SIIIGF.RT A FORNTKR, Kditom. VOL. I. Slu (frnttr §mo ttai Term* tI.AO per Annum, la Advance. S. T. SHUOERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, May 29, 1879. WHILE II: ye continues to hold a stolen office the stalwart leaders of the ; Republican party should not prate nlmut the purity of elections. It does not become them to do so. SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, lias introduced a hill to regulate the use of the army. It does not autho rise the troops to he placed at the polls to regulate the election*. Kd iuuuds, lilaiiio and the stalwarts gen erally, do not seem to like the hill, J and will probably vote against it. THE riot damages hill is dead, at j least for the present session of the j Legislature. At the request of Mr. McNeill, who introduced a new hill into the Senate after the $4,000,000 | hill fell in the House, it was stricken from the calendar, and so will be heard of no more this session. May it rest in js-ace. WE desire to call attention to the \ able and eloquent plea of Mr. Corli-le, of Kentucky, to be found on our third page. It*is an unanswerable argu ment in favor of the repeal of the tin- ! • just and obnoxious laws to control the elections of the country by military interference and partisan Federal mar shals. Read this speech ami he con vinced. Its logic is irresistible. WE frequently meet with remarka ble phases in public opinion, but the most surprising of all is the unmiti gated contempt with which the jieople regard the late and prospective vetoes of the White House Fraud in Wash ington. Whether lie succeeds or not in retaining the villainous enactment* to coutrol elections will !>e of little practical importance. He will not dare again to put them in operation. . The people are the sud'creA, and will speak in tones that cannot he misun derstood. THE tidewater pipe line, from C'or reyville, in McKenn county, to the city of William-port, will lie complet ed in a few days, and oil will lie flow ing through it from the wells to the receiving tanks at the latter place. A dispatch to the I'hiludclphiu newspa pers of Tuesday says that the last joint of the pipe has been laid, und the pipes to convey the oil from the tanks to the railroad are being put in position. The construction of this line will probably mark a new era in the oil trade. It is now greatly depressed, and if the completion of this new out let to the markets of the east will in any degree relieve the producers from the exactious of the .Standard monopo ly, that now holds every person en gaged in the business at its mercy, its benefits will be incalculable. It is to lie hoped that all the good results ex pected from the openiug of another outlet may lie fully realized. THE chairman of the Democratic County committee, I). F. Fortney, Esq., ha* issued a circular to the mem* liers of the committee, requesting them to convene at Bellefonte, on Saturday, the 7th of June, for the purpose of transacting business of im|>ortaticc to the party. A time must be fixed for the meeting of the County convention to elect Representative delegates to the State Convention which meets at Harrisburg on the Jflth of July. It will also be necessary for the commit tee to make a new apportionment of delegates to the County conventions based upon the vote of each district for Governor at the election of last fall. Under the rules of the party this apportionment will continue until the next election for Governor, and it is therefore, especially important for every district to have a representative present to look after its interests > this meeting of the committee. We trust there will be a full turn out "EQUAL ANI) EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, or WIIATKVKH STATE OK r KKMAHION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL."—Jrffmon. Shorman'e Bid. The last hid of John Sherman for the Republican nomination for Presi dent in 1880, is a letter addressed to nil unknown war Democrat, of New York, which will be found in another col umn. In un article upon this letter the Philadelphia Record pertinently ! remark*: "It would scarcely be jiossiblo for the seeker after a nomination for the Presiden cy to more openly declare bis plans and S purposes, whilo avoiding modus of ex- j preasion that would give offence, than in this letter. Kvidontly the sanguine Mr. Sherman has come to think that the White House is fuirly in sight, and, with this in- i viting outlook, it is not strange that he should turn down the Ohio Governorship. The wily Secretary, in theovont of his noin- ; ination, would seem to be unwilling to re- 1 ly for success iqwin a renewed a|q>eai to the passions of the war as ordinarily under stood. lis would modify the call of Lite drum and fife by a specious ap|*>al to the so-calbnl national sentiment, and seek to draw to his sup|>ort tho War Democrats who are yet ujoti the scene of action and their disciples among the younger class of voters. In conveying this ambigous plea Mr. Sherman shows himself to be anything but a tyro in wielding the language of di plomacy. Sherman is 110 doubt a clever jntli- I tician, hut when he make* his ap|>eal to " war Democrat* and soldiers in the service who have been influenced by jKilitical events to withhold support from the Republican party," he brings his wares to a had market. If this is one of his chief reliances his case is not a hopeful one. The war Demo- i crat* and soldiers of the country will not he likely to emlwrk with this adroit |wlitical trimmer in his voyage to the White House. Among the ex treme ineti of the Republican party no ouc has done more in the shaping of " political events "that have " in fluenced " these classes than the Oily Gammon of the Treasury himself; and it is scarcely to l>e expected that they will now forget his past offences and give him their votes. To do so w ill not he among the possi bilities of even the strange inconsis tencies that sometimes mark the poli tical movements of the present times. .So John may as well look elsewhere for favors. Death of Wm. Lloyd Oarrison. The great anti-slavery agitator, Wil liam Lloyd Garrison, died in the city of New York, after a long illness, on Saturday night. He was born in Ncw buryport, Mass., in 1801, and was therefore about seventy-five years old. Mr. Garrison was a remarkable man iu many respects, and became notori ous throughout the Union ns the most j violent of the altoliticuists of his day. He was a man of strong convictions and no doubt entirely sincere in the extreme views he held upon the qucs | lion of slavery. He had no conceal ments in the matter, and went to the extent of denouncing the government in the stronge; t words he could com mand because slavery was permitted to exist in sonic of the States. He wrote and spoke ranch upon the sub ject, and always with the greatest ve hemence of language. In the days when the anti-slavery agitators were most active and untiring in their en deavors to instil their doctrines into the minds of the people of the North, it was he who said the "Constitution was a compact with hell, and the Union a league with the devil." But the great agitator has gone to his long home, nnd he will now probably re ceive from roost of those whom he de nounced so bitterly while he lived, at least the merit of honest convictions, however indiscreet biul mischievous his utterances often may have Ueo. Rimiieroek, one of the Armstrong county member* of the legislature, seems to possess a mind always open to conviction. He admits that he went to Harrisburg in favor of the riot hill, then changed against it, and finally gravitated hack to his first opinion in regard to it. The Washington Capital intimates of Conkling that the " greatest effort of his life" is to use his official position in the gratification of his malice, that, next to an inordinate vanity, is his chief characteristic. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1879. Written Air Ciktm RAT Decoration Day, 1879. A aArrtfl duly mIU u forth to day, On" whk'li It ii *|>t**atir to obey. 1 A wc|r..fi.. duly, for tt Bring* the thought C Of all tlnae nobis* met) to oa have brought r On wlmto green mounds r now our emblems lay. ( Nerd ws again rrvlva the horrid scene Of hl<**ly strtf" width the thrice welroni* *< rsrn Of ilitm>n yram ha* hlddfii from unty to this gnat rati** ran Iom( That she ha* gltm with a willing hand,—. Not one of all that bright and noble band Who Would not aay thai thrjr love jrste thr U at. ' The faireat *>mbUm ie th* g nth- Bower Which *|ekof |n-ar? and love The etlent power W hldi le the me*H*g<- of our lieart-f*dt grief— I Which by it* fragrance or IU pure white b-af Can ne'er revive the horror* of that hour. I To-morrow let our orators proclaim That thr great fight wa* won in freedom'*name; That love of country *h"ub| our bu>m* All; And thw whose h - lings these mem -flea thrill Can now regard t*oth North and S-tith the same. Fr our future glory we now depend On those bleaa.tig* which p>*< • alone ran send. luter Ine war and *trlfe we cannot bear. Mutual •■* art I bleating* ea h must *hare, And ew h Die other from all barm defend Thru when to-day o'er Centre's hill and glade Wr dw k tiea- niounde wbirh lie In eon and shad" Let u to them With hearty rtghl g-*l will Who live on B*>uth*rn plain and Northern hill For t one God are our devotion* paid. ■ ■■ - ■ i ON Monday night, savs the Harris burg Patriot, when the bill appropriat ing $173,000 to the Norristown in-ane asylum was before the House Messrs. Fenlon,Hherwood and Hewitt opposed it with arguments that could not be answered by its friends. Mr. Hewitt's remarks were especially appropriate and convincing. He declared that had already been appropri- j atoe encouraged by putting more money iu their hand* with which to experiment." It is a good sign when those who *ha|>c nnd control legislation set "their face 1 against a repetition of tho lavish ap propriations which formerly drained the treasury. SOME time ngo wc noticed the fact that scandalous charges wen- presented to the Legislature, against the private j and public character of Judge Hani- j ing of the Luzerne district, and nrti , cle* of impeachment demanded. Tho < charges were manifestly tho offspring of ill-will and malice, and ought to have been treated with contempt; but they were so far dignified as to be referred to a committee to hear the par- ; ties making them. The parties were heard, and only succeeded ill showing their own worthlessness, and the base character of their attack ujmn the Jtrfg*. IF the legislature will only con tinue in the good work of paring down the appropriation hills to pro per dimensions the people will not com plain. They may even lie constrained to say " well done, good and servants:" It is two years for which made the aggregate rA ,-tion thus far is $360,000. This ha splendid begin ing, gentlemen, hut do not weary of well doing. Keep on at it. Til a Democrats sro endeavoring to raise the necessary funds to distribute political speeches on "the issues between their party . and the President. No use; the skunk is dead.— Rtpubliean. Docs our neighbor nylly mean that Mr. Hayes is a dead skunk? It is scarcely possible that he docs, and yet it is hard to construe the above para graph into anything else. " No method of administration can sanctify a had law or reconcile its vic tims to its continued enforcement There is no remedy but repeal." Ho *api M r - Garlisle in his great argu ment in favor of free elections, and the country will endorse the senti ment. In his testimony before the riot in vestigating committee, Secretary Quay says the use of his name was unau thorized. Modest. ADDITIONAL. LOCALS. CKI'HIIKK TO DEATH. —Accident* result- j ' inj from fulling troes urn of frequent oc- ( currence, but not often . {shoemaker preaching the sermon. SILVER'S FLIOHT. —Mr A. S Valen tine and family were not very agreeably surprisod when, on arising Tuesday morn- ! ing, they discovered that they had been j visitcal during tiie previous night by indi- | viduals who had made themselves unp leas snlly familiar by roaming through the , lower apartmenlsat will.andcarrringaway I everything edible, together with a large amount of silver. Among the arti< les taken are a number of solid silver spoons ; and forks. The spoons were of especial j value as they were the property of Mrs. j Valentino before her marriage and were | made of coin sent to the city by her for the purpose. Some plated ware and some solid napkin rings were untouched. That they were hungry is evidenced by the fact ! that they appropriated a cooked ham, six • ggs and several other things intended for next morning s consumption. , The dog, which is generally kepit around j the house at night, in some way was lock ; od in the store of Valentines A Co. the previous evening, leaving them without j their usual protector, of which the robbers must have l>een aware. A party of individuals on a similar '-xpiediiion visit. 1 the re-i.ienco of Mrs Gordon the saine evening, but they could | | not have liked the appiearanoe of things for I they departed empty handed It is/puiet evident that there are persons in our midst who are inclined to " wars j that are dark," and efforts should be made to detect them. Decoration Day. j The decoration of the soldiers' graves in the cemeteries of Bellcfonte will take p lace on Friday, of this work, under the direc tion of the committee of arrangements *p jsointod at a meeting of soldiers, lately held at the office of Msjor Cheesman. The procession will form on Allegheny street, right resting on the north-east comer of the Diamond, facing west, at 2 o'clock p. w., in the following order : Cb,-f Msrshsl an*t As*ttats. SnssUli. Ott Msi.'l Militarr—Oc. B. Mb K-C M-nl : DSL-XSUOSS R#J>R###utlo( ib Rtl.haih cb.Us— in lays fins b SOMORS <>f lb# I si# W sr. I I'srrUo allb ORAL* MISI.T#,. •>( tb# Lnps tits l'.ss|st; N.t I VnJlsr Pit# (Vsnissi Ss. t IMI.-BI of Hall'l i.l# The Chief Marshal desire* all the or ganisations that join the parade to be in , promptly at the apipwinlnd hour. The I >ion will move at 2j o'clock, arid directly to the Union Cemetery, the cemetery the order of j exercises will be as follows: Ist, Charge; ! 2d, Dirge lor the liand; 3d, Fraver by Rev. John ifewitt; 4th, tble bv the choir; j 1 sth, Oration by Kov. W. A. Biggart; Olh, Frayor by Rev. Win, Laurie ; Tth, Deco ration of four spiecial graves; Plb, General j decoration ; Wlh, Assembly. After the procession has re-formed It will move to the old Catholic cemetery, on Bishop street, where Decoration honors of a like character will be p>aid to the j ' soldiers' graves. At this cemetery an ad dress by Rev. Father O'Brien i* exported, after which those taking piarl in the cere monies will be dismissed on Allegheny street. The graves in the Friends' and new Catholic cemeteries will be decorated by details made for that purpose. Con tributions of flowers are earnnstly solicited Irom all piersons who have them to give. They should be sent early in the dav to the room next door above the office of Bush, Yoeum A Hastings. By order of the Committee. K. 11. FORSTRR, Chief Marshal. VANDALISM. —We have heard com plaints that choice flowers planted in grave lots in the Bellefonle Cemetery, are stolen and removed. The miserable, dirty wretch who would be guilty of such an act is too mean to be even a thief. There is one spx.t that might be hallowed, and free from the vandalism of the most debased, but If the graves of our dead cannot be pro tected otherwise, let police regulations ex clude everybody without a permit. Only Loyal Men to Itule. Fra lit# P) ilfls-li'l'U The Maine Republican* ere out in a call for the next .State Convention, to he held in Bangor on June 25. They "insist that the Government of the United Stale* shall be controlled by loyal men." This is, indeed, refreshing; but the sons of Maine should haw been more pr c se. In the absence of definitions we are forced to believe that in their vo cabulary "loyalty" implies allegiance to the Republican p.arty. The truth is that the Kcpiublican leaders have rung the changea so often on the assertion that their piarty saved the country that the more ardent among them have really come to believe that the country and I lie p.arty are in .ill essential re sriects synonymous, and this in spiite of toe fart that something like a majority of a quarter of a million people voted against its candidates at tiie last Fresi deutial election. If it be granted that tiie Republican p.arty of the North saved the country during the year* from 1W0 to DOG, it must alo be admitted that the Democratic op.piosition prevented the nation from going to pieces by the op>- erauon of centrifugal force. The He publican was tiie |>rop>elling force—the sails of the vessel but the Democratic p.artv was the quite a* useful ballast in the hold, that kept the ship upiright throughout the tempestuous voyage. Truth For All Times. I'f-a It' If-4li-lsfsturjr StsiidsH. •' When men vote, and telrn thrir rhot'n a 'hem n,"'. to r0t,.1w.( (l.r aft u-s of thrir l'o - l,ral {SorrmtnraU % no toldtert tan inlerfrrt. T/.i* lirn.t to ifwir anlijon tiin n ■ polihral j party ran ta/ely pott." So said William M. Krart*. at a mass j meeting of the px*.p.J of New York, a doxen years ago, when a yet he bad never dreamed of linking hi* political fortunes with thoaeof the then unknown man Hayes. "An armed fore* in I l.r n. < ( tKr pol'i is a'mctt of nrrrtnly ,i mrnaee to thr totm an/i on vntirferenrr with their freedom and lodrprmlenrt. ' So said Geo. W. McOrary, in hi* book on elections, before ho had lent hirnaeif to Hayes. "(\vtl liberty and o it-m f.no army far On purport! of riml poltre Kate never yrt t'tad 10-jtlhrr, and nrttr ran ilanj taottXrr." So said William H. Seward, sp>eaking witli the same wholesome ai.horrence of military interference with tiie right* of the citisen to circumoeribe within the narrowest limit* Lth tiie HIS and the functions of the regular armv. l'.ut we now see Hayes, in his veto, marching beyond that limit in party maneuvers which Mr. Kvarts once de clared unafe to |>a ; insisting on that right of using troop* at the p>ojß which Mr. McOary declared lobe a mena.-o | to the independence of voters ; and in j tending to make that use of a standing army as a police which Mr. Seward de clare-i to be inooinp.atiblc with the con tinuance of lil>erty. California's New ( (institution. HOW IT IS REOAHIiEII At ROSS TIIE WAVER. The Ixindon Timet in an editorial ar ticle aays ; "The adoption of the t'ali fornia Constitution is a surprise to the world. It is the most astounding in strument ever framed for the govern ment of a community, if all the no tions of the reformers who put forth their pianaceas for the regeneration of the human race during the Fans Com mune were embodied in a document, they would not appsear wilder, more ab surd, more menacing than many of the provisions of the Constitution which now regulate** the existence of dwellers in California. Kverybody ia to be pun | ished and restricted in some way. Those persons only are excepted who have nothing to lose. The Constitu tion, as a whole, is such an extraordi nary instrument that the peopde of Cal , ifornia might well Ire stupifted when they learned thai Kearnev had carrier! his point. We do not fancy that his exultation* will last long. The mis chief which haa been wrought may pro duce a reaction and an effort may be made to revise a Constitution which must produce widespread ruin." Tiik Ohio Legislature had to take it* turn at the everlasting color question the other day. The House nad got a* far along in its work of codifying the laws as the sections relating to schools, ; and the committee had p.reserved the ' old provision, that the school board in any district may organise separate school* for colored children whenever they deem it advisable. The KepuMi ' cans, who some how or other have never changed the law when they were in the majority, apparently thought the occa sion a good one to make a little party capital, now that they are in the minori ty. and a motion was urged to amend the hill by striking out this section. The debate showed that public senti ment on this question varies widely in different parts of the State. The city of Springfield, a Republican stronghold, insist* upson maintaining septarate school* while the reliable Democratic county of Stark haa always educated whites and blacks together. The Ifemocrata gen erallv advocated the maintenance of the old law, which i* permissive, not manda tory. and so allows every locality to set tle the Texed question for ilsalf, and the propoaed change was defeated by the votes of all the IVmocraU but one, whose loaa wak made up by a Republican. Miramax roars for rain.— Bottom Pad. Itoea it want the water for the use of a howling Zachariah.— Woth were drowned. Colonel J. N. Ihvion died at New castle, pa., Monday morning of con sumption. I hiring the war he waa Cap tain of t ompany D, Sixth I'ennaylvanta j Ite-erve*. The funeral took place at G j I'. M. yesterday. The boik-r in the Brook.ide colliery, ; near Tremor.it, Schuylkill county, i'a., 'exploded Monday morning, completely i wrecking the engine house and dam i aging the founarked on another of their periodical wars and freight and |ia..*enger rates are 1-eing cut unmerci -1 'ully. It's not a money-making business for the railroads, but it is fun for people ■ who want to send freight east or come themselves. The statement of the business of tho j Pennsylvania Railroad Company, of all the lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie, transacted during the month of April, l k "9. as compared with the business du ring the corn's ponding period last year, show* an increase in net earning, of $742,535. The House committee on appropria tions to day authorized a favorable re port to be made to the House on Repre sentative Cannon's bill, making addi tional appropriations for the pay of let ter carriers. The bill appropriates #131,- '.XX) for the fiscal year of 18*0, and $25,- I 000 to meet the deficiency tor 1879. The Secretary of the Treasury has thus far designated all public officers | invited in circular of March 12. 1879, who have applied to become United State, depositaries for the sale of the $lO United States refunding certificates but as it ha* become apparent that the | remainder, of the certificates unsold j will last more than six days, applies | lion* for designation hereafter received will be declined by the department. In the Presbyterian General Assem bly at Saratoga Friday, the report of the Board of Church Erection came up las the order of business. It gives the ! gross receipts of last year a. $*7,450 63 i i balance from last year. $12,3(13.74 ; num | ber of churches erected during the year by the aid of the board, 175, located in I thirty-eight States and Territories, and under the care of eigh'y-sis Presbyteries, j To enable the board to do its full work for the current year, $150,000 will be j required. Kx United States District Attorney I D. T. Corbin, who is in Charleston, S C., I as counsel in the railroad cases, on trial before Chief Justice NVaite, was held to hail at the instance of the Attorney General of the Slate, in a civil suit (tending sgainst him for the recovery of $24,000. The origin of the suit is as follows s In 1875 the State retained Corbin to proaecute a claim against a phosphate mining company for phos j phate royalty due the State. A judg ment for S2B,(XX) was recovered, and Corbin paid into the State treasury $206, retaining the balance, which he claimed as counsel fee*. Tho State con sents to allow him only S3,(XX) and ex penses, which was the award of a refe- * roe as his fee, and the present suit sgainst him was instituted for $24,000, Mr. Corbin gave satisfactory bond to answer the suit and abide the process of the Court.