Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, August 04, 1881, Image 1
<I!)c Centre ilSb democrat. SHUGKRT \ FOKSTKR, Editors. vor. a. ©he lfrntrr TRmocrat. Term* St. so per Annum, ill Advance. S. T. SHUGERT ami R. H. FORSTER, Edilora. Thursday Morning, August 4, 1881. Democratic Stato Committee. There will bo a meeting of tho Demo cratic State Committee, at Bolton's Hotel, llarriaburg, at 12 M., on WEDNESDAY, AUQCST 10. to determine upon a time and place for holding tho next State Conven tion. A full attendanso of tho members of the committee is requested. A. 11. DILI,, Chairman. THE enterprising publisher of the Legislative Record is still sending out in bundles this daily issue of Legisla tive wisdom. We have to thank our friend, Representative Gephart, for a number of copies last week, received direct from the scat of the Govern ment. *■ ANOTHER DEAD-LOCK! In this case it is financial. liy the sudden death of Col. Rurch, Secretary of the Senate, it is believed that neither the Senators nor the employes of that body can draw upon their salaries until the election of bis successor . which cannot take place until Decem ber. COL. JOHN C. BI RCH, Secretary of the United States Senate, died sudden ly in Washington of organic disease of the heart on. Thursday last. Col. Rurch was from Tennessee, and went i into office when the Democrats secured control of the Senate. He succeeded Geo. C. Gorman. MONTPELIEK, the former home and resting place of President Madison, situated iu Orange < 'ounty, Virginia, has been sold at auction. Col. J. L. Carrington, proprietor of the Ex change Hotel in Richmond, became the purchaser at twenty thousand dol lars. The estate contains one thous and acres. WARNER MILLER, one of the new Senators-elect, from New York attend ed a meeting of the American Paper maker's Association the other day, and had the bad taste to make a speech iu faYbr of his wood pulp monopoly, and indicated his purpose.to stand by his private interests in the Senate with the same tenacity that distinguished him in the House. A POPULAR clcrgymnn nt Provi dence, Rhode Island, named Whitchcr, in receipt of an nnnual salary of 82,000 and largo collaterals, as the pastor of a prominent M. E. church, lias been detected iu stealing rare and valuable hooks from public and private libraries. He was no vulgar thief, but went for rare and valuable litera ture. His congregation not approving of his manner ot acquiring a select library, invited him to retire, and ho did. THE Hon. Andrew White, United States Minister to Berlin has tendered his resignation to take effect on the , loth of August. Carl Schurz is named as among those who may be considered for the succession. Here is a chance for a Pennsylvania!), and might serve Senator Don a good- pur pose in clearing off the Gubernatorial track for the Delaware statesmen. If General Ikavcr balks at the Ser geant-at-Arms, try him on the Berlin Mission. SENATOR GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, who has been prominently spoken of as the Republican candidate for State Treasurer, in a letter addressed t© boss (juay, announced that he is not, will not l>e a candidate for that office. Senator I>awrcuce is a popu lar man, and his present bent proves him also a sensible and discreet one, JS iti declining to be the scape-goat of his party at this time, when success, it more than doubtful. Perhaps the ga Hon. George sees the hand writing on th- wall, and is not ambitions to en oountw the doom it furshadgws. "EQUAL ANIJ KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MK.V, or WIIATKVKK hIATK OK I'KBSL'ASIOX, HKLIUIOUH OK t'OLlTlOAL."—Jeffrrton EX-SENATOR CONKI,IN( ■ spent a few days last week in Washington as J the guest of Senator Jones, of Nevada. He called at the White House to show his sympathy for the wounded Presi dent, and left a pleasant message for Mrs. (iarfield. He declined to be in terviewed politically, and his friends say, is absolutely out of politics and does not intend to be held responsible for the result of the election in New York. That was to be expected. His party having rejected hitn and placed the management in other hands, it will doubtless require a loud cull und the most humiliating entreaty to in duce the late boss to come to the res cue of the party in the extremity it is likely to encounter at an early day. Humility and entreaty, however, have great influence upon Conkling. It was the.-e-that drew him from his sulk ing retirement in the Presidential elec tion and carried General Garfield into the Presidential chair. Put the case is somewhat different now. Believing himself the victim of perfidy, and smarting under indignities he had not deserved from his party, the wounded lion will remain quiet in his lair watching the opportunity for revenge upon those who have sought his degra dation. He has the advantage of po-i --tion now, and may choose his own time to deliver the battle, which is sure to come in due course. THE death of Col. Burch,the Secre tary of the United States Senate, cre ates a vacancy in that office that it will be necessary to till as the first act of the Senate on its reassembling in December. The Secretary is the chief executive officer of tho Senate, and it appears there is no provision of law, or rule, hy which the .office can he fill ed temporarily. George C. Gorman was the Republican-Mahoue candid ate to supercede Col. Burch at the ex tra session, hut he was dead-locked, and failed of success. He is said now to he making a canvass for the vacan cy, and may he more successful, pro vided the contract !>ctween the Repub licans and Mahone remains unbroken and tlw New York Senators are ad toil before the election takes place. These contingencies, however, do not offer a flattering prospect to Gorman. CONGRESSMAN CARLISLE, of Ken tucky, has just returned from a European tour. It will he remem- bered that he was the author of the refundiug bill passed by the last Congress, and vetoed by his fraud u leucy, R. B. Hayes. Mr. Carlisle has been giving the subject considerable study during his absence, and express es the opinion that tfiecrctury Windom could have refunded the debt as readi ly at three per cent., the rate provided in the vetoed bill, as at three and a half per cent., at a saving of three millions to the Treasury. It is be lieved this able and accomplished rep resentative'will make a lively fight in the next (kmgresa in favor of low rates. THE PRESIDENT is improving daily, and it now thought his restoration to health is pretty well assured. By the use of an ingenious electrical instru ment devised by Prof. Bell, it is be lieved the hall has lieen located, and can bo removed at any time when it is thought advisable to do so by cutting. The latest bulletins from the physi cians up to 11-15 Tuesday night, re presents the invalid as resting quietly, without fever, having spent an exceed ingly comfortable day and made a de cided gain of strength. BY the reduction of expense* now being made, the Postmaster General, expresses confidence that the Post Of fice Department can lie made self-sus taining. That would have been the result long ago if the office had been lioneritly conducted and its revenues appropriated to the expenses of the office, instead of the endowment of thieves and the necessities of party in providing employment and pay for unnecessary political hacks. i 'A*- -i v " I * ' J BKLLEFONTE, l'A., THURSDAY, AUGUST I, IHH|. Who 1h RoHponsiblo ? Now that President Garfield is on the high road to recovery and full health we can safely inquire who is responsi ble lor the great crime committed against his person on the second day of July lust? We know that all parties have united in a great cry against < iui teau. True it is that Guiteau was the instrument through which the crime was committed, but who were the in stigators of it? There was, and had been, for months a very fierce and hit ler war waged between the different factions of the Republican party. One faction is headed by Mr. Garfield und bis cabinet, followed by the bet ter clues of Republicans all over the country; the otbc r factions is led by Dorsey, Arthur and Brady und for some time was followed by a number of office holders aud office seekers, and by all the thieves aud public plunders iu the land. When the President, nided by his cabinet, commenced a war upon the particular cla-s of thieves known as "Star route" thieves, and upon that class whose particular business it was a* treasury officials, to plunder the treasury of the Government in the in terest of an immense ring of officials, an assault, and a very latter one, was made upon the President and all con nected with him bv " The ('•ipilnl,' a newspa|>cr owned by Brady and other '\S:ar route thieves." The articles against the President were furious ami in any other laud than our own, the author of them would have been im prisoned if not executed for tr a->n They charged the President with at tempting to divide and destroy the Republican party ; they charged hint with the violation of promises made before his election ; they attempted to heap u|H>n him tbeir own infamy- Daily this pa|er teemed with most in flammatory articles intended to jmison and prejudice the public mind agaiu-t the Administration. We have only one number of the paper la-fore us, ami it is full of war upou the Attor ney General, joining in the Pre-idcnt wherever it can. We quote: "Docs " any infatuated scribe dare to inti " mate that after all the President and " several cabinet officers the Attorney " General, are comprised in the scheme "of Government devi*-(b. by our " fathers ? The said infatuated scril>e " is forthwith booked for prosecution " as a conspirator against the govern " nicnt." These articles had their ef fect. Guiteau was an office seeker in Washington, he was a stalwart, he wa led to honestly believe that his failure to secure a place was the fault of the President; his mind became in flamed hv the public assault of the thieves upon the representative head of the Nation ; and he believed he could save himself, save the Republi can save Dorsey and Brady and their followers, if he could only kill the President. The war on the Administration was continued; Gui tcau's belief liocamo convictions and naturally led him under its stimulous to commit the great crime in the face of the law, against the official head of a great people. Guiteau was not mad nor insane, save as he was made mad, and insane hy the teachings of one wing of the Republican party. Blame Guiteau as you will, the mommcnt you soberly and thoughtfully look at the whole case, Brady and Dorsey and their followers are the parties who were the instigators of the crime and who no doubt will lie held responsible hy the people just as seam as they turn from the wounded President long enough to take a fair and impartial view of the whole case. THE English Government are con sidcrbly excited over the discovery that some infernal machines loaded with dynamite and gun cotton, have been imported clandestinely from the United States. Active measures have been taken by both governments to discover the origin and purpose of these dangerous and villianoua ma • chines. * * W * % J * - % IHE Philadelphia Time* compli ments its neighbor the l\ett for its "detailed exposure ami emphatic con demnation of tho petty corruptions which obtain about the legislature." But the 7 limes qualifies its praise by the suggestion that "the I're** will doubtless pursue its good work at its own doors, now that it has bagged the small game that flutters and flounders among the crumbs of the Capitol. It will call President Newell of the Sen ate to account for the fraud lie has practiced upon the State by keeping on the pay roll of the Senate as the speaker's clerk, a man who not only rendered no service, hut is incapable of rendering clerical service und who never even qualified as an officer of the body, as the law commands. It will call Representative McClecry to account for imposing a pardoned bal lot-thief iijion the pay roll of the house, under an assumed name, and drawing pay for him without the per formance of public service. It will call Senator Grady and Representa tive Hull to a< count for the ('buries Guyger fraud, practiced under an as sumed name and the money plunder ed from the State without the pre tence of rendering service." Tin-so, says the Time*, "are simply s|>eciruen cases of many less atrocious frauds practiced—not by jx-tty subordinate thieves, hut hy grave Senators and ami Representatives who are soon to appear hefoic the people for re-election, when the integrity and power of the brave party organ will compel their defeat." M ITTILLI , IKm < amorous echo, or "me too" of the Senate, espouses the eau*e of the Virginia R> adjusters, and w rites a letter urging the Republicans to coalesce with the repudiators in order to defeat the "bourbons." The rcadjusters openly declare their pur pose to repudiate sl-'S,OUO,O<iO of the honest debt of the State, ami is the main issue avowed in their struggle for piacc. wniie 'he Democrats, whom this uiiseranle apology for a Pennsyl vania statesman calls "Imurbons," fa vor an honest and faithful payment of every dollar of the public obligations, without eliminating a rent from the just amount. Mitchell, himself lning the spawn of dishonesty and treach ery, is doubtless acting up to the high est instincts of his political education when he a*ks the Republicans of Vir ginia to perfect a coalition with rogues to rob the honest creditors of the State. But where doe* it place him and his party ? Is this the feast to which they would invite the people of Pennsylvania? If such a mode of paying debts in Virginia is desirable to the Republicans, why not in Penn sylvania? THE New York Time - which ha* been a trusty and faithful organ iu building up the Republican party to it* present altitude, now contemplates the work, and conies to the conelusion that it is nothing hut a "degraded ma chine manipulated hy a lot of hun gry and unprincipled hark* whose de votion to the party is measured by the depth* they can thrust their arm* in the public purse." The picture is strongly drawn and very life-like, and doubtless had its inspiration largely from the New York Legislature, if not in the prevailing frauds from which the party draws success in Na tional and State affairs. THE Kentucky State election came off on Monday last. The officers vot ed for were State Treasurer and mem bers of the legislature, and for the call of a Constitutional Convention Tho vote is said to have been light, but the Democrats were successful by an increased majority. A large majority of the members of the legis lature returned, are favorable to the re-election of James B. Beck to the Henate of the United States. As all the votes not polled counts against the ' call of a constitutional convention, that measure is probably defeated. I'rosprrlt) in the South. From tb Washington po&t. I To those who, looking at tho South through the spectacles furnished by a | certain class of northern journals and Republican stump orators, have come to consider it a region as barren in re : sources as it is fertile in outrages, a land hostile and forbidding, whose peo ple lack energy and object to it In oth ers, it will be a matter of surprise, per haps, to learn that the South is flour ishing aH never before ; that emigration i and foreign capital are flowing thither to develop its resources, and, better and stranger than all, that a great part of this emigration, and much the larger portion of this capital is furnished by the North and Northwest. Yet such is indisputably the case. The South, which for such a long }>eriod after the war, struggled on in poverty, harassed by all sorts of difficulties and handicapped by the bitterness of sec tional h-eling at the North, which pre vented its bsokiog to northern capital - for aid, is coming to the front again ; and the strides it is making toward j prosperity are marvelous, indeed, when j everything is considered. The development of the agricultural : resources of the new South in the past few years has been something wander ful, and though cotton has, of course, taken the lead, production has not been ' confined t-o that staple alone, but has extended to the cultivation of all the crop* that grew under southern skies. Manufacturing, especially the manu -1 facture of cotton, has kept pace with other industrial pursuits, and to-day it i almost impossible to find a plat •• of any considerable si/e which has not it* Isctory, either in operation or in course , of construction. hut it is in the development of her railroad interests that the greatest strides have been made in the South. Everywhere new lines are being built and new connections made. The whole country is opening up. Within the past eighteen months fully one hundred millions of dollars have been subscribed in the North sn<l in Europe fur trivet menlin the South, of which the greater portion is to be used in the construction , and equipment of railroads. Powerful syndicates have b<-en formed ' among the leading capitalists of New ! York, Pennsylvania, OHIO and the New I England State* for the development of | the section south of Richmond and Isoutbea't of the Mississippi. These syndicate# representing their millions, are reaching out for the control of i southern trade, and by investing their immense capital, are creating countless I opportunities for business and enter prise. < >ne result of these investments Ims txen to take from the hand* of south ern holders, t grentljr advanced rales, millions of dollars' worth of stocks and bond* of railroads, the of which wa deemed hy the various syn dicatcs nt-oeyrv ,to the completion of their railroad-. I his has put in of the sellers lar^e sums of mnniT for investment in agri culture or manufacturing, and conse quently given both a decided impetus. 1 he syndicates, moreover, l>eing inter ested in the general growth of the country through which their lines ran. are encouraging emigration and the opening of factories and furnaces. In fact, all these various causes acting and re acting upon each other, have inaug urated a season of genuine prosperity, and give promise of a development of the South unparalleled in the history ol any other section of the country. As some of the Republican news papers have exhibited bad taste in slur- , ring the memory of the late .fustic© i • 'lifford by charging him with being - "purely a political .fudge,'' the follow- j ing incident from the New York Timet I ought to close all discu—ion on that point : "In his capacity a* President of J the Commission he did an act ot which even an honorable man might be proud. It will be remembered that the papers necessary to the validity of President 1 Hayes' title, and which would have been i valueless without Justice Clifford's sig nature, woro delayed in preparation j close up to the limit of noon on the 4th of March. It would have been perfect- j ly easy for him to have delayed the preparation of this long, important in strument, and, even after its prepara- 1 tion, by insisting upon his clear right to a careful personal scrutiny of its con tents, he might easily have defeated the I inauguration of Mr. Hayes. Hut, on | the contrary, he vied in eagerness for th© completion of the document with those having it in charge, and promptly signed it. To appreciate the act it is • necessary to recall the bitter spirit of the time, and hear in mind that Mr. Clifford was a firm believer in the legal and moral validity of Mr. Tilden's claims to the Presidency. How hard this act of duty must have been for him may be judged from the fact that he never went to the White House during President Hayes' administration." The Nation's foreign Trade. WASHINGTON, July 29.— The value of the exports of merchandise during the past fiscal year exceeded the value of such exports during thepteceding fiscal year #66,080.815, an increase of 7.39 per cent., and the value of the imports of merchandise was #22.351,527 less than the value of the preceding fiscal yeer. a decrease of 3.92 per cent. Mr. Niromo, of the Hureau of Statistics calls atten tion to the rapid increase in the value of exports of merchandise from the United States during the last ten years, via : From #443.820,178 during the year 11871 to #902,419,473 during the year TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Athaw-t'. 1881. Tho exports of specie exceeded , the import* during each fiscal year from IHfi2 to 187'J, hut (luring the lint two t fiscal years the imports of specie ex | oeedetl the exports thereof, such excess amounting during the year ended .June ; '.O, 1880, to $75,801,291, and 'luring the year ended June .'lO, 1881, to $91,168,- 650. Jay Gould's latest. A HEW THINK 1.1 V 8 TO THE WEST WITH A I'Bll.AnEl.i'lll A AM I KEAIiI.V. CONNECTION. A- was noted in the column* of the Patriot on Tuesday morning a charter was issued from the State department on Monday to the Susquehanna, Pitts burg and Western railroad for a term of VVJ tear-, crpital stock $. r j,62-IJjOO, the road to be constructed from Milton on i the Susquehanna in Northumberland | county to Pittsburg. It was also stated at the time that the ineor|>orator* were , the same persons who some time ago by articles of merger obtained at the State i department had secured a continuous line of road from Pittsburg to Toledo. I Subsequent developments hare decided i conclusively that this line, the incor | porators of which are not only interest ed in the New York, Pittsburg and Chicago railway, but most of them heavy Wabash stockholders, is the great connecting link in Jay Gould s Wabash system of transcontinental j line*. It has been learned from officers of i the new road in Pittsburg that the ob ject in obtaining the charter was to se cure an eastern outlet for the New York, Pittsburg and Chicago railway. . Ihe eastern connecting link will 1 made witfi the Philadelphia and Head ing road at Milton and the western with the Wabash at Huntingdon, Indi ] ana. It i staled that Jay Qottld is himself largely interested in the road and this is the last link in hi* project of a great through line to the West. Tho road will be constructed on the , principle of a through trunk line and j its total length will |.e fire hundred nub -, atoot eighty miles shorter than : the Pennsylvania and Fort Wayne j roads. The new line is an assured fact j and the engineer- are already at work on the route. It i- expected to have the whole tine in operation sometime early in 1- .. Nothing in regard to the eastern outlet has as yet been definitely announced. I rorn the above it is to be inferred thl Mr. Gould has accomplished one purpose at last, viz: securing the con necting link in his Wabash system. The fact that the incorporator* and leading stockholder* are heavily inter ested in Wabash would of itself alone be sufficient to set all doubts at rest. The Atlanta F\p*iton. Fmi tl* Hullinxtr* There is a promise now that the At lanta International t'otton Kxposition will do more for the South than all the commercial convention- that have ever been held there. It mil draw to it all persons interested in cotton, it* ma chinery and it* manufacture*—embrac ing an immense variety of articles con nected with the production of cotton, it* manipulation, and the process that it undergoes while turning the raw ma terial into merchantable fabrics. Hut I cotton, although the ruling staple* will I not be the only feature of the exhibi | tion. The list of exhibit* has been widely extended so a to cover all the principal products of the .South—its sugar, rice, tobacco; it* timber and it* topical fruit*. The Pastern State* will be represented in it by their machinery and manufactured goods, and the Mid j die State, by their agricultural imple ment* and fertilizers. The situation of Atlanta i* well chosen for the purpose, 1 not only for it* central |>o*ition in tho | cotton beit but also because so many ; of the leading Southern railroads tend to or cross each other at that point. Situated among the hill* of Georgia, there i* no healthier city in tho South, nor i* there one that has shown more ' vitality and enterprise. Forty years ago the site of Atlanta was a wildcrneaa among pine*. It is now one of the most flourishing centre* of Southern trade, liuingd in trade, and partly destroyed by the war. and with no inconsiderable ! portion of it* inhabitant* carried away into temporary ex/ie under the order* of General Sherman, it ha* rebuilt it* waste places, and now counts within its limit* from thirty five to forty thousand j people or nearly double what ita popu lation was in 1870. There will be no more agreeable city to visit during /.he j time set apart for the exposition, nor | one that will give a better idea of the 1 new energy infued into the South sinew the war, or of it* productive capacity and material progress. Bishop Smith Dead. THE HA* WHO EXCUSED THE MOfKTAIM MRAPOW MASSACRE Ml Rl>KKtl>. CincAuo, July 28.— A special to the 7Wj from San Francisco say*: "New* has been received here that bishop Philip Klingen Smith, at one time of high standing and influence in the Mormon Church and the exposer of the Mountain Meadow massacre and a par ticipant therein, is deed. Hi* body wa* found in a prospect-hole in Sonera, Mexico, under circumstances indicating murder. Bishop Smith ha* died at he expected. After convicting John D. lee of the Mountain Meadow massacre he said : '1 know the Church will kill me sooner or later ; it is only a question of time.' After returning Irotn the trial, by order of the Church hit wife left him and he started south and lived in Ariaona. In that Territory two at tempt* were made to kill him." NO. :U.