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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 <ON X. COTTER
I* NEW TURK.
NEW YORK, Junuary 23.—The Hon.
Clarkson N. Potter died al bin residence,
No. lOGramercy park, at 9.10 o'clock
tiii morning, surrounded b> 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 <re and
- Hudson can*! When four miles this
■ aide of Port Jarvls and still forty miles
; 'torn hi* destinalioo. lie . overtaken
by a canal f>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<i years of
age.
CotumisMoner lic'ley slated on Fri
day to the mni'intlce in pens oi.v thai
"14 he iiad four hundred men to place
in the fiehl s* s|*cisi agent* he could
eliminate all penvinn fraud* within
three year*' I.me. Ho thought such
special agent* shouai receive about
$1,400 per yvar and expenses."
The home commerce committee on
Friday heard .LuJfc Boacli, of New
York, William i. Mr , of Maine, and
others in advocacy e? certain amend
! rnen* to the naragnlinn laws. The
lmakers asserted that the laws in their
present ib|e were adverse to Ameri
can ship building, 1oth of iron and
I wood.
The Maxwell ranch contains 1.T00d.-
000 acres of New Me-ieo land, and the
Alohuon, Topeka A Santa Fe liallroad
' !•**•' through it. The man whose
name it beat* gol t by marriage and by
purchasing various interests He ha*
put it into an Kngiish stock company,
and a fence is being built around it,
preparatory to the raising of blooded
stuck on a large scale.
The grand jury at Uolmubut, Ohio, on
Friday, returned fifty-two indictments
•gainst Frederick W. New burgh, assis'j
ant secretary of the state board of pul •
lie works, tor forgery, issuing fraudu*
lent certificates and securing money
under *He pretence*. His operation*
covered about $20,000. If convicted on
each indictment, his lowest aggregate
pen-nlty will be fifty-two years in the
Stale penitentiary—his highest would
call for 579 yeara.
At William 11. Vanderbilt'a bouae
warming, the other day, in honor of bia
recently married daughter, Mrs. I)r.
VV ebb, the name of Astnr, quite a prom
inent New York family, doea not ap
pear among the guest*. These two dis
tinguished society people ought not to
fall out simply beeaura the ancestor of
one sold-pelt* a little earlier in the
century tban the lather of the other
rowed passengers to Siaien Island for
so much a head.
I'onnifi Dunlap *ll a three eartl
monte man attached to a circua. A
(,'rwnhorn whom ha had awjndied out
of $2OO, at Amumplion, I.ouMana, com*
plained to a justice, who not only iaaned
a warrant, but went lo the tent to serve
it. <i|auio waa operating on another
victim, and ba quietly oftVrcd thejustice
$2O not to interrupt him for leu mm -
u<ee. Thia proposition waa declined.
Then the gambler angrily drew a re*
voire?} but the jjuaiice fired quickest,
killing him inatantly, and coolly recov
ering the $2OO from bia pocket. The
gambling privilege of that circua fat now
NO. 4.