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,
<if which he was president. The atli- j
davit was made by the cashier and j
vice president.
THE Cincinnati Emjuirer favors the
nomination of Potter and Hendricks
or Hendricks and Potter as the Dem
ocratic candidate for President and
Vice President. A strong ticket eith
er way, composed of honest, incor
ruptible men, whom the Democracy
could support with confidence and
pleasure.
THE military station at Carlisle, in
this State, has been turned into a
school for Indians and is in quite a
prosperous condition. There was ad
ded to the number of students last
week two girls and six boys from Da
kota and Wisconsin, making in all
158. Arrangements are to ta: made
for a chapel and assembly room with
capacity for 300 children.
THE HON. WM. M'CLKI.LAND ha
purchased the Weekly Ueeord pub
lished at Sewickley, Allegheny coun
ty, and removed the establishment to
Pittsburg, where it will hereafter lie
published as a Democratic paper.
Capt. M'Clelland possesses ability and
experience, and will publish an able
aud interesting paper. We hope he
will be liberally sustaiucd by an ap
preciative and extended patronage.
_
CoNoBR, the Michigan blatherskite
of the House of Representatives, sought j
appointment to the vacant Senator
ship. But the Governor knowing
that the rnautle of Zach. Chandler
would not fall gracefully upou the
brawling demagogue, conferred the
appointment ujion Ex-Governor Hen
ry P. Balwin, who will take his seat
in the Senate at the opening of the
session.
IT is announced that a movement
is on foot to send Senator Thurman to
the House of Representatives from
the Columbus (Ohio) district, where
he resides. That district is now dem
ocratic, and though the new Republi
can Legislature will doubtless gerry
mander the State, it is questionable if.
they can change its political charac
ter. Mr. Thurman was a member of
the House thirty-four years ago.
jp THE Bond-holders are happy of
course. The Republicans and a few
demagogues of Virginia, to obtain a
few offices, have led their negro parti
sans to disgrace their State and repu
diate its obligation. To prevent the
degradation, the Democracy of Vir
ginia labored with great energy and
devotion, hut were unable to over
come the combinations. The Demo
cratic Governor may prevent the
passage of any outrageous act, but
he cannot prevent the demagogues ob
taining the offices, for which, with the
help of the negroes, they sacrificed
the public honor,
"Kqt'At. AND EXACT JI NTH K TO AI.I? MKN, or WHATKVKH STATE OH PERSUASION, KKI.IOIOI N OH POMTKAI.."—J<-ffr.n.
Tho Next Oonsuß.
(Jen. Walker, the superintendent of
the census, has already in a general
way disclosed his plan of operations
for next year. The t'nited States, for
the pur|NJses of classification and enu
meration, will be divided into about
lot) districts, each of which will be
divided by the supervisor in charge
into appropriate enumeration districts.
About *20,000 persons will be employ
ed to take the census, which will have
two distinct departments. First, there
will be the enumeration proper, in
cluding a count of the |>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.
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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'lnU<l< i|>liia 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 <M K.
A W|( KEI) INVENTION Itl.OH N TO TIIE WINDS
H V A DOZEN HONEST WORM.
WA-IIINOTON, November 13, '7'J.—Tim
mention of General Hancock's name in
connection with the Presidential nomi
nation h led, a* his friends supposed
it would lead, to spiteful outcropping#
over the hanging of Mrs. Nurratt, an
alluir which his official position just af
ter the war compelled him to direct. A
few days ago in the 1 ndianapolis Journal
an interview was printed about General
Hancock, of which the following is
part :
"The Item's rats i art t nominate General
Hancock, said a Catholic Priest to tie
the other <lav, in p, rny expreation
of opinion.
"\Vliy not"'' 1 1 asked.
"Because," he said with much feeling,
"he hanged Mrs Surrutt without caus<
and je-rsei uted her fur her religiun.
"I don I see how he hanged tier, ' said I,
"more than General Holt, who **> 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 $11,216.06 were
expended.
The steamship Main, which Arrived
at New York from Lurope, on Thursday,
brought SBOO,OOO gold coin.
'Colonel .lame. Duffy, of Marietta, ia
the moat successful farmer and to La wo
planter on the Musrjuchanna river.
I he Knight* Templar demonstration
at Richmond, \ a., last Thursday after
noon, wax a moat successful affair.
The venerable Peter Hay died at hia
reaidence in Philadelphia .Saturday
morning, in the Vlst year of hi age.
Paul Itoyton ha* responded favorably
to the recent challenge of Captain
WebW to iwini a race in their respective
swimming dresses.
A colored man was recently attacked
by a sparrow hawk that haA been con
fined in .1 room at Chichester, Delaware
county, and severely injured.
Associate .fudge .Joseph Light, of
Lebanon county, died last Thursday
morning. The <ourt was adjourned
for the week in respect to hi* nMtnory.
A Mifflin county hunter recently kill
ed as he thought one turkey, but upon
investigation found three, lie thinks
they were in a line and two of them
were hidden from view.
'I he Lehigh and Delaware division
canal company are going to try steam
on their canals between Mauch Chunk
and Philadelphia, and are now building
an exjserimental U*at.
Details of the damage done by the
gal<- which visited the southern portion
of < >hio at eleven o'clock Friday morn
ing. show that property valued at about
was destroyed.
Robert A. Farnaworth, a prominent
c-tiien of Munbury, committed suicide
last Thursday morning by lianging
himself in the garret of his residence.
He had been sick for some time, and
was not in his right mind.
There has been recently found in tho
Miami riveY a magnificent pearl weigh
ing 40$ grains. It has an agatued
groundwoik, with the iridescence shin
ing through, and as it is the only one of
the kind known its value can scarcely
be estimated.
A white swan, measuring 56J inches
from the tip of the toes to the end of
the beak, and 85 inches across the
wings, and weighing llj pounds, wa*
shot on the Ten Mile creelr, Washing
ton county, on Wednesday, of la-t
week. It will be presented to the
Sj-ortsmen's t'iubof Pittsburg.
The Pittsburg Chmniclt say*: The
general manager of one of the Indian
apolis roads has contracted with the
I dgar Thomson steel work* for several
thousand tons of steel rails, to be deliv
ered a early as May next, at S6O j,er
ton. this being the lowest figure the
steel works company would agree to
furnish tbem at.
Theodore C. Vermilye, a well known
New York lawyer and a prominent res
ident of New Brighton. Mtaten Island,
was thrown from a carriage near his
home on Thursday evening and instant
ly killed. He was a man of middle age,
and bas a son in the legal business in
New York. He was a member of As
sembly from Richmond county in iB6O.
The Pittsburg coal men are delight
ed with the recent behavior of the Al
legheny river and other tributaries to
the Ohio. These show a tendency to
swell, and upon their getting up to the
necessary height depends the success of
floating to market about 15.000.000 bush
els of coal lying in boat* at Pittsburg and
vicinity, louisville and other points to
which this coal goes have empty bins,
and offer greatly advanced figure* for
it. This increases the desire to get it
off", and therefore the rivers cannot rise
too rapidly to suit the ooal people of
Western Pennsylvania.
Articles were agreed by Hanlan and
Courtney Thursday night, by which they *
are to row a 5 mile race, 2| mile* out
and return in their best boat* for $6,000
offered by the Hop Hitters Manufac
turing Company, said race to be rowed
on the Potomac, near Washington, on
Tuesday. December 9, between 2 and 5 .
r. subject to postponement by the *
referee on account of weather, each
party to deposit SSOO with the referee
within five day* from this date, party
starling at the word "go' - to get tho
money if the other party does not start;
but if both start or fail to start, money
to be returned to both parties. Hlaikin
is to be referee.
Frederick Douglass, .Tr., of Washing
ton, has written an article in the New
York A<tsxx*i< in opposition to the ne
gro exodus, lie says it is an "attempt
to stop up one hole by boring another.'?,
He wants to know 'if the northern
door is thrown open so wide to the col
ored emigrant, why are our colored |jfe
professional men compelled to seek
practice away from the North T" "If,"
he continues, "there is so much milk
and honey in the North and West in
the way of employment, bow can you
account for the presence of so many
Northern colored iwople seeking homes
in the District of Columbia and tho
Mouth ? 1 am a printer by trade, and
never worked in any office outside the
one owned by my father up north in h
my life: the Republican offices were
always full when 1 knocked at their
doors seeking erni loyment." He thinks
the negroes will do better to stey where
they are.
NO. IT.