<£l)c (Centre tlcmoctal. SHUGKRT & FORSTKR, Editors. k .VOL. 4. She ®nt*e grawwrt. Tra 51.60 per Annum, la Advance. 8. T. SHUQERT and R. H. FORBTER, Editors. Thursday Morning, January 26,1882. The Mahone Legislature of Vir ginia, startled to find they hail some* thing in the slate they are powerless to repudiate, were considering at lute dates where they can fly to escape the small-pox. ANOTHER prize in the "lottery of assassination." Judge Taft of Ohio, who it will be remembered was the pliant Attorney General iu the Grant administration, it is announced will this week be appointed Minister to Russia. THE Committee on Pensions in the Senate have agreed to report a bill granting to Mrs. Lincoln, a gratuity of $15,000 in cash to he available im mediately, and providing that from and after the enactment of this hill, her annual pension of $",000 shall be increased to $5,000 per annum. R. LISTER SMITH, of Philadelphia has been sentenced to oue year's im prisonment and 8100 fine for shooting Samuel Joseph in the foot. Served him right, hut Sam ought to he ad monished to have same shelter provi ded for the protection of big feet pre vious to the next convention. IN the investigation to discover the cause of the late terrible railroad ca lamity at Spuyten Ouyvil, New York, there seems to lie considerable doubt whether the disaster is chargeable to the neglect of the brakeman, or to the carousing members of the legislators on board, which it is alleged tampered with the air-brakes and created an amount of confusion and disorder,that could scarcely result iu anything less than disaster. A STATE Temperance convention was held at Harrisburg, last week, aud adopted a resolution suggesting the form of an amendment to the con stitution to he submitted to the legis lature providing that no liquors fer mented, brewed or distilled, shall be sold as a beverage, and the sale for other purposes shall lie regulated by adequate laws. They also resolved that they will couliuue to ask for tbe passage of prohibition laws, and that tbe object of the temperance people shall be the election of temperance men to office, in all which they ask the co-operation of ministers and pub lic officers. GSNIBAI. BIAVIR, who is prominently mentioned * ■ Republican candidate for Governor Of Pennsylvania, i a wor thy man, a brave soldier and would make a strong candidate, hut those who are officiously pressing hia claims are at the same time trying to make bis nomina tion an impossibility by labeling him as tbe Cameron machine candidate.— Mauch Chunk Coal Gazette, Rep. The Gazette endorses the candidacy of .Gen. Beaver in the very words of BclPQuay, but seems to think that tbffoosses are indiscreet in pressing his claims. Winks and blinks have been effective in calling attention to the wishes of the bosses on other occasions, no doubt it wopld be now when the mystic No. 309 stand out so plainly in the foreground. •SENATOR SHERMAN'S funding bill is meeting formidable opposition. Among its opponents is Senator Win dom bis financial successor in the Treasnif Department, who claims that the bill is unnecessary, experimen tal, and is likely to involve the Gov ernment in loss, inasmuch as the Gov ernment will be able to pay the 1200,- 000,000 three per cents, at least a year before they would be due under the bill. Others prefering the refunding bill in form as it passed in the last Congress, and remembering Shefmao's influence with Hayes in the interest of the banks to veto it have little faitb in his sincerity now, do not feel like helping bim to appropriate an honor to which he is not entitled. "WJUAL ANI> KXACT JI'BTIO* TO ALL MKN, OF WHATEVER STATU OR FBRSUASION, RKLIOIOCH OR POLITICAL. "~J> THO Jofforaonian Revival. On the second page of this paper we publish a timely and patriotic let ter, addressed by George M. Dallas to the York Jefl'ersouiau Association, to which we call atteution, in which he advises the early organization of Dem ocratic societies similar to those power ful auxiliaries in tho great struggle of the people for the overthrow of the federalists in 1800. Speaking of this letter, tho Wilkesbarre Leader says : "The theft of the Presidency in 187G illustrates how necessary it is for Dem ocrats to organize ujion the basis pro posed by Mr. Dallas. The future is big with danger aud no mail can think what possible tricks and subterfuges may not be adopted by the dominant party to coutinue its henchmeii iu power. Already we have evidences of the desigus of the .Stalwarts to arrange things for 1884. The House Com mittees are formed for the purpose of aiding in the dirty work. Men have been put at the bead of important committees who may be relied on in an emergency. The appropriations are to I*) lavished. Thirty millions for the Navy will probably lie multi plied into fifty or a hundred if re quired. Don Cameron in this Stale, Cmkiing in New York and I/>gnn in the west may draw for any nmounT they require when the time comes. Against the plots that are forming the Democrats must present a unites] and patriotic front. The suggestions of Mr. Dallas seem to meet the require ments. The organization of Jefler soman clubs canfiot lie begun too soon. Let the veterans in the party inaugu rate the work at once, and when the books are opened, the workers in the party should see that every Democra tic voter is enrolled, upon theui Might not ouc of those societies be profitably put ia operation by the young Democracy in Bellefonte? They would undoubtedly have the cheerful co-opcration of the veteran*. Wc have many young I>emocrats among us who could with little investigation load in the work of "tufting the wheat from the chaff," and bringing to view a more thorough appreciation of the true principles of Republican government as taught and enforced by the "great apostle of liberty." If the suggestion is approved, the initiatory stc|>* should l>e taken at an early day. Who so proper to inaugurate n movement as •Senator Alexander, Mr. Fortney, Mr. Spangler, Mr. Gephart, Mr. Meek, Mr. Bower and many others that might l>e named, who can appreciate the im portance of organisation. RotiBBON, the set-up Republican leaders in Congress has been very stoutly set down upon hy his col leagues, by a vote of 90 to 101. His proposi tion to enlarge the committees and thereby enable Speaker Kicfer, in some measures to correct the blunders he made in their construction, was the issue upon which Robeson staked his claims for successful leadership. The New Jersey stalwart threw all his pow er into the measure, and after demand ing and obtaining a vote upon it, found himself in a roost humiliating manority, and a thoroughly squelched leader. Thus was the speaker and Mr. Secor Robeson who was his advisor, and aided him in the outra geous arrangments of the committees of the House rebuked, and thus did the majority put their seal of condem nation upon this graceless pair who to gratify personal malignity and sub serve the interest of jobbery, violated the decencies and propriety of legisla tion. Let them stand together. They arc well paired and have richly earned the scorn of honorable representatives. IT is the opinion of the Hpringfield Republican that those who have been lifted into power by tbe political re volution brought about by Guitcau "should conduct themselves soberly." Yes! and some of the Republican' friends have discovered the Btalwart soberness means no quarters to the friends of Garfield and Blaine. # BEIXEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, .JANUARY 26, 1882. Demagotruos in Motion. Certain members of Congress have commenced the work of preparing capital for the uext Congressional elec tion, and as the Washing|pn Pott re marks, if any money remains in the treasury after the close of this Con gress, it will he no fault of theirs. Mr. Van Yoorhis, of New York, proposes to pay every soldier one dollar for each day confined in a Confederate prison. It is calculated that this will cost about $54,000,000 at the very least. Mr. Mosgrove, of Pennsylva nia, proposes to pny a pension of $8 per month to persons confined not less than six months or more than one year, and one dollar per month for j | each full month of confinement beyond j | a year. The minimum cost of this j modest measure is fixed at $490,000,- J 000. Mr. Rlias, of New York, intro- j duced a bill yesterday for giving pen- j sions to all men confined in prisons > I and Mr. CarpciKlr, of Intra, goes into j I the past more than two score years and thinks that all the men who took part in Indian wars prior to 1849, or their descendants, shall be granted a pen sion. As this is not a military coun | try, it is, of course, a very hard thing ' to ak any man to fight without the certainty of a pension, hut it does | really seem that the purse of the ; country would make ft necessary to j draw the line somewhere. Not satis fied with pensioning soldiers, Mr. , Harmer, of Pennsylvania, thinks that persons who have heroine disabled,: cither physically or mentally, aAcr j twenty-five years' conncctiou with the ! postal service should ho given a "gra tuity." Under our system this is a comparatively harmless proposition, j as the number of men who can unite ; the fundus ttl omm a unJ jui- ♦ roary saewstfully and thus hold thefr ' place in the postal service for a quar ter of a century, is very small. It i# Ito be hoped that Mr. Hotmail, or • snmcltody else may lie able during this Congress to object so suceowfully as to protect the treasury against these j numerous schemes. STATE TREASURER BUTLER begins to luoiu up un a formadable Uepubli caii candidate for Governor, with strong probabilities of breaking the Washington slate and carrying off the Stalwart notninatiou in May. A movement of this kind has not been unexpected to those who have observed the past workings of the BOM ma chine. To set up a mark to receive the fire of the early skirmishers, and conceal the main movements in re serve, is not so unusual in the BOM management, that any one should he deceived unless they are ambitious to be blind. This system of Boss tactics was made very apparent in the Sena torial election of lat fall, if not in the Senatorial skirmishes which resulted in the election of Henator Mitchell by the legislature last winter. THE National Republican of Wash ington, edited by G. C. Gorman is the eulogist of the stalwart administration and the organ of theßtar route thieves, as it was the vehicle through which they thundered their anathemas against the murdered President and his Cabinet officers. It is not remark able therefore that it salutes Mr. James the retired Postmaster General, who took a prominent part in uncov ing the Star-route frauds, in the fol lowing ferocious style: "A reformer and sn official; a hire ling by nature and a pap aucker by pro fession ; a master of ounuing snd sn adept in eraft; fawning upon bis superi ors snd tyrannising over his subordi nates ; be was in all positions tbs same inflated, incompetent and self-aeeking failure; tbe same spineless and igno rant figure-head; a man without honor, an official without oapacity, and a per jurer without shame." THE annual meeting of the Bute Agricultural Society was held at liar* risburg, last week. The following of ficers were elected for the ensuing year, and so far as we know them, are unexceptionably good ; but we cannot forego stating the pleasure it give* u a to notice umong them the retention of the able and efficient secretaries, Messrs. McConkey aud Heller, who have served tho society so long and so faithfully : President, John C. Morris ; vice presidents, I). L. Twadell, George Might, William Massey, Thomas T. Tasker, Charles L. Sharpies*, David H. llranson, William 11. Ilolstein, Tobias liarto, H. 8. Spencer, Daniel 11. Neiman, I). H. Waller, Ira Tripp, J. S. Keller, James Young, Joseph Piollctt, It. P. Allen, John A. Ixinon, John T. Miller, Daniel O. L. A. Muckey, George Ithey, John Mur doch, Jr., W. W. Speer, John McDow ell, Moses Chess, J. D. Kirk patrick aud James Miles; additional mem bers executive committee, A, Wilhelm, Ahner Rutherford, William Taylor, John 11. Zegler and W. 11. Culver; ex-presidents, members of the hoard, Frederick Watts, D. Taggart, Jacob 8. 11 alderman, J. It. Eby aud W. 8. Ilissell; corresponding secretary, El bridge McConkey ; recording secreta ry, 1). W. Sciler; treasurer, John It. Rutherford ; chemist and geologist, A. L. Kennedv ; librarian, William 11. Kgle. llkphkhkxtativk Beltziioover, of tlii* State, say* the- Philadelphia Tinirt, ha* offered two iin|K>rtaut proposition* in the House. The one concerning the Presidential disability should receive careful attention. The situation in which this country found itself for ten or eleven week* of lat summer is suf ficient to establish the imjxirtancc of providing in some way for the active exercise of the duties of the Kxeeutive office wbeo the President u incapaci tated. The suggestion of Mr. Ih-ltx hoover's hill that the Supreme Court lie called upon to determine when the disability In-gins and when it shall cud p—fwetly awa, it thaea wiw nothing else to he said for it. Tlie other measure, which provides for a perpetual House and extend* the term of membership to *ix years, will not he mi favorably received. There are many objection* to a long tenure in the popu lar branch of Congress, since the even jiolitical balance of the country makes it desirable that ever-changing senti ment shall have frecpieiil chance to lie heard. IT will be a great relief to the coun try to know that the closing scene in the Guiteau trial is now nenr at hand. Judge Porter Is-gan the closing speech ;to the jury on last Monday in behalf of the prosecution. Thus fur his cf ; fort has lu-en a terrific arraignment of culprit IK- fore the bar of the court, anil cannot fail to have its effect upon the jury. It is thought the trial tuay end this week. We have never had any doubt of the guilt of Guiteau, and ! probably we shall announce next week ! that lie has been found guilty of the wicked crime that he committed last July. CoMMbteIOMER IhtH.KY, of the Pension office, would like to have four hundred men to plaee in the field for three years as special agents ostensibly to ferit out pension frauds, at a salary of $l,-100 a year and expenses. Buch au addition would doubtless IK- a val uable acquisition to the political agents already in the field for the campaign of I*B4. THE admiMion of Washington Ter ritory as a Bute in the Union is meet ing formidable opposition iu Coogrcs* from residents of Idaho, who are op posed to tbe bill, because it contem plates taking in [tart of Idaho to make up the number required for admission. Both territories might very properly be "retired at Jerico until their beards grow." _ T iirkk hundred of the proscribed Jews of Kussi* arrived in a steamer at New York on Thursday last, and it is said 1400 more are awaiting trans portation at Hamburg. They are all seeking homes in America, where tbey rany safely trust that the great Demo cratic sentiment which made this coun try tha "sty turn for the opjrtswd," will ever be sufficiently strong to pro tect them from race or religions pro scription. lUstrenglh has already been tested in that direction. Released from Suffering. TIIE DEATH OE HON. CI. AUK tlie mum bera of bi family and bis physiciau*. He waa couacioua abortly bcfoie hi* death, and passed away without any appaicut pain. The new* of hi* death spread quickly, and wa* everywhere re ceived with expression* of regret. The funeral will take place on Wednesday morning at Grace church, and the re main* will be taken to .Schenectady, New York, for interment. The de ceased suffered intensely from Bright'* disease of the kidneys, lie became very ill in Albany a week or o ago, and wa* removed to hit home in New- York. Theauprerne, superior, common plea*, surrogate'* and marine court* took ap propriate action on Mr. Potter'* death, aome of them adjourning for the day. Cl*rk*on N. Potter, whose death in announced in tiie above dispatch, wa* born in Schenectady. New York, in 1825; graduated at I'nion College (••( which hi* grandfather, H<-r. Eliphaiet Nott, wa* president, and hi* father, Hisliop Alonzo Potter, w* vice presi dent ) in 1812; graduated ut the Ken selaer institute a* a rivd eneiner in 1H43, and wa* a surveyor in Wisconsin ; studied law in that State, and, after dining to th* bar, commenced the practice of bi profession in N-w York cily in 1817 ; held no public office*, but wa engaged in many important ca*a; wa* elected a representative from New Yoik in the Forty firat Congres* ** a Ilemocrat. receiving 16,333 votes aeaint 12,700 for Bradley, Republican ; was re elected to the Forty second Cong-e. receiving 11210 vote* against 10,685 votes f,.r .1. Weslervelt, lb-publican, and was re-elecled to the Forty-third Con gress as a Democrat, receiving 15.199 vote# against 14,369 vote* for K. Fiagg. Republican, serving from Marth 4, 1869, to March 3. 1*75: waa again elect ed to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 16.178 votes against 11,160 votes for George B. Brandreth, lb-publican, serv ing from October 15, 1877. Mr. Potter was chairman of the fsroou* committee that conducted the so called inveMigt tion of the alleged election fraud, of the presidential Contest of 18*6. lie retired from the House c>f Represerua tivew in 1879. after eight yoars' service, . He then devoted himself to the practice of the Taw, in which he had acquired both fame and fortune. Reads like ■ Romance. WHAT TWO DCTKK KIMII lu.V* DID IV 7IIC Coai, ruin*. A writer in the New York AVa **v: In the summer of 1836 a 1 re I'sits i , toy w as on his wry to l|nnel*|s, walk log th* tow path of the D-daw o*t. He was asked to jump atawtrd the boat and ride, which lie d ■!. 'ln the host was Scotch family, jot | landed in America, who were on their way to the Pennsylvatnacoal fields, <>. <• of its member* was a boy the sauie age jof the young pedestrian, II yens. A ! strong friendship grew up betweeu the j two hoys by the time they reached j Honetdale. The Scotch family went on j to Carbondale. the centre of th* bucks ; wanna coal field. The boy who had i lieen given the rule on the host obtain ed employment on the canal. His ftiend, i the Scotch boy, worked in th* mine, ! for a short time as mule boy. Both he 1 and the former bare-foot bov rose in the | company'a service. The Scotch lory of j forty six yearn ago is Thonta* Dickson, , President of the ltelaware and Hudon Canal Company. Hi* friend, the other I boy. ia Col. F. Young, General Manager 'of the company, and President ol lis i Albany and Susquehanna railroad sys ; tem. Mr. Ihekson, Mr. Young. J. T. ] Oliphant, the Treasurer of the company, Mr. Van Sicklem, Superintendent of (he coal department. It. Mnnvilla. Su perintendent of the Pennsylvania divi sion of the company's railroad, and Mr. Weston, General Real Estate Agent, j were all born in 1824, the year in which ! ground wat broken to construct the i canal. Tu* spread of small pox in New York, *ys the Trlffjram, among the high and low, rich ami poor, among all classes and in all localities is alarming, and so mysteriously and rapidly ha* the loath* soma disease been communicated from one person to another that hundreds who at first laughed at the warnings of the authorities and the press at the va poring* of alarmista sra now anxiously soaking th most effectual means of protecting themselves against the threatened scourge. John Wagoner, the murderer of Dr. Biggs at fronton* Ohio, taken from jail on Friday night last and hanged by a ronb. Dr. Biggs waa Treasurer of the Alice Furnaoe Company, and was killed two tnontba ago while on his way home at night. Wagoner waa taken out of the jail between 12 and 1 o'clock and hung in House yard by from forty to ailty masked men. Tbey first took Bill Zeek, the other accused mur derer, and swinging him up, whereupon be made a confession implicating others not yet arrested, end the crowd allowed him to go for the present. Twenty six railroad conductors in lows were recently discharged for liquor drinking. J TEItMN: *1.50 per Annum, in Advance. UIHXRAL NEWS. General Hila* Casey, of the United State* army, died on Saturday last, at hi* residence in Brooklyn. Ib-v. Knoch Pond, I). !>., president of the Bangor theological seminary, died lavt Saturday night, aged 91 yeara. The clerks in the Census Office have given Superintendent Walker a gold watch, chain and seal, coiling nearly $4OO. Lx-Treasurcr Spinner in eigbtr years old. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and appears good for a number of years yet. Attorney General Stockton, of Near Jersey, United States Senator from IWJ to lH"i, has just Leeu renominated for his four lit term. Nellie Grant Sartoris is enjoying the Washington gertuans, but siartled the j ladies the other evening by appearing I HI red kid gloves. I The Indiana Secretary of Stale re. I eeived an application from a Justice of the Peace who wanted an appoiulmetit ! a "noter republic." Kdith Gray is a variety actress who charm* her audiences by tier shrinking i bash I olneas and fragile beauty. Still, she fired four shots at a gambler in | Council Bluff*. Bn ton's two heaviest taxpayers are Moses Williams and Joshua Sear*, who •re assessed for £.1,300.000 and $3,244 WO respectively. Sears is a young fellow not long out of college. Henry C. Spalding, whose name was made familiar in connection with glue, , but wl o got none of the million# made j out of it. was lately arrested at New Al bany, Ind., for dr unkenueta. There wa# so much drunkenness in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Christmas holiday, that the City Council paused a •jn ' ia i wIiHBN Cm bidding the sale of ! intoxicating liquors on New Year's day. Senator Fair lives in Charles Sumner's old quarters at Washington. He is the richest man in Contrast, and perhaps (he richest r ffjee holder in the world. | Ilia h uurc it devoted to the study of finance. j The expert account sr. i from the treasury department at Wa>nitigton. who have been engaged in the r fticial count of the wealth stowed away in the sub lresniry at New York, concluded i their hiboraon Saturday and tei.-ort SSO,- , UUO,OJO. Ylff'Stateof Texa* has a f retty large bill against the General Government. It amounts to ever two millions of dol .H?r, a* jui *m .-rtsincd by Adjutant General King, ioo*t of which is for oi on. expended l.y the State in the protection of ii frutiei John of Louisiana, ha* given unmistakable evidence of h* tie hef in nnirimntir. Although 92 yens of age. no hns just mirr-ed fin filth wiie. the entire time of hi* widow m hood put together being ot.ly a little ov r olie tear. The last wife i* about 4