SHUGFUT \ FOHSTKK, Kditors.
VOl,. X
£hc Cnvtvc Hctuotval.
Terms 51.50 per Annum.in Advance.
S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*, j
Thursday Morning, January 13, 1881.
Hon. 1,. A. Mack ey,of Lock Hav
en, is urged as a candidate lor the
Legislature to till the vacancy which ,
the death of Mr. Whaley occasions i
in Clinton county. Mr. Mackey's
ability and experience points to him
as a very capable and desirable repre- ,
sentative. There will he several can- j
didates presented for the honor.
New Jkksky had the luxury of a .
double banging match last week. A
matt ami a woman were sent up to
meet the woman's husband whom they |
dispatched a few months ago to greet
them on their arrival. They were
fully prepared, of course, for the
change and rejoiced in the prospect of
a better life.
THE secretary of the "Iron Associa
tion of Pittsburg" says candidate Oli
ver's position on the tariff question is
satisfactory to the protectionists. (>f .
course it is, who could doubt it?
Their interests are mutual. To
squeeze the consumer to enrich the j
producer makes a comity of interest
that the protectionists could not fail to
appreciate.
IT is an old belief that courts-mar
tial were often in the pa.-t organized
to convict. Whittakcr's slit ears,
however, arc likely to change the rule,
for it is generally understood that in
this case Mr. Haves has organized a
military court for the sole purpose of
acquitting the dusky cadet of the
charge that rests upon him of having
done the cutting himself.
A MAN in Haltimore named Bowen,
a leadiug member of a respectable
church, was convicted of marrying his
daughter to a son by a former mar
riage. The father was the only one j
of the parties who knew the relation
ship existing between the son and the
daughter, who are highly spoken of.
He richly deserves any punishment
that can he inflicted for his brutality.
DYER I). LUM, the assistant sccrc- j
tary of the National Greenback Com
mittee, says in an open letter that he
can prove that Gen. Weaver, the late
Greenback candidate for President,
admitted that be had an interview
with Don Cameron, in which the lat
ter promised him 820,000 in aid of the
Greenback canvass. He names Con
gressman Burch and Kditor C'randall
as witnesses.
CONOEB, at present the blatherskite
of the House, has been chosen by the
Republican Legislature of Michigan
to represent that State in the Senate
of the United States, The House of
Representatives will rejoice in being
rid of an intolerable nuisance; but
what of the Senate ? The staid decor
um of that body may freeze him, hut
they cannot give him common sense or
decency. Those admirable qualities
are uot iu the man.
THE Christiancy divorce case in
Washington promises to rival the
Henry Ward Heecher scandal in New
York in all its filthiness. It ought to
be suppressed and the Michigan states
man and bis wife permitted to pursue
their different courses without inflict
ing the Country with the disgusting
details. The press, at least, could he
belter employed than filling the col
umns of newspapers with the filthy
material these trials furnish.
THE present Lcgisla'.ure will have
the duty of making a now apportion
ment of Senatorial, Representative,
1 Congressional and Judicial districts.
It is to lie hoped that (bore will be
enough honest men in the Legislature
to sco that this duty is honestly per
formed irrespective of any advantage
to he derived in favor of any political
pnrty rieeu*. The people are entitled
to a fair, judicious, apportionment, free
from inconvenient and oppressive re
strictions.
"KyIAL ANI> KXAI'T JUSTICE TO AM. M KN, or WIIATKVKR STATU OR PERSUASION, HKI.IOIOI.M OH POLITICS I.."—JrlTriwii
Gov. lloyt'H MosHngo. I
The message of Gov. Hoyt, present- :
ed to the legislature last week, is a l
°* I C
lengthy document and deals with the I
affairs of the State in an elaborate and *
altogether satisfactory manner. In- t
osmuch as there was no session of the i "
I (<
State legislature last year the Gover-I,
nor hail good reason to enter some-
what more minutely into details than I (
was usual when the message came IK*- i c
fore the public as nu annual State ; 1
pajier. The Governor starts out with r
an allusion to the growth aud power
of the State, the prosperity, happiness
and content of the people and the im- '
portance of tho duties that devolve
upon the law makers, and then calls j
attention to the financial condition of
the State, giving a summary of the
receipts and expenditures of the State J
treasury from Decern lie r 1, 1*79, to
November 30, 1880, both inclusive.
Front this summary it appears that
- j!
the receipts were $6,720,334.47, ami
the payments during the same period
$6,820,119.49. The estimated rcve- '
nues to the general and sinking funds |
for the present year amount to 85,404,-
000.00, and the estimated expenses for !
tho same period are $5,399,988.00.
But iu the general fund their will lw
an estimated deficiency of 8771,000.00,
while there is a present deficit of 81,-
043,000.00, in appropriations unpaid.
The amount that must he provided
for the general fund to pay this de- |
ficieucy is $1,814,000.00.
The Governor admits that "our tax
laws are neither uniform nor equit
able," hut says there is no "data in
the possession of the departments upon
which it would he safe to attempt the
• 1 .. .It
enactment ot any sweeping or radical
changes." He therefore makes no rec
ommendation lor such a purpose, hut j
leaves the matter with the legi.-lature.
During th" year 18*2 over $10,000,-
000 of the State loans will mature by
the terms of the acta creating them,
land it is thought that the present i- n
: most favorable time to refund these
maturing loans at a lower rate of in
terest than is now paid upon them
and authority is asked from the pre
i ent legislature to enable the depart
ments to act forthwith.
The subject of education next re
ceives the attention of the Governor,
j and he treats it in a fair and liberal
spirit. The State is carrying on its
system of public instruction in three
directions, viz: through the public
schools, the normal schools and the
soldiers' orphans' schools. (Quoting
from the reports of Superintendent
Wickersham a very gratifying condi
tion of these educational agencies i
presented, Hnd adequate support to
them strongly urged.
The message also treats of the sub
ject of freight descriminatioti and in
order that all shippers in the State
may be in condition to have the pro- j
tection of statute law, it is urged that
necessary legislation be enacted so
that the provisions of the ConstitutiAi
may lie placed in reach of execution
by the courts over all transportation
companies, at all times, in all places
and in all interests.
The remainder of the message is de
voted to matters of minor importance,
such as the municipal commission hill
for the government of cities, the geo
logical survey, the boflrd of agricul
ture, the fishery commission, the na
tional guard, the centennial celebra
tion at Yorktown, all of which are
commended to the favor of the legis
lature. The Governor also pays hand
some tributes to the memories and
1 public services of the late Kx-Gov.
William Bigler and Judge Warren J.
Woodward. In conclusion he recap
itulates the questions of legislation
1 that should receive attention a* fol
! lows:
"Provision for the revenue* of ths
i commonwealth;
The passage of the appropriation
hills necessary to carry on the venous
departments, the support of penal and
, chnritable institutions, snd the like;
A bill to refund the public debt to
- mature in I**2;
Ttil'a to reapportion the State into:
IIKLLHFONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, .lAXI'ARY i:i, |ns|.
legislative, judicial im<l congre*ioiuil '
district*.
I deetn it important, also, to invito |
your attention to the proviiiioii* of tlin j
Constitution relating to t/ieriiit hyUlalion.
I'll.- sweeping character of the seventh jl
sec-linn of the third article leave* little ! .
room for the enactment of any other
than general law*. Such law* lire, in !
some inatance*. needed to carry into , ,
ellect the provision* of the constitution, j
many of which are inoperative in the ' '
absence of appropriate legislation. To
the end that time may not be consumed (
in the confederation of act* within the
constitutional prohibition, I remind yon
that the executive i* bound, with your
selves, to a strict enforcement o( the
restraints on special legislation."
♦
Tin: course of Hon. Kckley H.Coxe, j
Senator elect front the Luzerne disrict, j
in declining to lake the oath of office j
at the organization of the State Senate, :
ha* attracted wide spread attention and j
excited much comment. Mr. Coxe
placed hi* refusal to lie iptalificd upon i
the ground that he had contributed I
money for hi* election in wnvs not j
expressly authorized by the act of
assembly which defines the necessary
and projier expense* incident to the
nomination ami election of members
of the legislature and other officer*.
While he did not pay one cent for
improper or corrupt purjwiscs, *uch j
a* bribing voters, lie paid assess
ment* made upon him by county com- j
mittcc* in Luzerne and Lackawan- |
na counties, a portion of which went
to pay taxes, fee* fi,r procuring natu
ralization paper* and other incidental
expenses of the campaign, which lie
believe* were unauthorized by the law.
For I hi* reason he could not take the
oath. Mr. Coxc is a gentleman of
wealth and of unblemished reputation
and *tandiug in the community in j
which he lives. No one doubt* the j
thorough integrity of hi* character, or
that in this matter he lias acted other
wise than in -triel accord with the dic
tates of an honest conscience. There
was probably not a brother S-nator
who heard his statement hut would
say they had contributed to their party 1
funds in precisely the same manner,
hut no one of them appears to have j
applied the sßtne rigid rule of con
st ruction to the law. There is cverv
evidence that Mi. Coxc would he a very
valuable addition to the State *enate,
and the jieople of Luzerne should at
once return him, without the u<- of n
dollar on hi* part, and thus r-nnhle him
to qualify for a position which lie will
undoubtedly honor.
<ii:\. WAI.KKR, superintendent of
the census, is now engaged in the final
revision of the census report a* to
population, before sending it to ton-!
grt-ss, which lie expects to do during i
the present week. The figures will
not vary materially front those al- j
ready named, viz. 50,152,000. He- 1
garding a published estimate of 51,-
j 000,000, (ion, Walker *ays he does
not know where it originated, and that
it did not come from the census office,
j The figures given show an increase
over the eensu* of 1870 of 11,593,629, -
or a 'itle over .10 |er rent., while the
increase in the preceding decade was
hut 7,115,050, or 221 per cent. This
larger increase in the present ratio is
attributable to several causes, among
. theni, the fact that the present census
has been far more carefully taken
) than ever before.
IT is announced that (Jen. Simon
Cameron is chnrged with a political
mission to the South with a view of
ascertaining the political feeling and
arranging thing* generally in the in
terest of the in-coming administration.
This veteran party manager possesses
much experience and considerable
j shrewdness in making political con
tracts, and if Oen. Garfield places the
Southern patronage of the administra
tion at his disposal, it will, no doubt,
be distributed where it will do the
moet good to the party, whatever it
may be to the country and the people
of the South. His methods arc some
what ly and peculiar, and if the ob
ject is to benefit one party alone, Gar
field has the "right man iu the right
place" in lh venerable retired states
man of Pennsylvania.
J% : I
Tho Senatorial Elections. <
It was generally expected that our 1
Republican friends would make the 1
most of their successes in the different '
•States in which United State-Senators
were to he elected by returning their
ablest men. So far this reasonable
expectation has not I wen realized.
Politically, the next Senate will lie '
exceedingly close and u strong minori
ty would have succeeded in making it 1
very uncomfortable for thft almost im- 1
perceptible majority. So far as these
elections have progressed mediocriiv
is the rule and real excellence in the
selections the exception. In Maine
the Hon. Kugene Hale, better known
as " little Hale," will wabble around
in the seat ut present occupied by
Hannibal Hamlin; he can never till
it. Although Mr. Hamlin has been
the butt of the Capitol wits for years
his ability and integrity have never
been questioned, and lie has lieen a
Senator of whom any Stale might lw
proud. Mr. Hale's chief claim to the
distinction conferred upon him by the
j Legislature of his State lie* in the fact
I that he is married to n daughter of
, the late /aich Chandler, and i- worth
| two millions of dollars. In Minnesota
Alex. Ramsey, an importation from
Pennsylvania and a political pupil of
Simon Cameron, succeed- McMillan,
who has occupied a seat in the Senate
fur six years, and whose entire record
consists in voting, either on one side
or the other, upon all questions that
came up during his presence iu the
chamber. Ramsey i a jobbing jmliti
! cinn of very ordinary attainments and
! will numerically swell the lb-publican
-ide of the Senate without adding to
| its intellectual strength. Perhaps the
mot disheartening result yet reached
the election of Omar D. Conger, of
Michigan, to a seat in the Senate.
After Mr. /.ach Chandler, now gath
ered to his fathers, and the lamb-like
Mr Christiancy, the pr- lit plaintiff
ina divorce suit of doubtful odor, it
was thought imjiossihle to render
Chandler and Christiancy r--portable
by contrast. But the choice of this
yelping hyena from the wilds of
Michigan will cause the cold chills to
creep up the backs of nil those who
•till have an old-fashioned reverence
for our highest law-making body. Wo
can imagine the horror of Conkling,
IMmunds, Ingalls, Anthony and the
fastidious Burnside, when they receiv
es! the dreadful intelligence of Conger's
1 elortion ; for nlthough these Senators
nre hitter aud unrelenting partisans,
I they are likewise gentlemen who are
thoroughly alive to the amenities of
| social and political life, while Conger
j is an ill-bred boor who by no stretch
j of imagination can be tortured into
anything hut what he is. His fellow
| members of the House will gladly bid
him him AOIKU, hut this feeling of
; gladness will be tinctured with pity for
; the unfortunate body Ht the other end
of the Capitol. In Ohio John Sher
| will he the next Senator. Sherman is
I as able as he is rapacious, and his ca
reer in the Senate now will lie hut a
duplicate of his previous service in
the same body. He will he for John
Sherman first, last and nil the time
while the country can takp care of it
self. The little State of Connecticut
affords the country substantia) reason
for rejoicing as she invests Joseph 11.
Haw ley with the Senatorial toga. Mr.
Hawley is one of the best, purest and
most acceptable of latter day Repub
lican leaden and he leavens his fealty
to party with a liberal degree of toler
ance and patriotism. In New York
nnd Pennsylvania the machine has
brought forward its own especial rep
resentatives, aud while in the former
State Kvarts and George William
Curtia arc unceremoniously put aside,
our own State rejects Benjamin Harris
Brewster nnd Wayne MacVengh with
others of like prominence ami capaci
ty. Tho candidates championed by
the machine in these two States repre
sent nothing hut mediocrity nnd incom
petency. Altogether the Senatorial j
elections, so far as they have been beld I
dbuppoiut intelligent and disposition
ub- observers of all parties. Those
to follow oiler little encouragement to
people who believe in a high standard
ul excellence as applied to Senators iu
('oiigres-.
Ihe 1 Icmocruts, as usunl are per
suing nu exactly opposite course to
that <•! their opponents. Senator
Cockrell, the present able and indus
trious Senator from Missouri, has been
returned, am) Delaware and Florida
will undoubtedly keep Senators Bay
ard and Jones in the positions they
have done so much to honor. .lames
G. fair, of Nevada, takes Sharon's
place, and although an untried man
he will lie a vast improvement on his
preden --or who otilv enine to Wa-h
--in 'ton to draw his salary. It will not
be long before the people will begin j
to regret the absence of Wallace,
I hurman, Baton, Kernan, McDonald
and Mi I'her-oii, from the councils of
the nation, all of whose places will be
occupied by indilfereut Republicans.
Senator McDonald, of Indiana, will
lie succeeded by Benjamin Harrison
and Senator Mcpherson,of New Jersey, j
will give way to either Gen. Sewell, I
I'resident of the West Jersey railroad,
or Secor Robeson, ot Navy Depart
ment lame. In either case the coun- i
trv suffer- a loss.
-
."><>,l AD.
Official Pißureß of tho Cenaus of
lOSO.
(.KNtßtl. W it kin's \|:w l Ill's SALI'Tt.
Wamiin'.ton, Jicretnbi-r 31. —The Su
perintendent of the <Vmui make* the
following approximate -tateraent of the
popular -n of th<-State* and Territories.
It i* I elieve ! to !• very near the final
figures, whjrh in" expected to he an
nounced next week :
JHMO. I70 I
*!•!• I.J . .It ...
AU.I,
Arle.es •>(! Rata \
50... . Miam -.si j'
; e*tll.>rr.t* ...... sei.'A! .
: C..1 ...-• MM' . .... I
c ... -n. • I
' Ink' Is . 1 iv.j 14.141
11-Usrsr- I mi 1-' I
I IHsUtrt af CotamMa 1T:.,.. i |.:ua
ft rMa n< iajl
' 1-tahT. • it 14 MM I
IM". -I. ..1.. !.(.>•
; l*<iu. ii> p.: • '
!-• ... — I.Iit.T
K.iimi ... - . - 1
ImNfti 1-4' *•
ItftiM ' . )•
MartUftd !■< : s.
1 • i*fi 1$
MftdrtgM I** l.ls
MitiVKW'ta 7* mff i j
.... I.UI M •:<!
Mf M< If\ Kl '-
, U .'ilana • I •" ' |
V 4.1. 11 •*> *
. 4, 3P9
Sexa ... >4 .
N• W- ' 1.1 . . In
. New \\-*i . . 11- 4k' vt -'.I
; V'.k : ( v:.m:
N flit lar llna .... 1 l | "t.i
. <!.-. . . t •: 4
Htefon 17 4 :• 7 • ■
|Vmw)lt|feta 4,.*. 1 '.W J, rli il
! IHi eG |
<r -lilt* ... .■ ' * 7. f
T er. .#•*•-*• . ... . . . 1 Jv* I 1.. *.4W:-
1 k * '
I •! I* A'l • *•
I YflfWll • •
I Vlralata I,Mi ao i.t -. i
W *•>.!. £1 ti |H
H VirginU .... MM J 44; <•. '
WtartNuin |,.l . ;*
Wl -.11. tig- -• * 1 1•
; Total
Sknathu 4'aijpentkr, of Wiscon-
I sin. goes about civil service reform in
n praetical way. He has introduced
a hill into the United States Senate to
amend the Constitution so as to secure
to all civil officers of the government,
j except the cabinet officers and judges
of the courts, a fixed tenure of four
years, ami to make postmaster* elect
ive. An amendment of this character
would undoubtedly lie more effective
in giving the country an honest reform
in our civil service than all the silly
platitudes to which the public has
: been treated bv Mr. Hayes.
It is said there is a movement on
foot to make Gen. McDowell, the
commander of the IVpartinent of the
Pacific, Secretary of War. McDow
ell ha some claim upon Gen. Garfield,
uot the lcat of which is the fact of
having traveled all the way from San
Francisco to New York to vote the
Republican ticket for President at the
last election. The claim would possess
more merit if he had done so at his
own expense, and not nt the expense of
the Government. That vote cost the
national treasury over $l,lOO.
With upwards of 50,000,000 inhab
itants the United States now occupy
i the fourth place among the nations of
I l he earth.
TKHMS: per Annum, in A<haiu-c.
GENERA I. NEWS.
There were forty-one death* fiom
diphtheria in Brooklyn lat week.
There were G4<• births, K; marriage*
and 778 death* in New York city last
week.
Saturday, the anniversary of the bat
tie of New Orleans, was celebrated in
that city by the firing of salutes.
John Gil-ton run away from his pa
rents, at I pland, Delaware county,
when a young man. Last week he re
turned, after an absence of forty years,
to find of all his relatives only one
brother alive.
The Mountain ''ity FJour Mill and
.<OOO bushels of wheal, at Cumberland,
Md., were horned on Saturday night.
Several small dwellings adjacent to the
mill were also burned. Los* on mill
and machinery about s3s,utjy.
Mrs. J hornaa Cohen, an aged colored
woman, 'if Doyle* town, was burned to
death a few days ago. She had been
confined to her bed for some time and
it is thought that the bed clothe*
caught lire from a stove in the room.
At a Washington hotel the other
night the member* of a delegation of
' 'toe Indians blew out the gaa in their
rooms when they retired. A ball-boy
snuffed the air, sounded the alarm and
the j>oor Los were rescued in time to
save them from suffocation.
Abraham and Joseph Buxzard, Diller
' lark and Henry llower, known aa the
leaders of a band of robber* having
i their headquarter* in the mountains
\ near hphrata. Lancaster county, were
arrested on Saturday after a desperate
resistance and lodged in jail.
Mr. Charles Rous, a member of the
| Corn and Flour Exchange of Baltimore,
who suspended business in 1879 for
about $.W,000, and compromised with
his creditors for .AI cents on the dollar,
l on last Saturday sent a check to each of
Ins creditors, paying in full, with fi per
, cent, interest, the deficit of the suspen
sion.
There arrived at the Lehigh Valley
depot at Allentown on Tuesday morn
ing <>f lat week, from up the country,
a 11 unk decorate'! with cri|>e, 'in a
piece of taper was this inscription:
'This man paid hi* board bill. God
bless him. ' The trunk caused consid
erable comment, and there was a great
I del of S|HH ulation as to what it might
1 contain
I lie dead body of Oh arte* Ruhe, trav
i i < g sal •-.man for 1.. AA it man. a Chicago
cigar dealer, was found on Saturday
morning n.-r the Michigan Central
1. iilroa I ti.vck, a mile west of Kalania
roo. Michigan. It is supposed that he
(>-. i from an early morning train and
i* injur- d. lie had apparently drag-
I g* I himself ai-out. and probably lived
several hours after he sa- hurt.
Among the wealthy citij-ens of Phila
• d'-lphia, wh t have die I during the
present year, eight left personal '-states
e.ch valued at over half a million
-b'l rm a. f,:ioHs Wm. Adamsnn,
S iii* 1.1 Adolj.h K. Baric. $1.140,.
I ; George W. .1. Deßenne. f',77,-
: Wm. Elliot. $*75,469.50; John
f-'X. ? > (f.i.'.47 ; Mary Shields,
s !'• KJi; >imtiel s. White, sy.<7,-
O>L. ;; .In-hua .leanes, s''7o.o'.l(l.
Landlord* are in Ireland what the
carpet loggers were to the South,*' said
•• aiher Ryan, the "poet priest, in an
addre-s in Baltimore on Tuesday night;
"and the Irish people will tid them
selves of their oppresors as the South
ml itself of the carpetbaggers." J n
conclusion Father Ryan said (pointing
to his head : " Agitation here must be
•'l"ar; i to ins mouth), "hers it must
be prudent ;" (to his heart) " and here
tender and impulsive, which, if follow
ed, will crown your effort* with suc
| cess."
Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of
the great president of that name, was
killed by Indian* on Linkhorn's Run
as the Stream io Kentucky was then
railed. Hi* blood ran into the stream,
which ever since has borns hi* name,
lie wa found with the string* of hie
powder-horn wound around hi* neck
Plus powder horn passed from one
neigltlwir to another, and finally fell
into the hand* of a Mr. Brown, who
forwarded it to the Lincoln Memorial
Association at Springfield. 111. It bore
the owner's name and an eagle with
spread wings carved in bold relief.
Mr. O. AV. Strubbe. of Cincinnati, who
has been in Georgia and North and
South ( arolina for the past eight month*
superintending some mining affairs,
was in that city last week. He had
among the evidences of his absence a
huge sapphire, in it* native state, just as
dug (mm the mines, valued at SIO,OOO.
He is going to seod.it to Tiffany, in
New \ ork, to be cut. The mine* from
which this valuable gent WM obtained
are located in the Stale of Georgia and
are owned by Cincinnati parties. One
sapphire found some months ago is val
ued at about $50,000.
Prince Hannibal Brown died near
AV nrrenton. Va., the other day, aged
st>nut a hundred years. Hannibal was
stolen from the coast of Africa in 1830
and brought in a slave ship to thia
country. He always held that hi* fath
er was an African king. When be waa
a Ioy he had several slave* a* personal
attendant*. Being set free soon after
his arrival in this country be learned
the blacksmithing trade and became a
skillful workmen. He accumulated
money enough to buy a plantation and
several slaves, and be was the only
negro slaveholder in America. During
the war he waa devoted to the Confed
eracy. and WM imprisoned at the old
Capital in Washington because he re
fused to shoe the horse* of Union
troopers.
NO. 2.