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(<m
Let There He No Retreat.
The necessity for an extra session of
Congress was created by the unjustifia
ble and revolutionary attitude of the
republican majority in the Senate.
It was no part of the policy of the
democratic leaders to force an extra
session; on the contrary, they, each
and every one, bent themselves to the
task of accomplishing all the needed
legislation within the legal life of the
Forty-fifth Congress. Hut the statute
books of the Nation are disgraced and
their pages soiled and dishonored by
the presence of obnoxious laws, thut
mock at free government and are a
standing insult to the genius of. our
institutions. These laws are among
the last monuments that still exist by
color of authority of the undying hate
of the republican party for the people
of the South. The patriotic demo
crats in Congress determined that they
should be wiped out at once and for
ever, and to this end provided in the
appropriation bills for their repeal.
L pou this the two great parties locked
horns in a life and death struggle, the
republicans using the last, lingering
remnant of legislative power they JXJS
seased in the Senate to prevent action
l>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<haii<-<'.
in favor of the prohibition of the liquor
traffic to meet in Stale convention at
temperance headquarter* in Indianapo
lis on Wrdneaday, May 21, to nominate
full State ticket to be voted for at the
annual election in 18S0. The call ia
signed by I. A. tioodwin, Secretary of
the league.
At a meeting of eleven representa
tive* of coal miner* from Dauphin,
Schuylkill, Northumberlahd, Carbon,
Luzerne and Columbia oountiea, held at
Harrisburg on the 11th instant, a reso
lution against the atrike contemplated
on the I.lth inst., ** read and adopted.
No individual operator* were in attend- *
ance,
Tlio Supreme Court of the United
■State* convened Wednesday laat, after
a recess of four weeks. All the justice*
were present except Associate Judge
Hunt. Mr*. Belva A. Ixxkwcxxl waa
admitted to practice. A large crowd
war attracted to the court room in an
ticipation of * motion to admit Mr*.
Lock wood, a similar motion having
been denied two year* ago on account
of tho candidate'* *ex. On this occm
sion no objection w u raised, and for
the first tune in the history of this
court a woman's name is on the roll of
its practitioner*.
The floor in Mechanic'* Hall gave way
Monday forenoon, during a town meet
ing. No one wa* killed, hut many are
| badly and probably f*u)ly injured.
Among those seriously injured are John
and t.eorge Neal, internallv. Thomas
Kicker had his shoulder and leg broken
Iteuben Chad bourne had both leg* .
broken Henry S. Kidder was injured
internally. Thorna* K. Coodwin'* ankle
was broken. At the time of the acci
dent there were about five hundred in
the hall, A hundred and fifty persons
were precipitated a distance of fourteen
feet to the floor below. The recovery
of John Neal, Henry Kidder, Charles
Kicker and Keuben Chad bourne ia
doubtful.
At Brooklyn the examination into
the common fame charge, against tho
Kev. T. He Win Talmage began Tue*-
day. The having the mat
ter under consideration made a report,
accepted, recommending that
Mr. Talmage be cited for trial on tho
charge*. Dr. Talmage said he had been
ready for the past nine year* and he
wanted an investigation now. There
had been an atrocious crime committed
against him as a minister of the gospel
of the I/)rd Jesus Christ and be wished
to be tried by the presbytery, or next
Sunday morning, in the tabernacle, be
would try the presbytery. The charge*
and specifications were adopted, and
the presbytery adjourned until evening
when the detail* of the trial will be
fully considered.
Mr. Umn R. KMII', the well-known
grain operator, stated Friday night at
the Hotel hrunawick, where he waa
•topping, to a reporter of the Associat
#<l Pre**. thai bit DMDO WM forged Lant
night (Thuraday) to a half-rate tele
graphic message to J. K. Fiaher A Co
grain broker* of Chicago, directing them
to aell three million bushel* of wheat on
Mr. Kecne'a account. Thia caused the
decline in wheat in Chicago on Friday
from 96 to 93 cent* jier bushel at the
morning and afternoon board*. Mr.
Keene pronounced the diapatch a for
gery. and atep have been taken to dis
cover the author of the telegram. Mr.
Keene aay* suspicions are strong against
what is known aa the "proviaion clique"
of Chicago. A large reward will be im
mediately offered by Mr. Keene for the
discovery of tbe forger and hia aaao
ciatea. The original cony of the de
spatch ia now in Mr. Keene'* posses
aion.
The Kanaaa Kmigration Society ia
making preparations for departing from
the city of Philadelphia. A committee
which waa appointed some time ago
to inquire into the character and ability
of the three men selected to prospect
in too \\ Mi and **lect lb# ground upon
which the colony ia to aettle reported
at the meeting held Thuraday night
that they could eiot agree upon those
selected, and suggested that other* be
named. Thia was agreed to. A mem
ber of the company who had been sent
to Washington to make the neceaaary
arrangement* for the land reported
everything complete. A resolution waa
unanimously adopted forbidding the
sale of intoxicating liquor, a* a bever
age, within the line of the colony.
Special arrangement* will be made
with the railroad company for a com
plete transfer of the colony, which will
cost about $4 per capita for adult*,
children to be conveyed without coat.
Between 1 and 2 o'clock Monday
morning a fire broke out ia the wagon
shop of Mr*. Henrietta Bauscfa, on
Broadway, Kast St. Louis, and owing to
there being no fire apparatus ia the
city, and no call being made on the fire
department in St. Louis, one brick and
five frame dwellinga were destroyed.
In the second story of the wagon shop,
the building where the fite originat
ed. occupied as a residence by Mr*.
Bauseh, there were sleeping her three
children by a former nitrriage, Henry
Schoepperketter, a blacksmith, and
Mrs. Catharine Barat— who was spend-'
ing the night with Mrs. Batoob—all of
whom burned to death, they being un
able to escape by reason of tbe doota
leading to their apartments being fast
ened on the outside. Mr*. Rausch was
also asleep in the same bouse at the
time, but she juttpod from a window,
and was so severely injured that sba
will probable die. At the inquest testi
mony WW el toiled pointing so strongly
to inoendiarifm that John Bar#!, hus
band of Cathsrine, Andrew Marshall
*and TheodMv Hammond were arrested
and locked up,
NO. 11.