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 cttst* 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