SHUGERT A. FOKSTKR, Editors. VOL. I. (Crotrt jP fin octal. Terms lI.SO per Annum,in Advance, a. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editors. Thursday Morning, March 13, 1879. SENATOR FERRY was re-elected President pro tern, of the Senate. Thurman will soon be his successor. THE veto of the Chiuese bill is not popular in the Pacific states. Indig nation meetings are the order of the day. SPRIGHTLY political speeches by democratic and republican members enlivened the last day of the Forty fifth congress. In conclusion Speaker Randall made a parting address that was received with much applause. IT will be good news to pensioners entitled to arrearages to learn that among the last acts of the late Con gress was the passage of the bill ap propriating money for their payment. The bill was promptly signed J>y Mr. Hayes aud is therefore the law of the land. * EVEN a false and fraudulent count of the votes was not sufficient to give Louisiana to Hayes. The con spirators were obliged to resort to the crime of forgery in order to consum mate the great wrong. The minority members of the Potter committee ad mit that the names of two of the elec tors signed to the certificates were forgeries. THE speakership is now the agitat ing topic in Washington. The con test seems to be between, Speaker Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Representative Blackburn, of Kentucky. Mr. Randall made a splendid record in that position during the 45 Congress, and will be supported by a large following —Mr. Blackburn possesses great ability, is very popular, aud will bring to his support a power ful influence. The success of either will be gratifying to the country. THE republicans made a brilliant and successful fight to prevent the in vestigation in the crookedness of Sew ard, the Chinese ambassador, charged with damaging crimes and shameless frauds. The defense set up was that he was not obliged to exhibit the books and public records in his posses sion, which might be proof of his guilt. The committee charged with the investigation demanded them. Seward, under advicoßrcf'used. The sessiou closing, the committee goes out of existence, and Seward escapes with his plunder. The Electoral frauds. The Potter investigating committee ha* concluded its labors. It made a most searching inquiry into the elec toral frauds of 1876, and the first re port of the majority relating to Louisi ana and Florida, signed by Messrs. Potter, Morrison, Ilunton, Htenger, McMahon, Blackburn and Hpringer, was presented to Congress before the adjournment. " The report," says the New York Sun, " sums up the positive results of this investigation with balanced judgment. The fact that the votes of both Florida and Louisi ana were cast for Tildcn and Hend ricks and were wrongfully taken from them and given to Hayes and Wheeler, was well-known before, but it is now solidly established by testimony of the most complete aod conclusive descrip tion. The methods, the machinery, and, above all, the agents of the false count, are here illuminated by the fall light of evidence that cannot truly be gainsaid. It is a clear and lasting record which is made up in the report of this committee." The inquiry into the cipher tele grams will constitute a separate re port. In regard to the Louisiana and Florida fraud, the conclusions of the committee, copied from the Washing ton Ptot, will be found in another column. "liqiTAL AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OX WIIATKVKK TATB OH I'KHM'AMO.N, KKLIUIOLH OK roLITICAL."-JV(oth upon the appropriation bills and the repealing sections. So let the re sponsibility of the extra session rest where it belongs, upon the shoulders of the factious republican majority of the senate. And what was it the democrats de manded? Did they labor to do vio lence to the houored traditions of the people ? No; they simply insisted that the following pro|xwitions, in ef fect, should agaiu be recognized as part of the law of the land: Ist. That intllif(*nt and honest juries •halt be impartially select™!, for the Fed eral, as well as the .State courts. 2d. That all soldiers, whether State or Federal, shall be prohibited from interfer ing with citizens at elections. 3d. No Federal supervisors or deputy marshall* shall be paid out of the public moneys for corrupting elections. Only this and nothing more. They only m-k that men who are eligible for president and vice president of the United States; who can be senator* and members of Congress; who can be judges of the district and circuit courts, and who can fill the chair of Chief Justice Waite himself, shall also have the poor privilege of sitting upou juries in the Federal courts. They only ask that Wade Hampton, Sena tors Gordon, and Hill and and Postmaster General Key, shall be placel upon an equality with the low liest negro in their respective state*. Furthermore, they ask in the name of free elections and unfettered citiien ship, that the soldiers of the govern ment shall not be used as a partisan police to overawe the will of the peo ple at the poll*. In this they desire to place this boasted republic upon a level with monarchist England, in which country the people hold a* their dearest treasure the parliamentary en actment that no soldiers shall be quar tered within five mile* of a polling booth. And lastly, they demand in the name of outraged decency that the black-jacking rough* of Marshall Kerns and John I. Davenport, and the army of eaq>et-bag scoundrel* who in fest the South during the holding of elections, to do the nasty work of their republican masters in Washington, shall not be paid for their zealous campaign labors in behalf of the re publican party out of the common treasury of the people. Upon these questions the democratic party have put their hands to the plow, and there must be no looking back. In them are contained the essence of popular government and the liberty of the citizen, and the. democratic party owe* it to its historic record and its devo tion to the Constitution to stand firm and unyielding until the proposed re forms are carried into full effect. HI.AIKK expects to make friends in Virginia on the reputation of his grand-mother. LELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1871). A a Outrage Upon I'illxcns. From the organization of Pennsyl vania as a commonwealth to the pres ent time, all legally authorized elec tions by the citizens have been by ballot, that is, u secret vote, in order to protect the poor and dependent voter from the domination of his rich and powerful neighbor. The right of every legally qualified voter to main tain silence and secrecy as to how and for whom he voted at any election has always l>eeii recognized as among the sacred rights of the citizens of Penn sylvania. Before the adoption of the new constitution it was held to la- illegal to put any murk or designation upon the ticket of a voter by which it could afterwards he identified. But a great evil had grown up in placet, from the practice of wicked and cor rupt election officers changing the ballots, after they were voted, and thus falsifying the will of the people. As no individual voter could recognize his ticket, it was impracti cable to prove the stuffing of a ballot box, unhws it was done to an outrage ous extent. In order to enable each voter to recognize and idcutify his ballot, in case of any contest founded upon an allegation that the tickets at any particular poll had been tamjx-r --ed with or altered, the new constitu tion provided : "All election* by the citizen* shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted shall be numbered in tho order in which it shall be received, and the number recorded by the election officer* on the list of voters op posite the name of the elector who pre sents the ballot. Any elector mav write bis name upon hi* ticket or cause the same to be written thereon, and attested by a citizen of the district. The election officers shall kt siwr* or affirmed not to disclose hoie any elector shall have outset, unless re quired to do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding." The election law of 1874, enacted for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the new constitution, among other things, provide*: "In addition to tho oath now prescribed by law to he taken and subscrilsed by election officers, they shall severally lie sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall hare voted, unless required to do so a* witnesses in a judicial proceeding." To enforce this it is further provided: "If any officer of election shall act without being first duly sworn, * • • it shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upon con viction, the officer or officer* no offend ing, shall he fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the dis cretion of the court." Those provisions of the law are cer tainly plain and strict enough to guard securely the secret of every voter. Hut as the same ballot-boxes are used at each successive election,the legislature foresaw, that when the boxes were opened, containing the numbrrnl bal lot*. they might be exposed, and thus enable interested parties to ascertain how any citizen voted at the preced ing election. To make " assurnnce doubly sure," it further provided : " Whenever the election officers of any election district shall require the election boxes of such district, to bold anv election which, by law, they are, or shall be re quired to hold, they shall keep the same securely in their possession without opening, until the morning of such election, serf until they ehall eereraUy be neorn or ajb rat ed not to disclose how any elector ehaU hart roltd, and after being so sworn or affirmed, tbey shall open thesaid boxes, and bum and totally deetmy all the ballote, and other pa lters which they shall And therein, before proceeding to bold such election." Nothing could be plainer, nor more explicit than thin. And yet the coun •el and friends of Mr. Yocum, in vio lation of the constitution, iu violation of the statute law, and in violation of the righta of citizens, have had the numbered ballot voted at last Novem ber election tto/en from the ballot boxen in several townships of this county, (and probably in other coun ties) and exposed to the examination of themselves and others, in order that they might know how every person voted for Congrats. In two townships, Dinner and College, this outrage was perpetrated by members of the elec tion boards. In Benner, one inspec tor and his clerk, (both of whom were supporters of Yocum) surreptitiously abstracted the tickets without the knowledge of the other members of the board, and after keeping them in their own possession several days, took them to the oflieo of Yocum mid Hastings, and after submitting them to the examination of attorneys ami clerks, and making a list of the tick ets with the names of the voters, de livered them over to Ha-ting* to keep. Messrs. Furst, Love and Hast ings then hud the auducity to produce these stolen tickets before the commis sioner ami ofler them in evidence, thus making themselves participators in the crime of violating the provisions of the constitution and law. And still they claim to be honorable attor neys ! No excuse or palliation, much les* any justification, can lie given for this outrage. No legitimate or good piirjxiM: could be subserved by it. If it was believed that any illegal votes had been |olled, when it was first proven that any particular person had voted who lacked any of the legal qualifieations, he then not Ix/inga legal voter, could lie compelled to testify for whom he voted for Congress, in order that his vote might be deducted from the numlier of vote* returned for such candidate. It is only the legal refer who Is privileged from telling how he voted. If a person votes illegally, he commits a crime; and the law give* no privileges to crime. But a legally qualified voter, even in a contested election, may, if he chooses, refuse to tell how he voted. It is said that one of the purpose* of this larcency of the ballots in Bonner, was to en able a wealthy citizen of Bellefonte to learn whether any of hi* tenant* or employe* in Benner voted for Curtin, that he might punish them by dismiss sal if they did. We take it lor grant ed that the perpetrators of this out rage will be prosecuted according to law. THE republican member* of the Rotter committee made a desperate effort in their report to show that John Sherman never wrote that letter about which he was so uncertain wheu on the witness stand. It does not mat ter very much whether he did or did not write it. The country will al ways regard him with sufficient ilia trust and aversion for the part he bore in the I/iiii-i.mn infamy outside of his epistolary venture with Anderson and Weber. Court Proceeding*. Adjourned Court for March 10, 1870, opened at 10 o'clock A. M., with Hon. John 11. Orvis presiding In the Orphans' Court of Centre county: Kule granted upon John Hockey, guardian, to pay the tnoney due James T. Swart*, minor child of CJeorge Swsrtr., deceased, within thirty days, or show cause why at tachment should not issue. Alias citation on J. 11. Brown, guardian of Samuel K. Gault, minor, to Ale his ac count, prior to April term of court. In the matter of the petition of Jona than K reamer for an order to tay the col lection of road taxes in Penn township, Marth 11, 1870, appeal granted. Cases tried by jury in the court of Com mon Pleas: Centre county vs. Milesburg borough, No. 16*2, April term, 1878. Verdict for plaintiff in the wm of s'2*6* 27. Tuesday, Hon. C, A. Meyer presiding. John 8. Gray vs. Hugh Adam*. Juror withdrawn end case continued nt cost of John 8. Gray, plaintiff. I Jones, Allport A Co. vs. John 8. Gray nnd wife. Verdict in favor of plaintiff for the sum of f 214 .17 in No. 181, January term, 1878, and in No. 180, January term, 1878, the sum of $148.72, subject to the opinion of the court in both cases, on the question of lew reserved whether the mechanic's lien as died is sufßclent in law to bind the estate of Emma T. Gray, the wife of John 8. Gray. J no. 8. Gray vs. W. C. McCutcheon. Case tried, but jury still out. M. B. Spar vs. John K. Murray. Tried, and verdict for M. B. Bper in the sum of $287.28. —Lock Haven's handsomest attorney, ax-Senator Feale, is attending court in this place. Mr. Panic is an able lawyer and is becoming well acquainted with Centre county juries. GENERAL NEWS. A fire at Fort Fairfield, Maine, Fri day, caused a 10-s of $30,000. Governor Andrews, of Connecticut, has appointed Friday, April JI, a# a public fust day. Governor Proclor, of Vermont, de clines to respite Henry Gravelin, the Weatbersfield murderer. The imports of specie for the past week were $78.2(10, of which $63,000 was silver and the remainder gold. A fire Friday morning in th" bag factory of F. S. At water, No. 22 bridge street, New York, caused a l.sts of $30,- 000. Mis* Rosin* Thomas was fatally burn ed at Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, on Saturday, her clothes taking fire from a stove. The Wheeling, W. XF.trnitig Stand ard changed hands ou Kuturday and appear™! a* a democratic paj*r on Monday. The '"atholic clergy of Newport, R. I.' are in favor of taking collections to aid Archbishop Pureell.of Cincinnati, out of his financial trouble*. The wife of Hon. Victor K. I'iollet, of Bradford county, died on Monday week. She was a daughter of the late Hon. Jesse Miller, of the same county. It is proposed to celebrate at Pom peii this summer tho eighteen hun dredth anniverary of the destruction of that city by an eruption of Vesu vius. In the case of It. T. Bortin, charged with the murder of Mr*. Bowman, *ev cntccn years ago, during the Morrisite trouble, the jury, after lieing out for nearly three days, returned a verdict of not guilty. A despatch from Lo* A ngelos say* a reservoir with one hundred million gal lon* of water broke Thursday morning, but was *o far from the city that dam age wa* confined to flooding of street* and cellar*. A broken nxle caused 16 car* of an eastern bound freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad to jump the track near Marietta, Pa., on Friday. Four loaded coal car* were wrecked. No person was injured. The anniversary of the laying of the first Atlantic cable wu celebrated at the residence of Cyru* W. Field, of New York, Monday night. Addresses were made bv Mr. Field and Rev. Win. Adam* and David Dudley Field. An insane man was arrested in Hal las, Texas, the other day, who had be come crazy from di*ap|ointment in love. He bad walked all the way frotn Mis souri, wearing a large bell around bis neck to attract, a* he explained, the maiden to him, a* she was bewildered by h. absence. The warm weather and rains experi enced for the last three days has but slightly raised the water in the Dela ware river. The small packs of ioe be tween Milford. Pa.,and the head waters still remain firm. No fear* of a flood from gorges are entertained at Port Jarvi*. Father Edward Purcell, Wedoadtj the Mil, ni'l' in assignment to John It. Mannix. The property thui assigned include* the Bishop's residence, the seminary at the corner of Third and Plum direct a, and on Warsaw pike seventy acre* of iiuhurban lota, and a number of smaller pieces of property in various parte of the city. A Pesth (Hungary) telegram' aajrs that tiro of three dams protecting the town of Sieged in lmm an overflower of the Tbeias river have hurst. Five thousand men are working on the re maining one. 11 this bursts 70.000 peo ple will be made homeless. Many vil lages have already been swept away. Siegedin is in a marsh on troth banks of the Theias river. The boiler and engine rooms, shaft ing house, fertilizer, sacking room and smoko house of the pork packing es tablishment of T. M. Sinclair k Co., at Cedar Itapids, lowa, were burned Fri day afternoon. The fire originated in the fertiliser, and the flames spread with frightful rapidity. The almost superhuman work of the firemen alone saved the remainder of the establish ment from destruction. The loss ap proximates fT.YWM ; insurance light. At a meeting of the Board of Man agers of the American Iron and Steel Association held at Philadelphia on Thursday, Hon. Daniel J. Morrell was elected President; Abrain S. Hewitt, of New York ; Joseph Wharton and Sam uel M. Felton, of Philadelphia; B. F. Jones and James Park, Jr., of Pitts burg, Vice Presidents; Charles Wheel er, Treasurer, and James M. Swank, Secretary. The next meeting will be held in April or May next at Pittsburg, at such time as the Executive Commit tee may determine. "Miss Kose F.ytingc" having been in terrupted in a perfomsnce in a H*n Francisco thestre. the other night, ap peared before the curtain and said i "I am an emotional, not a mechanical act ress, and, under the circumstances, can not proceed." Miss Nellie Holbrook then undertook to read Miss Ky tinge's part, and did it so well that the audi ence. including MUM Clara Morris, roundly applauded. Incensed at the reception of Miaa Holbrook, Miss Ky tinge broke her engagement at the theatre and lefl the mast in a huff. The State Central Convention of the Prohibition I/eague of Indiana, an or ganisation mid to number about IO.OOQ, voter* and which looks to the absolute suppression of the liquor traffic, has is sued an addraes calling on all who am TKHMS: #I/>0 jht Aiinum, in A