SIIIOKRT A. VAN OHMKK, Krlifors. VOL. .">. ■ flit (t niter fDtmortat. Term* 81.50 per Annum, in Advance 8. T. SHUOERT&J R. VAN ORM6R Editors. Thursday Moraine, March 22, 1883. Contra County Domocratio Com mittee for 1883. SISTSKT. MAVr. r. O. SI'tISSSS. Jl..||..f.>ot.- N W J. M. Krlrhllns 11.-11-■!■ " H. XV. Cliiu. Smith " • \V. VV s \ M, O'O'tluli " Unwind , ru. Irs e Lrathi-r- I!.,ward, llllnhnrz Jam,* 1' J. n. - .... Mllt-l-no Milllirlui '• K P Mnwui Millh'-im I'hlliushurg Iff. ('.<• lUrlitut.-r.... t'hlll|~>t>snc. W. S.-I S.-hmtdt JV A. V. OUpHWi I'nlinTllle t. rn PJ M- I', iial.l I-lain IMR Hi'ittin iw,, Wni. Uhlrr 11.-ll*f..|ilr. , iwp* . Prank I Adam* ...Mllwfaart. Il irixl.U lp Il.'tirv w color ...Pin* Ulafii,. r.n..— tv|,. . John Rnop UawM. CaVtla lap. Jshs MoClosk** Unsuils Vsts'isoo 1 1 1 r MrCorniirk tat<-' llr,—- N [• I. W \A;,tk,r Uut'k Sl'tin**. Ura;' .- P. John Cnhlruii spOn* Mill*. N.l'. Win l.nw ... Karmrt Mill* Balsss >: P L B.D >•, WoodwsnL w. r. . Oao. Sowar ..Aaroeatrarg. Itair Moon 1p. II Urtltlo CI, rmni.wn. 11 arti- l Tp |i W Motor . IW-iNhurß. Howard urp loin Ulaan Howard Hual.'H top. Jul,i, Q Mil.**... Julian. Lilwrty tap . Jam--* I' Liun. Bl*r.rhttr>L Marina Iwp. .j .1 Uoj ... Wslfcsr. M ini tap. mil. I SI.Ot Msdi—'ihurs l\,lt.n Iwp. A*n,'W Seller-Jr. I.lui. >r. ' hag tap. I' 11. r O r lirr N IV II J Mavav Cantra Mali C IV Camnel Clark Tue-eiitllo. K'l.l, N P William ('niton. Plnllpal-urr I . p. J T Kverljr ..Sandj Kl'l** ' hunw Sb"* Iwp Win 11 tlsvor- ■-"• •* Cun*. I Sinnj tap K W I ... BrllaMllr. I Tatl-.r lap. Hrpluri, Itl.ia r Fowler. I Iwp. 8 K Km. rirk Planting t W .Ikar t*| J.,. pb Kmarlrk llill'laralnrg It rtl; tap >1 s S|itu I'ort MatlMa. IV M c 111 IN I K Chairman. j' W. M 1 PBS W.Lar.s, Secretary (iix. Di.tz, ex President of Mexico . end Ins wife, with nuruher of Mexican ladies and gentlemen, were moat cordi ally recievcd and entertained nl Si. l.ouis la-t week. They are ahout to virit Washington. IDtlxc the Hoods in Arkansas, a preacher whore church was pretty uni vers*lly submerge I, preached to his Hock assembled in skills, from the roof of the church. Thii was certainly an exhibition of a commendable degree of earnestness as well as pluck. A aIIX landing the Slate debt at 50 cents on the dollar, has passed both I Houses of the Legislature of Tennessee. . Whether this is forcible elimination ac' j cording to Mahone's system, or volun- ; tary agreement of creditors, we are not ' certain, but we believe it is the latter. TUB periodical rumors of the failing ( health of Mr. Tildtt are again making 1 their appearance. From this it is lea- sont>le to infer that Presidential r.ags are tobetrotled round loose before long. Preliminary to this the stubborn old war of New York must 1<• dis abled. HCNSTOR.F. I. MITI urn's nepotism in dimis->ing * competent me-senger from the committee of which he is chairman, ' for the purpose of appointing his own fifteen year old son, lias damaged his chaMCtei < a reformer eery seriously, fie ' might profit by a lesson from the civil service reform commissioners. Tin >tar ru'ite trials are still pr igre ing ltradv. one of the chef expediters B is put on the witness stand. He swears I that W ilsb is a liar, and Walsh swears ■ with e,ju i clearness, an I perhaps with mure plan, h.'iity, that It, .sly is a liar. wonder if ',tne 1 -ss are pass in that famous investigation. question of prohibiting the Her man laiigu ge in the public *rh"ol* is now agitating the people of Ohio. This grows out ol the introduction of a bill in thif Legislature forbidding public in struction in that language and like the legislative interference with the beer of the Hermans last year, is not unlikely to have an important bearing upon the politics of the state. KKFRESIXTATIVK KLOWKB, of New York, is the pioneer in the restitution of money illegally drawn {pr ' ongrevxional services. He refused to accept several huadred dollars tendered bim in pay- i ment of salary and mileage to which he did not believe himself entitled by law. yhe deduction was made for time be SIM Kbcent in attendance upon his own business, in which he rendered no ser. , vice to the public or his district. This j deduction is strictly according to law, but Mr. Flower is the first to giva prao tical effect to it. If all our members of , Congress were bound by conscience or law thus to account for absence from thair official duties, it would make quite an item in the public expenditures and , leave many of them a large shortage. Our own distinguished reform Senator might fare badly under such ruling. "Kigt'Al, ANO KX ACT JI'STII X TO ALL WIS, OX WIIATKVKtI MAT* OK I'KKAt'AKIO.V, KKI.KIIOL'H OH I'OLITLL AL. Tho Apportionment. In the House of Hepreecntativea on Friday ln>t Mr. M'Nnniiira reported n bill from tho committee providing for tiro apportionment of Senators and Representatives. This hill is t he one approved by the Hemocrats, and eon cedes twenty-seven Senatorial districts to the Republicans and twenty-three to the Democrat!), and in the House one hundred and twelve districts are given to the Republicans and ninety- j two to the Democrats. These cotiocs- | sions are marie by the Democrats in a | spirit of liberality, that there may he no excuse left to justify it failure to apportion the State in accordance with the requirements of the constitution. It ought to he satisfactory to the Re publicans if they are influenced by any desire for fairness, and possess a -hade of respect for the oaths tliey have tnki n a- representatives of the people. Hut it i- represented that tin- Republican caueusses havo already 1 i determined that no apportionment 1 -hall he made that will improve the shameless gerrymander of the prew-nt. If this he the determination of the ' Senate, the Republicans have the tna ioritv and can prevent the passage ~f a fair and equitable ap{K>rtiut>iucitt. Hut their responsibility will not end here —a tribunal which even Senators must respect, will pass in review upon j the result as well as upon the motives. This is a question upon which the im- , pcraiive duty of the legislature cannot he mistaken orcvadetl. The constitu tion has limited the time anil defined the character ami object of the law to he enacted tori distinctly to admit of a quibble as to cither, and that man j who docs not appreciate this duty i* ! not worthy to lie a representative o' the people. The parlies evenly bal anced—one holding the Senate and | the other the Houc. are in position to pass a law of perfect fairnc*. There i is no tier, roity —there is no excuse ortioi) to I their numerical strength, fairly and • honestly ascertained. This we la-lit ve \ is the ioi|ernttve demand of the h -n --i est p, iplc of the Stale, without regard to party, nr.d no trick-n| |. gislatioii which will tend to siith the true v >ire , of the people in lavnr of ju-t n-prt -,-n --. tuiiuii v.ill o. ought I i i.e approved. I'.iir play is nil that i- or should be .demand d on of Kne, in the houe. These nre (he I boea who are to give order* to the re mainder of the Republican nenatora and member* and who* truncheon* are to thrust into line any who are
  • e considered out of its order on the calendar and that even if a member i willing that a bill introduced by hirn ehall be passed over and be placed at j the foot of the calendar it must bs con 1 I .idered when it ig reached, no matter how unimportant it may be. | The programme of the bouse* i* al>out to he developed. It i* simply by every 1 possible mean* to nbstruot the passage of apportionment bills. It i* their de liberate intention to defeat the passuge of any apportionment bill,congressional, j legislative or judicial by the present , legislature. Let the publia watch and see bow these desperate politicians will attempt to defy the plain mandates of the feonatitution. I'.KLLKFONTK, I'A., 'l'll (IKSDAY, MARCH |ss:t. A MyntoriouH ProL'Oodinir. CIUKI.ESTOV, S. March IH. In Citron doll county, this stale, ye-terdiiy ate! l ist night, Charles \Vili n. a I• j> uty I'nited Stales Marshal, assisted t,y two const dile*, arrested nine white ni"n and one colored mail, all respectable merchants or farmers. He took tlieni from their home* without allowing them to change their clothing oi make any preparation* t<>i a ;>uinev. lie carried tlieni I #' iraliai.is and lockeil them up all night. In the morning lie took tlieni to < larenre wln-re they are to be held uniil Tuesday when tfii-v will be examined by th I'nited s tnte* commissioner. Wilson h.ai-l the arrest wrus for an election < Ifense, t-ut would j,ive the prisoners no definite informa tinn of the charge against liiern. Itm was olfi-re(| for all (lie prisoner*, but Wilson refused it, giving u* his reason that to take it would ilppi ,ve hint of lii* mileage. Ureal indignation ha* been caused by this proceeding. From the übove it appears that the monstrous fraud known to the public as the Attorny Uonerul of the I'nited Slate* i* again nt woik. on the same field where he made a disgraceful ex hibilion u year ago. The tyranny and outrage of the proceeding detailed, are such n* might becxpecfed from the instiuctions of an infiated fop. and niay he safely laid at the door ol firewater, where it belong*, ihe crime for which the arrest* were made is alleged to have heen committed in November, l*sii, ami will no douht he a* rediculous a. 'those upon which the Vltorney Hen eral emptied his wind hag on the for mer occasion. Tilt f >-fr-'r*or. A ••oris! ion of Ifarn* t'urg is now favored by regular ad dress,• from 11,s* most distinguished Uemocrtisof the Stale. tn Thursday evening I**l the Hon. Wn> s. Stenger, say* tiie I'jti, spoke n-ry torcibly an t eloquently of the principles and public services „f IJ R . .Tefierson. lie said AS Washington w** the grat military lea'ler o! the revoiution, so r ,s lit!„r son the informing spirit of the civd policy ol the reput-lic. detrerson wo* the author of tf,e idea that government should he ••of the people I y the | o ;le and for the j *(>(.;,• " It had I ten said that Jcff'eroon is dea l, tut tliat was true only of the corporeal organisation the man. .lefTeroon sj r.t > ,s still | re*ent in tho fr e principles c hicli he erigrafle-l into our system . g ,v-rr n-.ent. ' Mn may conie si <1 men ma-, go." toil like the water* <• f th* p >Ol * Iro ,k, the gi ari lao 1 ~. ,na principle r.l human ftee<|om which is the life of th;* republic, n II "goon forever. A l't itl.tr' meeting ol the citizen* f Fayette county IIH* been In Id in I "nion t(>wn, in which the verdict of the jury acquitting Duke* of tlie murder of ("apt. Nutt, is denounced in n perfect storm ( I indignation. .lodging trom the -prove* and resolutions mid the general cxhihi'i u nt feeling in the community, the hc-t thing Duke* can . nation* hero. Tlfß Indopcudcnli of llhoslo Islainl havo organized to force a Republican form of government from the lords of tlint Ntate. They have nominated Kx .Senator Sprngue as tlnir catuli rlate for Governor nnd apply to the Democrats for sympathy ami aid. A large imputation of this diminutive State are entirely disfranchised—the law* of Mr. Anthony not allowing naturalised citizen* the privilege of suffrage, unless they are in poescweioit of a freehold estate, while of negroes and other citueus no such requirement is needed. This Htate ha* long needed reconstruction to place it on nu equal ity with other Statea of the Union aud render it Republican in name at lea At. sEiAToas MCKVICIIT and F.MRNV th other day, lost their tempera in the Senate Chamber and indulged in • fist fight. Neither of the combatants were much the worse of the encounter, except !a dignity, and tha indecency of the act. I'eiiiiHy I VIIIIIU'M Kit til. i There IH every reason to suppose, from i i investigations already made, that there i* a large deposit ol anthracite < ( i! in , t'olorailo. l'rofessor It. Weiser -tule* , llial the field* of anthracite coal it) . Uutmison county belong* to the true i earbonifcrou* formation. Un analyza , lion the proportion of CM thou is found . to be equal to '.to pet cent , the coal, , therefore, being a* good a* i'etiiisylvani i I anthracite. This coal i* now placed in . Ihe 1 >euver market at nine dollars and . fifty cent* a ton, nn I la.t year over three thousand tons were mined. Tins n the sinnll beginning of u great bu-i I lies*. An article of such bulk and I cheapness ns coal eioro-t be carried b<- yond a certain distance at a profit. The j limit for the profitable n-e <.I IVnnsyl vania anthracite .* prot ibly renctied : | before it get* to the Mi-i-.-ppi rivir , It would have been il l, io ipplv t the vat, treeless regions of tountty west of the Missi-sippi with fuel mined s, st of the A i ieghenn- *. Itlt the ( o'o , rndu i oaf, taken at an aliunde nine I thou.-alld feet above th- - I lev, ! r -111 bo cheaply distributed to imi lis of . Consumet* West o' the M. l-.j.j ;• tl ,- country t.ecoine* populous an r -.e w. . ~-iiea in rket of tier own . but the sinvilarity n itie mineral productions ot th< I* Mites I tuny At some future *i.,y n ahe them r (etcelui rivals for iti" [ a iii • I ,j ,-n Otity in iiniieral wuaitu. 1 t la's I gold and silver are out t .lanced t,y our . petroleum so tar a the iiuan-dtnis y ie!U u. me-wrrei!fir f* * d*rff f.nrt' who would utuiertske if, • uUte a* to 'the outcome of future pro to tor. ! I%' l(, e, /. Judge Thenutn's lien-. i \ I/fM' * HaTM I MLK fc 7 WJtjV .Ol 7it f \fH | , CI V tt* 91k Vi< T. A< T. 'n 1 interview wilh irljz* I of tho civil portico c< tn 1 mission, app< at* ut th>- ritt>bur p i, / i on Friday, relative to the work -f the c- mrii s-ion, its | rospect ami j . ', • tree,-is. His view* are g ro-tsl i (11 :s '| I to t ;ic m si,-in and pr ,rt n-.vt u' i I ' he favors a thorough < xper ini n' if jt'-tof it. F. Low it,g :,}!• i xtt.icts from , the inters ew on xversl important I points . ■'Wtil tlie q-ii-ti( n • I e (i(t),-r,-t t Irern ■ thoe Adopted on former occasions 1 ' Judge rhoniso ' 1 believe ti,e ,x - -.trnii .rions should tw- con fin cd -'.rirtlv to test th" capacity and (itr---,.f it.p 1 pers.,i > examined • li< bsrgo t, e 1 fluties of the erv;re in whicli Ihi-y er-!. to be Appointed Slid "tl uid f C pi . liCi, in their ehsrsrt- • "Row old the Civil ' n .r t m ti :• lan(it rn< tit to tliem. Mr. i.Ator, I"|vl,-twoor It,tee • int ii,e. i ! attempte i pi --(ire 1 ■ v. i rhle lite rntniv.i- one; • !• -,,, ml , (ion. Lord L diu< r*t( n. A tic- t-ii-e minister, sent I fie con n.. s .oners to ha ve the paj irof n certn u | > ron seM In inoi ior inspc, iron in i tdf-r that he might beside to>xo<>r mnn's children the aame right* a* to the rich; to the Dcmocraticyouih the same right* accorded Republican* and will close the door against tho indiscriminate use ol money at elections, extorted from th? employes and clerks in the departments, whose salaries are barely sufficient to maintain them respectably." 'I FR.WS: per Aim tint ,i Advuiice. 41 A re ili< competitive examination* for ttji* -y -tern." "Are there atiy | osition* now in which r e7. uninntions ate made'.' ' s , "t'h, jes, candidate* for eadetshipS *r<- ezatniiii-d HI every 'lotigr-"- onal 1 uislticl tJirougliout tfie country, while i formerly it WHS lr, U'-d upon t * a per s qui-.'e ol n tnernher of •"ongress." "Do you think the working-of tlie i cottim;-sioii will be ur-cesful ' "It i* early t'i j-rfd.ct tl,e re-uh. f.ut I lull all-lied tl •' tiie member* "f the :• comtni—ion ut - >• - u.d w.th the ' '-ne 'urage.uent we i, ri < eived front the 1 re-ident, ... it.vim • i ti,:it it i In* intention t , gu,- tiie < ointn.--ion 1 A:1 the e'ij t it i ' .-i r.i nd it the ' her,d* nl i, ~d< ; rtm, t- w ... directly, or ind rertly, *u-!,,'n uth< (11-i*. willi in-ix month* Will I •• to men id public ' ''pinion in favei ot tli" -'-tern so 1 -trongly t! it r• -•.t > t • ol '-tcp- wtii tie f imp -of le f St v.\ t-il; N|l -,v It:, - i 111 r- • Itlfc 1 n Dill to prevent cr* n ii'iuti ■>! human liodic- in H'Tin -. Ivniiiu. The Sena ' t r - iii,rt- in thi- direction i a wate ' "f time. !;'.i man de-irt* to have hi* ' hodv < t.d. r i ntul J.i-a*lp - delivered to hi* Jiitniiy in a neat tir;. ' < rt.a went tl •I. tin -U'.'vd, why tit It i a mutti r d tn-te that grav .- nator "vi i .. ri- it quarn I with. They iiigi.t, however, with gnat pro priety adopt c nn'- stringent measures to art est many of the involuntary | cremation* in hotels, public buildings r.tid mine* by reijuiring -ofe and etli < ient eMitpis to l> provi-li 1 in till huihiing* where the j tihlic ari invited i ithet ' u pleasure r husiue-- A '<,'! MM I i t: of the was rai-eii to inve-tigut< the tnanug. • ment t-ftheS ddi r Drplutt >.-hoo!s, ano a-'crtain . itv niany pttpi.- •ue in said h who arc not f fr pi.at.-. Mr. < \i , the ehairman i , tin < n iiiitu-, and Mr. IlijlK-e, the Sttpci iutindi nt, ha •• riH-li ! it mi-- i nod. i-tntiding. in w i.ic h the Jatts-r lui tiik. it giottti i he cauunt inaintaiii. ' ihe I. purine lit lt>- pri sides uv-r i- one ' <■) the ptthlic departments of the state, the dour-ot which cannot he closed under any prel'-xt, to Ix gi-lutive in . I'l'M. I S" 13 .• r■ are outfit-in the Orplinn v liouls wronufullv, and it i as i|,-,| limt tlur are in large mini •' i H. gt I to i> e >rr• ted, atid it wtil oil flu for the SII[M ri.di udent to < !aim trial he hi- Hot (lerieitl three equal t i the tn-k • t tiirnisliing t..<• in >rmatioii and that Id- ofiiee i- too , \- , i iusive to allow , > rk* employed hv , in< n.e.iit'i to do the work in*. •• -;r\ to • !.lain it. Phi- subject of ()r --plian S ho-il* no d-light up.,n it. In -•'■.td u( dimuii-l.i' g in iiutiih r, the t.utith' r "I' r; ban pupil- it m-nr* . on the inereii-e, whi' h in v;".\ that nil , the otpliati rliiidr- n of' soldier* Latt pa--- d suflieient \ < nr to have reneio 1 maiiliood and Wutnanltu <1 i- -- n - what pnrndoxienl. Mi:. Hi a K, ii < olirev] nn-seng) t m the Nnvv Department at Washing ton, to be an intelligent educated man, ha- been tlistuis-r-d hv the Seere laty laeause he detdiuol to him k tiie Ixhit* ami | M rthriii other sen 1 lion wotk not connected with hi* official duties, for the head of tlieliui.au in which ho served. As a reward for hi* party devotion, the negro mar be placed on the official roll, in order that he may be paid out of tlie public Treasury, l>ut bo cannot be nllowrd to rise above the rank of a boot black for Republi can official*. ■ - TUB iiupreonou M lobe general that the health of Secretary Folger is seriously impaired, nnd will necessi tate his withdrawal from the Treasury Department. NO. 12. ■" J'\UNJ.J.I. in coming to America, ■ and i expected to be present at the Fund league ( invention to lie held < in Philadelphia on the 2oth of April. r JAMIX A. Jio.M4L:i:, one of the fa r. miliar* of the Star-route ring, who re ,. ci-utlv tried to st< ul a seat in the Hen ,, ate of Pennsylvania from thcC'uinbcr* i- land district, ha- been arretted and i held to bnil in ?l,(tOof,jr a--aulting a Deputy Marshal who acbpoened him a- a witni -- on the Star route trial. IIIK Wert ( he.-ter 1 Iterorrl believe* that ft- Robert Fulton wa only ten year- o! t when the revolution bri he out he- wa- not eligible a- a -uh 'it for ne of J' nn-vlvania'- statue*. It ha-been averted that Fulton claim to b- the 'riginal inventor ot' the application <>] -team a-a motive power, wa- on• 1 very (juestiooablc ju-ti e, and it i- now P , bad that hi gho-t thr ugh t- management of a di-l.ngui-hi 1 J.x-fx-nitor should de prive the memory ot the brave An thony \\ ayne ot the Revolutionary statute, to which he was entitled in the National Nailery at Washington a- the representative hero of Pennsyl vania. I in. pension bt is to he published, containing the names of all person" re ceiving | . nsion* fr- m the I'm ted Mate* government. Jtw.il lean interesting | volume, and w..l be largely read, re flecting honor fin the deserting arid af- I '■ ir • I*t *>• j,a been visit mg the taile-t man in Ameri ca. His name is IT* nry '."lay Thurston and his height i seven fe t seven inches and a half. He bv" at White Oak. lexas, and is n thrifty, wrll-todo far- ID' r. i lie K v. Mr. Taiinage lectured in -<-w Orleans la-t week, and in talking with a i' 1 orter s iiit ii the cliange" in • 1 phase* of •southern life since he via iled the S uith Hve ar- ago amount to almost a revolution, and in some par ticulars to a resurrection. An Indian woman, !:>• years of age fives near FiUpvtric, in bullock county. •*he was on (rem ral Andrew .Tickaon's -I . ! as a cook w uen trial worthy cut a .road through the country of Florida, and has some of the pots and kettles in w -h she used to cook the hero's fru g ' ' I.—JWi/r /iVyistr .t i i tsl urg girl aho had refused a g anl liHikicg telegraph repair man liiree time, with n MX months gave a reason that he was too much of a wan ■ ierer, J hat he roamed from |>ole to k 'le, Iroiti one cluuti to another, and if lie did onto* home, he'd IH insulate that the neighbors w ulh be sure to t dk.—fl'tj'urj Trlergmph. F'gbt years ago A. C Kean, of Wowab bud, Cab, purchased six trees of the red gum variety and set them out at fi s home, Af w days ago one of these trees was rut