I 'l "i 2TI)r iTcntrc democrat. SIIUGEKT A FORBTKB, Editors. VOL. 3. k f lit (Srotre § eraocrat* Terns tl.ftO per An nam. In Advance. tTr. SMUQERT sell H FORSTER. Editor.. Thursday ruing, December 22,1881. FOR the F.'kc ill' adding Riiolher debauched vote to the Senate mnjority, the Republicans have stooped low down in the dirt to bring Itiddlebcrg in as the colleague of Mahone. LICENSE in Nebraska to sell liquor is placed at 81.000. It will require pretty large sales and the stuff well dilutee), to realize the license fee and the usual profits of the trade. IT is said that President Arthur has conceded to Gen. Grant the choice of one member of his Cabinet. Of course the President can rely that the selec tion will be intirely stalwart. THE Baltimore Gazette thinks that "Frelingboysen may occupy Blaines place, but he can't fill it—that thf> robes of James G. Blaine will hang on the new Secretary as a shirt on a broomstick." Is the present Congress already preparing funds for the next election? The aggregate of estimates for the next fiscal year is 8340.562.507, nearly 850,000,000 more than for the present year. Extravagant appropriations, entail reckless expenditures. SENATOR COOPER, after a visit to Washington, comes down gracefully from his elevated perch, as a candidate for Governor, and pledges his cordial support of Gen. Beaver. It was the very best thing he could do. Boas Don settled that business, and Senator Cooper is not the man to disobey a mandate authoratively issued. Will Grow be as complaisant I THERE is nothing specially new in the trial of Guiteau. The assassin continues to conduct himself in about the same outrageous manner that ha* distinguished him from iheUrst. The insanity plea appears to bo abou: played out, and the egotistical fool cannot help seeing by this time thai bis acting has been overdone, and i* Dot likely to win to save bis neck from the halter. THE victims of the terrible Theatre fire at Vienna, are reported as sum bering seven hundred and ninety-four, of which the bodies of 144 have been identified. This disaster has again ex cited attention everywhere to the ne cessity of providing greater security against the rectirence of such calami ties, which will last while the present excitement is up, and be renewed wheu the next slaughter occurs. JOHN CKSBNA has abandoned the idea of contesting the election of Judge Baer, his successful rival in the Bed ford and Somerset district. John con siders "discretion the better part of valor" in this case, and well be may. With the large Republican majority in the district, the rebuke to ibis un principled demagogue was as emphatic as it was complimentary to Mr. Baer and tbe intelligence of tbe people. THE ravenous greed of Oen. Grant, it appears it still unsatisfied. After serving in the sinecure office of Lieuten ant General at a high salary up to the time he was inaugurated President of the United States, io which he served two terms at double the salary of former Presidents; after traveling around tbe world at the expense of -bit friends to recieve adulation and presents from foreign governments as an American representative who had received the highest honors of his Gov ernment ! begging and receiv ing-untold contributions to bis private coders, until he is known to be one of the most wealthy men of the country, this pltHhoric beggar now comes to Congress and asks to be plac ed upon tbe retired list of the army to enable him to draw of a GouTd meanness be greater, or contempt ' "BQUAI AKb EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL kl EN, OF WHATEVER BTATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR |-oLITICAL."-Jfros. Reconstruction in Pennsylvania, and How It Works. An act of Congress of 1875, author ized the U. 8. Circuit Court to require the Pruthoiiolaries of State Courts un der certain circumstances to certify records into su-li Circuit Court. This piece of legislation emanating from a Repuhlicau Congress to meet the noulhern situation, has at lust found its way iuto the great stronghold of Re publicanism in the north, Pennsylva nia. The Glouster Ferry Company, the bouts of which ply between the Pennsylvania and New Jersey shores of the Delaware, last week appeared by its counsel in the Common Pleas of Dauphin county in search of tbe record in tbe matter of the appeal of that company from the true settlement of the Auditor Geueral in order that the U. 8. Circuit Court, sitting for that foreign laud, Jersey, might take cog uizauce of the abstruse questions that must arise iu the premises. The Glous ter Ferry Company is not so great a Ferry Corajmnv, as some others, viz: The Cuuard, While Star, Ac., yet the, five cent fare of "this roost awthetic" establishment, may prove as afflicting a scourge to ibis Commonwealth ns though they were marked down " $125 gold, wiue included." As "big oaks from little acorns grow," so do at times grave cases at law find their rulling precedent io the list of tbe small est The fact that this humble Glous ter Ferry Company, may under the cloak of a foreign charter, come from the U. 8.1 ircuil Court in Jersey, to drag away the records of our Htale Court, is from a pecuniary stand-point a mere bagntelle: yet, when we look about us aud see a host of foreign cor porations whose annual indebtedness to tbe Commonwealth runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, wait ing for just such a precedent to justify the like course upon their part, we hall and wonder whether this imperti nent interference of Congress in Btate matters, is not a little, well yes ! just a very little rough. THE iuvestigation provided for by Shermao's resolution at tbe extra •ewion of the Senate, into the alleged frauds and speculation* of the Treasu ry Department during the Hayes ad ministration, is getting under way. It will be remembered that Mr. Sherman io his resolution called for the report made by a committee of officials un der Secretary Windom, which wa said to implicate Mr. Sherman and a number of his subordinates in scanda lous transactions, but refused to per mit the teAimnny upon which tht re port was founded to see the light The subject now comes up before the com mittee of the Senate, and Mr. Sherman and his friends insist that the session of the committee shall be secret and held with closed doom. This is op posed by the Democratic members of the Committee with whom, it is said, Senators Logan and Allison eoocur, and claim that the whole facts in tbe case should be fully developed and the guilty parties, if such there be, exposed or acquitted if innocent. The scandals brought out by the Pitney investiga tion and suppressed by the secretary, were wide-spread and too shameful in character to be covered up in the committee or in the Senate. Let light be thrown upon the dark transactions charged. If they are false, the inno cent should seek vindication, not in secret but in the face of day. AH appropriation of $lOO,OOO is asked from Congress to pay the hills for medical attendance and nursing in the case of the late President. This it is believed will be short $25,000 of the amount required. Two-thirds of the whole amount will be divided between Drs. Bliss, Hamilton and Agnew, This with tbe other expenses Incident to tbe trial of tbe stalwart assassin, makes tbs accession of a stalwart Pres ident an expensive luxury, besides the lost to the country of one who was proving himself a high-toned eonser va live statesman. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1881. Independents Moving. A call for a State conference of the Independents has been issued by Mr. I. D. MrKee, chuirman of the State committee of the Citizens Republican Association, to be held at Philadelphia on Thursday, ihe 12th of January next. The address invites each county in the State to send representatives to the conference, to take into considera tion the wisdom of placing iu nomina tion proper persons for the offices of Governor. Lieutenant Governor, Secr etary of Internal Affairs and Judge of the Supreme Court, and such other matters as may cotue before the con ference, looking to the overthrow of "b>i*a rule" und the elimination of the pernicious spoils system and its kindred evils from the administration of pub lic affairs. It also enforces the im portance of the 50,000 unshackled voters who supported the independent candidacy of Charles 8. Wolf, and all other liberty-loving citizens, who are ready to revolt against boesism, being properly represented in the conference. THE utter insuffiency of the pres ent statute framed to determine tbe Presidential succession in case of the death, removal or disability of both the President ami Vice.Prcsideot, says the Washington /W, was well illus trated by the remarks of Senator*, Beck, Maxev and Anthony upon lb* question. The different theories pro pounded leave the whole matter in ut ter confusion. Under existing stat utes the President pro tempore of tbe Senate ami Speaker of tbe House, both of whom may not be eligible di rectly to tho Presidency on account of foreign birth or insufficient age, stand in succewioo, and they are not officers of the Uoited States. So much for the fact; tbe queries arising out of it are more coo I using. Doe* the Presi dent pro tempore, while discharging the duties of President, vacate his seat as Senator, or the Speaker of the House, while so acting, cease to be a Representative in such way as the State or district has the right to choose a uew Senator or Member? I After cither of these gentlemen ceases to be acting President, does be resume his seat io the branch of Congress from which he came? While acting as President does or does be not continue to las President pro tempore or Speak er, as the case may be? Can either continue to act as President after hit term a* Senator or Representative has ceased ? As the Senate has the power to change its President pro tempore every day, can it elect one while anoth er is acting President, and so change the incumbent of that office? Does the successor of au incumbrnt labor ing under inability hold for a full term or only until the inability be re moved ? And whenever any one suc ceeds a President, is it to the duties only or to the office itself? These and other practical questions suggest them selves to every miod, and they ought to be done away with by a carefully prepared statute, perfectly clear So terms, and fixing the succession in such a manner as to cover all possible contingencies. UTAH is likely to be without a rep resentative in Congress. Cannon, the delegate who has represented that Territory for several terms, bss been by judicial decision declared an alien. He was re-elected last year by a large majority over Campbell, but as he is ineligible will doubtless not be per mitted to resume bis Mat. Campbell, although holding a certificate of the Governor, was not elected, can pro perly ouly be sent back to try bis luck again. THE New York Shir says "Mayor Grace is in training as* candidate for Governor." It will be lucky for tbe Bute of New York if the training proves a success. New York, like IVunsylvania, U iu much need of a courageous business executive who cannot be controlled in tbe perform iiocu of duty by bosses or Hags, Next Governor. f Wo concur in tbe following remarks of Brother Deiffcnbach of the Clinton Democrat in word and letter. Give us Wallace as a candidate, or if not, one of Wallace's experience, honesty, ability and vim, and let us have a fair field tussel with the Stslwur: machine, with its corruptions and infamous dis regard of tbe interests and rights of the people. The time is past when temporizing with inexperienced or reqieclable mediocrity is justifiable. j Let the people choose the candidate | sud do it wisely, not to gratify the ambition of any individual but for themselves, to rescue the Common wealth from the tyrauny and debauch ery which has been its heritage for many years under macbiue manage ment. A recent article in the Clinton Democrat which urged thst ex Menstnr Wallace tie again placed in the lend of tbe party, because of bis great ability in that direc tion, and that to tbis end it would be well to nominate hiiu for Governor, or put him at the head of the State Com mitlee. ban called out various comment*. From these we clip tbe following from ihe Clearfield RfpuUnun, the Democra tic paper printed at Mr. Wallace's home: Mr. Wallace does not desire to be a candidate for Governor. "Theex Sena tor asks to be permitted to give his time and attention solely to his practice and personal business, which *o much need hia time. He ia not a candidate for the Gubernatorial nomination, or for any other political office. We hope the Senator will revise hi* present in tenlions on this subject by the time of holding our State Convention." It would he greatly lor the public good if no man oould be nominated for Governor, or elected, wbo would oflVr himoelf as a candidate or in any way solicit tbe position. PeopleSrotild then be left to select th ablest, a-*t promi nent and moat reputable of our citizen*. And tbi* should be done without parti cular reference to the wtsbr* oi tbe person selected. Any man of ordinary patriotism would serve, if freely called to the position by bis fellow ctt<sen*. Let us otioe have a patriotte Governor, wbo doea not seek the office, and wbo is not a constitutional office hunter. The Erie Oktcreer, an able and re*pec ted contemporary, haa this to as*, vis: Much as we esteem Senator Wallace for his unquestioned integrity and great ability, we bo|* be will not allow him aelf to be coaxed or goaded into being a candidate for Governor. To be availa ble, the Democratic nominee for that office should be a new man, wbo bas taken tittle or no pari in public affair* We take little stock in "new atnif!/ l-iuine**. now or at other Unir, for tbi-. office or any other, and sbve all not ia those negative character* who feel *o little oonoern in public affair* that they have "taken little or no jwrt" In the stern ia*uea and important questions of tbe last twenty years. Much a caodt date oould not command the vigorous and energetic support thai i* required to carry a candidate successfully through such a contest aa that of 1882 will be. The D-moeracy bad a trial ol that policy in 1875, when it nominated such a e-n didate in tbe person of Judge Pershing, and suffered defeat with him, when any aggre*aive candidate would have been elected with certainly. Give tbe Democracy a bold, aggres sive, fighting candidate, a speaker of ability and courage wbo will attack and expose tbe plundering misgovern men t of tha Republican*, lay bare their cor ruptions and their outrageous exactions from tbe people, their squandering of tbe taxes and of the public land*, there contempt for the rights and interests of the people, and ineir encouragement and establishment of fearful, exacting, overbearing and tyrannical monopolies, their corruptions of the ballot box, and their frauds upon Ibe elective principle, and so on to the end of the chapter of political infamy. Tbe party and people will rally around such a candidate and elect him, but Heaven MVO US from tbe E utile candidate* who have "taken tie or no part" while these thing* were being perpetrated in open day and with defiant effrontery—a candidate who Is not afraid to do bb duty to hi* party (io other words, hb country) and then hb party will Ho iu duty by him. Mr. Wallace would he our ideal of a candidate, and we named him in that •way, not in the lesst supposing thai he desired to be nominated or even men tioned. H There are other able and proper men in the Commonwealth who will no doubt be brought forward ie due time. In the mean time our pre ference b a* stated. THE cleaning out process about tbe capital at Washington ha* commerced. All employes having (be taint of Democracy upon their skirts must first succumb, and then tbe half-breed Re publicans will give place to tbe noble Sialwarta. On Friday last thirteen of the Gapltol police force were re quested to *urrvndcr their places, and amongst them David Davit's man from Illinois, who was one of the rep reaeutativaa who voted for him for TIIE President has appointed Benj amin Harris Brewster,of Philadelphia, Attorney General. The nomination, which was referred to the Judiciary committee and reported to the Kenate, has been unanimously confirmed by that body. Mr. Brewster is well known as an able and accomplished lawyer, n little eccentric perhaps, and will not be fretted by the nice inde pendent scruples which forced the retirement of his distinguished prede cessor. Mr. Brewster was formerly the Democratic party but drifted into the Republican party WIK-II divitiou and discord in the Democratic ranks brought its enemies into power. He is, therefore, like Grant, and other violent Stalwarts, a Republican recruit from the Demo cracy, and as such persons generally turn into the roost zealous and unre lenting partisans, he will no doubt be in full accord with the Stalwart ad ministration in its most radical meas ures. Uulike Grant, however, be possesses legal ability for a brilliant career in the service of the govern ment, which, if not subordinated to the desperate gang witfe whom he ia associated, may raise the name of Brewster to a respectable height on the roll of distinguished men who have preceded him iu the legal department But the new Attorney General will have to look well to bis official acalp, if Cameron, who never forgives an offence and who ia now entrenched in the highest feathers of the administra tion, dues not find mcana.pt the proper time 10 revenge these words spoken by Mr. Brewster in an interview publish ed in the Philadelphia Timet in 1877; "Last winter our people were shocked with the election of J. Donald Cameron, the irresponsible son of a Senator of wbom I will not speak, because he and bis seta have become a part of public history, and most be meesured with more deliberation than can be given in a casual conversation like this—e son that h*s neither mind, attainments, dignity of character, knowledge of pub lie Mfl'itr*. pdNjr services of peraone! worth to warrant his advancement, and Id no record but a bad one as an in tßfruer and manager of bad men. lie waaJoreed into the War Department, ••/OeV'rice of his offer to betray his >st* sn-d renominate Gen. Grant, and after fcrifM there he was so base born in hiseotiort* of decency end gentlehood tks to solicit and urge, by sll the mean r,W, of .political contrivance, that be •hr*uM site retained as tbe companion of Cabinet officers and gentlemen who did not want him Failing in that, by the coarse brute force at organised power, lie Inst led his old father out of his place, and thrut him*elf into a Senate where he will t>e an object of derision and die trust. The pt>t>lie are sick of these odious men, and the public will do away with them. We have destroyed humus bondage in the south; we will next tireak down political bondage in tbe north and south/' THF. Stalwart Republicans and their coalitions, after being defeated by more than thirty thousand in Mississip pi, arc talking of setting up a bogus government in that State, and calling upon the Stalwart President of tbe Uuited.Siates to mainUtin them in the villainy, , After his performance with Malione in Virginia, no telling what be might do by way of breaking the "solid south" and re instate the carpet baggers. JAMES G. HI. A INK, of Maine, ia now one of the "rank and file-" He re tired from office on Monday last after many year* of active service. If be commits Judge Black, Horatio Bey mote or some other ol our distinguish ed Democrats, be may learn bow to live happy as a private citisen, at least until 1884. MA HOME'S Lieutenant, Riddleberger, goes to Washington, not ea Sergeant* at-erms, but as United States Senator from Virginia. Republican aspirants for ibis hooor were obliged to submit to the edict of Boss Mabooe. Un repentant rebels are now in demand. MRS. GAHKTEI.D has ordered the erection of a fire-proof building on tbe site of Oen. Garfield's office at Mentor, to be used for the storage of bis pun* and letters. Ex SKXATOK TiMirTHY 6. Hows, of Wisconsin has been appointed Post Master General. Thus the Cabinet of the Preridmit isjbrnsg gradually made TERMS: $1.60 per Annum, in Adnnee. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. —lt is true other re medic can be praised, but PIBUHA bu the unequalled proof. —Our attention war called last evening to tbe novel appearance of tbe show win dows at tbe Bee Hive. In one there is an elegant display of silks, satins and laces, and tbe other a beautiful Christmas tree nicely illuminated with was tapers. —Persons In search of Christmas toys and other desirable presents to make happy the young during tbe festivities of lb# holliday season, should call and examine the iplen did collection now on exhibition at Mr. Bands' store <>n, Allegheny street. Tbe as sortment Is very large and very choice, and Oannot fail to please ell. Mr. Sands has surpassed bis usual g<iod taste in his seleMa lions, and can accommodate hu in eoy dsaireble article at very moderate charges. He has the most extensive and most carefully selected assortment of goods in bis line ever brought to Bellefonte. Looan Ooea COMPAXT BALL.— The members of the Logan Hose company will give a grand ball in Bush * Hall, on Friday evening the 30tb instant, which should be liberally patronised by our peo ple. Tbe company has certain axpeneea to pay which have bsst incurred by their efforts to increase the efficiency of theil organisation, and the boys ere entitled to an onoouraging return. The ball will be properly conducted, and will no doubt afford pleasant amusement and recreation to a large number of pjtooos. Tbe cards of admission will be Ay cents —a sum that places them within the reach of every one. Do not fail to invest in a ticket avan if you do not go to the ball. Give the company a good benefit. —Oar Howard friends enjoyed a very pleasant entertainment on last Friday evening, given by Miss Laura Keller, tbe talented young elocutionist of Lock Haves, assisted by Mr. J. F. Brown, and Misses Kaub, Richmond and Berger, all of Lock Haven, who interspersed Miss Keller's readings with delightful instrumental and vocat music. Mies Keller Is a daughter of our old friend Col. Rue ben Keller, form erly of Snyder county, and we remember to bare noticed that the young lady grad uated with first honors both at the Lock Haven Normal School and at Prof. Shoe maker's School of Klocutioa in Philadel phia. Those who beard her in Howard speak of her elocutionary powers tn of the highest commendation and pardtcl for her a brilliant future. TEACH BE*' I *rr IT era.—Tbe thirty* fifth annual session of tbe Teaches*' Insti tute, of Centre county, will be held neat week in the Court House, Bvllafasrte, com mencing on Monday afternoon Vat two o'clock, and continuing through tufrfsjf, Wednesday and Thurvday. Mr. Wolf, the able and efficient County Superinten dent, has prepared an elaborate and inter* M ailing programme of exercise*, and has secured the services of a number of promi nent and experienced instructors to lake part in lbs exercises. The session promises to be one of the most successful ever held in the oouaty and should receive the a ilea lion and encouragement of every friend of education, who has the welfare and sun cam of our common school system at heart. There should be a general attendance of teachers, directors and friend of education. W copy from Mr. Wolfs circular, as follows: ivT*cevo*a. -ggnt&iyssSnft:* Primary Method* <,j ttemdmp. Spelling, Prof. H. R. Ban ford, Middleman, Mental Science, Morels. |*.—Prof. T. M. Ball let, Supt. Carbon county. Rhetoric, I'M E F Rtmckhoerd, "fc.—Prof. H. F. Bitner, Keystone Bute Normal School. Method* of /nafrttefwn.—Prof. W. A. Krise. Spring Mills, IV RedteHon*.— Prof. J. W. Use ton, Slate College, Pa PATEEE. Whf mr* mot ornr School* hrUtr f— M. L. Romtch. Pm/esetonef fncetiritf of TWAers,—J. 8. Bouts. Literary Seetetees—G. W. Johnson bnocb. Rrmdinj—T B Rupert. dtoeafeMtei, it* Chases and Reonlte.-* C. L Grammy. Interesting paper* are also expected from other prominent teachers ot the eovnty. Prof. George P. Bible will give some of hi* entertaining readings during the ■MMM LtCTVEHa. • Monday sewing. Th American Track* sr.—ProT 8. L Hillmsn. Tuesday evening— Oromtk and /V.ay of Lwysmyes—Pm't McKae, State Cei. evening. Gar Rmm im Grea^efAve— Prof. Hi liman. NO. 51.
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