SHUOEBT A. VAN OBIEB, Editors. VOL. i. Site Centre democrat. Term* t1.50 per Annum, in Ailvanos. S. T. SHUQERT & J. R. VAN ORMtR. Editor.. Thursday Morning, M*y 4, 1882. A VEIN of silver ore has been dis covered on the farm of John Murry, of Fayette county, in this Stnto, which it is said will yield 8210 of silver per ton. IT is believed that the tariff com mission bill will pass the House uext week, but doubts are expressed whether in sueh shape as to obtain concurrence in the Senate. TIIE Chinese to go for ten years. The Chinese bill has passed the Sen ate, with a few trilling amendments. Of course it goes hack to the House to ratify or reject the amendments. TUESDAY next the Stalwart Repub lican Convention will meet a Harris burg to ratify Don Cameron's nomina tions for State officers. Next is the election. In this the jieoplc of Penn sylvania will have a few words to say. THE returns coming in! Luzerne Republicans send greeting to Presi dent Arthur and Dot: Cameron her quota of delegates to the State Con vention instructed against the Came ron slate, as the result of the recent change of the postmaster at N\ ilkes barre. AN appeal to the Supreme Court has been taken, on the part of the Commonwealth, from the decision of Judge Simonton of the Dauphin coun ty court, in the late trial to recover the taxes due from the Standard Oil Company. The claim of the state was about s#oo,ooo. The award of the Judge $30,000. THE Philadelphia Pre** thinks that whilst the President and I)'>n are equipping busy workers for the ma chiues hy the Pennsylvania appoint ments, they arc also multiplying In dependents among the people. Very likely. But Independent* are not al ways to be relied on when the party machinery is in full motion. A SUIT for libel, brought by ex- Congressman Cuff roth against the Pitts burg Commercial, was tried the other day and terminated in a verdict of guilty in manner and form as charg ed in the indictment. It nppears the matter complained of was furnished the paper by its Washington corres pondent. 6t7CCEH has at last crowned the perseverance of Dr. Mary J. Walker. She has obtained a clerkship in the Interior Department. Her eccentric determination to wear men's apparel no doubt delayed the official employ ment so long sought for. Hhe is a respectable kind of man, and deserves success for ber persevcrcnce ami inde pendence, if not for fitness. Cot- DICK of Crawford county, who was slated on the stalwart ticket as the candidate for ( ongressrnan at-large has encountered a disastrous fire in the rear, which will doubtless necessi tate the erasure of his name from the alate. At the meeting of the nominat ing committee, his claims were hotly contested, and resulted in instructions against him in favor of James E. McFarland for that office. IT is pretty well known, says the Washington Pod, that the prosecution consider the indictments of both Brady , and Dorsey fatally defective and that an attempt will be made to reindict them by the sitting Grand Jury, in which event the present cases will be nolle -proeetpiicd. The bungling man ner in which all of the indictments were drawn, allowing the escape of Rerdell, Vail, Sanderson, and Arm strong, on account of their defective ness, does not speak very highly for the legal acumen of the gentlemen whom General Brewster has brought over from Philadelphia to see that no guilty men escape. THE planting and cultivation of forest trees is begining to reciove a good deal of attention in different parts of the country. A national Forresty Convention convened in Cincinnati last week, and,contiuued in session several days. The object of the convention was the opening of a general movement looking to the re production of the timber so rapidly disappearing in this country by its wasteful distructiou in the manufac ture of lumber, railroad ties, lire and many other causes, as to give serious apprehension that the wood supply in a few years will he exhausted. This calamity according to the estimates of the census bureau, at the present rate of destruction, will be upon the coun try in less than fifty years. To guard against this, by eliciting public atten tion to the subject of planting trees, and procuring such legislation as may be necessary, was, we believe, the main subject considered. In mar,/ parts of the west, and in plant ing associations have licen.-organized, and in this state of law have been made to tree planting on road sides, but we donot know that it has yet, fcceived much attention. THE impression prevails generally that the Indian population is annually decreasing, or gradually dying out, hut according to the theory ami observa tion of Gen. Jarnes 8. Brisbin, this is not the fact. He writes that during the past year they have increased 2,- #3O, and we now have in the United States 261,851 Indians exclusive of the Alaska tribes. There are in the Unit ed States sixty-eight agencies controll ing 240,417 Indians. This leaves 15,- 434 to be accounted for. They are in small bauds scattered over Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and Utah in the wist and settled Indians in California, In diana, Kansas, lowa, North Carolina, Oregon and Wisconsin. They belong to no agencies and are noinadic or set tled down as farmers. The large In dian population is in the Indian terri tory, south of Kansas, where there are 39,277 civilized or partially so, and 18,305 wild Indians. Dakota has an Indian imputation of 30,000, New Mexico of 26,000, Montana of 20,000, Arizona of 18,000 and Washington of 13.0(H). THE NET-HO in COSOKBHH AOAIM. — In the HOUHC of Representative* on Saturday, Lynch, the colored coutes tant of the *eat of Gen. Chalmers, of Mississippi, was seated by a vote of I'2.*> to 06. The >arae ruling adopted in the case of Finley and Bisbee of Florida, to seat the Republican con testant, would have defeated the negro from Mississippi by a large and de cisive majority. But any inconsistency or indecency on the part of Republi cans to swell their majority is in per fect harmony with their usual practices, and tho only mystery with us is, that they are allowed by the Democrats to per|>etrate these outrages, when they have the power to prevent them. MA LL< INK AID HEPCDIATION WW made the corner stone of the Republi can party. Purchased at great ex pense and sacrifice —nytured with care by the whole power of the ad ministration, and yet this base of the great Republican edifice is crumbling to atoms. Virginia, the mother of statesmen, has the credit of being the first to repudiate the false and worth lew material. THK grave yard insurance compa nies of Buflislo, N. Y., are somewhat in advance of the Pennsylvania opera tors. In addition to the usual meth ods, they buy bodies from medical colleges and have them buried with religious ceremony and then resurrect them for other funerals. THK case of Benator Hill, who, it will be remembered, has had opera tions performed upon him for cancer of the tongue, is considered hopeless. His Georgia friends says he is losing ground rapidly. "XqUAL AND KXACT JCSTICK TO ALL MEN, Or WHATEVKR STATIC OR l-KHSI'ASIQN, RKLIUIOCH OK POLITICAL."—Jeffrati BELLKFONTE, l'A., THURSDAY, MAY I, 1882. The Real Issue It is becoming, we trust, apparent to the understanding of the people that one of the principal reasons, if not the controlling one, why the State is governed by machine ring*, ami plundered and wronged in it* finan cial interests with impunity, and scarcely without protest, is the little attention given to the choice of hon est, competent men for representative* in the legislature. It is here that re form should begin, in the selection of our best men, whoso ambition will be to acquire honor in laudable cffirts to advance the interests and well being of the commonwealth. This, we be lieve is the most important issue the people of the State have to meet in the coming election, and the Philadelphia Record truthfully state* it thus: To If*' people of Pennsylvania the question of real moment in the next • section* i* the choice of n Legislature. While conference* are meeting and fc lion* nre struggling over the several State offices, tho people have a iluty to perform in the choice of their repre eniative* in the next General A*<-m --hly. In the great cloud of dust that is raised about a Stale ticket men who have given flagrant proof of their un worthiness and unfitness for seat* in the Legislature are again bestirring themselves to secure re election, and unless tho people tnove energetically they wilt again witness tho scandal* which they deplored in the last session. lm[>ortanl questions, effecting the in lerests of this great Gommonwoalth as well as this groat city, will recur, and these questions will be again treated with cynical indifference and contempt if the jeople show the same neglect in regard to the character and fitnea* of their representatives. The Governor, whether ho bo General beaver or tho candidate of the I'etnocrat*, may fo aide to exercise no more influence than the most insignificant representative in the determination of theae questions. The Lieutenant Governor, whoever he may be, will have still less, and the Secretary of Internal Affair* will have none at all. In a Government like our* it is a mere truism to assert that the Legislature moat ntghly concern* tho right* and Interest* of the people, and yet, strange to say, that ia the depart ment in which they manifest the least concern. Any one is considered fit for a seal in the Stale Legislature. Men who could not find employment in [■lace* of busine*s trust and responsi bility are frequently ent to the capital to make laws for this great State, even after their unfitness ia demonstrated. We have not joined tn the indtscrim inate abuse and denunciation of the Legislature which reound throughout the .State at every s'-ssion. In the last legislature there were many worthy, faithful and indejendont representa tives, but in the indiscriminate clamor these were confounded with the weak, incompetent and corrupt. Good men were held resjionsible for the obstruct ive work of faction against which they v unly struggled. So great was the con tempt and hatred in which the last legislature was held that had another Colonel Pride marched into the halls at the head of bis dragoons and turned the mem tiers out neck and crop there is too much reason to believe that the act would have been received with uni versal demonstration* of [topular ap plause. Yet that legislature was just what the people made it. Had the pco pie themselves exercised due vigilance and care in the choice of iheir repre sentatives there would have been no holding indignation meetings and tnak ing protest* afterward. Instead of cast ing all the odium upon the Legislature, let them take to their own bosom* a I Urge share of the reproach. It i* needle** in tin* place to recount the bead-roll of the offence* of the laat Pennsylvania legislature. They have not heen o soon forgotten. After a j •eaaion running down to the last hour in which member* could draw pay, the Legislature adjourned without making the ap|>ortionment required by the Con atitution ; but, in justice to that I.egia lature, let thia much be aaid, that a gerrymandering apportionment would have lieen made but for the rebalance I of independent member* of the majori ty. Such an element did not exiat in former !rcpared for the party —or the absolute stulti (ication of the party headed by Wolfe, by the acceptance of subordinate rep. resentation on the Cameron slate Which i.x it to be is now the issue ? Cameron is undoubtedly earnest in bis desire for the election of Gen. Reaver and will not surreuder this part of bis ticket ou "light cause". For the balance of the "late he cares but little, and I seine environed by i difficulties caused by the ha-ty an- j nouncement of his candidates, will not hesitate to trade with Wolf, if he can thereby secure the Governor, with even chance* to obtain the legis lature, and at the same time silence clamor a* to his methods of doing so- The machine Republicans are willing to concede that next year and subse quently, delegates to the state con. vention may be chosen by the people, instead of by county committees. The independents approve the mode of electing, but insist that tin- ned to the loth of dune, and that i it* membership shall IK; elected by the j people for the present >ear. At our latest dates, the conference i still conferring. Some soothing syrup has been offered on both sides, and if any results arc arrived at before we go to I pre** wo will announce them. LATE IT : The IVace Commission is ended and as far a" we are capable of judging, marks another victory for Cameron, lie ha* spiked the guns of the pretentious independent l ader by promising fair play in future, but they must be coutent with the ring slate already provided for. This fight at liest, is only for a division of the spoil* which ha* heretofore been monopolized by Cameron for hi* own immediate followers in the tortuous work of setting up conventions. He now con*enta to take in new partner* next yr.jr. LANCASTER corxn on Saturday was the field of a fierce conflict be tween the Regulars and Independent*, and the result is claimed a* a draw by the latter, but the advantages on the whole are with the Regular*. The defeat of Kautfman for the nomina tion for State Senator is a decided vic tory for Senator Cameron. In the election of United States Senator in 1881 KauiTinan was one of the most active aud resolute of the bolters a gainst Cameron's caucus candidate, and Cameron resolved on his defeat, since KaufTman's election would bo sowing the seed of another dangerous revolt when his own turn comes in 1880. As the leader of the rival faction* Senator Mitchell throw the weight of his influence in favor of Kauflman. He wrote an open letter to the Repub lican voters of the district to renomi nate Kautfman. Senator Cameron does not write open letters, but his ap peals appear to have been far more effective. In the midst of the contest he set Mitchell and the Independents at defiance by making Knutfman's brother one of the "306," Collector of Internal Revenue. This act increased the rage of the Independents and stimulated the aeal of the Stalwarts. KaufTman's independence has cost him his seat in the Henate, but in the long run the victory may prove extremely dear to his opponents. The conflict between the factions will go on, and it will increase in intensity and bitter neas aa it goes.— PMJa. Record. \N II ATEV Kit may be the objects as sumed or the nr.rnus and devices adopted,there is no •use in disguising tin fact says the Philadelphia Jieeord, that j the overthrow of the political power jof Senator Cameron is the constant | purpose of the 1 nd-pendents. There will he no relenting and no rest for the b-puh!icaii party of Pennsylvania until this conflict is raided. Confer ences may be held, truces may be patched up, and noisy opponents here ami there may surrender, hut the conflict will go on agaiii-t Cameron without interruption, unless some more lofty issue is presented to the Repub licans of Pennsylvania. It will lea!l the same whether General Beaver be , nominated or whether he be weakly withdraw for some compromise candi date. If General Beaver be with drawn the activity of Cameron's cnc niies will be stimulated ami the war against him will be carried on in | every legislative district in the State. Senator Cameron understands the na ; ture of the conflict n- well a* his oje ponetits. !!•-is waging a battle for his ! political existence. This year the aim will he to prevent tin-election •<: •udi a I, giflature as would manipu late the apportionment so a. to retain | a majority for Senator Cameron in l#*l. Rut the defeat of General Beaver would bring the conflict to a • u ld< n close. If Beaver be withdrawn the end would h<- the sooner ; the su i premary of Senator Cameron in the Republican party of Pennsylvania would be over and there would be a reorganization, with new men in the front. HAI.LI.T KILUOHM;. who WAS re cently awarded 61" h -I) damages hv a W ashing ton Jury, against tbt- .vrp nl* alarm* for imprisonment under direc tion of the Ilou-e, ha* decided under the ruling of the court to have the : verdict set aside and go to trial a pain placing hi* damage* at K.I borne an- a contumacious witness brought IK fore the House in an im portant ca*o of fraud, and refund! to testify, claiming that < >ngr<— had no power to pu'ii'li him for the contempt. A DAKTARIH.Y attempt as made on Saturday last to assassinate Wm. 11. Vanderbilt and Cyrus \\". Field, of New York, by tending them explosives | through the mail. The package ad 'dressed to Mr. Yanderhilt exploded in the mail bag; that to Mr. Field was plunged in a bucket of water and when soaked, was examined and found to be a pajter box containing a can ester of powder so arranged as to ex plode on being opeuod. ATTORNEY CI M I;AI BREWSTER is making a very marked fir.rlc out of his prosecution of election afficors in the South. His efforts in that direction is not worth the powder, and would be much better rewarded if ho turned his attention to his native city of Philadelphia, or New York. There is n large field of usefulness open here to the highest degree of enterprise of which he is capable. In the last case tried at Charlston, the jury disagreed, ; two for conviction and ten for acquit K The Attempt to Destroy the Andre Monument. A year or ao ago a amall monument of granite tru vet up at Tappan, Kork land county, N. V., by Mr. Cyrua W. Field, to mark the apot where the Rrittah apy. Major Andre, waa handed in 1780. Miyor Andre, it will be re membered, waa the agent of (ieneral Clinton, commanding the Rritiah (oroea in New York, in hia negotiation with the traitor Arnold for the aurrender of the important American poeition at Weat Point, on the Hudaon. On hia , way back to New York, Major Andre waa captured at Tarrytnwn; and, bia errand being diecorered, he waa taken acroaa the rirer to Waahington'e bead quarter* at Tappaa, where be waa tried and executed. For eomc reaaon—probably a perron a I apite againat Mr. Field—two attempt* ! hare lately been made to deatror the proper memorial which he had placed upon the hiatoric a pot of Andrea exe ' cution. The firat time tha inacription waa haltered and partly obliterated. The next attempt would appear to bare been made with a dynamite cartridge, plaoed TKIIMS: S*l.r>< per Annum, in Athmire. upon tho base, with the expectation, probably, that the explosion would overturn or vliattrr the main grauit block. The vandal must have had but little knowledge of the action of high explosive* under uch condition*, or he would have placed the cartridge on the top of the monument, thus assuring it* destruction. A* it w* placed, the base alone su(T<-red seriously. The Hill to Kxtend National Hank Charters. V. smiisotom, I' ' Miy ].—Mr. Crapo called up in the house today the reso lution to fix a day for discussing ine hill to extend national hank charters, it had been supposed that an arrangement had been made so that there would be httle opposition to the resolution, but the green hackers decided that no such arrangement had heen mi te and in sisted ujion knowing who had pledged |).-ni')cr.iic vote* lor -och au arrange ment. The friend* of the resolution are a little les- com.dent than they were ot the success of the motion to fix a day. Mr. Hardenberg said thai if this bill did not pass there would be a forced contraction of sixty millions of dollars between now and next February. Tho bouse, by a vote of 1/0 yea* to 65 nays, adopted the resolution to suspend the rule* and adopt a resolution designating May for consideration of the bill ex tending charters of th<- national bank*. The democratic and HepuMican leaders both acknowledge that the rote on the resolution fixing the tim" for the discussion of the bill to extend the na tional hank charters is equivalent to the passage of the hill when it shall be reached in the house, and of it- passage in the senate there is no question. Tbe threatened contraction of sixty millions, which, it wa* predicted, would result from the failure of the bill to pass, will therefore be aroided. Mr. Townaend, of Illinois, introduced a joint resolution which he asked to have passed under suspension of tho rule. It railed for the abrogation of the provisions in the treaties between the I'nited -tales and China which per mitted tbe immigration to this country ' >f Chinese. 'I ho bou-e, by a vote of 52 -,i Ju l, refused to second his motion, but lone Republican fPag, of California.) voting with him. On the announce ment of the vote. Mr. Townsend said that he had succeeded in showing that ; hut one Republican had the courage to vote m favor of the proposition. The rule- were suspended and bills pa-red for the erection of public build ing* in a number of wetern and south •*rn state-. TLe bill* were opposed at j every point by Messrs. Bragg, Hslman ; and (ox; but without succe**. The one for ti dveston, Texus. however, req n ed the vote ot the speaker to make a i quorum. Adjourned. Something for Sunday. IV-KKsOII., TDK TAI.AtK, LAID OCT BT STRAIGHT COMMON Pt.Aftt. About the bel icply to It g rsol.'s i infidel ranting* nd wild conjr* tores oo Unchristian religion, we ttna**tng from one *tate of existence to auother, from one department to another in the ane universe. Death i* not annihila tion or reborption into the element* of matter, but a trao*(>ortaiion from one *tate to another iu which man retain* hi* individuality and con*cioua identity a* truly and really a* doe* be who passes from one room to another in the MID* houte. Physical death therefore is a trifling circumstance in man'* immortal career. Now he who ha* the absolute right to transpose man from one stale of being to another haa equally the right to select the method of hi* removal, whether by old age, dis ease, the deluge, the sword or by what we call accidents, lly whatever meth od man is withdrawn from life's fitful fever bi* death is in pursuance of the original sentence passed on the race by an infinitely just Judge. Tbia sea tence awaits you, and your philosophy will not obtain for you a stay of pro ceeding* or en exemption. But to return. He who ha* the *b solute right to take life cannot be guilty of murder in taking it, for murder i* nn unjust killing io the taking of life by hira who h* the absolute right to take it. There ta no escape from thi* reasoning except by denying ibe abso lute right, and you cannot deny this but by denying God'a existence; for on the hypothesis that he exist*, he is Creator, and being Creator, the absolute right or dominion over the creature necessarily follows Then in the laat analysts, to deny this right is to deny God's existence. But yon cannot logi cally deny hi* existence, since you say in your lecture on '•Skatlls" that you do not know whether be exists or not. Da. PsLLtosiwo M ANTti'cvt Hm re cently accomplished the task of cross ing Africa fmm the Red Sea to the gulf of Guinea. Three day* after the doctor reached England he died in L -ndon. The lose of this celebrated traveller la very much regretted. XO. \H.