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POOR HAYES. —The general ap pointment of all the rogues, and presi dential thieves to office, has deprived him of the slightest pretext of personal innocence, that might have been attached to him, for the great fraud which reversed and made void the verdict of the people in the last presidential election. He occupies a place to which the universal judgment of the country believe and know he was not elected. His position is a pit iable one, but, wheu he called to the head of the treasury the leading con spirator, he was forced to take ail the minor rogues in his train. GEN. BUTLER, one of the Potter committee, makes a separate report as a matter of course. He reports that the majority of votes cast in Louisi ana were given to the Tilden electors and Gov. Nichols. That if the bull dozed parishes were thrown out, a por tion of the Tilden electors were chosen, and Packard elected Governor. He also states that the counting in of Mr. Hayes was by unjustifiable irregulari ties and fraud. It is all true as gos pel itself. Every body believes it, and it would be very difficult for an able lawyer, like Gen. Butler, to form a judicial opinion to the contrary. PATTERSON PARDONED.—John J. Patterson, the ex-Senator from South Carolina, has received a letter from the Attorney General, granting him a full pardon, for any indictment* pend ing against him ip that state. If this rogue had robbed ajhrn-rooet or stolen a sheep, nothing short of the peniteniary would have satisfied the law. But as a thief on an enlarged scale, he was entitled to the immunity usually awarded in such cases —par- don, or an office under Mr. Hayes' ad ministration. A FANCIFUL writer in the William sport Gazelle and Bulletin deplores the fact that Mr. Seth H. Yocum has no "Organ" in Centre county. That this should be so is at once alarming and harrowing. No man should for a moment think of taking a hand in a Congressional contest without first providing himself with five or six good ' newspapers. They are always con venient and especially so when a man has a number of lawyers lying around loose who are not good for much else but writing about facta that exist only in their imagination. There is a won derful amount of versatality about f the Bellefonte lawyer of a certain type. When he discovers that he can't do a thing one way, he does it the other. To illustrate: When he is employed to manage a case that comes within the legitimate province of his profession, and finds after a careful examination that there isn't anything in it, if he follows the beaten path he 1 just takes to the underbrush and be comes a journalistic footpad. In other words, when be finds be hasn't any case to speak of to try before die proper tribunal, he immediately throws up his brief and thereafter conducts bis cause in the newspapers. This is why it fe unfortunate for Mr. Yocum that he has JIO "Organ." The Chinese Question. The veto menage of Mr. H*) upon the bill to restrict Chinese iiu in ignition to thin country, it is now evident was not conclusive of the sub ject In discussing the question Mr. Hayes was careful to discard all the spurious scntimcntalism about the " rights and equality of man " tliut had been thrown around it, and pro jierly confined himself to the relations which the bill he was considering bore to our trcuty stipulations with the Chinese government. With all his regard for national good faith and treaty obligations, however, ho docs not leave the public to infer (but he thinks highly of the results of the ex periincnt of immigration initiated by the Burlingame negotiations. The most earnest anti-Chinese advocate has scarcely presented a stronger picture of the character of Chinese immi grants than does a single sentence of the veto message. " The lajxm of ten years since the negotiation of the Hurlingamc treaty has exhibited to the notice of the Chinese government, as well as to our own people, the working of thin experiment *>( immi gration in great numbers of Chinese laborers to this country and their maintenance here of all the traits of race, religion, manners anil customs, habitation, mode of life, segregation here and the keeping up of the ties of their original home, which stamp them us strangers and sojourners and not as incorporated elements of our national life and growth." It is altogether possible that this treatment of the question has encouraged the hopes of those who suffer from the presence of these Asiatic "strangers and sojourn ers" thnt another bill, drawn to obvi ate the difficulties likely to arise from an arhitrary abrogation of the treaty with China, might not meet with ex ecutive disapprobation. Be this as it may, it as already announced that senator Jones, of Nevada, will intro duce a new bill of restriction as soon as the extra session of congress begins. The agitation of the question will therefore be renewed and probaby he continued until some measure of re lief that will at least mitigate the evils entailed by the inilux of these people upon the Pacific sloj*> is ob tained. Free immigrants who come to us to dispose of their labor as free men, to assimilate with our people and to become supporters and defenders of our free institutions are always wel come. But it becomes a different question that requires different tri-at mcnt when vast numbers of an Asiatic race are thrust upon us, not as free men, but virtually as slaves under contracts with the six Chinese com panies of San Francisco that give the management of these companies the right to dispose of their lalwr in com petition with free native labor. THE New York Herald with its ne cuatomcd generosity has kindly volun teered to sec the democratic party : through the trouble of nominating a candidate for President in 18*0. With much care it has collated the views of the leading democrats in Congress and therewith has launched itself on a boundless ocean of specu lation. Thurman, Hendricks, Bny ard and Tilden present themselves in a confused mass, and for the life of bint the editorial Warwick of the great newspaper can't sec his wny clear to a solution of the knotty problem that will please everybody, and to please everybody is exactly the mission of the Herald in this sinful world. Home days it exhibits an alarming dis position to nominate them all, and on others it is morally certain that none of them fill the bill. One thing it is absolutely certain of, and that is that New York is the "pivotal" State and without her electoral vote nobody can be elected to anything. That settled, the next proposition we expect to see elaborated is, that the Herald is the "pivotal" newspaper and candidates will be invited to conduct themselves accordingly. As FAITHVL r I. observers of passing events we are obliged to announce the sudden, though not entirely unexpect ed, explosion of an inflated bag of conceit and pomposity. The catastro phe occurred one day last week, at Wilkeabarre. A multitude of per sons present were for the time being in imminent danger, but we are pleased to say that the damage suffered was confined to a venerable ass called Hendrick B. Wright. Last Hours of the 45th Congress. The points of difference between the two houses oil the Army bill, referred to a conference committee, wore two clauses put in the bill by the House: one in regard to the army reorganiza tion, and the other to prohibit the pres ence of troojis at the. polls of elections. To the first jsiint the committee could easily have agreed. To the last point it was evident from the first that no agreement could bo reached unless the Senate receded. The democrats in sisted, and gave as evidence of their earnestness in doing so, that the time had come when it should no longer be lawful for a soldier to be ut the polls on the day of election. The republi cans claimed that the law authorized the President to order soldiers to the polls,and should lie maintained. This was the issue, and on this issue the conference committee disagreed and were sustained by the respective houses and 1111 extra session of Congress be come a necessity to obtain means to carry on the government. Presenting the action of tiic com mittcc to the Iluuxe antl explaining the jHiintu of difference, Mr. Hewitt, of New York, enid : Mr. Speaker, this present* an issue which involve* the very essence of free govern ment. Tim difference between a despotic government and a free government i* this; that in a dc*|>oti*m the military |>wer is ruj>erior to the < ivil; in a free government the civil dominate* the military power. And thi* principle wa* one which we never fought for ; it came to u a* an inheritance from our father*. It wa**o well recogniz ed that when the Constitution wa* formed it wa* not even deemed necessary to insert an article to that effect, Hut a* a protec tion against military interference provision wa* made that citizen* might l**ur arm*, and that no soldier* stiould In- i|u*rlereople of thi* country, now that the issue ha* been raised in conceding the prin ciple in time of profound peaca, fifteen years after the clone of a civil war, that •oldier* may be ordered bv the executive power to the poll* on the Jay of election ? I, Mr. Speaker, of all men "in this Hou*e am most aniiou* that there shall bo no extra se*ion ; 1 have everthlng to loom* and nothing to gain by it. All that I have tn the worid ta engaged in busine** opera tions which are always damaged by extra session* of CongTiw*. I am sure f speak the voice of the industrial interest* of thi* country, when I say they want thi* Con gren* logo in peace. Hut, Mr. Speaker, there are thing* greater than monev, greater than profit*— without which money disappear* and profit* are an illusion thing* for which men have sacrificed for tune* ane caught by these swind lers, hut treat their demand for con tributions to a testimonial to Capt. Dimiuock with the coutempt.it de serves. The Pension Coiwpirar>/ Testimony of the Implicated Agents Jlefore the House Sub committee. M<-*sr. liockwood, of New York, and Willits of Michigan, a suo-cornmitlee of tho house committee on expend! tares in tho interior department, wero engaged in t.ikiug testimony rel ative to an alleged combination be tween certain claim agents and others of this city, to exact money from |>en sioners under tho pretext of "a testi monial''to one of their number for his labor* in securing the p*iage of the arrears of |-ni>ioti act. <>ne of their numerous circulais. njqn-aling to the generosity of beneficiaries under the recent pension law, sets lorth that to one R. A. Dimtnick, more than to any other man, is due the enactment of that law. This document is signed hy J. C. 8. Burger, war department, H. 11. Brow er, inu-rior department, and W. L. Trembly, war department, and has an indorsement from George Bancroft, with the evident purpose el leading the un wary into the belief that it was the eminent historian of that name who gave his support to the scheme. Tho names of a number of local claim agent* uho ap]H-ar on the document, some of whom, however, to their credit be it said, deny any knouledge of. or concern in. the propoaed plan. The plan of njienttinn* *a* to send the fol lowing little printed slip or "dodger" with other circulars to pensioners and agents throughout the country: *s ACT or limit. In recognition of th labor of Capt. R. A. Dimmick, of Washington, for the pat three years in conducting the prosecution of the arrears of pension bill, which has resulted in a law, I hereby subscribe the sum of $ toward a testimonial to him, payable when I receive the arrears of pen sion due me. ______________ • Address ■ Death of Lilhn Kurrltt. Klihu Burritt, who died Thursday night at bis residence in New Britain, Conn., woi a nativeof that place, where he was born J*e©einberß. 1811. He was the son of a shoemaker, and was edu cated in tho common schools of his na tive village. At the age of ICt he was apprentice.! to a blacksmith. A de sue to read the .Scripture in the origi nal led him to philological studies in the intervals of laiior, and be soon mastered several languages. He re moved to Worcester, Mass.. to have the advantage of the library of the Antiquarian Society there, and while still plying bis trade studied the prin cipal ancient and modern languages, and liecaine know as "the learned black smith." In 1844 he edited at Worcester the Christian <\tiisn, a joiner advocating a peaceful settlement of international difficulties. To the same end he de livered many public lectures. lie was also very prominent a an advocate of temperance and of slavery aliolition, antl later, of cheap ocean postage. In IB4A he went to England, where he formed the "League of Universal Brotherhood," whose object was "to employ all legitimate means for the abolition of war throughout the world." He was constantly engaged in writing and lecturing, and took a prominent part in all tho European Trace Con greases. lie was for several years Con sul at Birmingham, and returned to the United Htate* after residing altogether nearly twentv five years in England. He has published ".Sparks from the Anvil" (London, IM8), "Miscellaneous Writings" (1H50), "Olive I-eaves" (185.1). "Thoughts and Things at Home and Abroad" Boston, (1854), "A Walk from John O'Groat'a to land's End" (1845), and "Leeturea and Speeohoa" UHfluj. Mr. Burritt has been in failing health for several years, and has not recently engaged in literary or other active pur suit*. Father Beeson and the Indiana. Father Beeson, who haa lived for many years with and among the In diana of our western plains, and who is well-known a* an anient sympathiser with thom in their rights, ha* addressed an open letter to Mr. Hayes, calling hit attention to the necessity for taking prompt measures to suppress the pree ent lawless aggression upon Indian res ervations. lie alludes to the starvation and massacre of the Mannocks and Cheyenne#, the forced removal of the Nex Fercea and Sioux in violation of treaty obligations, and the recent raid upon the reserve of the Ctes, in Colo redo, prompted by the discovery of gold, and says that unless the sentiment of justice, enforced by the strong srm of the government, put a stop to those outrages another Indian war is certain. He recommends the appointment of a peace commission, composed of persons whose characters will command the re spect of the whites and the confidence of the Indians, with a view to bringing about a better understanding between the races and a change in the present tree toning aspect of Indian affairs. Things Accomplished. A Congress Democratic in one branch and Republican in the other must nec essarily fail to Hdopt measures of public policy distinctly embodying the princi ples of either party. For this reason, those enthusiasts who pre "ited the in fusion of the Democrat spirit Into National legislation when the control of the House passed from the Republican party have been disappointed. Hut while a Republican Konate, lag ging superfluous long after the country had repudiated that party, has been able to check economy, impede reform and add greatly to the burden of taxa tion, it bos not been able to prevent substantial progress toward the desired end—the most simple and economical government consistent with the best good of the entire country. The Democratic House of the Forty : fifth Congress battled persistently and incessantly, and with even more success than could have been expected, against the extravagant notions that had come to be accepted theories with the Radical party. It knocked off millions at a blow, and repeated such telling blows wherever it was possible. It studied to learn the actual needs of every branch of the service, to find out what the public interest* required to have done, , and to provide for the doing of it. But it set a face of flint against those loose and corrupt ways that, under disputed Radical domination, had grown into a system and had made the civil service wf the foiled .States fairly reek with corruption. The country ha* heard a great deal about civil service reform under the lfidie.il Administration* of the last ten year*. Grant and hi* crowd had their way of reforming. The type* of that reformatory movement wera Belknap, Ito bacon, ''handler and the whisky ring. Hayes came in, pledged to carry the work of reform forward through thick and thin by tnain strength and awkwardness, and over all obstacle*. The title thieve* in office, paid out of the public Treasury for stealing the Presidency, ahow bow Hayes has kept the faith. But a genuine reform in every de partment. in every branch and section •>f ttus public service lias been effected by the ical, energy and economy of the Democratic House. By cutting off mil lions of money that were annually squandered, by close inquiry into the details of department and bureau man management, thousands of leaks have feen stopped, hundreds of sinecures abolished and such economical customs introduced as were unheard of from 1800 to 1815. With a itepublican Administration to create dcficienr.es ; with no democratic official* t-i stii-ervi-e exj>etiditurea ; with m*n in all the departments controlling affair* who bad been thoroughly imLued with the spirit of reckless waste and wanton squandering that has sprung into luminous growth ; with all these disadvantage*, and the still greater one of having lb-publican Senate to stub bornly contest every foot of progress in the path of economy, the democratic House wa* aide to sweep out of existence the absurd pretext upon which scores j of million* were annually voted from the Treasury into the {sockets of seedy partisans, rapacious thieve* and gigantic ring* of swindlers. The last liouae, like it* immediate predecessor, was in defatigable in this work. It resisted most strenuously the wild schemes fos tered in the Senate, and succeeded in clearing most of them from the appro priation bills that were paased. Aside (roni the routine busineas of the *eion. the most im|>ortant mesa ure* passed were the reduction of tbo tax on tobacco and the arrearage* of pension* hill. We have reason to believe that, ao far from decreasing the annual revenue, the reduction of the tobacco Ux will actually increase receipt*. Commissioner Kaum admits that at present not more than half the tax i collected. As ws the case with whisky when the tax was reduce! from M to SO cents, and increased revenue followed, so will it be with tobacco. Of the pensions bill it is enough to say that it is a measure of justice long de ferred. The Democratic partv can well afford to take the self-inflicted responsi bility ot doing right. It wa* predicted last autumn that when t'ongrees should convene the lemocralic House and the lemncraU in the Senate, with the aid of three or four rather tender-footed Itepublicans, would unsettle the finances of the country with wild schemes of inflation. As a matter of history, the Democracy in Congress gave a very cold shoulder to everything of that sort, and John Sherman, should his plana be checked, cannot lay the blame on the 1 democra cy. He baa had pretty much his own way. We have thus aeen that with power only in one branch of Conjnwa*, with a Senate and an Administration oppoaed to and thwarting iu effort*, a* far aa poasible, the 1 democratic party ha* per formed signal -aervice to the country s ha* decreased expenditure*, lessened taxation, promoted economy and en courage-! a genuine spirit of reform. Thia is a splendid promise for the future, when the I democracy will occupy a field admitting of broader influence and greater usefulness. Two Orators Rnjiuw.—The great scarcity of marriageable women in the state of lowa is the reason assigned by Louis Bode, of Shenandoah, Page county, of that state, for writing to Superintendent Jackson, of the Board of immigration here, asking the latter gentleman to select and send him a wife. Bode prefers a woman who haa recently arrived either from Kogland or Germany, of sound health and physi que, and promises her a good home, lie says he is a farmer in comfortable circumstances and thirty-nine yean old. He is a widower without children, and wants milters,fixed up with business like dispatch, as he wishes to he mar tied this spring. Another letter re ceived by Jackson, from 734 South Seventh street, St, Lottie, Mo., and signed Anton L. Anton, says he has read in the papers of the case of Catharine Fasahauer. a young woman, now on Ward's island, and about ut become a mother, and he is inclined to offer her bis hand in marriage and a good home if Jackaon can conscientiously recom mend her as likely to make a good wife. Report of Uie Pennsylvania Railroad. rmm Uw I'itul-nrgh fort, Moi'li 4. The annual report of the Pennsylva nia Railroad, printed in today'* P<*t, in the magnitude of ita atatemeut of receipt* and expenditure*, read* like the balance aheet of an Empire. The froaa revenue of the line* east of Pitta urgh laat year was in round number* 931,600,000, and expouaea $18,600,000 and on the linea weat of Pittsburgh $8,600,000 income, to $7,000,000 ex pen aec, making a total of over forty mil lion* income, and over twenty-aix mil lion* expeniea, within the control of this one corporation, setting aside the business of Mix other important rail road companies in the Weat in which the Penmylvania i* largely intereated but which retain tbeir individual or ganisation. It waa not until 1860 that the annual revenue* of the United Ktate* passed the line of forty million* of dollar* now attained by tbia great corporation. I lie number of paasenger* carried on the lines east of Pittsburgh during 1878 was 12,792,305, at a decrease of 216,000 from 1877. The importance of the local j traffic of the road is shown by the fact that the average distance traveled by each passenger in 1878 was 27 3-10 mile*. In connection with the passenger busi nea* ',*72,008 pieces of baggage were handled during the year, and of tbia amount but out putt waa actually lost. This seems to demonstrate the perfect lion of management and discipline. The magnitude of the triegbt busi neas over the passenger traffic I* shown by the lact that out of $31,600,000 re j ceipts of the year, on the lines east of Pittsburgh, but $7,256,000 was from passengers, while about twenty-three million* came from the freight traffic. The company, including ita own fuel and material, moved 11,627.228 tons of freight in 1878 including 6.007,811 ton* of coal. The freight movement showed the enoouraging fact of an increase of i I -M0 per cent, compared with 1877. Thi* certainly mark* an improvement in business, and *how* we are on the ascending scaie. There i* hardly any !>etie.r teal than railroad business. On the New Jersey leased line*, be tween Philadelphia and New York, the freight and passenger receipts last year were about equal. The first class jaa *engn motion of Senator Wallace it was resolved that the Attorney General be requested to furnish to this committee a detailed statement of the number of Itoputy Marshal* appointed under the Federal statute* by tbe Marshals of the United State* in reference to tbe direc tion of elections in the several state* during the past year—where employed, the names of such deputies, how much , paid to each, tbe length of time each of such deputies waa employed, and state* and districts in which they were em ployed. Tbe committee adjourned to meet on the 19lh of March. The Prospect fer a General Strike. rmm tb* rhil*sipki* Tisms. Msccr Catxa, Match 7.— The move ment among tbe miners in the anthra cite coal fields looking to a general strike, on the 16th inst., is becoming formidable and promises to be success ful. The negotiation* are not secretly conducted at all. The miner* allege that, owing to the oourse pursued by the Urge carrying companies, the wages have been reduced to tbe starvation point, with only half-time werk at that. Tbey believe that a strike will improve the trade and that, in any event, they might as well starve in idleness aa at work. The individual operator* are not averse to the strike. In fact, they be lieve that it will result in benefits to the trade. A prominent operator said: "It cannot make matter* worse and tb* present state of affair* means destruc tion." Tbe operators 'say that, even with the recent reduction in tolls, they cannot ship coal to tide over the Le high Valley Vailroad. With miners and operatives joined, a successful strike may be expected. Tbe difficulty now appear* to oe to induoe the Schuylkill men to "go out." K. Rraxcaa MULES, the well-known member of the Philadelphia Bar, argued - the demurrer in tbe Moselnt Iron Com pany rose before the Supreme Court on Thursday, and at two o'clock in the afternoon returned to his office, appar ently in his usual health and spirits. Almost literally without a moment's warning, be died et four o'clock in the arms of hi* assist ant. 8, W. Reeves. So sudden and unexpected waa the death, that the ink on n oheck which Mr. Miller had just drawn in favor of one of bis colleague*, Richard Ashhurst, wee wet when he expired. He wee accus tomed to work in hie private office, at the rear of the bouse rot Walnut street, n few door* below .Seventh, his students Mid hi* assistant occupying the Boot offices, facing the square. A rorxa nan in Pittsburg has sued a young lady for $126 worth of jewelry he gave her when she was in a state of single blcMtjinsi Midi rathfr jsttfti&l to her society.