She Centre CUmocrat, SIIKiKItT \ VAN OKHER, Kditors. VOL. r \[he Centre TUmocval TMI-lU* $1.50 per Annum, in Ailn nor 9 T SHUOtRT AJ. K VAN ORM N, Editor.. Th'iroday Morning, February 22, 1383 Cantro Caunty Dimocratio Com mittee for 1883. Mttmrt. *. r o r>i,*r— -11 'llrC-nt N * •' M K rhtlns. 1-M- "t.t s W. Cl, -mi'ti W \V S C M< 1>I IWM "" I! tw.rl ls.ro, Iro C II aril. ■llllAWl " -I "• * f I n-- MiO-l.ii.* Ml 11.—4... " K t' !l' Millli-lni I W. I I! 111-. 11 -- 'p.. Millll-l-llti; W Set Sclnni.il ... . •- a W A V (VrpMrt* . I iiliinnill. Irnni. I' ■' V* Is-n-M VlfialUK. II u-i -r tw . Win l-Mii,. IVllpl n'# Rig*. Imp. I rttiik 1' Plant* Mi|."'.llfg. I-tr.i.l.l# twp 11. nr. \|- kr. I'tn- lUt-nn. C ill. gt I* p. J lilt K U|. I rnnmt. Cnrii.t lp .Inhn S|.-'l.i*k.o, H-nml., I.rpiwn or. JT ■( IIOI.IV -t..ls IM K p I U Wa-k-r ll.rli Spring.. 0r..-< S I' .1 ■!••. <•- .1.1i 11. Spring Ml la , N I'. Win I..am Kt.mil Mill. BtlM K I'. I. r.SI-v.i Wwlnii I. w I*. la. it .WIT Aanxi.l-mrg, iiir Medetwp J n Orttn Ilcna tap 1' w M-vsr Ikml-lmfg. 11-maril lap. Jnlttt OI.QI I|..a*r.|. 11.i.l ilt tap. J "In. I. Mi! . I I Lttir-Ijr lap. Jni> P 1.-inn Mn.-hird Mitrl-u tap. .1 l II". W-lfc-r. Miiiw lap. Fill. I ■Oi.f-r, Mmlia" l iir.-. I'ltl-11l ta p. Agt na Sail, t., Jr Flllm-ra I'r-utl tap. P IIMDW Ceßurn 1' tt-r S P, D J. Mrtfi f it'. II •!! • jnti"ip' , and from force of habit imagine they exist in the Dt mo cratic partv. Where and in what is Ijpyond their ken. By opening their —-cyt-Xjust a little, it might occur to them that the other fellows ro has recently sent two beautie* into the United Slates Senate, Jjowen and Tabor. The first it is said stele the law library of Arkansas and carried it to Colorado nd only •urren* r dared it upon a warrant. Whether the other fellow steals or not, is not stated, hut is to "onery " too live with his wife. Tiny aro both rich enough to purchase the honor from a Repub lican legislature to represent a rotten borough in a Republican -Senate. "KyUAL AM) KX ACT JCWICI TO ALL MKS, Of WiIATEVKII STA I K OR l'KKKtr AHIOK, I'.I.I.UIIOCS OK I'l.lll II Al.. Pnge i:v Controller. By the dcckdon of the Supreme C>urt in reference to the Controlhr muddle in Philadelphia which bus ju.-t been unnminccd, (> v. I'attisou scores a gratifying vindication of his judg ment as well as his law. \\ h**n he be came tJoverimr he umninatcd S. Davis Page to he Controller in Philadelphia in his stead. The nomination failed to obtain the two-third vole ol tin Senate necessary to confirm it and the coun ctls ol l'l.ildilelphia believed and wet a pay warrants even iiit< r Mr. I'.i ;■ * title bail la-1 confirmed l y the court ofl ommou pi< a ? I; ability of that kind is what the city pay* lor, there i- i. - win. ler tin ir 1). purimenl* are in i annual muddh*. THE HOS. FRANKI.IN B. GOWKS of ;!.■ Il< mliog r a I. ih-liiercd nu .ni dus, in the hall of the Hon- of il p n- ntativi - or.e i veiling la-t week on ilie -iibject of tr- ight diiK-rimiiiatioii-. It wa* cirlain'y a great sjieceli, and n masteriy pn-entati n of the suhj ei. It was made In l r-- the i iiiimittee in v:>, w n| the hill recently itilr• . II nl i- referred ti I• %• ih" Con inr.nsi '/ <<•* Sliir. Win n tin* in dustry i- F nk< II in hand by Yankee • werpri-', the r. t ill in in .1 "hi ~ - -iii H- t Sit r • It i-. 11 .tit nt the lll. uiiitai lure of r-Ivmu• tc bnuns, winch arc slop; > >i t mil parts in ■ lew ■IHVS II ticc. " fhl -C hoU*EI" Ml vi tin* •S'fur an- enmph-t in •v< ry repcct and I nil Ii put together in a very few ■ lav*. It ii no uticiimmnn thing fur the inntinficlnrem to send out hv 000 train an entire hhick "f buildings, and f irnetimci even nn entire street. It i said that at quest fur un entire vil ligr like the following is unci i mew re ceived by the builder*: "What i your I- west/ijfure t>r five stores, two wagon ami two blm k-nnth ihn|w, and one Methodist anil one Presbyterian Church, twenty five cottage*, a town hall and n lock-up, to be delivered within eixty day*?' A telegram Rak ing "What ran you furnish a tidy Cottage, *2x4o feet, with bay window and veranda for?" is frequently re ceived. The extent to which this in dustry ha* developed, may be realised from the fact that IMI H'>D a single factory shipped 220 ears of this kind of material Its manufacture is main- ; !y confined to Canadian*, a singular tact, the Yankee being supposed to ■ take up with any enterprise that bids j fair to succeed oftert before the one j who conceives it has time to mnke use of his idea. A large proportion of the houses in and around Winnepeg are said to be. of the ready made kind, kliese bouses have not yet lieen very generally used <>u the United States side of tbe line, but the indications are that the emigration to Dakota next spHng arid summer will he so great as to render it al> olutely necessary if the newcomers would h*vc a shelter to cover them. Tho Farce About Ended Thk farcical response of the Repub lican management lo tljc d mauds ui the people for u revision of the Wai Tariff and Revenue Ta\t • i* uhoul played out with the i xpiring agoni--* of the -17il Congress. 'I lie result i what wus very lurg-Iy anticipated, and ia truthfully referred to and de fer i bed ill remarks of the Wa-hingtiui I'out : " Before Congress a**embled the lead ing protectionists of that body openly declared against any tariff r> vision und made u vigorous i tf-ut to work up public opinion in favor of that po'i- \ But for the firm stand taken hv the President, in hi* annua] mc-agi. in favor of reducing tatiff taxation, and the hearty indorsement of In* po.*ition by the people, tie re would have been hut a slight [ri tense of doing anything with tie- tarilf. Seeing, however, that there must lie at least a show of com pliance with the popular (li-mat)-l, the monopolist* in Congr-with careful premeditation, entered on the farce that i* now m arly ended—tie- prdi-n-i of trying very earnestly to do some thing, while they were determined that nothing should be done. Thi* i* tin story of the hu-ine** in a nutshell, and it i* a complete explanation of ali that ha* bun done on the tariff in h--th hou*es. < )ue part of the programme only ha* tailed. It wa* the intentii-n i of the majority leaders, not inert I v t hat they would have no revision of the tariff ami no reduction ot the inn den* under that bead, that, hv n*uni mate foxine.**, they would make the .minority appear rcspui-.ble tor a fail ure foieordainet! by the nntiuinv i r I by th.- leaders of the mnj-irit v with the in-quit-ei oce of their U-'ptihlicnii ao --. ciates. fin* section of the pl.n i-r plot has niiss-arrit-l di a tru*ly. Tie inin rity ha- hown g i t nip- r and .-reat discretion. Ther hive I- -n >. I-miH-ratic ob*tructi t. ts. I, D u ccrai* have f iiitcndi -1 oniv !-r their -elf i \ id- lit right*. f I i , • : . v. -uMain them in what tlu-v h.iv- d m in regard to taxation during this • i in a* overwhelming!* n- i in ! r-.-d tlieni last tall f->r d-1- nng the iu ti-inpiihle humbug tax rrdiici n lull ol the ii iu*e R- publican ime )• f j.- authors of the failure, which i- about to he consummated in tie Capitol, tnut take the obloquy tiny have * ■ richly earned. Their capneiu t<> pl--i i :ar in i xec-s of their ability t - i xc' -eigbt, Ilea ver ; Thirty-ninth, lt-*lf ird and !jiiner-et; Fortieth, Centre, Union and Snyder; Forty first, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry ; Forty-second, Columbia, Mm tour and Sub livan; Forty-third, Warren, Forest and Klk ; F'-irty-fotirth, Wayne and Pike; Forty-filth, Monroe ami Carbon; Forty sixth, Ulinton, Potter and Cameron Thirty eight of flteee tliafritf* arc entitled to I'reiiident Judge*. The riitg|' Ohio river ami its tributa ries it ha* been appalling beyoriil pre - !• nf. < iiiciiina'i, 1/utisville, New Albany ami other |ibices have kuiit&in < ! iiiinien-e In--, running into million*, ami gn. t suffering uinoiig the people, i-h-ii, women mid child en, thou-amii ot whom are rendered hornt-lewH and iletituti ol all lliey [a**eH*ed. The • itv ot Law rcttreburg, it appear* frotn a inrri -p-indent, who procured a steam • r to *i-it it, i- |K-euliurly a victim of tin angry wave*, being entirely üb merged. I r three dava the citizena were without food. In the lower por li• net the city, where the poorer i .U--I- reide, everything ia destroyer], ■ xeept perhaps the dwellings, and they of course are much damaged. Hundred* of the houses are from ten to fifty feet under water, from which the people were driven without Iteing able to save any of their properly, to i i- erowde I together by hundreds in tin- public building*. The correspon ih nt who details this sad record con tiliue- : " I in- reporter steamed alongside the f'oorl llnuip, woolen mills, churches, ' .ri iiuu* fm'ti riei and public school molding*. All ot the shore name'! building* were crowded and jammed "tb | |de re*eui-il from w*tery grave* 10 t •• larger and more secure reaiden < • - liii- f..indies h*ve been driven to ihe second i third *tone*. fhoa* of ibe nmre we,ld,r classes extend to their 1 fortunate neighbors the band ot a* ;-i*nce and give thern places beneath their roof*, iin the principal stree * i lie w*t. r r itige* from een lo tweotjr f ve fei-t deel l. Although precaution i :*•) in a men.ore t.een taken and pro p-rtv removed front the lower stones, out 11111e it fact hit* l>een saved. Hut ' * of the merchants were able to save rite- five Is I nous inds and thousands • I io|. ,r-' wott h of t.ousefiold property 11 i i- Hi rendered worthies*. There e m *nt families who |-o--esed nolh g i.i i t '.an i heir nou-enold pro|wriy. ug .list he. have lot nil they ■ *r- l t gre.it many of the stoader iHI * in the low land* have t-oefi w. | i >,.t and lie.u-e* „nd eotiteois oreter ! t lo the onneis." IHi subject of the entire unifor ■ n v ; bsllof- in the elections of the "ihi i- attracting public attention, and -i v> r. I lull* have (teen introduced in tin- j. gislaliiic having ibis in view. -i ■ ret of the fiallot i* to be hiitih'ai' id ami the iudepeudenew of l,e ii r -eeur'sl again*! the demands id tie -<• who claim to rigulate the mn*i ii'iii I* if men not in condition to -si rt th ir manhood at all times, by • •r • i n. *:riiigciit ei act men l should ie- mailt *iirh a* will not admit the ■ t;ii gid an i or placing a mark of identifii atioii on a ticket, without *evi re penally. It ha* become too much a practice, not in /Am Uxnltiv, we are happy to say, that the man who employ* hb> r ha* g--t hime|fjnto the fe lief thai b> riß'on of that employ menl, he pos*e-* * a chatlt I mortgage upon the laborer, who when the elcc* t .on* coo ,i round ia, under surveillance, bound t vme according to instructions ind no? upon his own manhood a* a free citizen. This is one of the cor r uptioii* Bud difficulties of our elective yptcm, and any act of the legislature that will guard the purity of a free untriiinmelcd ballot to every man. rich or poor, a a priceless personal boon breach, unquestioned and uninfluenced by assumed maters, is to be com- ( mended. It i now a year and a half since the present election eonimittee in Con gress wa* organized under the Chair manship of ('alkins of Indiana, and it i* throe days since the last contest waa disponed off The promptness distin- | guishiug the eonimittee in its early work, w hen stealing seats to make a afe Republican* majority was inorder, was conspicuously absent in this last canc. The rnntctilant and the mates tee however will each obtain full pay and will IH? satisfied. But who ia re sponsible for the fraud upon the tree* nry, for it is nothing else than a nak ed, bald fraud ? Is it Calkins and hit Committee,or the majority who per mits such things to ha done T NO. H. A eteh holding the bill of the Tariff Commission in his Omtrnitleo for eight weeks, .Judge Kelley last week cx , pressed the belief that it was a physi cal impossibility to pa** a tariff bill at this session. Was then not some good motive in the tardy movements of the judge leading up to this result ? It is said that at no time could the high tariir protectionists, "depend ufs.n their men 1 and were better satisfied with the tariff'as it is, than any change* suggested by the Commission. MICHIGAN is still struggling with the | Senatorial question. No electiou has yet been effected and the indication* are gaining strength every day that a i new deal must be made, and that Ferry is hopelessly doomed to defeat. When the defeat of Ferry is accomplished, the signs are that the "harmonious party" are not much better off than when they commenced the struggle many weeks ago, as it will then be Ferry's time to kick. ; IT seems to be generally believed that William E. Chandler, the Secre tary of the Navy is to succeed Mar shall Jewell as Chairman of the Re publican National Committee. Well, what liill Chandler does not know of "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain no one needs to know. He will not at least need Hubbell or even Cameron, or any other b<*s instructor* 1 iu moving the most elaborate political machinery in the IC publicati service- FOUR or five days only remain of ; the existence of the present Congress, and then craes the inquiry "what I has it done to relieve the burdens of • '.he people of the inexcusable war j taxes which ha- le-cti uuueceasarily re , mined to oppress them T" The Re publicans had to face this abuse of power at the la-t election after the first ae*ion, mud the result was not inspiring to the party. It is not diffi cult to predict that the continued | oppression will have a telling influence j on the result of the irn|>ortanl election to come off next year when they a-k for a new lease of power. The peo ple will endure much, but they will not submit to be robbed rear after year and not turn upon the robbers in resentrueut. Fx. GOVERNOR, EDWIN I). Mor. <;VN, died nt hi* residence in New York on Thur day lat, after a pro tracted illness aged 72 years. He was elected Governor of New York in Ire-elected iu l*bO; and served in the Senate of the railed .States for the term ending in 1A69. Gov. Morgan was appointed bv President Arthur Secretary of the Treasury, and un confirmed hv the Senate, but deciioed the office on account of advanced ago. He leave* a widow and an e-late c-ti raateil at 812 000.000, but no children —his only aon Dr. Edwin ('. Morgan, having died jn ISBI. He had many personal acquaintances iq this county, and at one time held a large into est in the Philip's estate in Philipshurg and Hush township. THE saving of 811.400 to the State by the dismissal of a large number of unnecessary employes is not an incon id> rable item, and will be counted as a very creditable reform to Speaker 1-uunce and Chief Clerk Meek and the small, but efficieut, corps of assistants. Tbe session of the legislature at best is au expensive necessity, hut under Re publican supremacy it had simply be come an enormous fraud, made so largely by a system of providing sine cures for impecunious party worker*, who rendered little or no service to the state. While the House and its officers have thus done well in recog niziug the reform spirit abroad, the Senate fail to respond to 11 • demand and continue to stand; by their sine cures and their INjlaney'i with unabat ed sternness. The dou't care* for the people air now assumed, thty may want to modify and explain hereafter.