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.