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 <qxx:ia[ election i being
held in a State any j art of the army or
navy of tho Unites! States, unless such
form tx* necessary lv rt|*l armsi etiemias
of the t'nitod Stat'-s, or to enforco section
I. article 4, of tho Constitution of the
United Bute* and laws made in pursuance
thereof, on application of the legislature
or Kiecutive of the Stats* where such force
is t*> 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 <iri*f in
the crookedness of his course in the
House. It is reported that wjien the
House is in committee of the whole,
where the yea* ami nay* cannot be
railed, our representative votes |s*rsit
ently with the Republican*; and
when the same proposition comes le*
fore the House where a record ean l>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 Min</miTV (itM the day.
AGO put HAJTM in the Whits- H HIM this Illegal way
W kh h little pan' w < i< sf-ditigly wrrng
In men—tlkf the to utiis.
h'o etiTif-!nsnj'-s will !♦ tbHrv, I was*B,
On the future's gh wing |age,
Vi.th poet. |>aint*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.