SHIHJKKT A VAN OKMKR, Editors. VOL. 4 Site (Crulrf jDraweral. Terms 11.50 per Annum, in Advance. 8. T. SHUQERT & J. R VAN ORMc R, Editors. Thursday Morning, April 27, 1882. SENATOR MITCHELL'S spasm in Philadelphia, did not alarm the Presi dent or Don much. Uutan's appoint ment was a prompt response. THE best thing that Gen. Grant ean say of Whilelnw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune is, that ho is "a young man with long hair and im mense shirt cuffs." lie forgot to say that he is highly perfumed. NINE hundred houses aggregating * value of ten millions, have been built in the city of New York, since the first of January last. At this rate of improvement we should not wonder if New York, in the course of time becomes a great city. ACCORDING to the Springfield Re •publican, "Gently, almost tenderly, the President has made known his stal wart policy to the country, and the people suffer no rude shock as they awaken to his full purpose of using all possible means to compass a second term." To the claim of the Republicans that Pennsylvania is a Republican State, Uucle Jake Z iglerof the Butler Democrat, expresses doubt. He think* that the decision of Judge Allison on tax receipts, added to the fact that quite a number of ballot box staffers are in the |enitentiarv, there is no telliug how the State i* politically. CHARLEY WOLFE and the Indepen * at Republicans, propose to be promi nent factors in giving tone to the next Republican campaign in Pennsylvania. The rally is to be made under the platform of principles enunciated by Ex-Attorney General MacVeigh in three plank*, of "opposition to boaeiam ; opjxwition to the spoils system, and opposition to repudiation," in which they will have to antagonize Arthur and Cameron, with all the plunder patrouage of the Bute. MR*. SCOVILLE is again in Wash ington on a visit to Guiteau, her brother. Her object is to induce the assassin to adopt a more conciliatory attitude toward her husband, aud to induce him, if possible, to assign to her his effects for the benefit of his devoted and self sacrificing defender. Guiteau is surly and brutal in his de nunciation of Scoville. Mrs. 8. is still firm in her belief that the a**as*in is insane and incapable of caring for himself aud that it is her duty to ad minister to bis wants. Thf. -Star route cast * are now in full tide of developeruent by the Criminal Court of the District. What it will •mount to is of course hid in the future. Besides the parti-at' sympathy attached to theee stalwart conspirators, they are represented by able aud adroit coun sel, who will leave no means unem ployed to relieve the culprits from the consequence# due to their raiil# upon the National Treasury. The last obstructive motion of counsel, was the demand for n hill of particulars which Judge Wylie has decided is not necessary, ami refused to entertain. THE Ohio Legiriature, having pass ed a congressional apportionment bill laying off twenty one districts, count ing on sixteen of these to return Re. publicans, a disgusted Republican of prominence, according to a Columbus -correspondent of the New York Timet, declares that his party is ouly sure of three districts, and that as for the Bute, it will go Democratic from 30,• 000 tn -50,000 majority, fiuch a result is not among the impossibilities. Poli tical chicanery and wrong haa about run its day and is becoming largely discounted iu the minds of honest men in these days of independent thought. The avalaoch may reach Ohio in Oc tober on iu way to Pennsylvania in November. "Km? AI. AND KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, Of WIIATKVK* HTATK OK I'KKxf AHION, HKI.IdIOCK OK POLITIC A L.' JvffonoD. Mahone-Arthur Coalition. i Mahone, finding his Readjuster party disintegrated ami in danger of fulling to piece*, had a proclamation made in Itia official organ that the re* adjunters were hereafter to be known an the administration party of Vir ginia. Hut the compact thus an nounced between Mahone and Arthur, seems to have been barren of result*. The readjuster leader, imperious ami overbearing as a boss, appears to have reached the turning point of his for tunes without capturing the power to deliver to Arthur the goods bargained for in payment of the administration patronage. lie has given up his whole time to the management of the Vir ginia Legislature, and yet he has suf ferer! disastrous defeats upon all the measures upon which ho relied toeu treuch himself as the head of a con quering party for the future. The failure of the bill for turning out the judges and supplying their places by his minions ; and of the bill to reap portion the Slate and return to Mr. Arthur's party eight of the ten Con gressmen, and of the bill to authorize the Governor to appoint officials in all the couuties of the State in connection with the assessment of taxes, i 9 cer tainly not an inspiring outlook for the coalition under the boss inanagcmeut of Gen. Mahone. Instead of carry ing these desperate measures, his party supporters in disgust waver in their allegiance, and his opponents are en couraged to activity for the final down fall of the coalition in the near future. Treachery and hypocrisy may flour ish for a season to gladden the hearts of the venal, but it is not lasting, and the case of Mahone and Arthur will not be exceptional. THE Stalwart Peousvlrauia BOM is firm. His Slate will be carried through at all hazards and the entire patronage of the Government brought to the work of enforcing his decree, irrespective of any faint opposition the inert Mitchell inay be induced to offer. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times has this to say as the result of his observations: Til* deUy in thr ronfir mm ion of Jack run M noi any indication lhat hi* con Hrmation i* doubtful. Cameron ha* I .cell *!>•• II I, hut he Will have Jackaon conHrmrd in >lue tune, hi* not ex pected that Mitchell will make a very positive *taml agonal -lackson in the -Senate, hut if he were to do o, it would not endanger -I e made until alter the delegate election* on the 29'b. when A. J. Kutf man, brother of the Independent Sen tor and a Stalwart to the extent ol op poring hi* own brother for Senator, will he appoint"! to succeed Wiley, Ihe nomination of Major Pororroy of Frank lin, to aucceed Scull, ol Someraet, will follow KaiilTtnan'a confirmation, and Kutan for Marh*l of the Weatern l>ia trict may he looked for any day, a* Cameron ia in earnett in the matter. All of the*e appointment* will be made without the aent of Mitchell, hut he haa ceaed to l>e an element of power either with the President or tn the Senate. Ckmeron know* that be ia ab->ut to enter U|>on (bedrest battle of hi* life, and Attbur know* that hi* fu tore aupport from Penn ylraniadepend* upon Cameron's victory, and Cameron will cominaiid the patronage ol the State unconditionally to custain btmaelf and the party. GKS. HAHRY WHITK U again a candidate for Congrem in the Indiana district. This may be bit year not withstanding the fact that Indepen. dent voter* are floating around. Gen. Harry is a standing candidate —ia sometime* elected, hut more frequrntly the people get it into their heads that he is needed at borne and tote accord ingly. But the great need at this time of able Republican Htateeroen at Washington may iufluence the party to overcome their reluctance to part with the gabby General. GK*. W. 11. H. DAVIS, of Bucks county, is mentioued favorably in con nection with the Democratic nomina tion for Governor. No better man can be named. If ability and merit, coupled with the scars of bravery and war, are to be issues in the contest of party. Gen. Davis is the peer of the highest type of any named for the Gubernatorial office. BEI.LEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1882. Tho Wronged Soldior. Gen. Fitz John Porter has addressed a letter to the President, asking "a remission of that portion of the sen tence of the Court-martial which re mains unexecuted, and to carry into effect the recommendations of the ad visory hoard, so far as the same lies within his constitutional power; to transmit the result of his action, to gether with the finding of the board to Congress, coupled with such recom mendation in the premises as he may deem ju*t and proper." This, viewed in connection with the overwhelming evidence of wrong done to Porter, is a small request which the President can* not deny him without becoming party to that wrong, discreditable alike to the President and the country he rep resents. The question of justice tc the persecuted officer, hnH become a na tional demand, and the people will uot be satisfied with anything short of a just vindication on the part of their officials, both executive and legislative. THE Washington correspondent of the New York World, makes an ex tended and able review of the proba ble (Nilitical situatifln under the re apportion for members of Congress in the several States, aud arrives at the following result: Th* nstt || om wilt rooMlf "f 54*. msmUrt TL* f.ill iwlng l a Mr pfsdhthiß f lb# rsvtilt of tit* i'*>u KrewMfoool •lOo) thla )mr Item * Repots- Ohk Rft mil, lkan. of In-J AUUfM • —• mm A*># hnn-lrwl and mrmUrw will r-mati tntc * tnsjo'ily "( th tirit Hours Htmtrvwlir favf i.hi.w*a mat M|*t Ihw •!**• *atim*f. R< tiling U likely lu Malaritll) fnlstfy it PKIZK* in the "lottery of anamina tion" were unusually brisk last week. Among the successful stalwart* re warded is Alonio Taft, of Ohio, who drawn the miMion to Auntria; Wm. L. Dayton, of New Jersey, a residence in the Netherlamln; Nicholas Fisk, of New York, the missinn to Belgium ; John M. Francis, of New York, to be charge d'affairs to l'orlugal, and J. P, Wickersbam, of Pennsylvania, to be charge d'affaira to Denmark. The latter ia not atrictly a stalwart, but if left at his home in Lancaster county, ia ra|>ahlc of bringing much worri inent to the machine (xiliticiana. Sena tor Dou would rather have the Pro fessor in Denmark, where he will be a creditable represent alive of the govern ment. KII.ROKXK, one of the Washington ton, who as a witness some time ago before Congress, refused to tell all be knew, and was placed in the custody of the Sergcant-al-arm* and imprison ed for contempt, brought suit against that officer for false imprisonment. He has just received a verdict fur SIOO,- 000 damages from a Washington jury. If Congress is in need of witnesses now, there are plenty of needy stalwarts around, who would be glad to engage at that price and will be as dumb as oyster-shells in disclosing anything they know of the tricks aud craft of Republican thieves to rob the Treasury. MARSHAI. HBNKY, of the District of Columbia, has offered SSOO for the apprehension of Capt, Howgate, the abscoundiog thief he let slip through bis fingers a few days ago. No doubt the valiant Captain and his friends had provided against such contingen cies, and the Marshal will not soon be called upon to fork over. THE management of the Soldier*' Home at Washington, says the Phila , delphia Record, turns out worse and i worse as the investigation bring* it* true character to light. The appro priation of garden truck, fruits, flow | *rs, etc., belonging to the inmates of i the institution by the Commissioner* was mean enough, hut insignificant n* compared with what has recently been unearthed. It appear* tlmt the Com missioner* gratified their propensities for the art* at the ex | tense of the sol dier*. In 1877 four bronze statue* of General Scott, costing BJ ( KJ each, were paid for out of the soldiers' fund*. One of these was retained for the dec oration of a room at the Home and the other three went into the private possession of the Commissioner*. A marble bust of .Surgeon Gen. Barnes, one of the officers of the Home, cost ing SIOO, was also paid for out of the . same funds. Each private soldier in the army pays twelve and one-half cents a month to ou-taiu the Home. The officers pay nothing. Thus it re quired the monthly collections of more than half the soldiers in the arrnv to pay for these art accumulations for the benefit of the officer* of the Board. JUDGE BOND who is now trying the election caw* in South Carolina is the same notorious hitter partisan who disgraced the judiciary by his shame !<** partisan proceedings in the day* of re-construction. He proved hi* total incapacity to judge fairly then — he shows the same incapability now. In one of the recent caw* having charged the jury, he directed them that if they agreed upon a verdict in the receas of the court, to seal it up end bring it into court in the morning. In the morning the jurors were in court to deliver a verdict, when two juror* DISC aud stated that tbey had signed a verdict in mistake, sustaining one count in the indictment under fear of personal violence—that it was not the verdict they intended or de sired to give, when this stalwart par tisan judge roared out "too late, here arc your signatures," and the jury were allowed to sc|a-rate. With such a statement made in the presence of the jumrs then in court, would any honorable decent judge have received a verdict under the circumstances. And yet this is the kiud of stuff. At torney (ieiiernl Brewster vauntinglv enters the Siulh with the declaration that trials must lie fair, hit whom it may. It is known to everybody—it is known to Brewster, that this apology for a Judge is incapable of fair disin terested action, where the case has anv partisan bearing. THE machine boas, it ia said, has prepared a lively contest for Congress man I'mvne of the twenty-third dis trict. Harry Oliver, who made the boss fight for Wallace's successor in the Senate, ia the si ri I leal Stalwart In avenge the independence of Hayne, who is a Republican, but audaciously claiming the right to think and act for himself and his constituents, with out taking instructions from the ma chine management. THF. New York stalwarts are wor rying now to find a man who can beat Gov. Cornell for re-nomination. A short time ago it was believed that Secretary Folger, of the Treasury Department, would supply the muscle, but that hope proving delusion, they are now turning attention to Congress man Crowley. Tbev had better take "Woodpulp" Miller aud at the same time make a vacancy for Roscoe in the Senate. THE Cincinnati Otmmefrial takes a gloomy view of Republican prospect* in Ohio, and say* there "need he no doubt of one thing, and that is that in October next a Republican victory will have to be gained without the as sistance of the German vote." With draw the German vote from the Re publican party, and Ohio will go Democratic by 30,000. KCVATOIT MITCH KM,, it appears, lm* bewi in Philadelphia thin week, out of reach of the eagle eye of the Hoax, if not of bin influence, and while there was tnkeu with another independent xposm, in the course of which he in vited a conference with Wolf and other party reformers, the outcrop of which was the appointment of u com mittee to confer with the IKMW manage ment, and arrange terms of united action between the machine and inde p'-mh-nt Republican*. This shows weakening on one side or the other of the contending Republican factions. Which ? Time will tell, but on either hand we have little faith of any good re-ulting to honest political action, riiey are all Republicans and slow to follow any other than their party methods, iu whatever hands the power to do so is placed. The Harrisburg I'atriot, speaking of Mitchell as the mere "cat's paw" of Cameron, says : | "The truth about Senator Mitchell i that the independents have misjudged their man. He is not of the stuff that mak<-s great leaders. He does not fit the emergency. He lack" back bone. Occasionally, as witness his recent per formance, he straightens up and savs some very bold things, hut almost im mediately be is stricken with a lateral curvature of the spinal column and unfortunately for such of his adherents as have faith in him the curvature in variably tends toward bo--ism. For the time Ixing he wa sincere in the , flash of inde|M-udence over the western I appointments, hut he hud no idea of Ix-ing half as independent as the news papers and the general public took him to be. The fact of the matter is that his course after his election, which was marked by unquestioning obedi ence to the dictates of Cameron so sur prises! the independents, who had hail ed him as their champion, that the slightest show of opposition was ac cepted with a cry of joy. It is natural for the independents to cling to hitn des|* rately, as he is the ouly man whom tbey can claim, who is in a position to command patronage, even though he does not assert his rights The weak and vacillating Mitchell is thus magnified into a leader. What has he done to deserve this distinction? He has written a letter to Mr. Whar ton Barker, mildly expressing his op position to boasism and has made a show of opposition to the confirma tion of a United States marshal and a revenue collector who Cameron says shall be placed in office. His opposi tion will of course be without avail, and be will fall hack again into the rut from which for a brief moment he has been lifted partly by a spasmodic effort of his own, but mainly by the force of public opinion. There are ; plenty of men iu the ranks of the Re publican party besides Senator Mitchell who are not afraid to express them selves as opposed to the despotism of Itoss rule, but when election day comes around tbey are always to be found at the polls voting straight for the ma- , rhine candidates. Senator Mitchell has shown but little more independence than any one of these and certainly no more backbone, else he would not have so readily cast his vole for the confirmation of William E. Chandler as secretary of the navy. He has Iw-en given undue prominence as an independent leader, by the anxiety of a class of Republicans who want such a leader. To judge from the position he took at the recent independent con vention in I'hiladrlphia, he ia being used as a cat's paw by Cameron to pull the chestnuts out of the fire. His first move was to propose a compromise by which the independents will gain nothing and may lose all. To follow his lead may be to walk into a trap. Compromises between parties of un equal strength always result iu the complete absorption of the weaker by the more powerful element. MACLEAW, the crank who recently made an attempt to assassinate the Queen of England, has been tried and acquitted on the ground of insauity. TKKMS: jut Annum, in Afhanrp. THK Massachusetts Legislature de clines to have woman suffrage in that *tatc; hut fltil l the female car of pro gress appear* to IHI moving onward in other localities, in Nebraska, sixty of the sixty-four counties have organi zations in active work, with ninetv newspapers to-boost the adoption of I he constitutional amendment author!- 1 zed by the legislature. They are con fident of success,and that the adoption 'of this amendment will influence like action in Cnlorada, Kansas, lowa, Ore gan, Nevada, < 'alifornia, and the en j tire wet. Large calculations on fu ; tore events are often deceptive and | count backward. Hut if the hopes of the matrons are not delusive, it is only a question of time w hen we shall have the Hon. Surah Jane Hpriggins spout ing in Congress, and Her Excellency, j Mrs. Mary Matilda Jones, delivering the inaugural in the presence of the Itcpublican legislature of lowa. No serioua uppoitiou appear* to be made to extend the National banks, whose terms are about to expire. As a system all parties recognize it a the lxat we liave ever had, but there are needed restrictions and limitations, which no doubt will be, and ought to 1m; insisted upon before a new lease of life is granted. It should not be in the power of the banks to contract at will or tnake panics for the purpose of forcing Congress or the adrninistra ! tion to adopt any measure they may lancy is for their interest, as wa* done in the la*t Cougress to defeat the 3 per cent. bill. Tin: announcement is made in the Philadelphia papers that arrangements are matured to establish in that city a red hot stalwart organ, with Boss Quay as editor in chief. He, at least, will jbe the right man in the right place i Possessing marked ability, perfect tarniliaritv with machine politic* and all the tricks and dark ways of that corrupt school, he is well prepared to take an advanced position in journal | ism suited to the necessitiea of the life and death struggle now upon tbem for continued power. The boss will doubt less make the fur fly when he cornea to treat those who have had the teme rity to antagonize the machine. As WAS generally expected, James S. liutan has been appointed Marshal of the Western District of Pennsyl vania. One thing creditable may be said of most of the appointment* for Pennsylvania thus far, they are selec ted from men of positive character and entire competency. Rutan is no exception. He doc* not belong to the namby-pamby class of politicians, but is just such a worker as Don Cameron delight* in, and never more needed in active position than just now. tm ♦ ADDITIONAL LOCALS. MILKSBVBO NOTES Dr. T. O. Mattern is having another coat of paint put on bit bouse. Looks welt. Another new house. Mr. Wm. Camp bell is building in Central City. Mr. Lunan Frvbarger is doing the hand some for the boys. Setting up the cigars, all round, to dedicate his new store room. We were pleased to see Mr. Isaac Buf fiagton out again after his long sicknaaa. The new axe factory, spoken of some time ago, is now fairly up and will be in operation before long. Mr. W. B Miles is fitting up bta old store room for a parlor. Mr. Henry llarman fell through n cul vert on the railroad, wfaila on the way home from hi* place of businesa. but waa not seriously burl, fortunately. Misa Klae and Mis# Wright are home from Binghsmton, at which place they bed been attending scbool, to spend tbair vacation. Jill. —Supt. D. M. Wolf mentions an item of more thee ordinary importance in lu bearing upon the popular Interval In the cause of education, eta} The cltiaena o' Rush township, living at Loch Lratond Haw M ilia and Coal Mines, have put up a school houss of their own, In order to se cure more convenient facilities for the education of their children. The director* contributed but a small sum— about MO- The aehool numbers forty pupils, and eems to be doing a good work.—fVen'a ArAoof Jnwmai. NO. 17.