BHUGKRT HE FORSTER, Editors.
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Slir (Emtrr jPrmomt.
Torma t1.50 per Annnra.ln Advance.
S. T. SHUOCRT and R H. FORSTER. Editor*.
Thursday Morning, May 1, 1879.
CHAIRMAN SEEER ha* called a meet
ing of the members of the Democratic
State Committee at the Boltou liousc (
llarrisburg, on the 7th of May* at 10
oclock A. M., to fix a time for holding
the State Convention, and the tnn*a- •
lion of other important business.
THE Legislative appropriation biil
passed the House on Saturday la.-;,
with the repcaliug clause attached, by
a strict party vote. The only Repub
lican voting with the Democrats is Mr.
Yocum of this district. lie did right.
He represents a Democratic district,
and it is but fair to give a Democratic
vote.
IN this week's DEMOCRAT we pub
lish the great sjieech of Senator Wal
lace. It will repay a careful rending,
and furnish u clear view of the impor
tant issue* under consideration in Con
gress. The impregnable position of
the Democracy in demanding/ree tlec- 0
Hone, and subordination of the mili
tary to civil power in time of peace,
is powerfully discussed by the Senator.
THE committee to investigate char
ges of bribery in connection with the
Riot Bill, do not seem to have made
any progress, or even determined the
form the investigation is to assume.
The chairman, Dr. Gatchell, and Dr.
Doyle of Huntingdon favor confining
it to members alleged to have been
corruptly approached, while others are
in favor of following the precedent
adopted in the Boom investigation, by
examination of all the mcmliersof the
House in alphabetical order.
THE New Orleans Timet favors the
removal of the scat of government
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,
and urges the Constitutional conven
tion now in session to take action to
that end. Great cities are not per
haps desirable places for State govern
ments, but if the object of the removal
is to get rid of rogues, it is useless.
This class of patriots will travel as
readily to Baton Rouge, as they do to
Harrisburg in this Htate, in pursuit of
the plunder that is supjiosed to be dis
tributed by State Legislatures.
A CONVENTION is to lie held nt
Vicksburg, Miss., next Monday, to con
sider the colored exodus. Gov. Brown
and other prominent men have issued
a circular addressed to the people of
the Mississippi valley, urging every
county, parish and city, and every
State along the river to be represented
by delegates. The colored people are
specially called upon to send repre
sentatives.
The object of this convention is to
"take into consideration the present
agitation of the labor question," and
no doubt to take such measures as
will allay the excitement produced by
the Northern demagogues, or to sup
ply any deficiency which the negro
exodus may create. The Chinese im
portation may become popular.
HOUTH CAROLINA, having convicted
her rogues, is disposed to he merciful
in punishment. The Governor has
pardoned F. B. G'ardoza, ex-State
Treasurer, and Robert Small*, ex-Con
gressman, both convicted of embezzle
ment in the State courts, and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for a term of years-
They are colored men and were mere
instruments of the infamous carpet-bag
reign that so desolated and robbed
that State. No doubt this fact con
trolled largely to secure clemency
from a Democratic executive. The
other thieves, such as John J. Patter
son and the gang that trained with
him, will be allowed to ran, and so
long as they will keep themselves at a
respectable distance, will be allowed to
escape the South Carolina penitentiary,
whatever their fate may be elsewhere.
" KYI AI. AM. EXACT JUSTIC* TO ALL MEN, OF WIIATXV KH MATE OK PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OK POLITICAL.
IN view that over three millions of
| the appropriations for schools and other
purposes heretofore made, still remain
unpaid, and no funds provided to meet
them, Treasury Noyes has very prop
erly shut down on the pay of mem
bers of the Legislature. That distin
guished hotly of statesmen ami econo
mists have now hcen in session near
f'.ur months, and have not passed a
single measure to meet the exigence s
of the Treasury reported to them at
the opening of the session, nor a single
bill of public importance. They have
consumed the session thus far on such
measures as would a third large divt'es
to the lobby, if not to the pockets of
the venal hucksters who find their way
into the seats of legislators. It would
lie unjust, indeed it would lie untrue
to say that all incmlierH of the Legis
lature are derelict in duty in the
prompt performance of the business
they are sent to transact, but unfor
tunately a certain set of men are re
turned year after year, professional
politicians, who have much experience
and expert in exjiedients to prolong
the session to the full exteut that the
law will aflbrd them pay, and possess
the controlling influence of the body
for that purpose. This class desire to
leave the public busiucas in such form
as will necessitate an extra session,
hut the position taken hv the Treas
urer, if he adheres to it strictly, as he
should, and we trust will do, will have
a happy influeuce in forcing at least
such legislation as will relieve the em
barrassment of the Treasury so far as
to enable them to draw their owu pay
for the present session under the rul
ing of the Treasurer. This will IK
some relief, even if an extra session
has to be called to procure the neces
sary legislation laid over, and provide
salaries for member* during the bah
ance of the year. It only costs $4,000
per diem to run the Legislature.
Tin: twenty-sixth annual conclave
of the Grand (V.mmandary of Knights
Templar and appendant ordcrof Penn
sylvania is to take place in the asylum
of Allen Coramandary at Allentown
on the 27th of May. The arrange
ments have been completed and the
indications are that this convocation
will lie very full and present one of the
most imposing displays of the Order
yet made in the State. On the 29th,
there will lie a review and parade of
the subordinate Gommamlarics, for
which great preparation* are being
made by Commandaries in Philadel
phia, Pittsburg, and throughout the
State. During the session an election
of Grand officers will take place, and
several amendments to the constitution,
and other important measures will lie
considered. We arc not aware that
the Commandary of this place will be
represented in any considerable num
bers.
"STAY where you are, ami so con
duct yourselves, that men will lie
hound to respect you," is the sound ad
vice given by Fred. I)ougla*s to the
colored men of the South. This from
one of their own race, who has spent
a long life in eloquent appeals for their
good and their welfare, is in singular
and suggestive contrast with the ad
vice of their pretended friends, the
demagogues representing the " Emi
grant Aid Bociety," who under spe
cioua promisee induce these unfortu
nates to desert their homes in the
South to face the, to them, inhospitable i
climate of the North, to starve, and
suffer and die, as they are now doing
in Kansas uncared for by the heart
less wretches who inveigled and de
ceived them.
IT has been published that the offi
cers of the Henate were removing
wounded Union soldiers from that
body. Henalor Wallace contradicts
this statement, and says, there was no
■ucb purpose; that there were but four
such, who were employes of the Henate,
three messengers and one in the sta
tionery room, ill of whom were
named to be retained and all Repub
licans
HELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 1,
Wonderful Escape.
The terrible news was telegraphed
over the wires 011 Wednesday of la*t
week of the entombment of seven |>or
sons in a mine of the Lehigh and Wil
kesbarre Coal Company, at Sugar
Notch. The prisoners were six men and
a young lad-—a messenger, who had
been dispatched with 11 mule to warn
them of the caving in of the mine, all
other persons employed in the mine
having made their escape. It was not
certainly kndfcn whether the messen
ger had reached the men or not, and
j serious apprehension was felt as to
: their fate. A hundred miners have
; been constantly at work night and
day, and a* day after day wore away
relays were added to the force al
ready there. But each day repeated
the same sad news that great difficulty
was being met with in the work and
the men had not yet been reached,
and towards the last all liojie of their
recovery alive was given up. But on
Monday morning, after five days and
nights of imprisonment, they were
reached—not suffocated, or drowned,
or even suffering much, hut engaged
in the work of cooking some mule
steak for breakfast. The messenger
had reached them in safety, ami on the
second dny they killed the mule
and had sustained themselves on its
flt*h, while a stream of water fortu
nately running through the mine had
given them tho needful refreshment.
Where there had been sorrow there
was now joy, and one hundred dollars
was presented to each of the men bv
tho stockholders of the Lehigh aud
Wilkosbarre Coal Company. A con-
Art for the benefit of the men was to
he given at Music Hall, Wilktwbarre,
yesterday, at which Charles Hawkin-,
one of the prisoners, was to tell the
history of their incarceration. It wa*.
110 doubt, a large benefit aud au en
thusiastic gathering.
Cot- LOWE, formerly a confederate
Colonel, but now a Greenback mem
ler of Congress, on being interviewed
by a correspondent of the I'ittshurg
/W, has been reviving some of the
early history of the war times on Sena
tor Logan, of Illinois, when he sym
pathized with the rebellion. Col Iwe
in that interview stated that there
were " two or three companies from
Illinois in the confederate service;
that he had talked with one of the
officers aud some of the men, and they
said they were enlisted to constitute a
part of Gen. I/ognn's command in the
confederate army; that such reports
were current in his section and he had
never heard any denial of them." It
does not suit Igan now to have his
early aym]>athics revived, and instead
of pleading re|>entance and subsequent
service in the union array in bar of his
former devotion to the Houth and it*
cause, he pronounces the statement in
a card to the Washington Republican,
" false and slanderous." Col. Lowe
then addresses several epistles to him
to know whether those offensive words
were intended to apply to him person
ally. Logan makes no reply, and
Lowe then sends a formal challenge
for a meeting " outside the District."
Logan still fails to respond, and Lowe
publishes a card from which we take
the following:"
" I will not brand John A. Logan a* a
liar, lot he ii a Senator of tha United
Stele*. I will not post him as a scoundrel
and a poltroon, for that would be in viola
tion of tha local statutes. Rut I do pub
lish him as one who knows how to insult
hut not to satisfy a gentleman ; and 1 in
voke upon him tha judgment of tha hon
orable men of tb* community."
GEN. JAMES HIUKI.IJS has been ap
pointed agent to prosecute the claims
of Missouri against the Federal Gov
ernment. These claims are very large
and the position to which the honest
old veteran is chosen is one of great
responsibility, and we trust will also
be one of fair emolument to him per
sonally.
CHOSEN by fraud himself, Hayes
desires the perpetuation of the fraud
machinery for his successor.
THE ARMY A ITROJURATION BILL
passed the Sonntc on Friday last in
the same form it passed the House,
without any amendment, and was
sent to Mr. Hayes for liis approval
or veto on Monday. That fraud
ha* not disappointed his stalwart
masters, hut ha* returned the hill
with his veto. Thtswill intensify the
struggle, if it does not result in great
inconvenience and disnst'-r to the
military arm of the public service.
The Democrat* have met this issue
entirely as 11 question of principle, ami
cannot afford to surrender under any
circumstances. The rights of the peo
ple must he r< scucd from executive
and military encroachments. The
ballot and havonct must Ire separated,
1 lie military must is- subordinate to
the civil power, or our republican
government is a fraud, and not what
jUf founders inteuded it to lx* in it* in
stitution! It is not a mere polite a]
question to determine which political
party is to IK- benefitted, hut one of
; grave and overpowering importance,
I whether our government is the mere
play-thing of the "one man" power
to Weild a- the commander-in-chief of
the army to control the elections of
the people, a* hi* interest, or the politi
cal interest* of his party may deem
proper. In such an isctie, the Demo
crats, the true friends of republican
government, cannot recede, no matter
what may be the consequence* now or
in the future, ami we trust they will
not. The pretense set up that mili
tary interference is already sufficiently
provided against; thai supervisors
and marshals are necessary to guard
elections; that legislative attachments
to appropriation hills is wrong and
revolutionary, is mere bagatelle. We
have had too many practical illustra
tion*, to accept that kind of stuff" now.
The army ha* l>een ul unlawfully
and tyrauically to control our elec
tion*. Supervisor* and marshals have
been stationed at our poll* to aid the
perpetration of frauds. Legislation
ha been male by atachmcnt to ap
propriation bill*, ever since the founda
tion of the government, and by no
|arty more frequently than those who
now make the objection. Indeed some
of the oppressive measures now in
question were enacted by that party,
by attachment to appropriation bills,
ami for which he, who now fraudu
lenlly hold* the veto power, voted as a
member of Gongrea*.
But it is not a matter of wonder
that Mr. Have*, independent of the
desire Jto gratify the Radicals, should
have some affection for the measures
the Ik-mocrats desire to repeal. They
were the foundation work upon which
the great fraud was built which placed
him in the position to wield the nega
tive power of a lawful President.
FARMERS will do well to read the
articles in the agricultural columns of
this paper, which are carefully pre
pared weekly by one of the most ac
complished agriculturalists in this or
any other section of the Htate. The
selections and editorial discussions of
subjects pertaining to the interests of,
of farmers are adapted to time and
season, with strict reference to the
good that may result from the dis
semination of correct and practical
results. Indeed one month's reading
of this department will more than re
pay the farmer for the small amount
charged for a year's subscription to
the DEMOCRAT.
An unusually warm summer is pre
dicted by Professor Piassi Smith, lbs
astronomer royal of Scotland. lie bas
es bis predictions on the records of the
temperature of Edioburg as registered
during tbs last forty yean by the earth
thermometer of the observatory of that
city. Tbeae observations show, ha says,
that a great heat wave comes upon the
earth without presumably from tha sun
about every eleven years; and it appears
that the next beat-wave may be ex-
Kted in the summer of this year,
feasor Smith thinks those seasons
are likely to be glowingly hot, and the
following winter exceptionally mild.
Milt Creak, Huntingdon county, had
a blase the other day whieh resulted in
the destruction of a large ooach and
wagou manufactory.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—Oo to Mctyuistion's for your carriage*
if you want n good article.
I lie gcntlemnn who occupy ..fllces in
tho Court Houmt all purchased new hat*
.Saturday afternoon last
—The mercantile iirin of Wolfe, Totter
tc Co., of Snow Shoo, dissolves partnership
to-day, and tbuse elegant business men,
Wnurs. J urn if* Sornmerville and K. W.
Crid'-r, will assume control, under the firm
name of Sommerville, Crider <V Co.
—1 he collection of carpet rags for the Y.
M. C. A. carp, t ii proceeding aatufactor
ily. They will be gathered together this
week and taken to the weaver. The
total amount will no doubt exceed the
number of |*>urii* required.
j —Mr. George Hop pes not only hat the
larg<-t and finest hotel in the- State, but
also a truly wonderful ben. Aa tho fruit
i .if this heri he in able to serve up to bii
guest* egg* which rrcaiure **ll inches.
Oh, at thU grand hotel
All can live in bliss,
When they can faro high every day
Upon such egga a* tbia.
A medical examination of the membera
of ( ornpany I), National Ouard, of Hunt
ing ion, wa instituted on Tuesday morning
of last week by the • ffi'irnt Surgeon of the
Fifth Regiment, l>r George F. Harris, of
! this place. Fifty.one of the fifty-eight
j members of the Company pasted tbeexam
, ination. It is announced that Ltr. Harris
will cmduct the examination of Com {.any
C, of Holiidavsburg, this evening.
—Judge !>•?), at th" Huntingdon county
court, recently, in sentencing two prxini
found guilty of jumping on coal cara and
throwing off as much a* th<-y could carry
away, warned all persona guilty of such
practieea that he would hereafter aend all
convicted of the offense to tho penitentiary.
The railroad company has suffered much
loss in this respect and are determined to
put a stop to the practice.
Nzw BLANKS roa CONSTABLES' RE
TURN*.—Judge Cummin, of Lycoming
county, feeling the necessity of a reform
| in the matter of constable*' returns, has
I prepared * new blank form upon which
' constables of that county henceforth are to
make their returns. The form is spoken
of highly, and there may be failures in it
which will commend themselves to the
judges and constables of this county :
THE Hrrraxs.
Retailers of liquor—Under this item
| must be given the names of all pwraona in
the bailiwick engaged in retailing liquors,
whether licensed or not.
Retailers of merchandise—Here must be
I given names of all retailers of merchan
j lise, whether licensed or not.
K-.ads and bridges not kept in repair—
If there are n<> defe< u to report, the word
i "none" is to be written.
| Index boards not up at the intersection
' "f public r..ads—This is to be carefully cm.
plied with, snd defects must be remedied.
Deer or other game killed or sold out of
season—Names of offenders; names of
witnesses
Fish caught, or sold, or offered for eale,
in violation of law—Names of offenders;
name* of wilnes*os.
• Gambling houses—Name* of offenders;
names of witnesses.
Disturbance of the peace at elections—
Names of offenders ; names of witnesses.
Vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed
liquors, or admixtures thereof, sold with
out licenses—Nsines of offenders; names
of witnesses.
Vinous, spirtuous, malt or brewed liquors,
or any admixture thereof, sold on Sunday
Name* of offenders ; names of witnesses.
Vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed
liquor*, or any admixture thereof, sold to
minors—Names of offenders; names of
I witnesses.
Vinous, spirtuous, mall or brewed
i liquors, or any admixture thereof, sold on
an election day—Names of offenders;
names of witnesses.
Vinous, spirtuous, malt or brewed
I liquors, or any admixture thereof, sold to
any person visibly affected by intoxicating
drfnlts—Names at offenders ; names of wit
nesses.
Keepera of public house* knowingly al
lowing or permitting any spirituous or malt
liquors, win* or ewer, to be drank on or
within their bouses or premises on Sunday
—Name* of offenders ; names of witnesses.
Intoxicating drinks wilftilly furnished,
by gift or otherwise, for use as a beverage
to any person of intemperate habits, to
any minor, to any Insane persons, or to any
person when drunk or intoxicated—Names
of offenders; names of witnesses
Belling or delivering intoxicating liquor
to a person having the kabit of drinking
liquor to excess, after notice in writing not
to do so Is given—Names of offenders;
names of witnesses.
The return Is signed by the Constable
and enrtifled as follows :
Lresuisa Caravv. ss.
. * Uw shm suesT OnasssM*. hav
ing M* 4sy . I* —, ***** his hwsg.gvig
Mere. **H Meg gvtj mm la w*a evert. AM lifi
sag that his **M Mere as Or islslli la (merer* sag
tree • 1W has* f Ms know Mcv Ml hrlM. mm 4 hv
bother with Uwl U*rt It mm (Jam in Ihv MSllwtrg
kvg vag welehslesl I* vtotoUaa ml MM. Istt* ngwtel
tag lbs nln ef Wqear la thtv raaxawwivntlth, rime*
ss bvrntebsshrv revel sag Sj Mas, Ss the heel eg Ms
keoatagg* aa* belief
Alter srMrh hwUbg.
■1 ' s CWk ft &
Any Constable foiling to make this re
turn, as required by taw, U liable to in
dictment and severe penalties Any Con
stable making a false return It liable to in
dictment for the high crime of perjury.
TEKMN: $1.50 |Hr Annum, in Advance.
GENERAL NEWS.
Brooklyn ha* already had one death from
hydrophobia.
The N<-w York canal* will be opened to
navigation on the nth in#tant.
The employe* on the Pennsylvania Kail
i road nj j.' ar in new uniform* to-day.
A lot of people hare banded U/gether in
We*tern Michigan to live 1(10 year*.
l'ari* will celebrate her centennial No
vember 18, 18H4—Pari*, Ky., by the way.
Kx-Judgo Gsorge G. Barnard, of tbo
New York Supreme Court, died Sunday
morning.
The |>ee<pie e.f Venango rejoice because
their depot is burned down and they can
! now have a new one.
The pub.ir school* all omr the country
arc introducing plain sewing as one of the
branches* to he taught to both bov* and
girl*.
Colonel Thorn a* A. Scott write* from
Egypt that his will be at home in June to
resume hi* dutie* a* President of the Peon
•ylvania railroad. *
General Fit* John Porter is Inclined to
i smile at the B*wi|ap*r statement that ho
want* to wnd hi* *<n Us West Point, lis*
! son* are all daughter*.
George B- acb' barn, near Liberty, Ind..
the largest barn in the State, wa* destroyed
by fire on Friday night, together with*all
it* content*. Lom estimated at $2J,000.
The Clarion county naner* state that the
lumber seew n ha* ended with them, and
the price* received for the limber were
b Iter than those that have ruled for many
J ears.
A meeting of the State Democratic com
mittee ha* been ealb-d by Chairman Hpoer,
of Huntingdon, at Harrlsburg, on May 7,
to fix the time and place for holding the
State convention.
Thursday morning, at about 8 o'clock,
fire was discovered in Strsnahan's block,
I. nion City, near Erie, and before aaaist
j ar.ee could be procured wa* beyond con
j troL D from $70,000 to $OO,OOO.
| August Belmont, while driving from
| Central Park, the other dev. was run into
■by a heavy team. Ho forcible wa* the con-
I cum ion that Mr. Belmont wa* precipitated
from hiicarr.age, sustaining severe injurlea.
Kdwin Booth wa* *hot at twice while
performing the lsn act of "Richard III"
ion Wednesday night of last week at Me
-1 icker • theatre, Chicago, The man who
fired the bot* is Mart Gray, a dry good*
j c lwk in that city. He was arretted*,
j "Colonel Leon," of California, !? year*
< old and forty inches high, who ba* made a
by exhibiting himself with circu*
lmt has ha/1 to retire from the
on account of ill health, will set
\ lie in Johnstown and probably ojsen a
j cigar store.
The perrirk say* a boy in Oil City cam*
•tumbling into the bouse with the remnant*
of a dr.en mas bed egg* in a bag and a
broken molassea pitcher, yelling : "I beet
| him solid and two lata to spare." Ho
thought the next lap, which was his moth
er *, was the hardest of any.
The mine* and coke work* in the entire
Youghiogheny region are working and the
famous strike in virtually ended, the men
returning work at the oli rate of twenty
five cent* pier wagon. The strike has been
disastrous le the industries of the entire
region, and general satisfaction it felt at
the resumption of work.
Jackson Pearson and Mia* Alice Seely,
of Washington township, Lycoming coun
ty, happened in Wiiliamsptort the other
'lay and resolved to get married. A mil
liner, from whom the young lady had
made some purchase*, surrendered the
cloak room for the ceremony, and the two
were soon made one.
Of Judge Boggs, who died at Kittanning,
recently, and who wa* one of the most
powerful jury lawyer* in that part of the
State, a Pitt-burg paper relate* the follow
ing "One hot day, while driving n load
of hay, he remembered that he had a case
in Court, and thither he wended hi* way
with hi* breeches tucked in hi* hoots, hi*
breast exposed and hi* hair plentifolly be
sprinkled with hay seed, be proceeded
with hit argument and won the case. "
Mi* Warner, of Chartier* township, Al
legheny county, lay dreaming, at the hour
of midnight, when her beau, his knee in
tuppiiance bent, should ak bar hand. She
awoke and found a man standing at the
fool of her bed. Bb# made no outcry, but,
with the determination of a woman tbo
oughly in earnest, took a 84-calibre home
pistol from under the pillow and commenc
ed to blase away. The intruder went out
of the window, taking a part of the sash
with him. and Mi*t W arner turned oa bar
side and finished out the nap.
By a decision in the London court* last
Thursday, in the case of tba " Bolivian
bondholders" as against P. A T. Collins,
the contractor* for the building of the
Madeira and Mamnra railroad in Braail,
$4,000,000 which have been locked up
awaiting the dissolution of an injunction
to prevent payment of certificate* for work
done by Use Collinses, which proceeding
has caused them great trouble and annoy
! ance, are mad# available for their pur
poses. The injunction proceedings have
dragged along for many months, and tba
result of the decision hat been to infusa
naw life and encouragement into the en
terprise.
Burglars blew open the safe of the La
conta, K. 11., National Bank, Thursday
night, securing about $4,000 and a quanti- ,
ty of aeruritia*. Tba preaideat of the hank |
In making a statement of its iosoaa said;
"The amount of cash taken was $4,178.
The bank wa* rubbed, of notas to the
amount of $190,000 and of $7,300 in cou
pon bonds, which bad been lodged as col
lateral for some of the notes. There were
la all nearly one hundred and fifty no tea,
ranging from s3* to $60,000. The bank
ha* a rompM#record of all those notes.
The lost to the hunk cannot exeaed 4 per
cent of its capital. In a atari cheat which
wa* not broken open there ware from
$30,000 to $BO,OOO Ik coupon bonds, the
tke property of special depositors and the
reserved cash fond of the hank ; $6,000 ft* J
greenback* and $1,600 in gold."
NO. 18.