Sljc Centre tDemorrat. SIIUGERT A. FORSTER, Editors. VOL. 2. ftltr tfnitrr JPemomrt. Term* $1.50 per Annum, in Advance, s. T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor.. Thnrsday Morning, March 25, 1880. Gov. MCENERY telegraphs to Con gressman Ellis that the State Demo cratic Committee of Louisiana will instruct the delegates to the National Democratic Convention to vote for General Haucock for President. It is believed that two-thirds of the con vention will be for Hancock. Two watchmeu in the public grounds ut Ilarrishurg, named Joseph Ilanlou and William Delauey, have been de tected in stealing Department Docu ments. It is said they have sold tons of these documents to a junk dealer in that city. Thieving nbout the public buildings is so common and so gener ally expected that no doubt these watchmeu considered their trade legit imate and uot criminal. IT is said that Conkling is prepar ing to make another "great effort." This time it is to sustain Wm. Pitt Kellogg in the fraudulent seat he oc cupies iu the Seuatu. The effort will be useless. Kellogg is doomed, and the greut Roscoe had better reserve his powder for the greatest of all the "great efforts of his life" at the Chiea co convention. It will be needed to nominate Grant and give a respecta ble impetus to the Empire boom. THE House Committee on the Re vival of the Laws, have adopted a re port declaring the inviolability of tele grams. The report says that tele graph messages are the private prop erty of the seuder and receiver, nud the laws should provide for their protection from search and seizure, and from production as evidence iu judicial and legisla tive proceedings, to the same extent at communications by the United States mails. DENNIS KEARNEY, the California agitator, has been convicted of ioceu diary utterances calculated to produce riot and disorder, and sentenced to six months iin prison men t and a fine of 81,000. This will probably cool the ardor of the vulgar demagogueand af ford wholesome warning to bis parti san colleagues. The decent people of Ban Francisco, seem at least to have takcu a baud in shaping affairs, and have very properly commenced with the leaders of disorder, by sending Kearney to jail, and impeaching bis right bower, Mayor Kallocli. NEARLY every week furnishes a dif ferent position for Mr. Tildcn. One week it is positively asserted that he is a candidate for the Presidency—the next week that he positively is not a enndidate. The last is a tqxtcial de spatch from New York to the Cincin nati Enquirer, stating that Mr. Tilden hits resolved not to lie a candidate for the Presidential nomination at Cincin nati, hut that "he will be there in force, to see that John Kelley's man is not chosen, as he feels this to be a duty which he owes to his friends in this nnd other States." As was to lie expected, the Senate Committee on Commerco reports against the confirmation of the son of J. Madison Wells whom Mr. Hayes nominated to be Surveyor of the port of New Orleans. The committee states as reasons for their action that the confirmation of the son would be | the same as the confirmation of the father, besides numerous merchants, whose names are found upon his papers, telegraph that they did not recom mend Mr. Wells and that their names were forged. Everything old Wells does seems to be marked hy villiany and this forgery is only one of many. IJp is, however, one of Mr. Hayes' ahining lights. The same rogue, who, acting under the advice and counsel °f John Sherman, stole the Presi dency and with the aid of Joe. Brad ley seated Hayes in the White House. "Kqi'AL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER HTATE OR PEBBIiANION, RKI.IOJOIH OR I'Ol.lTK'AL.'JefferauD Aftor Kellogg, Hayes. From the New York Sun. The great crime doe* not *t<>p with Kel logg- If he v fraudulently elected to the Senate, then Hiiyo* w* fraudulently i horien to the Presidency. The same elec tion returns, canvassed by the same re turning hoard, which gave to Kellogg the the legislature that sent hint to the Senate, gave to iiuyes the eight votes of Louisiana, which made hint President. Thev both occupy the same ground, ami should stand or fall together ; and if Kellogg ought to leave the Senate chamber, Hayes to quit the White House. True! They are both frauds, and every principle of decency should ad monish their retirement out of very j shame. Hut they wou't do it. Kel logg will probably be kicked out, but < the other will retrain on the title given him by the electoral commission fraud - * I —the Bto 7 —under the aliunde of Joe. Bradley, also a political fraud on the Supreme Bench. THE New York World, in com men t | ing upon the passage, last week, by the , lower house of Congress of the deficieu ' cy appropriation hill, which changes ! the mode of appointing deputy mar shals to sujwrititend elections,and pro | vides that they shall Ire selected by the 1 courts in equal numbers from the dif | ferent political parties, remarks that | "the debate was au illustration of the hollowness and humlnipof the whole Republican contention about the South. More than one Republican besides Mr. Garfield showed an ruteution not to vote for good measures because they were Democratic measures. In other words, what the Republicans want is, not n redress of grievauces, but a | grievance. Ten well-authenticated murders of negroes in the Southern States would be cheap to the party at i almost any price. The Southern peo ple, however, with their usual fiendish hatred to the Republican party, de ! eline to commit auy murders, and small crimes are the most that can be hoped for. This is n very pretty at titude for a national party to assume. The Republican contention about the deputy mat-bals is that the I)emo j cratic majorities iu the South are the result of fraud or force, and that i Federal, that is to say Republican, sujiervisiou of elections iu the South is necessary. A compromise between I the Democratic position, that the dep ; uty marshals should not he paid, and the Republican position, that tfny should be paid, and that they should I be Republican "workers," was offered by Mr. Garfield, so that half of them j should be Republicans and the other , half Democrats. This, if the law is ! to stand nt all, is so obviously fair aud decent, under the decision of the Bu j preme Court, that there can be no I objection to it. The Democrats ac cordingly, seeing that Mr. Garfield's ' proposition would put them on the wrong side of the issue which it rais -1 ed, cleverly adopted it. The aston ! ishing result was that not only was | the pro]KMition of the leader of the ' opposition voted against by his follow ers in mass, but that Mr. Garfield himself underwent the humiliation of voting iu the House agaiust his own measure after be had voted for it in Committee of the Whole! There is nothing new in finding the Democrats of the Honse clearly superior to the Republicans in candor and in patriot ism. It is less common to find tbem clearly superior in political taotics; and the result of the proceedings showed that the Democrats not only had the best case, but knew better than the Republicans how to make •the best use of their case." THE three political achievements which have been most loudly applaud ed by the Grant organs the Washing ton Pott says are Cameron's success in the Ilarrishurg convention, Conk ling's triumph at Ulica and the key note recently sounded by the Supreme court. All are alike in their chief characteristic—contempt for the rights of the people. JOHH C. SULLIVAN, the ot* Treas urer of Altoona, died suddenly of hemorrhage of the Inngs on Monday last. He wts 32 years of age and un married. • BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1880. Will it be Grant? Atitef the consummation of Mr. Cam eron's adroit schemes by which the delegates from Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention were bound by resolution to the support of the ex-President, the third-term boom could bo considered fuirly under way with a powerful backing to help it along. New York, under the able and imperious direction of Senator Conkliug, speedily followed the ini tial declarations of Pennsylvania and added greatly to the force of the Grant movement. With these two leading States pledged iu the same manner, and with Illinois likely to l>e in line with them, it really ap peared as though from that time for ward until the assembling of the Convention in June 110 obstacles of sufficient weight and strength could lie interposed that would iu any per ceptible degree lessen or weaken the power that would demand the nomina tion of Grant. Powerful and appar ently irresistible in the North, and with a large contingent to he relied upon from the South, the leaders in the movement had a right, with a good show of reason on their side, to glory in their first successes, and exult over the strength of their position. With out laying themselves opon to the charge of being mere idle boasters they could even claim, a* many of them were not slow to do, that they would so far distance all opposition and all competitors that by the time i the Convention met tliey would have a clear field, and bring about the nomination of their favorite in one grand shout of acclamation. We greatly fear, however, that thus animated by bright hopes and blinded with the idea of a certain uiid easy victory over the combined oppoeHtoo of Blaine and Sherman, the adherents of the strong roan on horselwck have not regarded any of the dangers by which they are beset. Everything with them has been rose colored, and possibly they could not see the ap proach of any frowning shadows. But the every day signs of the times cannot be mistaken. They point with unerring vividness to a reaction in the Republican party against the first bold strides of the Grant progress. The muttering* of a coming storm cau already heard, and the adhcrcut* of Grant cannot much longer cloee their ears to its ominous sounds. It means ap proaching peril to the third-termers. The masses of the Republicans party, are undoubtedly opposed to Grant's nomination. They not only have some veneration for the unwritten law of the Republic against a third term for any man, but they have a lively recollection of tho scandals that mar red the last years of the Grout admin istration, with its Belknaps, its Bab cocks and ite Shepherds, and fear that it would not be well to go before the people handicapped with the doad weight of these burdens. Blaine and Sherman are not by any means inact ive, and the first named develop a strength that prove* his strength with the stalwart rank and file. He makes daily inroads upon the Grant forms. His followers are devoted and in earn est, and it will not be surprising if he shows as much strength at Chicago M he did at Cincinnati four yean ago. The question, then, conies bock, " Will it be Grant?" Many wise pr ions now my that it will not. As dis interested lookers 00, we may my that we do not core whether it is Grant Blaine or Busman. Either owe of these expectants is vulnerable in some way, and we think it matters but lit tle to the Democracy which one re ceives the Republican nomination. The odium of Grant's administration, with iu tyrannical and unconstitu tional treatment of the Booth, iU dis graceful job* and scandals, together with the prevailing dislike of a third term for any man, will bo a heavy load for the Republican party to carry. Blaine is not much better. He k bad ly smirched in reputation oa a leglsla tor by connection with certain jobbery that culminated in the outbreak be ; tween himself and Mulligan, and will fail to popular confidence 1 outside of the prejudiced partisans who Hlill believe in the "bloody shirt" as a factor in politics. Sherman is a cold blooded, selfish and unscrupulous schemer, who always looks out for himself, and will evoke little enthu siasm as a candidate. Prudent coun sels, a fair nomination of some well known and unobjectionable man, and harmonious ami vigorous work by j Democrats, will sweep the country iu I the event of either being the candidate ! of the opposition. TIIK deficiency bill, making appro priation for the pay of marshals, was | passed in the House of Representatives Jon Friday last, after an exciting i debate of four duys. It contains a proviso that hereafter special deputy ! marshals of elections for performing duty iu respect to any election shall receive |K-r day in full compeu.-a -l tion.aml that nil appointments of such | special deputies shall be made by the Judges of the I'nited States Courts in the circuits or districts iu which such marshals are to perform their duties; the deputies to be taken in equal num bers from the different political par ties. The bill also provides that they shall lw> persons of good moral charac ter, and that they shall 1M? well known ; residents of the voting prwincl in which their duties ate to be perform ed. Thus is the partisan character of these appointments cliiuiuatcd from the Federal election laws, and the shameless partisan decision of the Su premo Court of the Foitod States, iu a measure, shorn of its venom. The I Executive government under the law, and through the marshals, will not be able. M formerly, to appoint an array of officer* to be paid out of the Na ' tio al treasury to aerve as Republican hull-dnter* at elcctiooa to control and manipulate the voteaof the people. Tt | is to the credit of Gen. (Jarfield that he favored this equitable and fair dispo i siiion of the controversy, as also to Messrs. Kellfey, Hiscock, Harris and Rice, who sustained him in doing so. Although the cowardice of Garfield afterwards, when his |rty denounced the act, detracted somewhat from the merit of its performance. AT the meeting of the Democratic •State Committee, held iu tbo city of ; Pittsburg, ou Thursday last, it was decided to hold the Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg, ou Wed nesday, the 2#th day of April. The convention will place iu nomination candidates for Supreme Judge and Auditor General, nnd will alto nom inate au Electoral ticket and elect delegates to the National Convention. The importance of this State Conven tion cannot be over-estimated, and it is to IKS hoped that its deliberations will lie marked by harmony and wisdom, and that in all things the best interests of the prttty will be consulted, without regard to persounl considerations or individual ambitions. It is ouly by preseuting a united front to the enemy, and by working hand in hand with each other as Democrats, that the party can hope for success. THE action of Congress, on Friday last, indicates that Mr. Hayes' admin istration will not be required to fur nish a Republican election fund from the public purse this year. Deputy marshals are not to be appointed in battalions by tbe authority of the Attorney General to eerve as partisan thugs to bull-dote the voters to vote the Republican ticket. The spirit of the proposed law is to make these officers non-partisan, and it is to be hoped therefore that the shoulder-hit ters and rounders of Marshal Kerns of Philadelphia,and Davenport of New York, will be mired from future er* vice. KEARNEY'S Anti-Chinese employ ment law has been declared unconsti tutional by the Supreme Court of California. CO.VHIHTKNC Y is sometimes apostro phised as a jewel, lint we are inclined to believe that it is a jewel upon wbieh politicians do not always set a verv high value. It will be rcmetnljercd I how, ut the extra session (if ('ongrcss ln-t spring, our amiable friend, Mr. ocuin, voted with the Democrats iu all their endeavors to bring about an j entire repeal of the odious Federal election laws. These votes were held (Hit to the public by some of the sup |>orters of Mr. Yocutn as conclusive i evidence of his independence of party, aud ot his disposition to act fairly and justly in matters of legislation. Ft is not so now. On last Friday the Democrats in Congress accepted the reasonable and just proposition of j Mr. Garfield to modify these laws so far as to change the manner of ap | pointing deputy marshals and provid* I ing further that they should be select ed in equal uumbersfrom the different ' political parties. Surely, if these laws i are to stand, nothing could be fairer ' than to make the officials ap|*ointcd I under them non-partisan, and yet, i what was our surprise on examining the j record to fiud that Yocura voted throughout the proceedings directly in opposition to the views indicated by his votes of last spring. On every rail of the yeas and nays he voted with | the Republican stalwarts agaiu.-t nnv i change or modification that would give a semblance of fairness to these laws. As Artcmus Ward sometimes I inquired, "Why is this thus?" MR. lI AYES has again nomiuated the same eight men as .Supervisors oi Census for Ohio rejected bv the Sen ate some time ago. They are all Re publicans of the Radical stripe ami will uo doubt be agaiu returned to hi ui with the Senate veto. The law con templates that these appointments lie non-partisan, hut John Sherman is a candidate for the Republican nomina tion for I'rcsident, aud In-ing pretty hotly pursued in Ohio by Blaine, he cannot afford, at least before the < )hio delegates are chosen, to allow Mr. Hayes to recognize the propriety of fairues* and decency in choosing these officials. New Masonic Discoveries in Kgypf. FrofttCfcJn CMajmfch In Svm York Vtwrftld. Interesting and important ns were the discoveries of Coinc'snder Gorringe and Dr. Fanton they were not exhaustive, and tfie practiced ejre of another distin guished Masonic dignitary has jut de tected an additional series of emblem* of a value and significance far greater and more unquestionable than those previously reported. Mr. 8. A. Zola, Giand Commander and i'reaident of the •b-OUrb Ancient and Accepted Mason JO Hite for Egypt and Egyptian ex Grand Master of Symbolic Masonry, has just examined the foundations of the Alex andrian obelisk and haa discovered another aeries of stones which not only beer all the existing Masonic emblems, but furnish the key which has hitherto been lacking to explain the entire di- , mentions and proportions of what proves to have been an elaborate Ma sonic edifice, including the obelisk it self, the pedestal, the staircase and the hidden foundations. Mr. Zola professes to be able by this discovery to throw a vivid light upon the ancient Lgyptian origin of Masonic symbolism hitherto so energetically disputed by many aavans, and it is expected that the pub lication of bis detailed drawings will finally settle more than one of the prob lema which lie at the very foundation not only of Masonry, but of the obscure and complicated religious system of the early Kgyptians. "Keselt* of the War.* fmw UH FlilUAlpkli ttvooel. Every now and then the importance i' urged upon the country of maintain ing the "results of the war." There are some of these "results" that it seems daeirsble to obliterate as soon as poasi ble. Such "results of the war" as aro valuable will be very likely to maintain themselves without any wild waving of the bloody shirt. The unity and per petuity of the Union have been amply vindicated, and no sensible person be lisvea that there is any further peril from secession. The danger that men sees the country now is of a quite differ ent kind. It is no longer disruption, but centralisation, that threatens the country. It is this other extreme that the people have to guard against. The tendency to the consolidation of all au 1 thority in the national aovereignty and the reduction of local self-government to a oomplete subordination to the d-n tral power is one of the "result* of the war.' Among other undesirable "re sults" ere the oppressive features of war legislation, the estrangement of the TKII.MS: *!..*< I |mt Attmjltl, in Allium-**. Hfciion*, public demoralization, a gene;* al d <•<•, denc in the regard once enter* tained for the civil hi parurnount to tli military power, arnl a widespread and durigeroua introduction of corrupt po litical methods. GENERAL NEWS. It i expected that the Constellation, freighted with food for Ireland, will sail to day. During the past year 4.630.637 hoga have been packed at Chicago—a de ciease of :iiO,.'{l<r compared with the proceeding year. I. ii th wis f.roken at Danville, Va., |on I hurad iy of last week, on the I)an ville and New River Railroad, and the work has commenced in earnest. A dispatch from New Orleans says j that steamboat men all rep>orl the rivers very high. The Uocuff and Ouachita j river* are rising rapidly. It is feared ! the heavy uml continuous rains will weaken the levee*. Clarence Davis, the too much married man, now in jail at Chicago awaiting trial for bigamy, attempted to ••ommil suicide on Friday night last. The knowledge that his thiiteenth wife was enroute to Chicago to claim bis affec tionate greeting, no doubt inspired the reckless act. Alexander Stewart, of Cavendish, Vt., who proposed to contest the will of A. i F. Stewart, of New York, shortly after the hitter's death, but desisted as he says, because of promise of payment lof $100,(J00, etc., baa now attached all | nt A. I. Stewart's estate at Woodstock, Vt., with a view of securing the prom- I uteri payment. 11. A. lianey, a lawyer of Brunswick county, Virginia, and Richard Jolly, a I -alesmen, quarrelled about the State j debt, and the result was a duel with pistols near Smoky >rdinary, in which j lolly received a slight flesh wound in 1 the arm, while his ball cut off a lock of lianey 's bair. When about to have a i second shot, which Jolly demanded, a I Constable arrested the party, and tbey : were re|**aed on bail to appear at the I County Courts last Monday. Judge Snford K. Church, who baa , from time itninemo ml been spoken of by the better class of I'emocratic politi- I emus as not only a potsible Governor of I New ork State, but also a one who might become President of the Vnited State*, is a grey-eyed inan, somewhat inclined to be fat ; and, from the se verity of his manners, i* not popular. He lias a very fino mind, but is hard and sour. Monday evening, while Rev. Tbontaa loans, pastor of the Methodist Church at Custer City, near Bradford, was mak ing a pastoral call at the house of one of hit congregation, named Ingleby, a revolver in the hands of ingleby'a son wa< accidentally discharged, the ball striking the minister in the abdomen. I'iie wounded man is very low. He is not expected to recover. In the Police Court at San Francisco, Saturday morning, Agitator Gannon wa aetiteuced to six months' imprison ment and to pay a fine of $l,OOO. A motion for a new trial was made. Th Police Judge has denied Gannon's mo* lion for a new trial, and in default of $1"00 bail penning appeal he was at noon sent to the House of Correction. There are rumors that further arrest* are to be made. Subsequently bail was furnished and Gannon released. A number of representative Urmo crats in Indiana, including the two Senators Irom that State and the Itemo cratic member* of the House, held a meeting at Washington on Saturday night and org m s d a Hendricks club. The attendance waa quite large, touch enthusiasm was manifested, and those present announced that iutrurpoae la to institute vigorous and active measures fn favor of Mr, Hendricks as the next Democratic nominee for President. J. 0. Holland, editor of Scnlner'4, la about sixty years old. He is called "Doctor" because he graduated as a physician. His nam de pfytae of "Timo thy Titoomb" was used by bim in a series of letters to the Springfield JU fi,Ui,'an ; but it reached the height of Its popularity when his publishers issued "Bitter Sweet." He was at one time en editorial writer on the staff of the Rr pviheaH ; but of late years he baa been entirely devoted to the tuagaiine which he, more than anybody else, baa made successful. James E. Williams, of New York, en gineer, was arrested in that city on Saturday, on a charge of perjury pro ferred by hit aunt, Mr*. Delia Little. If Mrs. Little's accusations are well founded, she haa been most infamously treated. She is seventy year* old, and lived for twenty year*, up to 1878, in San Francisco, California, on property worth lI.VOOO, bequeathed to her by her husband. That year *be waa badlv paralysed, and, being told she would die, Mr*. Little'* nurae sent for Wil liams, a* her nearest relative. He came on to California, and under pretense of looking after hie aunt's aSkir* got % general power of attorney front her, armed with which bo converted her properly Into cash. Then, be took hia aunt to New York to got better medical advice, end after a few weeks procured her commitment to the Tombs end to Black well * Island for aix months aa * habitual drunkard. Mr*. Little has ainco been released, found a friend in a poor colored woman, a servant in her nephew • family produced evidence that the charge on which she waa committed waa a false one. and on this she had her n r. ph *7 far perjury. It la alio alleged that some of the polios court record* in Mr*. Utile's cms are fictitious. NO. 13.
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