§oj)e Cfittrc £|h Pcm op rat. BHUGKRT & FORBTER, Editors. VOL. I. ®bc Centre jPf mortal. Ttrmi tl.ftO par Annum,in Advsnos. a. T. SHUOERT .nd R. H. FORSTER, Editor.. Thursday Morning, Maroh 6, 1879. AT 12 o'clock on Tuesday, Mr. Hayes had served out one-half of 8. J. Tildeu's time in the Presidential office. A GOOD HIT. — Nast lias U very significant cartoon in Harper's Week ly representing Blaine affectionately embracing an African fellow-citizen who has a vote, while lie turns a cold shoulder to and scowls at Mr. John Chinaman, who has no vote. SENATOR H. G. FLHIIEK on Tuesday resigned his seat preparatory to be coming a member of the Forty-Sixth Congress on the 4th of March as the successor of Mr. Stcnger. If he can fill the position as creditably and with as much ability, as the able gentleman he supercedes, his district may well le proud of her representative. THE statement made from Washing ton, and referred to in our last paper, that wine was among the luxuries at the White House reception last week, is contradicted. Well, perhaps they had no wine, but whether they bad or not, no one has any right to complain or object. Better men than Mr. Haves have given wine in entertaining his friends. Counts, the pretender, who never was elected from South Caroliun, after pressing two years to get the scat of Senator Butler, and did not get it, ad dressed a letter to the Senate n few days ago, withdrawing from further contest. He very wisely comes to the conclusion that if the present Senate would not seat him, he could have no hope of success in the one to be in augurated on the 4th of March. He does not care for the position or the salary attached to it, and only desired admission for the services he could render to his colored constituents. Exit Corbin. To OBVIATE the necessity of calliog an extra sowion of the Legislature, a bill has been introduced and passed the Senate creating a tribunal to count the votes for State Treasurer and Auditor General when the Legislature is not in session. The Itoard will con sist of the Governor, the President Judge of the Dauphin District, the President pro tern, of the Seuate, the Speaker of the House, and four Sena tors and six Members of the House. The Senators and Members to be chosen on the last Tuesday of the present sessions by a rim roeo vote in each House—each Senator voting for two Members, and each Member of the House for three Members. By this mode of choice, each fwrty will secure a representation in the Board. An EXTRA BBWIOH or COHORESM. —The failure of the Senate and House to agree on some of the appro priation bills, before the adjournment, Mr. Hayes has issued his proclama tion, calling an extra session of 46th Congress on the 18th of March. The ground of difference between the two Houses is well understood, and the responsibility for an extra session can be fixed. The Democrats insisted upon the repeal of the Jurors test oath law now on our statute books by a blunder in revision. The Republicans refused to correct the error. The Democrats in sisted on the repeal of the law allow ing the presence of Federal troops at elections, and the Republicans obsti nately adhere to this obnoxious use of i the military power to interfere in and I control elections. The Democrats de mand the repeal of the Federal elec ' lion law by which thousands of tcala wag deputy marshals are allowed to interfere and control the rights of all iens, and perpetrate outrages upon the purity of the ballot. But the Repub licans in Congress preferred defeat to , the appropriations, rather than repeal these infamous measures. "BStUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, Or WHATEVER STATE OH FERN If ANION, HKLICIJOCH OR roI.ITICAL."-J-Emua. THERE is a scheme on foot for the establishment of (State schools in Pennsylvania to instruct boys in iron working, called industrial schools. It would be very desirable if more en courgement were given to educate boys in iron working, and indeed, in all mechanical trades and occupations of luhor and usefulness, but we cannot see any reason why the Slate should be burdened with institutions of this kind, unless it be to (tension some iron worker, not having sufficient skill or enterprise to conduct his own business successfully, to a professorship under pay of the Commonwealth. We have a system of Common Schools, at great cost to the State, to educate boys, aud fit them to choose such occupations ILS will enable them to become useful citizens. If after being educated by the State in the ele ments of learning, they are not com petent, with the advice of their pa rents and guardians, to choose intel ligently their occupation for useful ness in future life, no schools estab lished aud controlled by political su pervision, would be effectual to in struct them. On the contrary it would lie expensive and manifestly wrong, to tax the people for any such project. It should le left to private judgment to enter private institutions, to secure the necessary information and skill which the project professes to accomplish. There would be as great propriety in the State establish ing schools to instruct boys iu the practice of law, medicine, theology, as is proposed by this bill. There is ig norance and stupidity in these profes sions, but these arc only exceptions. The same result will be found in otheV occupations, but no one will suppose that .State schools should be establish ed at the public expense to instruct the incompetent or give brains to the stupid. If our system of public ed ucation does not stimulate the youth to choose wisely and seek occupation in working iron, or other industrial pursuits, it ought to be rcmoddled and such a system adopted as will educate boys to lielieve that respectability can be attained in useful labor of all kinds. The Philadelphia JireorJ, re ferring to this bill, says: "What is needed is a return to the apprenticeship system rather than the creation of ornamental schools for iron workers. Were it possible for Ben. Franklin to return to earth, and be informed in regard to the decadence of the appren ticeship system, which his legacies for Philadelphia and Boston were intend ed to foster, his reflections on the transformation would lie interesting and instructive. Before founding any more public schools it will be well to reform those now in existence in such away that all children applying for instruction shall not be treated as candidates for the high school, in the face of the fact that but twelve pupils in a thousand ever reach the goal named. The bill which has already passed the state senate, and is now pending in the house, is so crude as to show conclusively that the details of the scheme have not been worked out beyond a rude guess a* to the probable cost of purchasing grounds and erect ing buildings. It only deserves defeat." SENATOR EDMUNDS has reported from the Judiciary Committee a bift to protect the Constitutional rights of citizens, and proposes to punish with fine and imprisonment " any person or persons who seek by intimidation, un lawful menace or any other unlawful means to prevent the peaceful assem bling of citizens for the purpose of pe titioning Congress for redress of griev ances, or considering the subject of nomination, or the choice of any per son to be a member or delegate of the House of Representatives, or who shall break up or disturb any such assem blages, or prevent any citizen from ex ercising the right of suffrage. Per sona, or officers, charged with any duty under this act, who refuse, or, know ingly, omit to give full effect to their BKLLKFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH (i, IH7!>. duties, shall forfeit five hundred dol lars tn the aggrieved party. Every |K-rson who shall cust an unlawful vote, or ballot, is to t>c punished by u fine of SSOO, or to lie imprisoned not more than five years, or both. As sault, killing and bribery are to IK; visited with u fine of SIO,OOO, or im prisonment of not more than two years, or both. Persons convicted of any of these offenses are to be dis quulilied forever from holding any office of honor, trust or profit uuder tbe United Kates. Speaker Randall. A special agent of the Treasury De partment had the temerity to prefer a charge against K|K-aker Kan.lull that "two appropriation warrants were ille gally signed to get money to continue o|>crations of the engraving and print ing department, which were directly in the interest of Samuel J. Haudall, who is a large stockholder in the pajs;r mill which is alone authorized to suje ply the (taper for bonds, bank uotes," Ac. Mr. Kuudall at once called tbe attention of Congress to the charge and asked the appointment of u com mittee to investigate. That committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Chandler, Lynde,Throckmorton, Frvc and Monroe, who have reported, ex onerating Mr. Randall, and designat ing the charge as entirely destitute of truth. Indeed, any one knowing Mr. Randall, republican or democrat, bis personal integrity ami freedom from all jobs in bis official life, would not need a C ongressional committee to vin dicate him from this or anv other charge, affecting his private or official record, that any scoundrel might see proper to make. But still the charge of tbe dirty slanderer is not without compensating good to Mr. Randall and his friends, as it gave occasion to those with whom he has so loug asso ciated in public life, of differcut politi cal faith, to attest their high apprecia tion of the character of the Speaker, which they did in a manner that must le highly gratifying to him, and con tained indirectly a high compliment to the wisdom and gocnl judgment of the democratic Congress who raised so pure a man to the Speaker's chair. TIIF. Clause in the Army Appropri l ation Hill which give# to railway com panies the right to two their telegraph line* for Government auarby. ville and Jacksonville, and gave Mr. Have* 49 majority in the State. That is how Florida came to be called e re publican State. Are you surprised that the people of Florida are not in love with the republican partv f What did Florida dot Did it submit to this out ragef The new Returning Board, in augurated with the income of a Demo cratic State administration, made a re can vaas of the Sute and announced that Tilden and Hendricks had carried It, and on the aarae 26th of January the legislature sanctioned the re-can vaas, and put tbe broad seal of the Slate of Florida upon the result by law. Yet, when the Electoral Commission met, the ground on which the vou of the Sute was oounted for Hayes and Wheeler was the laat ground that would suggest iUelf—the reason was the sacred doctrines of State rigbU They bad stolen the vote, therefore the Sute had the sacred right to have it stay stolen. They bed stolen the vote, therefore no power existing in the United States oould legally reclaim the stolen property. TBE Knights of Labor challenge President Go wen, of the Reading rail road, to an investigation. He will gratify them. A Kmall Npee of Keeesslou. The Kan Francisco Daily Stock He jmrt, the oldest financial pajier on the Pacific coast, in urging that u monster mass meeting IK; held iu Kan Francis co to demand of Hayes that he sign the Chinese bill, uses the following extraordinary language : | This is a most critical time in the his tory of (California. Whether there is to be bloodshed and anarchy in our fair Sute, riot, incendiarism, and murder; whether our green fields are to be blaek . i etied and our garden plot laid waste; or 1 whether, rather than incur thesedresd i ful evils, we shall calmly in the end, all other resort* having failed, meet and | sever our connections with the national confederation, making laws for our preservation and the preservation of our children's heritage, tbe event* of the next two days may determine. Already such a dread possibility as secession from the Union, in the event of our failure to obtain the relief we demand from the Chinese evil, is broadly Ulked . of in high circle*. The Lost ha* utterly failed to understand our situation, and to extend the aid and sympathy we have tbe right to expect from the sister hood of States. Leading men say that w have pleaded, have exhausted argu ment*. have cried aloud for relief, but our niost earnest effort* have been treat ed with indignity, and our sufferings have been made a mockery. As a lost resort we will take advantage of the geographical lines that surround us. the vast extent of soil within our )>ounda ries, the exhaust Ins* resources of wealth that are ours, snd will set up sn Occi dental republic, which, if it cannot rival the old republic in its glory of tbe past, will at least be a magnificent em pire of white fteemen. whoae heritage shall be preserved to their children and their children*' children forever. . I MIKIHTEK HEW AUD, of the China mission would not show his book* to the Congressional committee, charged with the investigation of his crooked now, to clear his skirts of the grave charge* against him. He has there fore been declared a contumacious witness and summoned to the liar of the House for treatment. What this will be, or what will be gained in the i ( way of reaching the information de sired, of course has not yet transpired. If he were not guilty, be would em brace the opportunity to make his in nocence manifest. It looks bad for Seward, and Mr. Hayes had better be looking round for a competent rogue to supply his place. Corbin will do, or if not, John J. Patterson was re lieved on Tuesday aud will not again be needed in the Senate. We can recommend hitn as fully competent to fill the highest expectations of any rogue in America or China. DON SUCCESSFUL. Ex-Governor Pollock is a victim to the sly mauage . ment of the adroit young Senator from Pennsylvania. The committee failed to report tbe nomination of Governor Polloek to the Senate for confirmation. In consequence the appointment falls, and Heistand, the faithful latncaster henchman of Cameron, remains in pos session of the Naval office. NOT ADOPTED. —The amendment offered by General Shields to the Pen sion Act providing pensions to veter ans of The Mexicau War, was reject ed by a |iarty vote, the Democrats for and the Republicans against A Proclamation. WatazAs, The final adjournment of the Forty fith congress without making 1 the usual and necessary appropriation* I for the legislative, executive and judic ial expenses of the govetnment for the fiscal year ending June .jo, ]ggo, and without making the usual and neces sary appropriation for the army for the same fiscal year, presents an extraordi nary occasion requiring tbe President to exercise the power vested in him by j tbe constitution to convene tbe bouses of oongree* in anticipation of the day fix ed by law for their next meeting, now, therefore, I, Rutherford R. Hayes, Pres ident of the United States, by virtue of the power to this end invested hy the constitution, convene both houses of congress to assemble at their respee ; tive chambers at 12 o'clock, noon, on 1 Tuesday, the Ifith day of March, inst, then snd there to consider and deter mine such measures as in their wisdom, their duty and the welfare of the people may seem to demand. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and censed the seel of the United Btotes to be affixed. _ . KB. HAVES. By the President, WE. M. STARTS, Secretary of Rtato. The Peon Street Passenger Railway of Reeding be* passed into the hands of the trustees under the first mort TKRMN: $lJ>O per Annum, In Advance. OENERAL NEWS. Shere All, Amwr of Afghanistan, died on the 21it of February. The Senate on Saturday confirmed T. L. Milton a* postmaster at Carlisle, Pa. The Ocean Houae at Bong Branch, N. •1., vrnn injured by fire to the extent of $],h(JQ to on Saturday night. fhe people in the oil region are tak ing the census of their town*, but it don't increase the price of real estate. George franc-is Bickinson, merchant, of No. 17 Greenwich street, London, ha* failed, with liabilities of £50,000. In funkhannock, Wyoming county, there is a lady member of the School Board. Ihe same is the case in St. Clair, Schuylkill county. Ecclcs Kobinaon, the noted temper ance worker, i holding thronged meet ing* at Port Jarvis. The greatest en thusiasm prevails among all classes. h* President McMahon, on Saturday, visited the Museum of Beoorative Art. This shows that the Marshal is not aa ill as the London fitandtird has declared. Fifty citizen* of Pekin an