Cttttrr BELLEFONTE, PA. Tk# Largest, Cheapest send Bast Paper PUBLISHED IN CKNTKK COUNTY. In the Isle of Dreams. I>K 001. YKR OAKKIKLU, LOQUITUR, I wrote thee in the Islo of Dream*, Thou loet Do Oolyer brief, While straying on the silver sands That line its coral reef. Yes, by the flashing waterfalls, That lulled the hours asleep, I wrote that deep and learned brief, Which some one failed to keep. 1 met thee in the Islo of Dreams, Thou dear departed Ames ; 'Twas there for Credit Mobilier Thou madest tempting claims. The lilies blossomed on our path, Wild roses lined our wav, Tho sweet birds carolled merrily, And 1 was led astray. I wandered in tho Isle of Dreams, In fair, enchanted ways, And, dulled by tho Lethean streams, I helped to count in liayes. For all was sunshine, bliss and light, Tho Speakership seemed mine, And glory, honor, ull things good, While life was half divine. I tread again those sounding shores— They echo in my dreams ; I meditate upon the gains Of more De Oolyer schemes, For I am up for President, I'm willing to be sold, And there are those perchance who'll buy With silver and with gold. I'll drink a deep and goodly draught From Lethe's cooling stream; I am undone if I should wake From this delicious dream. Come fraud, come perjury and bribes, Swindles and grabs forsooth, And aid, with all your mighty arts, Garfield to tell the truth. Gen. Sickles on Hancock. A CLEAR PRESENTATION OF THE IS SUES OF THE CANVASS —THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS IJUOABOO. From tho New York World, Oct. 0, JBSO. 14 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, ) October 6, 1880. j W. A. FOWLER, Esq., Chairman Ex ecutive Committee, St. James Hotel. Dear Sir: Husiucss engagements that cannot be deferred will occupy j my time during the next fortnight, so that I am unable to make such ap pointments for public meetings as you propose. My impressions about the present canvass have been freely ex pressed to my friends and may be summed up in a few paragraphs. I have always felt that whenever the Democratic party North and South—frankly accepted the results of the war and nominated a candidate for President who was a firm and steady friend of the Union throughout the struggle, I could then as a war Democrat honorably resume my for mer political relations. The nomina tion of Hancock, one of the most distinguished leaders of the Union armies; his affirmation of the inviola bility of the war amendments to the Constitution ; bis denunciation of the unlawfulness of all reclamations set up by those who took part in the rebellion ; the general favor his nomi nation has received in the Southern States —the "solid" support of the South given to a Union soldier— remove the causes which have for some time alienated me from my old political associates. I shall cheerfully unite with them now to promote the election of their worthy candidate. The people do not sympathize with the struggle of the leaders of the Re publican party to perpetuate their power. The earnestness of Lincoln, the strength of Seward, the enthusiasm of Sumner, the energy of Stanton are followed by the rivalries, jealousies and intrigues exhibit! d in the Chicago Convention. The patriotic zeal which animated these great men of the Re- Eublican party of the past seemed to ave degenerated in their successors to a mere strife for patronage and place, and days were spent in bitter contention about candidates without presenting to the country any issue having a practical bearing on its wel fare. The paramount question to be settled by tho leaders at Chicago seemed to be the order of their succes sion to the Presidency. It is desirable that the inevitable change in the political control of the government, which is no doubt imrai mnt, shall take place under safe con ditions. It is not to be supposed that any party can bold power indefinitely. The examples of our own and other countries show that an alternation of parties every few years is to be antici pated, and experience proves these per iodical transitions to be wholesome and useful. Democratic control can be safely tried with Hancock. He will give us all the advantages without any of the risks of the change of adminis tration. Republicans and Democrats who united with so much satisfaction in electing General Grant do not serious ly doubt the fitness of a soldier to fill the Presidential chair. The support era of General Hayes and the party that has now nominated General Gar field and General Arthur must have confidence in military men, unless it be suggested that neither Garfield or Arthur have seen enough service to imperil our institutions by their mar tial proclivities. The country was never more fortunate than in the elec tion of General Jackson, the champion of theJUniou and of a sound currency and of the independence of the gov ernment from corporations and who raised our youug republic to the high est plane of national dignity und strength. Grant and Hayes aud Gar field belonged to the gallant armies of the West. It is time that the army of the Potomac —the victors of Antietam, Gettysburg, Spottsylvauia and Rich mond—should be remembered in the person of one of its greatest com manders. Five million votes will be cast for General Hancock. He will have the suffrages of a considerable and influ ential part of the population of every State in the Union. And although the greater portion of his votes will come from the North and East and West, it will represent in the aggregate every section and interest of a reunited country as they have not been repre sented by any executive since the war. All parts of the Union should share the prosperity we now enjoy. There is no doubt that the political agitation in the South, growing out of appre hended interference in their local gov ernment, and absorbing the attention of the Southern people during the past fifteen years, has seriously retarded improvement in their condition. All such fears would be tranquillized by four years of Hancock's conservative administration, and a general revival of enterprise, activity and thrift would be seen throughout the new South— the South of 1880 —greatly to the ad vantage of the whole country. The North means to hold fast to the . results of the war. These are embod ied in the recent amendments to the Constitution. General Hancock de | dares them to be inviolable. The I South says, Amen. So be it. Let us make this a compact by electing Hancock and so put an end to all further controversy about the funda mental questions settled by the law of j secession. Let the decree be written in Hancock's own words: "When rebellion was crushed, the heresy of secessiou in every form and in every incideut went down forever. It is a thing of the dead past." All we need in the Executive is an honest mid intelligent administration of the government. It is a mistake to suppose that General Hancock is without preparation or experience to qualify him for Executive duties. No ! man without administrative ability can successfully fill the great military offices (ieneral Hancock has held dur ing the past eighteen years. His present military jurisdiction embraces seventeeu States —from Maine to Louia iaua—and whether commanding large forces in the field or dealing with the difficult questions incident to recon struction in the South, or in restoring tranquility to Pennsylvania, overrun by mobs and disturbed by riots, he has always shown the discrimination, dis cretion and tact which point out the man of executive capacity. At least it may be said that a stainless and successful career in the army affords as many guarantees for the faithful discharge of the functions of a chief magistrate as can be found in n long jieriod of service in Congress, with its many temptations and frequent com plications with the interests of corpor ations, contractors and jobbers. I am, sir, very respectfully, I). E. SICKLES. ♦ TIIK FIGHTIXU CONKLING, Colonel F. A. Conkling, brother of .Senator Roscoe Conkling, nddressed a large and enthusiastic meeting of Democrats and independent Republi cans on Monday evening last in New York, and among other things said : "Who have taken the place of Sum ucr, Chase, Trumbull, Seward, and other leaders ? The I>ogaus, the ('ani erons, the Garfields and the Colfaxes. From the time these men have as sumed the control of the party it has been held together by the cohesive power of plunder. And now I would like to ask what that Republican par ty has done. The party has put for ward a man whose character will not bear scrutiny. They have made an odious, malignant sectionalism the chief feature of the canvass. This man Garfield has been put forward as representing the principles of that party. Now I tell you he stands be fore the American people as a liar, a perjurer, a bribe taker, a back-salary grabber, and, last but not least, as the most conspicuous figure in the electoral fraud of 1876. Now, of course you and I understand that the men who have put Garfield forward must nec essarily support him, and if their con science will permit them to do so I find no fault with them. Hut I do object to one thing. Ido object to the Hon. Hamilton Fish declaring that 'no purer or abler man ever assisted in the councils of the nation. No bet ter man can be found.' Now, we do not expect that men like Hamilton Fish and George William Curtis shall throw dust in the eyes of the Ameri can people like that." The speaker said he thought it proper to read Thomas Jefferson's ad dress, and he quoted at length from it, and added, "I may say that there is no man that has lived in this country who lives up to that creed better than Gen. Hancock." When he was asked to support the nomination of General Hancock he said he held back, having thoughts of West Point and of mili tary men who hod no experience in civil affairs, but after he had read General Hancock's letters it seemed no exaggeration to say that no man who has figured in the affairs of this country better appreciates the spirit of our institutions than General Hun cock. "I have referred," he contin ued, "to the dilemma in which the Republicans are placed. I feel sorry for them. J said something just now about Hamilton Fish. Now, if any gentleman should happen to hear of my brother speaking of Mr. Garfield in that way he would oblige me by dropping me a postal card." [Cheers and laughter.] One of the important circumstances of this campaign, he thought, is that so many Republicans have come out in the support of General Hancock. "There is no need of giving names," he said. "You know many of them. There are about three hundred of them where I just came from. They asked me to come here and speak. They are against the narrow, odious sectionalism that forms the chief fea ture of the Republican canvass." IKHV HISTORY KEI'EATM ITSELF, From tli N. Y. I lent Id, (Independent) 50, IHNI. The Republicans, who have for sev eral months foretold the inevitable ruin of the country if General Han cock should be elected, cry out 'Ruin!' louder than ever. They hoj>e to change somebody's vote by this device, and long Custom has made its use entirely useless. A free people have too much courage to be scared out of their votes by such means. We should not speak of the mutter now, however, were it not our duty to put the public on its guard. Such campaign cries are sometimes used by shrewd operators to afreet the stock markets in a manner which, while it brings them large prolits, brings loss to many innocent holders of securities; and it is to warn these latter against holding just now more than they have paid for, and against selling out on u needless fright what they hold, that we remind them of some previous in stances in which the "bears" have taken occasion of political excitement to make a raid on the market. There is no occasion for alarm. The coun try is solidly prosperous, and nobody is going to injure its credit, whatever even very eminent persons may assert to the contrary. Everybody remembers that only I four years ago, in IH7G, Mr. Morrill, i then {Secretary of the Treasury, came to New York from Washington on the eve of the election ami solemnly warn ed us nil from the steps of the Sub- Treasury that if Mr. Tildeu should be elected bonds would fall and the fi nances would go to the demnition bow wows. Everybody remembers, too, that Mr. Evarts, then not yet Secretary of the State, preceded Secretary Mor rill by a few days with the same sol emn declaration, laying his hand on the place where he believes his heart to Ire, the arch joker, as he assured his audience that Democratic success meant unutterable wo 3 and loss of money to them. Well, in spite of these assurances from an actual Secretary of the Treas ury and a potential Secretary of State, in spite of the gravest fears excited in the breasts ami pockets of many honest ami credulous people by these prophecies of contingent woe, New York had the audacity to give the Democratic ticket nearly thirty-thee thousand majority; and nobody was hurt. GROW ON THE TARIFF. From lb* I'itULuiK P*i. Galusha Grow is perambulating the State making sjweches accusing the Democratic party of being n Free Trade party. Grow has a faint idea that he is a candidate for U. 8. Sena tor, and that the Camorons will allow him to Ire elected. He is much more likely to be struck by lightning. Quay is the selected Senator by the powers that be, in case they carry the Legis lature, and Mr. Grows province is merely that of a decoy to induce auti* Camernn Republicans to vote for leg islative candidates sure to nominate the chief of the Pardon Board. Four fifths of the Republicans uominated for the Legislature in the State will do as Mr. Cameron indicates. He has the whip-hand of the McManes crowd in Philadelphia by threats of investi gating and exposing the gas trust and other municipal jobs by the next Leg islature. Mr. Grow while lampooning the Democrats as Free Traders should re memher his own record. While a member of the House he opposed the subsidy to the Collins line of steamers, and in one of his speeches declared : "This Government has no business to come in with its strong arm to aid one class of citizen iu competition with another in the same business, es pecially in the carrying trade of the nation, where it requires a large in vestment of capital and long experi ence in htisiness to which men have devoted their lives and in which is in vested their all. It is a kind of pro tection more odious than that given to the rolling mill and eotton factory, be cause more exclusive, and every man knows that it is odious enough. The Government has no right to extend its hand to interfere in the business re lations of life. Let the citizen regu late his own business under the laws of trade with no competition but that of superior skill and industry." Mr. Grow was the successor in Con gress of the famous David Wilmot, who was the only representative in the House who, in 1846, voted for the repeal ol the tariff* of 1842. David in I'll. .M ■' i = -n.i. Wilmot was elected by the Republi cans to the United States Kenate sub sequently, as a tribute of their resjiect for the only free trader from Pennsyl vania in Congress. Mr. Grow is his worthy disciple and follower. He has been an apt scholar, and has proved his sturdy devotion to his free trade education and principles by de nouncing "the odious protection to the rolling mill and cotton factory." Mr. Grow's memory should be jog ged on these points while on his speech making tours. He and Garfield are both free traders, sailing under false colors. THE SAGE OF I TICA SI'EAKS. Krotn the Wimhiiißton I'owt. In his recent address in New York city, Governor Seymour took up and effectually disposed of the ingenious sophistries which Mr. Conkling has woven together in his campaign speeches. The work is thoroughly done. The burden of Conkliug's complaint is that, as the North is richer than the South, she is more wronged than that section by the alleged undue promi nence of the latter in Congress, and that the North will be still further op pressed if the poorer section shall gain that influence in the General Govern ment which would, in Mr. Conkliug's opinion, be the legitimate result of a Democratic victory in the pending contest. Mr. Seymour admits that inequality of representation, whenever and where ever it exists iu our system, if not controlled by the Constitutional limi tations, is dangerous, and tends toward usurpation. He shows that the whole course of Republican administration has been to expand the power ami in fluence of the Senate, the body which is constituted without reference to pop ulation, and iu which the smallest State possesses the same voting strength ; as the largest. With all the limitations, provided by the Constitution, this inequality might not 1m? a source of injustice or | danger. But the Republican party | has disregarded those limitations, and has steadily carried forward the work of concentrating in the Senate the powers and duties which the framers of our Government located elsewhere. Governor Seymour calls on the bus iness men who are disturbed by Mr. Conkliug's remarks on the alleged uudue influence of the South, to re member that, while according to the census of I*7o, the population of the State of New York was over four millions, there were thirteen States, with less population, that had twenty six members in the United States Senate, while New York had but two. Of those States, nine are Northern and four arc Southern. But even this does not show the unequal power ex : ercised by different States over the action of our Government. More than • half of our people live in nine States ; it is iu these that the great interests, capital, commerce, manufactures and I agricultural production, are displayed |in the grandest proportions. Yet this 1 majority of American citizens have I only eighteeu Senators out of seventy , | six—less than one-quarter of the num j ber. On the other hand, there are , i nineteen States whose ]K>pulation is , less than one-fifth that of our country, , who have one-half of the members of the controlling department of our Government. This small minority, through their Senators, can prevent the passage of laws for the interest of the majority, or the repeal of those ! laws which are hurtful. The Republican party has not only 1 persisted in its settled pur|sise to con -1 centrate power in the Senate, but has made the danger greater by adding to the number of States such small com -1 muuities on the frontiers as seemed tolerably certain to elect Republican 1 Senators. With these, and with North ern men billeted on Southern States ' by bayonet rule, the Senate defied the jieople for four years. And more than ' this —a fact which has not been meu ' tioued by Governor Seymour, or any of the statesmen who have discussed ' this question —it was this packing of 1 the Senate that made the fraud of 1 1*76 and 1877 |mssible. Usurpation in the Senate led up to usurpation of the Executive office. LINCOLN AND HANCOCK. s From the New York Son, In 1860 the panic makers who are > now active in seeking to create a false i alarm among what are culled the , business interests were engaged in a similar work. They told the country i that Lincoln's election would destroy I everything, and they painted that man i of peace and good will ns a devil in • carnate. Conspicuously amoug these ! prophets of evil were many Silver gray Whigs, some of whom are to day repeating in Philadelphia and i elsewhere their old electioneering pre • dictions. After having pictured Lincoln as > the very worst of his species, these po ■ litical traders with seven principles, of k five loaves and two fishes, were quick i after his election to turn their i coats and to pretend a devotion which they never felt at heart They made capital of a hypocritical conversion, aud filled their pockets at every chance. And now when a proved patriot, and a statesman soldier, who shed his blood iu defence of the Uuion when his assailants were speculating io jobs i and contracts and were buying subsli i tutes with the profits of shoddy, is a I candidate for the Presidency, these • .. - unscrupulous partisans have the au dacity to charge that his election would imperil peace and prosperity. This trick is an insult to public in telligence, and will hardly impose on even the weuk and credulous. It has hitherto been tried in many forms, and will be tried again before Garfield is condemned by the popular verdict. When, after all his boasting and as surances of a large majority, Blaine was beaten on his own ground, with every advantage hut votes in his favor, an attempt was made to bear Govern mcut bonds and other choice securities, charging it to fear in the money mar ket caused by Fusion success. The alarmists soon sickened of that experiment when the reaction over took them, inside of forty-eight hours, and they were too glad to beat an ig noininous retreat. At this time, when our commercial streets are actually blocked up with merchandise for South ern markets, and extra steamers have been put on for Charleston, Savannah, New < )rleans, and other ports, to carry the enormous freight required for that new trade which has taken unprece dented proportions, Mr. Conkling and others like him have done their ut most to divert it elsewhere, and to break up the confidence that should exist between the North and the South. The Union has no worse enemies than these professional politicians, who live by disturbing the public peace, who seek to keep the sections in hos tility, and whose vocation is to excite jealousy, discontent, and hatred be tween a people who have common tra ditions, common interests, and common objects of affection, now made closer , and wanner by a former alieantiou. TIIE MASSACHUSETTS CAMPAIGN. I.ETTEK FROM THE HON. ROHEKT C. WIN- 1 Timor. i To the Editor of tin Boston J'wt. DEAR Sin: I ain sorry to see by | this morning's Po*t that niv name wat placed at the head of the list of vice-presidents at the Democratic i meeting last night. 1 am duly sensi | hie of the compliment, hut it was | without my consent. laCt me add, ; however, in justice to the committee, ; that a printed invitation was addressed j to me : but, owing to its being left ut i niv house, it reached rnc too late. For many years past I have been i altogether an independent voter. Dur j ing this period I have repeatedly sup I ported Democratic candidates, and I jam quite likely to do so again. But I 1 have sometimes voted the Repuhli- j | can ticket; and I prefer to remain for the rest of my life unconnected with I anv party organization. Indeed, I had no purpose of enter ing at all into the political discussions of the approaching election, but to reserve the privilege of voting accord- j ing to my immediate convictions when the election day shall arrive. And i this I shall still do. But I have nothing to conceal, and this occasion obliges me to say frankly { that I am opposed to-day, as I always have been, to any concerted array of i i solid Norths against solid Souths. ■ , These sectional antagonisms and con- I tentions are worthy of all reprobation, ; | and never more so than when foment ed and kept alive, one the on side or : on the other, for the purpose of pro- ; longing party power. They brought j on the war, and they will still inter fere with the best fruits of peace. The condition of the freedmen them- | ■ selves —their prospects of education, , and their secure enjoyment of all the ' privileges of citizenship, would, in my 1 judgment, be far more hopeful if the i pressure of a solid North were taken off from the Southern States, and if they could cease to feel, whether rea sonably <• found who would advocate secession a- a remedy for any possible grievance, ,r the restoration of negro elaverv. ! know of no other differences between the North and the South than iw longer existence of slavery in j| . Southern States, and their inor< j orous attempt to vindicate the idea f secession. It must not he forgotten i that the Northern States were one slave State' as well as the S .utliern, | and that the doctrine of sec "ion i. preached once in Massachusetts a well a' iu South Carolina. A- the two sections stand now what difrr ! encas remain ? I can see none. N | that it is over, we thank < Jod that we are rid of slavery, and that there ran he no sectional party in the N r:a hostile to the South which w ill n >: a; I the same time inflict similar evils up a j the Northern people, for to-day w<■ ar one in interest." "How do the ex •( on federate je.pi;. lation regard the question of payment ' for the losses of the war and S nthcrn claims generally ?" "I say unhesitatingly that the S jth j ern people are opposed to the pay ment of w hat are called rebel ( lain:— I war claims. These claims are ju-t i w hat General Hancock describes them to he—a bugliear—a mere phantom . f Republican imagination to frighten the Northern people out of their senses. The amendment to the pie ' would IK* willing to tax themsolv.-- : r the benefit of a few hundred th u sand. Never in the history ot the : jtolitics of this country was such an absurd hue and cry attempted to 1* | raised as this talk about the payment I of Southern claims." j ('•L 'TsJ I 1 I LJ A T . STATE NORMAL SCHOOL (Eighth Xorvuil School District. J LOCK HAVEN, CLINTON CO., PA. A. N. RAUB, A. M., principal. "PUIS SCHOOL,as at present con- A atita-ed, offer. lb* nr; I*l tariliti'-t f l'f fra.iooiil and Clustra) lewralng. Iluil Itur* tparlnua. tontine and noSMndina< wis pletely baa led by •tram, aril MliltM. and fun t --od with a bountiful aupply of pure water. reft nj.nrt water. taxation healthful aad wt of arrow. Surrounding ronj uumt-a—r-d Tearbera anperiearod, eltioiant, and all.f tr tbe.r • orb. IHwiplloo. Arm and kind, uniform and thorough. Rxpenaaa moderate Fifty ceuta a nook dodnrtinn to tb-we preparing tr toarb. Htudanta admitted at any tltnr. Courw of atudy prearrtbrd by thr State I Model School. 11. l'ro|iaratory 111. Elementary. It.Sri •attSc. aimer rorMir t Ara.t-mtr 11. Conmml.l 111 Mnalr IV Art. Tbr Elementary and Scientlfti coiir-eat an- rt" tamtonai, and atndeiiia graduating therein rw ' * litplomaa, conferring tba following onrrrtp-nding b grew: Mattel of the Klrmenta, and HMI of srtaoraw. Oiaduataa in tba o'har ooumaa raralra Normal CartlSeataw of tbair attaißmanta, aign-i b tha Faculty. Ttia Prufawional rontana ara llbaral, ami ara in thorough tic*. not interior to tbnae of our IsJt collage*. Tha Stata require* a highar order of riUaaaatup. Tha Uaa* daman.l It It la na ot tha prima oh"-" of thta orhool to hdp to aarura it by furoiahiag intel ligent and efhrient taarhara for bar arboola. To th and It aoltrlu young paaaona of good abllitlaa and good pr|>eae—lh.-ee wHo doalra to Itapwa tbair tliaa aad Ihalr talanta, aa atndaola. To all anrh it pmmiwa aid In d*ral..plng tbair pi-waca and atmadaot opportuntiiaa for wall-paid labor aftar laa.ing arhord. For ratafogaa and tarnia addraaa tba Principal. aotan or raraiua Rinrkhnltlatw'Truotaaa— j " Barton. M ID., A It. | IM. 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