aljr ttrntrr i®?. Ornmcrat, SHIUKUT A FORSTKR, Editors. VOL. I. ftltt Centre JPcmuttat. Term. 51.50 per Annum, in Advnnoo. 8. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORBTER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, May 15, 1879. THE State Ceutral Committee at their meeting last week, agreed upon Harrisburg as tbe place of holding the Democratic State convention, aud fixed the time for the 16th of July next MR. II A YES, the Presidential Frau. I, is again acting the part of sexton for the stalwarts of the Republican party. He will soon have tbe grave of that organization dug so deep, that there can be no resurrection. THE Pennsylvania legislature has added twenty-live of its members to the toadying crowd preparing to tin. t (Jrant on his return to the United The selection is well made. They are expected to be lirot-cla-s toadii-4, and may win second-cla*s clerkships in the "third term," provid ed the funeral of the Radical party can be postjioucd, which is very doubt ful now. It is becoming very putrid and offensive. SENATOR JOHN A. I.EMON of Blair county is prominently spoken of as the Republican candidate for State Treasurer. He is a popular man, and the candidate who enters the race against him, must be one of unusual merit and prominence. The stalwarts in Congress, however, are giving him heavy weights to carry as a Republi can candidate, and the Colonel may not be as nimble and successful in this race as he has been heretofore. THE negro exodus seems to have met the ebb tide, and the poor de luded victims of the " Emigrant Aid Society" are now as anxious to re turn to their Southern homes, as they were in pressing after the lands and mules promised them in Kansas. As many as can obtain means are now re turning with a sad but rich experi ence. There arc still thousands of poor unfortunates who have neither the means of living in Kansas, or to cscajie from the suffering brought U|m them by the heart lews wretches who induced them to go there. These must bs: fed and cared for by public charity, and it is not difficult to im agine how spariug that will be dealt out. * TIIE persistent effort of the stal warts to misrepresent the |Mwition of the Democrats in Congress on the claim of the Executive to use the army at elections meets with many rebukes from the .Independent press of the country. A late number of l!i< Phila delphia Record states the entire case with directness and precision. It re marks that " some of the Republican journals, and notably Hurjtert Weekly, wrongfully assume that the proposal to forbid the use of the army as a police to aid the Federal authorities in inter fering with the conduct.of elections is an attack upon the prerogative of the Executive as regards his right to em ploy the troops to compel submission to the United Htatcs laws. The error here is already above the ridiculous. So far as we are aware, no one is so hold, since Appomattox, as to main tain that the General Government is powerless to enforce its own Inws. By assuming that this is the jioint of at tack the frieuds of a strong govern ment evade the real issue, which is that the President ia debarred, under the Constitution, from interfering with the execution of Btate laws, except when assistance is asked by the Governor'of a particular Rtate. The ejection laws emanate from the Htatcs, and with their administration the Federal au thorities, under our system of govern ment, should have nothing to do. This is the real issue, and on this prop osition we believe that the sentiment of the country is on the side of the majority in Congress." "EQUAL AND K X ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, Or WIIATEVEH ATATC OK UEKAUAHION, BELIUIOUH OH FOLITICAL."-JRFF.™ ON Edmunds. Senator Edmunds, of tlic Green Mountain State, is regarded by his friends as a man of extensive learning and large ability. But however learn ed he may be, and however much ability ho may possess, ho will never be rated as a liberal, broad-uiinded states- , man with the expansive ken of one s whose thoughts and emotions embrace his whole country when considering questions of public jolicy and the pub lie welfare, lie is more likely to be looked upon merely as a keen, shrewd technical lawyer, with power to cavil over facts and twist and distort the truth until it assumes strange shapes and fantastic forms. Bitter in hostility, 1 relentless in dispo-iiion, devoid of gen erous impulses, his heart seems to be j as eold, barren and forbidding as the bleak Vermont hills amidst which he grew to man's estate. He still liar- : bors with unabated rancor the hates of the late war, ami is never happy j unless when berating the South and j applying the match to fire brands of sectional discord. He has never been known to rise above the meanest de mands of party. Throughout the villiany of the eight to seven proceed- I ings, which gave to the country a Fraudulent President, from the incop | tion to the close, he juggled and pre- j varicated with Yankee craft and in- ' genuity to cheat and over-reach brother Senators who relied upon his honor; ami if n sharper hiss of scorn ' is the due of any one of the infamous eight he should receive it. In entire keeping with his whole public career and character was the speech he made in the Senate last Friday on the bill to prevent soldiers from interfering with the elections. This effort of Edmund*, however, had one signal j merit over the maudlin deliverance of Zach Chandler the same day, in that it was not the inspiration of a gin bot tle, and was Hot puuetuated with hic coughs ; but it was nevertheless a cold blooded, intentional and malicious misrepresentation of truth and his- j tory and of the policy and spirit of our institutions ; a vindicative plea for centralization and the use of federal arms to coerce ami intimidate free citizens and crush out free elections; and a most absurd and preposterous perversion of the intentions of the Democratic party in demanding a free ballot and a return to the peace ful methods of better days. No one but an Edmunds could have made it. There was no design on his part to j serve a good or useful end. It was purely partisan in inception and pur |>o*o and that it produced its desired results is seen in the late veto message of Mr. Hayes. Edmunds may smile nt his success, if ho ever relaxes his face to that extent, but he should be held to a long account for a monstrous wrong to Republican institutions and Constitutional liberty. TUP. following dispatch from Ohio, says the Harrisburg Patriot, will thrnyr some light on the dirty and unsrrupu- j lons methods employed by the Repub lican leaders to obtain campaign ma terial, and also suMantiatc the p>#i- : tion take by the Democratic press of the country in regard to the sheet re ferred to. In explanation it is only necessary to state that the " den. J. R. t Robinson " to whom the letter is ad dressed is chairman of the Republi can Rtate central committee of Ohio. Congressman Frye is already well known to the public: KKLTON, 0., Msy 3.—l'eopl. who won il.r why the Okol.iiK Southern Stnim ha* so much circulation in the North, and why it i* so extensively copied from by the Re publican papers will probably be enlight ened by a perusal of the following letter, which explains itself: OrnoE or THE HOUTIIESN STATES, OEOLONA, Miss., April 30, 187.— Oen J. H. Robinton : The papers' have been sent agreeable to Instructions. The points are made red hot this week, and all of them will hit hard. It ia ad visable to have them as extensively copied as possible. We will mark them for our Northern exchanges. Congressman Krye regards It as a great success. We will give them hell according to the extent of the circulation. The larger the subscription list the louder the thunder. Youra with respect, WILL 11. KEEKA*. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879. A Second Veto. AH foreshadowed ly tin* news from Washington, in the curly part of the week, Mr. Hayes IIUH been driven by the power of party necessities to veto tlie bill pnssed by CJongri -s to prohibit military interference at the elections. The veto message was scut in on Tues day, and while the reasons advanced by Mr. Haves to justify the exercise of his negative power are Honiewhnt in genious, the document as a whole is such a logical inconsistency tlint it will meet with deserved condemnation, aside from the outrage ti|>on the free dom of elections the refusal to sign the hill is calculated to perpetuate. There can IK- no doubt that the first intention of the weak man of the \\ lute House was to give the bill his approval. Only last week he express ed that intention to his intimate friends 1 Jut it appears that the vehement pressure oft 'oukliug, Kdmuuds, Biaiue and Chandler was more than poor Mr. Hayes could withstand. He distinct ly avowed his nppmhuliou of the measure, and in his veto message clearly admits the soundness of the principle upon which it is founded ; yet against his better judgment lie tamely permits himself to be forced by the influence of these implacable*) into u false position. This self-stullificatiou is indeed humiliating to contemplate. The hill presented to Mr. Ilaycs reads as follows: " Bo it smcU-d, Ar., That it shall not tx* lnwful ts< bring to <>r employ t any place where a general or be used, and ao much of all laws as is inconsistent herewith is repealed." It will be observed, while this pro jtosed enactment carefully guarded against any encroachment upon the rights and prerogatives of the execu tive department of the government, it was a guarantee for free and peaceful election polls where citizens might vote tin vexed by unlawful interference and unawed by the gleam of a sol dier's bayonet. It seems incompre hensible that a single American citi zen with veneration for the principles of Republican government should lie found in opposition to its passage. The vetoed bill, the Philadelphia Time* pertinently remarks, " was com mended to the confidence of tl.c country by the alienee of the disarmed leaders ; by the confessions of jtarty organs; by the practical suggestions of the veto of the army hill, and by the avowed approval of the President himself." "And what excuse," continue* tho Tim?*, "is offered for this be trayal of the tranquility of the coun try, in olaslience to the arrogant com mands of revolutionists? If thc.Pres idcrit had not declared his nppmvul of the hill nfter its thorongii inves tigation by the House, it might lie assumed that lie has honestly deceived himself into his second veto; hut with a manifest purpose of the majority of Congress to yield all that the Execu tive asked on this issue, for the snkc of attaining harmony hetwefu the Executive and the legislative author ity, the President suddenly recoil* upon himself and presents n veto message that is notable mainly for its feeble ness in all save its self-contradic tions. In one paragraph of the veto the country is assured that " any mili tary interference whatever at the polls is contrary to the spirit of our institu tions, and would tend to destroy the freedom of elections," and in another paragraph it is stated that certain ex ceptions " recognize and concede the soundness of the principle that mili tary force may properly and constitu tionally be used at the place of elec tions, when such use is necessary to enforce the constitution and the laws." The fact that the President feels it to be necessary to apologise, for his as sumption of revolutionary power over elections, is manifest from bis volun tary pledge, given in the veto message, that no soldiers shall he present at the polls to perform the duties of the civil police force, " under orders from me during this administration." Perhaps not, hut the country would feel much better assured on the subject if the pledge hud come from Corikling uud Chandler, who dictated the veto for the two-fold purpose of bringing the administration into public contempt and to deepcu the political convulsions which arccxjKcted to recall Grant t<> a third-term. " It is diiiicnlt to measure at this ear ly day the consequences of this unfor tunate veto. It is of little moment in itself, for the country could probably go along through another national campaign without having to meet the exercise of arbitrary military power at the election ; but when it is consid ered that the Pre-idcnt has needlessly presented the hitherto abandoned is sue of bayonet election* as the k* y note of th.* next Presidential struggle, and that he has wantonly destroyed tin- last hope of harmony between the Executive and Congress when Con gress had manfully met the Executive on his own platform, there seems to be nothing left to the country hut the strife and distrust that reckless jmrti sans would give the people." OUR neighbor of the Watchman says we laid not seen Yocum's !u*t vote, when we wrote our lut week's article. That is true; the article was in type, before the vote was given, and of course we did not know it. Further more, we had not seen any of the fu ture votes of Mr. Yocum, and have no means of telling what they will be. As he is not guided in his votes by his past party affiliations, nor hv any known jsditiral principle*, no one can tell in advance how he is going to vote on any given proposition, unless such person would he in the personal con fidence of Mr. Y. If our neighbor across the way has this advantage, of course he ran beat us in predicting the voU* of the member from the 20th district of Pennsylvania. Yocum's last vote, however, does not in any de gree change or qualify what we said last week. It is but another e made, lie divides himself as equally as he ean between the two parties, not knowing whether it may be " gmxl lord" or " good devil." Possibly our neighlmr is sufliriently in his confi dence to explain this phenomenon. JOKK* AT A DISCOUNT. —The con stituents of Emile J.. Pelroff, one of the joking members of the Legislature from Philadelphia, have got up a pe tition demanding his resignation. This is one of the /aciiioiu grullcmea who was expelled from the House of Representatives in 1B7< for joke* jwr petrated during the (tendency of the Room hill, nnd was returned by an appreciative constituency in 1577. It appears, he has locn practicing similar jokes in the $4,000,(KM) Pittsburg Riot hill. Rut his Republican constituents, having become more grave, do not seem to have the same high apprecia tion of the wonderful humor of their virtuous representative, and want him to " step down and out" that they may employ another whose jokes arc not quite so stale and more in accord with the present temper of his dis trict. • PINCB BACK, of Louisiana notoriety, joins in the shout for Grant and a third term. Give us back our "old com mander" is the cry of every radical thief in the land, and it is refreshing to know that Pinch is not an excep tion. THK small boy has commenced sav ing, up his money for the circus. IIIUHT TO NFVKN. Tlwr® a oft vr told, u Under ll*® u®, i is yotltliig uew," Hut * bits I.H it. find it u ii t tmo— "Krrraftg are <<,atit*J, awt by vote® j*dUd, Kill Jiiaf, \ y r.l ,IIT TOUtYl*. AI 1 aat 'taaa tlic* *# torn* f line* ago, \Miti tUe Kit T * Co* II j w*, met to tell Wbo w..n tli** i Joril- u. Well, ah, vri U— \\ c did ui'l df'MaJii they s Jd li at us au; Tlda Iniiuortal *: JUT to fKttx. They ml t in vrtM Uv, m< ftilug viae, Hoi** and aolffma, pulf-l u| with prid®, FW a iik" GotoUiiMsi<>n nt rrr frlrwj. Vou'*e wru Nil I** || Mink* it* Bo looked— t lie jortf to #i t* tlaio e-J, Uu judglorr.t siiould U vet) Utr, lln could it | fj® I.UUKNI I) party pride, Ihit a old L'liir .t|yaty t a?t. t hearing tmth side Whkh i+H) was *| tor. Gti! purity rare Of IG tr i.ti —>of jtitfut to IIVKII. "T*#ot put and trie mtgne of them w-r Hrtnti, To pr/ the Minaint*r *hs lor. tage, lint l- alwsis kti-'W ti wherever a-eti FUCH UICT'I' tj'.ai to strtv. r Tin: Ilouce committee of the Rtute legislature to inquire into the t-hurg<-s of bribery und corruption in connec tion with the defeated riot damago bill Mill continues ita work at Ilurrif burg. Ihe dev lopiaentA ure anything but creditable to tbe legislature. Tin re can be no doubt that members were freely approached with offers of money and other considerations for their vote* by the lobbyists who infested the halls of the House while tbe hill was pend ing. An example should lie made of some of the members of this vile gang a* a warning to others in the future. • Immiirration. An examination of the record* at the 'I reaaury !department shows that sinee ITs'.t and up to the close of 1577 a total of t,sM).7'.'.'t alien* came to the United States. It is only since IMS, however, that this influx of foreigners ha* as*utu -1 ed remarkably large proportions. Smee that date on hut two occasions (ISGI and l.Hfi'i) have the immigration figures t>een less than one hundred thousand each year, and the average been more than two hundred thousand year ly. Nearly six million of these people have landed at Castle Garden. A* regards the nationality of be new com ers, it appears that since 1347 about forty |-r cent, have been German, about thirty six tw-r cent. Irish and the re mainder English, Hootch, Swedish, French, etc., in the order named. Those speaking the Teutonic languages .ire far in excess of all others. A few years ago the Roman Catholic element was in a large majority, but the Scandi Italian and German i'rotestanU are now ; far ahead. As a rule, foreigners stud iously avoid the .South. The tendency •>f the Irish is to the cities and manu facturing centres, while the Germans and Scandinavians go to the (aiming and mining lands of the West. Hy the last census it ap|>ears that nearly fifteen per cent, of the entire {topulation were of foreign birth. It is estimated that more than sl.t*K'i,f"X*M*X) in cash have* been brought to our shorcw by the im migrants. The proportions of this human current are now increasing rapidly. From Ger many, Ireland, Knglanri and Franco individuals and families are coming by hundred* and thousands. . Mennonites and some Nihilists from Russia, and the u*ual proportion of Italians, are hurry ing forward, and the prospect seems good that fhe figures for the year may i>e the largest ever known, even exceed ing those of 1872, when 445.48.'! were recorded. Tbe unsettled state of bu*i new in many foreign countries, coupled with the generally uncertain }>olitical outlook, turns the attention of the lab oring classes to our shores. There is room enough here for all. The I'arfj's I'odtion. From lr utaviU® Courier Jfwun**l. The democratic party is a statesman, not.a warrior. It is a constructor, not a destroyer. It is no longer a faction in op|>osiiion, hut a co-ordinate branch of the Government, and, if it had its rights would be the Government itself. Ihe Republican taunt, that it is going to "starve the Government," ia as in solenl as it is alaurd. Chickens that Get Ilrunk. Frtm All tb® Titr Amand. A French doctor, desiring to learn how fowls would be aflectcd by alcohol ic drinks, administered some brandy and absinthe to his poultry, and found one and all take so kindly to their un wonted stimulants that he was com pelled to limit each bird to a daily al io wane* of six cubic centimetres of spiriU or twelve of wine. Tbe result was an extraordinary development of cocks' crests and a general and rapid loss of flash all round. He persevered until satisfied by experience that two months' absinthe drinking sufficed to kill tbe strongest oock or hen, while tbe brandy drinkers lived four months and a half, and the wine-bibbers held on for ten months 'era they died the drunkard's death. TEUSi SL6O JwAnra, 111 Advance. GENERAL NEWS. John J. Cochran, it veteran journalist of J-ancastcr, Pa,, died on Monday after a long and severe illness. .fenny I.ind Ooldnchmidt in dincritsd an a pale, worn, gray-haired woman in a white mob cap ami cashmere shawl. Charles 11. Pulman. for many yar* editor of the New York Timer, died Tuesday afternoon. Senator f/Ogan in raid to occupy some of his l iure time writing play*. Sev eral of them have been produced by amateur companies and w ell received. Ail of Mr*. Nellie Grant Sartoria' brid- * maid- * except l*o-Mit Barnes and M.* Kih—arc now married. Misa Fa-tie Conkling wan one of the original eight. I hejail at Cochran, Oa.. was destroyed by fire Monday morning. George lying, colored, the only inmate, was burned to death. It is supposed he tired the jail to escapie. 1 lie house of lr. I'elos W. South worlh, at Angela, N. Y., was burned last Friday morning. The doctor p>cri*b ed in the flame*. Hi* wife is probably fatally burned. Judge Asa Packer was lying very ill at his Philadelphia residence on 'l ues ! day. A dispatch on Tuesday night an nounced that he was not expected to 1 live longer than Wednesday morning. A ban<|tiet was tendered to the Hon. Andrew i>. White. Minister to Berlin, at the \ underbid llouae Thursday night by the citizens of Syracuse, N.Y. Two hundred and filty gue is were seat at the tables. Immense fire* have been raging on the f'altkills f or several days and are increasing. The burned district covers n area of alut seven thousand acres. The air i filled with smoke. The weath er is dry. The fires are see n from the river at night. No bouses have been burned a* yet. The general assemble of the Presby terian church iti the United .Slates of America, will meet in the First Presby terian church at-Saratoga Springs, N.Y., today, si 11 o'clock a.m., and be op-en ed wuh a sermon by the Pcv. Francis I- Pattern, I. D., 1,. I„ Ithe Modera tor of the last Assembly. Ihe fraternity of physicians and of Free Masons Ic.ve lost an illustrious member, through the death of Dr. I horn a* J. Corson, which occurred at j 1 renlon, N. J., on Saturday last, from | di-eaae of the spinal cord, and with I which he had been a great sufferer for many month*. Ir. Corson was fifty-one ; year* of age. | The forest fires are still spreading and ' destroying a va*t amount of timber in . the northwestern pa:t of Pike county, On last Saturday night the fire tene trated to the breeding park of the Bloom- I iftg Grove Park Association, and before _ the flames could be fought back by the large force of laborer* upward* of fifty acres were burned over and several deer , perishes! in the flames. The weather continue* dry, with very little prospects | of rain. Preparations are Wing made by the i j-eople of Pike county to join with those ! of Sullivan and Orange counties. New ! York, in the celebration of the On ten j nisi anniversary of the battle of Mini ( -ink, which occurred one mile east of f.tckawanna. Pennsylvania, July 22. I 1779. The remains of the whites killed tn the engagement were de|>osited at ; Goshen, New York, and the celebration may take plsce either there or on the I battle ground. A misplaced switch was the cause of j a terrible accident on the Cedar Valley ! railroad, near Toronto. Ontario, on Sat urday last. An excursion train Was run into bv an .engine of the (irand I Trunk road completely wrecking the ; engine and car of the excursionist* who ; was out for a dav's pleasure at the inyi i tation of the railroad officials. At the ; time of the collision about twenty por | son* were in the car. Three of this ! numWr received fatal injuries and the rest were all more or leas bruised. Fires have leon raging during the , past week in the forests of both Blair and Bedford counties, and are still rag. I ing. The fires are mostly on the land* iot Messrs. Duncan, Smith and Lytle. These forests are covered with valuable timber. The fires have been so violent snd the earth so dry that the growth of the timber is totally destroyed. The | tires have almost invariably originated from accident, careless persons not hav ing the proper conception of the result* occasioned by burning clearings at a time of danger. On Saturday night and Sabbath day and night hundreds of p-cr *on# labored to retard the progress of the flattie*, but their effort* were almost fruitless, aa the flames were so fierce. J Messrs. Duncan and Brumbaugh, rep resenting the Duncan estate, were vigi lant in their duties. The fires have de stroyed a Urge amount of property. Thousands of acre* of land have been burned over. A |2O OoiMTUrxit Dtscovtaxn.—The secret service has come into the posses sion of a most remarkable counterfeit. It is a counterfeit tSK) United -States le gs! tender note, and i* calculated to de ceive even persons accustomed to hand ling notes of that denomination. What make* it more remarkable ia the fact that the work on the note was executed with pen snd-ink. The signature of John Allison, formerly Register of the Treasury, is almost exact while that of | John C. New, formerly Treasurer, ia Eeriect. The whole bill, hack and face, a wenderful piece of pen work. The bill was detected at the Sub-Treasury in New Orleans, e NO. 20.