'@!jt (Crntrr d&i Ulrmocrat,
SHIGFRT \ VAN OHMKIt, Editors.
VOL. 4.
vThf Crfitrc firm octal.
Tormi t1.50 per Annum, in Advance.
1.. T. SHUGE(ft AJ. R. VAN ORMER. Editors.
Thursday Morning, May 11, 1882.
NEXT year or "some subsequent
vear," Boss Cameron thinks tho Re
publican party may be Capable of
thinking and acting for themselves.
At present they need a boss.
SECRETARY FOLOER, it is said, is
gradually ridding the Treasury De
partment of all the special friends of
Sherman. Investigation under his
predecessors disclose the fact that the
jiersonel of that department needed
shaking up badly.
MATT QUAY is still the funny man
of the times. He perpetrated one of
his best jokes the other day when he
appeared before McManes' committee
claiming to be an opponent of "boss
ism and the unit rule." McManes did
not appear to enjoy the joke hugely,
or the company of the joker.
A CONTEMPORARY says the flat and
phlegmatic "Mitchell stands about as
much chance in a game of political
legerdemain with his collegue, Don
Cameron, as Charles Francis Adams
in a game of poker with Genera! Hob
{Schenck. Whcu Don has a hand be
plays it, aud when he hasn't he blurts
the chap who has. Mr. Mitchell
ahould go to a nunnery.
PATIENT CHARLEY WOLFE is will
ing to wait for reform until "next
year," or longer if necessary, and iu
the mean time will not object to take
a free ride on the machine. He
studied patience last year, and Don
may now accept him as a lieutenant,
with little risk of his again reaching
beyond his depth for some time to
come.
THE President having remittee! the
unexpired part of the sentence un
justly imposed upon Gen. Fitz John
Porter, Senator Scwell on Monday in
troduced in the Senate a hill authoriz
ing his appointment to the same rank
and grade in the army he held at the
time of dismissal. A similar bill was
also presented in the House by Uen.
Bragg.
IT is announced in the Bioomsburg
Columbian that the Hon. Charles K.
Buckalew will be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Congress
in the Eleventh District of this State
No political event in connection with
the election of Representatives in Con
gress, would give more sincere pleas
ure to the Democracy of Pennsylvania
than the return of this distinguished
man to public life. \Ve trust the
Democracy of the Eleventh District
will honor themselves by a unanimous
nomination of the veteran Statesman.
IT was a very small business, but
quite characteristic of Mahone and
Arthur's mAhotls of bulldozing the
people of Virginia. At Broadway,
Va., the postoffice was discontinued by
order of the Postmaster General, as
signing as a reason therefor "political
enmity to the recently appointed Re
adjuster postmaster," alleging that it
lessened the patrooage of the office.
The people have petitioned Congress
for its restoration declaring the reasons
assigned for abolishing the office un
warranted and unlawful.
A RWOLUTIOK was offered in the
ir Senate last week to purchase back
P numbers of the (Jonyremonal Record,
f >khen Senator Dawes made the serious
charge and created considerable ex
citement, by stating that it was a prac
tice in Congress for members to sell
copies of books printed by the govern
ment to second hand dealers, and then
by vote buy them back. No doubt
Congressmen are some times guilty of
very small meannesses, but we can
scarcely believe any decent member
, could get down quite so low as this.
The charge involves the honor of
members and will doubtless beinvesli
gated.
So FAB as imperishable history is
concerned, says the Philadelphia lie
cord, the vindication of the name and
fume of (leneral Fitz John Porter is
complete. As the record is now made
up no friend or descendant of General
Porter can contemplate it without
pride. A pardon by the President or
a resolution of Congress restoring him
to the army could add nothing to his
vindication. Impartial historians will
never recount the story of his trial
and conviction without indignation.
A Hoard composed of three of the
most distinguished officers of the army,
who have rendered the country great
ami brilliant service, has reported that
the condemnation of General Porter
was grossly unjust, as it was founded
on alleged facts that had no existence
except in the imagination of the wit
nesses against him. The Hoard de
clared that the witnesses made incon
sistent and contradictory statements,
and that one of them, on whose testi
mony great reliance was placed by the
accusers, was so completely broken
down that his testimony is "entitled to
no weight whatever." With the aid
of new and correct maps of the field
of operations and intelligent and im
partial witnesses the Hoard went over
the grouud and found that General
Porter was blamed for not performing
"a manifest physical impossibility,"
and that there was nothing in his con
duct "subject to criticism, much less
deserving of censure and condemna
tion." This Hoard further declared
of an attack which General Porter
was condemned for not making that
"such an uttack, under such circum
stances, would have been not only a
great blunder but, on the part of an
intelligent officer, it would have been
a great crime." Finally, this Hoard
of distinguished officers officially re*
ported on their solemn oaths that the
conduct of General Porter was "obedi
ent, subordinate, faithful, and judici
ous," and that "it saved the Union
army fYom disaster."
•Such is the imperishable record
Nothing can be added to the vindica.
tion of General Porter. The report
of General Scofield, Terry and Getty,
sustained bv the testimony of General
Grant, will be the verdict of history.
It only remains for the American peo
ple to vindicate their own character
by reversing the grossly unjust sen
tence of one of their bravest and best
soldiers by a prevaricating Court
martial upon the testimony of lying
witnesses.
WOLFE AND QUAY were the experts
employed by the boss to play the game
of "Reform next year," which came
off finally in Philadelphia on the Ist
instant. The game was played, and
perhaps played out according to con*
tract, but it does not seem to meet the
approval of the party who were sup
posed to be directly represented in the
game by Wolfe. They now seem to
believe that the Union county States
man was euchred either from incom
petency or by unworthy personal in
fluences, and ° decline to ratify the
transfer of the Independents to Don.
They have accordingly issued a call
for the Independent Htate Convention
to meet at Philadelphia on the '24 th of
May, for the purpose of adopting re
form measures, having in view an im
mediate application this year.
THE large and increasing number
of private claims presented for the
action of Congress, involving special
legislation and any amount of lobby
jobs of questionable character, as the
result of pressure, is attracting atten
tion to the necessity of providing other
means for the consideration and pro
per adjustment of this class of cases,
than is in the power of Congress to
give them, without neglect of the im
portant public business of the country.
As a matter of relief, Mr. Springer
proposes an amendment of the federal
constitution which provides that "the
legislative power of the United Htatqji
shall be limited to the enactment of
laws general in their application and
" KVi* r AI. AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALU MEN, OK WHATEVER STATE OK PERSUASION, KKUIOIOVH OK POLITICAL."—JeWtimju
BELLEFONTK, I>A., THURSDAY, MAY 11, 18*2.
effect to all sections and persons within
the jurisdiction of the constitution ;
that all local, private, or special en
actments hereby prohibited, shall be
adjudicated and determined by such
tribunal or tribunals as Congress may
establish for that purpose. Huch a
provision would undoubtedly be in
the interest, not only of economy, but
would rule the lobby out of Congress
to face the courts, w here these claims
can be adjudicated in accordance with
the principles of law and right, and
not log-rolled through without investi
gation as is too often the ease now.
THE Staf-route cases are progressing
very slow ly. Dorsev, Brady and their
associates some time ago professed to
be very anxious for early and prompt
trial, but now it seems they have
adopted an obstruction policy and
fight the eases on men? technicalities,
as if they only relied u|oi) this as
their hope of safety. John W. Dor
sey, one of the principle defendants,
has spirited himself to ports unknown,
and the court has taken a recess sf ten
days for nn effort to find him. His
absence was the occasion of quite a
spirited and angry episode between
the attorneys the other day. Mr.
Bliss of the prosecution stated that
Col. Ingersoll, the attorney for Dorsev,
had assured him that his client would
be present when wanted, and hud told
him (Bliss) to give himself no un
easiness on the subject, anil charged
him with |>erpetrating a trick. To
which Ingersoll replies!, "You arc a
liar, a liar, sir." Of course the court
mildly reprcmanded the counsel. Col.
Ingersoll, however, subsequently said
be did not deny what was imputed to
him, but was indignant at it being
railed a trick. He probably objected
to the mild terms in which Bihw put
iL But Dorscy is absent perhaps on
bis travels with ( apt. Ilowgate, an
other sweet-scented Government thief
lately escaped from the hands of jus
tice.
THE result of Attorney General
i Brewster'* exploration* in South Caro
lina after election fraud*. i* now fully
<levelope<l and amounted to just noth
ing at all. Compared with the flour
ish he made when starting out on this
raid upon the Democrat* of that State,
his failure is humiliating. One ver
dict of guilty, wrung by force from
an unwilling jury, has been recorded
j to IK* overturned by an appellate court.
| This, says the Washington "and
a technical plea of guilty in one other
j case relieve the monotony of acquit
tals and mistrials. The District At.
torney has worked faithfully. He ha*
exhausted all method* ever heard of
to empanel a jury from which every
Democrat should be stricken, but with
out success. Ten and eleven Ilepub
licans he could gather together in one
box, but in spite of him, one or two
jurors, obnoxious only as they were
White men and Demoerats, would ob
trude themselves into the presence of
an unwilling court and prosecutor.
For a safe deliverance from peniten
tiary confinement to which perjured
testimony was so swift to confine them,
the Democrats of .South Carolina must
acknowledge indebtedness to a non
partisan jury law passed by a Demo
cratic Congrats and forced upon Hayes
against his will and over his protest."
If this distinguished counsellor of
the President is to make a reputation
in this line, worthy of his greatness,
his friends should insist that he turn
his attention to Philadelphia, Now
York, anff other northern precincts
where election frauds are to be picked
up by the score.
SPEAKER HEWITT, of Hollidaya
burg, is an applicant, it ia said, for
Assistant Treasurer of the United
State* at Philadelphia. Gapt. Geo.
Eyster ie the preeent officer ami hia
time expire* in June. Mitchell and
Attorney-General Brewster ia said to
favor hia re-nomination. Cameron is
for Hewitt, and will doubtless carry
the prise as the reward for a faithful
henchman.
Tho Glan Cameron
Met at Ilarrisburgyesterday in con
vention, and as foreshadowed by an
early decree of the Mueliim- !50.-s, our
neighbor and townsman, Gen. James
A. Heaver, bus received the official
certificate of a State convention, in
clan assembled, as the nominee of the
Republican party for Governor of
Pennsylvania, and we take the liberty
to congratulate him as well us the
party upon the event. We have not
now, nor do wc expect to have in the
future, an unkind word to say of Gen.
Heaver personally. Apart from all
political considerations, lie is a reputa
ble citizen of unsullied character, of
light experience in public affairs, and
so far as such virtues are allowable in
the |K>litiedl association in which he
drills, a man of honest impulses and
good purjxtsis, When we -ay this,
we say all that we need say at pre- ut.
Don Cameron knew his man in mak
ing the selection,-and if anybody ex
(sects that the Republican candidate
by bis own intellectual ability can ri-e
superior to the control of the master
spirits who move and manage the great
party of fraud, they may as well un
deceive themselves. Cameron is a
stalwart and a boss, and Heaver trains
in harness.
AM. kind* of speculation are in
dulged in just now a* to the tactics
the managing Bo*# of the Uepublicau*
will adopt to control and demoralize
the Independent convention of the
21th of May, so far a- to render their
opposition to bos# rule harnile--, and
assure a probable success to the ma
chine ticket just placed in the balance.
Some of these speculation# < ven ven
ture to intimate that Senator Cameron
in manipulating the Indcjx-ndcnt*,
w ill also include the Democratic party
in hi# programme of management.
Don is certainly an adroit and bold
master, ami always equal to the occa.
sion when lie ha* nothing hut the
slave# of his own parly to manage, but
when ho take* in the iHmoeracy in
the hope of cutting their throats with
the protesting member# of bis own
party, be will probably find a larger
contract than hi# capabilities will war
rant. Tbi* is not a year for Deinocra
tic fool# or Democratic blundering,
and with the able and distinguished
men of the party interested in the suc
cess of true Democratic principles, wc
have no idea that the machine politi
cians of the Republican persuasion
can walk off with an easy victory. Wc
nre united as a party—with no candi
date# #peciallv or unduly contending
for po#ition. With a majority of the
people anxious to rescue the State
from spoliation and the degradation of
machine |*>litics, and with candidates
judiciously selected for their ability
and merit pledged to the reform of
public abuse, they need have no cause
to dispair of success. Prudence and
discretion at the Democratic State
convention will assure it.
SECRETARY FOUIF.R, of the Trea.
ury Department, is certainly not verv
particular as to the record of his ap
pointees, when he removes a Treasury
agent for the purpose of making a
vacancy for James M.Scoville of New
Jersey, one of Ko boson'a constituents,
lie is a stalwart it i true, and it may
Ire that officials in that department are
so carefully watched that honesty is
not a needed qualification for a valua
ble and proper officer to look after
the interests of the National Treasury.
Still, when Robeson's constituents are
about, a slight increase of the police
force might not be inappropriate.
IT is reported that the Georgia Sen
ators, Hill and Brown, are about to
or have resigned on account of feeble
health, and that ex-Senator Gordon
will consent to fill one of the vacan
cies during the balance of the session.
THE bill acknowledging the incom
petency of the prcseut Republican
Congress, commonly knowu as the
Tariff commission bill, has passed the
House.
Mahono and the Pago.
Of all mean acts which have yet
come to light in the treacherous <aio< r
of Mahone, the last is the meanest.
A young doctor of Virginia named
Tcbbs, who do.-in dlo enter the service
of the United States in the line of hi
profe-siou, applied to hare his di-abi
litica removed. When a small hoy,
about twenty years ago, lie wit* * in
ployed us a page iu the confederate
Senate, and for thi- infantile > rvice
he was declared by the great Edmunds,
the Senator from Vermont, ineligibh
without the healing pro - of the
< 'ongrc-H of the United Stat--. To
meet this objection he made the appli
cation for the removal of a disability
thu- acquired in his boyhood, and it i
herc the inedible incanne - the con
federate ex-Major General with lii
own crimes condoned, i- coti-: ieuouslv
a-M-rlcd. lie refu.-i* by his casting
vote the pardon to the x-pagc of tie
confederate Senate, an i joins hi* pr •
cut Republican alii - to down the
application. 1 it | ible lo coutcive
of a meaner act than this? For 1. i
tnunds and hi* party of implacahle
soine ex<u-* may lie in their preju
dices, hut for tlii- servile wretch t!> r
is no excust. Party fealty to hi- pi* st
ent association- di*i not r* j lire such
degradation from a pard mcd < mfede
rate general who ot upied a seat and
the easting v te in the Senat* of the
United States.
Tut HON. HOR.UT MAYMl:l>,late
Po-tinaster General under tin Hay<
administration, diff suddenly of heart
disease a few days ago, at his r< sidence
ui Knoxvilh, Tenn. He was a native
of Massachusetts, and served inanv
years a* a member of Cougri • fr ui
Tennessee, and was minister to Turkey
by appointment of Gen. Grant.
The Jtnli< iarj t ommittee unci the 1..uul
brant*.
WAMJIXCTOX, M-Y 4. The House
Judiciary Committee ha- not yet r
polled to the House their notion of
Tuesday with reference to Mr. Cobb's
Land tirant hill. The delay is uii'-x
plained except upon the pound that
there being Do need to hurry a Unit it,
it ha* not heen thought worth while to
break in ujion the tariff debate eten to
make a re|ort. Thia would ordinarily
he plausible enough. Tut it i* now n.-arlv
three months since Mr. t -ibb inlro iur i
Ins hill and about half that time since
the committee were supplied with full
p*|>or* U|on which to work. They now
intend, as announce 1 the ether day in
the*e despatches, to a*k permission of
the House to make separate reports in
their discretion upon the various c,v<
and at the same time submit the lit of
seven roads u|otj which construction
was never attempted and whose grants
they propose shall lie forfeited, rend
ing action, however, tijwm the request
to make separate supplemental report*
the committee will probably not over
work themselves, so that the longer Un
report i* delayed the l>etier will fie the
chance that the large roads will not be
reached at this session. 'The bill has
been assured large support if it can l>e
brought from oomtnitiee. Its friends,
in view of the various delays, are accord
ingly beginning to suspect that the
committee's disinclination to hurry may
he construed into a deliberate purpose
to retard action. < 'pinions in this line
are freely expressed that among so ntanv
investigations attention might be turned
not unprofltably towards the committee.
The Condition of the Xary.
WASHINGTON, Mly 4. —The Sj>e*ker
laid lefore the House to <Uy a commu
nication from the Secretary of the
Navy, in response lo the liou-e resolu
tion calling for information relative to
the condition of the navy, it give* a
tabulated statement showing the esti
mated tim and cost which would tie
required to make each vessel in the
navy efficient to engage in hat lie with
an enemy of the same general classifica
tion, omitting lhoc whose hulls are
considered unfit for repairing. There
are sixty-three vessels included in the
list, of which thirty-three are reported
as "officered for immediate use."
To repair and put in condition the
remaining thirty, it is estimated, wiil
coat t<l,li.fOOO; and the time necessary
for that purpoae ia variously estimated
at from two to eighteen months. The
communication also states that the most
powerful gun in actual service is the
eight inch, muzzle loading rifle (eon
verted,) which at 1,00(1 yards will per
forate a plate of solid wrought iron
eight and one-half inches thick. Its
range ts 10.280 yards at thirty-nine de
grees elevation. It carries a ball weigh
ing 180 pounds. There are fifty one
such guns actually available for service.
The communication also embodies A de
tailed statement of the cost of repairs
on 'vessels since 1865, the tolsl being
$23,075,000, and the total cost of vessels I
in the navy ie given at $72,345,775. 1
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TKHMN: per Annum, in Advance.
GENERAL NEWS.
The I Jo* trin Herald thinks that as the
whij ping post hits been abolished in
Virginia, the whip of lloss Mohone
should be similarly dealt with.
The Pope i. not only a "fuller of men,"
hut lie ha- an immente eel farm in the
Rome, which during the
Lenten season yields prodigiously.
The new fait train between I Jos ton
and New York, over the Itostnn aod
Albany and New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad, makes the trips in
ix hours, the average speed being, al
lowing for stops, tort) five mile* an
hour.
"A number of Hutch cattle raiser* have
rrivad to New York, with an
average capital of SAUO each, and will
proceed at once to Texas as permanent
colon: Among them there are sever
'! tniliionare.. and, no doubt, a Con
gressman or two.
The President has granted a respite
' II July T'h next, in the case of Crow
i> tiie Indian under sentence
: ttli at Headwood, May 11th, for the
murder of Spotted 'J ail in order to allow
i i n time for the rase to be heard be
fore the supreme Court of Hakota on
* lit of error.
1 I Korsyth reports to tien.'McKen
■ that the ho-tiie Indians, of whom
tie h* been in pursuit, are almost anni
hilated. The part that Col. Forsyth
>. in their annihilation is quite in
insiflerable, however. He simply beat
]|| the g.me and the Mexican Colonel
captured it.
ret try Folger has written a letter
- t i M---r. .fame# V. Weline,
>!in Walker an<l Wallace Hill, who
imp • I the Treasury Committee
•h, i investigated the contingent fund
*" that department which tesulted in
•• ~- MHte investigation. He commends
' itnnuttee Ingiily for their indepen
' Is lily and faithful discharge of
the duty assigned them.
M-s. Anna ilagan recovered a verdict
i si in the Supreme Court at New
•. against John Carroll and Aaron
ii- r-iifield. liquor store keeper* on
I litr I avenue. The suit was brought
mderthe Civil i'srnage* act by Mrs.
Hagsn for (5000 damages for selling
. . r to her husband and getting him
drunk, after repeated warning* not to
do so.
Mr. Mural Halste.ad never knew of
NrivNi and never rea l F.inerson, but
he hat hi* opinion of both men now
•at they are <lead. He .ays : There
w - htllc in oomuion between Carlyle
nd Kiucraon. ihe latter was a man of
• * • : the forme* a man of war. Finer
'i n- i. r spoke disre*|iectfully or critl
siiy of any one ; Carlyle could hardly
mention aootem|orary without a sneer.''
It is estimated that the production of
eose in 1 tie C-onnellsvilie region during
the present year will amount to 178,-
.oitsii bushel*. If this quantity of
•oke was loaded on one train of cars, it
w urid require - ;s,OOO cars of the usual
- />-, and make a train nearly 2,(X©
m; e* long, or six trains reaching from
Pittsburg to Philadelphia. The pro
duction of coke i* at present greater
than the demand, and consequently
there is more or less difficulty on the
part of tbe coke o|>erator* to And a dee
lu ation for their coke. Tbe cause of
this lull in trade is attributed to the
banking up of a number of furnaces,
and a diminished demand for manafac
lured materials of all kinds.
A Ifrrudful Deed.
1 I >l)TE*'* SIM KSSOa ANDVXMI SECXETStT
HI RKE Ml RIiCKEI).
■ T'rr,' f Fate of iff Man Whom Gladden*
A -led Ui Ciirry <hU H u .Vnt Policy of
P( act and (food ll'iiV to Ireland and her
I I nhappy I'copU.
II; T-lRr*|>b Co |bo Patriot.
( IH IILIS, Mav 6. Ix>rd Frederick Cav
1 rniih and Uuder Secretary Burke
were assassinated this evening in Phm
ni* park. 1/ord Frederick Cavendish
and F.arl S|*ncer had remained at
Dublin castle engaged in the I ran sac
tmn ot ntlicial business until 6 o'clock
ibis evening w lion each drove to hi* re
elective residence. After dinner lxrd
Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Thomas
Henry Hurke, under secretary for Iro
land, we.it for a walk in Pbo-uix park.
1 bey were murdered cloae to the chiet
secretary's lodge. No arrrstf have been
made,
A later telegram from Dublin aay* it
now ajmear* that lx>rd Frederick Cav
endib and I'nder Secretary Burke were
killed by stabbing. They were both
strolling in the pat* about half a mile
Irom the city gate and a quarter of a
mile from the chief aecretaiy'a lodge
when a car drove up containing four
men, two of whom jumped down from
the car and attacked Ford Frederick
Cavendish and Mr. Burke, atabbing
thein both several time* in tbe throat
and breast. The victims struggled hard
for life and in tbe struggle became
separated, their bodies being found
about ten pace* apart.
This dastardly asaaasi nation, the
heavieat blow given to Ireland for many
years, is recieved with horror by every
body, and by none with more vigorous
denunciation titan by Parnell, Davilt,
an<l other friend* of Ireland—who de
mand of tbe people of Ireland to adopt
the most vigorous means to datact the
assassin a
Great effort is being made fo detect
the assassins and a number bf arrest*
made. Two suspicious characters named
Daily and Annan have been arrested,
and one other supposed to be the cab
man who drove the assassins, it in cus
tody. Orders have been given to arrest
ail strangers and tramp* who are unable
to account for their movements.*
NO. 19.