3lje Centre iUBs liemocral. BHUUKRT A. FORSTKR, Editors. VOL. 3. C ruffe jfJrraorr.it. Term* t1.50 per Annum, la Advanca. S. T. 3HUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editn^a. Thursday Morning, February 17, 1881. THE Senate has confirmed the nomination of ex-Governor Hartraoft for Collector of Customs at Pliladel phin. TIIE eligibility of Mr. Arthur to the Vice Presidency on account of his for eign birth is still agitated, and will no doubt be the subject of investiga- ; tion before he takes the oath ot office, i THE BABOAIX : it IS add the bar- i gain between Grow and Cameron, the j leaders of the b'ss and bolting fac- ' tions of the Republican party at Har- i risburg, places Grow UJRMI the slate as ! the Republican candidate for Gover • nor to succeil Gov. Hoyt, instead of our friend Gen. Reaver. N\ ell soroe body will be cheated by the dicker and iu due time realize the uncertain ty of boss pledges. It may be Grow ; it may be both the gubernatorial as pirants. WEDNESDAY of last week was the time fixed by law for Congress to couut the electoral vote, and at noon of that day Mr. Wheeler, followed by the members of the Senate, entered the hall of the House for the purpose of performing that duty. Mr. \\ heeler was seated at speaker Randall's right hand, while the senators were accom modated with chairs at the trout rows of desks. Mr. Wheeler, after stating j that he was there in accordance with the constitution perform a specific duty, proceeded to open the certificates of election of the several states of the union. At 1:35 the count was conclu ded, and Garfield and Arthur were declared elected President and \ ice President of the United States. The j vote* of each State were counted in ac cordance with the published result of the election until Georgia wa* reach ed. Mr. Hpringcr then demanded the reading of the certificate in full. Mr. Wheeler said that as it appeared that Georgia's electoral vote was cast at a day other than that fixed by the act of Congress, it could not be recorded until afterward. The count then went on, and the result was announced in accordance with the joint rule of the two houses. Mr. BLAINE, the Luzerne Union re marks, is just now getting a good deal of'praise from the Republican papers for his efforts concerning the establish ment of a universal penny postal sys tem, as if he were the originator of tbe idea. History shows that George Francis Train was the man in this country who first endeavored to prove that by the adoption of the system generally, the postal revenues would be largely increased, and he emphati cally urged its establishment. Rlaine in his later efforts is simply echoing what was said long ago. The cheap postage system formed a plank in that queer political combination that nom inated Vic Woodhull for President. Tbe adoption of a universal penny postal arrangement would uodnubted edly increase the revenues of the Post office department and greatly facilitate public convenience as well. When Hir Rowland Hill, first argued in tx half of cheaf postage in England, on the ground that the revenues would be increased, his ideas were scouted at as being those of a crazy man. Tbe The British government, however, were induced to try the experiment, and general surprise followed. It came out just as Rowland Hill bad proph esied. Indeed it went far beyond bis own expectations. The increase in cor respondence was enormous, and every body wrote letters whep they found they could dispatch them for a peony. Mr. Blaine's efforts in behalf of cheap postage are to be commended, but the credit of being tbe originator of tbe system here should be placed where it fitirly belongs. 0 "K<JUAL ANK EXACT J{.'STICK TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR I'EHSUAHION, HKLIUIOL'H OR POLITIC AT,,"—JCSSR*..*. Stand by William A. Wallace, j Within the last week considerable j effort has been made by many Demo- i crats throughout (lie State, and parti- j cularly at Ilarrisburg, to have the Democratic members of the legislature cast their votes for one or the other of the Republican candidates for United States Senator and thus end an ugly j contest that now divides the Kepubli- 1 can party. What any Democrat ex pects to gain by such a move is more than we can comprehend. Alliances of this kind have heretofore been made in other States, as well as in this, and have never yet resulted in good to the Democratic party; hut without exception have always brought disas ter and disgrace. lu 1875 the Democrats of Michi gan and Wisconsin joined with a (ac tion of the Republicans and elected Isaac I*. Uhristiancy from the one , State and Angus Cameron from the other with the hope that these men would at lea-t occasionally rise above party in the discharge of their Sena torial duties. The sequel is that these men have been the most bigoted and narrow-minded radical Republicans in the Senate. Rut Democrats by these unholy alliances have done very much worse even than this. In 1851 they joined hands with n few disap- i pointed Whigs ami Free Soilers and elected Charles Sumner a senator from the State of Massachusetts to succeed the great exjiounder and defender of the Constitution. A vigorous and accomplished writ- j er of a later day truthfully said of this man that he was "one who was " notoriously au abolitionist : in short "an ideologist and ultraist, who how "ever restrained by policy, at that "time, from the full expressions of " his extreme opinions, yet constantly "avowed doctrines which, subjected to " any logical analysis, were inimical to " the Constitution, and tended clearly "to the destruction of the Union." Of his election the same writer charg es that the Democrats were "guilty ; "not only of the lietrayal of party fi delity, but all the duties of |*atriotic "citizens. It is certain that most dis " atrous consequences eventually fiow "ed from this deplorable act. Imme " diatcly, it proved of little public con "sequence, except in the injury intlic "ted by the Massachusetts Democrats j "upon their own party staudiug and " interests, and in the evil example " which it set for similar treacherous "coalitions in other states. It turned " over the State of Massachusetts which " had always before been conservative " to the radicals." In 1877, if it was possible, the Dem ocrats did worse by a coalition with a few disgruntled Republicans iu Illi nois in electing David Davis to the United States Senate, just before the organization of the infernal 8 u>7 com mission. After bis electiou Davis, be ing an honest man, believed it would give a political color to the commis sion if he became a member. In view of this he declined to serve upon it, and the infamous Joe Rradley was chosen iu his stsad. The result we all know. Tilden was couuted out. Frand and iniquity became triumphant for the first time in American politics. The people were robbed of their law fully chosen rulers, and crime and the perjietrators of crime were rewarded by being put in high places of houor and profit. Had the Democrats of Illinois refused to join hands with the disgruntled Republicans, Davis would have remained on the bench, and be would have been one of the five judges on that commission. His love of jus tice and right would have given the Louisiana and Florida electors to Ham* uelJ. Tilden. The people would have been honored in having their lawfully chosen President administer this great government for tbe last four yean and the nation saved from the awful blotch that must forever darken her other wise fair escutcheon. Then, Members of the Legislature, stand by Hon. William A. Wallace! BKLLEKONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FKBRUARY IV, ISH|. lie will do credit to any state however powerful! He will houor by his pre eminent talents, unlimited capacity for work anil devotion to the public good nnv Senate however great! No good CHII come to the party by forsaking liini and joining hands with either the ' bolter or ring candidate. There arc Republicans enough in the legislature to elect a Republican Senator if they so desire; if tlicy do not, you keep) your hands dean by standing to your own honored nominee. If tbe yoke of the machine chafes the necks of tbe bolter* DM) severely, let them join with you iu electing an honest, able and tried roan like Mr. Wallace. In ' this way they can heat the power of , the machine, honor themselves and \ the State, and give the people a sent- j tor able to properly represent them in in the high councils of the nation. The coalition in Massachusetts in 1851 wrought ruin eventually to the I whole Democratic party ; it gave poor men to the Senate from Michigan and j Wisconsin in 1875; it brought shame and disgrace on the whole country by ' In-ing made iu Illinois iu 1H77; if j made now iu l'ennsylvania it will only j biing disaster to a great party growing stronger day by day, and further j shutue and disgrace to our great Com monwealth. Stand by Wallace to the ! end! THE well known and distinguished ! member of Congress from New York, ! • Hon. Fernando Wood, died at Hot j Springs, Arkansas, on last Sunday night. The sad news of his death reached Washington at noon on Mon day and created a profound impres sion. The Washington I'oet, of Tues day savs that "private intelligence for the last three or four days had given hi* friends slight hopes of hi* recovery. For many years he has leen idfiicted with a serious affection of the bladder, and hi* strength was not sufficient to enable him to submit to an operation, upon the jK-rformance of which his physicians had long ago decided his recovery depended. Without exag geration, it can be said that Mr. Wood died in official harness. His ambition was to see the Refunding bill, of which he was the author, become a law. He had mode a careful study of the finan cial history of the Government, and it was his conviction jhat a three per cent loan could be successfully carried through. Mr. Wood unquestionably hastened his death by taking the part he did in the consideration of this measure. It was with great difficulty that he could reach the < 'apitol in the last days of it* discussion, anil his participation in the debate was possible only through the use of strong stimulants. It was 1 a matter of great gratification to him when the hill was passed substantially as he had prepared it. That done, he reluctantly acted upon the advice of hi* physician and hastened to the fam ous Hot Springs in search of health and rest." The hope of restored health however was not to be realized. Mr. Wood was a native of Philadelphia, though in boyhood he became a resi dent of New York. He wa in the sixty-ninth year of his age and served nearly twenty years in Congress. ON the fourth of March Gen. Gar- Garfield will be inaugurated the twen tieth President of the United States. Of hia predecessors fifteen were law fully and directly elected to the office; three succeeded to it from the Vice Presidency, Tyler, Fillmore and John son, by the death of the incumbents, and one obtained tbe poaitiofi by baud, held it in defiance of decency, and will leave it with the merited scorn and contempt of all clauses of tbe people. THE ballot for United States Sena tor yesterday resulted as follows; Beaver, 78* Wallace, 74 ; Bayue, 57. Htill no break in the dead lock. REPRESENTATIVE GEPHART will accept our thanks for a copy of tbe Legislative Record. Tho Senatorial Fitfht. The change of candidate* made by tho two faction* of the Republican party i* about the only thing new in the Senatorial content at the Stale cap ital since the last i**ue of the DEMO- ; i HAT. Instead of Oliver and Grow, | it i* now Reaver and Baync ; but with the change of names the problem of an election seem* to be no nearer a so- i lution than when the clashing und dis cordant factions first grappled with j each other under tin ir original lead-j er*. Gen. Reaver is a citizen who bus served bis country well in the put. Much can be said iu bis favor. A IMJVC all of bi* party competitors named for i iiited Stnte* Senator, we deem him worthy of any honors hi* party has to bestow. As between Republican can didates, if a Republican must be cho sen, the citizens of Centre county, i would, we believe, without regard to party liin-s, be pleased should the high honor of an election fall UJKIII him. Rut while thi* b-cling undoubtedly exist*, we just as firmly believe that the sentiment of a very large majority of flic Democratic jMirtion of our com munity is iu favor of letting the Re- ; publicans decide the mutter of an dec- j tion themselves. If (ieneral Reaver succeeds, it should be bv Republican votes, ami not with the help of Demo crats. Democrat* at his home do not la-grudge Gen. Reaver any political preferment or advancement that may come to hint legitimately from hi- own party, but, without regard to persons, they do oppose a coalition with either wing of the Republican party iu ibis fight, ami they heartily endorse the course of their representatives in vot ing thus far strictly for their own can didate. THE election in Philadelphia on Thursday wa- rather discouraging to the machine Republican*. King. Dem ocrat and Reform, defeat* Stokely, Republican, for Mayor, by over s,<ksi majority. Hunter, Reform Republi can, i* elected City Treason r by about 20.000 majority. In l'itt*burg Major Lynn, the only Democrat on the citizens' ticket, is elected Mayor, over Miles Humphrey, the Republican candidate, by from 1,000 to 2,000 majority. In Harrishurg, John ('. Herman Republican, wa* elected Mayor by about 600 majority. I/ok Haven elect* Mr. Clawaler. Democrat, Mayor by fifty-nine majori ty, and in Clinton county, S. Woods j Caldwell, the Democratic candidate, is j elected to the Legislature to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. C. ! C. Whnley, by from four to five hun dred majority. The returns from the Luzerne Hen- ! atorial district indicate the election of Eckley R. Coxe, Democrat, bv a majority of from 2,000 to 3,000. In Montgomery county, Brown, Re publican, is elected to the Legislature to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Boyd._ IT is now thought that there is still a chance for the passage of the Ap portionment bill before the adjourn ment of Congress. The number of member* to tbe House will probably be fixed at 3u7. This is an increase of fourteen over the present member ship. The bill reported by Mr. Cox fixed the number at 301, and 307 is supposed to be a compromise that will be satisfactory to a large majority of the members. It is sure the House is strongly disposed to favor this mini Iter and the committee will not, it is be lieved, oppose the House when the bill comes up again for discussion. The present number is 293. At 307 California, lowa andj Michigan gain one Representative each ; Kansasgains three and Minnesota aud Nebraska two each, making a gain of ten in these Northern Htates. Arkansas, Miss issippi, North Carolina, Houth Carolina and West Virginia gain one each aud Texas gains four, making a gain of nine in the Houtheru States; and Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont and New York lose one each. It is curi ous that the number 307 is more favor- abb; to New 1 ork tliun any number intermediate, between that and the present. At 204 and up to 298 New 1 ork would lose three Representatives and from 208 to ."OH the State would lose two. 11 • RoHtriotioiiH upon Corporate Powor We are pleased to see that Senator Alexander ha* taken a firm stand in favor of eomjM-lling all corporation* to accept the provisions of the State Con stitution of 1 h7;; before further favor in the way of legislation are granted to them. Senate bill No. 23 is an aet to extend the time for the completion of a railroad iu the western part of that State, and on motion of Mr. Alex ander the bill was amended so as to provide "that no corporation shall In cut it Inl to the benefit- of this act, until the directors, trustee* or other projier officer* thereof shall have, by resolution, adopted the provisions of the Constitution of the State, and a copy of -ueli r< solution, duly certified \ under the seal of such corporation' shall have been filed in the office of the Auditor ( ieneral.' Mr. Alexander was requested to withdraw hi. amendment and permit the bill to pas* without it; but he declined to do so. In the discu-siou ot the question thus raised in the Sen ate, we tak< from the LryithtUri ronl the following remarks made upon it by Snator Alexander. It will be observed that he illustrate* his ]*)si tion by a home thrust at a eoriKinilion within our own county. Mr. Alexan der -aid : "I would be very much pleased to *r commodate the Senator, but 1 do not see how it would be possible for me to grant bt* re-juest on tins bill at tbi* tune, | i,i i. the proper time in whirh to amend a bill, when we are on second reading, and it is not the proper tnue to do it when bills arc on third reading, and in order to >:<-i Ibis amendment attached to this bill it i necessary that it should be placed there on second reading. < 'thi-twise, I should be pleas ed to accommodate him. 1 think the amend men t u an important one and ought to be adopted. It is or.e certain ly that met Willi the approval of the people of this State. It met with the approval of tho-e people who framed the new <'. institution when they r<-juir ed <il ihe-e corporation* that had grown so large in this I 'oinnjon Wealth that before they should be able to obtain Hny further legislation extending their privilege, or their franchise* they should accept the provisions of the Constitu tion. Many of them have tailedjto do that, and when they a*k for legislation of this kind it is pro|>er for us that belore granting additional privileges that they should be compelled to do just what every other citizen of this Commonwealth i* compelled to do— accept the provisions of the fundanretv tal law of the State. It was so applied to the till) that was passed two years ago extending the franchises of corjior. atioos, I have in my mind one railroad which passed through tny county. It was incorporated a* early as 1854. They commenced by soliciting releases of tbe right of way and obtaining sutwerip tinn from the land owners along the line of the road to a sufficient amount to grade the road. In 1872 and 1873 and 1*74 the road was built a distance of forty three miles from Mon tandon to Spring Mills in <'entre county. The balance of the road, not the whole I balance, but some fifteen miles of the road was graded and a portion of it ballasted. Since 187,'t no work has been done on it whatever, and the farmers living along the line of the road who generously granted the right of way, and who suliscribed tbe money for the grading of the road, have received no return for their investment, with the exception that thev have the inconven ience of having their fields dug up, embankment* thrown up, their fence* torn down and no railroad; they are not within hearing distance of the sound of the whistle of a locomotive. Now, they complain of that. This cor : |oration ha* it within it* control. Its privileges and franchises have been ex j tended for five years from 1879, and there is no means by which the*e i people who have paid their money and : who have their property partially de stroyed by the construction of tbe road —po means by which they can have any redress whatever from thi* railroad company, and every lime when its fran chises are about to expire by limitation, by some act of tbia kind, general in it* character, their privileges and fran chise* are extended, and may be from time to time for a hundred years, until tbe little boys of the old men who have subscribed their money to huild this road are gray haired men themselves. I do not know why the company who has that road in charge do not com plete thi* work. There are fifteen miles to be tied and railed yet, and some little distance of eight or ten miles to be graded. So far as this Mil is concerned, if it pssses without this amendment, it virtually annuls the act of 1879; it takes iu place in every par ticular. It ia inconsistent with it in this, that it leaves oft the provisions that they shall accept the provision* of tbe new Constitution, ana t hope the Senate will pass this amendment to this bill." IKHMS: ••<> JKT AIIIIIIHI, |N ADVANCE. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. —Tb<-<; big )!'><] are ban! an fish. TllntlllM IXpwtld tb' ir !*r;'ii fx k of sixty c?nt kits of MHI !. <-r-l, but they have i not yt arrives]—delayer] somewhere en j route. ■ Mr. Anthony G. Noll, the jxij.uiar I boot hnd shoo maker, who during the past j yenr bus been he nt"d in the small building lon High threat near Date boar • gas eis - j , I removed, last week, into a more com mod i | out apartment in M- o.ffVrty' building, j -^' r Noll ba built uji a large business . which will follow him into his new quar t'-r. 1!. G. Uri-tt, K'j.,our reliable Demo cratic friend from Ferguson, dropped in Ito see us on Monday. Mr. Urett rejxirt* everything as favorable in his township I and thinks our Kepublican friends will be | disappointed in their talions of re ceiving a largely augmented vote in Fur guson in consequence of the opening up of the ore beds there. —Mrs. Amanda Leonard, the wife of Judge James T. Leonard, of Clearfield, died suddenly, of j aralysis, on Friday, the 4th instant. A short time before receiving the fatal stroke she wa enjoying excellent health, and on the Wednesday previous celebrated the '.lib anniversary of her birthday by entertaining a large company of relatives and friends. The grief occa sioned by the -.vj occurrence can well be imagine i. —We bo|>e --or p-ad< rs will not forget the elocutionary enterta clie nt to be given in Hume- Hall, •>., i.-it Friday evening, by Mr Ge-.rgo I*. Bible. Mr. ltible sus ta ris an enviable reputation as an accom plished and finished elecutionist and his pragfißm em bra •- many popular NIM> lions. II" deeervi -an audience composed of our Bust critical people, and we hope the hall w ill be crow <d on the occasion < f his first a; j-earance in Bellefontc. —The llji'h ,i. mistaken in regard t< an "err' r < r ox. rsight in the commis sioners -lateire rit, wheh it alleges "does injustice Mr Iter amin tamm, collec tor of Harris township. Tbestatetn.nl as it a| p. .-.red in the Cnsu.K DEMOCRAT ua properly mar. 1 with a double dagger before Mr. fkatnm name t indicate that his duplicate had b' n paei in full after the settlement, and it sh> ild also so have ap| . arod in the Watchman. The same is true of Mr. .1 11. Griffin, of Half Moon. The "error it oversight" is n> t chargeable ! t the commissioners office. GENERAL NEWS. The military prison at J.eaven worth, Kan., is reported as having turned out in the last fical year 26,225 pairs of : Isoots and 81,220 0 l ihne, A pigeon hawk hating seised a hen in the barn yard of Thomas Gorsucb, i Oneida township, Huntingdon county, was attacked and kill<-d by an old gan dei. I'n fortunate It an accidental stroke of the gander's wing killed the hen also, but she probably foigave him with i her dying breath in consideration of his well-meant effort* to save her from a ! horrible death. There is an agitation in Southern | California about a division of the State. The southern }>ortion is agricultural, and ha a great deal of the old Spanish element. She difference between the ; two sections is eve y way greatly mark ed. It is very likely that a State made from Southern < 'alifornia would be dem 1 ocratic, and as steady as Connecticut or I Delaware. The effort affords an oppor tunity for study. In climate, in scene ry, in the social methods of the people, the two parts of the State ate widely i dissimilar. General Garfield is now being bother ed by the persons who are making ar rangements for the inauguration. Apro pos of this the Washington RrfntKlirau relate* an anecdote of Mr. Linooln. The inauguration committee submitted two programmes and asked the Presi dent elect which he preferred. Mr. Lincoln threw one leg over the hack of his chair and replied as.follow* : "When I was practicing law in Illinois a client of mine, a peculiar sort of fellow, was brought before the Court and the Judge asked him: *lo yon swear or affirm?' j 'Mr. Judge," my client replied, 'I don't care a damn which.'" IT is rumored that the syndicate building the New York. St. lxHii* and ! Chicago have offered the Presidency to Governor Foster, of < hio, at #25.000 a year. 113,500,000 of the 910.000.000 capital of the road ha* been subscribed. The extension from Fort Wayne to St. " l.ouis will be under contract next month, and completed by July, 1882. The latest developments as to the connection* east of Cleveland are that the road will be built to Buffalo, instead of through Pennsylvania from Ohio to New Jersey. The whole road will be laid with steel rails, and 40.0000f the 60,000 ton* need ed between Cbieagoand Cleveland have been bought already. In case the Huf falo extensioo is not agreed on, the ob jective point for eastern connection will be Milton, Northumberland county, on the Catawisaa and Williamsport branch of the Reading. A feasible peas through the Allegheny ridge has been discovered, in which a road can be laid at a grade of not more then fifty or sixty feet t the mile - XO. 7.
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