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The Republican party caine into power in this State in 1861, and the cost to the State government then was $947,911.83, exclusive of interest and reduction of debt. The Republican administration of Governor Curtin, even with all the enormously increased expenditures of war and the highest inflation of values known in this age, increased the State expenditures to only $1,531,486.67 in 1867. In 1866 the Cameron machine en trenched itself in the Republican cita del and for fifteen years it has been supreme in every channol of Republican power in the State. With it came reck less profligacy; the creation of offices for favorites ; the lavish waste of public money to reward partisan henchmen, and the absolute subordination of in tegrity and manhood to the cohesive power of public plunder. In 1870, after three years of machine rule in the State, the annual expendi tures in time of peace, had grown to $2,228,870.27, being an increase of sl,- 281,058.44 ever the expenses when the party assumed power, and an increase of $797,436.60 over the expenditures under Gov. Curtin, with the extraor dinary demands of war to meet. Rut the profligacy of boss government was not content with Jhe expenditures of IS7O. The Auditor General's report, shows that the cost of the State govern- 1 ment for 1880, including its share for the Legislature, foots up to the enor mous amount of 4,962,105.59 millions, being more than the entire cost of the government in 1860, when the Repub lican party first attained power. This expenditure does not embrace either interest or principal of public debt. It is simply the regular annual expenditure of the State government. There is a legitimate increase in schools and judiciary, made by the con stitution, but that is little more than half a million, and the other expendi tures are mainly or wholly the creation of machine legislation. The people of Pennsylvania have lately been carefully reading and con sidering the record made by Controller Pattison in Philadelphia, and they have' learned that his entry into the control ler's office dated the beginning of the practical reform that has changed the city from a $2.25 tax rate and three millions annual increase of debt, with little or no improvements, to a $1.95 tax rate, and annual surplus of a mil lion, and substantial improvements in every department, and that is just the sort of an administration they want in Pennsylvania. Figures Won't Lie. The office of controller of the city of Philadelphia sayß the Lancaster Intetli yeneer, is the most important in the or ganization of that municipality. The salary Attaching to it is double that of mayor; its responsibilities are greater and accordingly as the incumbent of it is faithful, intelligent and honest, or careless, ignorant and dishonest, the expenses, the debt and the tax rale of Philadelphia will be diminished or in creased. The duties of the place are very much more than clerical, as the ringsters have been made to feel since Mr' Pattison has been its incumbent. The controller is the checkaipon unlaw ful expenditures and exorbitant bills. During the past twenty years nearly every city in the country has suffered from the license which its authorities have indulged in to contract floating and bonded debts for corrupt and ex travagant purposes. Obligations have been piled upon each other until, de ' spite a constantly increasing tax rate, •upon an iuoreased valuation of oity property, each year found the munioi .polities deeper in debf, their interest account heavier and the taxes more burdensome. The whole country was shocked some years ago by the expo sure of the New York methods of mu nicipal spoliation, but few cities of any considerable size in the country have been exempt from similar operations, and as a consequence the total munici pal and local indebtedness of tho coun try, largely resulting from shiftlessness and peculation in the administration of city government, fur outruns the aggre gate of the national debt. That Philadelphia was a notable illus tration of this tendency may b readily seen from the following figmes, showing the total funded and floating debt at the hegining of each year, and the cost of the departments for the entire year: Total futiili'il Oust of Tax Your. ami floating 1> pnrtmoiits. Ilato. 180 821,360,'750.80 $2,082,518.1 II $2.00 180 21,271.7:12.115 2,507,820.10 2.25 180 22,610,200.15 2.881,1 111.39 2.0il 180 21,750,056.16 5 -182.21 .1.112 2.30 1864 25,713,010.10 3,017,321 ill 230 1865 32,703,898.110 -1,150.-00 81 2.80 180 30,727,120.00 1,101,700,11 4DO 1807 37,310,187.87 4,1-12.301.72 1.1,n 1868 38,119,018.02 1.421,8.11.03 1.40 1800 10,188,310.90 5,822,054.13 1.811 187 45,di11,-247.34 5,080,011.88 1.80 1.H71 48,701,804.04 6,408,416.27 1.80 1872 51,552,136.53 5,001,414.53 2.08 187 51,208,0181.40 8,162.751.62 2.25 187 60,630,871.00 0,070 811.72 2.20 1875 64,290,483 65 10.105,019.80 2,15 187 00,716,524.17 0,806,010.01 1.15 1877 73,571,1-10.02 8 181,001.20 2.25 These figures sliow a regular and steady increase of the city debt, averag ing $3,022,400 per year for ten years preceding 1878. At the same time the tax rate had leaped up alarmingly, and the cost of the department had advanced from $4,442,361.72 in 1807 t0510,10.1,919. "80 in 1875. It is true there was a slight reduction in the department expenses from 1875 to 1877, but it will he noticed that there was an enormously greater increase of the city debt of $9,283,710.17 within that period, so that tiie munici pal authorities were only saving at the spiggot to let out at the bung. In 1877 Mr. Pattison was elected enn troller, defeating the regular Republi can nominee by a majority of 1,902, though the Republicans carried the city on the state ticket by an average ma jority of 5,871. Mr. Pattison was at that time a young and comparatively untried man with only a reputation for honesty and intelligence. But the public had confidence in him, and how well he jus tified it may be inferred from the fact that when his party renominated him in 1880 he was elected over a Republi can of blameless private character and record, by a majority of 13,593, though | on the very same election day the Dem ocratic national ticket was in a minori ty of 20,883 in Pniladelpbia. It must be remembered, too, that at tins time there was no Committee of One Hun fired, nor any organized lndepenpentor Reform movement supporting Patti son. Now let ns examine the lesuits of his administration which have had this high approval. The year 1878 was tfie first which tested his methods of ad ministration. inclusive ot that, and since then, the record runs thus: 187 s7.',G|.'visl.7*.i $7,101,791.18 -215 187 71.835,191.35 7,|1K1.1;U 5.3 2 II 188 72,2'.l 605.76 6,376,578 31 2.00 188 70,032 1311.47 6,88 ~3.i:.'.i2 1.95 1802 68,62'.',40.3.72 1.'.0 Against the former average yearly increase of $3,022,-100. Mr. I'aiti-on's ad ministration shows an average t(&P ed by the decrease of thfj, ein# de'd, .- The j department expenses have gftne down j from $8,184,961.20 to $6,883 320.92, a | reduction per annum ol $1,301,034.28; and the tax levy is reduced from $2 25 to $1.90, a reduction <>! 'he annual bur den on property of 35 , corresponding seo.efary o. the Jefferson Association of this city, speaks for itself and will ho read with delight by all who hope for tho restora tion of Jeffersonian principles: YORK, July 20.— My Dear Sir : Noth ing could have given ino greater pleas ure than tho receipt of your kind com munication of the 12th inst., informing me of my unanimous election to hon orary membership in the Jifferson As sociation of llarrisburg. I accept the compliment with a lively and grateful sense of its true value, and I shall en deavor to make my name worthy of its piace on your roll by continuance in those humble hut earnest efforts in the great causa you aro organized to pro mote which have doubtless procured i.ic this unexpected honor. When the federalists in the closing years of tho last century had well nigh revolutionized the government estab lished by the constitution, transcend ing its most important limitations and invading many of the fields ol power expressly reserved from its operation, their dislodgeinent became necessary to the preservation of the Republic. That, like the present, was a most unequal struggle between power, patronage, money and monopoly on the one side and the masses of working people on the other. The latter must have gone down and all that they contended for must have been lost in one prodigious disaster but for the character of their organization and leadership. These were wisely adapted to the nature of the conflict. Jefferson, Madison, our own Gallatin, and their devoted com patriots were not content with merely sounding the alarm. They called the people together in their primary capa city, and urged them to organize in close and permanent associations like | the popular committees of the revolu ! lion, where they might take council | one with another respecting the public i dangers and the means of defence. | These were the "Democratic Societies'" | which filled the federalists with terror | by their hold agitations, and which it | was once actually proposed to put down j by the strong hand under a statute to Ibe passed for the purpose. The first one established in Pennsylvania was i loriued in Philadelphia iu 1793, with I David Rittenhouse president and a list of other officers, some of whose names ! are only less illustrious than his. The j Democratic societies were, as Mr. JefH-r --! -on said, the "nurseries of the Rcpubli j can principles of the constitution." and j to them, with the widespread influence ! of their discussions arid publications, ; and the "rousing of the people" by j trequent meetings in small bodies, where ; every man harl a voice, was due, in no j small degree, the great deliverance of I 13(10 and the defeat of the infamous -oheme to exclude Mr. Jefferson from the office to which he had been elected, is Mr. Tilden was excluded in 1877. The Democratic societies of our day i are called Jefferson Association), not I merely in veneration of the personal I character of the great apostle of Auieii j can liberty, hut to indicate our devo j lion to the body of political principles j which is justly known by the name ot j him who formulated them in matchless | simplicity and illustrated them practi- I rally and personally in those two ad i ministrations of the government which ! ail men agree ushered in the "Golden | age of the Republic," The name of Jefferson stands, not for a man only, but for a faith, not merely for the le vered shade of the leader, whose lame is concecrated wherever the language of freedom is known, hut for doctrine a eertianly and us absolutely essential to | political salvation MONEY GIVEN TO FOIR SENS TORS AND THIRTY MEMBERS. Special ditii)aU:li to The Time*. WASHINGTON, July 27- A member of the House, to whom the documentary evidence in Newell's possession relating to the alleged stu pendous corruption fund used in pro curing the passage of the bill through Congress making the land grant to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company has been submitted for inspection, makes some interesting statements. He says that among these papers is a transcript from the books of the railroad company showing that one million of their bonds were paid to thirty members of the House and two hundred thousand dol lars of their bonda and sixty-two thous and dollars in money to four members of the Senate. He says that this tran script gives the names of the four Sen ators and thirty Representatives and the umoqnt paid each; that three of these four Senators and four only of the thirty Representatives are still in Con gress. Newell's explanation as to how he came into possession of this transcript is thai while he was yet intimately con nected with the company and held stock in it, he procured the services of a clerk in the Company's office to make (he transcript for him. Newell gays that the company's attorney and agent at Washington into whose hands was pyt the bonda and money referred to, to be put whore they would do the mos( good, was Dick Parsons, of Cleveland, Ohio; that for his services Parsons was to have been paid ten per cent, of the amount disbursed to these Senators and Representatives to procure the land grant in question; that Newell, who was himself to have received $75,00 for services in aiding to procure the t, 4-' r j y hft *'"g received su,ooo of the .>,OOO promised him for his services, and hearing that Parsons had been served in a like shabby man tier by the railroad company, wrote him and Newell exhibits the letter of reply rom Parsons in which Parsons states that the railroad company was still de fault in payment of the amount of his commission for bonds and money dis burned and otherfcervicfg rendered and that the amount still due him'was $20,000 The member of Congress giving the foregoing information fays thyt after an inspection of the papers in Xewell'g possession he does not wonder that frantic efforts are being made to prevent the House judiciary committee from proceeding with the investigation of the alleged corruption and briberies in con nection with tiie procurement of the land grants of the Texas Pacific. 11 i> evident that Congressman Robe son s figure head in the House, Speaker Keifer, is to be left at home in the next Congressional election in Ohio. A rival for his seat has sprung up in the person of Robert P. Kennedy who saw service during the war, and was made a Brevet Brigadier General and Collector of In ternal Bevenue for the Bellefontaine, 0., district afterward. Kennedy is a shrewd young fellow, and has been fix ing his cards for a Congressional deal for a long time. He has just shown his hand by carrying the entire delegation of his home county, thirty -two votes, against the Speaker, and is now openly committed to the fight. The district comprises Logan, Clark, Champaign. I tckaway and Madison counties, and was represented for many years by Con gressman William Lawrence, the {.res ent First Comptroller of the Treasury. —J'htla. Record. Down! Down! Down! I"rom this date and until further nc* tire, we have resolved to sell out our entire stock of Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. in order to make room tor our heavy Fall stock which is already being manufactured for this branch. Remember the goods must and shall be closed out at any price without delay, and he who will not trade now shall never have another such an opportunity at the Boston Clothing House, just opened in Rey nolds* block opposite Broekerhoff House Allegheny stieet, Bellefonte, Pa. nli7-4t 'How are you today?" Not veryi well. Go (or a bottle oi PERINA and bel well. DrtuEoisTs and physicians recommend and prescribe Lydia K. 1 inkham's Vege table Compound for all female com plaints. PERENA cures every time—get some, be well-keep it on hand, and sin no more. Aew Aif vertinemeut. ( 10URT PROCLAMATION. It """ ( 'hr!,-. A. Mayer, Presl iiV'.Vi . " u . rt " "i iiif2itii.iu.iHwi Pi trn t, . I(u-.in t *rrec j and Suocaaafuiiy, How to not in S h 1 claaaeg for conxtant reference. AGENTS WANTED for all oi Rpare time. To know whT this Ih"• Uot REAL value and attraction* sells Letter than any other* apply for terms to H. 11. BCAM.M ELL A (X)., Philadelphia, Pa. ;UM.ni Orphan's Court Sale. 1 PURSUANT to an ortlor of the A Orphan*' Court of Centre county, there will he ex (toned to public sale on tbe premises, in College township, on Tuesday, the 15 th of August next, at 1 o'clock, P. M., the following desbril>e