S. T. SHI'GERT & K. L. Oil VIS, Editors. VOL. (i. ' &lic €t\\Ut fJemowai Term* f 1.50 per Annum to Advance AN explosion occurred in a coal mine at West Pocohoutu?, Ya., last week, by which oue hundred aud fifty lives were lost. IN Huntingdon county the iudep N dent Hcpuhlicaii have squelched the boss ringsters, and will appear in the State convention with a Blaine dele gation, EX-SPEAKER KF.IKEK is cri.'htvd with saving tliat he will retire from public life at the end of his present term. Shouldn't wonder, and iudma . tioos are not wanting that the terra ' may he shorteued materially by the House. IT appears it was not Boss Don A'atneron who returned from Europe the other day and created such a flut ter in Republican political circles, now doing a little machine work ou their own account, but auothcr Came ron who is called Dun. KELLOGG and Piuchback hear! the Louisiana delegation to the Republi can national convention. The dele gation, composed chiefly of those who figured in the iufamous frauds and transactions of will be appro priately led by this pair of beautiful 4 ducks. THF. names of the private score ft, taries of the senators recently chosen under a resolution of the senate, al lowing each member a clerk, have not yet been publicly announcer!. Why | is this? Is it because the seuator,, wrives and daughters have thus been put under pay from the public treas ury ? THE Philadelphia Record sums up the star route business briefly, thus: "Two or three small contractors were fined and jailed ; two or three influen tial politicians were tries! and acquit ted, and two or three lawyers were | paiig con , tract on lnuid to carry the delegation ; of New York to the National couvcu | tiou. It is said (hut the Independents are organizing to openly antagonize him, asserting thai he could not possi -1 bly carry the state if nominated— j that his rattdidaey in that Mnte would he ni disastrous to the party as was that of Folger, his candidate for Gov ' ernor. 1 POOR AY ! How sad he must be, i when he announces that he will fight |no more political battles. And who , will work the ting machine for D°" 'wlun Matthew steps down? Tom , Cooper is bull-headed and an aspirant. Magee lacks experience, and John Stewart is ouly on probation, hut promises efficiency after reasonable drilling. THE Governor of California ha.- called in extra session of the legisla ture. The object of this call is that ' the legislature may take such action upon the railroad corporations of the ; state a will secure obedience to the laws upon their part, in the payment of j taxes and subject theru to a more , strict system of state aujiervision. j The railroads have refused to Ix-ar i their proportion of the tax burdens, and decline to pay the taxes assessed i upon them. IT apiear> (Jov. l'attisou was chosen oy the Philadelphia conference a lay delegate to the Methodist General | conference which is to meet in Phila delphia in May next. A member who, j of course, did not like to see the ad ministration divided, proposed to make the Attorney-General the Governor's alternate. But, ays the Record, "the good brethren would not consider the name of Attorney General Cassidy a* an alternate. This is making flesh of | oue end of the state administration l and fnh of the other, hut as it is the season of Leut Mr. Cossidy can pro bably bear up under it. PRESIDENT ARTHUR ha- uot lived in vain in New York society, and of course knows how it i* himself. Ac cording to the New York lIVrM, he proposes to deal with the Mormon question in a manner which cannot admit of failure. His plan is "to have Salt Lake City invaded by a score of milliners who will set up magnificent establishments filled with finery for women. His theory is that ' the Mormon wives will be attracted bv ' the disp lay, will go to running up hills, and in a short time will disgust their lords with the plurality of ma trimony." ♦ IT cannot he disguised that the Re publican party in Pennsylvania have on hand a very interesting fight, not withstanding the I toasted harmony which their journals proclaim is per vading the party. The people are for Blaine everywhere, hut the machine works in the interest of Arthur, armed with the federal patronage. So ac- 1 customed are the people to yield to the ' mandates of the bosses, and so care fully have they been educated in obedience, that there is little doubt of the result. Arthur will be sustained by the convention when it meets, and the people's favorite will again step down and out because of their cowar dice. IN Robinsou county, Texas, three fiendish negroes a few days ago, butch ered a family of five persons named | Martin, consisting of an old man and , his wife, their little boy twelve years j of age, and two grown up daughters, ! after the most brutal outrage of these persons. These were mwt revolting' aud brutal murders, but as the mur- \ don-re were negroes in quest of plun der, of coarse it will not count in Sherman's history of southern out rages intended to discredit the civiliza tion of the south. Tire fiends were captured and dealt with summarily by the people, after receiving their con fession of the crime and the amount of money obtained by its commission, which wgs $l2OO. 4 '/ • #•' "Kyi'A I. AND KIAtT JU STICK TO AI.L MKN, or WIIATKVBR STATU on PEHM'AHION, HELIUIOOS OK POLITICAL."—J*Or*oi> BELLKFONTK, I'A.. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, IKHI. ' Mr. Tllden out of tho Rn?n. Wo publish elsewhere an interview | by Mr. Howell, of the A(/untia Con• dilution, with Mr. Tilden, which es tablishes definitely the fact that this distinguished favorite of the people in lint u cttiulidate for the Presidency ' and will not permit hia name to ho ' j used in that connection. Since that, 'during the last week, the I lon. Wil liam S. Stenger, our secretary of tho ' commonwealth, who a* a member of ; congress in 187G, and one of the com , iniltee charged with the investigation i of the frauds which deprived the i I rcoideni elect of the office ami Con ferred it upon an usurper, made a friendly vi-it to Mr. Tilden and com ! municates the result of that visit, s<> . far as the public are interested, to the , llarriphurg I'atriot, in which he con ■ firms the statement of Mr. Howell in the main. He Bays: 'I hadnt seen , Mr. Tilden for several years, And was pained and shocked to sec the great j change that had come over him dur ing that interval, Initial of the plump, vigorous aud determined spcci- I men of manhood, he is wasted away ; so that his skin seems to hang on his j bones. So emaciated indeed has he i become that alt exertion seems pain ful to him. His hands shake so vio lently that he finds it necessary to rest them on a table before him. His Voice is husky and weak and he enun ciates only with the greatest effort. His tongue seems swollen ami para | lyzed to some extent and his whole appearance indicates suffering. He seems to realize his infirmity, too, for there is a noticeable alienee of that confidence in his powers that once characterized his movements, aud though he walks alone servants are always kept waiting within easy ac , cess, as if in preparation to answer h J , summons at an unexp-eted mono HI This change came on me I:k•- an tin ' pleasant rc velation and compelled ne j to relinquish the hope I have long entertained that Samuel J Tilden I wjuld again lie elected President < t the United States and then inaug-ira ted in spite of fraud aud fori*. Lan reluctant to give up this hope. f.r i was long cherished, hut after wl.ut 1 have seen with my owu eyes and In an from his lijw there is no alternative but to accept the inevitable." In relation to Mr. Howell's state t merit about the acquiescence of Mi . Tilden in the electoral commissioo, | Mr. Stinger thinks he was mistaken, j "That is a subject that was nt refer red to Iw-twecn us : hut my memory ot j the events incident to that gnat wrong are that he never gave his assent to it I in any way. I Vn convinced there | fore that in this matter Mr. Howell must lie mistaken. While Mr. Tilden lis weak and broken physically, lie preserves all his well known nuntal faculties. His old custom of careful : deliberation in speech is still noticea ( hie, ami it seems impossible, therefore, I that he could have made snch a state. ! ment regarding hii attitude on the electoral commission. In speaking of the impracticability of his ever again becoming a candidate he used the very 1 -ame figure to me that Mr. Howell | gives in the other connection. I had alluded to the anxiety of the Demo j eratir people of the oountry to right , that great wrong, when he answered : 'Too late. It is past and is a wring I that cannot be righted.' " What They Will Do The Lancaster Intelligencer, rob 1 | ring to the very evident effort ol the Republican journals to revise the old Randall and Wallace fight in the i selection of delegates to the nationsl ' convention, remarks: "There is, in fact, no evidence of any such contest.! and its existence is exceedingly an- j likely on the face of things. Penn sylvania has the most moderate ex pectatioo of being favored with the selection of the national candidate from her border?, and should she lie surprised with the gift it is not likely that any of her delegates would de- | fire to refuse it no mutter who may b( r the chosen auointed. The Him of the delegation will l>< . what should be the aim of the con 4 volition, the selection of the best ami 4 strongest candidate. If he exists in , ' Pennsylvania, the delegates from other J states will he left to point him out ; our delegates will he wise and prudent . enough to refrain from obtruding their , 1 own opinion a to their own men. This ( is dictated not only by good taste, hut by good policy. Experience has re , peatedly and clearly shown that if a . state has a candidate, whom ahe sin .. oorely desires nominated, the delegates , do not best secure their aim by clamor . ing for him until they have found he , i clamored for. Candidates them • selves have been taught bv a steady exjierience that pmjH-r modesty in the 1 piesentation of their names is a-* con ducive to success us it is judicative of their worthiness of it. Mr. Blaine and Mr. Tilden, who are said to be again in the front of the candidacr of : their respective parties, have both been striving very hard to keep in a safer hack ground, and can hardly congratulate themselves on thecircum stances which force them out of cover. It the Pennsylvania delegates have any hope of a Pennsylvania candidate, there are two things they will not do, I . if they are possessed of the good sense they ought to have. They will not suffer the exhibition of any rivalry IK tween Pennsylvania AS to who shall bear off" that whirh is not yet assigned to their state; and they will not un dertake o claim it until they are in vited to do so." ■ ♦ ■ THK proprietor of a cattle ranch in Colorado, who was one of the fa.lhful 1 1106 hand at Chicago in I*7o, has i utilised his medal by making it the j > demagogue on 'be subject of a resump tion ..f S|M-< ie payments, the c.urt dr eiibd against the legal tender quality of the greenback A few davs sine* the same court reversed itself by de elarii.g the greenback a legal tender It i a matter of general notoriety that judges of the supreme court bavt b cn appointed with the deliberate understanding that they should serve I -irne certain sjiocial interests. The ajqsiintnifnt of Stanley Matthews, for instance, was made with the intention of giving Jay Could a representative on the supreme bench in repayment of hi contribution to the Garfield electioneering fund. This is ojwnly charged and the charge has never been refuted. What is to be thought of a politi- 1 cal party which lends its countenance |to such prostitution of the highest judicial tribunal of the couotrv ? ' What is to lie said of a political party which give* the |eople a supreme court that doee not know its own mind from one year to another ? Let tbe people answer at the ballot-box. TIM Mexican Central railroad just completed, w ill make the time between New York and the City of Mexico ale-ut six days. From El Paso, where the American railroads terminate, to j the City of Mexico the distance is 1.224 tones. The Mexican Central < iinpany is utainly a Boston enter :|ie, and the subsidy it will have learned front tbe Mexican government by its completion, is set down at about f 18,(KK.t,tKK) reckoned in Mexican cur rency. The subsidy, which it at the rate of slo,2 with its temperate climate, ri< !i iron, ' tin, silver und gold deposits ami large r areas of farming und gra/.ing la ids. • already supports a population of near t ly -1,000,000 inhabitants. All the states through which the company's 11 lines pass have a total population of • 5,309,101, There are twenty or,.- < iti. jon the railroad of R.OOO population • and over, ranging from that figure to e 100,000 in lyv>n ami 211,00'' in M x • ico. ♦ Tho Panama Canal e ■ A *ei\ int r>-ting on the Pin . . in. 'inal, by Lieutenant Raymond I* I Rodger-, ..f tb" .Yivy, ha- ju-t f.- n transmitted to the senate Ly - -crelary - 1 ' 'iiatidi. r, in compliance with 11 lei .lu f . lion of that body. 'lbis i- tin second 1 report o' I.ieti'cnunt Ibxlg n <-n tin t P.'in itni 1 .mi!, and it r.-vi. w- tin- run ditinn of the work nt the clo-e of the v.-ar l*s.l. The number of men em ployed in all sections of the canal is ' now a t least 15,000, brought eli. fly from ' : Jaiuai a and ' '.ir.hagena. It h feen , a--.-rtd by tin- enemies of this great , enterprise that the bad climate of the . 1 Utlirnus would prevent its completion. 1 - but I.i-utennnt Rodger* observes that , ! the climate tbu- far litis not proved as I fatal as had been anticipa'e.) A- a rule, tb. employe- of the company mem in ' fair In .illh, but the Kuropeatlf hare, ot course, suit- red more than the natir.-s of the tropica. I li" m ist sickly section of the • anal i- .n the neighborhood of 1 Panama. Aftli tin- w .rk i pro e.e tn - ie.il n In r. guru- the que. lion its to w|,, tie r tin* i a better route than tli.it >f N car.tgu.p v of • p- rt: cat moiii'-ut I h. -emiteha* in this rejwrt saiflt>-icnt iriformation to justify tiie conclusion { that tli I'msm i i',inal before many years wdl be an aecomplisiiod fa. t When the funal a undertaken at I tempt* w-je made to frigliten subsetip | tiou- fr-.m it- -t->ck Lyra s ng cxtrava j gilit pretens .as under a perverted tluorr o' tb. Monroe doctrine Rut the... pret.-n-ioris hav. brenw.ll n'gh ' nb-imb n"d Til" ran i', when completed, ! will be under the m-inag-ment of the ! pr.vntc company who capital is ri-ked ! in it, .md. lik. th> Suez (anal, jt will be •nd'-r tin pint. ■ tion of nil rotnmrr. il tuitions, '-in. ■ tho senate i in |vosrs | si..n <>f iimo d< tinit- infitrmsfion in re- ' gsid to thermal. th<- first . than b.-eding the snarls of i , d.-ncigoguc :i ii n enterprise-which the] whole ii i/eil world wvlcom.-s. The j treaty with Mexico is a small advance in the right dirs-o ion. Before the canal 1 is completed the whole western bemi j ' sphere should be embraced in a i stem of trade reciprocity. Although thia i country hitd comparatively a small finan | cial share in the Panama Canal it i* ( destined by exorei- ing a liberal poliex to 1 reap its greatest oommercial advantages. ' Philn. Ii front. Adtlitlonal Local. —The following It from the OHHIOH .e -nt of leek Haven and will b" UU resl iug to many of our reader* A faw month* ago, the question, '-Who I rang the Liberty Bell?" came up in iha history class of the senior division of ih Ud Ward grammar school, of thi*rity,ar..| all hand* had more than lhay could do i • answer It. It was lhara suggested that the question lie sent to rem* of the Philade'- phi* paper* for an answer, and Misa D*s.ie C Lesher i* tha first to report an anivm, through the Ootrfrn Dsys, .fame* Klvers. n Pull|her It t* interesting and curieu•, and net in accord with our hl*t Man*; here if las "A |roi'n*nt authority etatra that the TKHMS: pir Amium,in Arimnrv c slot) lll,on. til" ringing of the l.i'trrty li,.< . m July 4ih, 17T;, by an old lIIHII, W•-, laraliof] vt> being ROR, ( ei Jef, d b> tllbt body. Thl; resoi'illoli ■ J-.lv 21, 177' i, *n* of till! greatest iuije I am-.-, the r -citing forth the rca for the act b- ing considered a metier • but little moment by pereont not in lb Coiigre*'. Ttiera wa* a pubic eeb bran • , on the ► ii of July, when all the h. I . i'liiladeipliia acre rung. The name of r„ bel'-.inoer at that time *► ff-irri '• AH tiling* Considered, the ale.Ve to I,- a more plausible account of tbi* 4 I 'if ii •• , r y tJ at . the or.e bund in t • 't B hi- 1 ' l>, 1 bi- B-i II * j' J ' the 1,1, ,ve : ,11. li . :*, a ] l |„ f, 1, y,, ■ liov Pun . pack-r Cuued A hut bcr <)' c tii-n* in v. w ! ),,- M • j < bur- ii of tiiin |lk • for ano:lier eji!,et, ol du .. -i* erobb-ii at 111e |. IN i.)Ji--v O Mer*. ilu-t ng A Jfenl-r and inveigl ed tJie rtveru'd g Ittleiuan m;o i)*- . , |-r < ii ,if er u bicli tin- n-ri-m ny *, . Cutting <-11.111' 1,1 •-■1 till ler tin- b-ol Ol tlie i i.i a'a ratige-t, I' |. 11;*.• ing , \\ e i< •• i i gathered ar iuu'l liim regarded bun iili much re-peci arid abrairatiit, . bat a i arkriowlt - the imporuo* *t vice .of the reverend gentlcm n wri■ 1— m B-liefonle. lie bad trengtliene I*r i cemented the church of which b pa*lor in the 'ace of great obatac'** it - I compared U*v. I'ene packer's etl -its • • - thote of an Littern Geoeral, tlie p, , ol wboae army waa obit rooted wi • • now and ice, and prog re*.e iu--'i a I mmt impxiibl* until the ii-oeral, in pcron. led the way in clearing a | and hi" courage at length spread am -i hi* officers and then tisoi g, the men umii final) the a'tny went inward -u cr ••fully. If -aching hehm 1b :u .it tit p'Oj.er moment, hegra*p d hat *r eiee-i to be tlie weapon held in Mr. M hand and exlnbiu-da very elegant g. p". Furtwey j and S. |. Gray, Kvji., the latter get, tlentan aayiog that no member of the Metbo !>t elmi-b had given anything toward* tlie pun ita*c of the cane, that , It carne entirely from those outride i that chun h I hit called If v l'enepacker to hie feet again. He a-.id th*t he did not at ; firat under.tand that the memireta of bi* own c rgregation were not repren-n te Biah.ip *tret. —Kr cry body la ti-rlted to (foarfoe* A Mayer *tn buy bread pie*, cake* and ocn | (.etlnai —f. tee'lent ftng 1 .u, for (j.e canM ner yard -C) r ian'*. NO. 12.