NHUUERT A FORSTEH, Fdllor*. VOI,. I. STlic tfnitre Democrat. Term* 91.5() per Annum, In Advance. a. T. SHUOERT and R. H FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, November 20, 1879. • HENRY I). COOKE, of Washington, is given as authority that Jay, Cook A Co., can now pay all their debts on demand at par. This will he pleas ant news, if true, to many. COURTNEY aud Hnnlau, after a long correspondence and much ban tering, have at length decided upon a match to row in the Potomac at Washington, on the 2d of December, for a purse of ?!,tXM). THE Central Pacific Railroad com pany have made a payment of $536,- 21*1 of the money they withheld from the treasury of the country. Si much for Mr. Thurman's legislation in forc ing the rascals to disgorge. Lot the whole steal be recovered. THE Hon. Charles R. Voorhis, a Republican member of Congress from New Jersey, has been arrested for embezzlement of the funds of the j First National Bank of Haekensock, npulatiou, with the ordinary social and vital sta tistics. The other general department of the work will embrace the collec tion of statistics of manufactures, ag riculture, mining, fishing interests and social statistics, such as taxation, wealth, public indebtedness, libraries, churches, schools, newspapers and so forth. (Jen. Walker expects to com plete the work in the single month of June. Heretofore several months have elapsed before the census returns were i all made and classified, and the conse quence was that those returns, over lapping to that extent the period to which the census was limited, includ ed returns in the census then complet ed which by right belonged to the present decade, and will thus make imperfect to a small extent the com parison between the figures of the last decade and that which is now coming to a close. SENATOR MATT. CARPENTER has discovered a "mare's nest.' 1 He has discovered that the Democrats intend to count the Republican out, if they should be successful in electing the President in I**o. If the Democrats, following Republican precedent, con template this naughty thing, it is not likely that they have made a confi dent of Mr. C'arjienter. It is not the Democratic style, and they are oppos ed to such proceedings by any jarty or any set of scoundrels. It i more likely that Matt, and his party arc preparing to repeat the frauds of I*7*l and only raise the cry of "stop thief" to cover their own retreat and hide their own villainy. Certain it is, the Democracy desire, and will have no tricks of this kind played in I**o. One fraudulent President is sufficient for one century at least. Another one could only lie seated after the street* of Washington are drenched in pa triotic blood. It will be perilous for Mr. Carpenter and his party to re peat. No one better thau he knows how the thing was done in 187*1, and the smoldering volcano that lay be neath the act. THE Sub-Committee of the Senate in the Kellogg-Spaffiml contest met at New Orleans this week to take such testimony as it was not convenient to take at Washington. No doubt Kel logg will have a wholesome lot of wit nesses on hand, judging from the specimens given at Washington last winter. Rut it is to be hoped the la tajr of the committee will be so thor ' ough that the country may hope soon to be relieved from the. disgusting de tails of this I/ouisiana villainy. " - " ' ■■ ■ IT is belivcd that the magnani mous Conkling will now pardon the White House fraud, and take him into favor, so long as he will continue sub servient. Iking exceedingly placable since the New York election, he may also withdraw his contempt from Ev erts and try to forget the stultification to which that minister of fraud sub jected himself to obtain the favor of his present imperious master. THE Hon. Thoa. B. Keough of North Carolina, in Washington to at tend the Republican National Com mittee, says that two-thirds of the committee favor the nomination of Grant. He thinks that the National convention will be told at Chicago, though New York may be selected. The committee were to meet on Mon day last. BKLHKFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, XOVEMBKK 20, 1870. Our Bituminous Cool Fiolds. Within a decade of time there has been a vastly enlarged demand for bituminous coal. I nder the necessi ties of a growing and rapidly increas ing consumption, the great, undevel oped bituminous field" of Pennsylva nia have attracted, and arc still at tracting, the attention of capitalists and carrying companies to an extent that must be apparent to every one who observes with any degree of in tslligence the ordinary run of current events. As an evidence of what we here usscrt, we lay before our readers an extract from the letter of a oorres pondent of the Philadelphia Itieord, on tlie consumption of both anthracite and bituminous coals, und which, at the same time, "peak- as by authority of the efforts that are now under way to reach the lu-urt of the bituminous coal fields by interests that have as yet been uuuhlc to penetrate t> tin rich deposits of those regions. This letter appears in the financial column of Monday's issue of the journal named and reads as follows : "Tho official statement of tlic output of anthracite coal show* an increase for the past year of over seven million tons. This increase has been so gradual and widespread that it i* difficult to trace it to the consumers, and yet there ha* been no accumulation of stock at the leading shipping points, and the belief is general that next year will show a much greater increase in consumption, which will tax the anthracite mines now opened to their full capacity, which means good price* for coal and divi dends for the coal road*. "Thecon*uniption of bituminous coal ha* also increased very largely. The output from the Clearfield regions alone will be 1.6*10,000 ton*, an increase of about 300,000 tons alove last year. The railroad into this field now pays about 13 |>er cent, dividv-iul on it* capital slock ot $1,000,000. This road ha* no bonded debt, and is certainly prosper ous. "The favorable result* of mixing one half enk* in the anthracite blast fur naces and numerous rolling mills along the line of the Philadelphia and Head ing railroad and its connection* has made a large demand for bituminous coal in that region, so that the iron manufacturers are clamorous for new and direct connection with the Clear field coal field, aud it 1* reported, upon what seems unquestioned authority, that the Heading Company is quite will ing to co-operate with its customer* in acquiring connections in that direction. It is further stated that property owner* representing some seventy thousand acree of coal lands in the Clearfield re gions are also anxious to co-operate in this movenx-nt to secure a competing outlet to market, for even now the oper ator* cannot get cars from their own road to fill their order*, and the Head ing Company is sending IU car* over lines controller! by the l'ennsylnania Hail road l Company to accommodate cus tomer* along its lines. "booking in this direction also is the extension of the Heading track* to bin den, beyond Williamsport, and the ac cepted proposal* by the citizen* of Ick Haven for the Heading Company to furnish iron, and give the bond* of the line for cost of construction—the bonds to be accepted in payment of all freight to or from I,ock Haven. "The most favored proposer! route from l/ock Haven is via Beech Creek and l'liilipsburg, thence along the valley of Moshannon creek to it# hear] waters in the heart of the Clearfield region. A* an encouragement to construct this connection it is reported that parties in interest are willing to guarantee the sale of 1,500,000 ton* of Clearfield coal |>er annum on the line of the Heading road and it* branches. These new and paying lines into our coal fields will augment the demand for both coal and i iron, and clearly indicate that prosper | ity will continue for several years at ■ least. Thus we may expect increased I dividends from all railroads in the ; State, and that general prosperity will i prevail in all departments of business." So far as the above extract refer* to the intentiou* of the Philadelphia and Reading company, we can say that wc are assured by good an 1 reliable au | thority that tho*c who control the I operations of that corporation are in <*rncst in'seeking for a bituminous ; coal field into which to extend their I lines, and arc now directing their at tention to the field* of Centre and Clearfield counties, including the Snow Shoe region. Thi* i* no longer a mere idle rumor or suspicion, but work is •low heing done to secure the route and the coal lands. The significance of thia fact must forcibly strike the | Pennsylvania railroad mauagement. j To that great carrying company it is a fact pregnant with importance; and now, while negotiation* are pending between that management and the Snow Shoe railroad company, is the tiine for the Pennsylvania coin puny to secure tin; valuable Snow Shoe field. W ben worked as it is capable of being worked, and developed as it undoubt edly must be under the stimulus of present demand and consumption, this Snow Shoe coal field cannot fail to prove as remunerative to the Pennsyl vania railroad company as the Clear field region has been, now is, and must continue to be in a long future. An Ilonost Ballot Box. Fnun lte l'lnUliia In'julrvr. A ballot-box which rings a bell when n vote enters the box, which counts all the ballots a* they are received, stamps them with a number, and file# thetn neatly away beyond the reach of any hand, would seem to be as nearly per fect a device for preventing fraud at the polls s has been devised, and an ingenious New Yorker ha# invented such a contrivance. No use for it in Philadelphia. The uhUeduils ami the nnilto" iaiU do not want an "honest ballot." The round ' i* ami the "trikere must ta- maintain ed, and this contrivance would inter fere inconveniently. * IN another column will IK- found a table of the official vote of all the counties of the State at the late elec tion for State Treasurer. The footing# are a* follows: Butler, Republican ....ISKI, 1 .V 5 llsrr, iK-ne- rat .221,715 Button. Greenback 27,207 Kichardiuin, Prohibition- 3,210 Scattering 8.7 Total vote 1782,379 Butler over Barr 58,438 Butler over all 27,927 The total vote is 16fr,t>5i* less than it was last year at the election for j Governor. The vote wa# then divid ed a follows: Republican. HI 11,5*17 ; Democratic, 21)7,060 ; Greenback, *l,- 758 ; Prohibition, 3,655. Total, 702,- 038. The loss this year on the vote of last year, divided amongst the jar tic*, is represented by the following figures: Republican, 30,414; 18mo cratie, 75,345; Greenback, 54,551 ; i Prohibition, 434. It will be seen that bad the Democrats polled their vote of last year they would have elec ted Barr by a handsome majority. There may be food for thought in these figures for some of the Democrats who stayed at home on the last elec tion day, and it is to ho h<>[>cd they will profit from a perusal of them. • To REAP the Rejiuhlican japers one would be led to suppose that the Southern jieople were all au abandon ed race of Ghouls, feasting upon the blood of the negro, instead of the high-toned, generous jieople they are. While here at the North we eau wit ness whole communities of handed murderers, and nearly every town and city sending out marauding assassins in every direction, but little account !is taken of it. It is merely noticed in the ja|*>r* as a thing of daily oc currence. If the villains are caught they will lie punished, provided they . do not wield a political influence to commend them to the pardon board nnd Executive clemency. But, let a negro aud a white man of the South get into a fight, and the negro is worsted and comes to grief—or let the men of the South puuish a negro or a clan of negroes for shameful atroci ties against the life of citizens or the : good order and peace of society, im mediately the "bloody shirt" is waved and the Republican prow is made to : groan under the thunder of its denun ciations of the wirVednea# of the whole Southern people, and the party is ad monished to organize to rejiel the new rebellion which the " Rebel Briga diers" are about to precipitate upon the country. This is about the character of the twaddle that the Republican press give in response to the advances of tho Southern people for harmony and fellow-foeling and good government throughout the country; and it is about time their readers would re buke these miserable appeal* to their pansioni and prejudices for party ef fect. Their intelligence should feel iii#ultcd by the constant reiteration of Hiieh stull. Ihe Southern people are free from the sectional animosity, so recklessly urged in the North, ami have shown a creditable disposition to live on terms of amity and good will for the sake of the general good of a common country. IT is said that Mr. Kdisou has brought the Electric Light to a com plete economic success, and that he is now preparing, aud will shortly make, a full and satisfactory demonstration of the same. ♦ HHNKIUI, HAM Judg< Advocate, or Stanton, who ti Secretary of ar, or Andy Johnson, who wa Pres ident." "Hancock," exclaimed the priest, "had her immediate custody, and he absolutely refused to let her see her clergyman, or any clergyman of her church, after she wa sentenced. He did all he could to send the woman to h 1; but no doubt her earmM request for clergy was passed to lor < rslit in the t>k le-vond the sky "I never beard of that," 1 said. "Well, Catholic* have, raid the priett, "and if Hancns k should arise and have the impudence to ask for Catholic votes, they would bury him under their indignation The above extract appeared in the J'ott of thia city this morning. The re retorter of the H'srW celled upon Hev. Father Walter, of St. Patrick's church, with this interview. He was Mrs. Sur ratt's adviser, and he it was whom General Hancock wa*. credited with having insulted. Father Walter is a Mil, square shouldered man, with enough lire in bis face and vigor in hi* movements to make one almost wish that he and General Hancock could put on the gloves together, they are so nearly matched. "I am glad you came.'' he said, "for this isn't the first of these firings at General Hancock I have blamed my self often for not declaring tho truth in the matter, for I am the only one that should tell it, so far a* it concerns my self. Yet. being a priest. I have felt bound to hold my jeace. Besides so far no tangible larm has resulted from silence. For me weeks back though 1 have seen Jrat circumstances might arise which Should change my deter mination ; this attack seems to me to call for *he kind of response that will mJ|eW-. objection* to General Han in the future. That is what 1 said today to Bishop Keane, of Itichmond, when I informed linn that I had about decided to brand all such false over my own signature." "Would you object to doing it now?" the reporter asked. j "Not at all," Father Walter replied, and healing himself at a table ho wrote thia denial: Truth and Justice compel me to deny the statement with reference to General Hancock's participation in the execution of Mrs. Surrstt, which appeared in the Washington l\1 this morning. 1 attend ed Mrs. Nurratt on that occasion and met with no Interference <>n the part of Gener al Hancock. General Hancock had great sympathy with this unfortunate lady and waited until the last moment, hoping for a reprieve. 1 consider it an act of justice to General Hancock that this sUtement should be made. iSigned), J. A. W A i. TEH, Pastor of Bt. Patrick s Church, Washington. "There. That is the first statement I made for the public in all three years," Father Walter said, a trifle sadly. "I hope it may be the means of enough good to compensate for all the harm that these storiea have done." An assertion made today by an ex> army officer was abundantly corroborat ed in the War L>el>artment that so strong war. General Hancock'a hope for a reprieve for Mr*. Nurratt that on the day of theexeoution he stationed relay* of cavalry along the atreeU from the White House to the Arsenal, that no delay might ensue in communicating the fact. In the Arsenal are Dinio graphs of the scaffold at the time of the execution. They show Father Walter at Mr*. Surratt's side. Judge Pearson, laat week when the Zechman jury was being selected, wae very emphatic in hie disapprobation of putting men in the jury wheel who do not know the English language suffi cient to understand what is said by the court, wilneesee and counsel. He inti mated the iaauing of an order to cover the inoonvenienoe. An appropriation of £2.750,000 will be asked for taking the census in the next fiscal year. TKK.MN: K1..">0 JHT AIIIIIIIII, in Arivmiw. GENERAL NEWS. Pittsburg rnilk dealer* are forming com Li nation to advance the price of inilk. Ihe expenditure* during October lat on th* Brooklyn bridge were £1 12.- 981.51. lor street cleaning j >uri>ose* in New York during October $11,216.06 were expended. The steamship Main, which Arrived at New York from Lurope, on Thursday, brought SBOO,OOO gold coin. 'Colonel .lame. Duffy, of Marietta, ia the moat successful farmer and to La wo planter on the Musrjuchanna river. I he Knight* Templar demonstration at Richmond, \ a., last Thursday after noon, wax a moat successful affair. The venerable Peter Hay died at hia reaidence in Philadelphia .Saturday morning, in the Vlst year of hi age. Paul Itoyton ha* responded favorably to the recent challenge of Captain WebW to iwini a race in their respective swimming dresses. A colored man was recently attacked by a sparrow hawk that haA been con fined in .1 room at Chichester, Delaware county, and severely injured. Associate .fudge .Joseph Light, of Lebanon county, died last Thursday morning. The