SHUGERT & FORBTER, Editors. VOL. 2. fhe Centre fJemocrat. Terms 11.50 per Annum, In Advance. g, T. SHUGERT nd R. H. FORSTER, Editors. Thursday Morning, January 29, 1880. Centre County Domocratlo Com mittee —1880. nrroiots. iu*M. r. n. twiw It [l.f 'iitr N W .Willi.!,, il.lltr.lih Bfllrfnnl.. .. ' 8 W...W C. Heinle IMI.-frntr. •• W'.W...WUUnm llnrpt-r Hrllrfiuite. WilMl<urg Frank K DIM* Milwborg. IJliloorlllr n McDonnell Union rill* IJnttArti A J. Geniner Howard. ShiliMtmri C. U. Ililin*.-r ..Phllla*bar(. Millht im J. 11. Ri-lf-njnlrr MUlheliu. u.. n nrr - UHehßto*rr. BelleSinte. JIM. A. Ucl ltuu. Mtl*Lurg. Nnrwdtte William ITrpple. Ptna Olrnn. 4'olteece Sam'l Olllllantl BoaDtnir*. Curtln Darl.l Orion* -..Howard. IVrstiwn.O. I' Dau I DriebelWa....... Stale Coll***. •• fl. p O. M Short* Stormatown. Ilainra • irorgr K rlat< Au >ohiir*. Ilalftaioon John Ward Stormttown. Ilarria Santorl Ithlrr Boalahurg, j|,,ard Itarid Tanyrr Howard. ilaafc'tt-.-- -H. U. Chrouteter Martha. I.il crtjf W'. 11. Uanlarr- lllanchard. xiartoo. -....J0hn Ilojr. Jr.— W'alkrr. Mil* -....1ent'l K Kaiiat.— Mlllhelm. I'attt.n ..... .0. W. Uontlatrger .... Flllinur*. ivnn .W r Smith MUlbrlm. Potter, X. I 1 D. P. I.uar —Cwitrr llall. S. I' 0. W. Spait*lcr Tutaryrllla. R tijtl, —.... William Cullen Phlllpabnrg. Snow Shoe.—....John O. l"lr -....5n0w Shir. Sprit,* - -...1.C. W.tnd. —. Hrllrft.utr. Taylor —SamurlHooTrr —...Fowler, Vnton J.S. Itrtlrrlrha.... FIMIIIII*. Waik-r Saoturl IVckrr Zlon. Worth U. H. William* Port Matilda. J. I. SPANULEH, Chairman. F*as E. Blair, Secretary. AT the hour of going to press to day (Thursday aiteruoon) we have no positive advices from Washington in regard to the Curtin-Yocum contest from this Congressional district. The most that we can say is that the ma jority of the Committee on Elections has agreed upon a report, and that the House is expected to act upon it to-day or to-morrow. The report of the majority declares the seat of Mr. Yocum vacant, and remands the matter hack to the |teople of the dis trict ; and we think we can state with a reasonable degree of certainty that this di.-position of the case will be su-taiuetl by a considerable majority of the members. In this event an election to fill the vacancy becomes a necessity, and it is to he hoped the Governor will issue his writ immedi ately iu order that it cau be held on the 17 th of February. YESTERDAY was the day set apart iu the Senate of the United Btatcs for eulogies upon the life and character of the late Senator Chandler of Michigan. PENNSYLVANIA gets a favor from Mr. Hayes at last. One Luther Har rison has just been appointed princi j>al clerk of private land claims in the general land office. Bmall favors thankfully received. THE Greenback party of William sport have nominated the Hou. Sam uel Linn for Mayor. We did not know our friend Judge Linn had an chored in the Greeuback party, hut we do know that the Grcenbackers show good judgement in the selection of a capable and deserving man to repre sent them, even if it is to lead a for lorn hope. THE Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that the proposition now before the New York Legislature which provides that the Presidential Electors of that Nate shall be chosen by Congressional districts, instead of by a general vote, • is not only a cowardly confession on the part of the Republican leaders that they do not believe they can car fj New York at the next election for the Republican candidate, but it is too much in the nature of a political trick to meet with common favor. A RADICAL paper says "it is safe to Assume that there will never be an other electoral commission in this coun try." That is certainly a prophecy founded on a very safe basis. It •right also safely add that there will never be another Presidential fraud forced into the Executive office, and •hat there never again could be found "nother Supreme Judge so depraved ft nd despicably mean as to play Jo. Bradley to such a commission if it *<? re jiosgible to form one. "EUI'AL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALU MKN, OF WHATEVER STATE OH PKHSUAHION, HKI.KIIOUH OH POLITICAL. "—JcffaraoD Th© Maino Count. In connection with the election trou bles in Muine there is one fact that must not be forgotten. There never was a Republican tribunal of any kind —either a court, a commission, or a committee to try a contested election case—ever known to decide a politi cal question against its party. The action of the Suprera'e court of Maine, therefore, in reversing former decisions, made when it was necessary to keep Democrats out of places to which they had been elected, is not at all strange. Utfder the stress of party necessity the court was equal to the work of stultify ing itself. It hits gone squarely hack on a former decision to which the names of a majority of those comprising the present bench was signed, without the slightest regard to the inconsistency and injusticckof such a course. A con temporary well remarks that when the interests of the Republican party re quired that the unlawful acts of ignor ant town officers should result in the loss of votes honestly cast, these judges saw no present remedy. The unlaw ful act, the informality, must count against the voters to bring in the minority candidate. The people could guard against a recurrence of the evil in future by electing more intelligent men to office. This year, when a can vass of the votes hail been made in conformity with thut decision, and the Republican ox was found to have been .gored, these judges hasten to declare that the sacred right of the ballot must not lie impaired by failure of the elec tion officers to comply with the law. We are not discussing the abstract justice of either proposition. The man who is not in favor of an holiest and fair election has not a drop of Demo cratic blood in his veins. Hut wc arc profoundly impressed with the idea that the Maine Supreme court is inca pable of rising nliove the ruts of jmrty. If its former decision was right Gov. Garcelon's count was lawful. And it seems to us that acts performed in conformity to au existing decision are quite as likely to lie lawful as those which require an e.c port facto decision to legalize them. TIIE recent action of Judge Patter son, of I*aucastcr county, in citing Messrs. Henscl and Bteiuman, of the Lancaster Intelligencer, to show cause why their names should not be strick en from the list of attorneys for an alleged coutempt of court, meets with universal rtjbuke. These gentleman have not offended the court as law yers but as editors. Resides being members of the I .alienator bar, they are the editors of an able and in fluential newspaper, and it seems ab surd that a judge of the court should have jiower to hold them responsible as attorneys for opinions expressed to the public in their vocation of jour nalists. As the editors of a newspaper they should lie independent of the courts. If they have libelled Judge Patterson he has his remedy against them as any one else would have, and they should be held responsible as other editors would lie, but for a judge to assumo arbitrary authority over tbera, and meet out punishment ac cording to his will, is such a stretch of power as cannot be tolerated under a free government. Bo far as we hnve seen, the Press of the Btate is unani mous in condemation of Judge Pat terson, and it is to bo hoped the editors will bravely stand by their rights. ' TRUE BILLS were for a second time found by the grand jury of Dauphin county, against Baiter and his cora pnnions for corrupt solicitation and perjury in connection with the famous riot damages bill, commonly known as the $4,000,000 bill, before the legis lature at its last session. The case of Baiter was'called for trial, but counsel on both sides agreed to contiuue all the cases until the second Monday of March, at which time Judge Pearson says the trials must proceed wtihout ' further delay. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 188(1. Tho Exodus Investigation. The investigation into the causes of tho colored exodus by the special com mittee of the l uited States Senate, of which Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, is chairman, has brought to tlie light of'day some interesting facts. Northern newspapers of the radical persuasion have sought by every means to justify the forced emigration of the blacks on the ground of the hardship and oppres. sions heaped upon them by the white people of the South, hut tho evidence taken before Mr. Voorhees' committee already proves how baseless and un warranted charges of such a character are. The testimony of a colored man of North Carolina, James E. O'Hara, now a contestant in Washington for n seat in Congress, out of which he al leges ho was cheated bv white Repub licans of his State, is conclusive as to the condition and treatment of the colored people of that State, and total ly disproves all the outrage yarns that have been so industriously circulated. He testified that in one county of the State alone they own at least 20,000 acres of valuable lund iu farms of 20 to 400 acres each, and that a similar state of affairs existed in adjoining counties. <>f their condition in life he said : They enjoyed equal prosperity with white people of the same means, and were treated by the wealthier classes equally as well. Oops had been Imd for two years previous to this season, but they were now doing much better, and farm wages were advancing. Their troubles largely grew out of the credit system of obtaining advances from the North on their crops, and the conse quent necessity of paying for lalior with "store orders;" but this system and also the operation of the landlord-ami tenant 1 w bore equally u|K>n all classes of farm laborers, and the law would undoubted ly be amended by the next Legislature. At one time there was some "bulldoz ing" in couoties bordering on South Carolina, but there never has been any political persecution In the count id* af fected by tbe present exodus- Nothing was more common on election dsy than to see a white landlord and a colored tenant coming to town in the same bug gy and voting different tickets. White mechanics worked with oolored me chanics, and no discrimination was made in courts or juries. Of course this plain statement was met with a succr by Senator Windotn, the great exodus agitator of the Sen ate, but the facts told by O'Hara re main uncontradicted, and should put to shame the heartless and designing men who arc at the bottom of this un holy schema of deception. Later comes the testimony of anoth er colored man, Charles 11. Otuv. He is a native of North Carolina, a school teacher and the editor of the Washington A rgxu, a journal devoted to the interests of the colored race. His testimony is an excellent supple ment to that of O'Hara. According to the Washington Port he testified before tho committee "to the excep tionally kind treatment of his race by the whites of North Carolina. Not only in their private business transac tions, but iu public affairs are their rights respected and their interests consulted. Under a Democratic Gov ernor and a Democratic legislature the most liberal appropriatiods have been made for colored schools, and a colored Normal school established. They have asylums for the deaf and dumb and the insane. They enjoy the products of their labor, and prosper if they arc iudustrioiis. Mr. Otuy goes further than this and shows that the exodus was planned and executed as a political scheme —to get black voters into Indiana. He was an officer of the Emigration Aid Society and left the concern because he would not countenance the transportation of his race from one State to another, like hogs or cattle, to be used for selfish purposes. These are some of the homely facts which have disgruntled the Radicals, and which prove all the allegations on which the investigation WAS based. The cas§ might be rested here and no man could assert that the Democratic theory of the exodus had not been fully established by the most competent and reliable wituesses —in- telligent colored Republicans." Win dom and his radical brethren arc no doubt disheartens at the facts thus far developed by this investigation. The truth slowly comes to light and of course it is discouraging to our stalwart friends. They begin to re alize that the colored man cannot he counted upon to vote tho Republican ticket at the South, uud stories of Southern outrages upon him are no longer useful for political purposes at the North. Gen. Fitz John Porter. The case of this injured and much abused officer is yet undecided. The committee to whom the subject was re ferred have, however, made a report fully recognizing the injustice done Gen. Porter and recommending that he he restored to his rank in the army with pay and indemnity amounting to U7B,O<K). Still, it is said the friends of IW and M'Dowell are trying to have the labor and results of the Schofield board, upon which the committee hose their report, annulled on the ground that the creation of the hoard wus in formal, and that Congress should au thorize a new triul. The ease has been sufficiently tried already. The whole country, with the exception of the ma lignant* answerable for the persecu tion, have been satisfied for years that shameful injustice and wrong was done him. Congress should not, therefore, tail to embrace the earliest practicable day to right the wrong agreeably to the report and complete the vindication made iu tho case by the distinguished and disinterested officer* ap|snuted to revise the finding of the military com mission by which he was convicted. 4 THE New York Herald insists tlint Goperal Grunt will positively uud jicr ciqptorily decline to allow his uaruc to boused as a candidate for the Presi iWff, and that his declination will be made public before the meeting of the Republican Cooveuliun in this State. We do not think General Grant will do anything of the kind, lie is con stitutionally opposed to declining any thing, hut it is more than prulmble that the steady and persistent piling up of Hlaine delegations from different sec tions of the State will necessitate a change of front by Cameron. The young Senator is nothing if not astute, and he will not invoke his own de struction bv making a hopeleas battle against overwhelming odds. He will rather temper the winds to the shorn lamb by springing a convenient with drawal from Grant, which will not only prove the ark of safety for him slef, but will go far toward smoothing the ruffled plumes of the great trav eler. ♦ "GOPHER" HILL, a noted local Re publican politician of Philadelphia, lias just been convicted of burglary in Chester county. " Gopher " was an efficient and highly esteemed member of Nick English's gang of lightning calculators, lie was one of the most affable and genial of repeaters, and his abseuce from future political con tests will be sorely felt iu reduced Re publican majorities. He was one of Jim Kern's Deputy Marshals in 1876, and WAS altogether a man of uote iu his party. His great mistake was iu plying tbe trade be followed between elections amoug the quiet Quaker* of Chester. He should have remained under the protection of the good Stokeley's police. THE nominations of Mr. Ilayes for the vacant foreigu missions were con firmed by the Senate on Monday last. James Russell Lowell, at present min ister to Spain, goes to England ; John \V. Foster, present minister to Mexico, goes to Russia; Lucius Fairchild to Spain, and Philip 11. Morgan to Mex ico. Mr. Hayes lias got this trouble some matter off his hands, and strange to say he did not call upon au Ohio man to fill out the list. "BARIIARIAN-CURRKD locality" is the elegant phrase applied to the goodly region of Penns Valley by the Belle fonte Republican of this week. IHE irrepressible I'inchhack, of Louisiana, still lives. Hayes has just appointed him Naval Officer at Now Orleans, and as n matter of course there is a row in the radieul camp. This appointment is distasteful to the returning hoard wing of the party, and Kenner, one of the unsavory gang is on his way to Washington to prevent a confirmation. Retween Pinch and the returning-boarders there is not much choice, but still we think the advantage iu honesty and respectabil ity is rather on the side of Pinch. GARFIELD, it is said, is opposed to the hill to restore Fitz John Porter to his old rank iu the army, lie nat urally would he. He was a member of the military commission formed to convict (Jon. Porter, ami obeyed in structions with all the subserviency expected of him. Pennsylvania Editorial Association. The Pennsylvania Editorial Asocia tion met at Harrisburg on last Thurs day and elected the following officers for the ensuing year; President, Clay ton Mi-Michael, of the Philadelphia North American : N ice Presidents, Ja cob Zeigler, of the Butler Herald, L. I). W oodrufff, of the Johnstown l)emo erat, and J. !J. Sheibly, of the New Bloomfield Advocate and Press ; Secretary and Treasurer, It. S. Menamin.of Phila delphia; Corresponding Secretary, C. H.Jtergner,of the iiarrishurg Telegraph ; Executive Committee, H. .1. .Stable, of the Gettysburg Compiler; A. M. Kainbo, of the Columbia tburant ; K. J. llinck en, of the Philadelphia Sunday iK'patch; Y. 8. Walter, of the Delaware county Republican ; B. F. Meyer*, of the liar risburg Patriot W. H. Bradley, of the Wilkesbarre Record of the Tunes, and P. 11. Neiman, of tbe Ha*ton Sentinel. A resolution was unanimously adopted designating Watkin's Glen and Cayuga Lake as the objective points of the next summer excursion of the associa tion. The Census Supervisors. The Senate committee on the census, which has before it all the nominations of supervisors, met on Wednesday, and the nominations were apportioned among the committee according to Io cality. Senator Morrill has the New England nominations; Senator Kernan those of the middle states; Pendleton takes Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky; Morgan has Alabama and the other gulf states ; Harris has Tennessee, the Virginias, the Carolmas and Arkansas ; Davis, of Illinois, has his own State, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and the Pa cific coast, and Cameron, of Wisconsin, has in charge the nominations tor the northwest. These gentlemen are direct ed to inquire into the fitness of the ap pointees so far as possible, to hear com plaints, and report upon qualifications. Mr. Hayes withdrew ihe nomination of Walker Mears as census supervisor for the Third district of North Carolina. Frun ihe 11 in . Partisan Sauce. rt ! {},* d#rUi<n the Maine. Which ha* ffiven wch osmfbrt t" Hamlin ami Blaine ; But the |utTt> they erT*<l would have won more of nmiae lU<l it applied the Mine yanWtri k to kuthorfwti liawv When good men Mindly to partiwinahlp ponder, What i§ *tti< c for the giro** ian't aauue for the gander* "THE LOVERS TELEPHONE" is the name of a little contrivance, now being sold on the streets, by which sounds are transmitted along a cord attached to two cylinders, and supposed to be very effective in mitigating aggravated cases of "stern parient." A young lady on Post street was in the habit ot eluding the lynx eye of her father by dropping one of these inventions from the third story side window every night, and holding sweet converse with her adored but financially ineligible sweetheart, who atood on the pavement below. The other night the "Governor" hap pened to notice a mysterious cord that passed his window, and an investigation discovered the little arrangement. He deftly attached another string half way, and, applying it to his ear, enjoyed an affectionate interview then in progress. "Would it be safe for me to call to morrow f" finally inquired the lower end of tbe apparatus. "Yes, Charlie," vibrated an AJolian whisper from above. "When do you think the old beaat will be out t" "In about two seconds, with a club?" was the startling response, and the way the old gentleman jumped for the hali dooi would have been very effective if it had been half as speedy as tbe gait at which tbe young man outside left for the adjoining ward. THE Commission to count tbe vote cast last November for Bute Treasurer met in Harrisburg on the 2Uth instant. The returns of the several counties were taken up in alphabetical order, and the total vote oast computed as follows : Samuel Butler, R 280,163 Daniel O. Barr, D. 221,716 Peter Sutton, G....- 27,207 * J L. Richardson, P 8,210 There were some 50 scattering votes. Cardinal McCloakey has taken active steps to raise funds for starving Ireland. There is e Urge amount of suffering among the poor in Cheater, TKHMH: 1t1.50 |H r Almuiii, in Adiaiu*'. Written for the CENTRE lump HAT. The Rivor of Doath. Th® aurlcritK thought, wb*ri th® livin% brrath The body dmwrted, th® timn of ileoth <w |: rtwl front trmli'l l.i attend. . Thii tin* liHiid, i coin m rnr*fuli> Urre, To|jr fur On- soul, l/i-mif ferried o'or, To tin- liojijiv n|ilrlt tmnl. Now, tin- rich man coan to tti>- rival's aid®, iff wlint avail la his |*,tii|i and pride, Aa helplee* liter* hi- lin— Wtmt would HE (jiva to carry him o'er. Through the surge's foam and Our waters roar To the land of fsnwliir ? • f*"", the poor man Hears the river's brink, llii strength (firm way, Ida spirit* wink, . fait lalar Ilia falling breath— And oh, aa ha lay* life * burden down, W hat would HE give to reach the crow n Acroaa the stream of death 1 t'au aught suffice for the terryiuuti (.ale, At ha rarriea them o'er with flapping aail, Acroaa the narrow stream ? Nothing, no nothing that each could bring, From the cuatlieat gift bo the loweat thing. Will enough to the leiatman teem. Nought but the hhiod of f'brlvl alone, Tliat can ' leanae each heart ami for aln atone, Will paav them aah ly o'er. 'Ti only thuee whoee llrua have hewn Miole pure from every taint of nin. Will reach the heavenly ahore. 'ih, liat to the voice 'trove the w star's aound, A* each one down to iha rivet'a houud, Alone and tilcntly rouie. The water*, the waters vhall not thee o'erllow, Oh trurt me, for I will go with thee and let Land thee *afe in thy heavenly liotne. "Ti the voice of the Saviour, the aacrificed one. Whose paeeage through daatji our freedom hath won, w hat i-ouM we wi*li fir more— With faith let u* tightly claep Ilia hanJ, And hojw, il,tough Hi* l.lood, to rem b the land Where ile.re|gna forever more. V. A. K. ADDITIONAL. LOCALS. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.— It hasbeen well known for a long time that Miee On maclit, one of the most successful lady in Ulrica! in.-tructora in this place, has been preparing lier clas- to render Handel * grand "Creation," one of the most beauti ful creations known to muiic. The time for the performance ha# now been definitely appointed for the 20th of February, in Humes' Ilall. Mies Onmacbt ha* (pent many hour* of toil on the preparation of this performance, and aa her scholars in clude many of the best musicians of our town the entertainment will doubtless prove the most excellent of it* kind ever presented to a Bellefontc audience. IMPROVEMENT.— I The old ana well-estab lished general merchandise firm of 8. A A. Loch are making arrangements for the largest Spring rush of trade any firm in this place has ever enjoyed. To enlarge their present accommodations, they have recently commenced a 40-foot addition in the rear of their store. They will then, probably, have the largest store room in the county. —Last summer when the question was in every one's mind whether the Crescent City was again to l>e afflicted with yellow fever, the whole country was startled by the announcement that among its half dozen or more victims were first the lovely young wife of the brave Confederate Gen eral J. B. Hood, followed by the death of tho General himself, leaving ten little babes to the cold mercies of the world. The women of the South and North alike arose to this appeal to their charity and a subscription list was opened, but with no great result comparatively. The late war rior was on the point of publishing his Narrative of Personal Experiences in the United State* and the Confederate States Armies. The book has just been published by his comrade General G. T. Beauregard, the entire proceeds going to the *ole use and benefit of "The ilood Orphan Memo rial Fund," as is set forth in another column. —At Pleasant Gap the young men have organized a very pleasant and active de bating society for mutual improvement. The question to bo discussed this evening, we understand, will be the relative advan. tages and disadvantage* of foreign emi gration. The principal contestants will be Calvin Waltz and James Steel. Our friend C. C. Taylor, we believe, presides. —We learn that Messrs. Newton Gordon and Harry Landis, of this place, contem plate entering into partnership to purchase and sell all kind* of machinery. They are both practical machinists with a compre hensive knowledge of their business and will prove a strong firm. Mr. L. is a gen tleman of quite an inventive turn of mind and can exhibit many specimens of bis mechanical genius. —We have received the following card with the request that we publish it in the DEMOCRAT: STATE COLLEGE, PA., Jan. 24, 1880. This is to certify that Mr. K. R. Cham bers has been unanlmouslv elected an ac tive member of the Creeson Literary So ciety of the Pennsylvania State College. „ . L. L. STAFFORD, Pres. H. L. CALMER, Cbr. Sat. —Hon. William A. Murray, one of the popular Representative* from this county, called at our office this morning. NO.
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