@l)c (tcntre ISHJ iOrmncrat, SHIGKRT \ FOBSTKR, Editors. + VOL. I. ?ltr tf nitre 31 cm octal. Term. 51.50 per Annum, in Advance. I 8. T. SHUGERT .ml R. H. FORSTER. Editors. Thursday Morning, December 4, 1879. It is said the Stalwarts of the cabi net are after the scalp of Secretary Sohur/. of the Interior Department, lie jM.sseases an independence they cannot endure or excuse, ILS well us a capability of successful administra-' tion they cannot rival. THE opposing factions in the Dem ocratic party in Philadelphia are mak ing some motion toward reconciliation. They should have done that before the , last election, and saved tliemsc'ves the disgraceful route which followed their bickerings. Rut better late thau never, j Seymovr aud 11 KNDKtCK.s, or Ray- ! A Kl> and MCDONALD, seem to be tbe ticket now. Rut tbe names may vary ; much between now aud the meeting of the National Convention. The senti ment, however, is universal ttmt all will concur in the nomination of the < ''invention. The Washington I'ost pays it i probably a lie that Col. McClurc, of the Philadelphia Time, is about to study for the Episcopal ministry. Perhaps it is, but nothing Col. Mc -1 'lure could do would startle his ac quaintances much. He would be splendid in a lecture to our friend. Col. Forney on ( 'hristiau duty. As OTHER Equestrian Statue con templated. At a meeting of the < Jen. i Meade Veteran A--ociation at ( arli-le, the initial steps were taken looking to the erection of a ptatue to R Meade on one of tbe Government res ervations in Washington. The Army of the Potomac are expected to take , charge of the movement. ♦ THE Isxk Haven and Clearfield Railroad, for which a charter has been granted, will extend from a |oint on the Raid Eagle Valley Railroad at the mouth of Bccch ( risk to Philips- j burg, in this county, traversing the bituminous coal field. The capital stork is 11,000,000, divided into 2/XX) shares of each. The company will find considerable rough work before the completion of the road, but if put through it will open a rich field of iron and coal to reward their enterprise. , THE first stage in the bribery trials at Harrisburg was reached last week when Judge Pearson decided that the indictment agniust Salter, whose rase Was first called f<£ trial, could not stand lieeause of tbe error in the com position of the grand jurv. The next ease railed was that of the Common wealth against I/cisenring, of Carbon county, against whom n true bill had also been found by the snme grand jury. The lawyers for the defense raised the same technical objections to this indictment, but were met by new points in favor of sustaining it by the other side, and tbe judge then post poned the rase until next Monday, when his decision will lie given. It is expected, however, that it will be the same as in the Salter ease. SENATOR- JOHN A. LEMON, of llollidaysburg, it is said, will be a candidate for the Republican nomina tion for Auditor-General, and will re fuse to be put off again for the Sena torship of the Rlnir district. Col. Jicmon having been two or three times induced to withdraw his claims to this office on the pica that no other Repub lican could carry his Senatorial dis trict, is not disposed to lie made a con venience of auy longer, hut will claim the promotion he has earned and to which he is justly entitled from his party by faithful servieea in it* inter ests. If a Republican is to he elected to the important office of Auditor- General—a calamity we hope the kindness of Providence will avert — then we trust it may lie Col. Iscmon, as he is a gentleman, and competent to make a good and efficient officer. "KUL'AL ANI. KUCT JVBTICR TO AI.I. MAN, OK WIIATIVKR STATE OK PKKKLA#IO.V, RKLIOKM KOK I'OI.ITKA L. "-J- ffrro-... TERMS' *1 ."><> |MT A 111111 111 ill \l\ Mll- Tho Forty-sixth Congress The long or regular session of the Forty-sixth Congress begun ut Wa-h --ington on Inst Monday. Taking all things into consideration it will un doubtedly prove a most important session. There arc grave matters of great national import to lie decided, and it is to be hoped that in their dis cussion ami decision of these things the leaders of both parties will rise to the dignity of patriotism and sink partisanship beneath a love of coun try. I'pon the shoulders of the Democratic majority of course rests the greatest burden, and we have no doubt of their being equal to every emergency. I'pon them is imjxtsed the duty of allaying sectional feeling and of building up a more cordial union among the people of our com mon country. It is the evident pur pose of the Republican leaders to keep nlivo the angry passions of the war. I'pon their success in making a solid North depends the future of their organi/jitiou. The Republican party is not a national party to-day. It exists in only a portion of tbe Union, and therefore it is life to its leaders to foment sectionalism. The Democrats in Congress should see to it that they do not aid their opponents by intemperate utterances in debate. It will be the studied purpose of every Republican in Congress to k-vp the bloody shirt in motion. The bat tle of next year will be commenced in the Forty-sixth Congress and our record now must be our record then. Hence the importance of wise And patriotic action on tho part of the Democratic leaders. The ja-ople have confidence in the Democratic majority. It is the height of folly for any one l<> attribute the dis asters that befell the party in this year's elections to its representatives in Congress. Immediately the result was known the whole Republican press shouted in chorus, "The extra session did it." The Democrats were not responsible for the extra session. They remained in Washington t the command of the acting Executive, and their action throughout met with the warm commendation of dispas sionate men of all parties. Was the extra session responsible for our do feat in New York where we have nl most forty thousand majority on the whole vote and vet lose the State? Did the extra session make Philadel- I pliia thirty thousand lb-publican ? or was it the split there in our own party which produced the result? Was it the extra session that flung Ixicka wana, Luzerne and Schuylkill coun ties into the Republican column when possibly one-half the voters in those counties never heard there was au extra session ? or was it caused by some more powerful agency? In our own county, for instance, was it the extra sewion that rausril a falling off of 1 UNI in our vote as compared with the vote of Inst year ? or wa* it because the Democrats only neglected in the unusual apathy of the c-nm|iaign to goto the polls? It is all the merest nonsense to talk of a popular verdict against Congress. There has been none rendered, and to-day if the saute questions once more arose the |ieople would hid their representatives God speed in their battle against the en croachment* of the Federal govern ment. Our representatives in the ex. trn session fought a noble battle nnd they fought it well, and the people will so say next year when they go to their constituents to render nn ac count of their stewardship. They fought fraud triumphant at one end of the Avenue and n mad hand of fanatics in the Capitol. That they difl not succeed in getting all thry demanded is cause for regret, not dis may. They were right, nnd they did at last wrench from n fraudulent President one dangerous power and placed it hack in (he bauds of the poople. That of itself was enough to entitle them to the gratitude of all who desire to see our institutions per petuated. . BELLEFONTE, IA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, IH7IE The Reverend Mr. Colfclt, of W nsh ington Square Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, made a new departure on Thanksgiving day, that seems a lit tle startling at first, but we suppose we will soon get used to it. After Roh Ingersoll and Henry Ward Reecbcr had succeeded in disposing ot hell, we congratulated ourselves that all wiw not lost yet, that there were -till some of the honored traditions of the past left, and we confidingly placed our hand upon the Rihle, that good old book, and thought here's something safe from the unhallowed touch of the modern iconoclast. Fatal mistake! Mr. Col felt, the pastor of a fashiona ble church, the finest pulpit orator in Philadelphia,deiilM-rately walked into his church on Thanksgiving day and took his text from the N. Y, Tribune. For fear the shock would be t'> much for his orthodox congregation,he took the precaution of first laying the Tribunr under the lid of the Rihle. This, it is sup|>osed, was intended to exorcist- the spirit of Jay Gould from the pages. After waiting a reasonable length of time, until he wa certain Gould was once more ntuoiig his !■- loved "Eantlfs" on Wall street, the Reverend gentleman anw, He can fully took the organ of the New York stock gamblers from Iteneath the lid of the sacred hook. What to do with the Rihle must have greatly troubled him at that time. He couldn't well heave it out through the beautifully stained glass windows, and a- he hadn't any further u-e for it, it seem ed rather out of place. However he quietly ignored that |s>inl and preach ed his sermon direct from the Tribunr. Whether or not it was the copy of thnt paper which contained the editorial,' written to order by the ot>cqiiiou* editor at the dictation of Gould, and which broke the New York stock market and ruined hundreds ~f un suspecting men on Wall street, we do not know. It is not known whether Mr. Colfclt intends to n*c the one pa|-r at all times or not. He ought cer tainly to preach one sermon from the j n|>ologist and defender of Jay (timid , and Whitelaw Rcid—the Philadel phia /Ves. MR. R. R. HAYES, of Ohio, who is at present acting in President Til den's place at Washington, is some what of a humorist. Following in I the footsteps of his legally elected predecessors he has submitted n mess- j age to < 'ongrcso. The one thing con spicuous by its absence is the apology ilue the American people for filling a position to which another man was elected, and the one thing conspicuous bv its presence is thnt part of the message devoted to civil service re form. The following sentence occurs : " By a pro|>cr exercise of authority it is in the power of the Executive to do much to promote such a reform." ' This will strike most people as an in controvertible fact, hut when they contemplate Moehy at Hong Kong, Noyex in France, and Wells, Ander son, ( iisnnave and Marks holding dif ferent offices of trust and emolument in Louisiana ; Mrs. Agnes Jeuks ami others of her kind filling dc|mrtmcnt positions in Washington, they will naturally conclude that the Executive has forgotten to use thnt "proper ex ercise of authority." Of all shams this one of civil service reform leads the van and Mr. Hayes is the chief j priest. " PARSON TAI.MAOK rejoice* that prayers are offered in the White House every morning." His pious soul must lie exceedingly jubilant, when he reflects (hat the prinei|ml oc cupant of the White House also dis penses his charities with a lavish hand by rewarding all the thieves con nected with the Presidential Steal out of the people's treasury, nnd only re serves for himself the $/>O,OOO salary properly belonging to the parson's neighbor, Mr. Tilden, A Now Gospol M K lay In-fore the readers of the i DEMOCRAT this week an abstractor Mr. Ilaye> message to (oiigrcss, the document being too lengthy to publish I in full. It i* not a remarkable State paper in any particular, and will not command a great degree of respect. A large portion of it is devoted to the subject of civil service reform, of which Mr. Hayes pretends to he a -in cere advocate. Considering that the Republicans have been doctoring the civil service of the country ever since 180H ( aiul that they are yet as far from any substantial reform a- when they began, this part of the message may In- considered a- mere cant and hypocrisy. Mr. Hayes i always great on civil service reform in the intervals between the elections, hut never fails j to lay aside his pretended convictions when partian success demands the tiscof official patronage. His plati tudes upou this subject therefore go for nothing. The shameless interfer ence of the administration in the late elections throughout the North, not only by the active personal efforts of < ahiuct and other high officials, hut by the use of the thousands of dollars wrung from the pay of their needy de|H-udeU|s, is sufficient to convince any unprejudiced |tcr*uuof the hollow dishonesty of these professions of re form. They w ill excite only contempt and ridicule. When civil service reform eoinr-s.it will IK- when some man of a different stamp occupies the W liite Houe. HERE i- the Radical idea of u na tion. -j ll. fxim pared with the Ileuiocratic count of IB7fi, the name parishes gave Hayes I,IXIO majority. All the dispatches nay that the election passed ofl quietly, ami moat oi thein re|>ort the negroe* voting the I leuiocratic ticket and for the Con elitution. GENERAL NEWS. An oil well of recent diaooverv in the noitliern field*, the h rnrk aaya, yield* "ij'.i barrel* per hour. The heaviest fall of inn* in the State thus lar was ai Meadviile. where twelve inches fell la*l week. ' 'f the ton of poultry eaten in Phil adelphia on Thanksgiving day, Indiana county sent .17,000 pounds. hrancie Murphy, the temperance re vivalist, is again in Pittsburg. This time there is no enthusiasm over him. A monument will I*. erected by Ifeno Poat, li. A.!'.. of Wil|jamhr Hied ami got a year a salary. It is rejairted that the Imperial Gov ernnw iil is e(al>lisinng a resetrsul Itl.- • **i men in Canada, composed of militia st the Hominion, for active service at liotuc or abroad, il te<|tiired. A party of t'itnton county hunters bat[ionenient of the case was refused. Potter county has an empty jail. There were so few rase* to be tried, and they so unim|>orlant, at the time tor the last session of Court in that county. ' that they were allowed to go over until the next term. Another Northwestern exploring par tv ha* arrived at Winnipeg. Ibis time with most favorable report* of the country north of Fort Carle ton. L.ike other* they pronounce the di*|>o*ition of the Indian* to be very friendly. I trad ford county butter i* now thirty five cent* a pound, and se/bral week* ago it could have licen bought at fifteen rent*. The (oral paper* attribute the rise to a severe drought now prevailing in that and adjacent counties. The Atlantic and tireal Weatern Hail way will be sold in Akron, <., on the t'lth of .Isnusry under foreclosure pro reeding*. The lishilitic* of the rosd sre about s?•' 000.000. It i* expected that it will sell for about filO.tM 10.000. The revision of the Bible now in prog ress is expected to entail an expense of about frJOO.OOO before the first copy is printed, notwithstanding the fact that the Committee of lievission get nothing for their labor* except their traveling expense*. At the annual banquet of the Gener al Meade Veteran Asaociation, of Car lisle. on Wednesday evening, initiatory *tej* were taken looking to the ercc j lion of an equestrian statue to the Iste I General Meade. It la proposed to erect the statue on one of the government reservation* in Washington. !. C. The \rmy of the Potomac is requested to lake charge of the movement. The record of failures reported in ■ New York city for the monih of No, vemher shows thirty-two, with total liabilities of ftiA7,fi24, and aaseta #20.- J Til. Compared with the month of November, 1878, the present exhibit i* very flattering, a* the former month j hsd fifty six failure* and groaa liabili j ties of |I,4TI|9M. At half-past three o'clock Saturday morning Are broke out in the Grand Opera House, on Adelaide street, Tor onto, Ontario, and in a few minute* the rear part of the building, from the box office to the extreme outer walla, wa in flames. The firemen worked well, hut a heavy gale was blowing, and in an hour and a half the whole in terior of the building wee destroyed. five student* of Allegheny College, Meadviile, have been suspended lor basing. The *u*|iended onea and their sympathiser* went in procession I through the street* of Megdville on WwinwUy, preceded by a bras- hand an'l carrying banner* bearing inscrip tion* the reverse of compilimentary to the faculty. The immense fly-wheel driven by a powerful engine u-e<] in the rail mill of the J'enriKylrania steel work, at Har risbtirg, weighing between 60 and 70 ton*, on Thursday, burst with aloud re port, creating terror and consternation for several minute.. Fortunately no ; one wan hurt i-ave a man named '.harle* I'owers, a lew* machinist in that de nartment, who received slight injuries try being scalded on the arm. A tornado, with rain, pa*ed over I-ouisville, Ky„ early Friday morning in a northeasterly direction, destroying some -mall building* and unroofing others. The Laval Crystal spring I'is tillery warehouse, in the l'rownstown • üburb, was demolished. Much harm was done to monuments, shrubbery, conservatories and nurseries around Cave Mill, and Germantown suburb t>uv tained considerable damage. A Mt^rlreesbor. Tennessee, special •us nine prisoner* escaped from the jail at that place on Wednesday night by crawling through holes which they had previously cut in the tuck wall of their cell, reaching the gtound from the second story by means of pipe* leading t • water tank* in tbe jail yard. Among them weie West Smithy, charged w ill, murder in the first degree ; Keck Slaughter, already sentenced to lour years imprisonment for arson, and awaiting trial on other indictment* ; Witharn Adkin-, charge*] with hor stealing, and Tun t'iiarlton, with lor gerv. The cong'egation in the Lutheran church at Waynesboro, on Tuesday, be i ame panic stricken at the breaking of a bench, and a rush was made for the doors. A number were mimed, and among l hnu were the following: Mrs. Weagly. arm 'Token and otherwise in jured: Ifev. Mr. Richardson.of "-miili burg. Md.. trampled upon and injur ed; Mr. -hank, of Muitthshurg, ain broken ; Mtles I'oitisr, Hlk>uMy the sound of splashing water. There .it the bottom stool the oow looking wist lolly up. An armful of hay w*. ' thrown down to the anima', which ate ravenously, All the people in the sur rounding country gathered at the well *nd, rigging u ptilly arrangement, soon drew the cow up. She walk*-*] with dif ficulty at first, toil in an houi or so Inn bered up enough to trot een elevate*! to re-pon-ibie pn*i tions by the suffrages ol their fellow cit izens—yielding to rhe fwnir or the prej udice which makes tieneral tirsnt Hie one man who can -s\e the oountrv. It i* a painful evidence of di-tru-t ot our institutions—Hits intimation that the country i not safe unless the unwritten law of tbe land which limits a Tresident to two terms te viola tod. These oart v leader* who feel so confident in an nouncing the name of their caudidste a year in advsnoc. believe that it is s pop ular impulse, whose force they •re sag* ctous enough to leoogtuse, So dnnWi, tieneral tlrant is ■ vert |e attracted back by not only promising a rejietitlon of "Oranttera" in the i aitonaf admim*ira lion, hut by the additional mistake of endeavori-g to give a president a third term J We recognise tbe tor*y the aid of a "idid South" there delegates representing no electoral | votes—the IVinoerat* would hsve *n excellent opportunity. If the Hemo ' crats oontinue to blumler, the Republi can candidate will be elected, whoever ■ lie may lie -. Nit the people are tire*] of * ' section*' strife, and tbe iMmocrala can 1 assume an attitude and present a candi date which will give them at least an even ehnoe for victory. And nothing , oontribiiti-a mote to the preparation of f! the public mind for * lb-roocratic *uc- . I oe*stit than the "boom ' for (1 an loin i 1 third teruj. NO. VX