SlllXilßT A. VAN OHM Kit, Editors. VOL. I She Craftt ffrmotrat. Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advenoc 8. T. SHUGERT 4 J. R VAN Editors Thursday Morning. January 4, IPB3. THANKING our frieuds for their cootiuued patronage and wishing them all a happy ami prosperous New \ ear we present the first number of the fifth volume of the CENTRE DEMO CRAT. We intended making some improvement upon its mechanical make-up, as well as other satisfactory arrangements, hut that will all come iu good time. A BED OF MICA has been discover ed on the South Mountain, in Berks county. The metal, it is said, has been tested and found to be fire-proof. It is believed to be .of great value. FORTY Chinese women disguised themselves as Italians and slipped over to America to get married. This proves that the laws of Congress can be no obstruction to keep a woman out of this country who wants a bus' hand. SOME laborers iu Lebanon county, the other day, undertook to drv n number of dynamite cartridges hy the fire of a blacksmith shop. They suc ceeded hut they also dried up the shop and severely injured the blacksmith by au explosion. IT is said that Mahoue is intriguing Tor the Presidency of the Senate in place of Senator Davis whose term -expires on the 4th of March. Muhone uud Kiddlebergcr hold the cards in their own baud-, and can enforce the result from the high-toned Republi can side of the Senate ! UAMBETTA, the distinguished French statesman and orator, a" well 0 as the great leader of the French Re public, died on Monday last. lie lias for many years occupied the most prominent rank of any other states man in the attaint of his government aud his death produced a profound sensation. GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of New York, was inaugurated at an early' hour on the Ist inst. The ceremony was brief and simple, attended hy no crowd, and was over, and he was qui etly seated in the executive chamber when the ma*s of people assembled to wituess lire taking of lite official oath, BECAUSE Robert T Lincoln is the •on of bis father, the Republicans are di.-cussiug him as a probable candidate lent. With the large num er aspirant*, it is not pruha the merits of the deceased I be available capital to com r the absence of sxtraordi t in the son. D6BY, Minister to China, in * he will return to hi* homo aiu time to lake a hand in i the next campaign. He Ixpn**e-great contempt for the boss system introduced by Mahone into that Slate and prom ices to make a wi£4rnus fight t© &er it of the re CHICAGO present* some figures 'which start the inquiry as to what she •may become in the next quarter of a xietdurjr. "The new structures erected there aggregate 817,500,000. The total of 74,000 feet, or fully fourteen lineal mile* of frontage. The value 4P f the building* erected this year ranks the third highest since the fire. KEIFEK AND HL'BBEI.L are the ecapgoat* of the Republican Congress. Keifer, of the worst elements of the House, aud Huhbell of the meanest' elements of a Committee made up of! the members of both house*. Tbee men j were charged with the execution of tbc dirty business of both bodies, and have to bear the odium of acts of which others were as guilty, but in position jto teulk responsibility. 4 The Pennsylvania Legislature The Legislature met in their halls at the Slate Capitol at 12 o'clock on Tuesday last and was organized for but-iocss without much delay, and ap pointed the usual committees to wait upon the Governor ami inform him they were ready to receive any com munication he had to make. In the Senate, Mr. Hey burn, of Philadelphia, the Cameron Machine candidate, was elected on the second ballot. President pro tern., over Mr. Hall, of Elk, the Democratic candi date, hy a vote of 20 to 20 ; Thomas U. Cochran was reelected chief clerk ; Smiley, of Venango, Journal clt rk and George Pearson, of Mercer, reading clerk. The election of the other of ficers aud employes was on motion of Mr. Lee, postponed for the present with the view of weeding out supernu- meraries, when that distinguished r<- former (?) and purely sympathizing patriot, Senator Tom Cooper, present ed a resolution providing for a final adjournment of the legislature ou the 22d of March. In the House the election of officers resulted in the choice of the following gentlemen ; For Speaker, the Hon. John E. Faunce, of Philadelphia, whnon taking the chair briefly returned histhanks for the honor conferred. He promised to discharge the duties of the position fairly arid impartially. The party now in control.of the House was sent here to reform abuses, and *n far a* it is within their power, the 1 vils complained of must be remedied. Public officer* must he held to a strict accountability : use!e offices abolish ed ; officers to lie paid by sitlarr and the fes to go into the public trenury. A fair ap|mrtinment i* demanded in the interest of the whole people. An im|Mirtant niensure which would claim larneet attention WHS the readjustment of the revenue, so that the burdens of taxation may la* lightened nnd fall equally upon all classes. To thi* ami kindred measures he invited the care ful attention of all the month r*. so that an early adjournment could be brought alsnit. In conclusion he hop ed the member* would so com'uet themselves that the encooium of ' well done, good and faithful servants," would be lie* to wed 011 them HOD. P. Gray Meek, flitor nf the Democratic lUU/dt man, of this place, was then elected chief clerk and Maj Klbridge McConkey, of Harrisburg, resident clerk, and we cannot allow the opportunity to pass to congratulate the Democracy of Pennsylvania for the excellence of the selection of speaker and clerks thus far, in the ef ficiency and ability it brings to the public service. They are all high toned, courteous gentlemen deserving the mark of Confidence bestowed up on them by the meridiem of the I>-gi • lature. The other officers and employ es have not yet lieen chosen, and we presume will not !*•, uniil the list is brought down to the requirements of the law ami the nhsolutc necessities of the House. Under the reform eron omical demand of the people of Penn sylvania, sinecures ami supernumerar ies ami extravagance can no longer lie received with commendation, and those members who fail to come up (b this standard will also fail to compre hend his duty and vitiate the pledge* of the party be is expected to repre sent in the struggle for honest govern ment. I IIK Rev. John E. Massey who con tests the election of John 8. Wise the Readjuster candidate for a seat in Congress asGmgressman-at large from V irginia, lias published bis notice of coutest. He claims that he is elected | over Mabone's candidate by 10,000 majority and is sanguine that be will be able to prove this when be gets a hearing before the house of Represen tative*. The notice of contest con tains twenty printed pages, specifying illegal voting ail over the State, and other acts of illegal character whicbg if proven, will make np a strong case in hia favor. I .\ , * - THS Wabaah iwilmad nyttew of the west has earned t2,280,000 more iftau foe the same time to 1881, U *• * „ ■, JL rS* "zyUAI. AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, Of WIIATKVtCR STATS OR I'KRSUASION, KKLIOIOCH OR I'oLITH AI.."—J-Sfrtoli KELLKFONTK, PA., TIIU Mr. PENDLKTON'H civil service bill passed the Senate on Wednesday last. The amendment* offered by Mr. Ve.st and Mr. Beck, prohibiting officers or employes of the Government to solicit or contribute any money for political purposes, uud providing a penalty for offenders, was rejected. These amend, menfs struck at the root of one of tlie greatest sources of Federal corruption Complained of bv the people, and we trust may yet be incorporated, or something similar in effect, iu the bill before its final passage. The organi zation of an army of Federal officers and their dependents throughout the country to control and corrupt elec tions by means derived from the pub lic treasury, liberally bestowed for ser vice* in the transaction of the public business, is a danger of such magni tude that any means pro|vu>ed to arrest it would seem to demand the cotit-ui* reuce of honest Reprtseuti lives. But it appears the Federal Republicans are unwilling to surrender any corrupting ageucy they may posses* to maintain jMjlitical control of the official patron age of the government, which they abuse so recklessly. There should be no restraint placed upon the citizen by reason of bis official connection with the government for the exercise of all the tight* guaranteed hy the Constitu tion and law*, hut there should ire no power hy assessment or threats under had of the Executive, or under lend of hi* henchmen, to combine official power corruptly in the interest of a particular political partv as a mean* of enforcing their party maudates through fear. This was douc in the last election indeed it has been one of the leading cards of Federal asceuden cy for many years. This bill as it passed the Senate is some improve ment over others, hut it i* weak ami will lie easily evaded a* it provide* no efficient means for its enforcement. It provide* that removal shall only lie made " for cause," but iudicates no " cause" that should form the basis of removal*. It mikes no provision cm powering the Commission provided lor to weed out the srmvof incompetence and *ii| ernumeraric* now in eniplnv. Aii())iinlil this is (lone. io great in pruv* • tuent will result from the passage of the bill. So fnr a* imjxisiiig restraint upon political a*so*smeuta iu the en forcement of contributions for parly purposes, the hill is a blank and worth ies*. To this point public attention hat been special!? ifirrvterl and the demand for restraining legislation most emphatically called for by the |eople. I his demand has Iteeii recng* tiix-d hy the amendtneiits ofTcretl hy Mr. Beck and others, as well as hy Senator Edmund*, who present* an evasive sham hill to meet the demand which amount* to nothing more than i* already u|von the statute book* and evaded without stint. ILRRIT MUST IS H i'.uro|ean Social ist now lecturing in litis country to the crary fools who hold socialistic sentiments, with uproarious applause. At Chicago the other night, in his speech, he said, " that when the people got the upper hand they stopped kill ing ; the only thing to he done was to keep on killing ; people here roust kill, roust open hanks and stores and help themselves to whatever they wanted, and bankers and capitalist* roust lie set to work 011 the streets.'' But why should this fellow lie permit ted to travel through our cities coun selling the ignorant rabble who har bor him, to murder and rob. lie is a lunatic or a villain of deep dye, and should be provided for in the iustitu* tions appropriated tobia ease. If one j of our own cilieens were to go around counselling murder, anaaaein and rob bery, it would not be tolerated. Tnc Independents of the Senate were entirely subdued by' the oouver-i aiou of Senator Tom Cooper to refbcM \ and early adjournment. His leatfof. the "grand old party* to defeat, *ud *dher|cp to the principal boas, do nut *wf| It is all harmony now I '• V HSDAY, JANUARY I. IHKF. WILLIAM BALDWIN, the chief of ! the Highway Department of I'hiladel | pliiu, died on Tuesday last, very sud- I denly of heart disease, while on his iway to a meeting of citizens. He was deservedly n popular man nnd nl- I tluhigh his adiuinslration of the office litis Iwen under investigation for some I time past, hi* sudden Inking oil' pro ■ doced much excitement and sincere "firel. MR- GEORGE L. HUSTON is build ing an iron dwelling bouse at Parkers | burg, Chester county. It rests on a j foundation of solid rock. It i< wholly ! of iron, including the floors, windows I sills, sash, etc. The floors arc made ! to represent tiling, and the walls are hollow,the space between them is used instead of ehiinueys. Hot smoke and hot air passing from furnace* between (lie wall- it is thought will be siiflieii lit to warm the building iu the severest weather. '1 HE action of the member* of Con gress iu relation to the holiday vacation was childish and inconsistent, and ex hibited a cowardice discreditable to them cs men. They sought to dm ive the public hy voting aud speaking against the usual recess 011 account of the pressing busitx -* <>f the -cssi< 11 ami then packed their wick* ami paired t<> their homes, leaving a üb ajK-ekf-r to note daily adjournment. IN the year 1780 < 'oiigrcs adopted n resolution to erect a monument at Annu[olis, Maryland, to the memory of Karon !>•• Kiiih, hut uutdc no appro priation to carry the resolution iuto effect. It lia l)een sleeping over a hundred years, and the other day was called uj> by Senator Groome of Ma ryland ami an appropriation of £l<), 000 pn*sed to carry into effect the tar dy re munition of the lira v<- volenteer pntrio t a* cont< inplated by the nsoiu tiou gn, of Illi nois leading the op|>oaitioii to the de mand for justice to the gallant and wronged officer. Logan ha< made a three days' speech in an effort to over come the testimony of General (Jrant and the three disligui-died officers of the army who investigated the charges established their falaey against (it ncral Porter, and recommended his resto ! ration to ttu- rank HI thearmy of which | he was iinprojH-rly deprived. Tin: Republicans tiaviug stolen a President successfully, propose to steal a Governor. The people at the late election in Connecticut, elected a Democratic Governor. Some of the tickets, it ap|N>ars, were printed on white paper from eletratype* hcavilj iuktd leaving the name* of candidates in while. These have heen decided lv a judge to IN- illegal and it thrown out changes the result,nod overturns a dem ocraic Imajorily of over four thousand. There is no evidence that any fraud wras committed in the election mid the attempt of the K<-puhlicnti* to ignore the exprcatd will of die rnajoriiy nu a techno al, objection, when their own tickets weroequally objectionable, Inn• ing a black border printed nrotiad them, is di •creditable to them ami adds force to the accumulated evidence of many years; thnt they do not hesitate to obtain and retain power by any means however dishonorable and wrong. Tle defeated C andida e, Mr. Bulk ley, however, could not affird to to take the office under such circum etaucca an-d place himself U|M>II an equality with Rutherford 11. II a yes, the Presidential thief, with the satue chances of res|eet accorded to that (fapised individual, has written a man ly h-Mcr iu which lie says : " I do not entertain ntid have not for one mo* n>uU entertained the idea (hat it vwfd be possible for me to hold the office of Governor under the existing yircuitutaiices, no matter what the 'General Assembly way do or declare, jind any action they may take must twith the knowledge that in no ul wilt I serve or lake the position Which 1 believe it M#4he iuteulof the electors to five -*-T Ji 1 * ** tl if .A The Work before t 'oiigrca*, NO Olcr.AT AMOI'.NT Of IMI'ORTANT I.KGISI.A PROIIAUI.B. Practically speaking only two month* . of iln- present *e*iori ol Congress re itisin. Iri tin* time there 1* mucti itn portaiit bu-iiivn* lit be iliquweii *f, t.ut it Hoc not appear that nil which outfit to be dime will lie done. The mint im (•OflHflt lll*' it *ll f If) Its' |tfs***fj f*)f | lift mge lielnri- t1,,, si-.-ion expire-, beside* the nppropri oion bill* are tolls provid llig for I'irilt r.-vi..00, the r<*ducli'n of ; the internal revenue, civil service re form, the it.lin 1 .ii>ri of Dakota ari'l it bankruptcy *)stern, Ttie bankruptcy foil i- now before bMh hoiies, NIII pro vole, tor H modification of the Lowell scheme, hot it i hardly probable (hat II will hecome H law. 11l a convcrmiion Mr. Tnwnshend. of Illinois, sail! he ju tg.-d Iron) link* with itn rn'a-r- genemlly lliat it w. very oouiofiii whether an) tinny wiiufl he "lone -.iili me 1 itr II -.ml internal r<-e ni'e lilts session. 11,. s ,i,J there w.is sui li ad 1 v *-i -11 y of opinion on 110-.r sU'js'Cta thai It would he linpo-itle for tile vat tolls element - to hnrtIIOIIIZA Up ->n any rue-sir'-s *u llirieiit ly to csiry them. The inference it that none of the great men-urea proposed except, perhaps, tfie civil service toll, mil he -1 come laws. It is (relieved (tial afiout all t fiat can tut acr-nmpli-fied in tliehriel pel 10 I remaining of this ("on g 1 es will Lo tfie pxss,ye of the appropriation fulls I' bly the 1 ivil service toils and some | "o*itir,n hy liener it Itrowne. ot frcliana, to aholi-h the jiv rlepartment of the arm* has n, u ed I iinirh exciteruent in circles wim-h con tain those who would he affecte 1. There ; are now tflty live officer* in the depart m* ot, C'stir.g atmut loilf a million r cent, of the sum it is propowrd, ml to aboli-h thebuie-u suddenly, hut lo leave va fancies urisuppueil arid tiave force suit), cienl to carrv on the work in Ihe mean ! tune detailed from the tjusrtcrmatter'* j -lepartlll' nt. What Shall hr Hone With 7 hem I 1 fie auditor general * report* *hnw that am rig the i.(h ials of the house ol represent-I ives ll,ere sre five *-rgeni* it arms, two posluiasprs, two firemen, •even janitors, eleven paster- and fold era, four ines-enger*. live door keeper*, and filtei ti p.ge . At least on-third of them can lo- dispensed with, and if Ihe l.rjttlo-Hf Iltford should he aUdl-hi d j I!*• liumlrer ot paste,s aud folders need not he over three or four. There Is no necrssily for more lhan a half do*cn page- ,nd two or three jitxtors are en Hr< l> aul!) tenl. I lie I• niocral'C mem ' i ts ol lip- tiouse should at once r it)s|- | der the qip -iion of a roiuciinn of tin* | army of • llic tl- end adopt a|• licy in teg-id to -I II I lioroiigh agre.-uielll mlb the pledges of rellenchiiteul and ret rm given ly tfie paity during Ihe recent c-na-. 1 It is claimed that under exot .ng laws n-> rctluciion ol iln- number ol officers lioid -1 nig over who prove to he sups t numriar) slid in.ru-cestary sliould fisve notice to so that if Ills) stmuid persist 111 letaining their plm e* ihev wdl do so at ! (he risk of 10-mg their pay. A con current resolution migiit l-e pa,-, eg>iining hy giving it attention ;,i the eere-< that at llie fir*i session of the present congress a bill wai passed putting • tax of fifty cent* |>er head on each immigrant. Tliia ought lo keep the place a good order •ml provide amply lor the comfort of all. Mr. Uueiiiher propoaew that eon greM shall retuedv these vvils. TKIIMK: !.'>() per Annum, In Aflvunee. •iarfield arid Doraey Yesterday a issue of the New York Urtatd contains annie interesting lettera Irom President Garfield and other prominent Republicans 'luring the oi tesi of |KKO. Garfield's letter* to Irof "■y '"n through Ihe campaign down to the 4th March, JMTI, when the corres pondence w*> -tj.Menly interrupted \,y the Star Route prosecution*. f i r-ev's pur|me in publishing these let lets ia to repel the H.-ertson, made by aome of ti 'i field a i nn him for support. In making tlo-re letters public there in alo an evident drtire upon Ihe part o! Iloney to awaken the H) nipathiea of the Republican p.riy for a man who ha* |>*thomed *ucli great *rvire in their came arid who a now undergoing prorecution for an in arr.oua (•Mine. In I. rpotire to a lettir fiom G ofi-ld definuung the political situs tion in Indiana, 1) >r-y went to that Male lo lake the direction of the campaign. In In* letter, in which (jar field revealed himnelf * a pretty alirewd campaign manager, he intuited that large turn* of money would he needed to carry Indiana, and intimatei Ji iieey. Tbe char acter ol their relation* tin la-en pretty well und'-raKwd in vptte of the recent ellirt* of friend* of frarfield to deny them. 'xnicerriing the manner in which tbi* in' re than i'ytbian friend ship i> diku-lved there ore, of cour**, •I ft rent opinion*. Admirci* of Gsr- In Id extol the Xornau virtu* which in spired him to sacrifice *uch a friend a* l)r*ey without Mrelcmng forth a bund to rare him. I>nr**y' friend*. on tbe other hand, of whom be appear* to have many, notwithstanding in* |>o-ition, condemn Garfield'* riadine** to d-liver him up to a free |>errey ■ nervier* during the campaign in Indian* were neede-t and sought alter, it iju*t (Mtaaihle that In* long end exceedingly free letter* of ad vice had become irksom* tofiarheld be lore the day of inauguration, and that lhi* Siar route prosecution wa* rather welcome than otherwise. At alt event*, there remain* no sign that Garfield ever betrayed any great degree of grief over the calamity of hia friend.—Pkila Jtrrprrf. The Lrglalallte Iternrd. 1 here i* a very general feeling of dia gii't among the people and Ibeir repre sents! Il es elect in the new legulature over lhe Isi/ittutii* /iVcerl* part manner of publication. The great pre ponderanee of feeling i for it* al-oinion at.if the saving of the Mate of atwiut fbl,ooo w Inch it now coat* to print, pa-te. told and distribute it. lb-sides Hie llrrvr.l it *eeni*. that there i* kept and punted at the clove of every aeion . r|ideii**d j iurnal Ot the |egi|.tive pioceevlinga, showing the mea*uie ■(I opted. ihe cute* on them, the pro gre* ol bukiner* without the |.ee. h-a and pudding that make* the publica tion of the I}mini a pudding lor the printer, and an #>tf,-ne to the public, lo many clear mind* thi* journal i* • leemed enough of a publication ol leg ttlaiiee proceeding* to meet the require uienta of the ca*e, and a strong inove will he made to al>oh*li the JUrorcL A difficulty in ilit way, however, •• the (act that under the law a contract ha* ulti v.ly be# n made (or the printing of the curd for the two session* oj the next tout year*, involving the Mate in alioui c * pen*# f* lo cated. NO. 1.