<PK Centre Democrat
SHUGKRT \ FORSTKR, Editor*.
VOL. 2.
Cento Democrat.
Terms 11.50 per Annum,in Advanos.
8. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editors.
Thursday Morning, April .29, 1880.
THE Army appropriation bill has
passed the Senate as it came from the
House. This hill contains the clause
attached to the appropriation bill o£
last session, to arrest the employ
ment of the army as a police at the
polls. It was approved by Mr. Hayes
then, and it is reasonable to suppose
he will not go back of his record now.
THE Duke of America is quietly re
posing at the Ducal Palace in Illinois,
to recover from the fatigue of his
Southern campaigu, aud no doubt
would be quite serene were it not
for the flllibustering incursions of tbe
Maine Mulligans upon his domain.
They are decidedly aggressive, and in
many parts entirely successful, but
not sufficiently strong to carry the
State of Illinois against the Duke.
PROP. BF.EL YE, of Massachusetts, is
one of the delegates elected to the
Chicago Convention, lie is credited
with the declaration that the electoral
vote of Louisiana did not belong to
Mr. Hayes. The declaration is cer
tainly entitled to respect for its truth
fulness and candor. Hut it docs not
so impress the stalwarts, and they ex
press great doubt as to the propriety
of permitting him to represent the
Republican party in a Republican
Convention. An honest man, with
honest impressions, would perhaps be
out of place in such a body. Hut if
they rule out all who believe as the
Professor, where would they find men
of sufficient intelligence to compose a
convention of eveu Republicans ? All
believe that Hayes is the spawn of
fraud. Indeed no one doubts it.
WE took the liberty at the time,
says the New York World, of doubt
ing whether the collapse of the opposi
tion in Maine at the spring elections
was quite as complete and awful a*
the Republicans represented it to be,
and the event proves that wc were
right. The Tribune' correspondent
says that the elections were " more
closely contested than usual," and
that the Greenback party "has not
lost much strength apparentlysev
eral new Greenback papers have lieeu
started, and on the whole this is to be
" a very exciting year." The original
comment of the World in 1878 was
that the opposition derived its strength
and earnestness from vehement hatred
of the methods of the Republican lead
ers, and that the so-called " Green
back" movement would not cease to be
formidable until the Republican ring
had been finally smashed. Events are
showing that we were not far wrong.
Mr. Blaine should take care of his
own State while fishing for the States
of other candidates.
HOME men in Congress acquire rep
utation by their talents and discretion,
wme by their eccentricity, some be
cause they are foo|s or demagogues,
but Downey, the Delegate from Wy
oming Territory, more ambitious than
ordinary men, seems to have combined
all those to obtain sudden renown by
Extraordinary means. He has intro
duced a bill asking an appropriation
of 9500,000 to have painted on the
walls of the National capital scenes
from the four gospels, illustrating the
birth, life, death, and resurrection of
our Saviour. This bill is prefaced by
the Apostles' Creed, as we have it in
the prayer-books, and supported by a
speech in form of a poem in blank
verse, covering fifteen pages of the
Congremional Record, marked "copy
right by Htephen W. Downey. All
rights reserved." s lt is due to add,
that this remarkable speech was not
read in the Honse, but printed in the
Record as the extraordinary argument
of the very extraordinary member
from Wyoming.
" K>j)' AI, AN I> KX ACT JUSTICK TO ALL MEN, OK WHATEVER BTATK OR PKRHI ABION, RKLIUIOIS OR POLITICAL."—Jt-ffrnun
An Improssivo Contrast.
The current number of the North
American Review contains n brilliant
article from tbe |en of .lodge J. S.
lilaek, on "General Grant aud a
Strong Government." It is exception
ally able even for Judge Black,
aud should command an extensive
readiug. We appeud two extracts
which present a graphic picture of
the difference betwecu the beliefs and
purposes of the Democratic party and
the disgraceful abuses of administra
tion and the flagrant usurpation under
the Republican rule of Grant. Of
the Democracy Judge Black says :
"We believe in the Constitution, and
in the sanctity of an oath to >uppoif it;
in the tradition* of the fathers, and the
principles of free government as settled
by them. Wo have held fast to this
faith. We never surrendered or sold
or gave up our .heritage. When it was
stolen from us we cried out upon the
robbory, and reclaimed our rights as
soon as reclamation was possible. In
the courts we struggled with our ut
most strength for the restoration of trial
by jury and the privilege of habeas cor
pus ; on tbe hustings, in popular con
ventions, and in legislative assemblies
wo protested against the domination of
carpet-bag thieves, and exposed re
morselessly the dishonest measures by
which wo saw the public Treasury plun
dered. We thought it a good tradition
of the fathers that the military power
should be subordinate to the civil au
thority : and, when wc saw elections
carried by the bayonet. Legislatures
forcibly tumbled out of their seats, and
the basest scoundrels in the country
placed by brute force in the offices to
which honest men had been elect
ed, our senso of right and justice
was shocked beyond expression. We
thought the right of the States to elect
their own officers and their own repre
sentatives in Congress by the free suf
frages of their own people was clear as
the plainest constitutional law could
make it. We therefore looked with
loathing on the systematic violation of
this great right, carried on for years by
the Federal Administration ; and nono
of us could be reconciled to the great
swindle of 1876 by which the whole na
tion was basely cheated.
The following is the rauuuer in
which he touches up Boutwell, one of
the third term writers of the Review,
on the shortcomings of the Grant ad
ministration. It is a strong arraign
ment, and it is not at all likely that
Boutwell will accept the ofTer made to
him. The facts arc too overwhelming
for any one to gain-say :
"I will make Mr. Boutwell a proposi
tion. If he will name any kind of vio
lence or intimidation which the Grant
faction have not used to prevent a true
poll, or any form of fraud which they
have not practiced to falsify returns, or
any sort of cheating in tbe count which
they have not resorted to, or any species
of tbe crimen j'aUe which they have not
perpetrated as a means of swindling
the majority ; if they have not filled
the seals of Congress with imposters
whose object it was to misrepresent, in
jure, and degrade the State office, or
when defeated put them in possession
and maintain them there by force of
arm ; if they did not in 1876 defeat the
known will of the nation by a moat *tu
pendous swindle—if Mr. Boutwell can
show that these things and others like
them were not done at divers times
and places, under the auspices and with
the approbation of General Grant and
those friends of his who are now push
ing him for a third election, then 1 will
give up the whole case and promise to
vote for his candidate. There ! he hss
a chance to make one vote, without the
risk of losing his own ; for, if he fails, I
will not aak him to vote my ticket; I
will merely insist that he shall not
hereafter turn up the whites of his eyes
and pretend to be wounded in hia vir
tuous soul, when a fugitive carpet-bag
ger tells him how he bad to drop his
plunder and fly for his Crimea, because
negroes were bulldozed at the South.
THK SENATE'S amcudmeutn to the
clause in the Deficiency Appropria
tion bill regulating the appointment
of special deputy marshals at elections
were concurred iu by the' House on
Friday. The clause as it passed the
House authorized the district judges
to make the appointments of the mar
shals. The Senate amendments place
that duty upon the Circuit courts of
the United Htates for the districts in
which such marshals are to perform
their duties, but should there be no
session of the Circuit court, then the
district judges are authorised to con
vene their courts for that purpose.
With this amendment, the bill will go
to Mr. Hayes for his approval or veto,
annulling the partisan character of
the Federal election law which he
would not permit to be repealed in the
last Congress. The regulations pro
vided for iu this amendment, proposed
BEEEEFONTE, I>A., THURSDAY, APRIL 2!t, 1880.
by Mr. <iaifield, hut opposed by his
party, giving nil equal representation
to the several |>oliticnl parties in the
selection of their officials, and requir
ing the np|H>intces to he men of good
character, is so fair and proper in
themselves, that it is difficult to be
lieve that Mr. Hayes will withhold his
approval.
Tho Law Vindicated.
Judge I'earson on Monday sentenc
ed the convicted legislative bribers,
William H. Kemble, EmileJ. Petrotf,
Charles 13. Halter, Win, F. Kutubarger
and Jesse K. Crawford, each to one j
year in the j>euitentiary, and to pay a
fino of one thousand dollars. The
Judge in imposing the sentence de
livered a lecture of some length to the
prisoners, settiug forth the tlagrancy
of the crime of corrupting mcml>ers of
the Legislature, referring to the fact
that the prevalence of this crime had
assumed such gigantic proportions in
Pennsylvania that .the Constitutional
Convention hud made stringent reme
dial provisions for its suppression,
which were incorporated into the laws
by the Legislature. None of the pris
oners could plead ignorance of the
statutes, and certainly could not claim
exemption from the penalty of viola
tion. While the public may sympa
thise with these men, and regret the
unfortunate position in which they arc
placed, yet it must l>e a source of gen
eral gratulation that the law has
been vindicated and u cautionary no
tice given to nil that a hah must be
made in the general and degrading
corruptions which have so marked and
stained the legislation of Pennsylva
nia. It has been a crying evil for
many years, as well as a source of un
bounded fraud upon the people's re
sources, that called for prompt and
condign puuishment on the |>erpctra
tors, regardless of their station in life
—whether by the millionare wielding
the influence of a great hank, or the
more humble individual directing the
labor around the State capital. The
sentence, although not marked by any
severity, which the crime did not just
ify, is said to have astounded the
prisoners, who did not expect to he in
carcerated in the penitentiary, but to
a temporary detention in jail. The
vindication of the law and the adino- '
nition its assertion furnishes the venal
iu and out of our legislative halls, is
all the people demanded in the puu
ishment of these men. That has been
accomplished. They are no more
guilty than hundreds of others who
are still at large, and this lieing the
first conviction in the interest of hon
esty iu our legislative halls, the people
will not he disposed to antagonize
executive clemency discreetly exer
cised. On this subject the Philadel
phia Timet remarks: "The battle
against the power of the law is now
ended and those who made it have
had meted out to them a retributive
blow that must subdue vindictiveness
in every quarter. If the defendants
had made the battle by themselves
and for themselves, the penalty they
have provoked would be regarded by
all as more than enough to meet the
fullest end of justice, but the known
circumstances which dictated their
plea of guilty and the knowu fact
that the vengeance of the law for the
offenses of many has been concentrated
upon them, will plead strongly for
their release from penal servitude.
They have been compelled to bow to
the law and voluntarily return to ac
cept its judgment; they have been
doubly fined by forfeited
and by sentence; they are now in
prison ; they have been bereft of the
right to enjoy honor or trust under their
own government, and there the offices
of the avenging law may safely stop.
The same enlightened public opinion
that so sensitively resented the attempt
to disregard the law by a previous
pardon, would uow give considerate
approval to the interposition of execu
tive clemency. Never was a law more
completely vindicated in the treat
purpose of nil penal laws, than in
these cases. It has made the venal
shudder at their own vocation ; it has
multiplied punishment with every de
fiance of its omnipotence; it has res
cued a Commonwealth from cupidity
within and venality without the Leg
islature, by its fearful judgment ugainst
five men for the crimes of as many
thousands, and the unerring tribunal
of dispassionate publicscntiincnt would
now sanction the exercise of executive
clemency as manfully as it opposed it
when pardon meant a mockery of
puhlie virtue."
How Thoy Aree.
Grant, Blaine and Sherman have
each their political bureau, or head
quarters ut Washington, and the cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun
has been i iterviewing them to ascer
tain authoritatively the prospects of
each aspirant. He has come to the
conclusion, if he accepts the informa
tion obtained as reliable, that Grant,
Blaine and Sherman have each got
all or nearly all of the delegates so
far elected aud each will IK- certain to
get the majority of those yet to be
elected. He says:
'•The friends of the ex-Pretident say
they have information that half or
moro of the Massachusetts delegation
will be for Grant from the start, and the
remainder will be for him alter Ed
munds. Senator L-lmund*, they say.
prefers Grant to any other man, and
will soon make public expression of
that fact, which will throw all bis
strength for Grant. The Connecticut
delegation is understood to be divided
between Blaine, Edmunds and Wash
burn, and the Grant people aay they
know that as aoon as it is made appar
ent that the fight is between Grant and
Blaino the Edmonds and Washburn
delegates will go right over to Grant.
At the Blaine headquarters informa
tion from Georgia is to the effect that
the delegation to Chicago from that
Htate will stand sixteen for Blaine, four
Tor Hherman and two for Grant. The
Grant people have Information that it
standi ten for Grant, eight for Blaine
and four for .Sherman, while at the
Sherman headquarters it is triumph
antly announced that reliable advices
from Georgia give twelve for Sherman,
six for Blaine and lour for Grant. The
Sherman bureau haa also a dispatch
from Staunton, claiming nine of the
Virgioia delegates for Sherman, with a
prospect of two more. To this the Grant
men answer that there were but three
| Sherman men in the entire Virginia
convention. The Sherman people claim
now that he has positively secured tip
to date 101 votes, The Biaine men say
that Sherman is not in the contest at
, all. and that the tight is between Blaine
and Grant; but the Grant men say that
neither Sherman cr Biaine will be
! heard of when the convention nieeta.''
HKNATOK BLAISE put his foot into
a sharp trap on Monday when at the 1
close of Senator Jonas' scathing re
view of Kellngg's record, he undertook
to hrcak its force by charging upon
the majority "a shameless assertion of
sectionalism and a defiance of honora
ble agreement" that the ease should
not le resurrected. There was not a
Senator on the floor, he said, who did
not know that Butler, of South Caro
lina, could never have been seated had
not Kellogg been admitted. This call
ed forth disclaimers from the Senators
of any such agreement, and a scathing
rebuke from Senator Bayard for mak
ing charges against Seuators which
had no foundation in fact, and of
which Mr. Blaine had no evidence to
present other than an article iu a
southern newspaper. The misfortune
of the Maine Senator is, perhaps, that
he is not a lawyer and cannot proper
ly estimate the value of evfdence, but
the reminder of Mr. Carpenter, a few
days ago, ought to have suggested to
him a little discretion at least, in the
presence of the eminent men surround
ing him. He was badly floored.
BOOSTIKO SHKRMAN. Tbe general
impression prevailing that the Sher
man boom is on the retrograde and
the great financier about to join the
army of hopeless aspirants, it seems is
not well founded. His committee or
boosting bureau at Washington claims
that his strength is developing rapidly,
and that the Secretary and his friends
are more sanguine now of success than
at any time since tbe canvass began.
They claim 101 votes positively secur
ed on the first ballot. Nothing like
' faith. Boost him up.
The Stato Convention.
The most important State Conven
tion, held by the Democracy of Penn
sylvania for many years, convened at
Harrisburg on Wednesday, to form a
State ticket to be voted for in Novem
ber next, and to choose delegates to
voice the Democracy of the State in
the National ( onvcntiou at ( incinnati
to place iu nomination Democratic
candidates for President and Vice.
President of the United States.
Up to the time of going to press this
(Wednesday) evening, we have no
intelligence as to the organization of
the Convention, but have every it-snr
nnce that harmony wilf prevail in its
deliberations. The only disturbing
element —the admission of delegates
from Philadelphia—wc learn by the
Patriot, will probably IK? compromised
in the interest of harmony by the
admission of one-half of the regular
delegates, recognizing their claim to
regularity, and the balance from the
Vaux bolters. This of course will
neutralize the voice of Philadelphia
to some extent in the deliberations,
hut Ix-ttcr this than confusion and dis
cord iu the* more important work of
the convention. The friends of Han
cock apjoar to be in the ascendant,
and if instructions are given, the del
egates will doubtless represent him iu
the National Convention.
Tin: la.it reason given, according to
a Washington correspondent, in favor
of a third-term, comes from Judge
Mackcv, of SoutJi Carolina. He fa
vors the nomination of < irant, because
if elected, he will create a war with
Mexico iu order to extend the terri
tory of the I'nited States and add new
States to the South. The Judge furth
er adds with great humor, says the
correspondent, that "with what the
Southern white* have learned from
the carjs't-haggers they will he able
to carpet-bag into these new States and
make New England grit it* truth by
showing what can really be done in
the way of clearing out a conquered
territory."
GENERAL NEWS.
Hon. I.in Rartbolomew lia returned
to PotUville from Atlantic fity, very
much improved in health.
The Commissioners of Cumberland
county say that the enforcement of the
tramp act there has saved the county
$20,000.
Rev. Thomas Creigli. one of the old
est Presbyterian ministers in the State,
died at Mercersburg on Thursday, in
his 73d year.
At a meeting of the Herlin Fishing as
sociation, held on Friday evening last,
Mr. White, the American minister to
Germany, deliverer! an exceedingly
practical and acceptable address.
General Harry White will return to
Washington the latter rnrt of this week,
after having been detained at home for
some time by the illness of his mother,
which terminated in death last week.
Hon. S. Newton Pettis, while waiting
for something to turn up, is at home
preparing a lecture entitled ".South
American Affairs," which will be de
livered at I.inesville, Crawford county,
for the first time this week.
It was rumored on Monday that Hart
mann, the Russian Nihilist, who was
charged with wrecking the train upon
which the Csar was supposed to be a
passenger, had arrived in New York.
The report, however, could not be
verified.
A destructive tornado swept over the
oountry snd vicinity of Macon, Miss.,
on Sunday night. Telegrnph communi
cations are interrupted and meagre
reports bring the intelligence of the loss
of several lives. Fuller details are hour
ly expected.
Dennis Kearney's habeas corpus case
came up before the Supreme Court in
banc on Saturday. The Court decided
that it had no power to reveiw its own
aotion, and Kearney was remanded to
the House of Correction to serve out
the sentence.
Another cyclone struck the north
line of Adams county, Illinois, last
Friday evening, doing great damage,
and went from west to east. Twenty
houses and barns are known to be de
molished and several persons killed
and wounded. Names unknown.
Over three hundred families, who
have sustained themselves by the pick
ing and sale oT teaU*u les and whortle
berries, are placed in destitute circum
stances by the greet forest fires in New
Jersey last week. The loas in this pro
duction in Southern Ocean county alone
will aggregate 175,000 for the season.
The Km press Eugenie's crown, which
has just been presented to the church
of Our Lady of Victories at Paris, it
composed of a row of large brilliants,
alternated with golden eagles, whose
wings meet above and support a cross
of dtamonds, while the bandeau oon
tains several large brilliants and superb
emeralds set in gold.
TERMS: per Annum, in Advance.
Nashville, Tenn., celebrated on Sat
urday, with much spirit, the centennial
anniversary of the city's foundation.
There was a grand procession, an ad
dress by Governor Marks, an oration by
Hon. John M. Bright on "The Pioneers
of Tennessee," a prize ode and a sketch
of the history of the city. At night
the Ontennial Industrial Exhibition
was opened.
Joseph Seligrnan, senior member of
the firtn ol J. A \V. Seligrnan A Co.,
bankers, of New York, clied suddenly
of heart disease, on .Sunday. Mr. Selig
rnan was on his way hotne from a
Southern tour, which he began last
summer, to recover his health. Selig
rnan had been an invalid of late years,
lie was a successful merchant and
banker, having with his brothers estab
lished the banking house which bears
his name.
Mr. Edwin If. Dill, whose sad death
at Harrisburg last week is yet fresh in
the minds of our readers, was a brother
of Colonel Andrew 11. Hill, the demo
cratic candidate for Governor in 187*.
He resided in the South since 1800,
where he was best known as one of the
editors of the New Orleans l'icayins.
He was a gentleman of culture and
most blameless life and habits, and hia
fatal illness on his way home to his
friends was the result of aggravates! dis
ease, from which he had long suffered.
Last Sunday, for the first time in
years, the Sunday law prohibiting labor
of any kind was enforced at Louisville,
Kentucky. Between midnight and 2
o'clock that morning the police visited
ill the places which were open, includ
including newspaper offices, and took
the names of every person doing work
for presentment to the Grand Jury.
The list includes all classes—editors,
com|K>itors, pressmen, newsboys, saloon
keepers and hackmen. The law is very
.tringent, allowing no work or business
except household duties to be done.
At the meeting of the Cabinet, on
Friday, Secretary Evarts read a letter
from the I'nited States C-onsul at Bang
kok, Siam, n regard to the intended
visit of the King of Siam to the United
Slates, and urging that the King be
treated with every consideration. It
was concluded to notify the 'Congres
sional (Committees on Foreign Affairs of
the King's anticipated visit, and to
recommend an appropriation sufficient
to receive him. The practicability of
sending a United States man-of war to
convey him from Kngland was discussed
at some length without action, it being
thought best to defer the question until
ihe King shall have arrived in Europe.
The entire party, including servants, it
is thought, will be larger than can be
accommodated in a man of war.
In the Senate list Friday morning
Mr. Jacobs, late chairman of the Demo
cratic State Convention, at Syracuse,
replying to some comments made by
■senator Woodin in his remarks in the
Senate on Thursday, concerning his
support of Mr. Tilden, said : As chair
man of the convention he advocated no
man's claims. If he acted fairly, he
set an example for Republican conven
tions to follow. The speech made yes
terday attracted some attention—why,
he did not know. I stand by every
word 1 said there. I go to Cincinnati
pledged to no man. It was the unani
mous sense of the Syracuse Convention
that the delegates should go free and
unpledged. When we reach Cincinnati
it we find Tilden the strongest man we
will supfiort him. Mv Own individual
opinion today is that tilden is not the
strongest man : but if the convention
thinks he is the Democracy will sap
port him.
Kev. David X. Junkin. P. 1)., former
ly of Hollidayaburg, where he was pas
tor of the Presbyterian church for seven
years, died at the home of his son,
Martinsburg, Va„ on Friday. ] deceased
was born at Hope Mills, Pa., and grad
uated at Jefferson College in 1831. He
studied theology at Princeton, and was
pastor of the Greenwich Presbyterian
church. Warren county, New Jersey,
from 1834 until 1851. From 1851 to
1853 he was pastor of the F Street
church, Washington, D. C., and pastor
at Hollidayaburg, from 1853 to 186).
He served as chaplain at the United
States Naval Academy from 1860 to
1862, and the two following year* as
chaplain on board the frigate Colorado.
He was pastor of a Presbyterian church
in Chicago from 1864 to 1866, and from
1866 has been pastor at New Caetle, Pa.,
a position be quitted only at death.
Dr. Junkin was a polished and versatile
writer, and has written some beautiful
hymn*.
The following additional particulars
of tSaturday night's storm in the west
have been received at Chicago; At Far
mers' City, 111., the creeks and sloughs
are higher than ever known before.
Fences, culverts, bridges, walks, etc.,
were carried off. Chaa. Straus bury was
drowned while trying to croaa a creek
on horseback. Near Taylor?ille the ay
clone was terrific. Many houses were
demolished and the inmatea killed,
crippled or carried away. Many are
rendered homeless by the storm, which
Issted from 7 r- n. until midnight
A lon so Cullers* house was blown to
atoms, one of his children killed out
right and another carried off and found
dead in Ihe morning. Mrs. T. J. Lang
ley was killed. John Geasner's skull
was fractured and he will die. A man
named Watts and hia wife were blown
about a quarter of a mils locked in each
other's arms. They were found berily
cut, bruised and insensible. T. W*.
Brents, Mr. Elliot, wife and two children,
the little daughter or Edward Leigh, and
Thomas Hill, were injured. Hundreds
of cattle and bogs were crippled or
killed, and fowls were found stripped
of their feathers in the line of the cy
clone.
NO. 18.