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F.i aath A**t;)fcs)iE*Tf or )l tkihor* %*d Dicrna lnrtosl fr*o; hut alt obituary notice* will b c harged 6 cents por lino SPECIAL Nonets 26 |or cont. alxiv* regular rato*. State Domocratic Convention. Tho Btato mwnocratir iV>ii vnition will nt"Sl at liar riahnrg, on WEDNESDAY, tin* DVth day of July. 1879. at m*n, fT tho purpoae of notuinatiug a candidate fr Btata Tro.ianror. ami tratM-u tiug aorh othor hni nMM m the Intcnwt* ol tho |*rtj may wqnlrr. fly order of the Ptat' l'mmittoo. * It. M. ttPXER, Chairman. M. L. DftrrKSOActi.) I*. J. l*ttact, -SocroUrioo. E iimm, ) WE again invite the nttention of the farmers of Centre county to the agricultural columns of the DEMO J ( RAT. It is our intention to make thi department a leading feature of the publication. With the facilities we I have already secured, and are in course of maturing, under the direc tion of one of the most enlightened agriculturalists in the Stnte, we can have no hesitation in promising our farmer patrons a rich and abundant return. Tho Issue Joined. The Cincinnati Commercial, one of the leading radical organs of Ohio, seems to have a due appreciation of the breakers upon which the Republican party is drifting by the persistent efforts of its stalwart representatives to retain the power in their fraudulent Executive for the use of troops at the polls to control the elections of the J people. It calls a halt, and recom mends them to drop this issue as speedily as possible, and raise one on financial questions. Too late. The record has been made and the issue ! enunciated with all the force that tin , trusted leaders of the party can give | it. The Democracy have accepted the issue presented, and will go to the ]>eoplf: a the advocates of free elections, j uncontrolled by the Fraud's marshals i or the Fraud's bayonets. No lijek down will now avail. The stnlwart.- linvc blundered, nnd in doing so, dis closed to the jieople their animus. Seeing their favorite appliance* of despotic power, enacted under the i Crnnt administration, menaced, in ; blind rage, they have thrown off all disguise and now stand revealed as the champions of the doctrines of the old Hamiltoiiian Federal school of a " strong government" not amenable to the people ami with unlimited power concentrated iu the Federal Executive. The bayonet control of elections means this and nothing less. It was clearly demonstrated iu the lat Presidential election in several of the States, where the count was made under the shadow of Federal bayonets and tho concen tration of the array nt Washington to enforce the result u|>on the people's representatives and iustal a base, un mitigated Fraud in the Presidential chair. It is as clearly demonstrated now, in the struggle made to retain these infamous statutes for the same work in the hands of the present Ex ecutive. On this issue the Democracy meet them, standing now, as they have ever stood, the advocates of free suf frage and free Constitutional (Jovcrn meni, to be economically administered by honest, faithful officials, account able to the people. In discussing this same question the Harrisburg Patriot says, with great force,that, "there can be no difficulty in forecasting the principal issue on which parties will divide in the approaching Presidential canvass. The Republicans nre tho roughly and absolutely committed to the false doctrine that tho |*Ople nre incnpiildo of sclf-govcrniucnt nnd that tho army under tho control of one ninii must at nil times beheld in readi ness to interpose between thu citizen ami the ballot-box. The united vote of their representatives in Congress against the repeal of tho bayonet elec tion law, and the repeated exercise of the veto power by tbe Executive of their choosing when the repealing bills came to him £>r bis action, have put the Republican party on record as ut terly distrustful of the patriotism 11ml j integrity of the people nnd as favoring 1 a centralized military control of elec tion.l! such ns that which enabled Na poleon tho Third to execute his cou)i |x-ar, whether or not nn nrmy appropriation bill is passed at the prt-ent session of Congress. The issue of free elections against military dictation is made up nnd will tie de cided nt the hallot-hox 110 matter what Congress or the Executive may do in regard to an appropriation." WK understand that some interested parties are circulating n report that the CENTRE DEMOCRAT will only have a six months existence. This has been frequently brought to our attention by friends, but we have not considered it of sufficient importance to dignify with a notice. We only do so now to say to our friends, that tho DEMOCRAT came into existence to remain. We cannot, of course, frirscc what may la in store for us in the near or far fu ture, but with the blessing of Provi deuce nnd the consciousness of n de sire to do right ami act honestly, we have every reason to lielicvc that the . CENTRE DEMOCRAT will at least have an existence contemporaneous with , that of its publishers. It is not dc > ' repid or in lmd health, hut will gon | tinue to merit the liberality of its pa trons by eoming to them regularly once a week, stored with such matters of interest and instruction as will in some measure compensate for their kindness. A STRIKE in the puddling mills of Pittsburg is threatened on the first of June, at which time the contracts of $A per ton as the price of puddling will expire. The pro pose to reduce the price to s3.fio, the amount paid by eastern manufactur ers, or close their operations. Life Insurance. OVUIt riVK MILLIONS I'AII> ON A llt'NlillEt* ANIi KKVKNTV UNR MILLIONS Of INsIR- A NCR IN I'KNNHVI.V AN IA LAST VBAB. The sixth annus I report of Insurance Commissioner •!. M. Fops tor has just boon issued by tho State Printur. The second part, relating to life insurance, contains tho ilotailed reports of eight Pennsylvania life companies and twon ty-ninu life anil one accident company ol other States. The total amount of money paid for insurance of nil kinds in Pennsylvania during 1878 is shown in tho following table: I'rwiilum f P*fntyWniU llf riHi|Miii*f from burin*** in Uil' Mats. .*.l I'l< (ilium -rtr. ljiU of llfo Ohtll|tlll "• f j oih'i HuiBi from lnitliM'K t'l IVtiti- I h mil*,. 3,492,7*4 .' J Total premium rcil|ti of Ikft* romjw tu IVitiieyltmiiA f&,2?u,:M)() 9(1 Premium i ||it *f Penn sylvania nt.srk, fin* ami mtt iiiv < om|ianl in th" Hints- fS.Vift.OOO 41 lll fvi liiturauro In !'• nu'a ... fll/JO.',- 4 !" This aggregate is $1,357,31)3.50 less than the lotul sum paid for insurance in this State for 1877. The. decrease is in life premiums $520,605. 10, and in lire and marine premiums $831,698.40. The decrease of life premiums i, in the case of home companies, $76,158.58, and, in the case of companies of other Slates, •149 446.52. During 1 #7B the compnnics of this State issued 2,1 Is policies, insuring 61,- 421,910 upon the lives of residents of this State, ami companies of other State > issued 5,422 policies, insuring 61 2. 3>3,- 821) within this State, making together a total of 7.570 policies and $16,805,730 insurance. This shows a decrease, as compart'*! with the business ot 1*77, of 2,253 policies and 61, I6<>,."* !7 of insur ance. The insurance in foroe at tin close of IS7S upon the lives of residents of Pennsylvania aggregated (is,s'!'i poli cies. insuring $171,561,557, of which 16,- 142 |M>lieii-s, insuring >42.401 ll.'. were in companies of this State, and lit,"!'.'! policies, insuring $129,1)97,142. in com panies of other State*. In comparison with the insurance in force nt the close of 1*77, there i a lo * of 3,925 poiioiM ami of 69,803,073 in the amount of in surance. The total hoc* paid by life companies in this Slate during the year were $3,072,292, of which turn home companies paid s6tks atnl com pan le* of other States $2,106,958. Bayonet* or Ballot*. Fr'U 114 4 * IV t.n Pnl It is the habit of Republican speakers an*l writer* to try to distract the publie attention by vigorous denunciation* of State right*, as if the States existed mainly by the sufferance of the Federal Government which their people united in creating and have so fsr upheld. But State rights are not involved directly in this controversy- The issue is one between a military and a civil govern inent and that only. The Republicans assert the right of the Federal (Execu tive, no matter on what pretext or for what cause, to keep troops so near to the jiolls that they may perceptibly in fluence the result of the ballot. That is neither more nor less than putting the military above the civil |e re-.naugurated at any time. There is no sense or reason in this style of talk. What must now be accomplished is the subordination of military power to civil sovereignty. Those who resist that step, only made the more nece*ary because resisted, should in common honesty lower their Republican pretensions and retire to obscurity. State Agricultural Fair. The Philadelphia of Friday says : "The Pennsylvania agricultural society hnvo-announced their intention of holding their state fair this year in permanent exhibition building, in Fair mount park, commencing September 8 and continuing two weeks. The fair held in 1856 on the ground now occu pied hy the Pennsylvania railroad, was the last of the kind held in this city ; and as the western and interior parts of the commonwealth have hail the ad vantage of similar displays since that lime, it is hoped that tly promised fair, combined with attractions of the |>er inanent exhibition, will bring many thousands to Philadelphia, and insure a most successful display. The funds for a liberal schedule of premium#, ranging from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars, have been provided, which will attract the bestof live stock ever brought together. Tit* Boston PHot learns of a new plan to relieve Archbishop Pureed from his financial embarrassments, and says: "An imiKirtant step baa recently been proposed to reiieve tho venerable arch bishop whose fifty years of apostolic and disinterested labor appeal strongly to every Catholic heart—first a movement to get three thousand wealthy Catholics to stiirscribe each $l,OOO payable in in stalments of $lOO a year. This would make a total subscription of $3,000,000. The whole amount of the debt would thus be complete!* wiped out in ten year*. We are authorised to state that Archbishop William* of Boston will sub scribe to t.iis amount, and will be ready to pay (he first $lOO when the first one thousand sutiscri tiers are insured. We learn from the West that Bishop Fits gerald of Little Rock, Ark., has also put bis name down for $1,000." The tramps in Williamsport now have to work on the atrfet, What If Mcutis. Tho well-informed Washington cor respondent of The World say* of the present altitude of the Radical leaders in Washington : It is based on reason* which forahadow an uttempt at revolu tion in the American system of Gov eminent! This new departure means a stronger Executive Government at Washington in the European sense. It means that the enormous power* which were given to the Executive in 1801 for war purposes are not to be given back to Congress, It iio-ati* that the Repub lican leaders nee that universal sutler age, now that it bus been given to Afri can a and all other races who are Feder al citizens, in defiance of State prudence and State laws, is a menace to the Re publican party and to Federal preroga tive*, and must be met and controlled by a strong arm in the White House, with the army in the background. It means that the Stato Governments of the North ns well as of the South, of North t'arolina ns well as South f'arol.- nu, are no longer to bo trusted or left unaaaailed. It means that the Govern ment set up in 1787 and imprnvcitsin 178'.' bos come to ao end, und come to an cn-l, in the opinion o! these Repub licans, by reason of universal ktiflrngn nnd by the exerci-e of the rights which belong to the States as declared in 1873 bv a Republican Supreme Court, with Wuile at its head. It means that here after the Federal Executive is to intrude its arm of power, and of bayonet power if need be, into the a Hairs of any State in which the sovereign Executive at Washington deem* such intrusion to he useful or necessary. It m--nii* that in stead of a federation of eoc<|Ual States this is to become u nation ol provinces modelled more ti|>on tin- fashion of im penal Rome than upon the modern fashion of tho eonfed-ratcd America of the lust century. This is tho plain Eng lish of the word# put by the Republican managers into the message which they have compelled Mr. Hayes to write to ' 'ongres# about his constitutional duty to execute the laws, us if Congress un der the Constitution had nothing to say al*ut the instruments ho can bo per milled to employ in the execution of the laws! 'I ln-*e stalwart leaders make Mr. Hayes talk as if In- were a C*.ir of all the Rut-las. They make him lit sume that because lie is to "take care that the laws be faithfuily Meculisl" he has an indefeasible prerogative to s.iy by what machinery n-l at the ex pen-e of what infringements of |>opu lsr rights and of what violations of the authority of one of the American .•states he can "execute" those laws! It is related of the leto Caleb Cashing that when the civ.l war began ho said to Gen. Butler: "I wish I knew what subaltern among the-o volunteer* will rise in the end to la- commander of all the forces. That man Will t-e president of the United Slate* and finally rule this country, if he live# long enough, by the buttocks of cavalry horse* !" That was the *i-eculalii>u of a man who hud studied history to sotuu pur |>ose. ♦ Cabinet Congressman. Senator Pendleton, of hio, has in troduced a hill in the United States •Senate, giving the member* of the Pres ident Cabinet s'-at* on the floor of the House. A similar j/osition is oocupn-d by the British Ministry. Whether the S-nator's proposition would be an im provement on the present ytem, we are unable to ssv. If none hut good men w<-re made Cabinet Ministers, it might woik well enough, but when such fellows as Belknap, Robinson, etc., get there, it would lie better for morality and the Union that they be kept out of doors—not aHo weaxon race. It is the history of free dom, the history of the amelioration of the evil# of barbarism and the sutmtiiu lion of the blessings of the greatest 111 • erty and the leo*t law. It is the history of Magna Uharta, the |>el,tion rights, the bill of rights, the groat remon strance, the AnAou mrpm t the statute* of treason, the extention of suffrage. It is the history of Strafford beheaded, of larendon banished, of Dauby impris oned, of Oxford committed to the tower, of Bolinhroke undOunond attainted, of Bute disgraced, ol North driven from power, it i* the history of Homers ami Itussel and Bolinghroke and Waluole and Townshen-t and Chatham and Vox and Burke and Pitt and Sheridan and <'anmng ami Brougham nnd Peel, Glad stone an