. - v - i If be Centre Clemocrat. SIIIKJKin A FORSTER, Editors. VOL. 2. Sht to JJrmorrat. Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advance. s. T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editors. Thursday Morning, April 8, 1880. STATE TREASURER BUTLER lias ap pointed William Lcvisse, of the Pitts burg tax office, cashier of the Treas ury. GONERAI. HANCOCK is a weighty candidate for the Democratic nomina tion for President. lie ti{>s the scale at tiro hundred and eighty neven pound#. RILL KEMIILE, of "division and silence," memory was a third-termer and lieutenant to Don Cameron What is he now? A fugitive front justice to avoid his tirtt term under sentence of the Dauphin county Court. DAMAUIKU rumors are now floating of corruption in the Post-office Depart ment at Washington in connection with a Lottery Company which has obtained exclusive privilege of circu lating its documents through the United States Mail. It is said that 830,000 affected the arrangement. Whether the rumor is well founded will soon he known, as the Postmaster General cannot afford to allow it to remaiu unexplained. THE Republicans of York county, following the lead of Laocaster, have held meetings and demanded a new deal. They are for Rlaine. A county convention on Friday last declared in favor of the election of new delegates to the National convention, and ask the other counties in the congressional district to uuite in the movement. This is another treason in Don's ranch requiring prompt attention IT is said that arrangements are L>e iug made to bulldoze the Chicago Con vention to prevent the nomination of Grant —threatening a second nomina tion in case lie should he the successful candidate. The "Duke," as Grnut is now familiarly called, is one not easily frightened at trifles, nnd his principal lieutenants, Conkling and Cameron only need this kind of stirring up" to bring out the full measure of their courage and ri ourccs. Witness ?Jw*ir management of the Pennsylvania ami New York State conventions, where they acted as skirmishers for the Grant boom. THE result of the election in San Francisco is a sweeping condemnation of the methods of Kearney and Knl loch the leaders of disorder and ruf fianism in California. The determi nation of the busincsss men and friends of order to take the mnnnge nieut of affairs in their own hands, to arrest disorder which has prevailed un der the lead of these men, has had its legitimate result, the success of the Citizen ticket ami the overthrow of the agitators, which appears to lie com complete aud overwhelming. Kear ney is said to be very much subdued and broken down and is not likely to give the jteople much trouble in the future. THE Marshal clause in the deficien cy bill which passed the Senate on Thursday last, did not excite the vio lent political discussion anticipated by Many. Senator Edmunds had the op position to the clause relating to dcj>- uty election marshals all to himself. He was the only Senator who spoke in opposition to its passage—the only one to insist that the different parties ought not to be represented in these guardians of a fair election. Conk ling and other stalwarts evidently made an "April Fool" of the Vermont Henator by putting hint forward as the advocate of an exclusive partisan election supervision and then retired to enjoy their joke on his verdancy. The bill as passed provides for the ap pointment of these marshals by the Circuit Courts in equal numbers from each party, known to be of good moral character. No chance here for founders and thieves. "EQUAL AKI> KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WIIATEVK.It STATIC OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL."—J<-fferoii JOHN SHERMAN has hied uway from tlio cures and vexatious of the Treasury department to spend a few days in the delightful pastime of elec tioneering among his lluckeye neigh burs for the Presidency. It is true lie had announced his candidacy a num ber of times in letters to his friends, but ho could not forego the pleasure of appearing liefore them and saying so in person. This he did on Wed nesday, of last week, at Mansfield, his old home. Modest, manly, John! It was scarcely necessary for you to say that it was "by the courso of recent events" and not by "self-seeking" that you find your name "mentioned among those from whom the Republican party will select one to carry its ban ner in the approaching Presidential contestand of course it was not "egotism" to state the fact in plain terms. No, indeed. The very* idea of associating egotism with the Hher man name would lie preposterous. Rut the modest, manly John not only ac cepts the position thus thrust UJIOII him "by the course of recent events," hut lie does it "without a pretense of mork modesty," lest his supporters should put themselves to unnccssary trouble on his account without really knowing timt lie was willing to accept. This was very considerate in John, though it is a fact yet to he established by trust-worthy evidence that he ever de clined to accept an ofliee of any sort, and his good friends might therefore have been permitted to take a risk of that kind with little danger of being dis appointed. Next we hear what John expects, and the stalwarts of his na tive State will lie very hard hearted if they du not gratify his desire. He expects an expression of "preference" from Ohio and wants it to be given with "substantial unnnifmtT.'" Hywtt" means let it be given just as he wants it. Rut when John .Sherman reaches the Presidency it will be nfter some thing more potent than the "course of recent events" makes him a candidate, and long nfter people have forgotten events in which he played notorious part with Eliza Pinkston and Agnes .lenks as accomplices. SENATOR WALLACE'S committee re porting upon the question of political assessments, quotes from the evidence to show that both the letter and spirit of the statute on the subject have been violated as well as that the plain meaning of the order of the Presi dent relating to assessments for party purposes has not been obeyed. In view of the fact that the law is a dead letter, the romniittee has prepared and pre sented a stringent hill. It prohibits any official or employe of the United States from contributing to any commit tee or person for any political purpose or paying any assessment or income or lending or advancing any money with the understanding that the same shall be applied for political purposes. Heads of departments arc prohibited from collecting or allowing to be col lected, money for political purposes. The punishment on conviction of vio lating this law is imprisonment not ex ceeding six months, and, in the discre tion of the court, a line not tytceeding $.">,000, and the person convicted shall be forever thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit or trust under the United Htates. Any officer of the United States who shall violate any provision of this act shall, in addition to such imprisonment and fine, be deemed aud taken to have va cated the office by hiin held. EX-SECRETARY COX, of Ohio, late of the Interior department, speaks thus of the candidacy of Mr. Blaiue for the Presidency. His "nomination would open our campaign in scandal, and put our party on the defensive from the beginning. It is not clear that under such a cloud he would command the German vote any more certainly than would Grant, and be would surely lose much of the inde pendant and liberal vote, so much needed to assure a victory." BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, _APRIL 8, 1880. Edmunds of Vermont. The following pen picture of Mr. Edmunds, Vermont's Senator, and candidate for the Republican nomina tion for President, is drawn by the Washington Pott : The consuming passion with Mr. Ed munds is haired lor the South, He hales its people, its soil, its traditions, its heroes—even the very uir which hears to him its f.ngranee, lie consid ers it no wrong to slander every man, woman and child living beyond a cer tain geographical line, to hold them up ! to derision and contumely, to drive | them into a corner aud then punish , them for their slightest attempt at self protection. It is us good a thing in his 1 eyes to despoil ihem as it was with the 1 Israelites to spoil the Egyptians. Give 1 him an opportunity and he would smite | them, hip and thigh. Put hun in the Executive chair and he would discover no single Southern right which a North ern Republican would he required to respect. A large part of the fierce, intolerance in Mr. Edmunds' composition, we ere willing to admit, is fanaticism. He has been brought up to it—and he has also found it profitable. He is not, how ever, merely fanatic, n* was Mr. Garri son or John ltrown. He knows how to harness his hatreds and at what pace to drive, lie can be as adroit and as pla cable as a courtier if need be. Give the Vermont -Senator an object and he will humor his foe to the top of his beiit-Ountil it is time to strike. Then the honorable Mr. Edmunds settles with compound interest. Mr. Edmunds was the progenitor of the electoral commission fraud. He dug the pitfall and carefully concealed it. It was his solemn assertion before the bill passed that if its oLjeet was not to consider all the evidence affecting the votes of the disputed Stales, he would vote against it, and then walked over to the Supreme court room aud recorded a deciding opinion against tin introduction of the least tact that bore u|M>n the case. Of all the members of the Republi can party sufficiently prominent to be named in connection with tbe Presi dency, there is no single one who for adeptneas in political vdliany and pro fligacy of sectional prejudice, can com pare with Mr. Edmunds of Vermont. IN reference to the Senatorial dele (Wti to the HenHwrtwWwte Gonvt.ii- < tion front this Senatorial district, we nre authorized to state that Mr. l Spnngler, the Chairman of our county committee, Inst week wrote to the Chairmen of the committees in Clear field and Clinton counties to ascertain their wishes in relation to the meeting of the conferees. In answer to his in quiries he has a letter front Chairman Rurchfteld, of Clearfield, suggesting Friday, the 23d instant, and Bellefonte as the time and place for the meeting. Mr. .Spanglcr on the part of Centre county, has acquiesced in this sugges tion, and it is to be hoped that Clinton county will do likewise, so that it may be understood that the conferees will meet in accordance with this arrange ment and elect our Senatorial dele gate THE fences of Secretary Sherman in Ohio being in very bad repair, to tally inadequate for the protection of his premises from the predatory in cursions of the Mulligan and third term gunners in search of the game to which the eminent financier claims an , exclusive right, he lias absented himself from bis arduous duties of the Treas ury Department to make improve ments and repair damages. He has made a speech to his tenants ami irieuds appealing to them to keep things in order during his absence. What effect his appeal may have is a matter of great doubt as the demorali zation is wide-spread. Were his speeches made in better temper the case would be more hopeful. But find iug it again necessary, for the huudreth time, to announce that he is a candi date for the honors of the Chicago Convention, he no doubt became riled, and launched forth in a violent philip pic against the poor uuofieuding "Rehel Brigadiers." In this temper it is not surprising that John forgot himself in waving the "bloody shirt" as an attractive badge, when cool re flection would have admonished him that it has lost its effect —that this banner of Radicalism is played out, and that the. attempt to flirt the dirty miserable thing in the face of the intelligent people of Ohio, as else where, could ouly have a damaging influence. The people will make com parisons, and the Secretary's speech in Ohio will certainly present u sick ening n poet when rend hide ly side with tho remarks of (Jen. (Irani, his principal rival, at New Orleans, where lie uttered a volume ou tlie name sub ject in the simple but truthful word*, "The jxtM is gone." These ure the word* of a brave man who had a right to * peak tlieui, not of a coward who kept himself ut very long range from the "Kebel Brigadier*," when the history was forming, from which the Secreta ry hope* no make hi* stock in trade, under the sanguinary rug, at the Chicago Convention for the Presiden tial office. Tho Bribers. Salter, Petroff, llunihurger and Crawford, four of tho five fugitive riot bribers, appeared unexpectedly at Harrisburg, on Monday, and delivered themselves up to the Sheriff of Dauphin cpuntv. Soon after it became known that they were in custody, Judge Pear son weut to the prison and permitted them to renew their hail bond* to ap pear before him for sentence ou the 2f!th instant to which time court had previously adjourned. With thi* short lease of liberty they were permit ted to depart in peace to their respect ive homes, a privilege of which they soou availed themselves. It was peeled that Kenible would also put in an appearance during the day, to have his ca*e dis|H>sed of, for tho time Ireing, in the same way, but at our latest ad vices he had not done so. The Hur ri.-hurg Patriot in commenting upon this disposition of the eases, says: "Thus the farce goes on. Instead of submitting themselves for sentence so that the law might la-satisfied and the scuidal ended the defendants keep iMir ense* before the public and ng "PWtettff the sentiment already excited against them by their efforts to escape 'the penalties of the law. It is un doubtedly an unpleasant thing to go | to jail, but a few days' delay will not mukc it more agreeahle. This is a government of law and public senti ment recjuires that the law shall be vindicated ; not that there shall lie n revengeful execution of the law, but ( that a resjieet for the law shall bo culcntcd to the end that evil mimle<| l>eople may lie deterred from eommit , ing nuy wrong against society. Thore j fore many charitably disposed people ; who might not lie willing to pick out these men lor harsh punishment from jolliers believed to be equnlly guilty, arc offended and alarmed at the ap |iarent int-Huncy of the law in these cases. It is one thing to ap|*-al to the mercy of the court but quite another : to attempt to evade its judgment." JUDGE PATTERSON, of Lancaster is this week receiving the attention of the Press throughout the State for his arbitrary and tyranuical order disbar ring Messrs. Steinman and Ilcnsol from practicing as Attorneys in the courts of Lancaster county. These gentlemen, besides being attorneys, arc the editors of the lAUicaster Intelligen cer, and the judge attempts to hold them responsible as attorneys for what they deem themselves called up on to say as editors. The trouble be tween them grew out of strictures which the Intelligencer made upon certain proceedings in a somewhat no torious criminal case before Judge Patterson which, to say the least, were of a very suspicious character and not at all creditable to the court. The actiou of the judge, we are glad to say, meets with the condemnation it de serves, and as Messrs. Steinman Htid Henscl will* no doubt take an appeal to a higher court, it is to be hoped they will in the end receive a complete vin dication of their rights, and the un just judge a rebuke that will be a les son to him while he remains on the bench. THE re-nomination of Dr. Sherwood by Mr. Hayes to be Census Supervisor for Philadelphia received very un ceremonious treatment by the Senate. It was promptly without a call of the yeas and nays. The Senate does not propose to be trifled with. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. I*'"** RKLICK. —In various parts of, I our country, notably along tho lower ' Hah! Ragle valley, trace* of the copper- j 1 hueil race who were owner* and inhabi- > tunt* of the country when it wm yet in it* native exist in great nutn j her*, even ut this late day, and are fre- ! inert Ily discovered by farmer* and other* i j whose occupation* take them to the wood* | and 'J It" latest of these disr overie- Jof im|>ortnnce which ha* come to our notice, wa* made by Mr. John W. Gard ■ nur, of Howard, on a wood lot, now own- I ed by Mr. Gardner, but until recently be j ' on K'"l> the estate of the lalo ex-Gov. . Packer, on the north side of Bald Eagle cros k, and a little west of the village of Howard. Thin wood lot lies on a steep ; hank immediately on the creek, and was I crossed by the prominent Indian trail ! leading from Great Island—now Lock Haven—up the Uald Eagle, to Howard, ' and from thenco out to Snow Shoe, and Glearfb'iJ. Thi* trad crossed Bald t Eagle creek at the point above men | lioned, where the water is quite shallow, and from the time ( .f the first settler* has I la-en known a* Indian Iti file. Probably ! because of its steepness this bank had never been cleared, and,had upon it some | tine large oaks, of apparent great age. In j working one of these old ok*—some j | three feet in diameter—up for posts, a few weeks ago, Mr. Gardner noticed, witbin ■ about two inches of it* centre, a remarkably | well-defined, and well-preserved axe mark, j evidently made by a very small and very I axe or hatchet, and u|e>n fully e?|tos.', , ing it to view, and counting the growths ] which had accumulated oul'ide of it, it | wa* found to have W-en made one hun- j dred and seventy-two years ago. This ' j take* it back to 170 ft, or twenty-four I years before the birtb of Washington. J At the time the cut was made the tree was but a sapling, of about four inches in diam eter, and the chip marks of the evidently dull tool can be seen as distinctly a* though they had been marie within the year. At the same time at which we saw I this, we were shown an old hatchet, found j by ex-Commissioner J. Newlio Hall, bur- j I led deep In the ground, under a large tree ; which lie had occasion to remove lately, - and which stood close beside the same ' trail, and not tnorc than sixty or seventy ' ' rod* distant from the marker] tree found ' by Mr. Gardner. The hatchet had evi- ; dently been lost many year* ago, and the j j tree had grown over it. It is not impos •ible that it is one of those given the In- i dians by Penn at his treaty with them un- i der the great elm ; and it does not require i ( a very great stretch of imagination to be lieve that it is the same one with which the marks were made on the oak sapling ! in 170 S. Both these interesting relics of the old inhabitant* of, or traveler- through, j the Bald Eagle valley, have been left at ! our office l*r a few days, for the inspection of those interested in such matters. FIBX COMCAST FESTlVAL.— Neatness is | next to virtue. The I-ogan Fire Company ; | find that their uniforms are in a sadly | worn, dilapidated condition, and a* Deco- ; | ration day and other grand national event* approach, they become cognizant ! of the fact that they will cut but a sorry figure if they sppear upon the street* In I their present tbreadbsre uniforms. In- ! deed, some members of the company ind that those indispensable garmenta called pant* are certainly non est, and they do not wish to shock a proper sensitiveness by appearing without them. Therefore, they ' would beg |M>rmi**ion to announce that on j the evenings of Friday and Saturday, the 16th and 17th instants, they will hold a festival. The proceeds will be applied to the purchase of suitable new uniforms. All the delicacies of the season will be provided and, of 4|prte, the presence and patronage of citixertlis requested. —We desire to call attention to the fact that Mr. C. F. Uarlacher, of Centro Hal), is at present engaged in the business of ren ovating feather*. He is at present estab lished at Levy's store room, at Milesburg, and will remain there a few weeks in order to give all person* in thia neigh borhood who have feather beds and mattresses that they wish to have cleansed an opportunity to call upon him. He claims to have the champion renovator. Hi* proceaa It an entirely new one, and performs its work effectually, without the alighteet injury to the feathers, by the Joint action ot steam and cold air, drying them by draught and not by lha old man ner of baking them dry. He will call for beds, mattresses, Ac., and return them without extra charge, guaranteeing satis faction in every case. Mr. Harlacher baa long been areeidentof Centre oouuty, and is a reliable and trustworthy man, to whom work may be confidently entrusted. We say this from a long acquaintance wltb him and can therefore assure those having anything to do in his line that they will consult their Interest by giving him their patronage. TERMS: #1.50 |MT Annum, in Advance. TNK B'IROI'OII COO.*' RI.—THREE .MEET ISO" os MONDAY.— Last Monday MORNING at A. M. , tliu old council held it. last m''ting. Then* were a few congratula tion# over the legislation A''runipli#h priest paid !a>t year. Benjamin 1 tiller i# employed a# janitor at $2-7 JAR year. Mr. Shaugheneey will act a# market clerk for 50 cent* per week. I he diflerent committee# of council have expended during the pan year the follow ing amount*: Street Com mi tee $2,637 83 Water Committee 3,272 00 Fire and Police Committee 2,819 S3 Market Coininituj*„ 18 75 Nui*ar.ce Committee 4 4.7 Finance Committee 696 55 Total ..T $8,809 00 BEAI-TIFUL BRACKET WORK. —Mr. Jack Holme*, *on of W. M. Holme*, of thi* place, i# a young gentleman of great ingenuity and industry. He ha* taught tchool during the pat winter and ha* occupied much of hi# spare time in carving brackets of beautiful design and superior and delicate workmanship. The beautiful parlor of his father's residence, (he occu pies the ton mansion belonging to the Thomas estate, in the lower part of town), is filled with some excellent specimen* of hi* ingenuity. One represent* a complete combination of butterflies ; another show* a dog, holding a deer at bay, while a hun ter, standing behind a tree, take* aim at the deer ; then there is a landscape scene, and a variety of other design* of equal interest, hut too numerous to mention. Jack hat sold several beautiful bracket* to hi* friends. Mr. ,lamr* B. Anthony, of Belle town* •hip, Clearfield county, lost six child ren in one week with diptberia. Beading's new hank will be known aa [ the Commercial National Bank. Itcom- I tuenoe* under favorable auspices. The Catholic temperance societies of thi# State will hold a Slate Convention at Shenandoah on the third Monday of June. Dauphin county is excited over a case of witchcraft. Mr*. Boyer, a reputable woman, being charged with bewitching a young woman named Kildey, Colonel Benjamin Brownfiehl, living near Uninntown, Fayette county, i* 100 year* old, lie ha* 12 children, 110 grandchildren and 31 great grandchild ren. An expedition about to aeil from Philadelphia with arma and muni tion for the Cuban service is under sur veillance of the Government authori ties. George Punchard, widely known as the author of the "History of Congrega tionalism," in hi* earlier year* a minis ter, and formerly one of the editort of the Boston Traveler, died on Friday, aga i 74. Fred Frb, Jr., of SU Joseph, Mo., has accepted a challenge of Captain A. H. Bogardu* to shoot 100 bird* at thirty ydrd*. English rule*, at St- Louis, thi* month for $5OO a side. While engaged in mnatfucting the iron bridge across the Hudeou river at Lansingburg, N. V., on Thursday morn ing. ten men were precipitated fbrly •even feet into the river by the break ing of a scaffold. Three of the men were badly but not aerinualy injured, And one fo*t an eye. Work oa the bridge has been temporarily suspended. As an earnest of the feeling of confi dence engendered by the result of the recent election at Sam Francisco it may be mentioned that the arms of the mil itary companies, which during the late excitement were removed to the central Poiioe Station for greater safety, have been returned to the armories of the reajiective companies. It is very doubt ful whether the election will be con tested by the Worktngmen. NO. 15.