BHUGKRT A. FOUNT KR, Fdilors. VOL. I. Of (Cnvtvr jOrmcrrat. Torfu* 51.50 por Annum,in Ailvnnca, 9. T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning. April 17, 1879. SEE the speech of Mr. Rhtckliurn, published on our 3d. page. A RECENT telegram from Washing ton to the Republican newspapers of the North contains this alarming con undrum : "Is the President weaken ing*" Mie. WIIEEI.KR having vacated the chair, Senator Thurman was elected President pro tern, of the Senate, on Tuesday lost, by a vote of 28 to 18 for Mr. Ferry. SIGNS of weakness in the back-bone of Mr. Hayes still continue to lie a source of alarm and trouble to the stalwarts of his party. They greatly fear that he will ultimately decide that " discretion is the better part of valor," and approve the army hill. THE one huudrcd days of the regu lar session of the legislature is up to day. From this time the members are under pay of #lO per diem. No indication of an early adjournment. The Treasury plethoric, living good in Ilarrisburg, and hoarding cheap and not likely to advance lietween now and the 4th of July. IT is said that the widow Oliver HA* entered the lecture field and contem plate* making a tour of Pennsylvania, to huild up and strengthen any wank part* of the Cameron dynasty. If she could procure the companionship of the Jenks, they would draw large audieuces, comhining the strength of the Cameron and Sherman influencjr. TllK Honorable Harry White—nnr Harry, the former blatherskite of the State Senate, now in Congress, under took a few days ago, to say that the " law authorizing the employment of troops nt the poll* to keep the peace" was a Democratic measure, and the passage of the law received the sanc tion of Democratic congressmen. This was a gross and shameless |>erversion of truth, and Harry knew it, if he knew anything about it at all. The Hon. Procter Knott did not let him get off without exposure, which he made so complete, that the blush of shame would have mantled his cheeks had he becu less accustomed to such mendacity. IT is gratifying to learn that Mar shal Kerns, of Philadelphia, when he made up his list of election deputies, tlid not forgot one Drown, the no torious repeater, tfho was convicted and sentenced to the penitcnliury, in 1872, for voting twenty tiuics for Grant. Drown did not remain long in confinement. For services so valu able, Graut soon gave him a pardon. Since then he has been known a* Drown, the twenty-timer, and no doubt he faithfully earned his ten dollars in the service of Marshal Kerns at the last election. Drown is always ou hand when the purity of the ballot-box in Philadelphia is to l>c protected, and Republican officials always give him employment. A CAUCUS of the Republican Sena tor* wa* held on Saturday, in which there wa* a general interchange a* to the course to he pursued by the minor ity of the Henatc in regard to the army appropriation bill. It i* said no for mal action was taken, but it wo* agreed upon all hand* that every effort should lie made to defeat the passage of the hill in its present shape. Of course, tbey will —nothing lea* was ex pected. The Republicans will not surrender the army control of the elections if they can avoid it. Nor will they dispense with the employ ment of deputy marshal* and super visors, to manipulate the polls in the interest of fraud, if they can continue to maintain the law authorizing the use of such agencies. "SqtJAl. AMI KXACT AI.L MBN, Of WIIATCVK* STATE OK |*KHM'ANION, HELIOIOUS OR POLITICAt."-J.IT.r ! "Wis do not think tin* DEMOCRAT ought to compla'n of Mr. Yocutn for voting with the Democrat* on the army appropriation bill."— H'utehman. The llalc/unan labors under a great misapprehension. The DEMOCRAT did i not complain of Mr. Yocum's vote on the army bill; it only stated a fact. The Democrats did not need his vote to pass the bill, and that is about all we said on the subject, except that leading Republicans charge him with violating his pledges made to them when he was a candidate. If till the Green backers in the House had voted in the negative with the Republicans, the army hill would still have passed by a majority of four votes, so that the Democrats were not in the least | dcpcudcnt upon outside help for their success. Whatever Mr. Yocum's mo j lives nmy have been, it was not our purpose to criticise his vote either , favorably or unfavorably, and we shall not do so now. "As an honest man," he is at liberty to vote as he pleases, though his Republican sup porters do think it somewhat strange that, "as au honest man," he docs not j pay more respect to his promises. Perhaps he was also under promises to another class of supporters? Rut into that we will not inquire. Wheth er he docs, or does not hereafter show ■'good judgment, good sense and man ly indcjK'tidence," we are entirely will ing that he shall improve his oppor | tunities while he remains under the : excellent tuition, tender nursing and gentle care of the UufcbmiA A NATIONAL Emigrant Aid Society has lieen started in Washington city. It is headed by Zach. Chandler, Gar field, Hamlin, Windou, Teller and such rampant partisans, uevor distin guishes! for excessive philanthropy. The object no doubt is to colonize the colored man of the South in such States as will citable these stalwarts to maintain their ascendency over this i unfortunate race, not for any love they have for the negro, hut for the politi cal {H •wer they may wield by using him. This power they have lost in the Smth. The intelligent colored men there liegin to understand their true interest, and to know their true friends, and the Northern partisan, by 1 their car|>et-bag agencies, can no longer manipulate them, hence the necessity of withdrawing thetu to other jmrts. Many will go and are now emigrating, principally to Kansas, where their starving and distressed condition ex ' cites the deejiest commiseration of the benevolent everywhere. In the South I there is a large excess of colored popu lation, more than can be sup|>orted by the lalwir of the country. Any influence that withdraws this surplus, whether through pure philanthropy, or by the selfish promptings of jmrtisan interests, may eventually result to the benefit of the emigrant from the forced necessity thrown upon him of personal industry and frugality to obtain a livelihood, and at the same time relievo that great I country of the worthless and vicious j class of idlers who now overrun and ! impoverish it. ACOORIUWO In the late Secretary of the Senate in hi* testimony before the Wallace committee, it cost $150,- 000 to elect the 122 Republican* to Congress, who now vote to maintain a standing army to terrorize and control honest voter* at the poll*. Thia money was squeezed out of the office-hoWer*, with Hayes' and Schurz'a consent. It cost over a quarter of a million beside* that for United State* marshal* and supervisor*. Thi* amount was Ntolen from the taxpayer* by order of Dev on* and Hayes. On the-other hand, to put the 148 men into Congress who voted last Saturday for a free* ballot and unintimidated elections, it cost leas than $5,000, accord to Mr. Dun can 8. Walker'* testimony, ail of it the free-will offering* of men who be lieve in Democratic principles. Care fully studied, there will bo found to lie much food for thought in these simnly stated facts BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, AI'RII, 17, 1879. IN the year 1875, Mr. Evarts, the present Secretary of the State under Mr. Hayes, Appeared as one of the speakers at an immense mass meeting, held in the city of New York, to pro test against the unconstitutional use of the itriny in the southern States by the Grant administration. Oil that occasion he made a great speech, in which he took a decided stand in favor of civil methods of government in time of peace, and called upon the ]<■ plo to demand " the absolute ab stinence of the federal power from in terference in the Slates except upon the invitation of the legislature for the suppression of actual violence, and ujsui its withdrawal immediately and necessarily after that violence is suppressed." These words were then uttered by Mr. Kvarts, and utile** his opinions of the exigencies in which the " federal power" can lie lawfully exercised have very materially chang ed since tliut meeting was held, ho will scarcely a*k or expect Mr. Hayes to veto the army appropriation bill bc cnuse it repeals eight words of a sec tion of the law that permits the pres ence of federal soldiers at election ]HIIS on the pretence of preserving the peace. IT is now generally conceded that tho bill appropriating four millions of dollar* froifl the .State treasury for the payment of the damage* occasioned hy the Pittsburg riot* is dead, at least lor the present session of the Drgisla turc. The consideration of the bill was indefinitely postponed, and while it* friends may move for a rc-consitlcr atiou, they no longer liojs- for success. Aside from the grave question of the right or duty of the State to assume the |ayment of losses arising from local disturbances, this measure has from the start been surrounded by bad influences —influences that gave it, whether justly or unjustly, the a|e pcarance of a big steal of money from the treasury of the people. We are glad to record the fact that the Repre sentative* of Centre county have from its first introduction into the House been consistent and unwavering in their opposition to its passage, and we doubt not will be so to the end. Ist taking this position they certainly rep resent the wishes of their constituents, who can say to them for their votes in the various stages of legislation that the bill reached, " well done, good and faithful servants." A VtßiiixiA military company n few days ago made a friendly vi*it to a company in Washington city. They carried, very properly, the flag of the Stale of Virginia. The loyalists, par excellence, connected with the (J. A. K. and the Executive department* seeing a company of soldier* from the South, parading under a banner not familiar to them, concluded it wa* a " lirbrl Flay." They liecame greatly excited, and called a meeting and denounced the Virginian* in unmeasured abuse for thus appearing in the presence of the truly loyal in the National capital. It wa* all a mistake of course, they were not familiar with the ensign of Virginia, and nbver having venturer! nigh enough to a Confederate flag to know the di (Terence, *honld lie excused, if they can have the mini lines* to make a proper apology to the Virginian*. TIIK absurdity of making juror* in the federal courU of the •South take the "test oath" is well illustrated in the eaww of the citizens of South Caro liua, now on trial in the City of Charleston, for alleged violations of the election laws. This oath is to the effect that the deponent never aided or alwtted in any way in the late civil war. The judge of the court in which this oath ia administered himself gave a son to the Coufederato navy; and of the officers of the court, the district attorney, the clerk and the marshal served as soldiers in the Confederate army. These men are now loyal fed eral officials, and not one of them can take the oath they insist on applying to jurymen in order to increase the chances for convictions in these ca*cs of political persecution. ILIE special Washington corres pondent of the Ilarrisburg I'alriot gives au account of the opening of the debate in the Senate, on Monday, on the army bill. It rays that Withers, of Virginia, began the discussion on the Democratic side, and was followed by Rlaine, "who flung out the folds of the gorv nether garment in regular stalwart style. Wallace followed in one of his elosclv reasoned argumenta tive efforts and was frequently inter ruptcd bv Rlaine and Hoar. When Rlaine asked liirn whether the federal troops pre-cut at the elections iu Ken tucky in 18ti4 were not there t<> pre vent confederate soldiers from controll ing the hallot-box, Wallace replied that his interlocutor meant to use a law enacted for war times to shackle freemen in limes of peace, which brought down the galleries." THAT veracious nftf high-toned Cameronian journal, the Ilarrisburg T'leyraph, says that " Curtiu is alsjiit to l>e given a stolen vote in Congress." Oh ! bless your* ml, no, Mr. Tckyraph; Gov. Curtin will be given a vote iu Congress because he was honestly elected to Congress hv a majotitv of the lawfully qualified electors of the Twentieth Congressional district, as the evidence now la-fore the House committee on elections w ill dii* he* to the satisfaction of Congriw* and the country. This is Curtiu's case in a nutshell. "IN the interests of the people," said Senator Wallace in his ar gument on the army bill, lost Monday, in the Senate of the United States, "In the interests of the people we must restore the original principles from which four years of war have divc*t*l the government, bring the military to strict subordination to the civil jsiwcr, permit a free system of laws to be based upon a fnv ballot, and expunge a standing menace upon free institu tions." Noble words. Thanks to the distinguished Senator who uttered them. IN the distribution of committee chairmanships, speaker Randall ha* assigned four to Pennsylvania. Mr. Coflroth is at the head of iuvalid pen sions ; Wright of the causes of the depression of lalxir; Clymer of ex penditurcs in the State detriment, and Wise of manufactures. JUDGE KKU.KV announced in Con gress the other day that Mr. Garfield's revolution is only Pick-wickian revo lution ; and, however ridTculnusit mav appear, our Republican friends pre tend to believe that it is still going on. MOST of the general legislation of Congress during the entire period of Republican domination was deliberate i ly and intentionally aggressive upon the I clearly defined and unquestioned right* of the state*. It proceded from the settled purpose of the Republican par ty to gradually centralise undelegated j lowers in the General Government. This expansion of Federal authority, this enlargement of its domain beyond the boundaries set up in the funda mental law, thia infringement upon rights which the state* were careful to retain and guard' when they gave the central government its charter, com menced with the inauguration of the Republican |rty. and wa* continued until a Democratic House called a hall in its aggressive and subversive career. In attempting to bring the Government liack into the sphere of action prescrib ed by the Constitution the I>emocnatic party is discharging the highest duty of patiiotism and statesmanship. And the people who sent the Republican party out of power because of iu repeat ed assaults upon their rights, and be cause of its dangerous centralising tend ency, will give their hearty approval and support to every lionest eflort looking to a restoration of constitutional methods. Washington Post, Captain Edward L. Young died at Norfolk, Virginia, last Thursday morn ing. aged 97. He commanded a priva teer in the war of 1812, was the oldast citisen of Norfolk and probably the old est Mason in the United States, haflng belonged to that order sixty-six years. A farmer from lterks, going Weal re cently, passed through Snyder county in a wagon with hia family. Tha latter consisted of a wife, eleven children, five dogs and a cat ana kittens. GENERAL NEWS. The taking of the census next year will exist about $1,000,000. There urc about 7 men employed in the railroad shops at Itonovo. S. F. Seely, editor ot the .lersev Shore lltrald, i in quite feeble health. A snoring mutch i* to oorrie off in Itarri*biirg. tho nmn making tho most notes in a given time to receive a prize A young mnri in Nitlladstiurg boasts that he hii* kissed a girl 450 limes in six hour* inn! three laps, unci thinks he lis* won the premium. Geo. b. I. Painter, Esq-. ha* retired frotn the publication of the Money //bminiry, Hti't is * acceded by bis sons, IS . 'J'. A I'. It. I'auill r. A riew school hou-e is to be built at Huntingdon, under a contract ol $15,- 295. Preparations for tha Luildiug com ineni ed last Monday. 1 lie Kentucky Republican State Con vention at Louisville last Thursday was very hugely attended. Walter Evans wa nominated for Governor. A band of gypsies occupying wagons fitted up with every convenience and drawn by well-fed horses driven by col ored hostlers recently i.aasod through Lancaster county. Three boys w*r drowned in the Ohio liver, opposite Wellsville. Ohio, on Fri day, by the u|mcttitig of a *kitl'in which they rowi-d out to enjoy the swell frotn a passing steamer. An energetic effort will be made by publishers to secure a diary in which Madame IGnaparte made copious note* of the leading events in her life. Dur ing life she was offered SIO,OOO for tbee li lies by a B'nton publishing house. Miss .luiia Eveline Smith, of (ilaton bury, Vt., the only survivor of the .Smith sisters, celebrated for Ibeir resistance to taxation without representation, was married on Wednesday last to Amoa (!. Paiker, of New Hampshire. Itotii bride and groom are in their s'.Uli year. < diaries W. McK cough, chief .steward of the steamer Bohemian, from Liver pool, was arraigned before a United ••latei iVunmissuin at Boston, Monday, on the charge of smuggling small par eels of Irish whisky. Edward D'Malley was also arrested for receiving the liquor. Both parlies were held in S.kJU eachj Providence Savings Bank and Trust Company, of Providence, Pa., suspend ed last Saturday, 1-etng unable to meet its obligations after having taken ad vantage of the sixty-days laws. The liabilities are $75,(100 and the aels IP>I.OOO, principally in notes and bond*, of which probably not more tffan half can be collected. The proposition of the coal miners at New Castle, Pa., that wages that have l>ecn reduced now from six to seven and a half per cent, for various classes | of work and that the remainder of the master's demands be submitted to arbi tration has been rejected. A long and fruitless discussion followed this action. Meetings were held last Saturday at which seventeen thousand men were present. They declared their determi nation f<> resist the masters' demand. flood Friday wa* nWrtml in New I \ ork in an appropriate tiunnrr. Rusi ! nc M of Ihc Slock, Produce and Cotton i.i"'liii)!i , were entirely *u|>endod, while many stores and warehouse* were cloned. None of the State Court* were lin aeanion and very diltle wan done i around the municipal and Federal de partment*. Services were held in ail I churehe*. which were attended by large congregations In Brooklyn the Courts and municipal departments were also , cloed and churcke* were filled with i worshippers. Thursday morning last, Mr. Samuel i Stem, owner of a large tannery nair j Waterford, Juniata county, wa* killed on the railioad. Wednesday night in company with Joseph Peering, a mer chant of Johntown, Juniata county, he left Philadelphia on the Pacific express, ] having a tirket to Ifarrisburg where he intended stopping until morning, and then going went on the way paanenger | train. The supposition is that in the | neighborhood of Manna street the man wa* aroused from a sleep by the brake man announcing "Harrinburg," and thinking that the train had passed the station, plunged off at that place and was struck by the fast line going cast, •which passes the Pacific at that point. Me waa 65 years of age. Mr. Charles K. Pugh, who succeeds Mr. O. Clinton Gardner as General Su perintendent of the Pennsylvania rail road, assumed the duties of the office on April 1. The elevation which Mr. Pugh has now attained through a series of promotions ia an evidence of what hard work and merit must bring to pass. Mr. Pugh began railroad life aa a freight agent at Newport, Perry county. Pa., in 18.10. In three year* he waa made conductor of a passenger train running between Philadelphia and Pitta burg. After serving one year he was promoted to the responsible position of train disnatchei of I lie Philadelphia di vision. Two years later found him aa sistant train master of the same div aion, and six years later he waa appoint ed general agent of the company at Philadelphia. In last position hi* satisfactory performance or its exceed ingly onerous duties during the oenten jtly increased his already established reputation. During the year over one hundred end fifty thousand cars were moved and more then three millions of passenger* transported with out e single accident. In his present position Mr. Pugh possesses the oonß denoe of ell the employee who know him. TEHIS: #1..J0 |N-R Annum, in Athan<-<>. Petrification. TIIE IJ'JI/T OV THE I.ATE UHJAHIN II.SC EKI.V, A roHMKR STATE I'tINTEE, rot) lib TO HAVE IE) Ull If. I). Er' tdy .Statt J'mrnal slid Man- printer for a term of years. wlio died suddenly after traveling from Philadelphia to Pittsburg one very hot day about two year* ago. Mr. Bingerly was a very heavy man weighing from to 4'*) pounds. He wu interred at Pittsburg. A few week* ago the rela tives of Mr. H. ma?, which was due June 30, 1875. The decree includes interest on notes used by firvin. NO. I<>.