Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, March 04, 1880, Image 1
<XI)r Centre El cm oc rat. SHUGERT A FOHKTER, Editors. VOL. 2. Slir (Centre democrat. Term* $1.50 per Annum, in Advance. s. T SHUGERT *nd R. H. FORSTER, Editor*. Thursday Horning, March 4, 1880. Democratic Stato Committeo. There will be a meeting of the Demo cratic State Committee at the Monongabela House, Pittsburg, on THURSDAY, the 18th day of March, 1880, at 3 o'clock, r. M., to lit the time and place for the meeting of the Democratic State Convention. GEO. W. MII,LEU, Chairman. SUIT hns been brought against ex- Governor Robinsou, of New York, iu a claim of damages for 850,000 for removing a County clerk during his term of office. The clerk's name is Gumbleton. He was removed on a charge of malfeasance preferred by the Par Association. CONK LINO'S key-note for the Presi dential campaign, as given at theUtica convention, is sectionalism. With the hloodv-shirt as a platform, anil Grant as a candidate, the work of burying the third-term idea will scarcely af ford the Democracy sufficient exercise to make the campaign interesting. The great shot-gnu hero ought to have given us something to make things more lively. Sectionalism aud bloody shirts are played out and not at all inspiring. MR. HAYES, on Friday, nominated Mr. P. S. 11. Pitichbnek, the chronic colored office-seeker of Louisiana, to he naval officer for the District of New Orleans. He is an unmitigated scamp, not immediately connected with the Returning Board thieves; but, like all the rogues iu New Orleans, pos soses peculiar claims upon the dr facto President and his Secretary of the Treasury. Besides, Piuchback is au important factor iu fixing up instruc tions for the Louisiana delegation to the Chicago convention. THE select committee of the House "to inquire into the causes of the pres ent depression of labor," of which Mr. Wright of Pennsylvania is chair man, had a meeting on Saturday last. They agreed to report a hill recom mending the passage of a law restrict ing the immigration of Chinese to this country, limiting the number to he brought in each vessel to fifteen, and also adopted a resolution request ing Mr. Haves to take the proper steps to have the Liurlingamc treaty modi fied, so as to restrict the immigration of the Celestial heathen. SOUTH CAROLINA recently had an extra session of the Legislature, and we were informed by our Republican friends that it was for the purpose of disfranchising a large Republican vote by the passage of a law to require an educational qualification for the voter —that is, that he shall be able to read and write. But it seems these per verse ex-Confederates failed to con firm the prediction. They adjourned and did not do it. Even to gratify our Republican friends the generous people of South Carolina could not find it in their hearts to reduce their illiterate nrgroen to the level that the laws of Republican Massachusetts aud Rhode Island have reduced the illiter ate white men of these States. LIGHTNING appears to have struck the Sherman boom in Pennsylvania, ihe Hon. Edward McPherson was forwarded from the Treasury depart ment at Washington aud placed at the helm. The Philadelphia Preu was selected as the engine to pull the great "Resumer" to the frout, but the announcement that Mr. McPherson is to be retired from the editorial direc tion of that paper is notice that Sher man is either not satisfied with Mc- Pherson's generalship or that McPher son has got so badly mixed up with his Blaine variations as to be unable to tell exactly which way the cat will jump. We congratulate the readers the Preu. They can't help but be the gainers by a change. "EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, or WHATEVER STATE OH FERBUAMON, KKLKLIOL'H OH I"OLlTICAI.."-JeffrOD General Grant and the South. It is boldly and confidently asserted by many of the advocates of a third term, tlint the nomination of the hero of San Domingo will insure a break in the South and bring to bis standard several States otherwise sure to cast their electoral votes for the Democrat ic candidate. Upon what foundation they erect their temple of hope it is difficult to see. During the eight years iu which General Grant held his mailed hand upon the helm of State were encompassed all the frightful wrongs inflicted upou the reconstruct ed States. He it was who turned loose upon the unprotected and help less people of the South the horde of reckless plunderers, who iu the name of law and under the protection of Fed eral bayonets, usurjied their State gov ernments, stole their revenues and re enacted upon American soil the bloody policy of Russia, when she crushed I'olaud beneath the iron heel of mili tary despotism. It was General Grant who dispersed their legally elected legislatures, and seated iu their guber natorial chairs men whom they never elected. Who surrouuded their polling places with the armed soldiery of the Republic and made the inalienable right of suffrage a mockery and a farce. He turned his back upon the representative men of that section and took to his bosom the most disreputa ble of all that class who swooped down, vulture-like, upon a defenseless ami uuhuppy people to feast upon their sorrows aud hold high caruivn! iu their shame. His eyes were closed while men in his name and by his au thority fattened upon the distress and speechless agony of this brave, noble though misguided people. While the Lamars, Gordons, Hamptons, Varices ami Johnstons were turned unheard from the portals of the executive mansion, Mosby, Wells, Pinehhack, Bullock, ('kamherlain and Alcorn were met with outstretched bands and hearty welcome. The fangs of car pot-bng rule sank deeper and deeper into the vitals of government. The people become poorer and poorer, hut the imperial C'nsnr of the White House had no ears with which to hear the wail of reproach aud anguish wrung from a dauntless and intrepid people, who escaped from the dire ca lamities of war only to be plunged into the more awful maelstrom of civ il misrule, robliery aud official de bauchery. The fine sense of honor and delicate consideration for a fallen foe, which distinguished Gencr- Grant at Appomattox seems to have withered and died the moment he as sumed the functions of chief magis trate. Unused to the ways of a civ ilian he plunged into the vortex of politics only to lose all the ennobling characteristics of the soldier. A Democrat, if he ever knew enough of the distinctions between parties to make a choice, he became at once and without effort the most violent and malevolent of Republican partisans. Elected as the President of the whole people, he studiously ignored the wants aud needs of one-half of our country, aud inaugurated for the first time the policy of sectional hate. He seemed to have so much regretted his chival rous conduct at the ch se of the war as to wish to blot it out of the book of his remembrance by such acts of violence and malignity as have but seldom in the history of the world been charged to the account of any civil functionary. Remembering all this, it is strange that any one should see in his candidacy for a third term any inducement for the South to aid in once more placing him where he could take, up again the disastrous policy which did more to paralyse and crip pic her industries, than the destructive simoon of war. But there are not wanting men, high in the confidence of the southern people, who assume to say that there is a strong sentiment in favor of the silent man to be found south of Mason and Dixon's line. The ides of November will either dissipate this impression or establish its truth. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, .MARCH I, 1880. The Pennsylvania Railroad. The thirty-third annual report of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company lius been Hubmittcd to the stockholders and given to the public. It i a most gratifying exhibit of the condition of this great corporation and is no doubt pleasant reading to those who have at tested their faith and confidence in the Company by becoming its sharehold ers. In round numbers the net earn ings of the past (pear aggregated $6,- .>OO,OOO. Of this 8000,000 were paid to the trust fund inaugurated in 1878, 243,400 were paid into the consolidat ed mortgage sinking fund, and over 8800,000 were ndvanced to various of the tributary lines controlled by the Compnny, this leaving the handsome net balance of 84,800,300.08. The President and directors of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company can not be too highly praised for the efficient, economic and skillful manner in which they have conducted the great interests confided to their care. The securities of the Company now have a market value equal to if not greater than the amount charged upou the Company's books. The floating debt is small in comparison, and this is met by a large cash balance now in the treasury. The valuuble improvements made are treat ed with the consideration their im portance deserve, while the increased facilities the Company enjoys in Phil adelphia and Jersey City arc pleasant ly dilated upou. Possibly the most cheering and gratifying portion of the re|>ort is wherein it assures an advanc ed compensation to Inbor in the near future. The increased earnings of the Company justify this promise, and is u graceful tribute to the large army of trained aud capable employes enlisted in its service. Altogether the docu ment aa a whole us mutt admirable and concise statement of the condition of Pennsylvania's great railroad aud will give the most entense satisfaction to those who like to sec pluck, perse verance and matchless enterprise reap substantial reward. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company now takes a new lease of life. The gradual but certain improvement in all branches of indus try is nowhere more fitly seen than in the phenomenal prosperity which has justly crowned the management of this great corporation, aud we predict even greater triumphs as its recom pense in the future. LANCASTER COUNTY, one of the most stalwart preciucta of Cameron's domain, is agitated, and gives sigus of insubordination and disgust, which mny require the prompt and energetic lash of the master to subdue. The Republican masses of that county were not permitted to participate in the choice of delegates to the late State convention. That duty was as signed to the County committee, and the rank and file expected to concur in their acts uuqueationed and with out a grumble. This, it seems, they are not disposed to do, and are uow, stninge as it may appear, in rebellion against the edicts of the Cameron ring. Believing that their sentiments have not been fairly represented, they now demand that the voters shall have an opportunity in their primary assem blies to express their choice of a Re publican candidate for President, and their right as a Congressional district to name the delegates to the National Convention, which was done for them by the State Convention. This is a rebellion that Don will not view with complacency, but a few turns of the thumb-screws may hold it in check until all danger has passed of inter ference' with the Empire movement at Chicago. The Lancaster discontents may as well "possess their souls in peace." The machine is omnipotent. The Empire is decreed and the Em peror agreed upon. His name is Grant, and there can be no hitch in the pro gramme, except a few effective pro tests the Democracy intend to put in as a bar to iu'consummation in No vember next. IT is specifically charged from Washington that Secretary Sherman has issued orders to collectors of cus toms, instructing them to withhold, at the solicitation of shippers, all statis tics as to the ini|>ortation aud shipment of merchandise, for ninety days. This is a hold ami unscrupulous concession to speculators, as it prevents legitimate business men from knowing what de mand there is either at home or abroad for any particular class of merchandise. For example. When the grain now locked up by gambling sj>eculators begins to move, they can flood the foreign markets, and the honest busi ness man, being deprived of any in formation as to the amount of ship ments abroad may export at a very serious loss. It is said the complaints made by the mercantile community meet with no respouse from the Treas ury Department, aud it is thought a concurrent resolution will have to be iutroduced in Congress declaring such repression of statistics illegal. Noth ing can more surely indicate the com plete subjection of the Secretary of the Treasury to the stock gambling and speculating interests of the country than this iniquitous order. The soon er John Sherman is appreciated a* the pliant and subservient tool of the mon ey power the better for all concerned. He is a cord, calculating schemer and the spectacle of such a man in the ex ecutive chair of the nation would be a sight for gods and men. ANOTHER Richmond in the field. The Republicans of Vermont have ap pointed delegates to the Chicago con vention, in-tructcd to vote for Senator Edmunds of that State as the Repub lican candidate 'or president. Ed mund* is unquestionably the ablest inao£yct named for President in IKI party, and seems to be in earnest, hav ing himself, almost simultaneous with the action of his State, waived the hloody-shirt in the Scuate of the Uni -1 ted States, to give force to his presi dential boom. • A young man named Heiskcll, of Baltimore, who, when n hov sixteen years of age, served in the Confederate army, made application to Congress to have his disabilities tin der the statute removed. This new candidate for presidential honor, could not let the opjortunity pa** to give the Vermont man a etartcr, and as nothing better offered, he brought for ward the mnguinary rag, whieh here tofore has heen monopolized by Blnine as his political stock in trade. Ver mont now vies with Maine, and be tween them the poor rebs may expect no mercy. NoTwrwiirrANiMNo the bombastic threats of the murderous Nihilists the twenty-fifth anniversary of the acces sion of the Czar to the throne as Em peror of all the Russias passed off without disturbance aud the pro gramme of ceremonies marked out was followed without break or hindra ee. The Emperor drove through the streets of St. Petersburg in an open carriage and was received with the most unbounded enthusiasm by the populace. Alexander is without ques tion one of the best and most liberal of the whole line of Muscovite mon arch*, and the substantial reforms he yet seeks to inaugurate are only tem porarily obstructed by the insanity of a few blood-thirsty villians who thrive only in sceues of assassination and ra pine. The whole civilized world will congratulate the Czar on this auspici ous entering upon the twenty-sixth year of his reign. CONKLINO had no difficulty with his machine in New York. It work ed well, and ground out a full third term delegation for Grant. He didn't care a copper for the threats of George William Curtis, or the curses of Blaine And Sherman friends. Like Cameron In Pennsylvania, life and death to the shot-gun hero hung upon the result, and he went in to win, regardless of the bellowing of the wounded. And he did win. \\ Eclip the following scrap of truth ful history from u correspondent of the l'hilndelphiu Titneg writing from Coudcrsport: In severity of criticism of the Cam eroon, of Iloyt and of Quay the Repub licans here excel any and all others along the northern border. General Cameron himself comes in possibly for the heaviest share. He seems to be re gal ded as a political exemplar, worthy of studied avoidance. "I'rior to 1M.0," say they, "bargain and sale in politics was unknown in Pennsylvania, at least in connection with the high office of United .States Senator. At that time tiie late George W. Woodward was slaughtered in the house of his friends. Cameron and lie were Democrats. A caucus nomination of the latter did not save him in a majority Senate and House. New appliances overthrew j party fealty ; Cameron triumphed, and from that day to this these new appli ances have become great adjuncts in se curing political success. In 1857 their influence was first felt in the Republi can parly. Cameron had changed to a Republican. They worked as well with new associates as with the old. Between 18C1 and 1867 machine politics had an inauguration. This proved to he an im '• proveinent on the former method. Gen | eral Cameron not only reached the j United States Senate again, hut his clan reached the attainment of their several ambitions. Looking after the primaries became a chief (unction of machine work Conventions, in county and State, were thus controlled. In 1873 the machine did its allotted work—General Camer on succeeded himself. fn 1877 the i General's fee simple in the machine was j transferred through the filial care of j Hoyt and Quay, aided by PhiladeL hia, Allegheny, and Lancaster county lack eys, hummer*, shoulder hitters and j>oll | bruiser*, to Don C'*meron, the son of hi* lather. In 187'J the transfer was af firmed, and thereupon the machine was putin trim for use on a broader field." • —-• . Gov. CtAKOELOX again. This time he uppcar* to repel the statement of his successor calling for an appropria tion of $lB,OOO, based cm the allega tion that this amount was necessary to cover expenses incurred under the administration of Garcelon. This he denies emphatically, and takes oc.-a - *MM •flinii ihttt rtuiiklll, LtttitHOU became Governor the moment his onn term expired, aud thai (sen. Chamber lain had no legal right to act under his authority thereafter. He also af firms that the bills incurred under him have been paid, except $3OO, which he is ready to settle at sight. - ■ - WE learn from Washington, through private sources', that the consideration of the Curtin-Yocum contested elec tion case was post|K>ned from Tuesday until to-day, when final action will IK* taken. The case was laid over in order to enable the House to dispose of the new rules, which was done un der the workings of the previous ijues tion. Ohio Politic*. The Cincinnati Enquirer, in a double leaded article on it* editorial page, states that a Democratic politician of national reputation has been all over the State, having met three-fourth* of the party j leaders, and says Til-Jen's supporters ! number nine to one over those of any j other Democrat. The Enquirer, however, ' in a leading editorial in the same issue, says : "Unless Mr. Tilden ran soothe the dif ferences in his own State, it t# useless to attempt to disguise the fact that he would be an exceedingly dangerous candidate to his paity in his own Hiate. But Mr. Til den can name the Democratic candidate that can be ehvted and inaugurated. Can he rise to the height of giving away a nomination for the presidency T" The Enquirer also publishes an inter view with Mr. Hausereck, the German editor who controls the VolktblaU, Mr. Hausereck is just from Washing ton, and announces hia belief that Grant will be nominated by the Re publicans. The Eamea Petroleum Iron Worka Company at Titusville is to be incor|K>r ated and its building enlarged. The en largement ia rendered necessary by the increase of orders, and the management speaks of adding a pipe making mill. The Company will also have worka in New York for smelting gold and ailver. and aa oil will furnish heat in this aa it doe a in the manufacture of iron at Ti tusville, the Herald of the latter place, expects from these sources a greatly in creased demand for oil. William H. Vanderbilt, C. K. Garri son, William E. Dodge, James Taldott and others have subscribed $30,000 toward a tund of $lOO,OOO for the pur pose of founding a large and perma nent institution for the New York Christian Home for Intemperate Men. It is confidently expected that the lull amount will be raised by voluntary sub scription. A miner in Colorado sent word to a fiiend in Foxburg, Forest county, that if he would forward him $lOO to aid in developing a claim, he would give him a title to half of it. The Foxburg man refused to Invest, and three weeka after ward, according to the Foxburg Qntett*. the olain sold for sloo^ooo. TKHMN: K1.50 |MT Amiuiii, in Advance. GENERAL NEWS. A picture of Martha Washington i* to t<e puichased for the White House, j Judge Coffin,ex member of Congress, and aged seventy-two yeats,died Sunday i afternoon at Mt. Oilead, Ohio. I'rfa, in Asiatic Turkey, has been nearly destroyed by tire. The town is j situated on the supposed site of the biblical city of "Ur of the Chaldeans." j It contained 50,000 inhabitants, coiu ; posed of Armenians, Turks, Kburds and I Israelites. Twenty-seven years ago, on Thursday, there were born unto the family of 1 William Marshall, of White Water, I Wis., triplets, two boys and one girl. All three were married on Thursday ' night in one ceremony by the Kev. <. j Wells ami the three happy couples took the train for Chicago. It is said that 5.000 persons have j been living in the Czar's \V inter i'alace, and nobody has ever known the precise j duties of one half of them. It has *l - ways been the refuge for numberless i vagabonds, workmen, friends o servants and others, many wit hout passports who would not live with impunity anywhere i else. It will not do to trust implicitly to the Directory every time. There are too many names that are just alike. A j present of five cases of champagne went to the wrong man in New York the other day and was nearly all consumed :by the surprised recipient and hi* friends before the mistake was discov ered. Between 2 anil 3 o'clock on Saturday morning three burglars broke into the jewlery store of Charles Bird, Jr., at Mt. tiilead, 0., and carried off $3,000 worth of gold and silver watches. They broke in at the rear and rolled a 3,000 pound safe from the front to the rear of the store, drilled and blew the door to piec es. A young man in the livery stable close by saw the whole proceeding, while one of the burglsrs stood over hnu with a revolver. The burglars es caped on a band car. Mesgre as they are, the advices from Ireland show that the extent of the .distress and the consequent danger of death from famine are greater than was imagined in this country a few weeks ago. All tne money that has been con ' tributed here and in England would not, if divided by capita, amount to a dollar to each person who is on the brink of starvation. How long will a ; dollar bau>|. -U.v-r Tile story is told in the statement that in Itonegal alone the number of the distressed has ; increased to sixty-six thousand, and that the increase in the county Mayo in two weeks was nearly seventeen thousand. The //mi ./s Dublin corres |x>ndenl reports that it is the opinion | of competent observers that the worst is to c<4fiie, alt hough there will be a re laxation of the famine during the two ; weeks when lulior will be employed in ' rowing the crops. The experience of 1H47 teaches that the severest period of the famine will be the last fortnight of May. the whole of dune ami the first 1 fortnight of July. These consideration* must impress the ini|K)rtnnc of keep j ing up a steady flow of subscription* to ; 'he several funds which have already reached such respectable proportion*. I'he New York Herald has now collected £237,101.77, or, excluding Mr. Bennett's - own subscription, an average of over i *7.500 a day since it la>gan it* work. I his is noble, but it is not enough. Let j nobody keep bia band in bis pocket i with the idea that the danger ha* : passed. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. HONORED.— IIamiI) Boal, son of the j lamented Judge Boat, of Itoalsburg, and Mr. Kd. Leuffer, also well known here, have recently been gaining to themselves honor in the employ of the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western railroad. The road being completed on the lt.th of December last, a* is the usual custom,,a gold spike was used to fasten the last rail in place. This delicate duty was entrusted to Mr. Boal, who is In charge of one of the road divisions. The event was signalised by the firing of guns and other joyous demon strations. Mr. Leuffer is the chief engi neer of the road, and of course its success ful completion reflects honor upon hitn. We are glad that the services of these young gentlemen are considered so valua ble by their present employers. —Upon profound consideration, we are bsppy to be able to state that the meeting of the Addisonian Club on Saturday night was a slight improvement on those of the two previous weeks. Its redeeming fea ture was a recitation by Prof, lleebner of one of Longfellow's latest poems. What ever the Professor essays to do is always well performed. For Saturday evening next the following proposition was offered for discussion: fit retired, That Chinese immigration should be encouraged. It is hoped that there will be an encour aging attendance on that occasion. —A party of Bohemian glass blowers are now practicing their art in a room in McClain'e building, opposite this office. They give an interesting exhibition. —The price of butter end eggs has bot n coming down until now they am within the roach of the consumer. Good butter, however, Is rare at any jfflce, NO. Id