Sljc (trntrr iMft?. Ocmocrul. SIUUFRT \ FORSTKK, Kdifoi*. VOL. I. ©tit tfrntvr jOrm curat. Terms 1t.50 per Annum, in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R H. FORBTER, Editor.. Thursday Morning, July 24, 1879. Democratic State Ticket. STATU TUKASIBKR, DANIKIJ <>. BAKU, Allegheny county. Tin: third House of Congress, usual ly termed the Fraud of the White House, has located himself t the Sol" tilers' Home, a few miles from Wash ington, to pass the heated term. Tin: Democracy of Centre county wore represented in the late Demo cratic State Convention by James A. MeClain and (leorge It. Barrett, Rep resentative Delegates; and T. C. Hip pie, Esq., of Clinton county, Senatorial. NAI-OI.KON BON.VI'AUTE was a great man in his day. and was a terror even to kings, hut now we guess he is out of the way. Wheu men once receive a good hanging, according to the Ameri can mode, they are not often heard from again. The other day poor Na poleon was hung in Fardis, Mi—., and now we hope the world will let him rest. Perhaps it will he well to state that in this instance Na|>olcon was a negro who Was guilty of murdering a fellow by the plcbiun name of Tom Butler. THE Sherman boom is now heard on the Atlantic coast, away North, in the neighborhood of Newport, It. I. Junketing these hot day* in a govern ment revenue cutter at the expense of the United States i* pleasant work, and entirely consistent with John Sherman's well rccoguized habits of economy. It also shows that he ha* a proper regard for the uses to which government property may IK- put. This is especially commendable in a candidate for the Presidency, and will no doubt have due weight with the in telligent masses when they come to consider the qualifications of aspirants for that high oflice. THK Democrats who take the stnmp in Ohio and elsewhere this fall, will not lie disposed to waste all their time to gratify John Sherman in di-ctissing financial issues and counting his tall columns of figures. The people don't care a continental for John's figures now. The living issues sent Jown by Congress and the Fraudulent I'r-si dent, are those which claim the atten tion of the hour. The doctrine of centralization avowed by the Republi can leaders in Congress, and the at tempt of the Executive to seize the Legislative functions and enforce sup plies to pay for soldiers and executive police to control the votes of the pen jde are now the attraction, and cannot !>e obscured under issues of less im portance. THE hope that was felt at the close of week that the ravages of Yel low fever in Memphis would lie Con fined to a few cases is again dissipated, and the report* which come this week inform us that it is spreading with great rapidity. On Monday there Were thought to be at least sixty cases in the city of Memphis. It did not result this year from tho accumula tion of filth, as Memphis is said by those who have been there this season, to have lieeu in an unusually clean condition; hut it was because all traces of the disease hail not been exterminated by the destruction of clothing, l>ed covering and other arti cles which had come in contact with the disease last year. ' This seems to be almoinlely necessary, as the coldest winter does not seem to lm sufficient to absolutely exterminate it. We trust wc are wrong in our conjectures, yet it seems almost certain to us that the fever will spread to other places and liecome perhaps as terrible in its effects as it was last year, unless He who alone can control its course sees fit to interfere and prevent its progress. "KUCAI. ANI> KXAIT Jt'STIfK TO AM. AIKN, OK WHATEVER STATE OH l-KKSf AHION, ItKLKilortt pH ft) 1.1 Tl erly re buked for such unjustifiable proscrip tion. The removal, it is also said, was made ou the recommendation of Sena tor Hon Cameron, and one of his friends appointed to the place. There are always two sides to every story, ami since the above was in ty|>e wc find in the Washington iM a statement which places a very differ ent tacc u)M>n the case. It now appears that the removal was the result of insubordination and neglect of duty, and the complaint an attempt on tin part of Mr. Wilson, the crippled sol dier referred to, to manufacture some cheap jsjlitieal capital at the expense of truth. Mr. Wilson being the own er of valuable projM-rly and in the receipt of a pension of $72 per month ami a ; ingle man, i- not a good subject to make a re-pectable martyr. The I'utt says: t'ol. I'right is still at>*cnt from the city, but the Pott has made some in quiric* in regard to the removal of Wilson. The farts are that in the first place he objected to performing the duties of the {motion which lie held : it required more hours of attention dur ing the day than he cared to l>e con fined, t'ol. Bright than gave him an easier place ; he put him at the foot of one of the private staircases intended for senators only, and employes of the Senate. There were no cards to take ill, and, in fact, there was nothing to do hut sit at the foot of the stairs while the Senate was in session. Wilson ob jected to this place, because, as he said, it was too lonesome and quiet ; he want ed something more lively. lie was transferred to the west door of the Senate, and he at once complained ot this liecause there was too much work, lie was not willing to carry cards to Senator*. Wilson said positively lie would not fill tpat place, and before Col. Bright could, in his desire to no commodate the savior of his country, find another easier place for him, Wil son had gone home. Without waiting for t'ongress to adjourn, and without asking for leave of alwence. he left the city and went to his home. THE Republican pre affect to sneer at the startling ami damaging revelations of corrupt management re cently brought to light by the publi cation of the report of Mr. Glover, chairman of the committee charged with the investigation of the Treasury Department. These revelations can not IK? "laughed out of court," nor answered hv mere abuse of the chair man. The committee deal in facts and evidence, and when the investigation shows, among other corrupt practices and irregularities, that in the Presi dential campaigns of I8>8, 1*72 ami 187b, there was a large fraudulent issue of greenbacks, amounting to 819,000,(8(0, put in circulation and proved to have been printed from the original plates in the Treasury De partment —that this circulation was kept afloat for months and the Treas ury statements falsified to cover the fraud.it m-ems to us more is demanded than sneers or abuse. The Glover in dictment is plnin, and the pleading to it must lie equally so to satisfy public. That this fraudulent issue of greenbacks went largely into the cor ruption election funds, is strengthened by the fact, that after each Presiden tial election the public were notified from the Treasury Department tlint counterfeits were in circulation so well executed as to be difficult of detection. They would lie hard to detect, cer tainly, but having answered their par pose, the ex|>crta of the Department could easily find some defect to con demn them. A NEW nir line railroad is now be ' ing constructed from Harrislmrg to Poughkcepsie, New York, a distance of 190 miles and is expected to lie in running order liy the Ist of January next. BKbbKFONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, .11 BY 21, l-sT'.i. Bottor Tlmoß. It is very gratifying to note the tin mintiikcablo signs of u genuine and healthy business revival in almost every branch of trade that conic to us from all parts of the country. After the inactivity and depression of years, many of the great manufactur ing industries are looking up with prospects that are decidedly hopeful. Large establishments, long dormant, are springing into new life and w ill go into operation with fair IIO|M-* for the future. May success crown their ef forts. Furnaces ami rolling mills are beginning to work upon lull orders for their products at an improvement upon the low prices which have ruled in the markets for a long period past, ami in some of them, employing a large number of ojtcrntivcs, it is a pleasure to state, material advances have already been made in the wages of employes. The laborer i* always worthy of his hire, and, with increas ing prosperity, employers should with out delay icrniit their employes to share in the larger profits that nri-e from their growing prosperity. To do this will he to follow the dictates of wisdom as well as of self intcrcM. A more kimlly feeling will thus In brought about between employer and employe, and much of the unseem ly and unnecessary antagonism—lead ing to riots, strikes, loss of time -and consequent sutfering to dcpcndi nt families—that has )-< n iirou--d and encouraged by what is called the con flict between capital ami lulmr may In- allayed. With a fair division of profits each will work in harmony with the other ami the bitterness and uncertainty that have marked the ojM-rations of our industrial pursuits during the past period of depression will lm forgotten in the general jubilee of the good t intra to which pr -cut in dimtions |>oint with almost unerring certainty. ♦ The Riot Damages. The question having Ix-cn decides! by the Supreme Court adjudging the liability of Allegheny county for damages incurred by the Pittsburg riots in 1 >*77, a very large number of suits are now Uing actively entered to IH- within the two years to which the liability of the county is limited by the act of assembly. These dam ages will amount to several millions, and will embarrass the people of that county very much. Hut with their immense resources, unsurpassed manu factories, and well known enterprise, the embarrassment should be of short duration. TriK tobacco ring of New Orleans, with Morris Marks, collector of Inter nal Revenue, nt its head, has IMH-II do ing a thriving business in robbing the government of the tnxes due upon to bacco. The disclosures recently made of the operations of this gang of thieves by Mr. Flores, a prominent tobacco merchant of that city, nnd also by (Sen. Webster, a trustworthy agent of the revenue bureau, who made an in vestigation of the charge* against Oil lector Marks, are disgraceful in the extreme, and call for the summary punishment of all engaged in the ras cally business. Hut as Marks helped to steal tho electoral vote of Ismisiana for Mr. Hayes he has thus far been able to hold his own with the govern ment, notwithstanding the exposure of his villainy. He yet retains the posi tion of collector of the revenue, nnd with the influence of Sherman, Kel logg ami the other elect#al thieves, is likely to do so for some time to come. CI.KKICAI.-KKROR STOUOIITON, the virtuous statesman who distinguished himself in the Presidential fraud, and j was rewarded by the Fraud with the mission to Uussiu, after a brief terra of service has returned home on a visit. He now declines to return to his |mst at St. Petersburg, and the mission is offered to Courtlaud Parker of New Jersey, auotber visiliug statcsmau. Tilt: Hellefollte Jlrjtul/fioin pitches into tho platform adopted by the Democratic Slate Convention hint week in true stalwart style ; but for u tissue of deliberate ami unblushing misrepresentation* its like was never seen. We shall only take time to cor rect one of them. The re.-t are un worthy of attention. The first aud second resolutions are exceedingly ob noxious to its scnsiitive patriotism, though we cannot hut think it per mit* its loyal instinct* to In- ui.dulv excited over them. I bar it: "The lir-1 ami ".iimd rcn* an* drawn - x |.r- - ly lu tirkli- and duller tin* peculiar n-ntine iit of their slalwiirt I>•->■<• erratic brethren <>( the South. • • The <1 . :rine tlial the . .v.-r. iifnt y <>f the State i> sujs-r nr to the mvi-r. gntv* of ll ■ Nation WH not no-re laildlv aivMul'.l threw moil Ills prior to the inaugurate ,i; of the rebellion of lHtil than ll I liow.' 1 I>-t us see about tlii-. If tlie-i- res olutions say anything about State sov ereignty laing superior to the sover eignty of tlu- Nation we have failed to discover it. They read as follow*: ll'tolrft. Fir-t That we, 110- tlenvK ra ti party ..f p.-riin v lvania in • invention a." iiii hd, rem-w . ,r vow# of fidelity to the fundaue ntnl principle* j roeliome | and prac-tio-d l.y the illiotri. ~ m.-ri w le. •• llh .1 ■ >ur tree iii-: tutu r nt.d found' .I the |etn is-alii p*rt\ to prot'S't and preserve them S • sid. 'i'lial lie ju-t powir-of the Ksl <-rai Union, the right* ot the Stale-and tin liberties of the |H'op,e are \ ital | rt- "t one harmonious "\-teui, aiel to avi* cuii-li ; art in its whole <'•institutional us..r i to rav.- the life of the nalt< n. We take it thill the second nfMolu tion means just what it say*, au-1 that it i* a fair recognition of the division of proper that exist* under our f< r n ot government R.-twei-ii th<- Federal ( iiioti and the Hintr of th>- /i'public in can any thing in it that indicates fooli-h an idea ;u he .-ugg--st* about the covert igu tr of the Stale le-ing sujicrior to the - ivereignty >.f tin- Nation he mu-t na • than those given to the average of mankind. Tin Centre county representative:, fnn -I very well in the late Dcui Tatic State conviction at Hnrri-burg. b'u. U. Harrett, dr. 11-q.,—*tib-titutr] for Cyrus ('. Hrumgard—wa* made a member of tli<- committee on pt-rma* nent organi/ation, nml Jamra A. Me ('lain, I.S)|., wn* a in lIIIHT of the committee on credential*. In com mittee Mr. Harrrlt nominated the tier manent clmiruiau of the convention, Hon. A. H. ( offroth, and supported him in n str ing speech. The opposi tion to Mr. Coflroth came from F. A. Beamish, of Luzerne, Imt wn* without avail, the committee selecting the Congressman from Somerset on the fir*t ballot. T. C. Hippie, K*q., of I>M k Haven, the Senatorial delegate from this district, was on the commit tee on resolution*. SENATOR WAI.I.AC:' rommittee will meet in New York next week to investigate nml overhaul the crooked ness of John I. Davenport in connec tion with the > lection*. We may ex |irrt rich development*, a* Wallace is the man to sift things to the bottom. I'AOTMAHTKII HARTRANKT ami Sec retary (piay are *|H>ke of a* probable candidate* for Secretary of War, in the event of the retirement of Secre tary MeCreary. Mr. having lieen interviewed on the subject says he knows nothing almut it. <)f course he don't. • • The Duke of Argyll and the ladies M >ry ami Klixabelh Campbell Nailed tor Europe Wednesday on the Ncythia. I They arived in New York from New |Hirt Monday evening of lost week ami ; spent the following day in visiting places of interest in and about the city. Together with Mr. Cyrus W. Field anil General di Osnola they vieweil the Metropolitan Museum of. Natural His tory. Wednesday morning was spent by the ladies in shopping, while the Ihike with his eonstant attendant. Mr. Field, rode on the elevated line to liar lem and inspeeled the Working* of the railroad. IVefore Innrh the Duke had a long conversation with Secretary Evert*. Among those wiio went on board to hid the party farewell wcr Mr. Cyrus W. Field, David Dudley Field, General di C'esnola, Thuriow Weed and Allen Thorndyke ltice. of the Korth America a tterinr. In conversation with those around him the l>uk expressed much gratification with hit visit to New York. GENERAL NEWS. .1 udge Sterrett ami family aro at Red foril .Spring*. I lie i'loliibilion nominee for Cover nor of lowa decline*. '■<> l. I: il.i-it (I. Ingorsoli lias sold hi* ?"').(>Ml residence at Peoria, 111. Hurry I'.ilmi-r, of the firm < 11 *). S r Edward Thornton is to visit New port nest moil Ih, its lli guest of the French Minister. The California Democratic State fen tral Committee have voted to retain Dr. 'ib-nn a noroim-e (or lioveroor. A reunion of soldier* of the North west will be belli at Auiora, Hi., on August INt, 'JI anil T2. i'i)--idi-nt Mr-Cosh ha* tits- mo-t ele gant maiisii >n of any college president— • lie gift of tits- l'ilii i'lelpliia Stuart*. A furious storm s>f wind and rain vis iled tin- T n'erti portion of Ma--.t'hu -11- last week, doing great darings*. • ieneini William F. Harry, Colonel of the Second Maryland artillery, ami in command at Fort Mcilt-iir), died in Ilaitiinore, Friday. 1 >f tin- f hi fin *i in refuniling ccrtifi rats* isstii-d by tin* t'nifed States Treas ury j- J.'JTT.n *< have !-(ii converts-d in Ut four per cent. l*oniJ.- The Ki'v. William t'ooper Mea last Faidav morn mg. It destroy<-d two I,locks of and cottage* in the business tlislriot. None of the hotels or principal cot (ages were injured. 'I he total loss i ■ I>oiil t nun, ami insurance about #l.*>,<**. F.irly Mondav morning a fire destroy ed iii tnpv A f o's new planning mill at Cleveland, Ohio. Loss, ttf l.tlUO ; insur ed ll Odd. It. is suppo.id tolns the "■iir*ot an incendiary. Two firemen wi re injured, and it i* feared one fatal ly, by falling walls. Mr. James 'tordon ftennet was eulo gised in Pari* on Saturday night last, hjr M. Louis Simonin, the engineer and traveler, at a meeting of the Socite 'Jeographique. Tne sailing of the Arc tic exploring steamer Jean net l was I lie immediate occasion winch called forth the eulogy. The steamer Njate of Virginia, from New York for (ilosgow, went asliore at Sable Island, Halifax, at 7.4.'i r. H. on the 12tb instant. F'our Indie* and five children are rep .rted lost in the surf while landing. The vesael had seventy four passengers, one hundred and four head of entile and a general cargo. Sixty head of rattle were saved. Saturday evening four iee houses half filli <1 with ice, owned by S<*ott, tjuinn A Morris, situated on Von Itonasalaer island, at the upper end ot the city of Albany, N. Y., were totally destroyed by an incendiary fire. Each building w.is thirty feet wide by two hundred in length. The loss is estimated at fl.V,* (100; partially insured. (iovernor McClellan ha* recently made from hi* home on ('range M,mil ium a pleasure tnur through the north ern counties of New Jersey, driving tiy way of Nchooley's Mrmntaiti, HacketU town and Hope to the IVlaware Water (lap. The party eonaisted of the Gov ernor, his wife, iiis son and hia daugh ter, the former driving A barouche and iii children a phaeton. The late William AHrn had an ex tremely powerful voice—so powerful, indeed, that it gained for hint the sobri quet of "Earthquake Allrn." When a youth and apprenticed to John Thur man, the saddler, Allen was a tall, erect fellow, and a ieristent worker, study ing with hi* book before him on his work bench. An incendiary fire at Oneida, N. Y., Monday morning, destroyed nine build ngs. Tho principal loser* are the Joseph Robert* knitting mills, out); insurance, $27,000. Oneida Oa light t 'ompany, love* $O,OOO ; Insurance, s4.* 000. Upson A iioiden's carriage shop, tfi.fiOO; insurance, $2,700. W. C. Law | renee, grain, $2 5AOt insurance, $3,000. I I. N. Messenger, $10,000; no insurance. TKKMN: X!.." 0 per Annum, in Advance. There were taken from Erie to New York, on Saturday over the Rake Shorn and Michigan railroad, J2,o(J(™ so much danger of a water famine in I'ittsburg that the police have been ordered to rej-ort all persons found wasting it. 1 he l'eptity Mayor of Pittsburg. who hold* forth at Rawrenceville, a suburb of the first named plae< , when disagreeing wive, and husbands are brought before him hw-k. them up in a r'Kirn, and gen erally find* thai when they are released a reconciliation li.o been effected. I lie f >rt National Rank of ltufler haa been compelled by the I'nited State- itank Kiaminer to go into liqui dation. Ibe Krie J/eraf't aaya it ia un di-r-tood that llv f'liief .lu-tioe Charier Mi<.'.ndle-- wijl 10-e thd/iOO by it. It ha. almost r.iuaed a panic among the " farming people of Butler county. The New Hampshire House of Rep re-entativea haa passed a bill regulating railway pn*cng<-r and freight tariff-. It give# to the Railway Com minion era the right to n gulate the tariff of any road in the State, and prohibits any Railway Commissioner from holding office in any railway corporation or from owning the stock or bond* of any railroad. Fx-fiovrnor Thomas Swann, of Mary land, gave a grand dinner on Saturday night at his Newport cottage in honor of his guest, Kx-Secretary Hamilton Fi-h. The guest* included Mr. arid Mr. f- Jney Webster. Mr. and Mm. ■ loli ll Whip) le.fieneral and Mrs. fieorgo W. f'ullutn, of New York ; lis < Jove/nor Lawrence and I>r. and Mrs. W. R. Wlieeb r. of N'ewjaart, and Mrs. Ir. H. Weir Mitchell and MMI 'iadwallader, of Philadelphia. For three week* past the f'utnber land and Pennsylvania railroad h kept an engine standing at a j>oint where the Pennsylvania railroad in Maryland desired cro-'ing thryr track on the outskirts of CumWrland. At I p. rn. Friday the engine left temporarily to all aa*. As soon as the coal train had passed workmen of the Pennsylvania railroad in Maryland tore up a rail of the CumWrland and Pennsylvania track, preventing the re turn of the engine, and effected the crossing. Five hundred people were pre-ctii. The excitement so immense, but no disturbance occurred. The Nomine". I • rt) tho Alt Krttft Mr. I>amcl tr. Han, the Democratic noitiinee for State Treasurer, i a na tive of Blairsville, Indiana c< unty. and is thirty nine years of age. He was en gaged for aoif>e years when a youth, as i telegraph oj-erator on the Western Division of the Pennsvlvania railroad. < 'li the loth of July, lh.'i*, he accepted a position in the old i'lttsburgh Trust •'••mpany—now the First National Rank of Pittsburgh—and has since that date been connected with that institu ti n. which is one of the largest banks in the city. It is perhaps an augury of Mien .* that his nomination by acclama tion as a candidate for State Treasurer should have oecurred on the twenty fust anniversary ot his connection with the bank, in whose service he haa spent his active bu-ineaa life. Mr. Harr ha* always taken an active part in State and National politics. In IW9 and again in ISTtI he was the Itemooratic Regulative nominee for Mate Treasurer that officer heing then elected by the legislature—but the Democrat* being in a minority the honor was an empty one. This nomination means an elec tion, < Mr. IWrga deservedly popular; while his well-knoan ability, integrity and business training admirably quali fy him for the duties of the position. Mr. P.arr is in all resp>eet* a most creditable candidate for State Treasurer. A trained hanker, thoroughly familiar with our financiarsystcm, active, intel ligent and faithful in his tuisiness rela tions and | rsonally blameless alike in public and private life, his fitness for the responsible trust will not be ques tioned by friend or foe.—l'kt/Wc/pAsr Rsuta Mr. Harr's character is spotlessly pure, and his long connection, in a*mo-t re sponsible pmsilion with one of the lead ing bank* of the city, i* the best evi dence that could W offered of his full qualification for the office for which he ha* been nominated. ■—lhildmry Ixairr. l-arge Deliveries of Wheat and Decline of I'Hcc*. Cntrvoo. July 19.—There has been considerable excitement the past week in conequenee of a rapid and uncheck ed decline in grain and provisions on change. The favorable crop re |oris ru more that the combination which haa held wheat up for a few month* ps-t. wers selling out and the expectation of sn outbreak of yellow fever in Southern citiea have combined to depress price*. The cash decline on wheat na amount ed to about 14 cent* during* the week, tire lowest sales Wing made today, when on call wheat sold for July option nt Mi| cent*. There were rumor* of * failures, but so far a* is known they were only temporary embarrassments, nnd all ol the firm* interested are ax pee led to continue business on Monday. The clearings to day were larger by 1,3(10