SIIFGKRT \ FOKSTKK, Editors. I VOL. 2. fk (Cnvlvc Jlrmocrat. Tec "is 31.A0 per Annum.ln Advance. S. T SHUOERT and R H. FORSTER. Editor*. 1 (fbarsday Morning, December IG, 1880. Tho Eloctornl Count. E The exploded eliiim of the Republi can- in 1877 that the President of the j ■enate alone has a right to eoillit the \ Electoral vote, is again renewed and forms the basis for acrimonious debate 'jpiil any amount of filibustering on tbe part of the Republican minority in Congress toestahlish this daugerons j innovation upon the constitution and the precedent! l of the pn>t. The Dcm- ) !krrats claim that the Electoral vote is Required by the constitution to be Counted by tho two houses of Congress in joint session assembled. The elec tion of Cartield is unanimously ad mitted, and there is no pretence of j Opposition to his inauguration in Con- ' gr. -s or elsewhere. Then why this! effort on the part of the Republicans to establish the precedent that the Vice President alone must count and I Bee lure the election of the President? Pimply because it is a link in the ' chain of revolution to wrest power from the immediate representatives ot tlhe people according to the old Federal and vest it more directly in the Executive government. The anx *• ietv now on the part of the. stalwart j ■Republicans to atl'eet this innovation Bl not difficult of solution. They have j Rlected a Vice President upon whom <|b' v can relv to carry through any jjjr.'joct that may be presented in I*B4 to perpetuate their lease of power how i#vr the people may deride. Arthur wan be relied upon to give effect to Hfuiy emergent scheme that may be Bfcbrised for this purpose, hence their flight is for the future, not for the Hmrcs-Mit. The great struggle between i|tho Democracy, representing the rights flmnd sovereignty of the people, and the ■ristnerarv under the usurped name of Republican, representing the old [Federal doctrine of the Ilamiltonian ;#chool, in ttie centralization of power ;in the National government, is post poned until 1884. That the present Mgitation of the electoral count is only ■reliminary to this great struggle which must and will determine the future character of the Government is I evident from the fact that no opposi- I tion is contemplated or feared from I any epiarter, in Congress or out of it, if; to the peaceful inauguration of the 1 President-elect, however it may be re ■f grctted that a man adopting the sen |itimcuts of Hamilton should have se pured an endorsement bv a plurality of votes. I This fight is to be made. All the acts of the opposition to the Democra favor of centralizing power in the ;utive, and surrounding the polls ic people with the creatures of his r, the abuse of the elective fran , the corrupt contributions of the ;y lords to buy up the votes of m and secure fraudulent results, ot done to secure a mere tern pora iumph. They arc only links in !>hain to create that demoraliza necessary to make effectual the lutionary design to change the ocratic character of the govern !. The time has conic when the ocracy should look square at the the events hinted at bring to , They arc not the emanations of ce circumstances, but show a set policy which the Democracy, ing in view the fraud of 187*>, Id consider and bear in remem ee, and by timely organization he ared to resist and overcome. ALUHIIA A. GROW, with his fifty instructed legislators, feels happy xpectation of writing U. S. S, to name after the fourth of March. Cameroo has not agreed to Ga it's little arrangement yet, and it together probable he will prefer ning the honor to some other "KHfAL AMI KX ACT JI'HTICK TO At.l. MK.N, OF WUATtVXR STATIC OR PKRM'AMON, KKLIOIOf'H OR Pot.lTK A 1.. J. tTr...n Examine tho Figures. During the late Presidential cam paign a great deal was said by the Republicans about the evil effect of a solid South. If tho Republican party was a progressive party it would have learned long ago that the war was over and the South not solid. The cry of a "solid South" was raised to cover their schemes of public plunder and hide their determined purpose to change the form of our government. An examination of the result of the late election by States will at least make it plain to tbc mind of a think ing man that the solid South never existed except in the darkened mind of republicanism. The meaning of the term "solid South" as used by the Republicans is "that all States south of the old Mason A Dixon line were and still are in rebellion against the United States government." They forget that Delaware, Kentucky, Mary land, Mi-souri and West Virginia were never out of the Union. They were Democratic before the war, loyal to the Union and the Democratic party dur ing and ever since the war. For this reason in the following tables the five States just named and their vote are not taken into consideration. Take, as shown in the statement, the eleven States that were actually in re hellion and see whether or not there are any Republicans in those States. Stat,--. |ll'-jxi!'llt-an Ovmorrmtlr Is-Ml Hit] Alnbumn 6(5,21" HI, 87 A 36,(536 Arkansas 42,436 ftO.TTA 18,339 Gi'orum .'".(iog log,egg T. ', 87 (' KluriilH 23,632 27,922 1,211(1 Louisiana 39,066 fit,'.('B 22,943 Mississippi 34,854 76,760 40,8'.h, N. Carolina 115,610 124.204 6,594 S. Carolina 67,947 112,030 66,089 T.-nnerM*-.' Us, 7HO 130,3X1 31.021 IV* as 60,200 146,800 86,000 Virginia 81,020 128,680 44,600 Total 1 068,400 1.003,8311 106.443 The Republican vote amounts to fi.~>B,4ot. In one State there is only 4,290 of a Democratic majority; in another very little over K.oOO. The word solid means "compact," "an entire or individual thing." No | sane man will contend for one moment that the South is so politically when , in eleven States there is a Republican ' vote so great as that given at the late ( J election. The truth is there are , thousands upon thousands of old reb els in the Republican party. In the following table we have j taken eleven of the most radical Northern States for the purpose of j show ing what a large Democratic vote there is in the blackest region of Re publicanism. j R*|iaMlrAH ll< j* "*j Illinois ! 318.302! 177,686 40,667 I own 183,904 106,845 78,069 K ihi-HS 120,706 69,803 60,963 Michigan 185,190 131,301 53,889 Massacliusctts.. i 1(16,198 111,'**•(( 63,238 Minnesota 93,903 63,316 40,688 Nebraska | 54,979 28,623 20,466 Ohio 376,048 310,831 34.217 Pennsylvania..) 414,704* 407,428 37.276 Vermont 46,090 18,181, 21",,909 Wisconsin 144.399 114,6661 30,743 Totals 2.131,483,1.H49.478 4M2.006 If the Republican idea is to prevail these States would be said to he solid. Yet they are not. A |x>llof 1,<149,478 makes nn immense hole in a total vote of 3,780,961. These tables are given for another purpose. Ever since the election the Republican press has loudly insist ed that the Democratic party is dead —that its late defeat wns its final overthrow. It does seem strange that any intelligent and fair minded per son should so contend. The idea that a great party is fiually destroyed when in the very strongholds of Re publicanism it polled nearly two mil lions of votes is preposterous. Ex-Gov. Hubbard, in speaking of this says: " a battle lost is not a war ended; for no question is fast settled until it is settled right. The Democratic party has a history and a long career of achievements. It is as old well nigh, as the Republic. It has witnessed the extinction of I know not how many rival parties. It will live as long as the Republic. It has sometimes been defeated but never conquered. It has BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, DEC KM ISER Hi, 188(1. gone down into captivity, overborne sometimes by numbers, sometimes by fraud ; but it lias regathered its strength, ami reformed its legions and come up again out of its captivity like j a lion from the swelling of Jordon. It I < will tin MI again do not doubt tot a moment. The < >lse* i reacfiing tfie |Hip|e North mid South, they would conclude that I 8111 a very animate corp-e and that the five | millions of Democrat* are a very lively ei I ->f dead men. In a few days I will send you a package ~f ~U r card* for each of the good fellow* who have subscribed for the Druyrtun, a- my Thank'giving for their kindness. Yours very truly, JOIIV \Y. Kokvicr. I'll A*. SMITII. KM*., Bellefonte, Pa. SOME of the Radical jacks indulge in threats to cut down the congrea -ional representatives in the Southern Stato-. How will they do it? Th.** census will regulate that, both North** and South. But, say these fanatics, (be Southern |eoplc bull-dozed the poor negroes at the election. Well, suppose they did, the Northern Re- j ; publicans and manufacturers bull- ! dozed the poor whites to a much greater extent. It bull-dozing dn franchises the Suith it will lie ditli i cult to make n law that will not also disfranchise the North for the same reason. Besides that, it Democratic S nnte stands in the way of the ac complishment of any such lunacy. , Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and oili er Northern States,are in greater dan- I ger for disfranchising white jieople than the South for disfranchising negroes. THE notorious S>cor Robeson, who first claimed public attention through his profligate and corrupt management of the navv department of the govern ment under the Grant administration, and who is at present a Congressman from the State of New Jersey, last week figured conspicuously on the floor of the House as one of the lead ing obstructionists to the transaction jof the business before Congress. To 1 the trophies of a venal and disgrarod Secretary, he can now add the honors of a successful tillibuster. He has been, and bids fair yet to be, an ex pensive and tnxihlesnmc barnacle upon the ship of State. JOHN KELLY has fallen! The comptroller's office haw passed to other hands and Tanimuuy is unhappy. The remains of the structure thnt crushed Robinson has now fallen and extinguished the Boss. Tildeti aud Kelly have each had a dead shot. Ist them subside, aud permit the honest men of the party to organize an honest Democratic party in New York which cannot bo bought nud sold iu the market. IT has been wisely determined by the Senate caucus not to enlarge the salaries of the Government employes, who iu all departments arc demand ing increase of pay. If their present salaries warranted large assessments for political purposes they are certain ly sufficient to afford them a comforta ble living legitimately applied. THE colored men of I'liiladclphia, H8 elsewhere, begin to show some sign of claiming their right of representa tion and recognition from the Repub lican parly. In Pennsylvania they make up the Republican majority of the Htate, and have claims upon that party which can no longer be ignored. If the negroes possess the manhood to resist the slavery in which they are held to party allegiance, they can muke their own terms and raise them selves above the scullion position in which (hey are held as mere tails to Republican street show.-, with the privilege of voting a Republican tick et for a Republican rooster whose in terest in them is only marked about election limes. The oilier day a con vention of the colored Republicans was held at Liberty Hull, in LOlll bnrd street, in which they paraded a transparency bearing these significant motoes, "(live our children employ, ment in your factories and work shops." "We voted for protective tariff and should enjoy some of its benefits." On one end i- the name of "S. ("lark Frisby for .Senator," on the other, "Down with prescribed schools and deal gently with our teachers." S. Clark Frisby is the colored candi date for Senator in opposition to Co) A.Wilson Norris, the Republican can didate nominated to supply the vacan cy occasioned bv the death of Senator tilliot. ' IT is said thnt the most exciting kind of sport known to the disciples of Nimrod, is hunting the lion in bis native jungle. But it is also record ed by the veritable chronicler that the monotony of the chase is sonic times broken by the lion hunting the hunters. 'Phis phase of the hunt is understood to lie not a* pleasant as ! the preliminary skirmish. Possibly Messrs. Conkling, I)avi*, Arthur and the immaculate Boutwell thought they were having any quantity of fun when I they started out to hunt down the lion |of Delaware. But now that Senator Bayard has reversed tlu* order of ex ercises the impression has gotten abroad that the men who despoiled Phelps, Dodge & Co. have succeeded in stirring up the wrong animal. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ID:V. SIIIROVKH I'ROMOTKI).—The Al toona Daily Sun , the other Jay, took occa sion to mention few young men wbo had recently received promotions for failhftq service in several positions. Among them we notice the following BIHIUI n young man well known in Bellefonte : Mr. Ben. Schroyer, who hns hecn em ployed s express messenger lietween Al umna and Philadelphia for about two years past, ha lieen promoted to a "through run" I set ween Philadelphia and l'itUbnrg. and will take his new |e>sition during ne*t week. Mr. Schroyer was for some lime previous to his transfer to tho express service on the railroad the popular assistant of Mr Steve Bewley in the office here, and he took his first lessons in Belle fonte, where his parents and many relatives and friends reside. Mr. Schroyer has proved himself a and' correct mescngcr, and there is no doubt that in his new place he will perform his duties to the entire satisfaction of the express com pany. His friends congratulate him on his success. —Judge Orvis is holding court this week in Clinton county. Last week his Honor presided at McClnskey's lumber camp on Marsh creek. The side judges were Treasurer Yearick and Nelsc Lucas. Some time during the week the presiding judge was called upon to pass sentence and carry out in person tho extreme penal, ty of the law upon a very large buck which had the temerity to put in an appearance before the court. Tho Judge performed his duty in the premises with bis usual ability and success—tho buck falling at the first crack of his unerring rifle. Score three deer for tho Judge this season. —The candies in one of tho display windows of S. A. Brew A Son's grocery have been arranged in a Very charming style. Tho wife of Owen Dougherty, of Ches ter, dreamed that there was gold under a rock at ltising Sun, near Wilmington. According to the dreatn there was a moss covered brick on the rock. Mra. Dougherty's father-in law, Mr. Thomas Dougherty, having faith in the dream, took Mra. Dougherty to Kiaing Sun. and they found the rock with the brick on it. On Monday night three men spent several hours digging under the rock. What Ihey found, or rather didn't find, the three men probably know. GENERAL NEWS. In anticipation of a heavy demand during the session of the Legislature a peanut vender of Itarrisburg lias order ed 4,000 bu-hels ol this popular escu lent. Speaking of what it tefins the "Elec toral idiocy'' the Pittsburg /eWr says : "The Indiana blunder was not the only one made, ( Hie of our Pennsylvania Electors, l'inchet, lost 6,000 votes by a similar one. Why not throw overboard this cumbersome, antiquated, ridiculous and dangerous machinery without more ado ami elect our Presidents on the straightforward, common sense princi ple of voting/or them and not for other people ?" A remarkable accident occurred at the Pennsylvania railroad crossing in Lhristiana the other day. Two children, who were driving a one-horse team, started across the track just as an east ward hound express train, tvro hours late, shot by. The train struck the horse's head and cut the blinds from the bridle, but strange to say the horse got up when the train had passed and i jogged along. I he United States have 21.77 miles of railroad to every 10.000 inhabitant". 1 his i eight times as much as Europe, which has 3.2'J miles to the 10.000. The European idea is that trallic must go before railroad-, but in this country the j idea is that railroads ought to be push ed forward in order to open new sec tions to population and thus create traffic. (lutside of trade demands, railroads are built in Europe exclusively for strategic purposes—something never | done in the United States. Here we find apparently superfluous roads laid down some'imes in the furtherance of combinations and rivalries of interests, but otherwise all out roads are run on | lints and parallels supposed to be con , ducive to the extension of commerce. Among the undeveloped resources of ; the Pacific slope may lie mentioned the timber lands of Washington Territory. I hese lands, 2M (KM, Odd acres, bord Pugit sound, and are traversed by .e logging stream". The timber, princi pally pine and fir, is equal to any which ! grows elsewhere, the soil from which it springs being of great depth and rich ness, and kept moist t.y a rainfall which ! continues during ten months of the year, i ir.e stick is representee! to have been hewed which was 124 feel long, squaring 12 inches at the small end, and without sap. The average height of •the treee is 290-feet, while many-lstvi feet tall, measuring 12 feet through at the butt. It is to be hoped that bet ter enre wdl be taken ol this msgnifi- I cent belt of forest than Ins been taken j of the timber lands of Maine and Mich igan. Tins territory has also II. (too,. i*B acres of grazing prairie, where a nutritious bunch grass keeps green five-sixths of the year, and 6.000,(100 acres of wheat lands, which yield from •HI to st) bushels per acre. The catch of salmon last year was 1d.000.000 pounds, i Who would care to go to the frost nipped, wind-swept bottom lands of Manitoba, when he can settle in Wash -1 ington Territory, where it rains as much as it does in Ireland, while the influence o( high latitude and frost is quelled by the balmy touches of the Euro Si wo current—the gulf Stream of the Parilic 7 I 4iulge Strong Resigns. OTIIKR LLLANUCS ANMOI'XI KLI IN HIF. *1 • ■ -REMK COI RT. From th* Wjuriiingtcn f\*t. For the past month various state ments have been published concerning impending changes in the Supreme Court. The tirt of the predictions was realized on Monday, by the resignation of Mr. Justice Strong. Justice Strong's successor upon the hench will be Wil ham B. Woods, of Montgomery. Ala., Circuit Judge of the Fifth judicial dis trict. Mr. Woods is a native of Ohio. He left the Buckeye State about the time of the outbreak of the war, his neighbors being uncertain whether he would identify himself with the Union or Confederate cause. At the close of tho war he was apjiointed a United States Judge. Justice Bradley will here after preside over the Third judicial cir cuit, embracing the districts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, which has been Mr. Strong's circuit. Mr. Woods will succeed to the Southern circuit formerly presided over by Jus tice Bradley. Mr. Justice Swayne will lender his resignation soon after the holidays. His successor ti|on the bench and in the Ohio circuit will be Stanley Matthews ol Ohio. Mr. Justice Clifford's death is ex pected at sny moment. He is unable now to dictate a complete sentence, and therefore cannot tender his resig nation unless an unexpected improve ment in his health should occur. Mr. Clifford's ailment is paralysis and soft ening of the brain. His ruedical advis ers do not expect his recovery. If he should die before the 4lh of March Mr. Hayes will appoint Attorney-General Devens as h s successor. Mr. Devens is a resident of the first judicial circuit, over which Mr. Clifford presides. A hill will be introduced in Congress within a few days to retire Justice Hunt. He is incapacitated from performing judicial work, and would have resigned long ago had his pecuniary circum stances, apart from hit salary, been sufficient to comfortably support hit family. Mr. Hunt cannot legally apply for retirement with psy before 1882. As soon as the bill for his retirement is passed .Senator Edmunds will be ap pointed his successor. : #1.50 p(>r A IIIIIIHI, in Advance. TERMS A* Good H* II Ghost Hfory. Tllr. M'OMIEHH I. TIIIWI* SHE. III.AVATSKV AMI COL, OMOTT ARE DOINii IV INDIA. Vt ni flu- Friend of India, (*\< utta. The following r'iiiarkiili!e statement ha* been forwarded to us for publication: On Sunday, the* .'id of October, at Mr. Hume a home, at Simla, there were preaenl at dinner Mr. and Mm. Hume, Mr. and Mr*. Sinnett, Mr*. Gordon, Mr. F. Hogg, Captain I'. .1. Maitl.-tnd, Mr. IfeatKon, Mr. Havison. Colonel Olcolt and Mine. P.lavatskv, Moat of the per hona present having recently seen many remarkable occurrences in Mme. P. la vatsky s presence, conversations turned on occult phenomena, and in the course of this Mme. I'lavatsky asked Mr*. Hume if there was anything she partic ularly wished. Mrs. Hume at first hes itated, but in a short time said that there was something she would particu larly like to have brought to her, name ly, a small article of jewelry that she had formerly possessed. but bad given away to a person who had allowed it to pass out of their possession. Mine. ]',la vatsky then said if she would fix the linage of the article in question very definitely in her mind, she. Mme. Jila vatsky, would endeavor to procure it, Mrs. Hume, then said that she vividly remembered the article, and described i it as an old fashioned breast brooch set j round with pearls, with glass at the front and the back made to contain hair. She then, fin being asked, drew a rough sketch of the brooch. Mme. Hlavatsky then wrapped up a coin at tached to her watch-chain in two cigar ette pajajr* and put it in her dress ami -aid that she hoped the brooch might fie obtained in the course of the even ing. At the close of dinner she said to Mrs. Hume that the papier in which the coin had been wrapped was gone. A little later, in the drawing room, she said that the brooch would not be brought into the house, but that it must lie looked for in the garden, and theD, a* the party went out accompanying tier, she said that she liad clairvoyantly ; >een the brooch fall intoa star-shaped , hed of flowers. Mrs. Hume led the way to such a bed in a distant part of the garden. A prolonged and careful search was made with lanterns, and eventually a small pa|ier packet, consisting of two j cigarette paper*, was found amongst the i leaves by Mrs. Sinnett. This being opened on the spot was found to con ! tain a brooch exactly corresponding to | the previous description and which Mrs. Hume identified as that tjjje'lt she Had originally losl. None of the party, except Mr. and Mrs. Hume, had ever seen or heard of the brooch. Mr. Hume had not thought of it for year*. Mrs. Hume had never spoken of it to anyone since she parted with it, nor j had she for long even thought of it. She hereif stated, after it was found, that it was only when Madam asked lier whether there was anything she would like to have that tiie remem brance of this brooch, the gift of her mother, flashed across her mind. Mrs. Hume i* not a spiritualist, and up to the time of the occurrence described i *" no believer, either in occult phen omena or in Mme. Hlavatsky's powers. The conviction of all present w* that | the occurrence was of an absolutely unimpeachable character as an evidence of the truth of the possibility of occult j phenomena. The brooch is unques tionably the one which Mrs. Hume lost, bven sup|>osing, which is practicable impossible, that the article, lost months I before Mrs. Hume ever heard of Madam Hlayatsky, and bearing letters or other indication of original ownership, could have passed in a natural way into Mad ame hlavatsky's possession, even then she could not possible have foreseen that it would be asked for, as Mrs. Hume herself had not given it a thought for months. This narrative, read over to the party, is signed by A. <. Hume, M. A. Hume, Frederick R. Hogg, A. P. Sinnett, Patience Sinnett, Alice Gor don, P. .1, Malt land, William Havison, Stuart Beataon. Great Fire In I'ensacola. Tltr 111 SINKS PORTION or THE TOWN NEAR LY DESTROYED. PENSACOI.A, Fla.. via. WHITINO, Ala., Hecember 12.—A disastrous fire burned for eight hours here last night. Five blocks in the heart of the city were de stroyed. involving a loss of over half a million, possibly three quarters of a million dollars. Palafox street, from Witlich'a corner to the middle of the block opposite the Plana, is swept clean. The fire stopped in Government street at the Pity Hotel, east, and one square back of the Custom House, wett. Over one hundred establishments are gone, embracing the main business buildings' and turning out about fifty families from their homes. The Methodist conference adjourned to-night, the session being cut short to some extent by the partial destruction of the city. The ministers of the con ference filled the city pulpits to day and called for donations for the sufferers who lost their homes. A reaction ia taking place, and after great personal suffering is relieved by the generous public it now seems that Pensacola will take a *boom frotn her great calamity, as lots held by the people not able to build are readily taken by capitalists, and the city will soon rise again more modern and sightly than ever. The Kansas legislature recently re pealed all existing laws touching the liquor traffic. There is now no penalty for transgression, and from the lime the amendment takes effect there will be nothing to restrain the liquor dealers. No.