51)1' Cenlre th'mocral. SIIUGEKT .V FORSTEK, Editors. VOI,. 3. Slit tfnvtrr fkmoant. Tor mi 31.50 per Annum,in Ailvunoo. 8. T. 3HUGERT and R. H. FORSIER. Editor.. Thursday Morning, May 5, 1881. CoxaiDERiNU the troubles the Re publican Senators at Washington are now uudergowing, the Philadelphia Times is disposed to think that this is no longer a nation with a big N, but a caucus with a big 0. AT the opening of the criminal Court in Erie, on Monday last, the attorney in a homicide case moved to quash ; the entire li.-t of jurors on the ground that thev were illegally drawn, tlieju- j rv box having been sealed with mu- i cillage, instead of wax, as directed by law. Judge Galbraith set aside the whole array, and discovered the fact , that no legal jurv had been drawn in ° * * that county in teu years, from the same j cause. THE Pennsylvania Railroad it i* said, is preparing to build ten inon- j ster locomotives like the one recently turned out at Altoona, and which runs bclwen Philadelphia and New j York at the rate of a mile in fifty-seven , seconds. The experiment with this i gigantic locomotive has been so sue- | ccssful and satisfactory in overcoming time, caused by stops ill changing passengers, that the management has determined to utilize them on other divisions of the road. THE Pittsburg Pod remarks that the mere suspicion that a Federal office-holder in Virginia sympathized or co-operated with Mnhone in his scheme of repudiation, induced Secre tary Sherman to adopt measures for j his removal. Tiiis was in October,; 1870. Eighteen months have jiassod, and now John Sherman is doing the very thing he declared the Virginia tobacco inspector unlit to hold office under the Federal Government for doing. Slippery John. THERE are before the I'nited S:at".- •Senate two hundred and scvente n nominations awaiting the action of that body. To confirm or reject these appointments of the President i* the jHiblic business for which the Senate 1 was called together, hut the Repuhli- 1 can members of that body deem it of far more importance to carry out the terms of the bargain with Mahone. which includes the election of Kiddie- j berger to the jmsition of sergeant al arms, than to do the only work legiti mately before them. FIVF. members of the Republican ' Senatorial caucus called upon Presi dent Garfield on Saturday hist, in the interest of jearo between the Presi dent and Senator Conk ling. To the main inquiry whether the withdrawal of the nomination of Judge Robertson would be embarrassing, the President is said to have replied emphatically that such a proposition was not to be cn-! tcrtniued. The difference between bull dozing a real President and one who held the position wrongfully by fraud is furnishing the stalwart Sena tor from New York with some very in teresting experience at this term. AUDITOR GEXF.KAI. SIIKIX, says the ! Philadelphia Timet, signalize* his re tirement from office by,turning over to ' the Attorney General for collection claims for back taxes against certain corporations amounting to three and a half millions of dollars. The most of this sum is charged against a single corjmrntion, the Standard Oil Com pa-! uy, which has refused payment for sc- ! vcrnl years on the ground that it is' not a Pennsylvania corporation, and ' the matter is likely to be contested.' Auditor General Schell has made one of the best officials this State has had in mauy years, and he has been parti cularly vigilant in the work of collec ting the taxrsi due from corporations, to which sufficient care has not always her j*' "K<4UAI. AND KXACT JUSTICE TO AI.L MKH, CUT WHATEVER STATE OK I'KHHUASIOIf, HELIOIOI'S OK POI.ITICAI.."—JsIUnon. Who ia Prcaidont? t It has been generally believed by the ' people since the result of the last No- j ' vember election was known that James | 4 A. Garfield was the chosen President. r Whether Garfield is President or not i* now doubted by a great many men who voted for him not over six months ago. True it is that he, Garfield, seems c to have been inaugurated and taken the oath of office, hut outside of this nothing bus been done, in eight full weeks, to lend the people to believe j that he is now or will IK- President, I one whit further than he is allowed t<> ( | he by Senator Conkliug, who leads a I cabal of stalwarts hound by the treaty iof Mentor to reap the full benefit <>! , • i i the fraud and corruption that made | the Republican party successful in November la*t. Garfield nominates ; ' i. I " I Conkliug confirms or refuses to eon ; tirm as the nomination plea*<> or di-- 1 ( | pleases him ; and for eight long weeks Garfield has stood sullen and cowed ! i i like a cur, uuable and afraid to move, .. . " | heeause his master is in the way. The | government may go without proper i | treaties with other nations, and every |, branch of the public service suff r be- J, j cause of the will of one man. It is j j proper for the people to believe that | | the man they elect should he the Exe- j cutive part of the Government; but ( i when they see that branch of their gov- ( {eminent entirely swallowed up by a ( ! cabal belongiug to another and en i ti rely different department of the gov- ;, erument, and that this cabal is led, ( { controlieil and entirely subordinate to the will of one man, they have a right , to enquire wilb nlarni who it J'rci , • dt'nt? The deadlock between those', two branches of the government is the 1 result of a most disgraceful bargain, , '•'"treaty" nwr* property. < niTned mt t, scaled tit Mentor in the early part of { October 1&H0. Garfield, in order that | lie might be elected, yielded consent to | ■ articles of the treaty llicn proffcretl by Conkliug. The substance of which ( ! was that for New York tit" Senator should say who should and who should , uit hold office under thi* a lrniuistra- , II lion. I. 'gan was to have like control over the Fetleral officers in Illinois, j and Cameron to have the same power , in Pennsylvania. Tl.is article being , ratified and confirmed by Garfield without exception, the stalwart e!e- , inent of the Republican parly nil over • the North was set in motion, immense ■ sums of money raised and the patron age and power of the federal Govern ment used to make him President. 1 When inaugurated he undertakes to j abrogate this treaty without notice to i the other | anies ; to violate with iin- * [•unity this one artirle in particular. . Of course it causes war. The disrup- | tion of treaties without notice ami in an abrupt manner generally does cause war. Why should it le otherwise now, even though the public do suffer, our government become the laughing stock of the world, and the people wonder j who is President, Conkliug or Gar ; field ? One hour's exhibition of nerve 1 and hack-hone by Garfield would put an end to thi* disgraceful squabble, and ( would settle at once that the mnn the J people voted for is President. A SWEARIVO PAII*ON. A Ken- 1 tucky Presbytery ha* dissolved the 1 pastoral relations of the Rev. F. It. ' Moore and the Fourth Presbyterian church of Bovington for reasons which ' might be considered novel from their < rarity. Wc have heard of preachers being discharged for teaching doctrines not strictly in accordance with the 1 received views of Calviu and other ' divines. But brother Moore has mark- ed out a new field of difference not ! before explored hy divine teaching. He affirms that the Bible contains no authority for the oliservanco of the | { Christian Sabbath, and that it is law- i ful to pass the clay in amusements; < that it docs not prohibit sweariug, i which is only a matter of taste in < language and expression. These arc 1 some what peculiar views to come from 1 • '•n in"onrv and it i* not surprising i BEEEEKONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, MAY I.hhi. tlmt they nhoiild ho startle the straight laced Presbyterians of Kentucky at | to hnve some doubt whether the Kcv. ' Mr. Moore wan the right man in the riglit place. A Legislative Apportionment. The rogues are showing their hands! True to their instincts, the State plun derers are preparing the way for the future triumph of fraud and ring gov- ! eminent. liilliugxley, acting in con cert with the agents of the rounders and thieves of Philadelphia, has re ported in the House an Apportion- ! ment bill which for desperate villiany and unfair manipulation is without a parallel in politics. It is said to , have been mainly the joint product j of a committee of Philadelphia ring- \ sters, and intended to secure a Repuli- I iican majority in the legislature oi ; at least eighty under anv circumstan ces. The districts are so arranged as t-> give preponderance to the worst cle ment of that party over any honesty or conscience that might remain amongst them in elect ons. The llarriduirg i Patriot speaking of this bill says: "After au incubation of five months j the House Committee on apportion- > ment through iuchairinau, Hilliiigsley- ; has made its report. As might be imagined from such an origin the pro duct is a scorpion. Democratic coun- j ties are carved up ruthlessly in order to ! elect Republican representative* while Republican counties of like population j are left intact. Its author boast* that ; the bill will give the Republicans ! seventy-five majority in the Legists- j tare on joint ballot on the ba-ia of the (iarfield vote. Rut there is no danger that sucb a monster of ge. ryaiandcr- j iug villainy will meet with the appro val of tk-j honest and fair-minded p"7*n of m* HpiWWB!W NtHf pit-cut legislature. They will spurn j it with the same contempt which they i must eutertain for it* author. The Philadelphia portion of the gerrymander is the work of ex-Sheriff Leeds ami some other member* of the city ring who were in conference with the ap|Hirtionmeat committee a few night* ago. The rest of the State wa •afely left to the chairman. But then was no intention of passing an appor tioninent bill at this session and it is now 100 late. This job wa* carved out for an extra session of a hundred day* j It will never pass through this Legi* laturc either at a regular or an extra ! session. Mr. Billingsley and his com mittee have exposed their partisan tin scrupulousness to no purpose." THE Star Route postal swindle, is just at present engaging the attention of the Postoffice Department at Wash- j ington, and the developemcnts arc likely to bring to grief a number of famous j lets of the Republican party. Brady, the official who had charge of the star route business of the depart- ■ ment, has been akod to resign, and a number of others implicated in the frauds will fall with him. Tbo New York Time* says that in ninety-three of these route* "which have been in creased from $727,119 to $'2,075,09-" the name of .1. \V. Dorsey appears eight times. One increase of his an nual pay on one route wa* from 82,- k!)2 to gl!),0-j|. This man is tho bro ther of ex-Senator Dorsey, of Arkan sas, the Secretary of the Republican Xutional Committee and the man to whom Vice President Arthur gave the credit of securing the election of the Republican ticket in the late, election. Mx-Senator Dorsey is more than sus pected of having n pecuniary interest in the contracts that stand in the name of his brother and of J .M. Pock, whose name also appears eight times in the list of ninety throe." THE Duke of Sutherland, with a party of railroad men from Kngland, are on a visit to this country.' Their object is to inspect our railroad system with a view to improvement of their own. They were in Baltimore and Washington on Saturday, and will visit Harrisburg and Altoona on their return* Tho Facts. It will be remembered that Senator Butler promised to give the public "irrefragable proof" of u corrupt bar gain between the Republicans and ! Mahoue to control the organization of the I uited States Senate. < too day In-d week Mr. Butler, in the course of a reply to the virulent tirade of abuse ! uttered by !• rye, of Maine, aguin-t the people of the South, proceeded to ' fulfill hi* promise, and in support of hi* position he presented the following j seventeen facta, which Republican*! ! ran answer in their leisure in imenis: i Firt,( —Tbe.S-nator from Viigtniu (Mr. i j M ibone) was elected to the Senate aa I a Democrat. / -His purpose to vote with tloi ' I Republicans bud never been announced j un d Ins vote disclosed tbat fact. Third —Following that vote be had been assigned to ih* chairm nhi|i an important committee by tin- li -pub- j liean caucus. Fourth —This hud hei n followed by the nominal ion of Mr. Iliddleb.-rger f-.r Serge ml-nt-Arm*. Fifth —George Gorhsin. nil r-irne-t friend of the Senator, ha- le-.-ii nomi ii ii<- I an Secretary. ,V h ||e (Mr. M shone) hiid appoint ed Mr. Durham'* brother in law a- cletk of his colli in it lee. Seventh The nontiit-*ti >ns by the ('resident of Mr. M ihone's politi. ■] \ friends to Fedetal offices. Ku/hth —The Senator ba* voted on every motion villi the ReiiildientH, A'tslA—Hv such votes he was earning out the will of the Kepuhli >u caucus. Tenth —Ho had moved hl seat to the i Republican side of the chamber. rjen A—The Republican caucus re fu-e-i to tiansict put IK- bu-ines- until 1 j tlorhain and Iti-ldlelierger were e'ei ied Twelfth —I he Senator still ria in —l to ; tie a Democrat stel \uled wt'.b the He ' pufdicons. Thirteenth ~-\h |i|lsls*frsr was an avow -d Heir -rsl and lepudlalioinst ahd ! Ihe refute ritfeii-ive to tfir It -publicans, Fourteenth— The Senator frulti tloio Mr. Stjeriiinn avow.-.i that anything that would boat down toe t). lUuCTato j partv wa-jusiifi it |e. F'/henih —The Heuiorratic Senators i ■ ha-i bru >-J UrvsUH- Uir) Voted as warnm v ipame sow i divert the atfrntP-n of Ifie country! | from an Unlaw Jul aJiuuiCO. [ .v -WiM i n-t. ad of ins il ing an inVs * ■ !• i ration of 'lie ih- rj s 11,.. t., ,ator Iron. Virginia and his lneiid sought to pre vent tr'-e peecll slid l- gi'.lo ite d.scu *irn by threats an l •leiolin ilion. Af-sC-sM— Ihe re ,son s-nyiisd (is tiie rwl.liutl wa- that the > naltu from j Virgi is >-• in f.voi ola (n-o hail . t ind a ir count. A lr--*- li-l'sl and a fair count ! con tinu* 'Mr Hut ter. hen 1 i,e laat e|.-e tirni the State of Indiana was colonized we'o negr voters from tli v South in order to nullify and ncutrali.o tb< Democratic vote of that M*t. _ _ A sen at ona case w I --lore Mover bvon, of i'ltlstmrg. last week. All j -srill) officer Was 01, *• of 1,,„ pa,st*oge,- "0 t tie train from Chicago. Ills Dtne ' j is John Con line sml tie r'-nks s firt lieuienant in the Ninth 1 atairy. lie j wa on his way from the jdains, Texas or Me*ICO. to \\ arhington on msius! of final business, and. it appears, had t come deranged for some 1 use or other o.a the way. He jumped up in the Cur and drove the passengers out with hi revolver. At the I. ninn dc|nit he w j taken to the Central II ua-I, where fie was a-* gned a room. He threw the clothes out of the window and acted s if be was about to jump out himself. He was taken to the Central Station, as it was impossible to watch him and it • was believed he might do to himself *e- 1 1 nous injury. He had checks and tick ets' with him that shows his baggage had been sent on to the capital and that was his own destination. Mayor Lyon discharged him and he was taken to the West l'enn Hospital. Miss Maria Htimson Hiinan, daughter of the late I'rofeasor .J. Lewis Hunan, of lirown University, was killed at Providence, R. 1., on Friday evening ' last. !*hn was riding on horseback, at- j tended by a student in the University. : when her burse became unuiaiiHgetble j ; in going down Angcll street and dash ed against a tree in the rear of the first Baptist Church. The young lady died from concussion of the brain. Her j attendant had just caught the rein of ber horse, hut too late to turn, and he and hia horse went through a lence and over the bank wall of ten or twelve feet into the church yard, receiving little injury. Miss Diman was twenty years old. Her lather died three months ago. Mrs. Ann Allen, a relative of R. M. Elliott, in chsrge of the New York bui'dings at Pittsburg, while ransac king an old desk, discovered documents tbat evidenced a ninety nine-year lease ol $40,000,000 worth of property in New York and Brooklyn. The lease had expired about eighteen years since, and on two different occasions adver tisements had been inserted in different j papers calling for the heira, hut the rel ative* did not see them until within a few days. Mr. Elliott and Mrs. Alien propose to institute proceeding* to re cover their interest in tho property. Pennsylvania tobacco it now leading in prices tb tobacco raised In tcany cr ADDITIONAL LOCALS. General Weaver on Reform. A TAI.K lIV Tint I.ATK lilt KXN' HACK CAS- | UIUATK yon I'KKsIDKSr. The people of liellufonlo hihl vicinity, on Sntortiny evening Imt, hail the plea-ure of li-leniiig to an able and eloquent speAh froin fjeii. .1 Mines 15. Weaver, of lowa, ! ! who will bi- reujemhered by a large riuiii h-r of the readers of the Dkmockat as the | < andidate for President of the National i-ruenkack Labor party, lu-t fall. Mr. Weaver served as a member of the -Pith <'< ingress from lowa and wliile there was | 1 "t" 5 of Hie ablest advocates of the priiici -1 | ie of his party. It 1* an unusual thing, | 111 the history of the pilules of our coun try to have |>oliti.ai discussions at a lime . when no {.articular question is before the ' people or when we are not in the uiidst of I a [tolilical campaign. But no doubt it is I i stroke of jm.lii ai diplomacy on the i I part of the leadera of the party whose : jirinciph-a Gen. W.-av.-r is 1 -|iusing, and ! ja-rhaj-a one that is worthy of commends- I ' lion, as it gives hitter partisans an oj.jH.r lunitv to reflect on Ihe (juestioijs of the -lav at a time wio-n they are not treading .a the foot jalhs muikcd out by tne lead ers of their resja-ctivu organiza : tions. Too meeting at which Mr. Weaver ] -jKike was heid und'-r the auspices of the i 1 Greenback |>arly It wa* organized by clcctingex-Cohgr< .--man Yo. Un chairman , Mr. Yocum upon taking his seat as chair- j I man of the meeting, made a f-w remarks jjsoti Ihe importsn - of the j*-ople and clt.zeiis of the Ui.i'e-d r them !by the Constitution. That these jiowers •r gladuaiiy being Uh> 11 from theiu by the moneyed and . ■•rj.oralo infiuen<-s i f the country ; that tie-y should l->k after their interests, and ww that they ef rejirto iiud in the law-u.a)..ng power by persons wh-.s- ir.l'-re.u aie o-mrnon with their own. He cloud his remarks by in j troduiing (un. Jauus 15. Wavi-r, of lowa, as the s|"Hinr who would discuss the j.r.n ij !••• if > I i'Vai*vwkM^e^a4dL.'*''it, 'he *RS haj.py to meet the |e*or,l and I neighbors ed the cht.rman, Mr Yocum, | who had Iwca hi- fiietni and felh-w co j Ishore r, forj|i>" s->-iot,s of t'-Lgre., in - re.,:. of tin ir | stituenU and th inn-rc. t -f the nation, ' slid thai it Was a ircc of gr at jih-ssur so him to m n in this town his jwrsona'. 'I r tends, a; 1 talk to ill-in uj-on ihe great {. sure of reform and the gn at cause of human Industrie* Mi- Weaver said be nad ben sp-.king every day for the last ,wek*, and Snun-d the audlenca be would not be at this Wtifk if he did not be. • hew that there was an u' .lute iiec-e- it* for it. Tlisl he r-v gnU ! ;ho fa*-t that j .aher j were j~t much interested Ja th- ir party wa- in ■ d government an-l that nis D.-ir.ixratic and Itej-uhlican j rii-nd* wen-ju-t a l. tn" t in proclaiming tie ir pdilical view* *. th< y claimed to be. i lhal we are ali 111 teresl.d in good govern ; in* lit, but we di:!'.-r a> to how- this good I government should he obtained. Tbers w. re fuiidataeutal principle* of ; i-overnment, given to the J—.pie at large, rigiits and j rivileg.-s guaranU-s-d them l-v the Constitution of the United .S;tes, and ths jseople were resj.<>nsible for tho proper . use of them. The jmnpi,. have a voice in | the affair* of this nation an 1 they eserciss i it by means of the silent ballot they ca.t 1 on election day, con-tjuenlly Uiev should consider well before they cast it. The framer* of the Constitution of the United 1 Stales intended that the people should rule ! this government by their repre*enlMive j in Congre** and that Congress had certain power* given it by the Constitutinn. Hut j instead of being ruled by the people the I country i ruled to-day by five powerful 1 kings rej-resented by five great monopolies j —Railroad* and Telegraph oumpanie*, National Bank*, Standard Oil comjianv 'and Alaska Noel Cotnj.any—any one of I which could get any National or State | legislation they desired to increase their power, to increase their profit* or to op- 1 pre** the people. Tho people have given them thi* power and now they have bo come *0 powerful tbat they u*e it a* a ma chine of oppre**ion in every conflict with their intere*U. Thpy are robbing the laboring man, buying up !cgi*)*tures w ,d wink at the law—for they need only say so to have a law that revlricU them in thair profits repealed. They not only ac oomplih legislation with their money and power, hut they elect PreiidenU. They did it la*t fall. There la no man In thi* houie who does not in all conscience be llevo that Garfield wa* elected by the money p'sti- of U> country. He wa* placed In the Presidential chair by the power of monopolies, and that he will he controlled by tha 11m* power while Pre#!- dent hat nfreedy he'-n rhevm by ccr.e ( hi# ' gel*. . - -.A TKKMN: $1.50 p< r Ammni, in Adrinrf. Mr. Weaver went on at n0r,,,, length to demonstrate that the people do not exer -1 cine the proper ere In selecting th-ir legis lator* or in exercising their own opinion, lie charged that in a great many instance* throughout the country, men were made to vote through thr'-ati of their employer as tho employer dictated. There was a | great necessity for reform. Whenever j the fault* of the party in power were about to be laid oj>on, they would cover it by raising the hue and cry of the "Solid South." Hut that cry i now hushed for ever. They can no longer rely on that. That question i* settled forever in tbia country, and people will no longer be de ceived by that false aUrm. He sjxike of the creation of the debt of the United States occasioned by the isle civil war, and if the plan of Thaddeua Steven* bad been adopted instead of the I plan offered by Wall street of New York, thtt great debt might have been avoided. ISul be charged that there was a "crimi nal conspiracy concocted to take advan tage of the misfortune* of the country at thut time and to "speculate in the blood of her sons." He said he would try them for j tbia crime now : he would present hi* case; cat) the defendants themselves as witnesses and would take for bi* jury the con science* of hearer*, and that be would prove th'-m guilty by their own testimony. II "re the sjieak'-r en We I upon an exhaus j tive argument on the subject of finance ; and political economy, which to do justice ! to the sjrf-aker would require a verbatim | report of bis Speech, which our sr.ace fer | hid*. Mr. Weaver sjoke for two hour*, and at ( the close of his tpecch predicted that the 1 reform* r,< -are. In the requisites of character, schol arship arid experience to fit him for the }*>- silion he stand* pru-eroineat among h, fellow*men. II? is a native of the county, and by earnest, faithful and conscientious deletion l .'very duty of life has gained a position in the public esteem that any one might l>e proud to occupy, l'rofesaor Wolf will enter upon hi* official work on the first of dune, lie has devoted \ears of his life to the education of youth, is thor oughly conversant with our school system, and his whole career is an ample guarantee that the new duties that devolve upon him will lo justly and zealously ja-r formed. Certainly the school* will l>e safe in hia hand*. ln tbe school d. rector's convention on st Tuesday a number of tbe warm per •ona! friends of Professor Henry Myer in i-ud oti voting fer him. and Continued to do so through a number of ballot*. Of course the compliment was deserved, but it should not lead person* to regard Mr. Meyer a* having been in any seme a can didate asking or desiring a re-election U the Supcrio tendency which be has so ehly and acceptably filled during the joist six year*. Mr. Meyer will turn tbe care* and responsibilities of the position over to hia successor on the first of June with a con sciousness of daty well performed through out hi* entire term oi oflke. Under his supervision the school* of the county have made marked improvement and he will re tire with the respect and confidence cf the public. Mr. 11. L. Harvey, of Hoggs town ship, makes bit morning round* with great regularity and dispense* to hi* many patron* in Bellefonte tbe jairest of milk and cream. Hereafter on each Tuesday and Friday morning, Mr. Harvey will be pre|ared to furnish butter milk to tboee who desire it. —We have been rrqma