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NOTICES, I.' cents per line each Insertion. Nothing inserted for less than 50 cents. 111 SIBXSS NOTICKS. in tin. editorial columns, 15 cents per line, each luserlioii. LOCAL Notions, in local columns, 10 cents fer line. ABBOUSCIMXBTS or MCRRIAOX- AND DEATHS inserted free ; but all obituary notices will be charged 6 cents per line. SFICIAL NOTICES 25 per cent, shove regular rales. THE CURTIN CASE. We present to the readers of the DEMOCRAT the following extracts from the speech of Hon. John W. Ryon, of the Schuylkill district, ou the contest ed election case of Andrew G. Curtin, delivered in the House of liepresenta-' tives on the 12th of May last. These extracts are taken from the conclud ing portion of the speech. They dis pose very conclusively of the law in regard to unregistered votes, while the tribute paid to Governor Curtin by Mr. Ryon in his peroration, was a compliment as eloquent and us beau tiful in language as it was well he stowed and worthily deserved : "The legal result of receiving the vote of a non-registered person the proofs required by the registration act would give to such vote the character of illegality. This presumption, however, might he overcome in any future con test of such election by proof that the voter was in point of fact a qualified elector. To this extent only is there a legal difference in the result, if the reg istration net. he held to he directory merely. The contestant proved by the registration list and the polling lists that between one and two thousand non-regi9tered persons voted at the election, and also furnished proof that no affidavits to answer.to these non-reg istered names had been returned and filed in the prothonotary's office accord ing to the requirements of the registra tion law. Upon this state of facts lie claimed that he had established by competent evidence the illegality of all such votes. As a legal proposition can there he a doubt about it? Where the law designates a plane for the filing or recording of a written paper no search for such paper is reqireu by law beyond the designated pUce of deposit. The absence of such paper from the place of deposit raises the presumption of its non existence. *Tho presumption that a public officer has done his duty is clearly rebutted by the absence from the designated legal depository of the affidavits which the law required should be taken by the election board and filed with the prothonotary. A clear prima facie case of the illegality of this large non-registered vote has been made by the contestant, and if the con testee wished to claim any benefit from such vote the was upon'him to show that the affidavits were duly taken by the election hoard, and if not filed with the prothonotary were either lost or destroyed. .Such evidence was with in the reach of the contestee, and his failure to produce it raises the presump tion that if produced the evidence would have shown that the affidavits were not taken. It follows, then, that at that election there was a large illegal and fraudulent vote cast. But as to a large part of this vote the evidence does not show to which candidate it was given, or what portion of it was given to each. This fraudulent vote is groatly in exeess of the official majority returned for the sitting member. Where, therefore, fraudulent votes have been cost at an election sufficient in numbers to con trol the result of the election, and so mingled and mixed with the legal votes cast as to render it Impossible to purge the ballot-boxes and ascertain which candidate received a majority of the legal votea cast at such election, there is hut one honest way of disposing of the case, and that ia to declare the elec tion void and refer the parties hack to the people that a new election may he held. At the election in the fall of 1878 there were three candidates voted for in the twentieth congressional district for gov ernor, and the entire vote given for the three was 24,511 votes, while the con gressional vote in the same district was 26,835. The actual increased vote given for the two candidates for Congress over the vote given for governor was 2.324. In this state of facts is develop ed one of the most remarkable circum -9 stances in this case, almost unprece dented in the history of elections in this country since the foundation of the Government. That the congressional vote should exceed the total vote for State officers is a most unusual circum stance, and that 2,334 legal voters in that diatriot should go to the polls and vote alone for the congressional candidates and refrain from voting for thckthe can- didates for governor almost surpasses human belief. This excessive vote cor responds to a certain extent with the number of non-registered votes ascer. tained to have been given by the in vestigation in this case. When con sidered in connection with the fact that the assessors are supposed to have done their duty in making a registration of all the quulitied electors in the district, where the people are comparatively stationary and generally well known, a strong suspicion is raised that the ex traordinarily large list of non-register ed names represented ballots and not men. In this recital of facts, which are in capable of successful refutation, are all the indications of a most stupendous and whispered fraud upon the ballot boxes of that district. It is in evidence in this case that 121 persons voted for the sitting member without registration and without mak ing the atliilavits and proof required by the registration act. These voters were examined, testified to the facts, and the House has been referred to their names and the pages of the testimony in the case where the proof may be found. These voters were clearly ille gal and fraudulent, and as the number exceeds the official majority by which the Bitting member claima the seat, they disprove his right to retain it, and would fully justify the House in seating the contestant. In conclusion, I fully agree with the honorable gentleman fiom Indiana in all that he has suid of the patriotism, statesmanship, and great intellectual ability of Andrew G. Curtin. He would honor a seat in the House much more than he would be honored by it. I re peat the gentleman's language to give it greater emphasis. He was the friend of the Union and gave to restore the Union and maintain its integrity the best efforts of his mngniticent intellect ual abilities, lie honestly earned the title of the great war governor of Penn sylvania during the war of the rebellion. Pennsylvania will ever feel a just and exalted pride in the legions of Union soldiers which her great war governor organized and put in the field to de fend the Constitution and Union. That love of the Union which inspired him to deeds of grandeur during the rebellion drove him from the rankw of the repub lican party after peace came and rebel lion ceased. War had had its victories, and he demanded that peace should have hers. His nature was too noble, his heart too large, and his sympathies too broad to allow him to strike a fallen ' and prostrate foe. He was in full ac ' cord with the wise and moderate con servatism of the North, and stood where the lamented Lincoln would have stood rf furious and misguided fanaticism bad spared his life. Alarmed at the cen tralizing tendencies of radicalism in the.N'oith and a military despotism at the South, in the presidential contest of 1572 he took his place in the ranks of the conservative element of the country, and his warning voice was heard everywhere among the sturdy sons of the North against this new peril that menaced free government. In 1874 the lessons so impressively taught had ripened into convictions, and the elections of that year swept from power in the popular branch of our National Legislature those who had abused the trust of the people and threatened the destruction ol the Union and Constitution. This emphatic warn ing of the impending wrath of a free and confiding people was the first check given to the rapid march to centralized power. To Andrew G. ('urtin and the men who cooperated with him in the noble work the American people owe the accomplished fact of a restored Union in which each .State occupies its proper places, represented ill the Na tional Legislalure by citizens chosen by the free and unobstructed will of the citizens of the Stales they represent. To the efforts and influence of Andrew G. Curtin and those who acted with him the American people are indebted for the fact that eleven States are repre sented in the Congress of the United States by citizens of their own, chosen by the popular voice and not by scala wags and carpet-bag plunderers, the representatives of military despotism, the most odious and hateful to the Anglo-Saxon race of all the forms of bail government which the world has produced." Iloratio Seymour. n.ih.1.•!,,), Tim#* Horatio Seymour is one of the few men of our history who has more than once been sought as a Presidential can didate but who has never aimed to*pro mote his candidacy for the first office of the Republic. He may be justly said to be. about the only man within reasonable range of a hopeful Presiden tial nomination who sincerely desires not to be nominated, and who does not covet the office. Advancing age and threatened health have cooled the ambition he displayed many years ago, and he is stronger among the unorgan ized Democratic masses than any other m to-day, mainly because he is known to have long since parted with political ambition. Iloratio Seymour is the ableat and best of our living statesmen of any party. He has more of the greater at tributes of statesmanship than any of the political leaders of our time, and, if his health could be assured, he would make one of the most competent and Eatriotic Chief Magistrates the oountry as ever had. He has filled important Kositions in his own State ; has always pen the strongest man his party could select as its standard bearer, and his official record is singularly free from bletniMb. In disregard of his earnest protest, he was nominated for Presi dent in 18(18, and compelled to accept the honor : but he obeyed reluctantly, and held New York against Grant in that memorable struggle. In 1876 he was unanimously nominated for Gover nor not by nolittcal mangers hut against all their plans, and he peremptorily declined. Whether he would accept a nomination for the Presidency now, is a question that none but himself could answer; but it is certain that nothing less than an imperative de mand from the party would induce his assent. He is the strongest of all the leading men who have been discussed for the Cincinnati nomination, not only as an available candidate but in all the qualities of a great Executive, and in the uncertainty that now clouds the de cision of the Convention the selection of Horatio Seymour is altogether with in the range of possibility. NEWSPAPER OPINION. tliu Clinton Douiourut. A correspondent of the CKNTHE DKMO CHAT strongly urges the re-nomination of (lov. Curt in as the Democratic candi date for Congress in this district, and tho editors of that paper endorse the suggestion of their correspondent in emphatic terms. That (lov. Curtin was fairly elected by a majority of legal votes at tho last election was fully prov ed before Congress, und he should therefore have been awarded the seat, but political (eeling on the part of the Republicans and Greenpackers, together with private resentments against some of Curtin's leading friends in Congress, gave the seat to Yocum. It is held now by tho immediate personal friends of (lov. Curtin and many other Democrats that a vindication at the next election is due him, especially in view of the fact that when ho ran before there was an extraordinary combination ngainst him that cunnot exist again and that he was kept out of his district during the whole campaign by the constituted authorities of the Democratic party, serving it in the general field of battle. There is at least sufficient force in the suggestion to demand tho serious and patriotic thought and attention of every Democrat. The CENTRE DEMOCRAT also insists that nine out of every ten Dem ocrats in Centre county sustain its view of the case. Whatever the Democracy of the dis trict may desire to do, it is to be hoped they will clearly express in their county conventions, and not fritter their voice and their strength away in so-called complimentary nominations. These are always mischievous and frequently disastrous. The issue in behalf of Gov. Curtin is a plain one and ought to be squarely met. If the Democracy of any county want to vindicate or re-nom nate him let them say so in a direct and frank way. If they want to nomi nate somebody else let them expressly say so, and not name somebody they do no not want, byway of compliment. There has been enough of that baby business—too much. When a county really has no particular preference for a candidate, it may be and no doubt is quite proper to name some fit citizen who has not sought the honor, as a com pliment. Rut that practice has of late years been seriously abused by men coming forward and soliciting the com pliment, begging, bargaining and coax ing for it merely as a compliment, but when they obtained it, to the exclusion of u real preference, demanding the selection of their own conferees and then assisting on these adhering to them to the very last, hoping that acci dent, excitement, momentary anger or resentment, or something ot that sort, might bring about their nomination, like lightning striking in sunshine. It is against this latter batch of cheap, low-priced demagogues that we protest. Itullrtin, IU |>. Mr. Jenks, who was named for the Supreme Court .ludgsbip, is not only an excellent lawyer, hut a roan of high character and considerable experience in public affairs. Col. Dechert is well known in this city as a pure and aide man. A better candidate for the Auditor Generaishlp could not be found in the Democratic party in the State. I lift Ohiffu r, Ifem. The Democrat who obtains at Cincin nati two-thir s of the whole number of votes cast has a claim upon the faithful support of his whole party, infinitely stronger than the candidate who may be created a nominee by a majority of one vote at Chicago ha* upon hia. The impossibility of a weak or foolish choice is guaranteed when -192 of the "38 representatives of Democracy in con vention assembled agree upon a stand ard-bearer. N.w York Wi. ii. While the lion. Allen (5. Thurman swelters a* presiding officer of 'the sleepy Senate, getting red in the face over vexed appeals trom decisions, and heated over the constructions of the rules, William A. Wheeler puts on fresh hail, and, under refreshing shade, with the cool water of the St. Regis river trickling through his boots, tempts the cunning trout. I'iUl>urx Ws.kly iUcvrd. If the Cincinnati Convention is con trolled by men of wisdom, if the dele gates to that convention desire to place the success of Democracy beyond doubt, they will, without unnecessary waste of time, alter assembling, place General Hancock in nomination for President and some good western man for Vice President. In that event, there would he no doubt of the result next Novem ber. Will they do it, or take the chances of defeat with others that might be narfied. Cincinnati Kui|iilrer, Dcm. There is a willingness to accept any candidate who may be the choice of the National Convention. There is no Democratic desire to defeat any Demo cratic candidate for the Presidency after the nominating convention. There is no vehement Democratic opposition of a national character to any Demo cratic candidate for the nomination. There ia ja Democratic disposition to elect the Democratic nominee. There is a state of Democratic harmony. And this, in contrast with Republican condi tion, meana that the Democratic nomi nee ia to be elected. Wafthlngton Port. It is suggested by the New York Tribune that possibly Mr. Abraham 8. Hewitt may be held in reserve as the much talked of dark horse. There is one beauty about Mr. Hewitt which the Tribune has neglected to notice-—ha could beat anybody the Republican par ly will nominate, and that, too, without much effort. Ittlhutolphla Tims*. Notwithstanding Mr. Hayaa' adminis tration, the Republican party is still pointing with pride to iu record. It even manifests a little pride in pointing to Mr. Hayes himself. Thut IlnrrlNhurg Court. The Court held at our State Capital perpetrates some queer freaks. The Carlisle Volunteer cites the following; "In the list of cases tried at the re cent Court of (Quarter Sessions in Har risburg, we find the following: " Lewis Cobangh, larceny of a chicken— three months in county jail. " Elijah Km beck, larceny of two bush els of coal—three months in county jail. " Mark the contrast. The 'roosters' attempt to steal millions from the peo ple, ' plead guilty,' anil are sentenced to the penitentiary ; then pardoned by a Republican Board of Pardons. The poor men take something to eal und to keeb themselves warm, possibly from necessity. Will they be pardoned ? No. Their cases will never as much as be considered by the Roard. Verily, in these degenerate days of Republi canism, it is extremely dangerous to be poor." mm • —•- GENERAL NEWS. Mrs. Caroline Richings-Rernard and her husband, Pierre Rernard, have been engaged at a lurge salary to conduct the choir of an Episcopal church, at Rich tnond, Va. Edwin Rooth will sail for Europe on the .'K)th of June with his wife ami daughter, for a long residence abroad. He will probably play in London and other Rritish cities during the present year. A fire in Nevada City, Cel., on Satur day evening destroyed about fifty build ings in the Chinese quarter and a num ber of stores ard other buildings in the business port of the town. The loss aggregates about $60,000. Ex-Senator Gordon made a speech at Augusta, Oe,. on Saturday in which he said he left public life because ho had long desired to do so, and because a lu crative position had been offered him. He indorsed the appointment of Ex- Governor Rrown as his successor. lion. Sherrard Clemens, who died in St. I. Jennings Wise, one of the editors of the Richmond Em/uirer, which lamed him for life. General Joseph K. Johnson mounted Stonewall Jackson, a favorite horse, at Nashville, the other day, and Kx Gov ernor Hendricks, General E. Kirby Smith and General B. F. Cheatham, who were standing by, gave three cheers as the old warrior*, riders and ridden, galloped away. Uueen Victoria has attained her Cist year, an age exceeded by eleven only of the sovereigns of England, dated from the Norman Conquest—namely, Henry I, who lived to the age of 67 : Henry 111, who lived to 65 years; Edward 1, who lived to be 67 ; Edward HI, who attained 65 years; tpieen Elizabeth, who reached 09 years; James 11, who lived 68 years; George I, 67 years; George 11, 77 years; George 111, 82 years; George IV, 68 years, and Wil liam IV, who lived to be 72 years. n the 20ih of June she will bave reigned over England forty-three years, a period which has not been exceeded by more than four English sovereigns, viz.. Hen ry 111, who reigned 56 years; Edward 111, who reigned GO years ; tjueen Eliza betb, who reigned 45 years ; and George lit, who reigned for the long period of 60 years. Philadelphia Markets. I'ltn *rri tmi, J mm- IMfi. Finn? • IMCO?# and uol At AOil Amber at f] t|. At tb> open lMMirtl, flml c*ll. fl WAA bid for Jqfi fill! for July: (1.11 tor Aufuat And 11 lof for Hrpfembor. Bellefonte Marketa. RSILKSOKTS, J MI in, |ssi l QUOTATION*. Whit# wheat, ptr 1>uah*L............ fl |u Rod 1 10 Ry\ |> r luithfl. Ao (Vn.roh„.. w 4.S OUS, • hells ! 4A OSU... (H 4* Flour, retail. pr lirrl... N A tit Flour, wholund. ap+drd 10 Haatu par quart j Frwah butter par pound ............. 11 Chlrkanff par pound - 6 ChHMM pr pound.. 'JO Country liatna par pound..... 10 Hams. sugar < ur*d. 12 HAS of! 7 Urd per pound..... A Kf| pr do* Id (otatoM prr buahe1.....**...7-S Drted hrrf,...MH - .... 10 Xeu< Aih'ertmrntent*. A New Early Sweet Potato, EARLY GOLDEN. SUPERIOR in earlinow,productive- O RMM, color und quality. l'rodu< #•! taltera Urge enough for the market in rtftbty day*. On nrrount of its Early Maturity, it is be tiered to be better adapted for Culti vation in the Northern States than any other variety. In .hap. th.y sr. .mi.whst hnrtr than th. onlln.ry .srt.tlM, of a folilsn jr.llmr color, cook j dry, and sr. of mp.rfor flsnir, *lll irrov on quit, oniinarjr toll with tut s .light cost of msniir., xlld.d s Urg. crop lli. |ul M*ia upon Issd that wosld nut grow abo.* flft.-n linth.l. of corn to th srr*. As .xr.ll.ut k.p ar. Th. suet rslasM. saricty Is mill.alios. I'rlc. of slips, with dlrwUon* for planting, by mail, nost-uiM, SO cnta p.r ilor.n , II It for fifty ; t2.no pwr hnnifrnl. |I1M) iwr thousand. I). K. BLISS A SONS. 24-31 34 Barclay Htrwt, N.w York. Centre County Farmers' Home. THE BUSH HOUSE. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. Improrad Maiding and Chr.fal llmtl.r. I Bperlal Hal., for Jurym.n and WlUam. CIMMIIMM, CUM fori and Taltl. UDMCIM. NO DISCRIMINATION against th* Prodnrra of our Food, than whom son. sr. mors worthy, or non .ntitlrd toattratioa. Th. Bosh Hoam hating or* thrw tlaim th. rapurity of lAber hotl, th.r* Is no onoaahia or dfopaalUon to placo th. gaa.lo la attki moaw. Thli armunt. for Its growing 1-oc.J Trada. W. do aot Imm yoar hon*. to (ho far. and profit of parttm dforoonn-lH with th. hnhl. lA-tf! D. B. PKTXH*. hxprMor. BARMAN'S HOTEL, VI OppositeOoart Hutu., BKLMtrORTB, PA TERMS fl SSPKR DAT. A goad Gt.ry attarhed. l-]j IV et.SII,C S.I.V Its' anas, .ton- 14, IHHy. A. ViTOK/LID'S FAIR. The LARGEST TENTEDEXHIBiTIGN ON EMM! THE MONARCH MARVEL OF MODERN TIMES! „ WELSH vK: SANDS" GREAT NEW ORLEANS AND SAN FRANCISCO Railroad Circus and Royal English Menagerie! Tho One and Only World's Fair of tho Rail. Upon it H Own Three Locomotive Trains. Will Positively Exhibit ut Bellefonte, MONDAY, June 14th, Under its Four Thousand Yards of Lofty Tents, Made Brighter than Unclouded Equatorial Nbon, by the New and Just Perfected $30,000 ELECTRIC HLXG-IETT! Sunbeams nre shadow, in its chained lightning blaze, whirh upon f-'eien h< ii h Heaven-born Halo. We, and We alone have it. No Other Show can obtain the right to use it; None other can afford it. It is itself a Glorious Exhibition, well worth going full 1"0 miles 6' '• Its 100,000 Gaslight-power Electric Motor, Which is exhibited both afternoon and evening, and i alone the gremte-t > f a'! i.- exhibitions, costing full sßo,ooocash, requiring a 60-horse j-otrer Kiectric M.-t< - a to. horse power Boiler, and many miles of copper cable One Ticket, for the Usual Price, Admits To what is more than 20 First-class Shows. Children tinder 9 years, half rat<- Separate from all, but without extra charsrc, THE MONSTER MILLIONAIRE MEXAGKRIK OF LA 11 1 H A KHHUMMI Herd of Klciiliunt-s. a whole Meiisurcrie of these Mam malian Mastodons, inclnlinir 'CALIPH,' THK LARGEST CAPTIVE MONSTER IN THE WOLLH. Which weighs more than any throe other elephanta in America, and "DOT," the Midget Dwarf of all his Race, Loss than threo foot high, and tho smallest Elephant on Earth * Captivo World of Rarest Living Snvage Wonders i exhibited. In a mon.u-r marine unk, Two Stupendous Living Sea Lions, whi.l. cost us SIO,OOO, weigh mure than a tun, and are bv far the largest pair <>f th'-e lUr and Curjous Arctic Amphibia Ever Captured An Entire Caravan of Abys sinian Dromedaries and Bactrian Camels. A Urg. r number than ail tH.r v on l conUne,,t combined can produce. Then there's our Little Ones. You will sce-- TIIE SMALLEST BABY ELEPHANT EYEU OX EXHIBITION. ley. Tfe y ßabV nB BoI h Lio B ns l ; y aiid ftniolß, Th ° TlgCra ' Tho Baby M ° n " POSITIVELY THE SMALLEST HORSE THAT EVER WALKED. 7/CAS than Tuo Feet in Height and Weighing loess than 100 lbs. Iiw >n Tk "n d ,°°i? n Hairy Rhinocerous, The Onlv Horned Horse of Ethi fthUhk 7 yr°? r , D <*7 Writ - 0f * hich "I>.n Earth there U not hi. like. The Only Abyssinian Vlacke Vark, and over 12,000 olher RARE BEASTS, BIRDS and TRAINED ANIWALS. In an Immenso and Superb Separata Tent, made Bright as Day by the ELECTRIC LIGHT. The (Jreal New Orleans and San Franoiseo Railroad Cirrus intro duces, without extra charge, UNI AKEKIC ( KLF.RHITI LS. M \fo~ n .™n l !r. r v" r,,b % k *qutrißM, More lively Ldy Eiders, More Le*per, wJT,Trk 7 Tumblers, More Acrobats, More Equilibrist*, More Double P or# , ri " l ArtUU, More Educated Animals, and More Principal, Special and General Performers, than were ever before assembled under any canopv. A Programme of Astounding Per formancea without a Parallel in any Age, Introducing at Each of ">ulDe Wild Uto Indians, Chiem and Braves, who appear in A TH KILL ING DBA M A OF 1) < > HI) F. E LI FF THIS IS INDEED THE BIG 8H0W! A <200.000 SHOW FOR NOTHING! At from Oto lO o'clock each morning. Tha Glorias of the Golden Age Eclipsed More Than a Mile of Solid Pageantry. M A Whole Menagerie of Klephant* in Line. THURK SI-LKXPIP RAXIN* OF MUSIC. The Great Steam Chariot Band. A Caravan of Camels Introduced. The 120,000.00 Huge Aquarium Car. The Fierce Jungle Monarchy Crouchetl ou Rlaziug Dens. A Crnsus Chain of Glit tering Chariot*. Stupendous Squadrons of Princely Tranpetl Steeds. A C*TAl cade of Midget Ponies. An Indewrilw- Jou™^rto < 8^ CCn,C KcVe,tUou * and S,, P <>rb It U worth a IHy> SPECIAL RATEB on Railroads U and from (lie Great World's Exposi tion. MTREMEMBEH THE DAY AND DATE. tJXjnsrE ONE TICKET ADMITS YOU TO ALL.