al)f (Crntre Democrat.
SHIXiKRT A KOIISTK.It. Kdltorn.
VOL. 2.
Slu (fnvht grnotni
Term* 11.50 per Annum, in Advnneo.
s. T SHUGERT and R. M. FORSTER, Editor*.
Thursday Morning, March 11, 1880.
Democratic Stato Committoo.
There will be a meeting of tho Demo
rrstic State Committer nt the Mnnongahela
I'lttsburjj, on THCKSI.A V, the 1 Hth
iluv of March, 18S0, at 8 o'clock, P. w., to
lix"the time and place fur tho meeting of
tho Democratic Stato Convention.
GEO. W. MILLER, Chairman.
THE Hon. \V. P. Schcll, Auditor
General, will please accept our thanks
for u copy of his Annual Report.
THE copper-colored statesman of
Louisiana, Mr. Pinchback, is not Na
val Officer at New Orleans after all.
Mr.Hayes has withdrawn the appoint
ment from the Senate. Why, does
not appear.
Gov. lIOLLIDAY, of Virginia, lias
returned the Re-adjusters' bill passed
last week, repudiating a large part of
the State debt, with a message giving
his reason, very fully, for withholding
his approval of the same.
THE Huntingdon .Ifonitur and the
lion. It. Bruce Petrikeu seem to have
a very spirited newspaper waron hand,
growing out of the late corporate
election. The lougest pole, will of
course, gather the persimmons. We
het on the Monitor.
A CHARTER was granted on Friday
last to the "Connellsvillc Coke and
Iron Company" with a capital stock
of 81,000,000, of which 8100,000 has
already been paid in. The company
arc to operate in Fayette county in
the manufacture of iron and steei.
FIRST in the Held. Tho Nutional
Greenback party which met in Con
vention at St. lEOU'I* on the sth of
March, placed in nomination for Pres
ident, Stephen R. Dillaye, of New
Hampshire, and for Vice President,
It. I. Chambers, of Texas. Tho Con
vention adjourned to meet at Chicago
on the 9th of June.
MR. MCPHERSON, late of the Phila
delphia Pre**, has been appointed Sec
retary of the Republican Congression
al Committee. This appointment is
said to be very pbnnxious to Don
Cameron, chairman of the National
Republican committee, and has given
rise to considerable bail feeliug. Don
thinks he to have been consult
ed. Instead of which the Congress
ional committee sat down U|KHI him in
pretty much the same maimer lie sat
down upon the friends of Blaine in
Pennsylvania.
SENATOR LOO.VN, on Friday, closi-d
hi* three days, stump speech against
Gen. Porter, chajieroued and prompt
ed hy Gen. Sherman. His speech was
violent ami abusive, hut presentcs! no
argument or facts to overcome the just
conclusions of the nble army officers
appointed to review the court-martial,
and who reported in favor of doing
justice to Porter. Such a speech as
I/gan put forth rati have no weight
in determining the question, and was
Jierhaps only intended as an aid to the
malignant.* in stirring up the animosi
ties of the past, for political uses.
THE re-appointment of Marshal
Kerns of Philadelphia has been con
firmed by the Senate. The appoint
ment is as good, if not better, than
any one that could lie expected from
the present administration. If Kerns
did employ a host of unnecessary
deputy marshals to superintend the
election, any other man that Hayes
would appoint would do the same
thing perhaps in a more objectionable
form. The fault is not so much in
the marshals as in the law compell
ing their appointment when demand
ed by two citizens. The declaration
of Kerns before the investigating com
mittee that they were not necessary
to obtain a fair election, hut that he
had DO discretiou aud was compelled
to appoint when required to do so,
had tho merit of candor at least.
These facts, no doubt, influenced the
confirmation—there being no personal
objection to tho man.
"„IT KI. KNIT KXKTT JUBTK'K TO ALL MKT, OF WIIATKVKK STATE UK TEKHVAKIOM, RELIUtOL'E OK EOI.ITICAL."—Jeff.rw.D
Let there be Harmony
We do not app.ehend that there is ;
anv foundation in fact for the assump
tion of Republican journals that there j
is to he a conflict of fnetion in Pcrno- i
eratic emiusols in Pennsylvania. If
ever there was a time when the petty
jealousies of ambitious leaders should
he dwarfed into insignificance by
the overshadowing importance of the
mighty interests at stake, it is in this
year of grace. The discordant ele
ments must cease to make war on each
other, and the battle for suprcmacY*
must be fought at some other and
more convenient season. It is now
time to call a halt upon the men who
periodically precipitate an intestine
struggle into the otherwise peaceful
camps of the Democracy. Too often
has victory beeu made impossible by
the bickerings and causeless appre
hensions of self-constituted leaders.
It is only necessary for one to look
dispassionately at the history of the
past to see the wrecks scattered along
the pathway of Democracy, strewn
there by the suicidal rivalship of men
, who owe the party something better
than disoiganization ami defeat. Host
ing, as we do in this State, under the
I shadow of successive reverses.it would
; seem as if unity and jieace should l>e
the slogan, not discord and raucor.
The great Democratic party of Penn
sylvania is large enough to shelter be
| neath its wings a legion of captains.
The arena is well calculated for the
display of the most astute generalship
and patriotic self-sacrifice, but it is
not meant to be the scene of selfish in
trigues or inexcusable folly. The an
' nouncement of Chairman Miller of a
meeting of the State Committee at
Pittsburg, on the 18th of this month,
I is scarcely made public before it is
'shouted from the Delaware to Lake
Erie, that an early convention is in
, the interest of this candidate for the
presidency, and a late convention for
i that. There can be no contest l>e
tween rival candidates for the presi
dency as to the time of the meeting of
the State Convention. All the De
j mocracv wish is to have time to glance
, at the field and to make their choice
without dictation, and without any
! effort to render their will of no effect,
i They will submit to no snap judgment
j being taken in their name, as was the
case with our opponents, but will ask
and will have a fair field and no
favors. It can make no difference to
the average Democrat whether the
1 convention is held in .May or June,
and it can certainly make none to the
different candidates who are named as
aspiranU for the Presidential notnina-
I tion. In the meantime let there be
' cordial union nnd unaffected harmony
between the men whom the party has
: honored by placing them in the |>osi
tion .of honor and trust. All the rank
and tile ask at the hands of the lead
ers is honest and hearty effort for the
1 success of the time-honored principles
'of Jefferson and Jackson. The enemy
jis well organizer! and strongly en
trenched. They are rendered com
pact aud united by the cohesive power
of public pluudcr. To dislodge them
from their chosen positions will re
quire the hearty co-operation of all
the friends of good government. To
secure this, we must first vindicate our
sincerity by giving an earnest of
our good intentions. This can only
he accomplished by sinking all per
sonal considerations nnd making hope
ful and sincere battle for the right.
We invoke harmony not only at Pitts
burg, on the 18th instant, but at all
the succeeding consultations of party
leaders. This will insure success and
restore the faith of the masses of the
party in the capacity and patriotism
of its chosen spokesmen.
IT is believed now that Edmunds'
boom for the Presidency, recently
started in the littlo Htnte of Vermont,
is intended only to ftirnish a tail for
Grant's kite—that the Vice Presi
dency in tho third-term will satisfy
his yearnings for the present.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, IBHO.
THERE is a disposition in some quar
ters to find fault with Senator Wallace
for |>crmittirig the confirmation of
Marshal Kerns of Philadelphia. Why
the Senator should he censured for
the act of the Senate done in approval
of the report of their committee, of
which Scnutor Wnlluce was not a
member, is a conundrum difficult of
solution. If the confirmation was
improper or injudicious, it was cer
tainly no fault of Mr. Wallace. Re
ferring to the subject, the Washington
Sunday Herald says:
The New York Sun and some other
journals .are attacking Senator Wallace
tor the confirmation of Marshal Kerns,
of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
These attacks are of a kind any decent
journal should be ashumed of. The re
cord shows that Senator Wallace tiled
with the Judiciary Committee a written
protest against Kerns' confirmation,
accompanied by a copy of the evidence
taken before his Committee. This fact
is totally ignored by those who resort
to defamation of an aide Senator and
sound Democrat to serve the purposes
of party schismatic*. Senator Wallace,
by taking the course he did. freed him
self front any responsibility for the con
firmation.
The nomination of Mr. Kerns was
favorably reported by a committee
which numbered among its member*
Senators McDonald and Garland, of the
Wallace Investigating Committee. We
do not pretend to know the reasons
which nctuated these Senators, or the
rnsjority of the Senate, in confirming
the nomination. Rut we have heard it
said by Democrats whose views are en
titled to respect, that if they must have
a Republican Marshal, with the powers
over elections which existing laws gives
these officers, they would prefer one
like Kerns, who had frankly testified
lo the truth at>out the election depu
ties, admitted that they were not need
ed, and that he had been imposed U|M>l
and induced to ap|>oint deputies <■
bad character—that they would prefA
such a Marshal to the chance of gettiil
one far moro unscrupulous anddangel
ous.
MATT, ("ARRESTER, following IA
gan, made a speech in the -SctuJP
against the restoration of Gen. ¥lu
John Porter. While rehashing ome
of lagan's abuse, his speech was more
creditable, but sadlv nnd disgracefully
spoiled in its conclusion. Deprecating
the justice which lie fears the Congress
and jienplc of the United State* are
disposed to award to the wronged and
shamefully traduced Porter, Carpen
ter displayed the |>olitieal animus of
the opposition in hi* closing sentence
thus :
"They tell us that whom the God*
mean to destroy they first make mad.
It may be.although itseema impossible,
that the Democrats are not mad enough
yet to insure them their total destruct
ion. This last act may be needed to
convince the American people that, to
insure a proper discrimination between
virtue and vice, to fix the proper ban
on disloyality and hold rebellion in
cheek, we need in the White House
once more the steady hand, the cool
hend and the patriotic heart of IT.l T . ,S.
Grant,"
SHERMAN'S Presidential boom is
evidently siot. It don't seem to show
a healthy vigor in any quarter. He
had a feeble success in North Caro
lina some time ago, hut the "greatest
living American" has got up an un
wholesome atmosphere even there.
And now malaria appears to have
caught the boom on the Ohio, where
the Mulligan fever prevails to nn
uncomfortable extent. This does not
promise well for the great mannger of
the Presidential steal.
THERE is a bill before Congress
which proposes to give the veterans of
the Mexican war a bounty of $B,OOO.
It appears strange that this class of
soldiers should have been ignored hy
Congress until the youngest of them
have become old men. The brilliant
service they performed, and the great
wealth added to the country by That
service, should certainly entitle them
to a fair share iu the distribution of
the bounties of the Government.
MR. HAYES, it is said, is still in
favor of his civil service reform or
der No. 1, but thinks it would not be
proper or expedient to put it in force
until after the fourth of March next.
Department employees might have
some delicacy in employing their time
in Don Cameron's committee room
during the Presidential canvass, in
stead of their office, if it* enforce
ment were required now.
The Bribery Caeos.
The Legislative bribery eases came
upon Mouduy last,before Judge Pear
sou, at Ilarrisburg. The first care
called was the indictment againstChas.
B. Salter for corrupt solicitation. The
brilliant array of counsel who appear
on both sides is sufficient to attract
attention to these eases, even if no re
sults arc obtained, or no iniportnuc*-
attached to the vindication of the law
in the punishment of the erime of cor
rupting a Legislature in Pennsylvania.
On the part of the commonwealth is
Judge J. S. Black, Senator Carpenter,
Hon. F. B. Gowan, District Attorney
Hollinger, George 11. Irwin, J. C. Me-
Alarnev and J. W. Siinonton. On the
part of the defence is Gen. Charles A.
Albright, Hon. Wm. 11. Armstrong,
Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, Hon. Lewis
Cossidy, Hon. A. J. llcrr, Hon. R.
A. Lamberton, Hon. Wm. B. Mann,
Hon. L. W. Hall, Wilbur F. Salter
and John 11. Weise. Certainly this
last list of honorables ought to be able
to justify to a Dauphin County Court
the purchase of a few members of the
Legislature, muiuly elected for that
purpose, aud overcome the honest, ob
solete ideas of old Jerry Black, who
no doubt still fancies that law and de
cency should continue, a of old, to
control legislatures and lobbies. Be
fore Simon Cameron established a dif
ferent school ami taught a different
morality it was considered illegal and
somewhat dishonorable to give or re
ceive' bribes, and when a rogue was
even suspected of indulging in "ways
that are dark and tricks that are
vain," he gut himself out of the Com
monwealth as quick as the I/ml would
let him. never to IK* heard of again.
Perhaps Judge Black, in his houest
I simplicity, is not familiar with the
change which lime has wrought.
Hioec the above was in type, wc
learn that Charles B. Sailer, \V. 11.
Kemball, .leasee It. Crawford and
Wm. F. Rum I larger have pled guil
ty to the indictment against them.
Thus has fhe law been vindicate*! in
it application to the corrupt solicita
tiou and hrilie-taking so rife in our
Legislature and so degrading to the
commonwealth for a quarter of a cen
tury. To the venerable Judge of
Dauphin county, has been accorded
the honor of making its application.
If the law has liecn tardy in reaching
the evil, we trust its lesson may lie
salutary not only to those who seek
to lie legislators, but to the people iu
choice of a lietter class of men to rep
resent them. let proper examples IK 1 "
made of these eases as well as those
yet to be tried. They have been
caught in the act. They plead guilty
to save further exposure, and the full
vindication of the law should lie com
pleted by punishment commensurate
with the erime. This done, we may yet
hope to see honest legislatures i i
Pennsylvania. Men, when they real
ize the fact tlint the law can nnd will
punish such offences, will hesitate to
seek the halls of legislation to sell
themselves to the highest bidder, or to
aid the scum sent up by the rings and
rounders of the cities in the collection
of divies.
ANDREW HOPKINS, editor of the
Review and Eraminer, died at Wash
ington, Penn'a, on Friday last, aged
fifty-five years. He was one of the most
forcihlo and influential Democratic
writers of the State, was the founder of
the Harrisburg Patriot, and had edited
the Pittsburg Union, the Krie Observer
and Lycoming Standard, all Demo
cratic journals. As a gentlemen of
fine attainments, true and upright,
warm and lasting in his friendshin*,
his death will be seriously mourned by
many friends throughout the .State.
CALEB PINK, one of the three gen
tlemen from whom the Socialists, who
recently met at Pittsburg, resolved to
select their candidate for the Presi
dency, declines the distinguished hon
or. Upon sober second thought Caleb
has coucludod to wash his hands of
the crazy organization, from which be
formally withdraws in a card, showing
that he at least is- in possession of a
fair share of common sense.
GENERAL NEWS.
Mumps are now affecting the stu
dents of Swarthmore (College.
\ ludesky, the aa-tassin of the Russian
General Melikoff, was hung oil Friday
last.
Jay Gould is flying from town to town
in Texas, in which .Stale he will spend
the present month.
The celebrated iron mine of I.eadviile,
Col., wa* sold on Saturday to New York
parties for $2,000,000.
It is said that Theodore Tilton and
his wife have become reconciled and
propose living togetLer again.
The old Erie G i~ett<, is offered for sale
by Mr. Davenport. It is a weekly, with
-Sunday and 'Tuesday editions.
Louisiana Democrats will as-emble in
State Convention April 12 to select del
egates to the Cincinnati convention.
Saturday, at Williarasport, Judge
Cummin sentenced ten prisoners, eight
of whom go to the Lis tern l'euiteu
tiary.
The St. Louis city directory for this
year will contain 120.000 names, and
this is taken to indicate that the popu
lation now is over .'>oo.ooo.
The new Canadian national hymn,
written by the Governor General, will
be sung by the Mepdelssohn choir and
concert in Montreal this week.
Dr. Samuel Harh, 3'J yetrs of age.
and aI i oliguria ll by birth, was cremat
ed at Washington, yesterday. He
died in New York city on Saturday, ot
erysipelas.
The violent rain of Friday morning
caused a sufficient rise in the Susque
haiina for the resumption of rafting,
and Saturday and yesterday rafts were
passing Williamsport.
ft is reported that the Reading Rail
road Company lias leased the Central
road of New Jer-oy. This would give
the company a direct line for its coal
tiade to New York.
The New Jersey Democratic State
Committee Tuesday afternoon appoint
ed May l'.i a* the time for holding the
State Convention to choose delegates
to the Cincinnati Convention.
A committee of New York sugar-re
finers will go to Washington on Tues
day and seek a hearing before the com
mittee on ways and means in favor of
immediate action by Congress on the
sugar tariff question.
The Ohio Republican State conven
tion to select delegates to the Chicago
convention is to be held at Columbus
on the 2-'ith inat. The fixing of this
early dale is thought to he in Secre
tary Sherman's presidential interest.
The Danforlli locomotive building
shops at I'aterson, N. J., were burned
Satu'day. The loss is estimated at
$175,000, Three hundred and fifty
men are thrown out of employment.
The works will be rebuilt at once.
General Grant has been visiting Con
freras. Million del ll*y, Chcrukusco ar.d
other scenes of bis Mexican campaign,
lie remembered the localities well, but
was unable to find bis old qoartermaa
ter's office and store in Taeubaya.
Delegates from various Irish societies
and Hibernian organizations in Brook
lyn met Sunday afternoon and decided
not to parade on St. Patrick's Day, but
to send the money usually appropriated
for such occasions to the suffering jnxir
of Ireland.
Hon. Isaac W. Hayne, for twenty
j years preeeeding reconstruction, the
Attorney General of South Carolina, and
grandson of Isaac Hayne, who was ex
i ecu ted at Char lea ton, by the British
during their occupation of Charleston,
died on Monday, aged seventy.
The Senate has passed the bill to au
thori/.e and direct the Commissioner of
Agriculture to attend the International
Sheep and Wool Show, at Philadelphia,
in September, 18S0, and make a report
thereof, and to admit free of duty sheep
and wool intended solely for exhibition
purposes.
The West Branch papers state that a
rumor has been circulated that Peter
Herdic, of \Villiatnport, is about to em
bark in busineaa at Watsontown, as
manageogif the car manufactory and
nail works, which are soon to be put in
blast in that place.
Mrs. Susanna Kohl, who died at the
residence of ber aon-in-iaw, Rev. Mr.
Karrell, near Greencastle, recently, at
the age of V7 years, was the mother of
Rev. John Kohl, of Cannonsburg, and a
frand aunt of Hon. A. 11. Jhll. (ate
temoeratic candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania.
Stephen D. Dillaye, whom one faction
of the Greenhackers have named for
President, used to practice law in Sy
racue. Thence he removed to Tren
ton, N. J„ and then to Uniontown. and
he was the Greenback nomipeo for
State Senator ill Middlesex county, N.
J., last fall.
Captain John Welsh, of Erie, is in
Washington with a view to offering the
Slate Asylum at that place to the gov
ernment, to be used as a Soldiers'
Home, The Washington correspond
ent of the Pittsburg ( J ommerrial-(JaitiU
states that he has held tome favorable
conversations with Congressmen on the
subject.
The oldest man in Washington coun
ty is Joseph Munas, of South Slrabane
township, who was born in Ireland in
1780, making him 100 years of age. At
17 years he came to Waahmgton county,
lie has a family of six children lie is
well and hearty, but is a little deaf. He
attends to feeding the pigs and chick
ens and other duties.
By the will the late Joseph Nicker
son $3,009 are given in trust to the
TKK.MS: K1.50 |MT Annum, in Advance.
Young Ladies' Library of llie town of
firewater, Ma*..; fui.OOO for the sup
port of preaching according to the t'ni
'arian faith and order in Brewater;
s.'{2.(X)o for the deserving poor of firew
ater ; ("VMS.) for the Baldwin Place
Home lor Little Wanderers in Boston ;
(XX) each for the lloiur for Aged Men
nid the Home for Aged Women in Bos
ton. The remainder of the property
goes to liif family.
Hon. Henry F. -Scharret, a planter of
l'ass Christian, Mis*., is now at St. Louis,
itlil rays thAt. in view of the negro ex
odus from the South and disturbed con
dition of thing* in California, the plant
ers in his section have canvassed the
question to some extent of attempting
to obtain Chinese laborers. Correspond
ence lias already been had with one of
the Chinese companies, and probably
| -ome Chinamen, will be put to work in
South Mississippi in a few weeks.
The monthly report of the Young
Men's Christian Association, of Altoooa,
for February, show* the attendance of
readers to he 1,13 FT; attendance at re
ligious services, making a total of
4.174. The other work of the associa
tion show- the number of letters writ
ten, stationery Iree, 39 ; prayer and
cottage meetings, 24 ; vi-its to the sick
snd injured, 2d ; pages of tracts distrib
uted. 71 -i; papers distributed, 2,0X1;
ind registered visitors, 007.
Theodore Thomas has presented his re
•ignation to the directors of the Cincin
nati College of Music. His demands
j looking to the introduction of reforms
1 in the college, which, in his opinion as
j a musician, were necessary to the auc
j cess of the school, and the acceptance
j of which alone would ju-tsfy him in
further assuming the responsibility of
I its management, having been ignored
vnd wilfully misunderstood, he publi-h
-the correspondence between himself
i nd the committee.
( alforula'a ( holer.
WIIIT IS THE BKSTLT of TIIBATENIXC THE
CItINESE 7
SAN Fa A NCI sco, March 7.—The Ca/f,
| to morrow, will publish the result of the
inquiries regarding the recent move
ments in military circles in this city,
from which it appears that all the arm*
Jof the Second regiment, National
j 1 iuard. have been removed from the va
rious company armories and deposited
J in the old City hall, or central police
I .tation, where a guard of a lieutenant
and ten men of company F, Second
i reginfent, i kept over them. Companies
B and C, of the First regiment, have
boon concentrated at the armory of the
latter company : and the arms of com-
I pany (1, Second regiment, have been
placed in their charge. An officer and
guard is now mounted nightly at the
armory of the third regiment, which is
! allowed to retain Its arin. The armorv
of the first regiment is closely guarded,
and no one is allowed to enter. The
artn' of the three cavalry companies
have been removed from their armory,
! to what locality is unknown, but prob
j ably to the old City hall. Camp regula
tions have leen established and "grand
j rounds'' visit the various pf*t nightly.
The arms of the Second regiment only
have been removed from their armories
and guards are detailed every night to
watch over other company property.
The Third regiment haa been concen
trated at the Olympic club building,
and those companies of the Firat regi
ment not accommodated at the armory
of the company are at the regimental
quarters, corner of Howard and New
I Montgomery street*.
The workingmen are considerably ex-
I cited over these movement*, and many
of them assert that the authorities are
trying to force a quarrel on them; oth
ers say that this movement is designed
to blufT the board of health in the mat
ter of the condemnation of Chinatown,
while st'll others hold that the whole
thing is due to the unfounded fears of
the authorities.
Placards are being placed in promi
nent plsees about the city warning the
employers of Chinese to desist from the
practice and vaguely hinting at the
teuible consequences in the event of a
refusal. A pointed reference ia also
made to the condition of (be unem
ployed. The placard ia signed by a
council of thirteen.
NAN FRANCISCO. March 9.—A manifes
to will be published to morrow morn
ing by the citisens' protective union giv
ing the motives for their organisation
in order that the organisation may be
properly understood. They declare the ,
object* and purnoses of the organisa
tion to be, firat, the preservation of the
public peace; second, the protection of
life and property ; third, the restora
tion of confidence in the security of
life and property from all violence;
fourth, the resuscitation of the legiti
mate commerce, industries and busi
ness of the jieople. All of which they
expect to accomplish within the law.
They declare that the time baa oome
when a line must be drawn between
those who are in favor of law and order
and those who are for riot. All good
ciliaens are invited to join. There is no
neutrality, In this crisis they can only
be excused by extreme age or pitiable
oowardioe.
Tits New York HrraU talks like a
father to Hon Cameron and tells him
that hi* domineering way of doing
things ia not half so smart as his father a
conciliatory methods. It warns the
young man thai his craft will go to
pieces, but the young man steers right
on and it will not be long before he
finds out whether he is asagaoious mar
iner in foul weAther a* well as in fair.
Tax prisoners now languish ln> the
Blair county jail.
NO. 11.