(Eljr Crntrr £& (Democrat. ■r BHIGFUT \ FOILSTKLL, Editor*. vol. 2. v: lfc* Centre gmottat! £1.50 j.or Annum.in Ailvi.no.. SHUGERT and R. H FORBTER. Edilora. " Ibnrsilay Morning, December 23, 1880. A Word for Ourselvos. ■ With this issue we close the second volume of the DEMOCRAT —having laid licfore our readers fifty-two tium- ! tiers during the past year. We deem it proper to say at this time that when we entered upon our enterprise two 1 year- ago we were disturbed in mind by a few adverse surroundings that did not fail to nrouse fears of our sicce-s in establishing a new paper, j and cause us to look to the future with > JpOine distrust. Notwithstanding the | pHisudvantages with which we were obliged to contend, we persevered in our work, and to-day it is a gratifica tion to realize that our strongest fears Here unfounded. Kind friends, and, we believe, appreciative readers, quick- Jypr and generously came to our sup port, and from the day on which our ftrst issue appeared until the present time we have had asteadilv growing list of subscribers. In the variou* depart ment* that go to make up a useful, entertaining and instructive newspaper We have endeavored to meet the ex pectations of our suscribers, and if we have failed in anv particular it has pot been because of honest effort and vpabur on our part. TO the many kind friends through out Centre county and elsewhere who —1 so generously aided us in the two years—giving us support and uragement —words fail to express gratitude. We can only say, "ac- Dt our sincere and heartfelt thanks." tqetplv patronage accorded us, pi the gradual increase to our list, Courage the belief that the effort to rnish a first-class country paper, at e lowest possible price for prompt ance payment, is received with a appreciation. We did not cstab this paper with a view to rival contemporaries or interfere with timate business, hut to establish a ug occupation for ourselves in a incss to. which we hud devoted early days. In adopting low rates did it advisedly, to encourage mpt payment and prevent the ac mlatiWns of bills, as much for the efit of the subscriber as for the Jisher. We have thus far refrain from making any public demand n our subscribers who are in ar rs, but will be obliged to them — though they are in number—if I r will now favor us with a prompt mcnt of such amounts as are now ■ With these words we will rely upon public for a lair share of ■ttronage in the future, and enter Hpon our third year with renewed Hpe and courage, and shall work With a determined purpose to make ■IE CENTRE DEMOCRAT a welcome Hlitor to its patrons. The first nunc ■r of the third volume of the DEMO SPRAT will appear on Thursday morn jibing, January t>, 18*1. IW And now, at this happy nnd joyous Bme, as \m ar>- nhmit to celebrate with ■raise, song and festivity the advent If Christianity to the World, and to ■d adieu to the closing year and we!- ■me the approach of the new, we w ill ■osc this desultory talk about ourselves by extending to every one the greeting ft "A merry Christmas and a happy New Year." L CONGRESS adjourned yesterday for the usual holiday recess, and will not ponvene again until Wednesday, the Wh of January. Several of the ap propriation bills have already been disposed of by tiie house ; and all the legislation necessary for the proper administration of the government can Easily bo passed between the sth of January and the 4th of March, unless the Republicans continue to impede the transaction of business for the pur pose of forcing an extra-session. "KqIAL AMI KXACT JL'HTICK TO ALL MKN, or WIIATKVKK HTATR OR I'KHHLAHION, RKLIOIOIH OK POLITICAL."—h-fTMwm. 1 A Permanent Democratic Club. There has been serious talk of form ing a permanent Central Democratic Club in Bellefonto which shall em brace a membership taken from all j parts of the county. We regard this proposition as one of great moment to the efficient and thorough organiza tion of our party in Centre county. , Now of all other times is it, necessary | for the young and active Democrats | every whoie to reform our broken lines j | and nerve the rank and file of the party for the shock of future battle. 1 The defiant and aggressive altitude of. the Republican leaders, who, flushed \ \ with victory and gorged with power, i boldly proclaim the coming of the | Empire and the overthrow of free, ! elective government, should make the organization of Jcffcrsoniau Demo cratic Associations in every portion of the county a necessity us well as a .duty. The modern representative of; the imperial ideas of Hamilton, will ■ on the tth of next March occupy his bribe-bought position of President of 1 the United States. Every aid that can be given to the enemies of our ; institutions will he accorded by him 1 in fulfillment of the treaty of Mentor. 1 The whole machinery of government ! will he used to further the schemes of ! these men who seek to erect upon the ruins of the Republic n strong govern ment after the cast off model of Hamil ton. Now is the time, therefore, for Democrats to form permanent clubs and thus educate themselves to the j supreme necessities which the future i will impose upon them. We notice that many of the Han cock clubs throughout the Htate and Nation are continuing their organiza tions, and nre appropriately calling themselves "Jeffersonian," in honor of the immortal author of the Declara tion of Independence, the founder of the Democratic party and the apostle of free government, Thomas Jefferson. 1 Judge J. 8. IMack, iu a letter accept- j itig membership iu the Jeffcrsonian club, of York, I'a., enjoins in patriotic ■ language the formation of these socie ! ties to the end that the party of eon- 1 ! stitutional liberty should he at all j times armed and ready to meet the assaults of the enemy. Here, in ( en- , ; tre county, there is un opportunity of ! organizing a club that w ill become a 1 power in the polities of the county. [ I The material is all upon the ground. All that is necessary is to engage the interest of the young nnd aggressive i men of the party in the project nnd it will at once spring into full fledged existence. Think of this Democrats, and don't allow the occasion to pass, j Preserve your organization and he i ready for the foe. "He is thrice arm- i ed who is armed for the right." MR. IIAYER has at lost issued the order relieving Gen. John M. Scho- f field from the command of West Point and assigning Gen. O. <). Howard to that important position. In the eyes ; of the stalwarts, who will insist upon j mixing the races in the military ' school, Gen. Bchoficld has been guilty of a crime that cannot be condoned. That accomplished soldier could not lie persuaded that the colored cadet, Whittnker, did not slit his own ears — hence he must make way for another. Well, if Gen. Howard takes no better care of the interests of the "wards of the nation" at West Point than he did , when he was at the head of the freed* man's bureau and the swindling freed man's bureau hank, we greatly fear they will not fare any better in the future than they did under the super " intendcncy of Gen. Schofield. MRH. KATE CHARE SPRAGUE has 1 filed a petition for divorce from her s husband, Ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode • Island. Her petition presents a fearful 1 indictment against him, which, if true, f will certainly justify the course she has 1 taken in escaping from his brutality. ; Sprague, however, denies and asserts - that tho charges are false in all partic ulars. BELLEFONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 188(1. Tho Conkling-Bayurd Dispute. Ihe four foolish men —Senator j Conkling, ex-Secretary Houlwell, N ice President-elect Arthur and Judge , j Noah Davis—who have recently got j in a wrangle with Senator Ruyard over an allusion made iu a campaign speech by the latter to the infamous extortion practised a few years ago upon the firm of Phelps, Dodge A Co., ot New York, by the custom house | officialsof that city—arc receiving more than tlicy bargained for. The promi nent statesmen first named, with the exception of Secretary Routwell, were j all parties to the compromise made | with the firm. The transaction was at the time denounced as disgraceful to 1 the government, and the honorable gen tlemen will fiud before they are done with Mr. Bayard that they had better remained silent. The best statement | of the (acts in the case that we have ; yet seen appeared in the Philadelphia Time a, Tuesday of last week. It reads as follows: -The question between Mr. Conkling and Mr. lUyurd uppears to be one of | parliamentary language, tail the public at large is much less interested iu the 'dispute wln-ther Mr. Buyurd used the precise language ascribed to lum by the j reporter, tlian in the larger question S whether the statement which Mr. Bay i urd acknowledges having made was true. This we do not understand Mr. (Jonkling to deny, and indeed it would 0 impossible to deny it in the face o! j tbe testimony before the Congressional j committee. Briefly staled the matter ' of I'helps. Dodge A Co., was this. A detective employed hy the Treasury De partment discovered u mistake ol ahout SI.GOO 111 one of Phelps, Dodge A Co.'s invoices. It is not pretended that this mistake was intentional,sst under the then existing laws it made the entire invoice, amounting to $1,750,000, liable to conti-cation. The District Attorney then goes 10 the importers and tells them he has engaged "seven eminent lawyers" to prosecute them, but that they may settle for $271,000. After a great deal of terrorising tpu sum is ex - acted from them : hut it -s not paid mto •' the Treasury. The District Attorney. I the Collector, Surveyor and Naval Ofll j cer and the informer divide it—lor such I was. in effect, the law which Mr. Bayard \ 1 whs largely instrumental in hnving re I pealed —and Mr. Noall Dtvis testified I with great reluctance that Senator ' ! nd the attention of all hottest 1 it *it citW.cns, of whatever party uflllia js, who desire a pure ballot,! On ,. fourth page will uln be found the paper of Senator Wallace, pub lished in the January number of the North American Review on the "I'nst and Future of the Democracy" which StlNt) aeeerve* a cartful reading. It is : a clear mid terse presentation of the aims and purposes of the Democratic ; party, and, like everything that comes j from this able and accomplished pub- 1 i lie man, will elicit favorable comment I from Democrats. SENATOR TIIOMFRON retired from | the Navy Department on Monday : last to occupy the presidency of M. jde Ixjs.scp's Panama Company. Sec i rotary Ramsey took formal charge of 'the Navy, to give Mr. Haves an op portunity to search for a suitable Ohio man to occupy the vacant office. If a 1 j suitable man cannot he found in < >hio, our Harry White is not far from the Ohio line, and might be induced to j accept. IHE Brooklyn, N. 5., people arc again disturbed by the revival of the i war among the Presbyterian clergy- 1 men. This time it is as to whether the j Rev. Dr. Talmage is a liar. It might : he worthy of inquiry in pious circles whether lying has not become resect able even when accompanied by an ! oath. Sinte of our goody-goody men seem to think nnd vote in that direc ! tion. IN Texas, Hancock's majority over all the candidates is 85,000, which will give him u plurality over Garfield on the popular vote of the United State# l of about 15,000. It is useless far our friends of the liellefonte Republican to exhibit any more concern about the fact of Garfield being a minority Pres ident. THE Allegheny representatives in the State legislature have at last adopted a resolution to support. Harry Oliver for United States Senator and Mr. Oliver has consented to the use of his name for the position. Grow or Oliver ! Which? It makes little difference to the Democracy. THE situation in Ireland becomes more critical every day. It will be very difficult to avoid a serious con flict between the and the military, unless a happy and unex pected change occurs in a few days. MORT of the Republican Senators indicate a desire for a special session of Congress. This is the only fair explanation of their dilatory motions and votes. THE Hoij. Schuyler Colfax smiles ! himself out of the ring of candidates j for the Indiana Scnatorshii) which he I . 1 was apprehensive the Garfield Rcpuh j licnns might thrust upon him. But I why should he? Garfield's connection ■ with the Credit Mobiiier swindle has j been condoned and why should not ! the same measure of mercy he meted out to Colfax? Ist smiling Schuyler come to the front. It is true they both told barefaced lies ; hut the one i# no worse than the other. ♦ Pkoi'ositionh for a new bankrupt . law arc now pending in both houses ot ! I Congress. The pressure for a new bankrupt act is verv strong from I . t | all the business centre-. It is looked | upon ILB probable that some effort may I be made to pas- a law ut this session, | but it is scarcely expected that it will succeed. The next Congress, however, 1 will, it is believed, take hold of the j matter in earnest and enact some ! | proper legi-lation on the subject. I IT having been discovered that | Bos- Cameron could not provide seats iu the Senate for all the distinguished Republicans of Pittsburg, a meeting of the Representatives-elect was held j and decided to give him his trusty I lieutenant, Harry Oliver. Kennedy ' Moorehcad, George Shims and Judge | Agnew w ill probably step over the line 1 into Ohio and qualify themselves for ! members of the Cabinet or Foreign ] Mis-ions. As Ohio men they will j be invin able. MARSHAL KEKNH, of Philadelphia, has filed accounts in the Department | of Justice, at Washington, for the pay of his shoulder-hitters, ycleped deputy marshals and supervisor* of the last election, for the sum of 802,470.00, of which $55,120.00" is (or supervisors. These valuable aids to Republican suc cess are nn expensive luxury to be added to the ordinary expense* of ! Philadelphia elections, which could he dispensed with without injury to the public service. MORMON enterprise i* not favora bly received in Idaho. The governor of that territory, in his message to the legislat ore, complains that polygamy 1 ; is being rapidly introduced into the territory from Utah, and call- for j stringent measures to crush out the practice. MR. IIAYER ha* found room for j another Ohio man. Judge Wood ap pointed to succeed Judge Strong upon the bench of the supreme court of the j United States is appointed ostensibly i : front Alabama, hut he is a native of j the Buckeye State and a carpet I | Gov. ( 11 ari.es FOSTER ha* retired , I from the Senatorial contest in Ohio. This renders the election of Johu Sherman certain beyond any reason- j aide doubt. Foster will no doubt be given n position in Garfield's Cabinet as a reward for his retirement from the Ohio muddle. GEN. GRANT, after smiling at the flunkies in \\ ashington nnd receiving their adulations for a few days, lias gone hack to New York to attend to Iloscoe's senatorial business. The cenus authorities are having considerable trouble in completing their count of the population of the States. There are yet twelve counties to he heard from in Pennsylvania, including such Urge districts as Chester, Delaware and Lancaster, In one of the oil dia -1 trict counties a new count will have to he made, because the enumerator sent in a list in which he neglected to desig -1 nate whether the persons were male or female, white or black. In New Jersey, Burlington city was not separated from the county of the same name, and the ' town of Bordentown waa not separated ! from the township. In Philadelphia Moyamensing Prison and the Eastern Penitentiary were not canvassed, so far s as known, and a couple of other inati , tutions were left out. Twelve districts are missing in New York and twenty four in Ohio. These oversights or care lessness will keep the report back for a 1 couple of weeks yet. 1 Tbe peanut crop of Virginia, Tennea see and North Carolina thia year ia over I two million buahela, worth about $2,- 000,000. peanut shells are largely used to adulterate ground ooffise. : *1.50 jwr An mi MI, in Advance. TERMS Church Statistics. or KITOKMED tND 1,1 TIIHIIV CM I RCHEC. The ltcforrneci church almanac for 1881 contain* a statistical summary of the Reformed church in the United States, as follows : Synod of United • State*, 'j classes. 208 mini-tecs, ■!.'l7 con gregation*, f>4.f>B7 communicant and •'>B 878 unconfirmed member*. Synod of Ohio, 11 classes, 148 ministers, 298 con if relations, 21.250 communicants and 11.-es. 41 ministers, 30 congregation*, 9.503 communicant arid 0.005 uncon firmed members. Total—o synod*, 48 claH-es, 748 mininters, 1.405 congrega tion-, 155.857 communicant and 00,403 unconfirmed member*. 1.1 TIII.BA.s (lll'RClll*. Tlie Lutheran almanac for 18S1 has been issued and gives the following | statistic*: General nvnod, 24 district -ynod*. 83 ministers, 1,350 congregation* 'and 132,41 x communicant*, General jsvnod south, 5 synods, 102 ministers, ' 102 congregations and 13,800 communi | I'.int*. General council, 10 synods, 023 ' tninisters, 1,174 congregation and 175,- ' 770 communicants. -Synodical confer ence, 5 synods, 1.200 ministers, 2.('72 congregation* and 201.010 communi cant*. Independent, 12 synod*, 303 ministers, 010 congregations and 80,478 communicant*. A Remedy for IHptberla. At a meeting of the Brooklyn board | of aldermen, on Monday the 15th int., ■ t communication was received from a ! lady in Williamport, which the Herald ! printeot and let the patient ; urk the spout and swallow the steam. Wet a flannel in the hot vinegar and pepper and put it around the neck. : Wiien dry, wet again. Keep the bowels | right with castor oil." The same, by request, was published in the same paper at another time and iin addition the correspondent says: | "Thirty five year* ago I>r. Samuel Oast treated sixty three cases in Frankstown township in this way without losing a single patient, and not one case haa proved fatal the present season that baa been treated in the same way." The following is the substance of a bill for the repeal of the tax on bank checks, bank capital in excena of the amount held in Government bonds and bank deposit*, which ha* been intro duced in the House by Representative Levi I\ Morton: First. That the first subdivision of section 3408 of the Re vised Statute* be repealed. Second, That section 3418 of the Revised Stat ute* be repealed. Third, That section 5214 of the Revised Statutes be amend ed so as to read as follow*: Section 5214. In lieu of all existing tsxea every association shall pay to the Treas urer of the United States'in the months of January and July a dut> of on<*ha!f of one per centum each half year upon the average amount of its notes in cir culation, and a duty of one-quarter of one per centum each half year on the average amount of its capital stock be yond the amount invested in United State* bonds. Mra, Charles 11. Byer, wife of a farm er living ten miles from Bioomington, 111., was a few days ago accidently knocked into a well by a pet cow whica she was watering suddenly turning its head and striking her. The lady kept her head above the water for three hours until ber situation was discovered and she was rescued; but she died from exhaustion and expoeure. NO. r2.