<H)c Centre Democrat, SHUOKRT k FORSTKR, Editor*. VOL. 2. flit (jJrntw flenwrrat. Term* 51.50 par Annum, in Advance. s. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORBTER. Editors. Thursday Morning, March 18, 1880. THE lowa Legislature has passed a compulsory education law. A little niore education judicially scattered around iu that locality might not be amiss. Politically it is a dark spot, and would improve by a little liberalizing. TIIE Democratic committee of Mer cer county 011 Saturday elected Beriah Magoffin, Jr., A. F. Heulein and William Carnes delegates to the.State Convention. They are not instructed, but are reported to be auti-Tilden men. THE Philadelphia Times believes that one of the most solemn difficul ties under the Empire is going to be to find a place somewhere near the size of lioscoe Conkling. The ordinary glitter and pomp of imperialism will t not begin to answer his purpose. SECRETARY SHERMAN has written ' a letter contradicting the story put in circulation by bis rivals that lie has withdrawn from the Presidential con test. He is a candidate aud intends to submit bis claims to the Chicago Con vention. He ouly needs a bloody shirt now to be fully equipped for contesting the nomination with Grant and Blaine. THE rumor from Washington that Haves has come out for a third term fur Graut needs confirmation. Grant, ou his visit to Washington, snubbed the de facto President and treated his invitation to the White House with contempt. it o<tunot therefore be true, and the story is only a ruse of the sly Secretary of the Treasury to ! unload aud transfer the weight he is 1 unable to bear to the third-term can didate. THE Collector of Customs at Wil mington, N. C., who, of course, is a Sherman man, telegraphs the Sherman club at Washington, that it is not true tha' Grant has captured six of the ten delegates to the Chicago convention thus far chosen from that State. The collector being in official position, und well informed of the political situa tion, asserts that Sherman has seven of those choseu, and predict* that he will certainly have eight more. This official is all right. He can remain in office during the fraudulent admin istration. EMIL J. PCTROFF, one of the men arraigned liefore Judge-Pearson for corruption in connection with the riot bill, and who did not plead guilty, but stood his trial, has been found guilty by the jury in manner and form as he stood indicted. The sentence was post jioncd to the '2Bth inst., the date fixed for passing sentence upon the other culprit*. This is the same Emil J. Potroff expelled by the legislature of 1870 for similar act* of corruption, and whs was returned by his Philadelphia constituent*, at the next session, as a proper person to represent them. THE Washington Pod ha* had Ho ratio .Seymour interviewed and an nounces that the great New York Statesman will consent to lead the Democracy in the Presidential fight, under certain circumstances. The New York World also brings out an interview of the same gentleman de claring that under no circumstances whatever will he be a candidate or al low his name to be used in that con nection. Somebody is mistaken. Per haps both interviewers are drawing upon their imagination and that the impressions that they give to the pub lic are the mere desires of the |>artiee themselves. Horatio Seymour is not the man to give an uncertain sound or to shrink from the duty of the hour whatever that may be. When he does speak for the public, it will be at the proper time and in words of wis dom to be understood by all. "KqUAL ANI) XXACT JUHTICK TO ALI, MKN, OF WHATRVKK STATIC OH I'KRKUASIOIf, KKI.KIIOI'H OH POLlTlCAL."—Jefferson It Won't Do. A certain small faction of the Dem ocracy of Pennsylvania, actuated by no higher motives than a determina tion to rule or ruin in the delibera tions called to shape the policy of the organization, are at present engaged in their annual diversion of foment ing discord and strife in the party. With the select coterie who comprise this faction, work of this kind has be come habitual, and they would prob ably not be happy without iudulgiug in it whenever an opportunity that suits their peculiar whims and pur poses comes to hand. The efforts of these gentlemen to weaken the integri- j tv of the Democratic organization and thus destroy its power to success fully meet the Republicans in battle are well understood and appreciated at their full value. Their work al ways crops out in its most virulent form just before the meeting of a Democratic iState convention, and it would be entirely too much to expect ; that the present year should witness ' an_£xception to the rule. It does uot #1 indeed, but rather an aggravation of | it. Iu fact the evil design assumes ! an unblushing boldness and an undis- j guised violence far more arbitrary and malevolent in spirit than was ever j before manifested. As usual the foinenters of strife be gin this year with their habitual as sault upon Senator William A. Wal lace. He seems to be their standing target, and it ajqiears strange that past cx|>erience has not long since taught them thnt abuse and dispar agement of this able and distinguish ed representative of the party will fail to help their bad cause. They cannot accomplish their ends by such a course as they should have learned long since. For his past services to I the party, for his ability, integrity and usefulness as a representative of the ideas, the hopes and the inspira tions of the true Democracy of the State, he is so firmly intrenched in the hearts and affections of a large major- I ity of the pnrty that blind defamation : and uureasoning detraction of his po j litical character ami standing can only bring cotftusion and defeat to ! those who arc foolish enough to be lieve they can break him down by such means. There can lie 110 other motive, aside from a desire to injure the Democratic organization, in this periodical abuse and misrepresenta tion of Senator Wallace by men who cannot bend him to* their schemes than an absurd jealousy of his attain ! ments and of the power he exerts in the high places of the nation. Oh, they say the Democratic party has been wronged in the appointments of Supervisors of the Census and in the confirmation of a Federal marshal in the city of Philadelphia ! There j has been collusion between him and Senator Cameron! Is this true ? Certainly not. What has Senator Wallace done in these cases that should offend the Democracy, or bring upon him this unjust criticism and re proach ? Let ua see. He demanded that Democrats, not only of Pennsyl vania but of the entire country, should receive a fair proportion of the Census Supervisors and compelled an unwill ing appointing power to respect the demand. And now, when these ap pointments are so divided aud both par ties are represented in them, what rea son is there in the drivilling sore heads of the day assailing the man who stood gallantly by his party in this, as be has ever done in all things and on all occasions f What right havs they to charge him with collusion with Cam eron f With about the same amount of justice is Mr. Wallace censured for the confirmation of Kerns. As chair mau of a committee of investigation Senator Wallace examined into the acts of this man and found that his appointments of deputy Marshals were disreputable in the extreme. Every fact in connection with these appoint ments were fully reported and laid be- BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, .MARCH IK, IKMO. fore the committee of the Senate to which Kerns' nomination had been re ferred, with a protest against his ap pointment. The committer, however, in the face of the protest of Mr. Wal lace, reported in favor of confirma tion and the Senate, in executive ses sion, adopted the rejort. But notwith standing all this, and against all reason and justice, Senator Wallace, in the opinion of these wise men, must be held responsible for the re-appoint ment of Marshal Kerns. For the sake of harmony in the par ty, without which we can never expect success in Pennsylvania, these repeat ed animal assaults upon Senator Wal lace must cease. The men who in stigate them must be taught not thus to trifle with a great cause that has higher aims and nobler interests at stake than the building up of any one mau at the expense of another, or the pulling down of one leader to advance the ambitious of others who aspire to his honors. Mr. Wallace has given the best years of life and all the pow ers of his active mind in maintaining the Democratic party. He has never faltered in duty and devotion to the cause, and as we approach another Presidential campaign, in which he will be expected to take a leading part, it is not too much to ask that this work of personal defamation and misrepresentation be brought to an end. Thus far it has been borne by himself ami friemls without striking back, but the day may come when patience will cease to be a virtue. THE Buprctne Court of the United State* have affirmal the constitution ality of the Federal election laws. Justice Joe Bradley is again to the fvre, and is equal to tbe role assigned him in his appointment a* a partisan Judge. The Washington Port refer ing to this convenient servant of the stalwart party, says: When in the course of National events it became necessary for the Republican party to either steal the Presidency or retire from power. Mr. Justice Bradley made that theft possible, and aided in the consummation of that crime against the Constitution by setting up the most ex treme and preposterous States rights theory ever before enunciated outside of a lunatic asylum. According to that theory any alleged act of a State in the election of a President, although such act was known to lie violative of the State's laws, al though known to be steeped in crime, redolent of fraud and topped off with for gery, could not bo reviewed by any pv>wer, but must be accepted as the binding act of the Slate, even when it decided a National election. This was the position of Mr. Justice Bradley a little more than three years ago, when he held in his band the power to put either the defeated or the elected candidate Into office. And by this outrageous construction of States rights, he gave that decision in favor of the man who had (ailed of election. But a change hat come over the spirit of Mr. Justice Brad ley's dreamt. The interest and purposes of his party now demand that the recog nized and established rights of States shall be invaded ; that the Federal power shall be extended into the lawful domain of local authority. Obedient to this call of party, Mr. Justice Bradley comes to the front as the exponent of doctrines more an tagonistic to Stales rights than any pre vious enunciation of any Judicial tribunal in this country. In fact, the opinion of Mr. Justice Bradley as to the right of the Federal Government to arrest, indict, try snd punish State officials for violation of State laws is in direct and violent antagon ism with the precedents of the court whose latest utterance he has dolivered. There is no position in which a subservient tool of party appears to such disadvantage, and makes such a sorry record, as ho does when a member of a court of last resort. SENATOR BAYARD has reported from the Judiciary committee of the Senate a bill making it unlawful for United Statea marshals or supervisors of elections to arrest or imprison ou election days, any election officers act ing as such under authority of State laws, for ofTcnscs against the United States election laws, but providing that warrant or process for such of fenses may be executed at any time after such election day. This looks like a reasonable protection to State election officers while in the perform ance of their duties under State laws, but that sour old stalwart, Kdmunds, evidently thinks they should not have such protection. He gave notice that he did not concur with the majority of the committee. It was hardly to be expected that he would. With radi cals, such as he is, centralization and consolidation of all power iu the Fed eral government to the detriment of the l ights of the people and the States are the order of the day, and of course opposition to a law of the character proposal by Mr. Bayard's committee must be expected. Grant's Nomination Aasured. So affirms Don Cameron. A com mittee of Republican politicians from Philadelphia, who were in Washing ton last week looking after appoint ments, had an interview with Senator Cameron, when one of tlient remarked "that if there was a ballot at the Chicago convention that Grant could not get the full Pennsylvania delega tion, hut that Blaine would certainly receive twelve votes at least." T<f which Mr. Cameron replied thnt his "faith in the fart that Grant would be nominated remains unshakenthat he didn't believe there would l>c a ballot, but that the nomination would be made by acclamation. That his information from various States was of a most satisfactory character, and he thought the nomination of Grant would be assured two weeks before the meeting tif the convention. Tift: Harrisburg Patriot pithily re mark* that "the liest joke of the sea sou is, without question, the Sherman "boom." It is really doubtful wheth er there are iu the whole of these United Stales a dozen individuals, in cluding himself, who have spontan eously thought of him as a caudidate for the Presidency, and yet he rauks himself among the caudidate* with Graut, Blaine, Washburne, Edmunds and the rest on the Republican aide, as if there were au irrepressible conflict gnffljpeii it* the minds of the people a* to whether he or one of the others should be nominatal. Of course, some "followers of my own," as in the case of Buckingham in the play— some tide-waiters, collectors and so forth—"throw up their caps and cry, God save Kiog Richard," hut as for the people, he is no more considered a caudidate amongst them than any for ward lad at school whose father tells him, "be a good lwy and you may be President some day." John's magnan imous naivrte is simply delicious. Ho says far lie it front him to interfere with Blaine or Grant or any of these poor people who have the Presidency 011 the brain. Let them have all the chance they ean, poor fellows, but in the meantime no one must forget that he is runuiug—and if electa! (he as sures us) he will give his very best ef forts to fill the office creditably. Gen tlemen, don't let us tread on each oth er's toes, as the chicken cock said to the horse. Was there ever such a hallucination as that of the specic pay-restorer, happy John ?" SINCE the extraordinary nnd uncon stitutional methods employed by the late Grant administration to repress local self-government in the States, nothing has transpired in public af fairs that shows more clearly and con clusively the centralising tendencies of Republican rule than the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, affirming the constitu tionality of the Federal election laws. Under these decisions, not made with out stern and unanswerable protests against the assumptions of the major ity of the court from Justices Field and Clifford, the central government can arrogate to itself the right to try, convict and punish State election officers in the Courts of the United States for violations of State eloction laws without the slightest regard to the jurisdiction of State Courts in the same matters. This is a big stride to wards the consolidation of all power in oue great central government ut terly regardless of the reservations of the constitution iu favor of the States and the people. The people will have another opportunity to say whether they are ready to surrender their right to manhge their local affairs in their own way to a central power at Wash ington, The verdict of the ballot box against such a tendency should he ut tered in 110 unmeaning terms, and if voters are faithful to themselves and the rights that have belonged to them since the foundation of the govern ment there ean be no doubt about the i result. SHARON, the Senator from Nevada, 1 who absented himself during the last Congress, has appeared in his seat and last week made a speech. He an nounces that private business required bis prolonged absence and will still necessitate an absence of several weeks. Of course lie drew his salary as part of his private business. He made the j announcement with the air of a Col. ' Mulberry Sellers. STATE NZWS. Mifflinburg lias no licensed taverns or saloons. A fire clay works is to be started near A1 toon a. The maple sugar crop will be immense this season. There are seven sets of twins in a ward in .Johnstown. Lewisburg will probably soon erect a soldiers' monument. All the iron works in Wilkesbarre are running on full time. In and around Altoona there is an uncomfortable amount ot highway rob bery. Altoona's patriotic citizens are already preparing to suitably observe Decora tion day. Emery works in the shape of a furn ace in Central Pennsylvania are now in operation. The oil producers' fund to the relief of Irish sufferers increases at the rate of 000 barrels a day. _ The remonstrances against licence* were never so emphatic in all the court* a* they are at present. More contracts have been made for new buildings in Pittsburg this year than for the past five years. The lirtnner, Williamsport, will soon appear as n morning paper aud en larged to a seven-coluinn sheet. <ne of the largest sawmills at il iinmport started on Monday and will oontinue right along for the season. The iron ore of IJlair county is devel oping new qualities of value, which are destined to make it most sought after. The census enumerator will find sev enteen widows in Mhirleysburg when he comes to make up his jewels, all eligible. Saturday there were eighty rafla tied up in the dam at I-ock Haven awaiting a sufficient rise of the water to carry theni below. Erie furnishes a larger number of peo ple for shows, concert, circus, theatrical and menagerie companies than any city in the State. A new daily will make its appearance in Reading about the Ist of dune with William 8. Hitter as publisher. The name has not yet been chosen. A brass hand tournament will take place at Tituaville on tbe 13tb and 14th of May. Three prizes will be offered, the highest of which will be SSOO. Lawrence Shilling, a shoemaker resid ing on the (iratfstown road, near Lan caster, just outside the city, fell down stairs last Monday and broke his neck. Philadelphia has 555 churches or places of worship. Of these 96 are Meth odist, 84 Episcopalian, 84 Presbyterian, 67 Baptist, 44 Roman C-atholic, 36 Luth eran, and 20 Reformed of several kinds. The snow storm of last week greatly benefited tbe West Branch lumbermen, and as there are five or six inches in the woods they hxpect to get all their logs banked ready for the next flood to be floated to Williainspoi t. Monday morning about 11 o'clock a collision occurred on tbe Philadelphia and West Chester Railway, near Phila delphia, by which two trains were wrecked and six persons injured, the latter tgsing officers and employes of the road. A dispatch from Carlisle stales that the result of the election held there on Saturday on the resolution instructing the delegates from that Congressional district to rote for Blaine in disregard of the State Convention, was 4Gf> for the resolution and 6 against it. The Central Pennsylvania Conference in session atAltoona, elected the follow ing delegates to the General Conference : Kev. W. W. Kvana. 8. C. Swallow, J. C. Clarke,B. 8. Monroe,D. I)., K. B. Kiddie. Alternates—Kev. Thompson Mitchell and John J. Fieroe. Lay Delegates— Dr. Hugh Pitcairn, AI toon a, and G. M. Shoop, Danville. Alternates—Jona than Boynton and Jaoob Ski lade. In the Orphans' Court of Union onun ly last week the contest in regard to the will of the late William Cameron was ended, so far as that court is con cerned, by an opinion filed by Judge Klwell. It refuses an issue, dismisses the appeal and confirms the act of t|)e Register in admitting the will to pro bate. The magnitude of the estate and the importanoe of tha principles involv ed are such as to leave no doubt that this decision will be reviewed ou appeal to the Supreme Court, TERMS: fcIJVO (H'r Annum, in Advanw. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. AILIOURKKD.—We have just received information that the third week of the r'-gulur April term of Court is adjourned, and tin; jurors summoned for that week need not attend. Dkath ok Miee Gregg. —It will no doubt cause a pang of sorrow to the heart* of the many friend* of the late Mi** Mag gie I. Gregg, to hear of her death, which occurred on Wednesday of last week. Mb* Gregg was the daughter of General John lrvin Gregg, formerly of Mi let burg, but who recently removed to Lewuburg. She there became a student at the Univer sity Female Institute. The following reso lutions of condolence which were paused last Friday at a chapel service of the in stitute well eipress the high respect in which she was held by her companions at school as well as iter old friends in this county: Wiiekkam, God in his wisdom bat been pleased to remove by death our loved pupil and schoolmate, Miss Maggie I. Gregg; therefore Jtfsotrfd, That while a# a scboool we feel that we have sustained a loss, we know that she has gained "an inheritance incor ruptible, undeflled and that fadeth not away;" she has hut laid aside the cross for the crown ; the cannot again come to us, but we may go to her. With this hope we humbly submit t<> this sad dispensation ol an all-wise Providence. !{• Htlvd, That though we cannot now understand why one so young and full of promise should be called from among us, yet we believe God acts wisely; and from the d<*pth of our sorrow we would look up and sav, '-The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, bleated be his name." littohtd, That though Maggie * cheer ful, happy voice will never be heard at roll call, in recitation or in the social gath erings, will never again mingle with us in the morning songs of praise, yet in it* -ilrncc it will sjieak to us; may we heed its admonition and ho prepared to receive with joy the summons of the death angel, whether it come in the morning, at mid daf or not until thr eventide. ltfwilved, That we extend to the mem-, liter* of the bereaved familv our heartfelt | s\ mpatbv, and pray that lie whom Mag g'ie loved and into whose hands she so trust- I lugly committed her spirit may comfort their heart* in this time of sorrow. HtfArtd, That a copy of these resolu tions he sent to the fatuiiy ; alo that oop- . ias he sent to the Ji+tionml HnptLst, Oullrqr. Hrrald, Lewisburg Chronitlt and Lcwi's ! burg Journal for publication. Mary Hendkrmiot, Mollis Hi-mul, ; Li/7.1 e Cressingek, Hells: Stone, M TUT (.1 MLUAI, Inn pAVRT. —An affray which might have resulted seriously occurred on Saturday night last I between Mr. John Ur.r.le, of Snow Shoe, and a man who entered his hotel. Mr. • Uzr.le was beaten on the head with a billy, hut is now fast recovering from the effects ct 'he attack. The man was arrested and i- m jail. i— ♦ The Iron Strike. SEVEN" THOUSAND IDLE WORKMEN IK THE I'BHNSVI.VANIA IRON DISTRICTS. SjsSNriml lM|utr}iM lu tlio M Fiiii.ADELruiA, March 15.—A special despatch from Pittsburg say*: Tha strike of the puddler* inaugurated to day, extending from Johnstown to Co , lumbia, which i* the most formidable ' that ha* occurred for years, doe* oot effect Pittsburg, the manufacturers hav i ing agreed upon a sliding scale for all classes of workmen. The general im pression here is that there will be a material decline in the price of iron in j the near future. There are said to be seven thousand i men idle between Johnstown and Co | lumbia. Heading, Pa., March 15.— The men at the iron work* of K. k G. Brooke did not resume work this morning. The temporary arrangement entered into recently whereby they received an in crease of 10 per cent, ended on Satur day. The demand made was for an in crease of 20 per cent., but the demand of the |*iddlers tor 56 instead of $4.50 per ton seems to be the only obstacle in the way of resumption of work. HARRISNRAU, Pa., March 15.— The pud dlers and helper* in the mills of Chae. M. Bailey k Co., McCormick and J. Wis ler have struck for an increase of wages, lha proprietors otter 15,50, but the striker* demand SG.OO. in this district alone from GOO to 1,000 men are thrown out of employment, and the strike threatens ultimately to lead to a gener al cessation of work from Pittsburg to Philadelphia. Allektown, Pa., March 15,— The em ployees of Osgood's sine mines at Fried , ensville, in this county, have struck for an increase ef 15 cents per day. PorrsTow N, Pa., March 15.—The em ployees of the Pott* Brothers Iron Com pany, Limited, and a number of the heaters employed by the l'ottstown Iron company struck for higher wages to-day. tturrALo, K. Y., March 15.—One hun dred and twenty puddlers and a num ber of roller* at the Union Iron Works ■truck ibis morning for an increase of wages. They receiv.e 15.50 per ton now end have struck for $6.25. Baltimore. Md„ Msr. 15 —Despatches from Cumberland state that the antici pated strike on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Kailroad between Frost burg and Piedmont took plsoe to-day and caused much inconvenienoe. Ten per cent, advanoe was declined by all except the train men on the eastern end running from Froatburg to Cum berland. The important coal mine lies between Froatburg and Piedmont, sev enteen miles. NO. 12.
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