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.