tElj* tfcnlrr tilfe Democrat. SHUGKKT As PORSTKII, Editors. VOL. Slit Centre rawer at. Tem $1.50 per Annum, in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTHR. Editor*. Thursday Morning, July 14, 1881. THE late Secretary of the Navy, R. W. Thompson, has been elected Presi dent of a company organized to build a railway from Raltimore to Cincin nati. THE bids for publishing the Penn sylvania State Reports were opened by the Secretary of the Commonwealth on Friday last. The bids ranged from $1.17 to 82.90 j>er volume of at least seven hundred pages. Ranks A Rroth er of New York, were the successful bidders. These reports under the law are to be sold to the citizens of the State at the contract price. GEN. G RANT'S photograph at the sale of the affects of the late Vice President Wilson at Nantic, Mass., brought just fifteen cents. Some months ago when lunacy run in the direction, of sycophancy instead of pistols and quack nostrums as now, the picture of the "man on horseback" would have brought a better price. THE Republican bosses of Phila delphia have been repairing the ma chine for active campaign work. Some of the old engineers, such for instance as Rowen, have thought it prudent to retire from the front and take act ive duty in the greasing department. They have taken good care, however, to be succeeded by trusty lieuten ants who will keep the machine in the usual rut. IT is proper to keep in mind where the responsibility for there being no President pro tempore of the Senate belongs. The choice of a President i pro tempore at the last session was de liberately prevented by Vice Presi dent Arthur and Mr. Conkling, who j satisfied themselves that in the event ; of au election Mr. Rayard would have ! l>ooen elected, and who prefer red all the dangerous chances of a vacancy to that result. ALL kinds of absurd propositions are made to take advantage and profit by the universal sympathy accorded our wounded President. The last we have seen is the proposal of one to collect as a thank offering for the re covery of the President the sum of $-"i,000,000 to cstahlish'an institution to be known as the "Garfield univer sity." If the President recovers we have no doubt he will be fully satisfied with the general sympathy accorded him by all classes of the people, with * out regard to race or parties, and will not need the endorsement of a $5,000,- 000 institution to remind him of their sincerity. • A COMMUNICATION has been nd ( dressed to Gov. Hoyt by the Mayors of the citice of Pittsburg and Aile- IY and the Hon. J. K. Moorehcad others asking him to open a cor ndence with the Governors of the ai States on the subject of issuing irrent thanksgiving proclamations the recovery of the President, oubt proclamations will he issued on as the President's recovery is eii. At present hope is bouyant, io one can dispel the fear that it be delusive. If the sincere and felt prayers of the whole Amer people do not conflict with the j table designs of Providence, we expect to see a united thanks g that will also mark a period in history when narrow-headed po ,l bigots could not charge the crime it also commemorates, to •la" anil "copperheads" incited to ler by "Democratic teaching." srnor Charles. Foster, of Ohio, also addressed a communication to Governor Plaisted, of Maine, making a similar proposition. In the happy event of the President's recovery this will be a very reverential manner jn which to mark the gratitude of our people. "EqUAL AN I KX A*'T JI'HTH KTO AM. MKN, or W IIATK V Kit STATIC fKHNIfAHION, HKl.lf,tot's OR I'OLITK'A I..Jr/Tcrxn A VIK(IINIA repudiation coniinittec litis lately visited Washington to solicit aid froiu Secretary Rlaine in the ef fort to secure the merger of the Re publican party of that State in the piebald party of Ross Mahone. The Secretary being much engaged in waiting ujKin the stricken President, and the performance of his official duties, was not in a mood to discuss the propriety of the Virginia Repub licans surrendering their identity to become mere hod-carriers in the work of building up a party for Mahone and Uiddleberger. They, therefore, came over to Pennsylvania to meet Don Cameron. Well, Don may help , them. lie has the dimes, hut whether !he will invest in stink that will not | make direct returns, is doubtful. Rut still Don is an eloquent rooster —put him on the stump. He might do much to prove to the Republicans of Virginia that political honesty is but a sham —that success only is honor, however obtained. Such sentiments lie can advance with great power. They are in-born and part of himself. They are the teachings of his vener able sire, and are all that is necessary or applicable to the repudiation side in the Virginia contest. 1 THE young gentlemun, who is at present editing the Philadelphia Pre**, formerly conducted a Conkling organ at Albany. The stockholders of the Pre**, however, have recently forced him into the lilaine groove. Rut his natural sentiments cropped out on last Saturday w hen he discussed, editorally, the caucus nominations of the "half breeds," Miller and Lapham. Of Miller, this adolescent youth remarks, "He represents the best type of active politics." Politics have been very j "active" in Albany lately, but there are ; people who do not like that kind of "activity." He likewise feels called ujwn to say that Mr. Miller is one of j "the most promising men in the State." j What docs he promise? As far as most people can see just now he "promises" to be a very ready and "ac tive" advocate of such legislation in the Senate as will best conduce to the interests of the "wood pulp people," These monopolists have a few repre sentatives in the House,but Mr. Miller, if he ever reaches the Senate, will be the single advocate of his own business in that honorable body. His "remark able business career," as young Smith of the Pre** puts it, has consisted in simple robbing. Of course he is not amenable to the laws, but neverthe less the "wood pulp men" are little less than burglars. THE Albany half-breed Republican* have held a caucus, anil selected new candidates for Senators. Warren Mil ler and Klbridge G. Laphani, the latter a kind of half-breed stalwart, and the former a full Hedged Adminis tration half-breed, were chosen. And still the tJcad-loek ap|>cars unbroken, the friend* of (Tonkling adhering to him and the Democracy standing firm to their own candidates. An adjourn ment without affecting an election seems to he inevitable. If this oc curs, and occur it roust, unless crow diet is made popular by hot weather, the contest for Senators will go to the people, to be decided by the election of new representatives in a three cornered fight between the stalwart friends of Conkling, the half-breed friends of tbe Administration, and the Democratic party. In uch a race, it is perhaps safe to predict that the De mocracy will have a fair chance to ride the winning horse. JEP. DAVIS, writing to a friend in Louisville, Ky., expressing strong sympathy with the President, adds that he will not say as some have said, thnt he is "thankful the assassin was not a Southern man," but he will say, "I regret that be is an American." . THE dead-lock in the New York I.legislature on the election of Senator, still continues without any immediate prospect of agreement. BKLLKFONTK, PA., TIIUKSDAY, Jl LV 11, |HH|. The Logic of tho AHHusHination 111 flic first great excitement which j followed the shooting of the President ;of the United States, men excitedly ! charged the dastardly act upon indi j viduals. It was the Star route tlieives. | It was a conspiracy in which ox-Sena tor ('onkling and the Vice President were concerned. This was but the natural ebullition of the intensity of fin-ling which marked the different I bent of men's minds when they heard ! the dread intelligence. Now upon sober reflection the excited individuals who rushed to such mad conclusions, | are revising their hastily expressed opinions. Senator Conkling is no as • sassin, neither is he the abettor of murderers. He never strikes with (the deadly intent of the Italian bravo. His warfare is waged in the forum, and is fought to the hitter I death, beneath the clear sunlight of Heaven. Vice President Arthur is j knowingly unfit for his po-ition. He I should never have been chosen to it, and his presence in tho Senate Cham- Iter as presiding officer under the law, was a parody upon our system of pop ular government. Yet Mr. \rthur is no a.—assin, neither does ho abet us-a.-- sination. There was some method in the thought thnt the desperate vidians |of Star route infamy might, in their convulsive struggles to evade retribu tive justice, resort to the pistol of the a—as-in, hut Rrailv, Ilorsey ami Gor haiu—honored names —are certainly not concerned in this, one of the foulest crimes that stain- the pages of history. On the contrary there arc deeper and more pregnant reasons than any that can ho charged to any individual or any conspiracy embracing a few di.*- solute thieves. Conkling und Arthur are not responsible directly for this at tempt U]K)tt the life of the head of a great nation, hut the teaching* of Conkling and Arthur ami the men who have (wen their devoted follow) r in the Republican party have directly brought alsjut this consuming di— grace to the American Republic, and this eminent jn-ril to its official head. The sjK>ils system, the pestilential greed for office and the unruly quar rels of faction inflamed the morbid tendency ofGuiteau's mind and made it possible, aye, more than possible, 'lll perative upon him to avenge what he considered the treason of the I're-i --dent to his particular section of the Republican party. Guitean is not in sane only in that he selected nn illus trious victim for his murderous designs. The act was committed in the white heat of inflamed factional pa*ion, ami the enduring disgrace which will forever cling to tt* as a people is direct ly nttrihutnhlc to the sjioil* system. The demand is made in thunder tones that the disreputable warfare of fac tion be forever eliminated from our National politic*, that disnp|N>inted ambition shall not so work upon the minds of men as to cause them to re venge failure with tho weapon of the bravo. This is a government of Inw and. order. We are not accustomed to the maimer in which foreign people* redress their grievances. Rut so long as tiic Republican party (mints the way to assassination by their methods of party management, so long will it be possible to enact such bloody <1 rani as as that which has just startled the civilized world iu the shooting of the Nation's Chief Magistrate. Despcr- i ato partf leaders should understand that their nniinositiea make Guiteaus possible. It is lime to call a halt, and the responsible heads of the parly in power should see to it that tho un seemly wrangling of the past five years cease TIIE New York < 'handier of Com- ; merce have taken steps to raise a fund of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to bo presented to Mrs. Gar field as an evidence of their esteem, and to relieve the mind of tho Presi dent oC any anxiety for the future of his family. The sum is being sub scribed iu sums from SI,OO to $5,000. Ot'lt Republican friends, at least some of them, arc somewhat concern ed about Chester A. Arthur. There is u possibility that Arthur muy be come President of the United States, and thut contingency is not a pleasant matter to contemplate. Arthur, how ever, must have a character mid the I hiludflphia A'/rIA American, is out* of the organs that comes to his de fence. In a late issue of that journal ail attempt is made to give Arthur a character by a misrepresentation of the causes which led to his l>eing bounced by Hayes and Sherman from the important position of collector of customs at the port of New York, i ho North A mcriran lias the effrontery ! to speak of his removal us follows : "Upon bis persons! character or his olllciai integrity there has never been placed a suspicion of stain, and it will be remembered that in substituting an other in bis place a* ''ollector of the Port of New York, President Hayes did „o with the most positive expression of approval of the fidelity with which the public service hud been administered." 1/ct us see. Mr. Hayes once wrote a letter to the Senate of the United States in which he gave his reasons for the removal of Arthur. That let ter was dated "Kxccutive Mansion, January -'ll, 1*70," and the "positive j expressions of approval of the fidelity with which the public service had bccu administered" hv this man, must lie found in the extract from that letter which rends as follows : "With my information of the farts in the oaie. and with a deep sense of the ti'S|wnsibh< obligations ini|K>ed upon me l-y the Constitution "to take > are that the laws be faithfully executed," 1 regard it as my plain duty to suspend the officers in question, (Arthur and < orneli,) and to make tho nomination* now before the Senate, in order that this important office, (the New York Custom House may be h n him "there has never been placed a -u-picion of -tain; hut the hypocrisy and un truthfulness of the claim will, never theless, In- under-fowl by intelligent citizens. The public records tell the whole story and cannot successfully be made to lie. I'oLViiAMY is being reinforced ala fearful rate. It is said that several thousand Mormon converts arrived at New ork the other day, and that lliou-ands are collected in Kit- : rope and will bo on their way to Utah in a short time. These will add to the complication of the Mormon question which has already assum ed formidable proportions, and will tax the ability of tho most discreet statesmanship to manage. Our laws declare polygamy a felony. These laws cannot much longer remain inert and their violation allowed. The con flict will conn* mid must be met. If (lie Mormon church is preparing for this contingency by proselyting and dragging to this country its ignorant and deluded adherents from the old world charity, if not self-protection, j should induce our public authorities I to arrest the importation. GENERAL, SHERMAN promptly tele-; graphed the news of President Gar field's shooting to General Hancock. The grand old soldier, whom everyone, Iwth respects and loves, the man who was defeated by the stricken Presi dent and who had good reason to feel that his reverse wa accomplished in au unworthy manner, proved himself to lie what his hundreds of thousands of dt'Vo'.ed adherents love to call him the "Superb." The following are his dispatches : OOVKRNOR'S I si. a NO, N, Y., Julv 3. TO'O.NKKAI W. T. SHKRMAK, U. a. A. I If an opportune moment should come | pwasc express to the President my hoart- F-WR. wishes for hi* complete recovery. \V. H. HANI-OIK. IOOVINNOR'S ISLAND, N. Y., .Julv t. Ts (iKNIRAI. W. T. BIIKRMAN, IT. A. A. "I trust the recent assault upon the life of the President to-day may not have fatal conaequwncev, and that in the Internet of the country the act may be shown to be that of a madman." W. 8. HANKM a. President Kurfb-ld Improving. , The Opinions 0/ Hi* Attending I'h'iricinn* I•"!,eat,' Their d rowing Vonjidenc' in Hui /■.nhre Recovery The (sirmi/iitig fi'mjrom A lev Share. Their View*. Kxctxrivs MANSION, July IZ—lO; Pi e. m.- Dr. Woodward, one of the *ur j goons who are in constant attendance upon the President, upon being askt-d I to night what fie thought of the hitler's condition, replied : '• I bis has been on tho whole tho best day the President has had since his injury. There was less disturbance during the febrile rie this afternoon than on prevkw- after noon and his actual maximum temper ature was less to day than yesterday. It still represents however considerable afternoon fever and it would not he safe as yet to declare the President out of danger but his gcneial symptoms are very encouraging and with every day we feel increased hope." Surgeon Deneral Karnes upon being asked this evening his opinion of the President s case said : "His maximum temperature has been less to day than yesterday, and his general condition is much improved. He takes nourish ment in constantly incteaaing quanti ties and his stomach performs its func tions well. He i not only (tetter to night than last night but his condition as a whole is better than at any other lime since the shooting.'' Dr. Key burn u|>on being asked a sim ilar question at p. ¥., said : "The Pres ident's symptoms last evening gave us some little uneasiness, partly on ac count ot the rise in bis temperature, and partly on account of other unfavor able indications, such as restlessness and a dry hot skin. We believed, how ever, that these symptoms represented • inly a teni(>orry fluctuation of the fever, and our judgment has been cop 1 firmed by the result. The President's pulse and tem(H-rature fell gradually during the night, and have been a* low to enils most of his time during the day reading some periodical* which have t>een lying round the warden's office. No new*pa(>ers aie allowed him, although he repeatedly asks to see them. He retires early, sleeps quite soundly and rises about fi o'clock, looking tolerably bright j makes Ins toilet carefully, ami reads until his breskfast it served. Nothing has been *anl to him regarding the Picsiilent'a condition. He frequently makes in quiry. however, how he is getting along, still entertaining a hope that lie will die. lie is anxious to see the photo graphs taken ol him. but as yet none have been shown him. No one has called on him except the district at torney and Chief lwooks, of the de leclive service, accompanied occasion ally by a friend, nor ha* he express ed a desire to see any one except the district attorney. A watchman liaa been stationed at the prisoner's cell to prevent any of the prisoners who are al lowed to pace the corridors to converse with him. ♦ Mr. John A. I'ret*, of Ilarrisburg, who some four years ago met with an acci dent at the printing establishment of Major Hart, which necessitated the am putation ol his right hand and wrist, has been absent in New York for the last ten daya for the purpose of securing an artificial hatyl. lie has returned, hav ing been successful in his errand. From Mr. T. Frees, on K road way, New York, he purchases! a combined band and wrist and is elated with his new acqui sition. With the artificial member he is able to pick up hi* hat and place it upon hia head and to shake bands with a friend, giving quite a grip with the thumb and fingers. ll# expects in time, with practice, to bold a poo or pencil and to write with it. I hit MS: SI.f the l.piscopal Church, died at Meyeradale, Somerset county, July 10, after a prolonged ill riess. itisbop Kerfoot was born at Hub lin, March I, 1816, and was a most ex emplary and distinguished churchman. Frederick Wright, of Wilkesbarre, at tempted to murder his brother in-law, I houias A. Murphy, on last Thursday, because tho latter had discharged him from his employ for getting drunk. He fired several shots at him without hitting hirn, when he was arrested and placed In jail. Ihe l.bensburg Presbyterian congre gation, having to vacate their old church building, service was held in it for the last time on last Sabbath. Arrange ments have been made with Kev. A. McKlwain, the minister who preached the first sermon in it 34 years ago, to be present and the last one. Patrick Mullen was terribly burned by an explosion of gas at the Philadel phia and Heading Goal and Iron Com pany'* colliery at Ashland on last J ri day morning. Lewis Hubble, the fire : boss, was slightly burned. The explo sion was caused by firing a bla-t in the breast in which Mullen was working. | The Clearfield -/ mtvsaf tells us bow ! William Hunter, a New burg merchant, ! went to the cellar to draw a gallon of mollaaaea, leaving on the counter his | pocketbook, containing 1400, When I be returned the book and it* contents j were gone, and, although several visi j tors were searched. Mr. Hunter still mourns the 10-s of Lis money. An old relic of war times wa* found a f< sr days ago at Harriaburg. It was the key and reiay ot an old telegraph in •trument which was in ue in Governor , •'urtiu's department during the whole period of the war, by winch so many ! imjortant messages were sent and re ceived. It Was presented to one of the j operators who bad user! it in it* best i days, who prize* it highly as a relic. A 48-barrel well of j.etroleuin was struck near Greenshurg, Westmoreland j county. Pa., July at a depth of 500 feet, rhe excitement of own ers in the neighborhood of the strike is very great, Nothing short of finding a gold mine or breaking into a bank can j create the fury of greed that possesses a 'community whose land is suddenly found to be underlaid with oil. The Governor has appointed Charles Thompson Tones, Henry C. Howell, Mahlon H. Hickinson, of Philadelphia ; James K. Moorhead, John Paul, of Pittsburg; Henry Hawle, of Krie ; Wil liam Nolan of Heading, a board of com missioners to superintend the construc tion of a State Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon. This board is appoint ed under the provisions of an act pass ed by tho legislature. <>n Wednesday of last week, a locust tree in the yard of Mr. Wilson, near Homestead. Allegheny county, was struck by lightning. There were under the tree at the time Mr. and Mrs. Wil son. and daughter, Mrs. Car-rick and little son. and a boy named Porter. All were severely stunned. The shirt was [ burned from the Porter boy a back, and it is not thought he can recover. Tall tree* are dangerous to go under during a storm. The returns of the assessors of Potts ville show that 47"> dogs have a habita tion in that peaceful borough. This is the number returned, and it is safe to' presume that as many more escaped the observation of the officer. Ooeciti • zen has returned nine, and bv a peculiar system of progression in the tax rate wben more than one canine ia owned by the same person, bis tax on that class of projierty alone amounts to fd'. The case of H. Honaldson. of Ktnlen ton. Venango county, who was suspend ed froiu tbe Presbyterian Cbutch for dancing last spring, has >ecn before the Oar ion Presbytery on appeal. The de fendant defended himself in an argu ment of two hours. Tbe trial consumed the entire day and resulted in twenty two not to sustain tbe appeal and one to sustain. The trial was an animated one. Ibe defendant took an appeal to jSyuod, which meets in Kite. The de cision was a surprise to the community, as it is stated that the defendant could not dance, but only tried. It is reported that out of thirteen Hungarians, who were poisoneilat lla zleton, Luzerne co., by eating bologna sausage a week ago last Sunday four have died. Their bodies were discover ed in tbe woods, whither they bad w*n dered. The others all experienced a great deal of suffering and some are still sick front the ellecu of tbe poison. The doctor who took a quantity ot the sausage to analyze reports that he found |>oisonous matter in it, but cannot name it exactly. It ia known that a low class of I'olandera in the county speculate in cheap meats and that they supply the poor Hungarians with a good deal of thia kind of nutriment. It is thought that the sausage partaken of by the Hungarians was made up partially of the flesh of some poisoned animals, pot zibly dog*. NO. 28.