SIULLRT A. KOIINTKK, Ktlilors. VOL. J. Uhc (Centre iDrmocVeVt. Terms 11.1)0 pi>r Allllll in. in Advance. S. T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, December 11, 1879. TIIK recent municipal election in New Haven, Connecticut, resulted in the election of the entire Democratic ticket by decided majorities', varying from .'.OO to *OO. The Democracy secures the council for the first time in four years. * THAT high-toned Republican jour nal, the New York Timet, thinks that the thirty-five electoral votes of New York can only be secured to the Re publican nominee for President next year "by bringing the management of the party up to the level of its princi ples." To this the IfV.r/-Krrw-n. BEEEEFONTE, FA., Til I; KSDA Y, 1)E( EMBEIi 11, 1871). IT is said that the Democrats of the I nitcd States Senate will have a word ti) say about the appointment of super visors under the law to take the cen ; sus next year. The Republicans arc i indignant at this presumption on the J part of the majority in the Senate. ' Rut they should recollect how they treated the appointments of Andrew 1 Johnson when they were a majority in that brunch of Congress. It was per feetiv proper iii their opinions to force President Johnson to appoint -ucli men to office a- suited their faneies, but now when it is propos-d to give them a ' slight dose of their own medicine they make awfully wry faces over it. We j udvi-e them to be patient and cultivate ; a -pirit of charity and forltearniire. THI: appointment of S- en-tarv Me- I ('rary to a vacant federal judgeship in the West ha.- been eolilirmeil by the I Senate of the tinted Stab -. It is said that Secretary MeCrarvV sue in the war department will he e\ Senator Alexander Rain-ey, of Miutie-ota. Mr. Ramsey i- a native of IViin-ylvn-' | niu, ami at one time was a represent#- J live in Congress from a di-triet of i which Dtui] ill in county formed a part. I He went to Minnc-ota a- Governor of j the Territory, and on it- admi-sion io the Union as a State, lie entered tin I Senate of the I nitcd State- a.- one of j the S.-nntor- of the new State, and ; served in that Iwsly for twelve years. THE coalition between the Rcpubli | cans and the debt repudiators of Vir ! giniu seems to be very close. After I *ucc-cding in controlling the organi zation of the legislature, they have elected T. T. I'auntlerov, S-efctary of the Commonwealth, J. L. Ma—cv, au ditor, and 11. H. Dy*<>n, second audit or. The last named i- a Republican, nnd his election ap|iear* to IK- the Re publican -ban- in this distribution of the s|M)il- of office. Of course ' this prove* i thnt the Republicans of Virginia, "solid," are opposed to re pudiation, and when a Democrat as serts the contrary it is "a lie out and , out." A JOIST resolution for an amend ment to tin- Constitution of the United Stati-s providing that from and after March 4, 1 **•">, the term of office for President and Vice President shall IM six years, and that no js-rson shall IK eligible for more than one term con secutively, ha- In-en introduced into Congress by Mr. Pound, a incmlier from Wisconsin. While they are about this business, some people think they might a- well adopt an amend ment nlsilishing t-lu- machinery of presidential electors and elect tlb- Pres ident by a direct vote of the people. ♦ AT the municipal election held in j the city of Boston, Mass., on Tuesday, the Democrats re-elected Mayor Prince by a majority of about two thousand j over Stobbins, Republican. <>n the same day the regular I)emocntts of the city of Charleston, 8. C., elected their candidate for Mayor by a large majority over two independent candi dates. The election was quiet nnd ( orderly, and the negro vote wn w about cqtinllv divided lietween the three can didates. Jt'iMiE PEARSON has virtually quashed all the indictments in the riot bribery cases, for informality in the constitution of the grand jury which found the hills. The result is that new indictments will be sent to the grand jury of Dauphin county at the January term of court, but whether any of the rogues engaged in business of legislative bribery will ever he brought to justice remains for the fu ture to determine —pros|>ects some what discouraging. DOES the New York World imagine that it helps the cause of Mr. Bayard by coupling that honored Senator's nnme with that of His Fraudulency? The Bayard boom, we take it, would lie much stronger with the people without any such connection. "The President stands by Mr. Bayard!" No more of that, if you please. A MONO the persons named to sue- 1 ceed the lute Judge Kctchum, we no tice the names of Judge \\ illiauis, of i Tioga county, and Hon. Glcuui W. Hchofield, at present Register of the Treasury, at Washington. The ap pointment of Judge Williams would probably be as satisfactory a- any that could be made. He i-an able lawyer and a popular judge. ♦ Till: HON. W. W. KII< IIAM, Judge of the District Court of the ( nitcd Slates for the Western Dis trict of Pennsylvania, died suddenly of apoplexy, at Pitt-burg, on Sutur duy evening la-t. Judge Kctchum i po-sc—ed the general confidence uml re-pect of the people a- a judicial of ficer, and hi- death is much regretted. ♦ POLITICS AT WASHINGTON 01-KNIMJ in THE sE-MOV liKKis KATs <■ ;e• —Tiir. com run- GKAVNE OOssIC- AltOl t • \Mi| liATt- A 11K I--I) i.)MHM IIAM O< k Loom Mi ll'. WASHINGTON, I>. Dec. 8, 1-7'.). The O] cning of Congress lots been en tirely devoid of excitement. The Ml— Hgo wns read at the 'l<**k in both Houses, of eour-e, although it had been printed in full, as far back AS Sunday morning, in New York, Cincinnati and ' hicago. It tn.iy be interesting to know that not less than ?l,. r S*i was paid for the stolen copy. The hotels are yet nearly empty, and it is certain that Congress will do little or lothing be , fore the holiday *. The uppermost topic of talk in, of course, tho prospective |>olicy andean did iM-s of the Democracy. It i easy to discern a more hopeful feeling than prevailed just after the November el re tsons. The deelaration of the PP-M dent and Secretary Sherman ;ti favor of cancelling the greenback- and tq ] ing the coinage of silver have already creat ' • 1 dissatisfaction in the Republican ranks. And Are thought to offer A safe position for the Democracy a |>osition of simple conservatism—taking the ground that nothing should be done io disturb tbe present prosperous c-ndi tion of trade And industry. It is be lieved that the Republican programme of tinkering the currency and contract inj both the volume of paper and the rnetAlie basis, will be a weak one to go before the country wuh. Senator Thur man says thia proposed freh attack up on the currency gives the Democracy a great advantage, and almost cveryJody ujion his side of the house expresses the aame opinion. The Democrats are therefore generally delighted and A great many of the Republicans are dis satisfied with tbe utterance* of tbe President and Secretary, w hich divides j the Republicans ami unites the Democ racy. Discussion of the respective strength of candidates talked of for the nonii nation next year goes briskly on. Sey [ mour appears to have many friends and Rayard even more, while General Han cock is among the leading favorites and seem* to be the second choice of nearly everybody. As, if Pennsylvania pre sent* any candidate, Hancock will un questionably be the man, it may inter ■ est Pennsylvanians to know the chief argument* advanced hy the advoeates of hi* nomination. The Republican* will rely mainly upon the Solid South to make a solid North. It i* therefore held that the beat answer possible to the sectional issue in all its forms will he to answer it, in the person of the candidate, that if the northern people still fear a defeated minority, they can not fear to place their interests in the keeping of a loyal soldier like General < ffftneoek. Then there remain impor tant differences of opinion among Dem rrats on the financial question. Many are ardent believers in a currency of greenback* redeemable hy the bi metal lie standard. Others would wipe out the legal tenders and have only Nation al hank notes redeemable in gold alone. Hardly n man can be found in active public life whose reoord upon thia quea tion would not lose him votea some where.' This gives a second advVntage in point of availability to a candidate like General Hancock, whose position in the regular army has kept him en tirely out of the political arena, and clear of factions and animosities. This would apply to other soldiers as well; hut General Hancock combine* quali ties which are found united in no other person ; since it was his fortune, in the line of his duty as a soldier, and in an i important emergency, to promulgate official order* and letters defining in a masterly nmnticr tli* limits of the Mili tary jovrc-r .'tri'l its proper subordination in time of peace to the civil Miithority. Hi- general order No. 4b, on assuming corn mind of the fifth Military l>itrict, lll letter to (i >V. l'e ice of feX iH show H comprehension of the principles of constitutional law ami e: civil liberty not derived from the training of a sol dier. There breathes the spirit of the statesman. Hut we must not overlook Hancock - splendid record a* a soldier, which has endeared him to all the MI R vivora of the gnu d old army of the I'o to mac, in which most of the I'enm-yl vania soldier-- solved, and we cannot forget that to him i (fue much of the rredit —if not, a- many believe, the chief honor of the victory at Hetty burg. a field peculiarly dear to l'enn*vl vani.iiiH, ami thus we seo how peculiar ly fitted In- i- to arouse enthusiasm in his native State. 1 have heard some of our leading men here express the opinion that the legislature ami a I'. S. Senator can he carried in Pennsylvania, w th Hancock at the bead of the National ticket, while it would >ave several of our Congressmen. It is understo' 1 thai Ceneral Han cock - candidacy does not antagonize that of any other of the liemocratie lva'ler. It i- felt that Pennsylvania ought not to deprive the National I'etn ocracy oi an opportunity to ) a-s ui n the availability of her own preference, that the choice may not 1- restricted hy her failure to present Ceneral Han cock's name to the ' onventi' n. The 1.1-sseii of lauii>lHiia. now REM in n W it A i it is iiarctMNG ni S " a *r'i ravin. Ft in It.* lost,it, Ts|>s'l*l s This plan, it attempted, as it is so • nfidenlly reported to be, i- s sharne less and infamous an one as was ever perpetrated upon a people as shame less and infamous, indeed, as w n ever perj>etrated n|sori the people of l/>ui*i ana or Morula, and nothing could bo •aid of it worse than that. Throughout the Kastern Mate- the lending Hepubli can newspapers denounce the projected fraud ujernren^^^^H^Bfca 'n V.ouisuins when committed baggers in the name of the Republican |>arty. It is precisely the same crime, and if the reputable Republican press of the North bad, five, six, seven, snd eight years ago, denounced it when committed in the South, it would not now l>e attempted in the North. What it carries with it is the disfranchisement of a great Commonwealth, under the shallow, false pretence of correcting fraud in a few legislative districts ; and. as we have said, no more heinous wrong than this can be done to a free people. There may be no truth in the reports that it is to tie attempted in Maine to day, but all the same it is possible for it not only to be attempted there, but ex eouted. It is so great an offence against our political liberties ns to be impossible of commission solely by reason of its enormity. In the old Roman laws there were no |>enalties named for cer tain offences because it was said no oiti *en would be so base as to commit them. It ought to be that in thiscoun try no man could be even suspected of the infamy of disfranchising In* fellow citizens, but it is not so; and we owe this particular phase,of the crime to a perverted public sentiment which for years |iermitted it to be done in the South in the name of Republicanism. It is one of a bad brood come home to roost among its inventors. Some facetious medical students in Indianapolis sent a professional "resur rectionist" to remove a body from its haling place. The supposed corpse in the sack was a live medical student. The professional threw the bag over his shoulder and set out for the college. The corpse, with no knowledge of his whereabouts, straightened out just as his bearer was crossing the canal. With rare presence of mind the intended victim of the joke heaved his burden over the bridge into the water and calm ly walked on. Had not the conipan ions of the unfortunate man rushed to hia rescue there would have been a "sure enough*' corpse in the party. The New York City banks are paying gold coin instead of greenbacks for small checks. 1 I hKMN: 5*1..>0 per Annum. in Aflvjtnm. • NO. .id. GtKERAL NIWS, K bn*n thread mill vs ill I.• ut onm e- lahiisljcd Ut Ol.tflotl, Mll'ii. One fitrn in Heading have tanned 'JISI.OUU sheep, goat Hll'l (•If -kin* this v ear. A Willi fHt of immen-n ,;//• wa< killed near \\ hi*k<*y Hun, I'elaware county, on I l.ui.day night. J in- I'olinh resident* in New York, on Saturday, ceh-bruted the anniversary of Count ]'riUki'n heroic death at --o \annah in ITT' I . A hal lactory that will have a produc ing i itut* ity of Ij'i to J.Vt doieri hat* l>* i Jay will hi- |ut in o]M*ration in H' iding thi- ■ k. Ifa ' . ' -infield, aged seventy-one \ * at-, tli" h* id of the principle jewelry fnin in I'l.iltimor", >l*l., died suddenly of aiiojilc*\ in hi -tote on Saturday. '1 lie comiiitt ti *• to ai i tnge for the re "••|ition of - i-i,. -t*-t the liveliest in terest. I. In engagt 1 in the cause visited a large number of saloons in the oti.i-t nl t-in |•• tain •• Friday after noor. I tie Bradford / • report* that salt water in large ,uantiti- has been ■uii-1 in tie i lUthern part <>f McKeaM ■ outity. Jt j n -eiice mdii ate* had ter i.t ry for the oil nj ■ rator, and has mn demtiiil thousands of acre* that were hitherto regarded as good. The lo.tti poorbouse in Colchester, <°onn., was dostrr \e thy fire on "svtur lay All the inmates except Maggie ' lie.-*, an i i ti girl, i•' apiid. She was once to.in out. hut ruhed hack tito the I u.iding and was burned to d. ith. rh" sa'.i-s of pi, , ~>n* at 1 hicago last week win unpti ci dented. Mg issi bar ' rels of in, - poik, i.'fi.'Ml tierces of lard nd ■ - pounds o meat* having been di-posed of. Thc-e sales are equivalent t • .',. ii i i.is i pounds of ] io duoe. valued at SJ.!,tMMiOO. Die I'ittjburg i rrmj liazettt say* : •1 he employe* of the Pennsylvania Railroad are looking for an increase of I wage* shortly. Since the panic set in they hive been r- lured JO per rent. I'he first prire *s - an unconditional re duction. out the serond. which took ef fect some month* ago, was made un der the promise that the lit per cent, would he restore i a' *oon a* the receipts of the company w ananted such action. , lu South I'iethlchcm. on Wednesday night of )s*t week, a young man named William Yocum h-ard someone trying . to break into the hou*e. He took a | so*11itn at the head of the stairway, and soon afterward heard some ene ap proaching. He called to him several time*, and receiving no answer fired tn that direction. It proved to l*e young Yocum'* brother, who was walking in hi* sleep, and is so badly wounded that he cannot recover. An'Hi City dispatch say*: The Hutl'a lo express, which lett Pittsburg on Fri day evening at S o'clock, on the Alle gheny Valley Railroad, ran into a land slide two miles 1-elow that place, and the engine u i into the river and eight coal cars were crushed. The passengers in the rear car* escaped without injurv. The fireman, Authur Simpson, of Pittsburg, was crushed in I the wreck, and at last account* the body had not been extricated. The track was cleared in time to prevent any detention of trains. Yesterday afternoon a floor in tho grain and flour mill* of F.ilU Packard at Brockton, Mass., gave way under a heavy mas* ot wheat resting upon it, and precipitated three men into tho cellar, who were smothered by .1.000 bushel* of wheat falling upon them. The dead bodie* were *up*e<|uently gotten out. The unfortunate* were C. Noune, miller, thirty two year* of age, who leave* a wife and one child ; I'enm* Heardon, thirty years of age, a wife and two children, and l'ennis I.yni j, thirty five years of age, a wife and two child ren. - They Musi Hate A Solid South. W •*hinglon h hi th Yorfc llmii It has been decided, after full consid eration by the leading Republican •talesman, that it would be better not to send speaker* to J/oui*tana thi* fall. A number of the Congressional com mittee worked for nearly ten daya in the hope of inducing prominent speak er* in the New York campaign to go to New Orleans and help chanee the vote of the State with assurance* that it would go Republican. To hi* gre*t surprise he found this was jut what the Republican* of the North did not want ' to accomplish, and be wa* told that it would better for hi* party not to agi tate the movement any more. The plain • reaon given wa* that the "Solid South"' wa* to be the haltle cry next year, and without it there was no hoj>e of keeping the North solid for the Republican*. < >nce break the solid .South, *aid they, and one half the force of the Republican parly is gone. From a gentleman thor oughly posted in regard to New York politic* I received the *ameinformation —that there i* to te no part taken hy the Northern Republicans in Ixmiaian* politic*, at lea*l thi* year.