S. T. SlllGlßT A E. L. Oil VIS, Editors. VOL. (i. > (The €if litre democrat. Ttraill.AOpar Anaoml* At*no> THE Boston Poet think* Massachu setts may safely lie put down among the doubtful stales. Strange things do hapjTen sometimes IT is estimuted that there are now fifty thousand visitors iu Florida. All the hotels and boarding houses through out the state are crowded with north crn and western tourist*. TWENTY SEVEN thousand acres of j wheat were destroyed uear Stockton, ! California, on tbe lHth inst., bv the p bursting of the levee at Roberts Island. J Loss estimated at $-~00,(HM). ARTHUR is Henry Ward Beecher's candidate for President. Beechcr is an acknowledged free trade, and say* a tariff" with incidental protection i* ; like beefsteak with incidental strich-' nine. MASSACHUSETTS has returned to its old love, aod revived the whipping post as a punishment of wife-beaters. This class of criminals are to be whip ped in the correction houses of the several counties. IT is said a jury in Elk county the other day iu the trial of a civil ca/e, came into court with a written verdict finding tbe defendant guilty. It not being very intelligible or satisfactory to the court, they were allowed to re tire for repairs. SAMUEL J. RAW DALE, W. A. Wal lace, Franklin B. Gowan, Thomas Collins, Benjamin F. Meyer* and James P. Barr are respectively named • as proper persons for dclegates-at-large to the Democratic National conven tion. No better names can be pre sented. DIARRNOROHEII ARRIVAL! F.re paugb's white elephant arrived in New York on Thursday last from Egypt. It is claimed to be tbe first one that even croased the Atlantic. The dis tiuguished emigrant reports at Fore * paugh's winter headquarters in Phila- delphia on Hatnrday. MAYO, a re-adjuster, returned to the House a* a member of congress from Virginia, holding a certificate from Gov. Cameron, was on Friday last unseated by the unanimous Vote of, the Houee aod Judge Garrison, the duly elected member. eated in hi* stead. — SECRETARY LINCOLN denies tbe re mark credited to him that he would resign rather than sign a commission j reinstating Fitz John Porter in the army. The denial is timely, for the remark made him a fool, which is cer tainly not an accomplishment desira ble in a Presidential candidate. TuECincionati Enquirer, by special i correspondence, has been collecting tbe actual sentiment of tbe people of the south in relation to the Presidency t and reports "that the solution as de- J veloped by these letters may be briefly i summerized. Everywhere there is an overwhelming sentimen; in favor of the nomination of Mr. Tiiden. A MODKST congressman ' In reply 1 to the inquiry of the New York Her- , altFt "who will be the Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana?", Congressman Calkin says, "I will I" nominated and elected governor of | Indiana." IVrhap*! But he would have chosen the time better, if he waited tbe election befote making the announcement. THE Hon. Cha*. 8. Wolfe says that with Quay, Msgre Cooper and Leeds in command, is not * the reformed and harmonized Repub licanism to rait me. Such reform has been bought too dearly aod such har mony is but abject snbwervenoy. Per* haps Mr. Wolfe is hard to please. But it is all the reform bo is likely to get, U anises he dhn harmonize bis own bit terness toward the Democracy COL. O. H. I'AYNK, son of Senator- I elect I'ayue, said in New York the i other daj, that lain father is not a can* didate fur the Democratic Presidential nomination. The Senator-elect has also said the same thing, and we can see no reason why his word should not obtain credence. A MRS. KIMJORK who has been very persistent in effort to he made a mem ber of the bar in Philadelphia, with the right to practice law in that city, has again been barred out for the fourth or fifth time bv a decision of. •lodge Ludlow tlie other day, who re j fcrred her to the legislature for a law to govern her case. WITH the opportunities he has had t in public life, it is certainly creditable t to Garl Sohur/.e that he is yet a |toor { man. In view of this implied integrity, j the Germans of New York have un- j dertaken to raise a purse of SIOO,OOO to present him. In contrast with Sherman and Blaine in congress and cabinet, both of whom came out as ; millionaires, the poverty of Schurie j is a crown of honor his friends may be proud of. THE private secretary of Mr. Bu chanan, during hi* presidential term challenges the statement of Mr. Blaine's book iu reference to the point of President's answer to the South Carolina commissioner*, and the agency of Judge Black in its modification. He says that Mr. Blaine's statement is untrue. Blaine's bo >k beiug written for political effect, could not be ex pected to lie anything else than a Mulligan campaign document LUCY HTONF. den .unces the Massa chusetts legislature for its action in defeating the Woman * Suffrage bill recently before that body. Bhe say* their ac'.iou in "denying to a portion of the people their just right to vote" is an outrage more unjustifiable than the worst violations of the election laws charged upon the people ot Copiah county, Mississippi, which Senator Hoar is endeavoring to hunt up for party capital. THF. Wilisesbarre f nion I.mailer can't understand the patriotism that commends Longstreet, a rebel and de faulter. and asperses ex Governor Cur tin for following the dictates of his conscience. Why. Brother Bogert, it is not a difficult conundrum. Gov. C'urtin is honest, in pursuit of honest govern ment, while Lougsfreet is after plun der, and where else could he obtain sympathy and success except in the party where plunder is its life and the measure of respectability. THE Democratic House of Repre seatalive# of New Jersey, ha passed a civil rights bill providing that all persons within the jurisdiction of the state shall he entitled to full and equal enjoyment of the accommoda tion, advantages and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres or other places of amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations of law, and applicable alike to citixens of every race and color, regardless of previous condition of servitude*. This bill, it is said, was paused by an almost unanimous vote, and will doubtless become a law, unless the senate, which is Republi can, defeat it, which it is likely to do. THE Philadelphia Uncord says of the testimony in regard to the conduct of the Star-route oases it drizzles out ad nauteant. The public interest in it i has entirely subsided. Every one is nti*fied that the government was de frauded : and every one i* also satis fied (bat tbe virtue docs not lie in Ke publican administration to punish the bigb crimes of high Republican de linquents. If plain John Doe or Richard Roe bad stolen a hundred dollara there would be little trouble in getting tbem into jail; but when tbe Hon. John Doe and Pint Assistant Postmaster General Richard Roe steal a million dollars it ia an altogether different affair. "ZOCAI. A!ft> BXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, Of W IIATEV EK STATE OH FSIUtUASIOH, HELIUIOUS OH POLITICAL. 1 Wifmoi ' BELLKFONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1884. AFTER a haul fight bv the harmoni ous Hi-publicans of Philadelphia for delegate* to the convention, the Bluinc men lieut the machine and carried the day, hut it i* evident from the Prem that the victors don't feel altogether happy, or confident that all will be lovely in the convention. The ma chine is great in resources, ami Boss Quay knows how to engineer it for all that is in it. The Preet ha* cause for apprehension. GEN, BEAVER for congress. The , Republican* of York county have in ! *tructed their delegate* to the state I convention, to vote for Gen. lb-aver a* the Republican candidate for congress ' man-at large. We hope that in many ' other counties the Republicans may make the same display of good sense j that they have in York. If we must | have Republican representatives, for the honor of the state, it is desirable that creditable men like B- avor, come to the front. IT is reported that the President will veto the bill passed for the relief of Fitz John Porter, or permit it to become a law without his approval. Iu which case he will decline to make the appointment provided in the hill to restore Porter to the army. What* ever action he may take to thwart the full effect of the hill, if such a thing is contemplated, which is difficult to believe, he will do contrary to the 1 public sentiment of the country, and ' will hang like a millstone round his j ueck iu his canvas for re-election. THE application for jieusioq of Mrs j Meikleham.a granddaughter ol Jtffer j *on, which wa* recently rejected iu congress, has been taken up in New York and subscription* opened for her ! relief. It is expected, that a consider able sum will he raise). It may be 1 from stupidity, but after the precedent* ' *et in the extravagant sttdi.ameot of President's widows, wc cannot appre ciate the discrimination against lie , last survivor of the third President, who wa* also the author of the Dec'a ration of Independence. The priori pie is unqu stionahly wrong in either ' oaee. MATOR CARTER HARRISON'- h y was hauled up for fast driving ihc ,other day in Chicago. The Inter* , Ocean gives this account of the scei e I that followed in the Mayor's Court: "The boy came up with the Herri sonian swing, and the Mayor said with considerable severity : 'There is a complaint against you for fast driv ing. Did you have the mare out | yesterday V 'Ye*,' replied the boy; 'I had her out, hut I hope no one rails that driving fast. I let her take it : easy, but there were dozen* of fellow* driving fast,' and be named several owner* of crack horses. As be talked the severe look on the Mayor's face became an anxious one.atid as his hoy went on to tell how this man and that one drove, the Mayor burst out with : 'You didn't let him pass you, I hope,' and then he thundered out: 'Did you let him pau you ?' To all of which replied the boy: 'You bet I didn't.' So ended the leason.*' THE Ohio legislature embarks in a herculean struggle when it attempts to stamp out the busioeaa of specula tion by the psswage of a bill to pre vent gambling in grain, stock*, petro lura, wool, provision, Ac. The hill which passed the Honsc of Represen tatives last week, provides that all contracts and agreements, no matter by what name designated, by whi< h i any person shall contract to sell or i buy any stocks, or shares of stocks, of iany railroad or transportation com pany, mining or other corporation, who docs not intend actually to de liver or to receive and pay for the same, are declared illegal contracts and agreements against public policy. All agreements on "margins" or "lb lures" are held to ba gambling aod criminal acta. No matter ia what capacity ba acta any person convicted In a court of criminal jariadiction shall be fined ami imprisoned for each offense, and holds Telegraph and Tele phone companies as accessories who shall communicate, receive, or display any statements of quotations or prices on margins, futures or options, and subject to the same jienaltie*. The Oominir Question. One of the most troublesome ques tions that will demand solution by the Republican National convention, save the Washington J'oit, will be raised by the ap|>earauce of two full set# of delegates from Virginia. Wil liam Mahotin who, in ItbO, claimed to bo the leader of the only Democra tic party iM his state, and who has never boon willing to admit himself a Republican, will be at the head of one set, and he will have the backing of the Administration, whose deputy he has been for three years in the hand ling of Federal patronage in Virginia. John F. Dezendorf, an old original Republican, a veteran of many cam paigns, an earnest supporter of Gar field when Mahone was working for Hancock, will be at the head of the other delegation. Most of the Ma- hone d'-legaU-s will be fresh recruits from the Democratic party, men who have been tempted by the flesh-pots to desert their principles. All of the ' other delegates will be uncompromis -1 ing Republicans, men who still stick to their principles when there is no patronage to reward their fidelity. The motto of the Mahone delegates will be: "We are for Arthur, be cause Arthur is for us.'* The motto of the Republican delegation will be : "The man who will make the best race" It will not only astonish, but grieve the Republican rnaMu-s of the north if Mahone and his followers are admitted and the Republican delcga tion barred out. As for the I>emo crate, they will be amused, but not Very deeply Toteripet-faiof!P Chatincey F Black i ii i. i.iii tck ist oovaaaoa's rsairr riaw *m> estomv as, Kn. March 20.—The lh>patrK thi* nun ii/ prints the following letter from Hon. Chaunc-y F. Black, lieutenant /overm rof Pennsylvania, and son of i ttie Iste Judge Jeremiah S. Black. T lh fclt'- rw of fhr £#• I hasten to reply to ywir recent fav f. the more readily Because the que* until you | ropnund are, to me, vrry fs toilinr nne and subjects iifon which 1 desire to he freely heard. You ask for mv tariff view, arid niv presidential pri ferencea. As to the torrner of these : On the tar ff question mv views are e*pre-s<-d in the seventh resolution o' the York county dcmoi-racy, April, 1 as f .Haw* : The fundamental principle of a true democracy it expres.ed in the Jefli-r son tan maxim. "Kqiial and exact .justice to all men: special favor to none," and this must hi- especially observed in the exrrcie of the t >xing power, not only in the slate but in the nation. We d* mand, therefore, the repeal of the in ternal taxes as unnecessary, oppress!?*, injurious to particular classes and at tended with corruption. Wear* in far or of taxing foreign imports, for the purpose authorised by tha constitution, namely : to raias* rerenue snfficiant for the Irgiroate needs of the treasury and incidental protection, encouragement and reward, equal and just to all rlassea of Dien and all kinds of lawful business, including munufacturee, agriculture and mmmore* in all its Branches This, in iu> opinion, is a bsfter ex preesion• rl.e time-honored democratic dofftrine, defending • ua from the faherof the p'rty and of the repub He. than the so-called 'Dhio platform,'' adopted last rear by Olln, Pennsyl rmit, New Jersey and Virginia. Nl'lonsl legislation having for Its end the earrelng out of the shore view* ha* mv hearty sanction at any and all times. A* to candidates i await tha set ion of thu convention, not doubling it will be for tb* treat. But should Mr. Tilden ac cept tha nomination he will he named without a ballot and elected by a major ity great enough to render a second at tempt to couot him out a rather danger ous experiment. "Justice travels with a leaden heal. Nit aba strike* with aa iron hand." Vrry respectfully yours, Cbawcct r, Bi.ick. Yoas, Pa.. Maieb l., 18M. Political Froapeota. Tllfl V. \STKII V STATKS miIVTt r Soft Ttl.- 1 DUX A*U lIKXOBICKS. BOSTON, March 24.—The J'oit to-mor row morning will print several columns of short letters from Democratic mem Iters of the legislature* of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut in which the writer give their preference for presidential candidate*, first and second choice, sod all their views on the tariff question. Tilden learri : son lull and a gradual reduction of tariff p taxation, tif the members who declare unequivocally for a continuance of the present h'gh tariff two are New- Harnp shire men. three Connecticut snd one 1 Massachusetts. Two New ilsmpshire ; m*nu'actiirer favor an immediate re i duction and one favors tariff as it is at j present. The Depopulation of Ireland. i Lovoox, March 1-Y—The Iri*h paper* are discussing the recent census return* ,in a bitter spirit. The Dublin .Vahcs i ha* an article entitled "Bleeding to Death, in which it says: "The life blood of Ireland is being drained by ! vampires. Kvery one who hue sn in ter-t in theoountry must gird hi* loiti* ; g.int thi* mtir lermi* I'nion. Theex 1 termination of the Irish peopl ha* long ' been the traditional aim of the Knglish | rulers, 'fhe present executive's will is i bent on actively promoting the murder i ou* sy stem which has already fobll i the country of i,OUO,OUfI or G,000.000 of I people." The, Vraini Irtlw/vi devote* an article ! to the same subject, which it entitles 4 "Killing a N a'ion by Inr!-." ltaays: | "For all practical purposes Ireland i suffering a more awful drain of man h->o72 h<-o ih<> o-c*U" enuro erator* cwran to aount them. Two mil I lion nine hundred and thirteen thou , ssr.d of the population w ho were spared ( by fam ne hare Iw-en starved or trans jiorteii since. The west* gno* on fader land more furiously. VYithm the last vt-ar alone Ireland lost i 08,000 env grant*. I Tl.iss"' of wbom were single adult*. She J lost in mere thews and muscles more ' j rsluHl sons than were slain in any of the gti-alesl battles of the world." Atltlil ioitul Loral. Halfbroede Lock Horca with Stal wart* The sorrel top editor of the half-hreed organ took the stalwar' bull by the horn and proceeded to rub the nose of the aforesaid bovtne in the mire. Kdilor Tulen occasionally take* a hand in Be publican politics of t'entre county, and when he doc* some person gets hurt. The machine had quietly determined to set down on the Blame sentiment of fhe country- people, and the chaiitnan ignored the parly organ and failed to call hi* committee together through the columns of the Republicin, or to an neunce the delegate elect ion*. Brother Tuten saw through the little game and blocked it by culling a meeting In the interest of the "Plumed Knight ' on Monday evening. The proceedings wen very inferos ting. Mr. Jamra Simmer villa was elected president, and the diminutive Sylvester Ray, Esq., chosen secretary. The ball then opened. The dainty little sa at story was on net ties -hi* sou! wa* with the meeting, but his heart was for up on lloward street, and he bit hi* pencil nervously. Free Hons of the machine were distributed through the room in anticipetioa of what wna to com*. After Mr. Dale's opening prayer, the tall " I'efl'm Pine" of the Allegheniea, Col. Hastings, was called upon for a "speech," and aa the .Vim puts it, made an energetie though TEKMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Adtaiiir guarded apoccli. Well, tbe Colon.] not in tbe h ibit of giving buneelf ~ l. H.y.a novice in |ioliktr.. .tartled the stalwart leader* by veil mnce of oratory, and made the *|rf>ech of the evening. Judge Love followed in brilliant speech in which he said that the nomination of Hayes in '7O Mi like a wet blanket on the K.publicm fmrn which it \M difficult to recover Thia aen'irnent amazingly atirred ur- Mr. Aiken*, who indulged in a mu-io ispeech. and Mr .lame. Hurria turned ; on the electrict light of hi. imagination ' and he gave the machine thunder, i bejuire It iukin who run* the colored contingent of the machine, and wh * (gave grandpap Jul,. t|,e entire colored I vote of the hotough, ''over ;he 1. ft | eit down on, but Juhnny i a. elastic a a gum hall, and will "bob up M-renely jat the proper time. A f. w choice ex j tract* from the Mulligan letter* were in I order, and the little necretary wanted j to deliver a disquisition on run Hrrtk'. but the prudent Tuten squashed bin After thi. little ii*Jr w*a* over, a cv.rniinttee wa .vpiiointed to make the nece.arv preliminary arrangement* u< bring out a fu!|e*prei . n of opinion at the primary election* E ('. Home., s. 1. 'rav. Clement Ilale. A J Aik~nv f. H ( -ider. (ifo. T liarria. Col. lfa-t ing. L. Brown da*. and S. I I). Kay make up the committer . Sow ' "let lip the dog* of war." Brother Tuten, you can ret on you j oar*, -the to.* will do th pulling. Ii win an awful hark handed alap at th. machine and "sore he*l* and wek knee*" are aeen all over town. The machine cam. down one |*g, and pat -1 lithe* the official call for the Krpubfi can convention, tine jeg i* not very (> to drop, hut it will be anything but plea*ant to the digoified chairman oi the machine. A* OTIIZS, UI C*.— The following it a clipping (rom the lltrrvht y patrm ; Up at Bcllefonrh l> 'll.|LfVv4,dl4l ' ■■•T?*jKrt,Aag, t RtiLxrosrt, March 17.—Thi* p' ,ce take* it. name from a *pnng i-ii'led •'B-*lleforiUin.' auuated near th • • -n --■ tre of the Uiwo, wi JU .b ia avid to throe 14,601) gallon* o' water in a tn.uu'i I lie town i* located on a bill aurrou-u. Ed on every aide by other and higher I hill* It i*. on a< count of iu hill Wa> j tion, e.|^| A |)y tree from malaria, the , drainage being perfect, iti*connected by railroad w.ib Lock Haven and Tyrone tbu* fF-.rd ng it direct ra.lroad communication iih the rbiladeli bia and Erie and the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad. Aootber ri road it rapidlv approaching it fmtu Tyrone. IVM-mie i* chock full of good fellow*. The Hon. Cyni* T. AI-* ander ha* hi* K-mr here, and la *> yini i land all your rcaOer* who know L m. are aware, a gcntlcuiao, warm he* ted. cordial and gem• 1 ** a i ompan on an • Tilled tbe full measueof hi* je. •ition. He i* *n able jurist and h conducted hi* office with commendable ►kill, industry and lact. He is much liked by the h*r and will be renomicat ed thia fall without oppoailion, uai rbould lie aecuie ihe nomination from riunfinglon county, of which there can be but little, if any doubt, will carry tbi* county by one of Urn largest ma joritie* ever given by the noble democ racy of o'd Centre. The reasons given by hi* trends for hi* nomination are tbsi he poaseme* all the qualities of a Aral claaa judge, and th* faot thst b> oAunty is go-