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LOCAL NOTK M, in IM .1! column*, to RENT* per line. AxtorXt mors of nam*-* of candidate* for udlre, ft each. AxNOiMCIMKMi or Miißtiin Dstrif* Inverted free; hut ail obituary notice* will he charged ft cent* per line. SPATIAL NOTICE* *25 |*r cent. a!*v© regular rate*. IT i.s uow generally believed, says the Washington Post, that the exodus movement was invented and is prose cuted for the purpose of falsifying the next eeusus, and thus reducing South ern representation in Congress. The scoundrels who started this movement have no other interest in the negro than to utilize him for political pur poses. It is a basely cruel trick, but in perfect keeping with the course of Radical politicians toward the negro ever since ho became a i>olitical factor. To OUTAIN the passage of an act, to extract money from the State in which Sam bus a pecuniary inter est, he proposes to Bill, "if you vote for my bill, I will vote for the law, by which you can make a draft from the coffers of the State." This is a mu tual agreement of the lobby to deplete the Treasury for the mutual benefit of the parties. We believe it is called a combination. Is it buying votes? Or is it a mere combination against the public fiuances, and morally right? Where is the difference if Sam says to Bill, " vote for my bill and I will pay B'HH)," while Bill says to Sam, " you vote for my bill, and will pay BI,fXX)? In either case it is "you tickle me, and I'll tickle you," nnd presents a very nice distinction —one in which we are unable to discover a difference. Perhaps some of the bright intellects of the Pennsylvania Legislature could solve this problem. If not, please refer it to Mr. Quay of the State depart ment or Mr. William Kernble of Philadelphia. Should Hate Hnle .' What the American people need most of all is peace throughout the country and confidence in the stiihil- ( ity of our government, and immunity froin the wrangling.* and auuimositics engendered by war and eight years of degraded administration under Grant. To this our statesmen mid citizens should give their efforts. But will they do it ? We hope the Ixwt, but it will involve a great struggle. For al ready we have indications that one of the great parties is preparing to enter the contest for power under the ban ner of hnle, and hope for success by the annimosities they can revive of the past, to engender sectional strife lietween the North ami the South. Will they succeed ? We trust not. But it will depend upon the temper of the people themselves. If a majority are willing to be led blindly to such a contest, then indeed the hope for a united and prosperous country will be wrecked and perhaps never regain that respect and confidence in the ability of the people for self-govern ment enjoyed before the sectional war from which we emerged some years ago. Why should this animosity be permitted to continue? The prosperity of the North is as much dependent upon the prosperity of the Bouth, as the South is upon that of the North. Our interests are mutual. If the North is prosperous so is the Bouth. If the Bouth is weak and oppressed by bate and hostility from the North, so is the North in a corresponding degree from the South. We are one people, governed by the same laws, with the same hopes and the same des- tiny. This was decided by tho war. It is accepted by the people without regard to section, or creed, or color. This principle—this position of mu tual interest, and mutual destiny, the Democratic party assume and present to the people against the issue of hate and discord now so clearly fbrshad owed as the platform of the Republican party, under tbc inspiration of its stal warts, and the leadership of one who, as chief Executive, could uublushitig ly declare ho had uo respect for the Constitution. To make a fair show of fight on this "bloody shirt" issue, the stal wart Republicans in Congress are now making the initial campaign in efforts to retain the fraudulent appli ances incorporated in our statutes during the Gruut administration. The " test oath," the " bayonet at elec tions," and the employment of parti san supervisors and marshals to con ! trol nnd manipulate the polls are a j necessity. Hence Mr. Hayes, who fraudulently obtained bis power by I means of these appliances, is made to stand and insist by his veto, that the representatives of the people—the | majority in Congress shall" leave them . undisturbed to accomplish the same 1 1 • ; work, so effectual in placing a man in the l'rcsidgntal chair whom the people j refused to elect |y their ballots. The New Trump Un. The following is the full text of the net "To define and punish tramps,"as passed finally in both houses of the Legislature: SECTION 1. That any person going about from place to place begging, asking or mb. si*ting upon charity, and for tho purpose of acquiring inenojr or n living, and who shall have no fixed place of r- idence or lawful occupation in the county or city in which he shall be arrested, shall he taken nnd decile d to bo a trump and guilty of a misdemeanor, and on i*'livi< li- n shall )•■• -entenccd t" undergo an imprisonment bj separate and solitary confinement at lahor in the county jail or w>rkh"u- f„r not more than twelve months, in the discretion of the court; provided that if any per-ui so arrested > an prove by satisfactory evi dence that he does not make a practice of going about iu'gging or sulwi.ting upon alms for the pur| o*e aforesaid, in the man ner above set forth, ho shall not fx- deemed guilty of the offence herein ta-forc desert bad, and upon such proof shall bo discharged from arrest either by the magistrate before whom he is committed, or by the court upon hearing of the case upon writ of ha i beas corpus. Sr.' 2. Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling house ngainst the will or without ; the permission of the owner or occupant ; thereof, or shall kindle any fir" in the ; highway or on the land of another with out the owner's consent, or shall IK- found carrying any fire-arms or other dangerous weapon with intent unlawful, t<> do injury to or intimidate any oth"r person, which intent may l>" inferred bv the jury trying the*case from the facts that defendant is a tramp and so armed, or shall do or threat en to do any injury not amounting to a felony to any person "r to tho real or per sonal estate of another shall, upon convic tion, bo d-v-med guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall lie sentenced to undergo an im prisonment by separate or solitary confine ment at labor for a period not exceeding three years. SKC. 3. Any act of beggary or vagrancy by anv j*ir#on not a resident of this State shall Lo evidence thnt the person commit ting the some is a tramp within the mean ing of this a< t, subject to th" proviso con tained in section one of this act. Stcr. 4 Anv person uj-on view of any oflfi-nre described in this act may appre hend the otTendcr and take bint before a Justice of tli" j-eace or alderman, whose duty it shall lie, after hearing the evidence, to discharge or commit the prisoner for trial, as in the rase of other mi-demeanors. Hue, 6. This act shall not apply to any female or minor under the age of sixteen years, nor to any blind, deaf or dumb per son, nor shall it bo applicable to any maimed or crippled person who is unable to perform manual labor. SEC. li. This act shall take effect on and after Augu-t 10, l*<7b, and all a< ta or parts of act* inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. ■ ■ ■■ ■ ♦ ■ (lit--i I!estt i"ii of Stutew. from lh VuHisit.'i Test. Tho rhilailelphia Xorth Amtrriean, a representative Republican newspaper of the more respectable type, does not !*-• lieve much in the possibility of a solid Radical Nyrth. It think* the political battle-ground in the next and all sue ceding National contest* will bo in that sectional area included in Missouri, Ken tucky, Maryland, Went Virginia and Delaware, which it declare* ha*, a* far a* houiidarie* are concerned, no more to do with the South a* against the North than New York city or Indiana. We are pleased to agree with the Xrth American in at least one of these conclu sion*. Th* Pott has always claimed that the States mentioned, with the addition of Tenne**ee, formed no part of the .South proper, and should not he *o classed. Missouri, for instance, i* just aa much of a Northern state a* is Illinois or Indiana, and all three of thetn belong really to the West. I tela ware and Maryland are unquealionaby middle states, and Weat Virginia, Ten naee and Kentucky !>e!ong properly in the border front. It is high time for • revised classification after this man ner. The Radical organs of high and low degrees, following out the dictates of their peculiar party policy, have al ways exerted themselves to crowd as many of the Democratic states as possi ble into " the Houth," regardless of po sition or association. This, of course, with a view to raise a sectional issue and lire the Northern heart after the man ner of I&6I. It is high time for Demo cratic newspapers and the Democracy generally to refuse to longer aooept this preposterous arrangement. All Obstruction of the People'* Will by mi I'Hurper. I'rum IVmliliiKti.ti Put. Tho mini who won inducted into the l'lOMdintinl riltioe hy nii-un* violative alike of both tho spirit unit letter of tho Constitution has net himself U|p as j tho champion aii'l conservator ot con stitutional government. Tho mnn in whose Interest stales were disfranchised assumes the special guardianship of the j right of suffrage. The man for whom ! ! tho blackest crimes wero committed ! against tho freedom and purity ol elec tions, and who has degraded his olliee j by rewarding the criminals for felonies committed in his behalf, undertakes to lecture Congress and tho peoplo on the j sacred duty ot preserving intact the charter ot our liberties. The man who j owes his position not merely to crimes 1 committed by his o.vn party. I ut to pa j tnoiic tolerance of tho iMmnorory. reads a homily to a I'emocratic Congress j on tho spirit which should guide its dc ! liberations and the principles which should control its judgment. Considering all the circumstance* sur rounding tin-cie, tho antecedents of Mr. Hayes, nnd the precedents establish od by his party, his message is simply an insult to Congress and to the people whom Congress represents. Its assuinp- 1 lions ol superior patriotism are ino lent as its uttcmpt to enlarge on Co veto power. And the tone of simulat ed devotion, to the I'nion and tin- Coo stitution in which Mr. II tyes addresses the representatives of tho people, reach es to a height of hrs/.i-n effrontery to I which no man in the executive ollico j has hitherto attained, it seems to have been Mr. Haves' study not only to do a most unjustifiable unit scarcely tolerable | act, hut to do it in the way best caleu lated to provoke the anger ami resent rnent of the party which he presumes jto arraign. Ii does not satisfy him to i wield a stolen powi-r for the purpose of thwarting tin- deliberate purpose of the people, lawfully deel ired by tli• ir authorized agents, but be chooses to do this iii a manner that has every up- , pc.arancf of intentional and studied in sult. He appears to have concluded that the dominant party which would permit a defeat'-d candidate to enter 'ipon and fraudulently hold, for more than two years, the olliee which his •incumbency has disgrace ), might safe ly be drawn upon for forbearance to any extent. <'n this suppo-otioii, and on this alone, ran the matter arid man ner of tiiis document fie explained. There is no attempt in the message to prc-ent any new argument. Ail of that Mr. II lyes urges against tin proposed legislation was advanced by ins friends in the House and r.-y.- >t I, over ami ov r again, bv their assoi i,%i,- in the Senate. And the Democrat*, in both house* of - cord of his patty on that issue Ail the long debate was on this |>eint. It was the central idea, the pivot on which the whole matter turned. Hut for this proposition the bill woul 1 have bc<-n passed in two or three days. The Re publicans, however, decided to commit their party in favor of military sup.-r vision of elections. F--r this they fought, and in this Mr. Hayes concurs with an alacrity that amounts to posi live haste. He seizes the negative J>ow er of the veto, and uses it to insult nnd ' degrade the people, by declaring that they are incapab,e of conducting peace ful elections, lie takes a power, obtain ed by fraud, and employs it to east ob loquy on Republican institutions. He places millions of American citizens in the self degrading attitude of confessing that a century of experiment has clem nnstrated their incapacity for self gov ernment. For it amounts to this pre cisely. A people who csnnot be trusted t-a discharge their most solemn public duty without troops to keep them in subjection, are not fitted for if Republi can form of government. Tliey have not the virtue, the intelligence and tbe patriotism on which a republic can be built. From a party point of view, the I>eni oeracy have abundant reason to he sat isfied with the issue presented and the part taken by Mr. Hayes in shaping that issue. If there is any sentiment more generally diffused and more universally prevalent than any other, it is the senti ment, tbe vital principle, which ani mates the Democracy in demanding a divorce of the bayonet froni the poll*. ' bike a tornado the resistless sweep of an enlightened nnd patriotic public opinion will whirl Into retirement nnd oliscurity the party and the 1-aders who have chosen to go to tho people on ; the declaration that the ballot box is j not safe unless surrounded by bayonets. JT is not easy to regard fhe striped and elal/orately decorated feminine stockings as altogether a modest or re fined fashion. I lie ladies tells us that these expensive and frequently flashy articles are necessary for the present low open shoes Probably ( bMt they have been hanging in the store windows all winter, and have been bought by soroetnxly before the low shoes could have been worn with comfort. And the m HIO is going from had to worse. The Hoccoccio stocking is out in Vien no. The peculiarity of a pair of Boc caccio stockings is that one is black and the other white. The Idea came from the stage, from a comic opera, but it is now tbe fashion of the drawing roam. Forney'i Progrm. Drriiocrutlr Doctrines. Wo demand impartial, unprejudiced and uninfluenced juries. We demand the abolition of all test oaths. The only oath to be required is thnl the iilll-int will support the Const! tution as it is and obey tho laws. It is not what he /CM been, hut w hat he will be, that the country needs to he purlieu i lar about. We demand frco and untrammelled elections, open and obstructed poll*. <>n voting days the citizen must be in fact a* be is in luiliie, A Sovmr.io.v. We d emitnd economy of expenditures | in every department "f the Government. Wo demand a simplification of the rev i enue unit tariff laws, so that the thou , sand* upon thousands of men now being ; supported in office by overburdened tax-payer* shall themselves become pro ducers instead of mere consumers, and help reduce and sustain, instead of add ing to the national burdens. Wo demand u repeal or modification of tho internal revenue law, by which it eosts J iii.iSSl IHKI to collect three times that amount of taxes. This is wanton waste. Jt i* the creation of a class of office-holders who are forever to he sup ported by the working classes. If the internal revenue duties cannot be made *■ jf-collecting by some system similar to the bank check stamp system, let them he altogether abolished and the | deficit be obtained elsewhere. Wo demand, instead, a tax on in comes running over u stated amount— say three tbounnd dollar* per annuo . As it is, Yanderbill with one hundreit millions pays no more towards the sup port ot the Government than his chief clerk. There is many a man whose per " nut taxes are more than Yariderbiit'*, Garrison's nnd Scott'* added together. Let there be a fair income tax which shall bear equally upon all clas-cn in proportion to their revenues, and (hut rnuke the rich bear (heir proportion of the burden. We demand a cessation of internecine s!r,fe. S , long as tiie Southern people obey the laws tlic-y are entitled to the protection and advantage of them. For fourteen y.-ar* tln-y have been loyal to the Government, kupporter* of the laws, nnd true in every sense to the I'nion. They have tbe light to elect whom they please to office, arid should not be questioned for it. They are not i. i-ordm.it. dependents, or probation er*. Mississippi lias j reci-el) the rights in the I 111011 that Massachusetts has. I In- m in, b he senator or tramp, wl o endeavors to array one section against another or stir up bad blood I* a dt* unioru l. Wo demand pence, and an equal chance for all in the raro for pro-jM-rit-.. We also insist not only upon untrammelled elections, but ujton in honest count of the vote* cast. Summing up. the following i* The /'■>(' ill nri-cratic platform, li anybody can I'-iier it. be shall have >pa< i„ present it. If any body i opposed to n, iet u* bear from hitu : lirntui -It six*. Aooi.irin* or TOST OATHS. F MI FLECTIONS. AN II -NEST t.'ot .NT or THE VOTES CAST. E iftomrsj. AMMNISTKATIOX. A Kllll • TION or I'IIKE liol.OKO*. LVII AI. TAX ITION. PKACS HttMtES SECTIONS, AND PROS i-ERitr. .Mr*. Ilale Dead. I r m IS. ri. lAl'ij ).!• Hi 11. A REM ARE AH! K WON AN, WHO SI EXT FLKTV TEAR* IN I.ITERARY WORK. Mrs. Sarah Joseph Bucil Hale, for forty year* cditre* of GWry'i Lady lu d, died on Wednesday evening at the residence of her son-in law. Dr. L. 11. Hunter, No. 111.1 Locust street. Mm. Hale was bom at Newport, N. If., in IT'-s. *nd w** consequently in hi r nine- , ly fir-t year. In IMI she married Da vid Hale, a p-rominent lawyer, who died in IK_'o t leaving Iter with five children To support her family she enti re*! the pursuit of literature. In 1*27 she Wcame editress of the j l., R-p. The glittering cob! steel of his fact* should puncture the third term move ment efirct trolly, for it demonatrate* that General Grant, if he should be nominated next year, would fall as a candidate hy the weight of his oivn rcc- . ord. It would be enough against the I expediency of his candidacy to mention the faction* that would savagely oppose him, and tho*e that would give him a lukewarm sup|M>rt; and yet they would not be half so dangerous enemies as the , great army of thoughtful, conservative Republicans, who would either vote against him or not vote at all in case of j his nominator), because of the fact that he would he a third term candidate, and , because of the character of hi* admini*- I tration. Even the pros* of the itepub- j lienn party would not Ire united upon : him ; indeed, the strongest and most powerful moulder* of public opinion in the country and party would fight him to the laat hour that the poll* arc open. Pinkerton's detectives on Monday ar rested a person supposed to he one of the Manhattan Bank robbers. He of fered for sale at Prexel't office five thousand dollars' worth of bonds, the numbers of which correspond with those stolen from the hank. He give* the name of Henry Hall, but decline* to *ay anything. Hev. Allen R. Beach, the father of Secretary of State Beach, and the oldeet Baptist clergyman in New York State, died on Saturday evening at Syracuse, aged 83 yean. BA TCHELOB .1 Itoius' QBE AT RAILROAD SHOW. TELL IT THROUGH THE LAND THAT BATCIIELOR & DORIS' GREATEST RAII2ROAD SHOW Oil EARTH! M tiscu in, Mcnat more than Bny twelve Elcphnnls living. The most thoroughly trained animal ever M*n on the Continent. TIIE GREAT SIX TENT SHOW! With ita aucxcclled spocimon* of auto- ILLUMINATED Electric I ! PRESENTS A SCENE OF MAGNIFICENT SPLENDOR AND BRILLIANCY BEYOND DESCRIPTION. < i KAN lb IMI < )SI N(i, IMPKESSIVE GALA DAY PROCESSION, MARDI 6RAS CARNIVAL EVERY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK, TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY, DOORS OPEN AT 1 and 7. DON'T FORGET THE DAY, REMEMBER THE DATE, ADMISSION 28 Cts. TO AIT., AT ALTOONA, May 12; TYRONE, Mar IS? CLEARFIELD, May 14; PHILirSHURO, May 16; LOCK HAVEN, May 17; WILLIAMSPORT, May 19.