that the report is coiTect, ex
cepting that the animal was but 5 ft.
long, and was of the genus copper—
head. There will be a good many of
them crawling about the country until
October 12th, when it is confidently
predicted they will burrow up until
thawed out by the golden rays of some
other aristocratic millionaire like Asa
Packer.
Some valuable and interesting mat
ter crowdei out. Will appear again.
The Registry Law.
The amendments and improvements
in our election laws made by our last
Legislature, and known as the Registry
Law, are such as to command the ap
proval of all good citizens. They.are
not such as to give unusual trouble to the
legal voters, as has been asserted, and
not such as to fail to prevent, unless in
cases of 'wholesale and tolerably careful
perjury, the voting of men who are not
legally qualified to vote.
In the regulations of the law as to the
registry of men who are not permanent
ly located, roaming single men, and that
class who are never long in a place, and
from which class of voters, legal and il
legal, our districts are so often carried
by colonization, it is true that they are
subjected to some restrictions to prevent
this great mass of illegal voting which
we have had heretofore.
In the matter of naturalized citizens,
the law reduces, from ten years to five,
the time of voting consecutively at one
election place before ceasing to require
the production, if called for, of natural
ization certificates. Every voter should,
however, see the Assessor, and see if
his name is on the list.
Our vigilence committees must begin,
also, to examine the books, and see if
names are there that should not be. An
examination of the Records of Naturali
zation in the Common Pleas Court of
Centre county reveals some very curious
things. Men who have been legally and
honestly naturalized, as . citizens, have
their records obliterated, and made to
appear as though they had simply filed
their declaration of intention. Men who
have filed declarations, and all who have
been naturalized since last election, or
the Nov. Term, 1868, are not on the Re.
cord at all; and, in one case, no record
of a declaration, two years old, could be
found, nor the papers either.
The Record of August Term,, 1868,
chows the naturalization of seventy-one
men; but of the seventy-one, only thirty
one papers are found on file. Where are
the forty? And who are the men?
The filing of a declaration of intention
to become a citizen, by one foreign-born,
involves an oath abjuring all allegiance
to any foreign State or Prince, which
paper should he filed in the office,'
In Centre county, since last August,.
including that Term, thirty-four, there
cord says, have filed their declaration
of intention to be naturalized. In the
office are found only eleven declarations
with the oath abjuring all foreign alle
giance, and one of them, at least, not
signed. There are seven whose recoru
is not dated at all, nor does it say they
ever were sworn, or their papers filed.—
There are papers on file, dived- since
1868, August Term, but no record, of
any kind, since that time, appears. to
have teen kept,
Let one of these men lose his certifi
cate, and apply to this Court for ti. copy
of record, and behold he has no evidence
of his naturalization at all, and must go
through it. all again. The Itedord's of
our Court arc not- true, yet we are not
allowed to couiradict
There is no naturalizai ion liecoNl since
August Term, 1868, unless the Seven de-
clarations not dated, have been: made
since. As these decimations must be
made two years before naturalization, it
is a most important matter to the ' men,
that the date of declaration should be
shown on the record
Our Pt othcnotary has clone neither;
and, strange a 3 it may seem,- ueaily all
the discrepancies are in the cases:Of Re
publicans, or men that nobody everleard
of. If the forty names, whose papers
are not on fi'e, did receive certificates,
they were ci her false names, or illegal
ly issued. If the dozen, or more, whose
declarations were said to be filc;il, did
file them, they cannot now prove it. If
they did not, just so many more friaudu
lent first papers have gone out Of our
Court to assist in so many false naturali
zations.
Can any thing metre be said to show
the absolute necessity of a new law on
naturalizations? Can a better argument
for our Registry Law be found than the
Record of our own Court on this ques
tion, as kept by a Democratic Prothonota
ry?
We do not mean to interfere with the
rights of our foreign-born citizens; but
we object- to them votes, and ours, being
met by those of men who have no legal
right to vote.
We want the Record of the naturaliza
tions to be true, that honest men may be
protected in their rights. When a man
files his declaration of intention to be
come a citizen, we want to see on file
the oath renouncing his allegiance to his
foreign Prince.
If American citizenship is worth any
thing, it is worth getting. It ought not
be peddled as a bribe for votes by politi
cal committees. It is the glory of Re
publicans, that we need not do that, and
yet we get now a fair share of the legal
foreign-born voters. We only ask -for
laws, and courts, and public officers
which will naturalize, and put on the
Registry, those who are entitled, to be
there, and keep off those who are not,
whose records will do Justice to one, and
to all the rest, and, moreover, be true.
Jas. IL Lipton may not have equa' - •
J. Ross Snowdon, or the Luzerne co: .
Prothonotary, but an examination of his
records shows his qualifications as a dis
ciple in that way of making Democratic
votes. As Moran has been chief of the
committee of Democrats who got these
things done; end, as it may be, he im
posed 'on the gooc nature of Jas. H., is
it not well to inquire what we might ex
pect, should he be elected Prothonotary ?
All we ask, then, is, that our vigilance
committees see how many of the Seven
ty-one names alleged to be naturalized
are on our Registry, and whether those
found there have ever filed their peti
tions, or taken the oath.
If the Court in Centre is not oven with
Luzerne, it looks now as though it was
only for want of material. Our Repub
lican friends of foreign birth should look
carefully to their papers, also, as their
records aro systematically mutilated by
Democratic officials where they Ire iq
power. Take good care of your certifi
cat es.
We offer no bribes for your votes
Citizenship is free to all who care to gain
it. We offer you a chance to aid us in
preserving, in this country, the freedom
unknown in any other, by voting with
the party of liberty, progress and right.
We do not fear you will be frightened
away by the stale cry of Know-nothing,
now so common in the mouths of those
Democrats who were most active in that
order.
Daniel W. Woodring
The gentleman whose name heads
this article, was nominated by the
Court House Ring as the Democratic
candidate for High Sheriff of Centre
county. That his nomination was the
work of the Ring, no honest man can
deny. That he was not the choice of
the Democratic masses is a fact as
patent to them as that two and two
make four. The Bellefonte Clique,
the better to serve their own elfish
purposes, foisted him upon the peo
ple, over the heads of truer men, bet
ter Democrats, ant more competent
and worthy aspirants. Men who have
worked in the Democratic harness
since the.. time they east their first
vote.to the present—whose boast and
pride have always been that they nev
er scratched the ticket, were ostracis
ed, betrayed and cheated by the Ring
managers to make room for Wood
ring, who, to say the least of it, is
very young in the Democratic faith.
In placing Mr. Woodring upon the
ticket it was thought they would se
cure a large portion of the soldier
vote ; but in this they will be !nista,
ken. The soldiers of Centre county
are intelligent—true men. Taken as
a class, they constitute the best and
truest portion of our citizens. They
were loyal men. Ninety-nine out of
every hundred of them vote as they
shot. Occasionally we find a soldier,
with a good record, in the Democrat
ic party, but they are like angel's vis
its, few and far between. How any
true soldier can be a Democrat, has,
since the close of the .war, been a
mystery to us. How can a man lose
a limb fighting for his country—the
old flag— the Union and the Consti
tution, and afterwards turn his back
upon the cause for which he fought,
his comrades, his old friendS, liberty
and right? . This Mr. Woodring has
done. He has leagued himself, for the
sake of office, with those men who,
While he was fighting the glorious bat
tle in which I'e lost his arm, were in
sympathy with the very rebel -who
fired the bullet which made illr.
Woodring.a cripple for life. Soldiers
of Centre'county,docs he deserve your
sympathies—your votes?
For the last three years the Repnb
' lican party of this county, placed in
nomination for every county office,
true and tried soldiers, and . in many
instances wounded soldicrs. is a
notorious fact that Daniel W. Wood
ring—himself a wounded soldier—re
fuSed to vote (1)r any, or either of
them. He voted in 1866, tor Meister
Clymer, a peace Democrat, aye, a
heartless rebel sympathiser, in pref
erende to Gen. John W. Geary, that
pure man, and brave and efficient sol
dier. Lieut. Harvey H. Benner,Maj.
R, C. Chtesirrin and Richard 3.liles,
wh". run upon the Republican ticket
three years ago, could not arouse the
sympathies of Mr. Woodring suffi—
ciently to induce him to vote for them
or either of them. " Last fall the Re—
publicans nominated Gen. Theodore
Gregg. that faithful soldier of three
wars,as their candidate for Assembly,
in opposition to P. G. Meek. Mr.
'Woodring refused to vote for Gen.
Gregg, and absolutely did vote for P.
G. Meek, who was as mean a rebel
as Vallandigham, and who had writ
ten Mi. Noodling down, as he did
all other Union soldiers,a 'cut throat,'
a "murderer," and a Lincoln hire.
ling:"
For these, and many other reasons.
which we might, and no doubt will
give before the election, no Union
soldier or true Republican should cast
a vote in favor of Daniel W. Wood—
ring. How can peace Democrats, or
those men who were opposed to the
war, vote for Mr. Woodring? Tkis
question we will elaborate next week.
Death of Rawlins and Fessenden
Surely death loves a shining mark.
The electric park had scarce announ
ced the awful doom . of the one hun—
dred and eight miners at Avondale,
ere the country was shocked and sad—
dened at the announcement of the
death at 4:12, p. m., Monday, Sept.
6th, of Major General John A. Raw
lins, Seet'y of War. A truer friend,
tried patriot, or braver type of God's
manhood, the shifting, wondrous
scenes of the past eight momentuous
years have not provided.
It is bard to believe that Rawlins
is no more. The poignant grief of
friends is but little deeper than that
of the Nation. He belonged to both,
and by both will his memory and
deeds be sacredly and for all time in
heart. Maj. Gen. Shermen has been
appointed Secretary of 'War ad in.ter-1
In the death or Wm. Pitt Fessen
den, at Portland, Me., on Wednes
day, Sept. 9th, the. Nation has sus
tained no common, loss. A prominent
and leading member of the United
States Senate Senator Fessenden has
been prominently identified with the
record of that body. He was a man
of great resources and attainments,
and his demise has created a void
difficult to fill.
XlErif the nomination of Asa Pack
er is Sufficient to raise the price ofcoal
$2 per ton, our laboring men who are
paying Asa Packer's taxes, would like
to know how high a:figurp it will reach
if he is•clecteti ? .
The Slaughter at Avofidale;
One _Hundred and Eight Victims—
List of the Dead.
Through other sources, our readers
have 'doubtless, ere this, been made
acquainted with the terrible fatality
at Avondale, whereby one hundred
and eight miners lost their lives. The
details of this horrible calamity are
too lengthy for our columns and too
sickening for perusal. We, therefore,
give but the digest, which, however,
expresses all that is really desirable.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 6,—A fire broke
out this morning in a flue in the bot 7
tom of the Steuben shaft, owned by
the Delaware, LackaWanna and Wes
tern Railroad Company, in this place,
and in a short time the whole breaker
and out-buildings were in flames, and
the hoisting apparatus, the only av
enue of escape for theminers,destroy
ed. All efforts to stay the flames
were in,vain. and the whole structure
fell, partly filling up the shalt.
Miners from all parts of the country
are there at work, and merchants.
and, in fact, the whole population of
the town, have turned out to assist.—
The loss by fire will amount to about
$lOO,OOO, which is partly covered by
insurance.
All the physicians in the vicinity have
been summoned to attend when the
condition of the men is ascertained.—
The affair has cast a gloom upon the
whole community, and business is al
most entirely suspended. The mines
only resumed work to day after a sus
pension of about three months.—
Among the men in the mine is
.Mr.
Hughes, superintendent.
SCRANTON, Sept. 6.—The fire be
gan at ten o'clock this morning. All
experts agreed that it must have
from the ventilating fur
nace to the wood work at the bottom
of the shaft, which is three hundred
and twenty seven feet below the sur
face. The flames rushed with great
violence up the shaft and brake out
in the engine room at the top. The
engineer barely escaped with his life.
SCRANTON, Sept. 7.—The unparal
leled mining disaster is the universal
subject of interest here. While the
whole community is thrilled with hor
ror the mining pppulation is more
deeply and painfully touched than
any other class. All work is suspen
ded in the mines in this vicinity, and
nearly the whole force of miners have
gone to Avondale to remain until
their brethren are brought out dead
or alive. A special train is run down
from here hourly. No fare is char
ged those going to Avondale. Thous
ands have gone from this direction
alone, and the whole country is arous
ed and flocking to the scene of the
disaster, In the fourth, fifth, and
sixth, or "Hyde Park" Wards of this
city the streets are thronged with
women, the relatives and friends of
the men in the Avondale pit, eagerly
beseeching every person arriving From
below for information, and their la.
mentations fill the air. Mining can
not be resumed at any of the works
of the Delaware. Lackawanna, and
Western Railroad Company 1)1.01-ddy
within a week, or at least until all the
funerals of the Avondale dead are
over. The fact
,of the long and severe
strike, just ended, adds greatly.to the
destitution which will follow the cal
amity. The widows and orphans will
number not less than 600.
. SCRANTON, Sept. S.—At 5,15 A.M.
a party went down and remained thin•
ty , tive minutes. They discovered a
dinner-can and cups. At 6.30 A.M.
another party remained down thirty
minutes, and discovered a whole com
pany of miners, dead, on the east side
of the planes. Preparations are ma
king to send down six gangs of four
men cacti, and the bodies will be
brought out as rapidly as possible.—
The foul air does nut interfere to any
great extent.
7,30 A.M.—One of the gangs has
just returned, and report that they
went up the plane, just beyond which
a barrier was met. consisting of a car
packed at cund with coal and cloth
ing. 'This was cleared away, and
proceeding a little further, another
barrier was met., nearly completed,
and construc'ed as the first. One
man was found upon the outside, where
be had been at. work laying up the
wall. It was completed, except a
small aperture just sufficient to admit
the passage of a human body-, and it
is inferred he had just finished his
task and was preparing to join
his companions on the opposite side
by crawling back. This barrier was
removed, when thc whole force of
miners were found congregated and
piled one upon another, dead.
Active preparations are making for
the immediate removal of the bodies,
which work will consume the greater
part of the day, owing to lack offacil
ities for hoisting. The condition of
the mine is improving.
7.15 P.M—The work of bringing the
dead bodies to the surface proceed
ed steadily, and sixty have now been
raised. Their funerals will be held
to-morrow from Avondale.
The following relief subscriptions
have been received : Five thousand
dollars from the New York Board of
Brokers, twenty-five hundred dollars
from Hon. Asa Packer, and five hun
dred dollars from Governor Geary.—
At eight' o'clock sixty-six bodies had
been raised. Acting Coroner Wad
hams will take testimony as to the
cause of the disaster at 2P. M. on
Saturday at Plymouth.
9 P.M.—All of the 63 bodies first
found together are up. A doctor has
been called for to attend the men
about to go into parts of the mine yet
unexplored, in search of men yet un
accounted for, but there is no re
sponse from the doctors. There is a
terrible outbreak of grief at this time
from women in the nearest miner's
house.
Heaps of coal in the shute and
screens are blazing. To-night the line
of fire extends from the railroad track
to 150 feet up the hill.
9.30 P.M.—Six bodies have been
found together in one chamber,
making 72 in all.
SCRANTON, Sept. O.—A careful es
timate of the number of persons in
the Avondale mine has been made,
and it is not thought that there were
over one hundred and fifty at the out
side, instead of two hundred, as first
reported. At the latest accounts,
ninety bodies had been recovered.
Up to 9.47 last night, seventy-five
bodies, all that could be then found,
had been brought out.
At 10.30 P. N., a party returned,
after exploring five breasts, and find—
ing nothing.
11.20 P. M.—.A.party just up reports
two more bodies found.
12 Midnight.—Thirteen more bodies
found.
12,45 A.M.--another lot of bodies,
not yet counted, have been found.
The air is still so bad as to prevent
more than a few minutes stay in
the mine.
1.30 A.M.—Eighty-two bodies are
now up, and eight more have beer(
found,
2.30 P. M.—Thomas Carson, of
Hampton Mine, and George Morgan,
of Nanticoke, experienced and com
petent miners, with twenty men have
explored every part of the works,
and are satisfied that all the bodies
have been recovered, but outside
parties say two men are still missing.
108 bodies have now been taken out.
No doubt all the bodies are up, as
thorough explorations of the mine re
veal no more. and 108 represents the
total loss of life. There are 59 widows
and 109 orphans made by this disast
er. Numbers of the men had children
living in the old country. and the des
titution is great and requires immedi
ate relief: The srike of three and a
half months had reduced all the fam
ilies to the verge of starvation,and the
men not being at work long enough
to receive any pay, there was never a
case that appealed more strongly to
the charitable. The funerals have been
going on all day.
The following is a full list of the dead :
William Allen, Reese Landry,
Nadson Allebach, Win. Lewis,
Thos. Le wellyn,
Thos. Al orris,
John Bowen,
Win. Bowen,
Elijah Bryant, WV, T. Morgan,
John Burtch, Pat. McGurick,
Jno. Burtch, Jr, Sain'l. T Morgan,
Patrick Burke, Joseph Hurray,
Peter Conlin, S. It.. Morgan,
John Clark, Jas. Mallon,
Wm Dick ; Jacob Mosher,
Juo. R. Davis, Henry Norris,
Thos. Davis, John Necker,
Win Dowdla, William Nose,
Michael Daly, E•l. Owen,
Wm D iv's,
Wm. Powell,
John Davis, Wm Phillips,
Lewis Davis, Wm. Porfet,
Wm. Evans, 1-t, Jas. Phillips,
AL E. Edwards, D. P. Pryor,
W. J. Evans. Thos. Philips,
Ed. W. Ed wardq, John P. well,
Wm. Evens, 2d, Jas. P,3well,
Wm Evans. 3•l, Thos. Roberts,
W. R. Evens, Ist, Wm. Reese,
John D Evans. David S. Reese,
Wtn, R. Evans 2.1, David Reese,
Danl. Edwards, Griffith Roberts,
A. Frothingham, John Ruth,
Charles Frear, Thos. Ryan,
Hugh Gitroy , John Roberts,
Daniel Givens,' Evan Reese,
Darius Guyer, Wm. Reran,
Evan I 1,41: es. Palmer Stee!e,
Thomas llugl e., Den. Slocum,
Jhnn - Hughes, Gee. Slockhon.c,
Willie Hatton, Pcnry Smith,
Wm. [larding. Wm. Sryck.
W. D. Johns. Ist, J:.°. nutrias. 14.
John 11,.rris, Jon. Thomas, 2.1,
J 0.... Haskins, Ed. T.iylor,
Siein David "I.`borntis,
D. Johnson. W. Willinmsi,
Threw. I). Jones; W. 'Willi tms. 21.
Edwin JODPS.. IV. T. Williams:l4
Daniel .Tomes, W. 'l'• Williams,2d,
David „Innes, . W. N. Williams,
Rowland .1.1..e5, Morgan Walking,
Jon Jenk in., Tlicbard Wonky,
W. D. Jones. 2d, David Wood,
ThAnnas •nea,
Ppier .7z hn~nn
Wm. Wildrick,
Jus
Wm. D. Jones. 2.1,
PLY3I(.I7IT. Pa., Sept. o.—To the
Association Press :—Pb•ose to request
each neighborhood that. may wish to
relieve the vkidows and orphans at,
Avondale. to immediately take such
moi , mres as they may think best to
cored. fitnds for that . object, and for . -
w:r.l tho same as sour as posihle to
W. S. 'Wilson, First National 131nk
of 1 , 1. month : Ti. 13. Wripbt, r
Elunt,Wilkes' . arre; Thor)
dore Sprint, Natimal Think •.t . mitt -
ton ; W. W. Winton. NNtinnal flank
of ..eranton ; Gco. Wray, Scranton.
or Geo. it. Stuart. Plan. O•ie hun
dred orpl.ans ;pp! -ixtv wid.A.v, need
aid. T.- P. Tit - T. Secretary.
A Denial Defied
\Ve dare an dz.fy a denial to the
thilowing statement : That Jacob G.
Moyer, alias Meyer, as President of
the Aaronsburg oil company, on re—
turning from a meeting of the duped
stockholders in said company, held in
Union county. (at which time the sock
in said company had been pronounced
tate tly NTOrtilleSS, ) turned off his route
to Jaky Neidigh. That he su tuis
rein escnted the (tradition of said stock
that he induced said Jaky Neidigh to
invest a large sum of money in raid
worthless oil stocks. That raid Jaky
Neidigh threatened to prosecute said
J. Cl. Moyer. a Thrg Meyer. for false pre
tenses, and that Moyer; alias Meyer,
refunded the money. That in the oet.
tiement of said transaction J. G. Moy
er, alias Meyer. cheated said Jaky
Neidigh out of $2.
M—The Watchman makes a futile
attempt to manufacture a little cheap
campaign capital by publishing a silly,
uncalled-for and deliberate falsehood
concerning Mr. Dan. 11. Rote, our
most worthy and efficient candidate
for Recorder. Meek says Mr. Rote
"jumped from his wagon at Pleasant
Gap, drew a revolver from his pock—
et, and threatened to shoot a dauch
ter of Mr. John Sweeney." Mr. Rote
is a cripple, uses a crutch, did noth
ing of the kind as charged by Meek,
which fact can be substantiated by *a
half dozen of reliable witnesses. If
you must lie, Meek, do, pray, be con
sisten t.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
GE. CHANDLER, M. D., Hoincepathic
Physician and Surgeon, Bellefonte,
Penn'a. Office-2nd floor, over Harper ct
Bro's Store. Residence at the office.
Sept. 15,'99—tf.
CUMMINGS HOUSE,
Bishop street, Belletonte, Pa.
Convenient and suitable for Boarders and
the Traveling Public. Fare, reasonable,and
on time. Especial attention paid to the
Wants of guests. W. J. HOSTERMAN.
Sept. 15, '69—tf Proprietor.
CENTRE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.—SeaIed proposals will be
received by the undersigned, until 12 o'clock
M. of TUESDAY the 2I th, SEPTEMBER,
1869 for the EXCLUSIVE privilege of keep
ing an Eating stand or stands upon the
grounds of the Seciety during the coming
fair. The highest and best bidder to have
the privilege.
septls'69-It. WM. HAMILTON,Secey.
A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
1 - 1. Letters of Administration on the estate
of Susan M. Mitchell,late of Harris tp.,dec'd
having been granted to the undersigned, all
persons knowing themselves indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate r a y
ment. and those having claims against Los
samr, to pre.rent them duly authenticated
by law for settlement.
JAS. GLEN.
atif4S . 69 A (li/I'r
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NEW CHANGE IN AN OLD FIRM
.The undersigned adopts this methotlef
informing his numerous friends and eusto
mere, that be has made arrangments to set:
tlo up the old books, and commence in the
new. For thirty years I have done busi
ness in Bellefonte. I have for the whole of
that time been one of the most extensive
grain dealers in the place. I have always
taken especial pains to accommodate my
customers. I have always sold as good and
as cheap goods as any other mercantile
house in town, and it is my intention to
continue to do so, but have added the name
of my son W. S. WAGNER to the firm.
Hereafter,
or - from the 13th inst., the busi
ness will be conducted in the firm name of
D. M. WAGNER AND SON.
I will increase the stock, will continue to
buy grain, and to accomodate customers in
every possible way. I invite all my old
customers to continue with us and hope that
the people of Centre,Clearfield and adjoining
counties will find it to their advantage to
deal with us.
We will in a few days receive rrom Phil's.
and New York, the largest and best stock,
and we may add, cheapest stock of Goods
ever offered in Bellefonte. Our stock will
be large and it is our intention to add to it
from time to time. Every thing wanted
by heads of families, farmers or others, will
be found in our 110 USE. We are not only
enlarging our stock tut we have enlarged the
STORE ROOM. Our store with the New
room, will extend back 110 feet—shelved on
both sides and constantly filled with the
best of goods.
We most respectfully invite the people of
Centre and adjoining counties to favor us
with a call, and with their trade.
The highest market price will be paid for
wheat and all other kinds of grain IN CASH.
Country • produce taken at the hi best prices
in exchange for goods.
scptls . 69-tf. D. M. WAGNER k SON.
TALPEY'S PATENT
HAND SAW ARILS
The above represeitcd machine lIAS NO
EQUAL. It it simple in its construction.
easily operated. and not liable to get out of
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one third the time that it takes with rho
ordinary hand-saw, and besides, the most
inexperienced apprentice can, with this ma
chine
SAW TRITER AND STRAIGHTER
Than the be'st journeyman can with a
Band-Saw
TIIE JIG ATTACHMENT.
recently 'patented, (as shown by the cut. at
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poweror bosh at the same time.is se arrant:-
01 in comnination with the Rip Saw that it
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r'OTt L)'.
i 4
FURS ED (I ()GS AND FOWLS.
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French White ant Bed Chaff: Purple Strnry
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and most productive Wheats that.trn Ito
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Price per bushel. 4 pounds of any kind
by Mail. post 111.41, SI. wenty hrsols of
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GEO. A. DEITZ, Chambersbmg, Pa.
The Earliest. Hardiest, and most productive
Be i Wheat is the French White Chaff.
srniS 41.
ONE DOLLAR SAVED
IS A DOLLAR MADE
Thin can be ilone by guing to
ZIMMERMAN BRO'S & CO'S
No 6, Bash's Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa
SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST ; !
Calicoes 721 cents pe r yard.
Muslins and everything else Cheap. They
have constantly on hand, the best
assortment of fine
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We are Agents for the justly celebrated
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Price of Combination Machnie with
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