NHUGKKT & VAN OKMKK, Ftlltors. VOL. Oc Terms •1.60 per Annum, tn Advance a. T. SHUOERT & J. R VAN OHMtll, Editors. Thursday Morning, January 11, 1883- IK Senator Lee, oi \ enango, is a free Independent Republican as it is claimed he is, what is the fellow that chaiued him ? THE Czar of Russia has caught it from the Republicans of Pennsylvan ia. He proposes to submit to the ag ony uud daugtrs of a coronation "next year." THE Independent doctors of the State Senate, having extracted Don Cameron's aching tooth, the boss is restored ta his usqal vigor and good humor. All is lovely again. So prosperous is the State of I* lori da under Democratic rule, that the Governor recommends a reduction of the taxes of the State, to relieve the ( Treasury, now full, of a prospective , surplus. QUININE was placed by the Tariff Commission among the free articles up on which no duties should be levied. But Judge Kelley will not have it so, and on his motion, it was placed in the dutialde list at It) |a-r cent. THE Republicans of the Senate, Stalwarts and Independents perhaps, did themselves great honor hy endor sing the un-ayory record of Delany, the Librarian. He is no doubt useful where dirty w- rk is required. THE Republicans of Connecticut, after the wholesome rebuff given them by their candidate for Governor, con cluded to validate the "black ballot" and invite no further comparison with those carrying the "black border." Ex MARSHAL, IIENKY, who was re cently bouueed by the President, at tributes the act to his friendship for General Garfield. Attorney General Brewster ou the contrary attributes it to the ex-marshal's friendship to cer tain government thieves. Which ? A FEW weeks ago all the pajiers proclaimed that Don Cameron was squelched —that the Republican boss of Pennsylvania was dead as a mack erel. llow is it now ? He has prov ed himself a pretty lively corpse and manages at least one branch of the Legislature pretty well for a dead man. THE fight in the Senate against the restoration of General Porter to his just rank in the army, has been hitter and partisan under the lead of Logan —only three of the Republican Sena tors being capable of rising to the dignity of candid consideration of the facts developed in his favor. With the aid of these, to day at *2 o'clock has been agreed upon to come to a di rect vote on the question, as it also in dicates the passage of the bill. ELIRIIA W. DAVIS, formerly a merulier of the Pennsylvania Legisla ture from Crawford county, and sub sequently from Philadelphia, is now a member of the Colorado Legislature and speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. What 'Lish don't know about managing legislatures and the crowd surrounding them, had better not be known, if it is desirable that such bodies should bo conservators of public morality. He has large exper ience and possesses very fair ability. IT is Raid that about eight hundred of the clerks recently taken into the Pension office on trial are to be dis charged for inefficiency. This is a large nuer of iu< fll -ients, but if a general weeding of the departments takes place and civil service refornuis carried out in good faith, the number will, no doubt, be largely reinforced. The practice of rushing into the de partments political dependents in the train of members of Congress, with out qualifications, ha* stocked a large field that needs pruning. Ik J \ Oivll Service Dill Paaacd. Pendleton's Civil Service Hill a* it parsed the Senate on Wednesday of last week, was railroaded through the House under a high pressure of steam, Knation assuming position us chief en gineer. So far us it goes, this is a gren 1 achievement in the right direction and a fair concession to the lessons of the last election. This hill authorizes the President to appoint threecomniis sioners, not more than two of whom ahull be of the same political party, each to receive an annual salary of $3,500, ami travelling and other ex penses. These Commissioners, at the request of the President are to aid him in preparing rules for carrying the act into effect, and these shall pro- j vide for open competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for public service. The commission is to . designate examining committees after consulting with the cabinet officers,! collectors of customs or postmasters in whose offices positions are sought and examinations are to be made, Lx ainiuations a:e to he competitive ami in the line of the particular duties of I the place to he competed for. Pro motions are also to he made in the same manner and decided on the has j is. All ap|Miintmsnts, removals and transfers are to IK* reported to the commission. Persons appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate are not to he subject to exam ination. Ap|M)iitraenia are to he ap portioned among the States and terri tories according to population, and applicants must be bona ji'lr residents of the Slates in which they claim their ! homes. Toe hill also provides that not more than two persons of a single family shall !>c employed in the same grade in any public office. This pro scription of families, only to allow , j tw > of a grade in office, is perhaps too cruel upon cabinet officers and ni-m-1 j Iters of Congress, hut perhaps the pro hibition l >cs not take in the " uncles, I the cousins and the aunts." Besides ibis, the recommendations of members j j of congress are to have no weight with j ; any exatning hoard, all of which is ! prohabiy well intended, but of little j ' effect, as the members will press their decadents upon the departments and have them employed all the same. Assessments for political purposes by officers is prohibited under penalty, and no clerk or office-holder is to he ! removed from office or otherwise inju | red for failure to participate in politi- , work of any kind. Promotions nrc to be made from the lower to the high- j er grades of service on merit. The commission is authoiized to employ a Chief Kxaiuiner to preside over exam ining hoards in Washington or else where in the State* where exmanatioos are to be made, with a stenographer —•. the examiner at a salary of S3OOO, ami the stenographer at SI(XM). NEITHER House of the legislature have yet got to artive work—the c->m- j mitteea not having been announced. We trust at least that Speaker Faunce will make up his committees from the very beat material at hand, with special ref erence to the character of busioeas to come unde- their supervision, without regard to favor or location. The pre* ent legislature from whom perhaps in telligent and discreet action in all its wot kings is more than ever desirable and expected, must depend largely upon the intelligence of these commit tees in maturing that work and plac ing it properly upon the calendar. In framiug them a grave re*|xinsibility reals upon the Speaker. The appoint ment of good "committees will aecure good results in the general business and this fact should not be lost sight of hy Speaker or members in the first stages of the season. Fsinsstcx Josira of Washington, and John Brvcnan, of Baltimore, were at lacked Saturday night at Baltimore by two negroes. and Joaeph was probably fatally injured. His skull was fractured. Brennan waa cut in the back with a razor, but only slightly hurt. Ths ne groea aacaped. j "Xql'At. AND JUSTICE TO AH. MKK, or WIIATEVKH MAT* OK I'KKSUAHION, KKUOIOCS OK I'OLITICA L.Jnffrraoti BKI.I.KFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, JANf AItY 11, 1883. In a recent letter to Chauncey K. | Black, prenitlfnt of the Jefferson Dc- ! mocratic Association of \<>rk, I'a., j the venerable Horatio Seymour writes as follows : "I am gratified with my election as a member of your a-socia- ; tiori. While I atn no longer ahle to ! take an active part in politics I feel a ties-jt interest in public questions ami a strong desire for the success of I)e- ] mocratic doctrines. I think we are on the evo of a great and lasting pol* j itical revolution. Centralization has made so many scandals arid abuses ' that the more thoughtful Republicans ■•ce that these are the results of a con j centration of power which the found- j I ers of our constitution meant to avoid. , While the Republican leaders in so runny States in which they have been 'debated try to show there were so i many diflierent causes for their disas ters in different section . it is char j there is a common cause, 'a ground | swell,'of which those alleged causes ! were effects. There is a general feel- ! j ing in the Republican ranks that they I are wrong in their theories of govern ment. F.>r this reason they are una- l hie to heal their dissensions or to call j out their voters. The country means to go back to the principles of Jeffer son. I have written a short article on this subject which will appear in the Xorth A wrican lirritic tor Junu ary next. Tilt: pro|MM>cd amendment to the Constitution presented by Mr. Flower j giving the President p -wer to veto ! separate items of appropriation bills ; now Ining discussed, i- a.- follows; " Kvery bill, resolution or rote eon- j " taining 10-vernl items of nppropria j " tion - t nioruv to which the concur- ' "re nee of the S mate ami House of; " Representatives may be neci—ary, i "shall be presented to the President j " of the United States, who may oh i"jevt to one or more of such items { "while approving of other jmrt* of " the 1011, resolution or vote. In such ' | " ewe he shall append to the bill. re- 1 I " olution or Vote, a statement of the j | " items to which he objects, and tin ! " appropriations so objected to shall I" not lake tr.-<-i unless recou*idered j ! " and passed by two-thirds of each i ] " hotie, n provided in section 7 of j" article 1 of the Constitution. The " items object!d to shall lie separately " reconsidered in each house, and tf '' on such reconsideration one or more "of them hall Ire approver! by two " thirds of each houe, the same shall " la-come part of the law, notwith " standing the objections of the " president." A similar provision has been incor , porated iu the constitutions of many of j the States and if the amendment is added to the constitution of the Unit !cd States, wilf serve as a wholesome check to the logrolling system by which river ami harlsir and other thieving jolts are made up. flfcN. I.t i.i.i v, of Carlwin county, is credited with the statement to the effect that not one cent of the $-1,000,- j 000 collected from the National gov j crnment a* war claims, has ever liecn covered into the State Treasury and* ■ that he kuows the men that received , ( the money. This is certainly u re markable statement, if not a remark aide " mare's neat " About the time of the collection of these claims, con siderable discussion look place as to the amouut of compensation to whi< h the State agpnt would lie entitled on paying over the money collected into the State Treasury. That we believe, wa adjusted at the time, and there is no doubt that the money realized was accounted for; hut it will do no harm to direct inquiry to the subject by our State authorities. TDK Republicans of the Illinois Legislature are squabbling over the spoils. Sixteen Senators, it appear* got together and fixed up a slate de viding all the positions among their I special friends, leavir.g tin balance of Senator# unpnvided for. These hare ladled from the caucus and promise to make things lively in the election. It is a noble exhibition anil is additional proof of the noble aspirations of the | " grand old |*rty " which seema to be iu Illinois, as elsewhere, only held to . gelher by the " oohesiye power of I public plunder." Lot tho Chantro bo Mudo. '1 he Washington Pont, speaking of the propositions of Congressman Browne, of ludiuna, looking to the gradual abolition of tho pay depart ment of the army, says : It can work no injustice in any quarter, for it does not aim to deprive any officer of his commission, rank or emoluments. It will simply put a stop to appointments to the pay corps, permitting present members to hold on until death, re tirement, resignation or other causes of removal shall have ex purged that corps of the army. Economy demands this change. We have officers eneugh—indeed many more than enough —without going in to the ranks of civil life to bring into the army a source of discord and irri tation. If the hanks and other dis bursing institutions of the country were to employ as many cashiers aud clerks in proportion to the amount disbursed as we employ in the army, they would be ruined hy tin ir salary lists, aud a hank in business hours would look like H mass meeting. If it had not been for the fa't that a change of the kind contemplated is always resisted hy influence* so num erous and strong that it.* accomplish ment is next to impossible, this corps would have cased to .*• to give the army pay mastership to their henchmen. >ueh an apjmint incut has always been regarded as a choice piece of political patronage for the office lasts i nil the incumbent draw* his lat breath, and that event seldom happeus early to g'-utlo men who arc so very agreeably situa ted as ate the officers ou the retired list of the I nited States Army. There have been great abuse l - in the disposal of this portion of the Feder al sjHiils. Old met) have been shoved into the pay corps to d > nominal duty for n few years, urnl then go on the re tired list, to bo supp rtc| in a rest that they have not earm 1. Politicians of low degree have been made army pay masters in return for |sditical ser vices of an unworthy character More than one man of had repute in this city has suddenly bloomed out as a major in the pay corps, having l>een able to secure the prize from a statesman who deemed it politic to con ciliate him or shut hi* mouth. We do not mean to charge or hint that such npjxiiutmcnt* have been the rule, or that there are no honorable men in that branch of the service, hut it is a notorious fact, and will he frankly admitted hy the gentlemanly element of the pay corps, that appoint ments of an astonishing and disgrace ful character have been secured hy the worst influences, and that such thing* are likely to happeu until the system is changed. OUR venerable friends of the A/7F- Arim Journal and Ccn'rr Importer claim great antiquity for their respec tive journals. If our friend* are ac curate in computing time, they are certainly entitled to be considered patriarchs in the journalistic world- The Journal celebrates it* fifty-seventh birth day, and the Jlrporter its fifty fifth, and according to our recollec tions of the venerable editors when they entered upon editorial life, we conclude the former is one hundred and seventeen years of age, and the latter eighty. The DEMOCRAT, being a mere youth, only having survived its fourth year, takes groat pleasure in offering congratulations aud the courtesies of the season to our venera hie brethren, and hope* that many years of prosperity and happineM may yet be addded to the long years of triumph and usefulness of the past. i SENATOR FISKKY, of Michigan, ha* received the caucus nomination for re-election to the Senate. But sixteen Republican Senators have bolted the nomination and threatened his election. | Caucus nominations appear to he growing lis- sacred every year and the fellow receiving it i* not now al ways the fellow to be elected. RED CEDED is in Washington de manding pay for a number of horse* alleged to have been taken from him i hy (ten. Crook t making considera ble progress in civilization, and ha chosen the time judiciously to make hi- raid upon the Treasury, when he can secure the services of the lohhv to put his hill through. After the j>r- -- ent (torsion that convenent aid to legis lation, will again be retired from at- • live work. A Ni'MiiEK of cotton mills in the neighborhood of Philadelphia have closed and hundred* of the • mplovc* are thrown out of employment. Thi.-, at thi* season of th<- year, Will be at" tended by much di-trc*- and suffering. The cause for the susjK-n*ion i* -aid to bo over production, and the c mi peti tion of the >South. Formerly the South were the custom'r> of our N .rt tj crn manufacturers. It seems to I>< different now. IT seems the Cameron Senate can not spare D-'aney! He ha- again been put upas the Librarian atid the dispen-er of its stationery and knick knack*. IL* unsavory r. rd i* to bjection to him, now that Independ ent* and Stalwart* are all o ,r uyn'n. Hone*t m< ii like th-ir lat" candidate for Governor who got mixed up in ihc "grand old party" may lie sacrificed without regret, but the Delaney - and such —They are inn of the term, the peculiar inflection of voice and the emphasis with which he dwelt on the word* being marked. Once he intimated, broadly, tiiat the fact of Porter's having been a West ; Point graduate hud a gnat deal to do with General Grant'* change of opinion in regard t<> his guilt." Then- could IK I no plainer confession of the weak ness of the case than an imputation of unworthy motives to General Grant and the general* who constituted the hoard of inquiry. TantT Revision Endangered. There begin to tie grave doubts in the minds of thoughtful obervers whether any tariff legislation wdl be ensiled during the present sossion of (' ingtes*. Not that there isn't grest need cf a thorough revision of the present tariff or that the senators and members do not reAlise sneh need. Thsre has been much promise thst such revision should be msde. A TariffOommission was p pointed last summer for thi* express purpose and. contrary to general ex pec tation, it has M*dc a report of no in considerable merit on this subject. The difficulty seems to lie in the fact that the really sincere men in either House who desire to conform to the pop ular demand are in a wofui minority. The majority of the men ot both partiea who oocupy positions on the floor do not desire the settlement of the tariff question at all. They waat it TKK.MS: ?1.50 per Annum,in Advance. left open till 1 hWI, to become the great bone of contention in the next Presi dential campaign. Business may be unsettled, gross injustice done to vast numb'is of people and a general spirit of uncertainty and doubt made to per vude ev ry department affected by the levying of customs duties, but as long an the politicians can use this question as a political foot ball to help keep themselves before the public they are satisfied. The m'-thods of the*-.- insincere tariff" tinkers are becoming more and more apparent, between two or there tariff stools the tariff revision is to fall to the ground. The report of the Tariff''im mission wasn't high tariff enough to satisfy one class. Si the House com rnittee of ways an i means fallsto work to revise the revision, on the principal that if a turiff is good at all the higher it is the better, The Senate finance committee, not wiiling to tru't the Houe on this .ul ject, have just pre pared a full with ari entirely different schedule af rate, somewhat more mod <-rate. I'lie free traders propose to fight for no tariff an i. with the ostensible tariff men split up on three or mora mean ures. it is not barf to see where it will all end. It is time for the people, re gardless of party, to g.ve tbes<- jugglers who are contriving how not to do it, to understand that sorneitsirig practical tiad better be done.—l'Kda. 77nej. Punishing t.mltj Officials. WII.I,H* 1 iiiiiri"-:ntii<-nt .ri the east ern penitentiary. Judge I'ummin in pronouncing sentence | : "As county oft crs you were mem bers of the >ld board of county com nnsiot.ers and the menifsers of that board t" gan (osteal a- aoon aa they were in < fh e. • v ry one of them, and if your i ase had collie on and been regularly tried it w i,ji i ntn.. been a great pleas ure for me to send every one of that te ard to the 11 Ditentiary for a loDg term of years."' The prisoners received their sentence without any visible signs of emotion. 1 he court wa crowded while the M-ll tence was bring pr icunced. Immedi ately a'ter the lt w r is fell from the judge - I j- the sheriff took them both into cus'.edv an i removed thetn to the < aunty i ill, slier they will remain un til taken to ih< penitentiary, which w 11 be t :n" d.v ouring the week. Mc- Kinney >m ib, the ringleader of the !• .r i, i> ! • 'ng live it, m justice no clue to hia whe;o , ul* having us yet been discovered. d ill dvant.pcs of a surplus in the I'r.ite i Stab- lYcnsury are apparently without number. Not only docs every owner of a pea nut stand send in his '.ttle bill for damages sustained in the • I ily conflict with his neighbor who deals in roasted chestnuts, the stock holders of the Philadelphia Centennial r.vhib.tion !• , wh >#e big show was in tended to put money in their purae but i d not, are tnw crying behind Mr. t'urtin that they are short in their ac counts the lull's of $1,700,000, which tney m sdeatly pr..y cougreas to allow tin in out of the national superfluities, just as tne little street boys in Berlin a-k the lli-rr Baron from foreign parts for with the chora*: "You are o neii *n I lam mpoor," Tt ie trnl by this ap| i-al to IHp breeche*- picket of tlip n ition and there is erery prospect that it will have it* reward. It not without pi got fiom o (but a long headed cititen ot the Quaker city regretted that hi* peoplo had not thought in tun* of baring a seraioea tenia! cxliiintion.A*. V. WVtt. (linnu Tooia*, of Georgia, savst Tlip Noeeraber defeat* prore that the Republican party must purify iUelf or go down. The ppoplo have become weary of political chicanery and do mand fair dealing. A DKFAUL.TIJtd TRKASIKKR Mar* *hal C. Polk, Treasurer of the Stole of Tennessee, i* a defaulter to tho amount of half a million, lie ab sconded but has licen overhauled and arretted in Texas. NO. 2.