£l)r (Crntrr A democrat SHUUERT & VAN OHMEK, Editors. vol.. Or Crntrr fl emotr.rt. Term* #1.50 per Annum. In Advance 8. T. BHUGE RT & J. R VAN ORMER, Editor*. Thursday Moraine, May 10, 1883. Centre County Democratic Com mitteo for 1983. ot*t*icr. ***. '■ o- *■* Hi-llrfonlr N W M. KrlrliUno 11011-foolo. •• S. W. I'll*". Sllillli " W. W. H. A. MctJulsMoii " Howard l-iru. lrc. 1.-.illirl- II wai I Mil.-wi ur< " .lain— P Mil.-l.nrK Millhnm " V •' MIUMT Mlllhvim. Philip-I.org IW. C. <1 Itrrlingrr Phlll|wl org •• 2 W. S>l Schmidt •* :i W. A. V. l'rp*it#r I'nlourllla lairu. p. J. M. ls.iwlit ...Pli-mia*. Brriiirr Ip. W'm lalllrr IHI-fi.nlo. W.gg- lap. Prank T. A'Um* Mil—l>uric. Huruapla IWP 11-nry M.-.-krr Plot UIMIII. r-oll'g" i*p John Bonn LMnont. Curlln twp. John M.-l'l.-k-r K.nin.U Vrrgunon o. P I T MrCoroilrk SUI.. < ..llrgr, .. -> |" 1. W Walknr ' 11.- k>j ri nc- Orrm S. P. John Ooldruu Spring Mill.. VP. Wn. 1.11-.- ....Farnn-i Mill llainr* K P I. H. Sl"r W.mdward. W. P. Or-. Bowi-r Saronahurg. Half Moon lap. J 11 lirilfln Sl.,rm.|..an. llama Iwp D. W. MJW 11. >l.l nr.- liana 11| t|. John Gltnn. Howard, lluatou Iwp. John 0 Mllra lullan. l.ilxrt) twp. Jam— P. L.nn Blan.-har.l Marion Iwp. .1 J H • Malk-r. Mil— twp. Kills K. Hhater Ma.li- nl'tir* Paltoo Iwp. Agar* Srllrr- Jr Pllnno.. Pann Iwp. I' 11.510r..r Colrrirn Potior N P. l> J M.-*r ... Canlr- Hall. .* S. P. Samuel Sla. k Tn—.-yaltla. Ruth VP William CiilHn |-hili|lurg. I. p. J T Kr. rlj -at. |) Ri If*. Reow Shoa tap. Win II llajrn— -m • Snoa. Spring lap. K C. WOM Whbila Tavlor tap. Ilaphum Blowara Powl.r. I'tilou lap. S h Kniarlt k H-mlng. Walkar Iwp loaapk Rmartrk lluWaral.urg. Worth iwp. M.S.gpotU Port Matilda Ws Ck lIKIXLR, Chairman. W Mit* W'nara, Sar-rrUrj. GEN. BEAVER'* Brigade of the Na tional Guard are to encamp this year at Conneaut Lake, Crawford county, in August next. IT is reported that neither John Sher man, Stanley Matthews, or any of the Ohio Republican statesmen, are wear ing crape for the mother of the Hayes administration. How ungrateful ! THE courts of Arkansas have de cided that a man cannot lie punished for arson for burning bis own house* The offence to lie criminal under the State laws, must lie committed on the property of another. THE Free Mason's ball in London has been destroyed by tire. All the luasouic insignia and furniture and paintings were destroyed, including the portraits of the past Grand Mas ters for many generations. Gov. BLTI.ER, with all his skill and ability of investigation, it is said has failed to trace the strawberries and oyster and other delicacies, purcahsed for the Tewksbury almshouse, to the poor patients of that institution. THE President lues not yet signed the commission of Mr. Keim as Chief Examiner in the civil service commis sion. There seems to lie a screw Iqpso in this little boss arrangement which Mr. Cameron had better settle before he starts for Europe. DR. TALMAGE says "We want some . one to do for New Yark, what Renja ' rnin F. Butler is doing for Massachu setts." Well, borrow Butler. The Re publicans of that State will not need any further shaking up for some time, after he is through with them. THE jury in the case of Phipps the ex-almshouse superintendent of Phila delphia, charged with forgery, return ) ed a verdict Saturday last of guilty. His counsel asked for an arrest of judgment, and for four days to prepare a motion for a new trial which wa" ! granted by the court. THE Union Pacific Railroad Com pany declines to honor the demand of Secretary Teller of the interior De partment, for money due the govern ment. The company claim an oif-set covering a large indebtedness in their iavor on account of the mail service. It is no doubt another star-route con cern. „ A HEALTHY, industrious body is the Senateof Pennsylvania. With the ap propriation bills before them, , other equally important measiH claiming attention, they adjourned oB Thursday noon last to Tuesday. This, too, in the fifty days extension of the regular session, aud for which they are drawing from the Treasury of the State 810 per day each. "KV|UAI. ANI> EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OK WHATEVER STATE OR I'KH* i; AHION, RKLKIIOL'H OR POLlTlCAL."—Jrffnrsou. Labor Troubles. Indications exist at present that labor troubles between employers and employed may be expected this season I to a very serious extent in Pennsyl vania and other places. In Allegheny | county there is a formidable strike among the miners, and now the dis agreement among the iron workers seenm to foreshadow a general closing of operations in that industry in Pitts burgh. Last Week a conference com l mittee representing the manufacturers i and the amalgamated association met at Pittsburgh for the purpose of agrie- j ing upon a scale of wages for the year, but no agreement was reached, nor i any indication that acceptable com promise can be mude to avoid the ! starving process which is sure to follow the disagreement. <>n behalf of the manufacturers it was urged that the condition of the trade was such that a reduction of wages trutn ten to twenty per cent, was necessitated to enable j them to continue without loss, and on behalf of the workingtnen it was pro posed to continue under the present prices, but that they could not accept a reduction. This seeuis to have been j 1 the ultimatum of each party, and the conference closed with the understand ing that by the first of June the work men will come out ami the mills will i close, if one or the other party do not j hack down. Here, we imagine, is the proper place to test the efficiency and virtue of Senator Wallace's arbitra tion law to avoid the calamity of a | protracted strike, in which thousands J of workmen go into idleness and ; poverty in preference to yielding a few j cents of their daily pay to the de- j mauds of the employer, or the rnanu- I facturer chooses to close his mills at an immense sacrifice rather than drop a few dimes of hi- profits on the de mand of and in favor of tho*; who do i the work for hint. It is generally more u matter of pride between the contending parti s than of profit and justice, which legal voluntary arbitra tion may soothe and thus avoid the disaster and p iverty which these strikes only pr duce THE PennsylvaniaS- nateappears to be dailey growing in liberality. The , generous aud ivhl,--minded stalwart j fellows who com|M >—>■ the Republican | majority, have now fixed up a ( ongrns sional apportionment which gives l'.t , Republican districts, 7 I)crnocratic dis tricts, and two doubtful districts. Huch generosity as that, can not escape pub lic attention or fail to receive a proper appreciation. It makes up a record for them not to be divested, if the que*- 1 tiou of a fair and equitable apportion ment or the expenses of an extra ses sion of the legislature becomes a prac tical issue. WITH a Democratic majority in both bouses of the legislature of Now : York, and a Democratic Governor, no attempt has been made by the ma jority to make an unjust and unfair apportionment of the congressional ' districts. A bill has been passed giv- > ing 16 certain districts to the I)cmo-1 crats and 15 certain districts to the ; Republicans, estimated on the vote of 1861, and leaving three districts in doubt. New York is unquestionably a Democratic State, and this example of fair and honorable legislation is not only creditable to the majority, but is n just tribute to Democratic love of fair play and honest political action, and ought to shame the Re publican party of that State who, on an accidental majority some years a K°i gerrymandered the State nnd gave to that party a preponderance cf representation to which it was not en titled. The same thing was done in I'eqjmyivania, and now when the tfHiocrat* desire fair play and equali- Hiccording to their numbers in an and fair apportionment, m>y arc met by Republicans with a determination to prevent the passage of a just bill, for the purpose of con tinuing the villainous apportionment tiucy enacted ten years ago. I BKLLKFONTK, l'A„ THURSDAY, MAY Id, IHKI. IN the House on Friday Mr. Sterritt j introduced a bill authorizing the Gov ' cruor to appoint a .-pociul commission of three Senators and live members to revise the laws of tho State relating to taxation for county, lownship, munici pal aud school purpo am, and to report to the next Legi-dnti re, 85,0(1) being appropriated for exp tn*e*. It wa* re ferred to the Ways ; uid Mean* ('our j mittee. The bill for the a-emunt and col j lection of mercantile said State license | taxes was considered, tbi* being the ; third day of its discussion. Mr. Jenkins moved an amendment, which was agreed to by 67 yeas to 15 nay*. It reads a* follows : "Provided, however, that the money charged and received in the several counties of this <'oinnion wealth for tavern license, 1 liquor license, retailers' license, eating house license, brewers' license, auc j tionecr*, patent medicine license, ped dlers' license, brokers' license, theatre , license, circus license ami billard license shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the same are j charged and collected for the use of -aid county, and the State shall not he liable in any ease for any costs or expense for assessing aud collecting tin; same." Another proviso wa* added, on mo" j tion of Mr. Hinc*, as follow- : "That hereafter the license, fees to be received by county treasurers of the several counties in this State, or any of the licenses afoicsaid, (-hall be i 50 cents, and all sjweial act* relating ' to county trea-urers inconsistent with this act be and tin- same are hereby | repealed." Agrees! to, aud the bill ! was then laid over for third reading. THE Republicans still a fits- 1 to be j lieve that the Democratic party is | in desperate strait.* on the taritf issue which they propose shall iw- the great j question of the next campaign. We do not believe the Democrats have much to dread if this issue is lorrcd, for the party is unanimous for a Re venue tariff. There may be a few here and there who favor a taritf for pro tection only, but too inconsiderable to be counted. But where will the Repub lican party IM> ? That party i* divided 'on this question every where, but in Pennsylvania and a few of the New England State*, and when the motion is made to rule out the Republicans who are opposed to a protective tariff, the exmlua will amount to a great popular movement. Gf this fart the Republican leaders are not ignorant, and for this reason will not dare to make a protective tariff an issue in the party platform. HOME of our Blair county friends are disposed to find fault and criticise with unnecessary severity, the appoint ment* of Mr. Africa, Secretary of In ternal Affair*. We presume the Se cretary looks to the efficiency of the service in his department, and if he be lieves that efficiency can le better at j tained by retaining one or two or even half a dozen of the old officials, thwii by making selections from the list of deserving applicant* furnished from Blair county, he, as the responsible party, ha* the right of judgment, and we see no reason for censure in it* ex ercise. The nepotism complained of, is only a matter of taste after all, and a* no one pretends to question the abil ity. or the good character and entire fitness of the appointees, our Blair liiends might as well be satisfied, and bold themselves in reserve for some tiling better than more clerkships an Capitol Hill. At bet, they are not i places to lie desired by young men of 1 sufficient capacity to fill them. They can do better, and l>e their own mas- ' ters at the same time. All tho appointments of the Hecre- , tary, so lisr as we can judge, are of the I first class—- that from this county is cer- 1 tainly one of great merit, which can* ( not be discounted either in qualifica tions or general intelligence. I L j Hon. JitmcH Macmanuu Dead. James Macmanus, K"| , whose death or -1 rurred in thin place on Haturdsy afternoon i ut 3 o'clock ha# been for many year. th< , j konior Member of the Centre county bar. Ho was born in Carli!e, Mhj IT, ]wil I ] Hint bail nearly completed the seventy ninth year of hi* B(je. He came to Holle> ' j fonto in the year and was married in , 1 HIM to Mi<* .lane Armor, a!*o from Car lisle, and the rami- yi ar wa* entered a- a student at law with Hon. Thomas Burn side. Mr. Macmanus wa admitted at August Term, IH2O, and immediately ! commenced the practice. The following ; year he appointed Deputy Attorney (Jeneral for Clearfield county, by Hon. > Frederick Smith then Attorney General i under Gov. John A. Hbulze, and held this . office under deputations from Attorneys | | General* Hly'he, Fllinaker and Markle, ( ! and wa appointed Deputy Attorney 'on eral for Centre ai.d Clearfield counties • the Gov. Wolfe administration und.f deputations from his ucee- iv.-At • torneys General Samuel Douglass, K111 ]rose< ute the common wealth s pleas for that county, and on the 1 ' organization of Clinton county was a*- go od to the same duties by Judge Wood" ward. He was also counsel for the ■ >unty commissioners of ('.mire cou-.ty for over , eleven years. In 1 41 he was ideef-l to the Legislature from E'entre county, then a distru t of itself. Among the prominent men, Dr. of the assssion of D> 12, in the lo use, were • 'hief Justice Sharswood, Charlos B Trego. John J McCahen. Asa Packer, Judges Win. Kiwell and tieo B Barrett, llend rick H. Wright, James Boss Fnowden, John II Deford and other men "f grat I ability including the great commoner I Tha/ldeus Steven*. Neverlheles* before I the close of the session Mr Marrnanus had ! trie credit of being one <.f ibe most in fluential member* of the house. During j the discussion of the tariff resolution of I the c*ion of l*< 2 he stir itte-i bv bis j I colleagues against Thaddeu* Stevens and made an excsswdingly able speech against the resolution of instruction hv tho legi*. lature to m inemlsers of congress fr..m this state by which it *, ught to cnlrol the conduct of the delegation in congress on the tariff question, which he denouncnl as "n n unwarrantable assumption of p- wer without right. In I*l2 he declined re-election and sug gested the nomination of Hon. George McCullough who wa* taken upand elected. In lap! Mr. Macmanus was again nomi nated and elected, hi# personal piof.ularitv snrmounting tho faditical wave that en gulfeil every candidate on the Democratic county ticket from Congressman to County Treasure: In l*lt he docline,l renomi nation and retired from political office though ever taking groat interosl in poli tic*. he preferred quiet home-life to pub lic life. When Hon W W. Potter died in 1*39 he wa* tho choice of tho Demo, cratic party to succeed Mr. Potter in Con- i grfss, hut he declined to accept tho nomi- i nation Gov. Shunk offered him tho potl- i lion of President Judge, this ho also do. I cllned. to continue the practice of bis pro. feeaion. In August, IRA), he had com- j plated (*> years of aclivo practice at tho ; bar and occasion was takon by tho bar to 1 prnsont him with a gold headed cano. As a member of the bar ho was highly o. j toemod by all his brothron as a gonorous 1 opponont, as a hard working assoriato , counsel and for hi# strict integrity—his j verbal engagement was always taken and ; invariably adhered to. As a citizen ho was kind and generous, and no deserving person over applied to him for relief or ; help in vain. Ho was a member of the ! Presbyterian church and as long as ho wa* | able a constant attendant upon worship, and always a cheerful contributor to tho j cause of religion. Ho wa# of eiceedinglv i cheerful disposition, retaining up to the i last his interest in tho welfare of others, I with an unclouded mind and in the full possession of his faculties he passed peace fully away. Gn Tuesday, at 3 P. M. all that was mor" lal of Mr. Macmanus was laid tenderly away beside thoee be loved and lost in our village cemetery, where within a narrow circle are the graves of Iluston, Burnside, Petriken, M Allister and many others good and great with whom he was Inti mately associated in life, and to whom he is now united by the solemn mystery of death. A meeting of the bar wa* held on Mon day afternoon presided over by Hon. John H. Orvla. Genl, Beaver moved the ap pointment of a committee of Sve to pro- pare a minute ul tin- liand career of 4 tin deceased. Messr- Uurtin, Beaver, JSIIIM 11. Knnkin, Durst ai,ti motion of Mr (,'urtin, the , i lH ir di -ig. nated the follow ing attorneys pa I hearer . j Messr- It,,wer. Bpaogler 1.-p K\l it Blanchard, Kelh-r r,d I.ov v | It wa- also re lve.J ti.vt the i,i,r atler,,; i the funeral in a body. 'lnr. R'Riiinf; A' "* thus refer* to tlie by-play now being worked up by . the ever hopeful Cooper and bo** > to re-tore the liarrnoriv of "the 'i grand old party" by uniting the ma " ehine Stalwart* and the Inde|uudent half-breed* in one common purr>*e for • lie next campaign. "A ne-.v oj* ra 1.- , to be produced :.t an < arly day bv the g Pennsylvania R. publicans to be called >, "Reconciliation." The libretto will 1M; written by ('baric* Eniorv Smith, of the Philadelphia /re , and the j music will be arranged by Alexander ~ K. Met.lure, of the Philadelphia 1 /'two. The manager will be Hurry i''liver, the deputised ('ameron leader " of the n>-xt eampaigu The musical ' director will, of cour*e, be Matthew j Stanley Qasy,the fir-t fiddler# will be r the l'r rand the Harris | fiurg T*Uh. Among the -econd " fiddle* may IK- safely counted Reading Times, Pottaville Journal, Lanca-ter ' ; Kraminrr and Scrtntou Ji'-puiluan | Gen. .Jame* A. Reaver will play the , cornet, James Me Mane* the tr unbone, Sam I/o*< h the cymbal* and < apt. Delaney the big l.ax- fiddle. Among 1 tin- melodic* are the "Mulligan f iuard," "Give u- back our oHI commander," i | "what can the matter be," "Hold the ( I oft, "Kcemo Kc-imo," "Flanigan'* i flaneur," and other familiar mu*ip." f j The exportation* from fhi* country ' to England show* that "King Cotton" ( no I mger reigns supreme, but ha-a formadalile rival iti meat.- and live ( jenttlc. An English newspaper make* 1 the .statement that during one week of April seven steamer* arrived at Liv -1 erpool from America with cargoes of fresh meat, coni*ting of f,n HI quarter* of IMNT and 1,608 carcaseee of mutton, . while seven other vc**el brought to J the same port 'J.Gofi cattle and 2,315 *heep. TIIK Philadelphia fw fixe* a i very low standard of character upon the memlsers of the Pennsylvania legislature, when it charges that thev would delay action U|w,n irnfmrtant legislation for the mere purpose of being re-called in extra session at the rate of 810 a day. There are some mean men doubtless in the legislature J a- there are mean devils out of it who 1 make great pretensions, and write i volume* of criticisms upon their acts, but we cannot lielieve that any con j trolling number of men chosen to represent the people, end ohligat#d ! under oath to perform the duties of representatives, eould be found to fill : the bill drawn by the Time*. The L Time.-, however, may IK right, the 'editor has a gnat familiarity with a ! portion of these representatives audi may s|icak authoritatively. Time will J tell. i Jt'txjK MILKER of the court of ap- i j peals in Maryland, has decided the I legality of a preferred assignment in favor of a wife who loaned money to | the hubaiid on the express promise to repay it. He said "a wife may become j accreditor of a husband, and the pro vision of the code that property shall not pax* to her from him in prejudice of the rights of creditors was never ! intended to prohibit him from paving or devoting his property to the pay ment of a debt due to her. If she is. in fact, such creditor, (he law regards her rights with as much favor a* those of other creditors." THE star route trials it is expected ! will end this week bv the closing speech of the Attorney Generkl. The defence, it app ars, have concluded to submit (he case* to the jury without 1 argument. , 'I KHMS: s|.r>o jHT Annum,in Advance. I in. extensive machine shop be- I" Rosier A McKay, manufac- turer* (iI (toilers am! engine* at Titus it j ' '*• ua * clotate 'oniiiiitto--, ha- i'-u'-d a 4 ,a " f*'f the licpublicau >:ate Conven . lion In be held at Harrhburg on the I Ith ot duly. ri.e .nrg'-st freedom in j general participation of the primaries consistent with the preservation of party organizati n i- recommended. . ' hat is, the Indcj ndents or half-breed* I may come in this vear. 1 'ii. most absurd of all political p.atitude-, says the \\ a>liington i fc the claim that the "country owes it present prosperity to the Republican • party." Vet this old absurdity, which .ift" done service in many campaigns ; of the pat, is brought out and paraded again in the hope that it may check the progre-s of di-integration by which the Republican party i- being reduced , to a hopeless but dosperate minority. The prosperity of the United Stat'*, a- compared with other and older countries, i- due to causes as fai above ; will beyond the control of anv partv as the progress { ,f the seasons, the movements of tides or the revolution of our planet. Most of the causes of our prosperity are natural—the ex iiaustless resources of a young country incomparably rich in all that contrib utes to material growth. Our empires of the most fruitful land on the globe, our vast deposit* of coal, iron and the money metals, our grand waterways, our variety of soil and climate—these were not made by any party, nor could any party prevent a free people from making usc of them. Their utiliza tion was well under way Iwfore the Republican party *a born. Next to our indebtedness to nature is our ob ligation to the men who shook off British rule and established free gov ernment in tlii country. And next to these must bo placed the victories won under a J>emoerafic administra tion by which the area of the Union was extended over those regions which have given us gold and silver iu al most fabulous amounts. Whether the Mexican war was right or wrong in the abstract, its influence on our na tional prosperity has been grandly great. Such a people as ours in such a country as this owe prosperity to no party, nor has there ever been a time when they would have permitted any l' ar, > I® block the path of progress. As we have shown. tl|e political events which, supplementing natural cause*, have made us what we are, occurred long before the Repuhliean partv came on the stage. How, then, cau the ad vocates of Republican supremacy pre tend that we owe our prosperity to their |Kilitical organization. CowtmiKsMAW HAYNK has detected a serpent hid in the stalwart Senate apportionment bill, to legislate him out of CongrtM. Mr. Bayue is the In dependent representative from A lie gheoy county. There arc a good lot of snakes in that bill that nceil* att< u tion from houcst Independent Repub licans if they desire to retain the char acter for fair dealiug they claimed for themselves last fall. NO. 10.