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Thursday Moniing, February 19,*1880.
K. B. WASIIBURN K, of Illinois, de
clines to lie the dark horse in the Re
publican race for the Presidential
nomination. He authorizes the edi
tor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean to an
nounce that he will not under any
circumstances be a candidate.
HON. HENRY GREEN, the Republi
can candidate for Judge of the Su
premo Court, has yet to make his
reputation as a judge. Though ap
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge Woodward,he has
never been able to take his seat on the
bench, owing to illueas which has long
confined him to his house. Mr. Green
is a lawyer of established character,
but he has still to prove that lie will
make a good judge.
BLAINE'S MAINE LEGISLATURE
voted to print the late partisan deci
sion of the Supreme Court of that
State, but refused to give the whole
record and print the decisions of the
Mime court, upon which the late Gov
ernor and council predicated their ac
tion. The decisions were both parti
san, hut came iu conflict as to results.
Times and circumstances had changed
somewhat.
THE New York Republicans, under
the inspiration of the Lordly Roscoe,
are gallantly responding to the third
term echoes of their Pennsylvania
friends under the lead of Cameron.
At Albany, Troy and other important
points in the State, (.'oakling's machine
men have had their own way in the
election of delegates to the State con
vention; and the programme of the
master lor a delegation to Chicago
instructed to vote for Grant will no
doubt be as successful as the same
thing was in Pennsylvania.
NEXT Monday the Democratic Na
tional Committee will meet at th<
M illard's Hotel, in Washington, to
decide when and where the National
Convention shall bo held for the nom
ination of candidates for President nnd
Vice President. Many places have
leen nnmed and urged as the best
points for the meeting of the conven
tion. Louisville, Cincinnati, Baltimore,
Washington, Philadelphia nnd New
York have each their friends, hut at
present the preponderance seems to be
in favor of Louisville and Washington.
FUR tearing away tho flimy disguise in
whii ii General Grant was enshrouded, for
destroying tho halo and pulling him off
hi- lofty stilts, for presenting him as a
greedy, unscrupulous seeker for a third
t-rm nomination and making an end of
the disgusting homage and adoration pro
gramme, IL.n Csmpron deserves appre
ciative mention.— Wanhingian I'mt.
Well, yes, Don did in
this deserving "appreciative mention,"
hut he did not mean it. He only in
tended to glorify D.,n Cameron, and to
prove to his partisan chattels, some of
wliorn indicated signs of demoraliza
tion, that the power of the slave mas
ter i not to lie disputed.
IN the matter of the Curtin-Yocum
contest, the Democratic majority of
the committee on elections in the
House of Representatives has agreed
tipon a report declaring the seat of
Mr. Yocuni vacant and remanding the
question of the contest hack to the
district. The report of the committee
is yet to lx! acted upon in jhc House.
Our advices arc to the effect that it
will probably be disposed of in the
course of the next week. Mr. Bclu
hoover, of the Cumberland and York
district of this State, will make the
leading argument in .favor of the
adoptiou of the report. It is expected,
from the preparation he has been
making, and from his thorough know
ledge of the election laws of Pennsyl
vania, that his speech will be an ablei
elaborate and convincing review of the
en tiro case.
" Kqi'Al. AS!) KXACT JIKTK'K TO ALL MKN, OF WIIATRV KK STATK OH FKKKVAStON, IIKI.IOIOCH OK POLITICAL.Jefferson
Judicial Integrity
Our esteemed contemporary, the I
Watchman, is deeply concerned as to
the moral soundness and rectitude of i
the judges of our courts of law. It j
has been elaborately discussing this
highly important question from every
conceivable standpoint, and lit last
Ims sadly and tearfully arrived at the
conclusion that the temple of justice
is the abiding place of venality and !
corruption, und our judges but the j
mercenary instruments of corporate
power. We are at a loss to know
what particular exhibition of judicial
turpitude has moved our contempora
ry to this disheartening judgment. It
is of course not the iirst time that the
administration of justice has been ar
raigned and the exponents of the law
held up to public execration. But
the wail usually comes from the crim
inal dock, and tlie critics are general
ly those whoso interests arc incom
patible with a strict and impartial
execution of the laws, and this will
always be tiie case so long as malefac
tors throng our courts and even
handed justice meets them with de
served punishment,
"No rofti# •Vr f*lt the lialt*r draw
With o|diiin of th* law.
But it will he a dark day indeed
wtiich witnesses the destruction of the
of the faith of the masses in the in
tegrity and probity of the men who
are clothed with judicial functions.
In all the niutatious of time —in all
the upheavals of society, and the
dismemberment of governments, the
courts have been held sacred and in
violate, while popular faith in the
virtOo and uprightness of the judges
remained as the dearest heritage of
the people. Destroy that and license
will usurp the place of law and liberty
and become the synonym of debauchery
and crime. Bad men hare sat upon
the Bench, and mocked justice in her
own sanctuary, but they were glad to
seek the oblivion of the grave, and
their monument wa." the withering
condemnation and hissing scorn of all
mankind. From the unjust rulings of
Pontius Pilate,and thedark and bloody
chapter contributed to the history of
the world's jurisprudence by George
J tiff revs, there have been sporadic in
stances of judicial dishonor ami bare
ness. But they have been of such a
character as to carry their own lesson
with them and the cause of human
justice has not suffered at their hands.
Even the philosophic mind of Bacon
was not impervious to the tempting
bribe, but his melancholy example
has made a repetition of his fault un
known to English annals. In our own
country our inherited reverence for
the sanctity of our courts has receiv
ed many rude shocks, but it was not
left even to the partisan malignity of
a Bradley or the purchased opinion of
the Supreme Court of Maine to shat
ter our belief in the fidelity of the
judges of our courts. sfuch less will
the unsupported and flippant utter
ances of Mr. Franklin B. Gowen
achieve such a result. The President
of the Reading railroad is fast be
coming a common scold. He has
either a real or simulated greivance
against a more successful rival, and
he persists in airing it both in and
out of season. His recent attack
upon our Hupreme Court was both on
warranted and uncalled for. It was
an atrocious libel upon the court and
an insult to every citizen of this com
monwealth. Mr. Gowen, as the head
of a great corporation, is constantly
submitting questions of the most deli
cate nature to this same court for
adjudication. If then he believes
that the court is the subservient crea
ture of other and more potential in
terests than his own, why does he ask
for opinions which he thinks were
bought and paid for in advance?
There is an incongruity between Mr.
Gowen's words and actions which be
comes more and mora apparent as
they are closely contrasted. The en
tire press of the State has demanded
that he shall specify wherein the
BELEEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ID, 18K0.
judges of our court of last resort have
been derelict in the dischnrge of their
high and roß|>oitsible triiHt, but the
request is uuhoeded and Mr. Gowen
shields himself behind an icy wall of
impenetrable reserve.
The dispassionate judgment of all
men will be that he bus been hoist
by his own petard. In his endeavor
to strike a deadly blow at one of the .
venerated institutions of the jeople he >
has simply written himself down a ca- j
lumniator. As to the Watchman's J
churge that the cases affecting the !
Pennsylvania Railroad Company arc
partially decided by the Supreme
Court, it is totally unfounded and ab
solutely lacks every merit, save that of
mendacity. If corrupting influences
have ran riot through the halls of leg
islation in the past, and the statute
books of the Commonwealth staiued by
the polluting touch of the briber, it is
i not the fault of our courts. Thev
pass upon the laws as they come fresh
from the hands of the jwiople's repre
sentatives, and if they prove unfaithful
and succumb to the seductive charms
of the lobby, it is only a matter of re
gret, not of redress, to unprejudiced
courts. The moral grandeur of the
upright judge is the suhlimest thing in
nature and will so remain through all
time. If the Watchman and President
Gowen wish to impair his usefulness
they must adduce more potent reasons
than any they have yet given to the
world. They have simply said to the
courts, in chorus,
"I do not Ilk* th**, T>r Fell ;
Th# ffimn why I • aonot t*ll.
Hut—l do not iik* thee. Dr. F*ll."
MR. JOHN E. POINDEXTER is de
serving of all the pity we may have
lying around loose. He was guilty of
a slight irregularity down in good old
Virginia and as a cousequcnce has re
tired to the classic shades of the pen
itentiary for a season. Hut John is a
little higher toned than the ordinary
run of guests usually entertained at
the expense of the State, and he ob
jects to the cut of the regulation dress.
He don't think the stripes become his
' peculiar style of beauty nnd a bill has
1 been introduced in the Senate exempt
ing him from wearing the garb of a
convict. We hope it will pass. The
spectacle of John in a striped suit
with a ball and chain attachment,
would ho burrowing in the extreme,
and then when wc contemplate the
trifling fault committed by John with
the high sounding patronymic, we arc
; amazed that any one should have
j thought of subjecting this wronged
and badly-used man to the indignity
of wearing a striped suit. He merely
cowhidcd a man and then killed him,
hut the other fellow was only a clerk
in a shoe store, and had used a little
more cinprcjumrnt than was absolutely
necessary in fitting a pair of shoes on
the neat foot nnd plastic nukle of
John's girl and hence the unpleasant
ness. By all means allow John to he
clad in the habiliments of the Ameri
can gentleman, not omitting the pistol
pocket in his pantaloons.
THE Senate haw administered n
wholesome rebuke to therfe facto Pres
ident for his partisan nominations of
census supervisors for Ohio, by reject
ing the whole hatch, eight in all. It
was understood, and the law so pro
vided, that the census supervisors and
enumerators were not to b* partisan
appointments, but-.Mr. Hayes under
took to repudiate this wholesome and
proper understanding, by the appoint
ment of eight of his most objectionable
stalwart partisans for his own State,
against the protest of its Senators. He
therefore had the list returned on his
hands for revision, aud, it is to be
hoped for his honest reflection, if he is
capable of such a mood.
JAMBS MULLIGAN BLAINE will ac
cept no second place on the Republi
can National ticket. At leaat that is
the announcement made by the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Tribune. He will prefer remaining in
the Senate.
IF a moiety of truth is to he credi
ted to the friends of Grant and Sher
man when speaking of these rival as
pirants for the Presidency, neither are
fit persons to he entrusted with the ad
ministration of the affairs of the Gov
ernment, and the people will do well
to give both a wide berth. When ;
rogues fall out their criminations of
each other will enable honest people to
estimate very correctly the true char
acter of each. But the rule did not
require to have this practical realiza
tion to enlighten the country as to the
character of these men. Facts were
abundant, furnished by the public acts
of the parties themselves. The one_
has been tried in the Presidential of
fice, and by debauchery of administra
tion, profligacy and tyranny, made a
disgraceful failure. The other has
proven himself a corrupt and dishon
est trickster, totally indifferent to
honor, or the means lie adopts to effect
personal or political ends. This phase
of character had ample attestation at
New Orleans in IX7<>, when Mr. Sher
man engineered the great wrong which
placed a Fraud in the Presidential of
fice instead of the man duly elected by
the people; and it was further mani
fested when, with the aid of this fraud,
he pensioned himself and all the base
j instruments used in commission of the
great crime, upon the Treasury of the
country, to say nothing about his oje
rations with favorite National Banks,
by which he enriches himself at the
\ expense of the public.
THE Senate Committee investigating
the causes of the negro exodus from
North Carolina has established bevoud
dispute the political character of the
Movement. That its only object was
t# locate in the State of Indiana a suf
nfcnt number of colored tnon as Rc
tßblican voters to overcome the Dem
ocratic majority in that State and at
the same time to so lessen the popu
lation of the State from which they
were drawn as to affect y>e result of the
census ahout to be taken. These facts
hare come out in the testimony, most
ly by Republican witnesses. The heart*
lessness and brutality of the political
movement has also been made appar *
efit in the testimony, by the cruel neg
lect with which the poor unfortunates
are treated on their arrival nt the
points to which thev wore sent under
false promises of good wages and com
fortable homca. Instead of finding
employment and homes, it appears
they were huddled together in little
shanties ami abandoned huts and left
without even food to cat except n
they could beg it from door to door,
to keep them from actual starvation.
One witness, the corporation under
taker of Indianapolis, testified that he
had buried a large number of these
blacks as paupers at ?"> a head, who
died from exposure nnd the effects of
the change of climate. These poor
creatures are thus paying dearly for
their excessive credulity in allowing
themselves to be deluded from com
fortable homes to serve the ends of
heartlAs radical politicians. The
great Republican party may yet have
cause to regret that, in their eagerness
to override the legitimate preponder
ance of popular sentiment, they have
engaged in and encouraged a very
foolish and very wicked enterprise.
IT is reported that Mr. Blaine in
tends to begin an aggressive campaign
against the third-termers. It behooves
Mr. Blaine to he prudeut in this mat
ter or the third-termers may return
his assaults in a manner that will not
be pleasant to his sensitive feeliugs.
Borne of the organs in the interest of
Grant already begin to play old tunes
that cannot sound sweetly in the ears
of the Maine statesman. "Damaged
reputation," "Mulligan letters," etc.,
have been heard thus early in the
fray, and others will follow as the
combat deepens. O, uol Mr. Blaine
u not the man for an aggressive cam
paign against members of his owu
party. They know him too well to
fear anything of that sort.
Written for (he Ciwmr. DEMOCRAT.
Babyland.
Oli, wonderful of HuhyUrul,
Drown and gray and blur,
\ on are vorjr blight a* yon •hue around—
Yon |arkl like the dew.
Will you Mrch the d |dh* of an* lent lore
AM the fleeting year* go paat?
Will you wan the h< avu lor hidden atarat
Or fintke diie overh* vaat ?
Oh, the change* the*© little ©jef will due!
Team will dun fhern oft,
And aotnetimea they'll brightly beam and glow '
With !•> light ijUnon kuft.
Oh, dimpled hand* of Habyland f
How your tiny flnger* piny
With darning •unbeatiiM, and vainly strive
To Imprison eerh yellow ray.
W 111 th* tirn* not rom* when firm and •trnng
They will hold the wnrtl or jien ?
Or deftly carve from the marble ©old
Th© aemMauc© of living men?
Oh, th* work fur tin** little hand* to do—
May their touch la- then at now
Vrjr ft H it rete on th* wary head,
j Or •mu!h* th* care-worn brow,
i And th* pretty feet of Rahyland,
I llow sweet their lunate <♦* !
A* they patter ahout with uncertain nt*p.
Now after that—now thi.
j A* year- go by and life • path they tread.
Will the found of their footfall* b*
A* clear a- n"W, to the waiting heart*
Who are watching anxiously *
<Mi # th* little f*et—may th*y bravely run
Br th* *id© of the good m l great,
Bringing glad tidings and surcor to all
In a needy, li*lpl**a aute.
Oh, th* happy heart* of Babyland,
J That w fr~ from -v-r,
I A Uw; ■<!) Willi miinotnuou., ni*<-lu 10-t
j In the littl-- liina.l, MI fair.
I Will tli'-v in time !-<■ hurdcnc-L SON-11,
| Willi InmlilM IIIPJF EFFLY know 1
Or mill tU#*y rtrr frow cold mil hard,
With no thought for another', out?
till, tn*v they IM- Unmix! OX W IIMOCS „ *r firing
IMb kiiiilmw. and f'hh.ti.n lore,
Alw.y. girotopUng noble deed, nnd trwe,
Fitting them for the home nboer. F. A. S
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
SCHOOL RKPORT. — Report of the l'ine
Drove Primary School, tlt I r-1 month, end
ing February 4, 18*0: Whole number
enrolled, 28; mule, 111; female, ft. Daily
'attendance—msle, 17; female, 8; total,
: 26. Per cent, of ntlcndance—male, ftO ;
j female, ftf>. The following pupils were
present every day : Sadie K. Darin ley, Mary
K. Ward. Jennie Wolf, Sallie Slrunk,
Nellie Kepler, Masters R Port, Mnsser R.
lieberling, Warren Wolf, JRS. A. Stover,
John C. Dates, A. Stewart Bailey, Levi
F. Date., Miles E. Stover, T. Glenn Meek,
Benton J. H-berling. The following were
absent one session only during the month :
Stella lieberling, Klsie Houseman, Lctitia
Strunk. There were eight visitors during
' the term xtnone whom was one parent an
i one director. Parents, directors and friends
are cordially invited to Tisit the school.
1 Encourage us by your presence.
T. (J. ARCH FT, Ttnrhtr.
PINK GROVK MILLS, Feb. 12, 1880.
ENTKKTAINMFST AT MILLHKIM— The
Millheim Oermsn evening school, under
the direction of Miss Josephine Kaulfmnn,
from Stuttgart, Germany, will give * pub
lic entertainment in the Millheim Town
Hull on Ssturdsy, February 28. The
exereisrs will consist of dialogues, orations,
declamations, select Tendings, vocal and
1 ipslrumanUl music, Ac. The most fasci
nating part of the exercises is that all
I (except of course the instrumental music)
will be rendered in either High German,
Swiss German or Pennsylvania Dutch,
i The public are cordially invited to attend.
Admittance 15 cents.
—The City new bout nnd shoe store, lo
cated in the old Conrad House, on Alle
gheny street, has commenced business in
the right direction, vastly to the advan
tage of the consumer. The business Is
conducted entirely on the rash principle of
small proflts and quick returns. In every
possible way exjirnse? have been curtailed.
Neither day-book or ledger is kept and
bence there is IK> necessity for a book
keeper. In view of this cash system the
goods have been bought at bottom prices,
which enables the proprietors to sell them
twenty-Ave per cent, lower than other
parlies dealing on the credit system of
preflt snd loss. It would be advisable ffr
all parties desiring to purchase boots or
shoes to call and examine these goods and
he convinced that it is the place to spend
cash U> advantage.
—An event which 0.-caxioned much
sorrow occurred on Saturday evening
It was the death of Mist Alicia McCaffer
ty, daughter of Mr. Alexander McCsfferty,
of North I<smb ttreet. Mist McCsfferty
died of consumption. On Tuesday morn
ing the last tears were dropped snd the
lsst rites of religion performed over the
cold clsy, snd msny friends took s lsst
affectionate look ere the body wss con
signed to its native dust. This family are
all endowed with much inherent sprightli
ness and life, but one by one they sicken
and die from this fatal disease. Two sons
and two daughters remain, but even now
the eldest son is very low. The cloud of
woe Is dark and heavy, but it haa a silver
lining illumined by U> Sun of Righteous
ness.
MONDAY, January 6, 1800.—Our stock
of woolens for the spring and summer
season of 1880 Just received. Jeuve your
order now. Respectfully,
MowmoMitaT A Co., Tailors.
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GENERAL NEWS.
The Alumni of B iwdoin College held
their fil th annual meeting at Bangor on
Turn H'Jhv evening. Chief Justice Apple
ton presiding.
Klihu B. Wasliburne authorize* the
Chicago Inter Ocean to announce that he
in not and under no circumstance will
be a candidate for the Presidency.
The Neiy England Alumni of Yale Col
lege met at Boston, on Thursday, and
■fudge John F. Putnam, of the Class of
1837, waaelected president. It wax vot
ed to have more frequent reunions here
after.
A value gold deposit, five feet in
width, has been discovered in the town
ship of Madoc, Ontario, near Fetterby's
mine. It has been opened and is now
being worked by capitalists from Buffalo.
The Tut tie A Whittemore Company's
Malleable iron Works, at Union City,
Conn,, were partially destroyed by fire
•Sunday morning. The loss is estimated
at *25.000, and the insurance at about
*20,000. About 300 hands are thrown
out of employment.
It has been found necessary at the
A1 toon a shops to place three more loco
motives on each track in the erecting
shops, so that repairs can be made on
seventeen engines at one time, :nstead
of fourteen as heretofore. An extra
force of men has been employed by the
companv lor the purposeof breaking up
condemned locomotives.
Mr. John G. Whittier, replying to an
invitation to be present at a meeting
for the releif of Irish distress, writes:
"Starvation cannot be argued with ; the
I gaunt spectre cannot be laid by speech
es and resolutions. We must share our
| abundance of bread with the hungry,
j We arc a great brotherhood, children
; if Him whom our ancestors called the
j All Father, and it is not for us to ask
j the old cpiestion of Cain, 'Am I my
I brother's keeper?'"
Keve-al forged notes, amounting to
*2,100, on S. if. A .1. F. Adams, promi
nent builders of that city, have been
discovered in one of the Baltimore
banks. The fiarty who had them dis
counted has disappeared. He had been
largely engaged in the lumber business,
and at one lime owned a number of new
buildings in the northwestern section
of the city. He came to Baltimore from
the West a few years ago, and was con
sidered a man of much enterprise.
Our Consul at Matamoras reports that
the Society of Friends in Indiana and
New York established amission at Mat
amoras in 1872. A newspaper and a va
riety of school-books are printed by it
and the public schools in some parts of
Mexico have adopted these books. The
Presbyterians are also doing much work
in establishing churches in Mexico.
The people are thereby greatly improved
temporally as well as spiritually and
morally.
The London correspondent of the
Liverpool Charter says: "Assurance is
given me that the statecent of the in
tention of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts
to devote £500,000 to the amelioration
of the distress in Ireland is true. Con
tradictions of this statement have t>een
made in most of the London daily
papers, but tne fact is incontrovertible.
I'lie money will not be given in alma,
but will be invested in the purchase
of land in the district of Counem&ra,
County Galway, to be afterward let to
small tenants at long leases and moder
ate rents. A committee of Irish gentle
men interested in agriculture is associ
ated in the scheme.''
At an adjourned meeting of mer
chants, held at the Linden House, St.
Louis, Saturday night, to consider the
feasibility of establishing a permanent
industrial exhibition there and in the
City of Mexico of products and manu
factures of each country, it was decided
to drop this feature of the enterprise
and organize a company with a capital
stock of $50,000 and establish a com
mercial agency at the City of Mexico
for the transaction of business by sam
ple, buy and sell for others mines, min
erals, etc., and do such other laisinesa
as promised a profitable result, A com
initlee was appointed to effect an organ
ization of the company and to put the
enterprise into workiug order as quick
ly as possible.
A Salt Lake dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune says that at a recent funeral Pres
ident Taylor spoke of the dead as fol
lows: "But let us return to the youug
man. WasheaaaintT No. He was once
a saint, but he parted from the Church.
He left the faith. Did he die a aaint?
No, he died a drunkard, and he will
find a drunkard's grave. He haa gone
to hell, and there is where be deserved
to go." With one wild shriek the
mother screamed : "My God, my God,
my only son, and to think that his only
fault should he-thus made public t" and
fainted* The sister, overcome with
grief, did likewise. They were taken
home, and have eioce been under the
care of a physician.
At a late hour on Saturday night a
fire broke out in the Empire warehouse,
at Chicago, embracing the number*
from 198 to 210 Market street, and
spread until it destroyed a large amount
of property. The warehouse was occu
pied as a store room for seeds, dry
goods, liquors and bonded goods. The
content* of the free warehouse were en-
tirely destroyed. The losses are esti
mated aa follow* : Wallace A Kingman
seedsmen, $150,000: Chaplin A Gore,
liquors, $150,000; Field, Leiter ACo
dry goods, *75.000 ; Wilson Broe , $15,-
000, and a large number of smaller lots
•a. The insurance is not known yet;
it it thought it will oover the iota for
the most part. The lota on the build
ing, which it believed to be owned by
Wadsworth A Dickinson, la $50,000,
NO. H.