Centre Jifti Semoroit. BHUUKRT A. FORSTKR* Editors. VOL. 3. TThc Centre Urmocuil. Tor mi 81.50 per Annum,ln Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, March 24, 1881. To our Patrons. For the first time since the CENTRE DEMOCRAT has been in existence we are compelled to throw ourselves upon the indulgence of our patrons in the way of apology. We expected to he able to issue our paper as usual this week; but owing to the time and labor required to move our heavy machine ry, ami the innumerable ami unavoid able delays incident to the arranging of our office in a new place, we have been forced to realize that our expec tations were too sanguine. We do the best we can, however, by issuing a halt sheet, and under the do not hesitate to ask our friends to bear with us. Before our next Issue appears, everything in connection with our new quarters will bo in com plete order, and we hope to get along without troubling any one with apolo gies in the future. SENATOR EDMUNDS, of Vermont, ha* gone South itt search of health. Perhaps in appealing to the .South for renewed vigor be may acquire toler ance for a class of otir citizens which he and his party are accustomed to denounce as outlaws and vngabouds. ( 'ANNOT the more reputable of the members of the lower house of the Pennsylvania legislature devise some means to keep the Philadelphia and Allegheny roosters within the hounds of decency ? If they are powerless in the hands of these disreputable and desperate associates, they should say so, and, for the sake of their own good names, licat a hasty retreat to their respective homes. IT is said Don Cameron has been appointed keeper of the liliputian cu riosity recently purchased by Presi dent < iartiehl ami added to his Sena torial menagery. It is called Repu diation for want of a lietter name —is very frisky and requires adroit man agement. Hence its assignment to the astute Senator from Pennsylvania. It counts one and is utilized in taking the yeas and nays on the Republican side. TUB conservatory of the White House furnished a handsome bouquet of flowers to adorn the desk of -Ma hone, and indicates the satisfaction of the President in the acquisition of a traitor and the Repudiation party of Virginia to the great Republican par ty. His glee will abate somewhat lie fore many months have elapsed. The investment is uot likely to yield u large per cent. A RBHOI.TTION has been introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature provid ing for an investigation of the alleged bribery which resulted in the election of Angus Cameron to the Senate. The Cameron clan is famous for the crooked means adopted to obtain sen ntorships. The Wisconsin branch of the clan appears to be no exception to the infamy which has so marked them for "ways that are dark" in Pennsylvania. IT aernu to lie pretty well settled in Washington that an extra session of Congress will be called to convene about the 15th of May. The necessity for it is laid principally upon the fail ure of the Funding bill to become a law, wlurh was vetoed by the fraudu lent Prondent, and against passage of which the Republicans filibustered in the interest of the banks, until they had completed arrangements with the Fraud to veto it. Who is responsible ? Not the Democrats certainly. "Eqi'AL AMI) EXACT J I'STICK TO ALL MEN, Of WIIATKVKR hTATE OH I'ERSUASION, RKLIGIOL'S OR POLITICAL."—JsITmon Six Years of Democratic LcKis lation. Wbcu the Democratic party came into power in tlic lower house of Gun gross on the first Monday of Decent* her, 1875, the people were stricken with poverty ami want from one end of the land to the other. All kinds ami every class of our manufacturing industries were at a stand still. Every branch of business of whatsoever kind felt the oppression and blight which had fullen upon the land. More than three millions of laltoring men hud been thrown out of employment, and they ami their families left to eke out an existence as best they could in pen ury, suffering and want. In short, no man can draw the picture as dark nor as full as the evils that then rested upon the American |eoplc. How all this was brought about is not now our purpose to inquire, hut rather by what means were the people relieved ami to whom belongs the credit. The tirst act of the Democratic con gress was to drive out ami kill oir the arrogant ami powerful lobby, whose sole business it was to rob ami plun der tbc people, under the care ami pro tection of the former Republican con gress, In making appropriations for the year I*7'! it saved to the people 830,(NX),000; it refused mail, steam ship ami railroad suli-idies. A Dem ocratic congress passed the silver bill and directed that the United -States Treasury should coin and distrihu e silver dollars at the rate of 82,000,000 jH-r month until 8100,000,000 were coined. Republican legislation requir ed that Greenbacks should lie retired and destroyed. Democratic legislation required that they should lie reissued and the policy of contraction and op predion stopped. When this was done intelligent men who jswaisstxl capital, said, "We will have no lc*s value in commodities; we will commence to buy again." The niamifacturer said, "I will kindle my fires, for the destruc tion of the values brought about by the Republican party are now check ed. There will be no less value. I can go to work, for we are now at the bottom." The < ircenback legal tend ers are now par, and were brought to par by wise legislation on the part of the Democratic congress. During this fieriod of six years there was saved to the people in cutting down the expen ses of the government by their repre sentatives reviving and putting in practice the true principles of wealth —economy —more than one hundred ami forty millions of dollars in actual appropriations, beside stopping the im mense steals carried on by, and under the Republican congress. During this same |ieriod many hundreds of mil lions of the public debt were refund ed, Inuring interest at the rate of four and four and a half |er cent; hut, mark it, not until both hou*e* of Con became Democratic was the gov ernment able to float her four per cent bonds. And to complete this magni ficent record and make still brighter the crown of glory that belongs, alone, to the Democratic party, the last ses sion of congress passed a bill to refund 8650,000,000 of the public debt fall ing due this year, which hill con tained a section compelling the nation al hanks to accept the three per cent, bonds in exchange for the bonds hear ing twice that much interest. And to fill out a career of infamy and fraud this bill was vetoed by R. B. Hayes. Why was it vetoed ? The influences that caused it, and the effect of it, may more properly lie couidered hereafter. THE Oraensburg Mc**engrr has dis covered that the Democrats have an unworthy and discreditable member of Congress from that district in the person of Morgan 8. Wise, who is now credited for his second term. The SltMmger is too innocent by half. The unworthiness of Wise was appa rent before it supported him for Con gress. His standing in the legislature was not such as to commend him for higher honors. BELEEFONTE, l'A., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, IHKI. Mahono'a Bouquet. This is what the New York Sun has to say id' Mnhoue's bouquet from the White House: First, it means that tlio president holds himself in readiness to reward votes in his favor—to pay for them. The gift of flowers cannot signify les than that they Hie to be followed by the bestowal of patronage. Again, it is a direct atfront. It is a declaration that the president believes that United Stales senators may be pa tronized by him. Did the president ever live who would have dared to place upon the table of Daniel Webster, .lolill (,'. Usl linun, John J, Crittenden, or Henry Clay, a bouquet is a token of white h >tle approval of it vote? It is a little thing in itself, bu' very significant. The fl overs have no fra grance, but emit a hatelul and oit'en sive odor. AFTER succeeding in getting their committee* through with the aid of Muhone nmi the casting vote of the Vice President, the Republican mem bers !' the Senate arc now determined upon nn entire reorganization. At a caucus held on Tuesday evening, the following persona were selected to fill the principal offices: For secretary of senate, George V Gorman; for ser geant nt arms, Henry Riddlebargcr, of Virginia; for principal executive clerk, •Tames It. Young, of Pennsylvania; t"r chief legislative clerk, Charles \V. John-oil, of Minnesota; for chaplain, Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland,of Wash ington city. Riddlebargcr is a warm personal and political friend of Serin tor Mnhone. He was n colonel in the confederate service and is now one of the editors of the Stanton Valley Vir ginian. It w ill IK* in the power of Un democratic members of the senate to prevent any change in the present personnel of the senate officer* by unit edly withholding tln-ir vote* and iSm* breaking a quorum when the resolu tion ia oilervJ, tor ouupUun.. Will they have hack IK tie enough to do so? Tut: purchase of Mahone and the Repudiation party of Virginia ly the administration, gives the Republican* three Senator* from New York and a majority of one in the Senate. The minority i* large enough nud suffi ciently brainv to hold them level against nny outrageous partisan or plunder nets, even under the lead of the shot gun hero and hi* aid* from New York. But too much dig- nity on the part of Democratic Sena tor* against such leadership will lie equal to imbecility and ought to give place to a little more pluck. The proceeding* of the House of Representatives, nt Harrisbnrg, were signalized la*t week by the passage of a resolution to expel one Dr. Pnltner, correspondent of the Pittsburg Cum inerciai'Gairtle, from the reporter's gallery. I)r. Palmer was guilty of the awful erime of speaking hi* mind t(H> freely about Speaker Hewitt. It was a small bu si new for the legida ture to engage in, and smaller still for the .Speaker to countenance it. It is to IK* hoped, however, be found a soothing balm for his wounded honor. He has succeeded, nt least, in giving Palmer a great deal of notoriety he never would otherwise have gained. THE new Emperor of Ilussia IN like ly to live in ft* much danger of assas sination IH hi* father did before hint. .Scarcely hail hi* proclamation assum ing the high duty that fell upon him by the untimely death of hi* predeces sor been issued before a plot was discovered to take hi* life. A mine leading under the palace iu which lie lives was found by the police and the timely discovery has no doubt saved him for a time. The Nihilists ap|ienr to he active and determined, and it will keep the guardians of the crown on the alert to checkmate their devil ish plots. VICE PHKMDKXT ARTHUR i* get ting even with John Sherman now for turning him out of the Custom House. It Is said tho ex-Collector can't see the ex-Seeretary when ho desires to speak or roako a motion in tho Semite. TIIE investigation as to the authoi shipof the Morey Chinese letter seems to drag heavily. Marshall Jewell an nounces that he has no funds to pui- HUO it. Mr. Hewitt sends him U cheek for one hundred dollars with a pro mise that he and other Democrats will furnish the needed funds; hut still it drags. Why is this? The impression is again gathering strength that the train of evidence leads up to the White House, nud becomes less inter esting as it approaches. ( HJR distinguished independent Sen ator Mitchell is making a faithful and sturdy lieutenant for Boss Cameron. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. From oar Regular (>rr*|*4*nt. WciniMOTox, D. C., March 21, 1881. The Senate elected it* committees yesterday, the Republican* securing control of all of tbem by the vote of Senator Ms hone, of Virginia. If this Senator had simply abandoned a party bis course would have been condemned, of course, but he would not have de served the infamy—that is the exact ' word—which will be ever associated with his name. The Stale of Virginia and other State* of the South, are slow ly recovering ftom the effects of the mot wasting of modern wars, they are becoming recognired as State* with 'he right to regulate their internal nf lairs a* other Stale* do. A moderate lb-publican Irna just been elected Presi dent, though he was not the choice of those Republicans who believe in the everlasting vassalage of the South. It i at this aut more injurious sale in our politics than that of Senator Maltone to the radical branch of the Republican party. It i* believed the special session of the Senate will last not more than a weeic or ten daj* longer. The noinina lions will be sent in rapidly now that the Senate ha* reorganised. Instead of there being, as there was a week ago, small apparent prospect of an extra session of Congress, there is now every indication of one. A* inti mated above, the struggle for it is made by the more stalwart Republicans, though the ostensible reason for the c-dl will l>e the necessity for the passing of a funding lull there is no doubt but committee* ol th" House of Represen j tatives will be sent into a dor.rn Con gressional District* of the South with instruction* to re|>ort in faror of turn ing out the Democratic members elect ed. This is the prime object of the ses ' ston. The lieltef i* general that all nomina tions that President opular with Congressmen. IDs wishes would be regarded more generally. I think, than those of any ! other Republican who might have be come President. A pleasant part of i the man himself is shown in his social attention* without re gard to party. Ilia first reception, the other evening, was the beginning of a new era in such matters. All the Dem ; ocratic Senators were at the White House. I venture tossy that for two years not five of them had been there unleaa a duty not to be evaded called them. It ia certain that the era of good feeling has returned, so far as social af fairs at the executive mansion are con cerned. Don. Peril of the Kew Ciar. DISCOVRRV or * VIS* IN A STRICT NRA* HIS RRSIDRNCC. ST. PKTKRSDI RO, March Ifl —The au thorities were infornied ihsta mine had been Isid in a m*il street which enter* the Newsky Prospect, nearly opposite the Annitehkoff P*lace, the residence of the new Km|eror. A detachment of sappers accordingly began an *Kplora tion front a small shop, the owner of which disappeared three days ago. The street was barricaded at both end* to prevent the public from approaching. I'be sapper*, on opening up the ground end searching cellars, discovered a mine in the above mentioned shop. The mouth of t tie mine WHS in the shopkeep er's dwelling room, concealed under n ottoman. The mine passes under the treet lending to the ruling schools whence the C/,ar was returning on Sun day. Eight more arrests have been made, snd a quantity ot explosives have been discovered. The A /encc /float ) the grief felt for the Emperor by the Russian nation is inconsolable; but if they require proofs of their 10-s it would be forthcom ing in the evidences of condolence which pour in from sovereign (Jovein ments and national representatives of the whole world The public are ad milted to view the body without din Unction of class. A decree has been published grant ing to persons deported to Siberia, with the loss of civil tights, permission to engage in commercial or professional pursuits alter three years good behav ior; the same privilege to be accorded to political exiles, subject to the appro val of the Minister of the Interior. A PRISON TRACERY. Murder and Suicide in Convict'* t ell. A lIXfirtRATK IRIMIXAL IS' Tlir. ftsiresTt *sv *t mune lit* CXI.I. M %TE AMI Tlirs HAM.* IIIUsEI.r. A terrible tragedy waa enacted within the walls of the Eastern Penitentiary some tunc before daylight yesterday morning—the exact hour will probably remain n mystery forever. I pon it face the afl.iir present* the appearance of a deliberate murder and the suicide ol the murderer, faith executed within earsfiot of a keeper and a score of pris oners, and yet with such cunning stealih that, if the statement of tin- Keejier is to be relied on, not a OUlid broke the oppressive stillness which usually prevai * at night in that living tomb. In fact it was not until the breakfast hour yesterday, when the bodies were cold and rigid in death. Dial the nuthotitscs were made aw*to of the awful deed. Shortly alter 7 o'clock, in arco* ianre With the U-II*I cu-tom. Overseer Me tiuigan. proceeded to make the round of hit particular C'lrr.-lor* in order to see that the prisoner* were up and sin. ring. All went well until In* readied a cell in the second corridor occupied by two men, who in j ris< n discipline were simply known as N<. 72* and .'g.'i. Here h:s <|ue*tion : "All right here r" mrt no re*|Ofe. f'eepioc in Uuouvh the grating of the inner door he saw what appeared to lie the form of a man standing on a stool. The interrogatory '• What are you d-.ing there?" was i .u replied to. and the keej er swung the door back on its hinge* and m ole a step forwar I. A* be did s.i be stum filed over a bod*, and at the same mom ent he became uw.ire of the tact that another body was hanging to the gis bracket on the opposite side of the cell, lie shmited for help, and a number <.i keeper* were quickly on the scene. Then it was found that the man on the floor was prisoner 72*. He w:i lying on his bark. Ins I. gs bent in under liim, a piece o! linen tied tightly around the throat, the tongue protruding trom his mouth, Miti the countenance disfigured by a Urge abrasion on the forehead. Meanwhile some of the kee|er had cut down . f i2s, who hd hung himself to the bracket by piece of the stout sheeting used on the bed*. Itlood was • till flowing from a cut on the |eitwti*t, slid there was a fiOol of blood on the fl air near hi* feet. Near by was the knile with which the wound had been inflicted. Dr. Comegys Raul, the resi dent physician of the institution, was at once summoned, but In* appearance was of no avail, the liodio* presenting every appearance that life had been ex tinot in both for several hours. Both of the dead men wore serving the first year of their imprisonment. W,'i iro John PleilVer, who wa admit ted In*! month, under a sentence of Ihrpi* tpi* and a half. imposed l.y the I.uxcrue County t\>urt for tmrgUrr. He ws a rorni*, (>rull lellnw, of tremen dnu* strength, and rtich a hardened criminal that, although only 23 your* of age, ho had acquired the reputation of being ono of the moat daring home breaker* in the country. Previous to hi* last conviction he had served three term* in Sing Sing ai d one term at Black well'* Island lor crime* committed in New York Stale, of which he wa n na*ie. Hi* companion—72H—w* John Mr Bride, a Philadelphia!), aged 49 year*, who w* sentenced to ten year* impris onnient in Sepiemler lat for aggrava ted assault and battery and indecent exposure. Mcßride, who bore the rep utation of a quiet and orderly prisoner, wa* the sole occupant of the cell (which M on the ground floor) until PieiflVr'* arrival. The two men seemed to take to each other at the outset, ami so far aa the knowledge of the oilier* went they were on the best of term* up to the hour of retiring on Tuesday night. Occasionally it hap|>en* that two prison er* in a cell are unable to get along pleasantly, ami in every cao of this kind which ha* occurred a separation has at once been ordered. In this case, however, there a a* not the least ground for the suspicion that anything but the most cordial relation* |>o**Ui|e to men in their condition were maintained. The mystery which surround* the terrible affair waa not disrellod bv the rigid examination which Warden Town send made yesterday morning. Over •err McOulgan Mid that when he went on duty at 2 a. M., the men were sleep ing soundly in their bed* and that al though he mada several rounds of the contdor during the night not th alight- TKKJW: #1.50 |KT Annum, In A ill 11 lire. wt sound tfraciMl hi* attention. Neither wa* (he occupant of the ad joining <'<>ll, who i* a very light sleeper, awakened during I lie night. The theory was r.t first advanced that both men b*d committed suicide, hut this did not Ihllv with the position in which Mc- ISrideV My wa found. The wore rational theory ia that Mcliride wa strangled by Pfeifb-r in hia sleep, then tumbled out of bed to the position in which the body wan found, and that the murderer then commuted suicide. How theae deeds could have been possible, however, without a single tell tale noire being heard by the watchman who*e duty it was to have ta-en in the inline • liate vicinity is u r|Ue*tion which War den Townsend confessed yesterday he could not o|ve, while he waa equally at a b-s to fathom the motive of the deed. Pfeifler, wlien first admitted, acted in a mmii'wlut peculiar manner, but the officials, fielieving tliat he was merely shamming insanity which is a common fiabit with many prisoners, who believe tliat by ao doing they can he relieved ol hard labor . paid nr/altention to his ac liori, and placed him with Mcßride. No peculiarities in his conduct were no ticed after the first few days. In Itip cnur-e of yesterday afternoon tin* bodies wen' removed to tbe Morgue, wh-re a |wl mortem rmmination a mad** by Ir. .1. <. Lee. Tbe Coroner'* in vesication will c>| ri to day. Shut lb-ad by a llnrtrlar. oiariM.ißu W:TH THE THIEF itrou RE CEIVISG THE MTAI. ►HOT THE VICTIM'* SON KEMWINO THE STRIGGI.E AND THE TWO TL RIII.ING DOWN \ RILGTLT OR STOR*—THE TlllEr inin mv AND miti. VALLEV FORGE. Pi., M :er replied, " keep -till, old fellow, or : you're a dead man.'' Mr. Clugston urtac from his bed and irate the alarm. 1 I be thlet m-imrlv fmjpld with him. and a terrible conflict ensued. The aged wife screamed for her son who 'cpt in another room. Thomas Clug •ton. aged 22, ay lhat he at once re • |onded, but Ireforc he had time to ■ enter the rove the clavicle and paasing direct into tl e spinal column, severing in ita course the jugular vein and carotid ar tery. Death was cause-1 by internal hemorrhage. Among the effects left behind hv the burglar was a |tocketlook containing a pawn ticket i-ued by the National Loan office of Baltimore, numlter 2.T82R. and I rearing the name of E. A. Abtott; a card upon which waa written, "Edwin 11. Johnson, inquire at Nineteenth and Poplar streets, 841 Mattock. (Signedl a li tend {" a photograph of a little girl, prohah'y 8 or 9 years of age; several hotel cards, three dollars and ten cents in currency, an.l a ten dollar note of |B