SHIGFItT \ FOKSTFIt, Editors. VOL. I. Slir (Centre JPemorrat. Term* 51.50 par Annam. in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editora. Thursday Morning, June 12, 1879. KX-SKNATOK CONOVKK has received his pay at last from the Fraud, for de serting Colliding in tho matter of the New York appoiutiueuts. He has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Florida district. The reward is not great, but it will do for " Conover. Hayes always rewards treachery or fraud. IT is said that I >ou Cameron is iu favor of Shernmu as a Presidential candidate on "account of family tics." Perhaps he is, hut no one can know that, until Dou has discovered beyond a paradventure that Ais twenty-nine votes will nominate John. He is not the man to take any risks on " family ties." MR. HAYKS has submitted the re port of the l>oard of officers iu the case of Gen. Fitz John Porter to Congress for such action as they may deem pro per in the premises. No doubt some of the mean Stalwarts, of the Zach. Chandler* stri|c, will refuse to do justice to Porter. Hut he will get it from Congress nevertheless. F IT is proposed to have a grand anni versary celebration nt Valley Forge on the 19th of June. The acting President, Cabinet, and Senators and liepreseutatives iu Congress are soli, it ed to participate. There was no Fraud present when Washington commanded • at that post. Hut times have changed and Fraud has become dignified. Thk Legislature,beforeadjurnment, passed a bill allowing fifty dollars to each member for stationery during the session. This allowance is very lib oral, and much less than the amount paid heretofore; but the allowance could have been placed at twenty-five dollars, and still be ample to cover all actual and necessary expenses for the stationery for a member. THK deluded Stalwarts begin to lose faith in their ability to force a "Demo cratic back-down "by the veto. The firm front presented by the majority in both Houses agaiust Executive co ercion is not inspiring or pleasant to contemplate. They can retain the hull, hut the kernel, the life, is extract ed, and it lays a dead worthless mass upon their hands. SWRKTARY MCCRARY has been nominated by Mr. Hayes as Circuit Judge of the United States for the Eighth Judicial district of lowa, vice Judge Dillon resigned. Considerable opposition to his confirmation is de veloping both in his district and in Congress. He is represented As a mere I radical politician with very limited legal qualifications. Hut that is the kind of men the Fraud delights to honor. THE Grant movement is not boom ing so enthusiastically as it did a few weeks ago, previous to the Ohio nomi nations. The Ktal warts started that boom too early for coutinuance, and the toadies are beginning to fear that toadying may be more profitable in some other quarter. The Pennsylva nia Legislative toadies arc in a quan dary, but it is too late to recede. A Ik ' * crab movement will only disgrace them. THE Grant stalwarts are fretting and complaining that Mr. Hayes is iu league with Bhcrman to throw the power of Executive patronage in fa vor of the Ohio trimmer agaiust the "old commauder." The fact is the Stalwarts are beginning to discover ' that Orantisra don't boom as loudly as was expected when the " third-term " was first broached and a programme of toadies projected to the Pacific Hlope to give it a lively send off It did not not boom worth a cent. "K(*ll AL AND EXACT J I'STICK TO A LI. MEN, Or WIIATXVKE KT AT K OB IKKMJ ANION, HKI.IO.OLK OK POI.ITIC AL.'-JHT^o,. KKM.KKONTK, IA., THURSDAY, JUNK 12, 1870. Thk following is the vote in detuil on the resolution to expel Petrol!' from the House of Representatives, nt linrrisburg, for corrupt solicitation, of which he was reported guilty hy the committee that investigated the charges of bribery iu the matter of the riot damages hill: Ifemo* rata mho in lh# affirmative— Amtorwun, Holier, I'r-xii.a, , lUiiit*, If nto| lir jr. Hit-oi 1., Bowman, Kniil, Ki**K'l. I HraHf.nl, Kirk, 8-anUii, llraitt, K initio, rtrhfteffrr, I IjumdUv. Mn.ll, j lUnnt-li' *tr, l.rrrii, H< ll< r, t iNavia, A. C M llffffolt, Hliorwnutl, D. C , -nly, Marker, Mliot t. Drum, MrUa* Lran, Hmith, 0. A , I KMrr*!. Mct'luakejr, Pniith, J. K... Konlon, NefrrUn, Hmuh, M J . KwUtr, M ngo r, ptoj .hone, A. W., ti.trntnel, V rtl>ra 11< e, <ie|iharf, Mutiny, M *Hcn, <illau<l, OmfT, Nltnln, \A W. R., <>raliatn. Go**. 11. Pattrmm, r. t W<ww|nifT. llarkeft, i'liilil|, Zorn -M*. Ilallv* .-11, Porter, K<|u!>lt<*n who rot**! In Ilia affirtnatitf Coll-irn, lUwt.t, Nkh.'U, Itoronth, 11111, John, O N. ill, J Btmliaut, llolmau, lt.l.wiu, ! Kbarly, Wit., Jn II , Mm. k. Klliot, !aw, Amltli. John D , Ktnory I*rwia, Ma.llll, Tailor, Knlt.ru, All. t Mai**, UtHbrwtxnl, Kul ton, W. T , Mrkr, Wl..r|er, Gordon, Miller, Hall, M y em, W 02. lUrkneaa, Nvlll, Ju , j Gre t*ia* kere who mini In tlw affirmant*— | WjTll. Relief, White, J. 8.—7. Kou*t, Mi*ar, Ilium, Tlil< kun, iMtns r*t who total In (he nr|tbra— I Hentiel, Khh r, I'lUnnne, Ftmplwll, Wn n Kal-|, AhmwoiMl, Qmn R. I t'Uuke, K a tiara, Smith, V. j Crawford, Oan trier. Swwtiy--10. Ikmohnc, Jonw, Farley, N'u|*|*, KeFiMlouta who rot*-! In (he nefalira -1 A* k. rly, (Uuli, Miner, I Wiley, Gatrbell, Kmll, A. IWl.lwin, Gearing, I'atteraon, Tth, llarr. tl, l)illea| i, Piltertoit, MAI, lU. kiuer, Graham. Wm., PoK.sk, ! IW- n, t#r*-i. wait, • IU-ID. n, P*r!ier, IUlM, HefiarM*, J A., | Hn-rka. Hill, Jot, Re*rvlt*. T J I llqrgm, *ll*ll. H m., HmnhCifer, H'lrtoo, Ul|pil.', .Hnateh;, lUitler, lloaeitrf, Aiwler, t'mpbnfl, A. 8., llot r , Kt*|.ii.-fia. J W <tau#h*jr, lluhn. Wreln, I• %ia, £ W., Juerki, Tin unpawn, K*|wr*U, Kinmiil, Vmlgra. Emery. Isavhl, K>r kemnerger, Walker, Alei'r, 1 l Kvana, laimili, j<4. Walker, Jan, IF, ; Karr, UU, W|Uon. ' Klinn, l*>w.njc, Yarger, Kraier, Matlvk, Ut(, Pj-Yrf—6l. Kqllerton. Magfll, Ktilmar, M.iaudlmn, Ureefilackerr who ..tH in lha cttlie fVmny, M-ney, fhbtr, Urjla, OUnihaa. Mel.b a '•*, IWaUin, at vwaar or rai *o*. I>e*'■<■ -all who rota*l for rpwif>n . f .Jr nhli an who rota| for .ipqlaioii. .. -J Uteulwcker whi i"t| f wr rtiwlu.Aii... M ToUl & Perrve rwla wh.. <it| %tt.t iptiUl it |' K-|iMi' ana who *utal AfVR.t 'I OItMNIMMm wh fHs4 etj.,4 •; ToUl M HBWATOB ANTHONY, of Ithode Island, from being considered a fair and honorable statesman, is found to be the veriest hypocrite. On the or ganization at the extm session, he made quite a parade of indignant patriotism in denouncing the Demo cratic officers of the Senate for re moving Union soldiers from employ ment in that body. It happened not to !>c true, and that no such removals were contemplated. Hut a few days after he had ventilated his patriotism at this cheap rate it was found that Anthouy, at the very time ho was de nouncing the officers of the Henate, had demauded the removal of some l*Dion soldiers in the employ of the State of Rhode Island, to be supplied by the ap pointment of his own relations and par- | ti.-ans. These removals and np|>oint ments are giving him some anxiety, as they have met with general condemna- , tion. Again, in the Senate he acts with the stalwarts and Mr. Hayes, in sisting upon the Executive and army interference and control of elections in the States, and at the same time gives utterence to the sentiment, con structively at least, that the govern ment has no right to interfere in the local and Congressional elections in a •State. That " Rhode Island is able to take care of herself, and will hrook no Federal interference." It docs not change the import of the language that the Senator spoke only for his own State. If Federal interference is improper in Rhode Island it is also improper in any other State. Yet this man, hy his votes in the Senate, says that files of Federal soldiers, with an unlimited number of Federal marshals and supervisors, shall be placed at the disj>osal of the Federal executive to control the State elections, provided for and held under State laws. Is this evidence of the imbecility of this Republican Senator, or is it be cause partisan blindness leads him to make a fool of himself, in opposition to his better judgment, in lucid in tervals 1 Is IT A BACK-DOWN?—Republi cans any it in. It is true the Republi cans have tho power, through their Fraud, to prevent the repeal of those infamous statutes by which they have heretofore and hope in future to sur round the elections of the people nod control their ballots, with bayonets, marshals and supervisors. Relying upon the aid of the fraudulent occu* pant of the Prcsidcntal chair, they de clare thnt unless they arc permitted to retain their appliances of fraud and coercion, no appropriation shall be made to defray the expenses of the government, and accordingly have in terposed the veto of the Fraud ujxin the bills passed by Congress provid ing for those expenses. Congress j would have bceu perfectly justified, bad they rested the responsibility here. Is it a back-down, however, by Congress to re-enact the nec<-.--ary appropriation, guarding its expendi ture against the abuse contemplated by the infamous election laws, and leav ing it with the so-called President to approve or disapprove as be may sec proper? We conceive not. The ap propriation of the public funds re-ts in Congress, not in the President, or j his substitute, and it certainly cannot be pretended that they do not {stsscss the power to direct for what objects the appropriation shall lie made and how the money appropriates! shall lie expended. Not one dollar can IK- ex |>ended without the authorization of Congress, and it Congress says it shall not be expended in paving soldiers or marshals, or the Executive's |>olice for manipulating elections, they have a right and the only right to so direct. Congress will so direct, and if Mr. Ilnycs undertakes ngnin to veto the appropriation because of such limita tion to ex|H-n<litures, the rcsponsihilit v will not be upon Congress, but upon the jrorty who use the weak man in the Presidential office to advance their revolutionary schemes. M .... ' No back-down in this! and if Mr. Hayes or his stalwart supporters un dertake to instruct Congress for what objects tlicy shall or shall not appro priate the public money such impu dence, no doubt, will be treated with the contempt it deserves. IN the lat numlier of the Watchi man is a letter pur|sirting to come from Haines township, containing the fol lowing sentence. " The feelings en gendered by the nominations la*t fall have generally subsided, and all we want now, is Democratic nomination* hereafter , with peace and unity in the party." Now this is good, and we most cordially endorse it. But the question still remains, who thai! judge whether the nominations made are I)einoeratic or not —the mass of the party who elect the delegates and in struct them whom to nominate, or the disappointed candidates? We say the former. When the Democracy of Haines township elected delegates to ncounty convention and instruct them, with but four dissenting votes, to sup port a given candidate, and that candi date is nominated by the convention and subsequently by the district con ference, all this is conclusive of the Democracy of the candidate thus nom inated ; and no defeated candidate should be permitted to impeach or question his Democracy. The whole party in Haines township evidently held these sentiments when in Nov ember they polled 212 votes for Curtiu, to 207 for Dill. THE preliminary decision has been made hy Judge Biatchford of New York on the test case agreed upon be tween Gen. Butler and Congressman Chittenden, to test the validity of the re-issue of legal tender notes. Judge Blatchford's decision affirms the valid ity of the notes. The case is now in position to be carried up to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the question is to lie argued hy these gen tlemen and the final and important decision obtaiued. Democracy in Ohio The Democrats of Ohio, says the Harrisburg I'atriot, arc fortunate alike in their candidates and tluir platform. In the platform prominence in given to the national Unties that have nrisen through the factious opposition of the minority in Congress to the rc|ical of iniquitiou* laws and through the ve toes of Mr. Mayes. The resolution* demand that the elections In; free from the influence of military power and that the laws for regulating the elec tions he repealed as unconstitutional and a* instrumentalities of fraud, force ami corruption. They also demand the repeal of the t<*t oaths, so that fair, impartial, and indefK-udeiit juries he secured in the Federal courts. The resolutions arraign the Republican minority in Congress for refusing to vote suppli** to niuintain the govern ment unless the majority consent to the use of troop- at the jsills and to the maintenance of unconstitutional, corrupt and violent election laws. I They declare that Proident Hayes, by his unprecedented use of the veto in order to defeat constitutional legisla tion that hod received the mature con sideration of Congress, has shown an utter disregard of the principles of the Constitution and of the wishes and welfare of the people. In regard to the finances the old platform of the Ohio Democracy is reiterated. < Ine of the resolutions insi-ts to the fullest extent on the doctrine of expatriation, and the right of naturalized citizen* of this country to protection in every part of the world is emphatically pro claimed. Th<' efforts of the Republi ean party to open and keep alive the ' wnr fi-eling between the North and South are declares! to be deserving of the condemnation of every lover of his country. j' With these doctrines iuscribcd ujsm their banners the Ikmocrwy of Ohio i confidently and enthusiastically enter the contest. The candidates for gov ernor and lieutenant governor, Gen. Tom Kwing, and Gen. A. V. Rice, have distinguished themselves in the military and civil service of the country. General Kwing is a member of the present Congress, and is one of the ablest nnd most eloquent of the Democratic statesmen of Ohio. His ringing voice will be beard in Ohio in this campaign iu advocacy of the prin , ciplca of his party. He did not seek the nomination but it came to him while he wa- discharging bis duti<%M| Washington. (Sen. Americus V. Rice, the candidate for lieutenant governor, was prominent for the nomination for the first position and would have suc ceeded but for the superior popularity and availability Gen. Kwing. In the last Congress Gen. Rice was chair man of the committee on invalid |ien sions and to his efforts the veterans of the Union army are mainly indebted for the passage of the bill increasing their jicnsioiis. With Kwitig and Rice for candidates of the Democracy, men who have proved their devotion to country in the field of battle, the stal warts will find it exceedingly difficult to keep aloft the banner of the bloody shirt in the presence of the people of Ohio. TIIK Republicans affect to be very jubilant that the Democracy failed to obtain the rrjieal of the obnoxious election laws and the law authorizing the employment of the army to ma nipulate and control the elections of the people by the sword. It iz true that Hayes and his party refused to surrender the tyrannical power of these acts and enter the contest, on an equality with the Democracy for su premacy, yet Congress has done or will do the best it can by depriving tliem of the necessary funds from the National Treasury to make their ty rannical measures operative in control, ling the elections and converting mi norities into majorities by brute force. If they use the troops, marshals and supervisors in State elections, they will have to do it at their own ex pense. The End Our last advices from Washington indicate that tin- war iu Congress on j>o!itica! legislation is about closed. I he brave and magnanimous stalwarts have capitulated, ami are- about to surrender to the "Rebel-Brigadiers." It is said no further opposition is to be made to tin; restraining clauses in the appropriation bills, and the acting President w ill be permitted to approve. A HI DDEN C ItANOK I.N THE JNIJ.ITI < AI. HITt'ATION. OU|*tcb I" lbs I'bllwMsbla WASHINGTON, June 'J.— The |w.liti cal contest over the appropriation bills has assume*] au entirely new phase, and there is now reasonable ground to cxjMft that ail the new appropriation bill* will pas* the two House.- without opjs.sitiou, Is- signed by the President, and that Congress will adjourn next week. The cause of this change in the situation is the alleged determination of the Republican* to change front and *up|s>rt the new bills instead of carrying out their pre-announced in tention of opposing tliem. The r<al cause of this change on the part of tin Republicans is -aid to bo, and pro bahly is, the President is determined to sign the new hills or most of them, and that it has IKI H found impossible to again slilii-.i hi- liackbone or change hi* dccisio.i, T.ie actio iof the Hou*- to-day stmnglv corroborate* this re porN-d back-down on the part of the Republicans, for it is virtually that, although they do not, of course, admit it. The legislative bill, which con tain- no political legislation, wa jta*-- ed under a suspension of the rules, and then Ryan, a Republican, was j* r niitled to introduce the artnv bill a agnisl ujioii by the Democratic cau cus. This was done to let the Repub lican- down ea-v, and doubtlo* ruians the passage of tlie bill to-morrow with out much opposition. It is still a>- •erted that the President will veto the judiciary bill, because it makes no provision for the payment of super visor* and deputy marshals, and it is also asserted that the Democrat* will head o<r such a veto by adjourning Congress the same day it sends the bill to the President. Roth assertions are probably groundless, for if part of the programme i* carried out, the whole doubtless will lie. Til P. Test Oath and Jury bill pre sented by Mr. Bayard, passed the Sen ate; on I - riday last, and is now in tlie House of Representatives, where it will receive prompt attention. The bill *' bitterly opposed in the Senate by Kdinund* and Conkling, and no doubt w ill be as bitterly opposed in .the House by Garfield and Conger. tfß-bis will probably be the next of the series presented Mr. Hayes for ap proval or veto —if the latter, it will lie curious to see what argument he can produce in favor of jiacking juries. IN the cities and towns in the South ern States where there were graves of Union soldiers, the cx-Confederatcs made no discrimination, but laid the flowers upon all alike on Decoration day. A brave penpld could not do less than honor a brave dead. It is only cowards and paltroons, not sol" diers, who would lie guilty of neglect ing the dead, or desecrating the days sacred to their memory. ' Alliance of Tolls on Coal. PorrsviLLK, Pa., May .10.— The Fhila delphia and Heading railroad company having announced an advance of toll* on coal to take effect Juno 2. to day notified their miners that under the agreement with them this advance will lie followed by a corresponding advance of their wages, which for the month of . June will not be leas than 16 per cent. t>elow the basis instead of 20 as now paid, and that the oondilion of the coal trade is such as to warrant the expects tioq of further advancea of tolls and the prioas for July and August will in volve corresponding advances in the rate of wages for those months. This newa with the previous promise of steady work baa created a jubilant feel ing throughout the Schuylkill region. TUB Baptist statistics fcr the current year show that there are in the United •States 1,048 associations ; 23,908 church es; 14,.V.Hi ordained ministers; 2,024,- 524 communicants; 10,422 Sunday schools; 96.850 officer* and teachers; 806,.107 scholar*. Of the membership over 1,500.000 are in the southern part of the Union, where the Baptists large ly exceed any other denomination, 'the above figures inolude white and colored. TERMS: %iJA) |M-r Annum, in Advance. GENERAL NEWS. _— President Gowan, of the Heading rail road, started to Europe last Saturday, The General Synod of the Lutheran church met at Wooster, Ohio, yesterday. A Mr*. Theodore Young, of William* : port, ha* become in wane Iroui the lo* of two children by diptheria. Henry F. .lone*. ge<] eighty-seven, died at Waterbury, Vt., on Friday morn ing. He wa* an ex-member of Congress. Solovieff, the man who attempted 'i assassinate the Cur of ltUKfia, wa* con demned to death on Saturday arid wa* hung on Monday last. "n Saturday the inhabitant* of sev [ eral portion* of Vermont and N-w llamp-hire enjoyed that delightful vis ! itor, a .June r.ow *torm. A severe hail *torrn passed over Tope ! ka, Karma*, Monday afternoon. A "trip of country about a mile wide wa* traversed. Hog* and chicken* were killed and crop* badly damaged. At ichita hail atone* fell weighing from five Pi twelve ounce*. Mr. George Bancroft, the historian, is ill at hi* summer residence in Newport, R. 1. He i* able, however, to sit up in bed and dictate to hi* secretary. He wa* prostrated by severe heat in Wash ington recently. He had, in his opin ion, remained too long at the capital. | Tnr. writer of a letter in the Lon j don Time* f>cinu out that an ounce of i bread wasted daily in each household in Knglnd and Wales mean* about 2-0,- 000.(1(10 quartern loaves, the produce of i .10.000 acre* of wheat in a year; while an ounce a week of meat watted amount* to some .'SOO,OOO sheep. Mia* Jennie McDonald, of Allegheny, ha* been for the past two week* subject ed to the jx-rsecutions of a stranger, who has met her on the street several times and threatened her life. He ha* also sent her letters, telling her to la* careful of her person, and the whole matter u wrapt in mystery. "n* day la*t week a respectable look ing stranger went to the house of Mr. Philip Schneider, residing near Hunt ington. and entered into an arrange ment to buy hi* fsrm. Mr. Schneider invited the stranger to |,end the eve iiing with him, and next morning dis covered that he left some time during the night, takicg a watch and chain valued at SHVO. A lady at Pittsburg, while out house hunting on Friday, beard the voice of a child in the closet of a house he was looking through. Opening the door two little girl* were discovered im prisoned there, one of whom waa in sensible. The children had gone into the houe on Wednesday to play and, entering the closet, closed the door, when a spring latch fastened them ir. fhev were restored to their distressed parents. The furnace at Jlingen, Pa., was re lighted Mondav morning, after being idle for nearly five years. The property recently passed out of the hand* of the North Pennsylvania Iron Company, the Bethlehem Iron Company being the purchaser* at ffiO.OOO. The furnace ba* been thoroughly repaired, carefully refilled and the match was this morn j ing applied bv Miss Angle Johnaon, daughter of the superintendent, of Bethlehem. Th* fourth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Association for t.ie Preservation of Game and Fish will be held in Huntingdon. Pa., on Thursday, June IT, at 2 o'clock P. M. The iporU men's Association of Huntingdon will give a hunter's picnic June IS, in a leautiful locality near Huntingdo, . The features of the pic-nic will be a glass ball and pigeon shooting. There will be no prises, no class shooting and no entrance money. Station* of Soldier* on Election Bay. Wasbisctojv, June 2 —The following is the text of the bill introduced in the House to day by Representative Sprin ger, of Illinois, to regulate the stations of soldier* during elections : Which* as, the freedom of election* is of the utmost consequence to the preservation j of the rights and liberties of th* people, ; therefore be it Kftolrrrl, tie., first. That on every dsv | appointed for any general election and on j every dav appointed for snv special elec | lion of a Representative in Congress no sol dier within two miles of any citv, town or ! place where such election shail be held shall be allowed to go out of the barrack* or quarters in which he is stationed unless for the purpose of mounting or relieving guard or for giving his vote, if be is en titled to vote at such election, and that every soldier allowed to go out for such ! purpose* within the limits aforesaid shall return to his barracks or quarters with all convenient speed as soon as his guard shall have been relieved or vote tendered. Second, That when and so often as any election of any Representatives in Congress : shall be required by law to ba held or is •periallv appointed to be made, the Presi dent of the United Slate* shall, at some | convenient time before the day prescribed or appointed for such an election, give no tice thereof in writing to the general offlcer commanding in earn mililarv district of : the United States, who shall thereupon i give the neceasery orders for enforcing the execution of this act in all places under his commtnd. Third. That sections ft.628 and 2,003 of the Revised Statutes of the United Stale* be and the same are hereby repealed. The hill was referred to the Election Committee. THE Quarter Sessions Court of Beaver county has refused to license more than three saloons, which are all the county contains. NO. 21.
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