Sljc (Centre iA tUcmocrat, S. T. SHIGERT & E. L. ORVIS, tutors. VOL. 0. fUc tCfutte JPeracrrat. Terms t1.50 perAnnamln Advene • ■■ . w WANTED ! A lender for the "Mul ligan Guards," of Centre county, whose "foresight in equal to his hind sight. *' Our valued brother, Tuten, of the Republican, will greet him henrt ily. BI.AINK ap[>enr# to have the mansea of the party with him, but Arthur has the offices and the machine, with a , well drilled corps of eugineers, officials and amateurs, who are doing up the business of the "Plumed Knight" pret ty effectually. WALSH, the skulking witness in the Star route cases, charges that Chand ler, of the Navy Department, is the protector of William Potts Kellog, in the prosecution for swindling the Government. Shouldn't wonder "Birds of a feather." BOTH the Stalwarts appointed by j the Blaine convention of this county are "red-headed." They are ou fire for Blaine. But, ain't it somewhat j-ingular that the Blaine "licker" is corked up in Stalwart bottles, and the corks sealed ? They will be difficult to extract, won't tbey, Dauul? GEN. DAVIS, the Democratic nomi nee for Cougressman-at-Large, he-ides being a cultured man of marked abil. ity and large experience, was a brave soldier and rendered distinguished -erviceaiu two wars. He is tin- able editor of the Doylcstown Democrat. If elected, as we trust he will be, be wilt take high rank in the councils of the nation. ii— • —i THE Republicans in Washington have had quite a lively time with the colored brethren in electing two dele gates to the National Convention for the District of Columbia. After great ■vraugiing, Carson, a black Digan partisan, was chosen over Bob Inger soll. Postmaster Conger was chosen the ether. He, of course, will "toe the mark" for Arthur on the "bread and butter" platform. LIEU'T GOV. BI.A'K has in prepar tion and will soon publish, in two volumes a collection of the ways .md speeches of his distinguished father, the Hon. Jeremiah 8. Black. He is also collecting material for a oiography of the Judge, and requests all persons having letters likely to aid him in the work to send the originals r copies to his address at York, Pa. THE New York Exominer, speak ing of the Blair Educati< nal bill which proposes appropriations to the -..mount of $77,000,000, says: "If there were any reasonable prospects of the passage of such a hill, we should protest anaiust it with empha sis. The mist liberal construction of the Constitution, as we have many times pointed out, gives Congress no |K>wer to appropriate moucy for such a purpose." IT is awtonshiug how kiud our Re publican friends are, and so very mod al. They are perfectly willing to nominate our county ticket for us. This disinterestedness on the patt of our enemies is simply crushing, hut , we beg them not to concern themselves innecessarily, as the Democracy of Centre generally attend to that busi ness satisfactorily. Nevertheless, ac cept oar sincere thanks for your dis interested kindness. The Molligan-Blaine convention of Dauphin county commended the mean partisan action of Senator Mitchell in the case of justice to Gen. Fitz John Porter. Well, the Mulliganites arc tbaokfal for small favors as well as small men, and it was perfectly in or der to bestow their commendation upon Mitchell, and his small act, in tended to censure the more manly and" ' generous position taken by Senate* *meron on the same subject. % ' | THE Boston Port, the leading Dem ocratic paper of New England, hoists the name of Senator Bayard of Ala- i i brtina, u- its chosen candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. IN Georgia the color line , is drawn very sharply in the I Republican party. The whites , designate themselves, a- a whitej Republican party and demand that > the negroes he a Republican party separate to themselves. The white Republicans are more illiberal and ex clusive than the Republicans of JVnn. sylvania, for here, the Republicans will allow the colored br " • to form the tail of their politicui p> cession, now and then, and vole for the while boss es. SENATOR SHERMAN'S riot investiga tion of the Danville, Virginia, dis i orders, has been disgustingly un successful for a "bloody shirt" cam paign. B. F. Walker, white, a i Republican, and ex Federal soldier, ; i testified the other day that he saw ten jor twelve colored men in the riot floutishing arms and calling upon their colored associates tocomeon "a it was as good a time now a- ever," j and also heard colored men planning to divide op the stores of Danville.! Other witnesses testified to about the same, and Mr Lance, a Repub lican, said there had been a public me* ting the night before the riot, al which threats were made to burn tin town. lie tl-o stated that lie del not. : believe that any alt* mpt was made, or any di.-p'i.-itiun manifested on the part of the white people to intimidate the blacks or prevent them voting, while Sam Pointer and Cornelius Warwick colored men, testified that they had been attacked by the colored Repuh * - i licans and threatened with hanging for voting 'he Democratic ticket. All this te.-timouy, with the state ments of Congressman Dezeodorf, Gen. W. C. Wickham, and Frank (. i Rufft-u, fixing the disorder of that place on the Mahone coalitionists, is highly disgusting to .Sherman. And well it may he. He has made a dia- i graceful failure in fixing upon the de- j tuocrary of Virginia the outrage# of i the la-t election, due to his own jiar tisane. Ex Gov. WOOD-ON, of Missouri, speaking of Presidential candidate di-poses of Mr. Tildeu ami brings for ward Judge Fields as follows : "There seems to IK- n strong move ment in favor of the old tickit. ami if Mr. Tildcn will accept, he ran secure the nomination. I must sav, however, . that lam not for him. His condi ti in of health is not -uch as to war rant his electi >n. My opinion is, that if the people would consult tlo-ir own interest", they would select n young, vigorous man—a mm capable of in troducing and carrying out the re forms contemplated by the Democrat' ic party. I think Mr. Tilden appre ciates this fart and will not permit his name to go before the convention. "The best man to be found in this 'country is Judge Field of the Su- , pretne bench—a man of grewt firm ness and of great intellect, a profound scholar, and a man of unquestionable integrity. Judge Fields would re ccive the undivided support of the Democratic parly in New York, | where he is known as an advocate of pure Democratic principles and an 1 upholder of the Constitution and of the rights of the people." A SCHEME is evidently brewing in the republican ranks to boom Blaine out of the race. The New York Evening Port, a staunch republican j paper, maiutaing great influence in the Independent section of it* party, come out with grave charges, of offi cial delinquencies, on the part of Mr. Blaine, while speaker of Congress, of questionable character. The Port't fbarges are certainly very damaging, and tftirtd be denounced a* infamous, were they utterances of a Democratic ftp'. % > ■ J ' . " Kiil' AI. A NI) KXACT JUHTICI TO ALL MAN, O WIiATKVKk HTATK OK rhknl'AMOX, KBLIOIOO UK TOLITHAL.J'I?r..L BKLLKFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, luw. Tho Domoeratlo Convention The Democracy of Pennsylvania, asembled in Htate Convention, at ; Allentown, on Wednesday of last week, and made an electorial ticket, ' elected six dclegatt-n-at-large, and two | delegate* froiu each Congressional District to the Democratic National | | Convention. . We think at no time in the history of the Democracy of I'cnn" 1 sylvania, has the party sent so able and distinguished a delegation to the National Convention, as it has this year. A delegation headed hy Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, with Hons. It. F. Myer, Kekly li. CN>x and .las. I*. Hurr, standing at his back, will command attention, and be beard in the great council of the party that will asm to ble at Chicago, on the *th day day of | next July. Alter making a dele gation of this kind, the Convention very wisely and with eminent fitness, declared that Samuel J. Randall wi* the choice of the Democracy ul IVnnslyvania for President. Nothing more fit could have lieen done. No man in our great state, unites m him self so many elements nec s-ary to the success of our jnrty in the coming > conto-t. Conservative, inflexibly D• n• est, of great ability, distinguished c r vice to lii country and partv, his "re- lut>- and aggri-i\c course in Congrr-s,"' in defense of the crdinri| print ipl.s of our g vernnn nt, c-n u sively point to lum H- the man vim can and will bring sum to his | -r --ty. And when Mr. W n'lme -i^- "llindull will be \i i\ I. arii v ti ( ,j. r ted by the entir IVtiii'tlvatiia dt le gati-m at ' hicago, and iu uominsl-on made, it it is within the range of p "i --hilily,' 1 he -imply voices the (nthu-i a-tic desire ot the entire Den a-racy ol the state. The Convention unsparirgly ton-) demned the monstrous frauds of 1 M7i and 1*77, through which Til-h-n and Hcndri-k* were ciliated out of the high places to which they were elect ed, and declares it the most sacred ob ligation of a free pc ple to drive from power the men and party who made j the fraud triumphant. The Democracy of the state in Convention "at down with great force on the wild tariff views cnt< rtaiued hy a few western men of all parties, and makes a delivereuco on the tariff as char, conservative, sensible and strong , a* the characteristic of the candi- i date they presented with their derlar atioti. A tariff for revenue, limited to the necessities of the government, economically administered, and o ad justed in its application as to prev ( ,t UtH jual burdens, to encmi ag. pro ductive industries at horiif. and afDr-l just compensation to labor, but not to create and foster i . nop dies, is the de mand ot the Democracy of the state. A larill of this kind would d > away with the wrongs and injuries n flic-tcd hy the present system upon a great hulk of our tailoring people and would placo it upun luxuries enjoyed by the wealthy. It would stop the stealing of millions, liecanse it would nut pro-' dure more than is needed to ecomicaliy administer the government, nail in stead of leaving millions of surplus in the treasury, it would be left with the people. They also favor the abolition of the ' I -'internal revenue system of taxes." This system the Democrats will recol lect it was alleged in 1880 -82 gave : to the Republican*, hy reason of the J great army of collectors and assessors great power, did much to defeat the I>emocracy, and keep in power the Republican party. The Convention did right in declaring for its abolition, and if the Democratic Houao would pass the appropriation bills, and a bill to abolish the eotire internal revenue system, and adjourn it would mightily increase the chances of suoces* next fall. * The Democracy declare* that the importations, under contract of foreign paapcr labor, an evil which should be remedied by legislation: In othcpi words, in this single, aentcqfc thej- -ft " H ) •*4| Clare their purpose to protect our laborers from competition with cheap pauper labor. It is the protection that labor absolutely needs. It will |do more for the laborers thnn all tbu protective tariff? ever passed. More on this again. | The convention was entirely and pre eminently harmonious, and every thing it did meets with the hearty en dorsement of the Democracy of the state. Electoral Count Bill In the House, Mr. Katon reported an amendment in the nature of a sub stitute for the Seriate bill, making pro. vision for the count of the electoral vote of President and Vice President. The bill, as amended by Mr. F.aton, calls for a meeting of the electors of I each Slate, on the second Monday in December next, following their ap pointment, and a session of Congress jon the second Tuesday in January succeeding the meeting of the electors. Ihe S- uate and House shall meet in joint convention, the I'r- iiilviit of the >•11 aU* presiding. Four P-ller- -hall have la-en previously app inti-d, t-.\ , In the II ouse and two hy the Hinalc. j and to tlietn shall be hand I tin- or -• I• ales, signed by the • .,v-m r- •! Slates, giving th r- uh i f tin- J.-.t --,0r.,i vote in tie i. i<*pcclivc S at, * to Is" opened anil read in 'ln- )|ihal(ica| order of the >inti-s, Uginuing with Alnliarua, and tin Vo'c, th ri ill c .llllted I v th-* :• lb r-. Ihe Pr i-li nt of tin- > nate ail! I. ave the fun lion HI- relv OF an nouncing to tin- i iiviiii -li lie- result as ri |v,rteil to him by the ttlbr- In eae of disputed returns, or plural re turns, the 7*s, cannot lie repeated with -ality r success. IT i- stated that the I - -t •>) < ,11,t ing the internal r--venu<- last year, waa over $5,11 5,000. Thi* is a large -urn. but when it i- taken into consid erati u thai tln-re ar- 5,281 collectors, ganger . slort-kec|crs and >ther pet ty Federal officer* employed in tin collection, ami serving as a reserve force for Republican politics to swell ! its campaign fund, it is not to la wondered at. Unless the people, through Congress, take a hand in abat ing the ntii.snnce the cost of running this unneces-ary draft upon the re .sources of the public are more likely , to increase than diminish. BKXATOIt V KftT says that since Grant's first administration, we have expended $585,01)0,000 on our Navy, j and havo nothing to show for it. With such meu as Robeson an-1 Bill , i Chandler to distribute the funds at j will, and John Roach to salt them down, the showing is about all that could be expected. Before any other appropriations are mads, a dissolution 1 between Chandler and Roach, should j be required. IT would seem that we are not to j have the usual peach growers' panic 1 this year. Reports in Delaware, from prominent peach growers agree that the prospect for a large crop is unus ually promising. The buds are in a healthy condition. —' Thalargest stock of man's low shoes, j V-lAtft * A. C MIXULK . , I) : Drove Wordß from Gov Curtin Ex Governor Curtin, says the \\ ilkcsbarr.- I nam littler, was in tin long lit of distinguished Democrats who were in New York, ou .Saturday, principally in connection with the dinner given by the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brooklyn, that evening. The irrepressible interview er got hold of the yet stout and sturdy, hut now perfectly white head ed old geutlcmau, and elicited from him, among other things, ao opinion of H|M-nkcr Carlisle and the Morris>n hill, that every Pennsylvania Demo crat ought to read. "Carlisle," he said, "is one of the sLaunches!, truest and most loyal men that the ranks of the party contain to day. He believes in a reformation of the tariff' before u complete revolution takes place. So do I. It will not do to go before the j*- bv ti ma le to ni' ke it ap]i> tir in Pennsylvania and t e ea-t g-ner i!: y t hat M • -r-. Cut li-1 • tttid M ini--.u ,i\-e comport'd tin m- ' s 1v• - with ief.-r.-noe to the tariff'- •a l ' wholly alienate tb< Pt nn-> Iv.tnia and ot ' r i- • rn d< !• _-ttt i ii- in ( ' '.g and that the M -rri- o hill, traei- being iif.k- it acceptable to Penn sylvania and "tin r ea-tern Democrats > i tar i- this from b mg true, h'-w* v r, the w. h.*n have Mr. I urtiu, one ,of the mwt ardent of Mr. Randall's advocate?, -{waking of Mr. Carlisle in terms of highest Confidence and prais*- and a- one- in Ix-lief with himself on the subject of Revenue Reform, and of the M irrinn hill a- likely to prove, when amended a- it will IK-, "a meas ure of invaluable aid to the Demo cratic party in '.he coming campaign." It is beginning to be apparent that the tariff monopolists and the Repub licans generally have overdone mat ter*. Ihe discussions the Morrison hill ha provoked have cxjx.std the wcakne-s of the enemy's cause and convinced the I )crn<>craH at once . rine a- will be.suffi eit ntlv r. n a ry t.. -mis-v the west and - -titli and a-, not being revolu ti omrr, will IK- a reptable to the clear h.-aded and progrc-ive DcniKrnt and < itiz'-n* generally of tlie New ii igland and Middle Siati-. Tildcn Again. I'm. Evening .S','or, at Wasliiugtoti, id the l.'lth inst., publishes tie follow ing s|wcial from New York "Mr. Tildcn has absolutely declined to permit I i- naII I u to go before the National convention at Chicago as a candidate fur President. He ha quile completed n letter which will be addn*sod to the chairman of the New York Democratic State Convention,or ixissihlv to the chairman of the New York delegation to Chicago in which : he annouuees that he is not a eaudi- | dale. It sets forth his reasons more (luphalicallv than his letter to the New York delegation in Cincinnati in i June, 1880, and includes some refer-; en ere personal to himself. He believes that the Democratic nominee should I be one who could enter upon the work j of reformation, as the head of the government, with an unvarying vig- I or." , THE Democraoy of Indiana are ; jubilant over the returns of the Spring ! elections of that state, and claim that the returns show that they have in ! creased their majority of 17,000 of | two years ago, largely; that the party I is in the best fighting trim, and haro I command of the election machinery all over the state. THE Morrison tariff bill was taken i up for consideration in the Hxuac on Tuesday by a vote of HO to lIW. TKKMN: per Annum,in Advance. Horns of Intoreat John Billinao iu hung'-d at Hasten on th® Hth in>t for the murder of his wife in April last, j —All employes of (be Insane Ho* ; pitl si Nornstown have bien forbiden j to take an active part in politics. —The A loooa Hsily Timet after a struggle of a little over a year and a half, suspended publication on the 4tb inaf. The Massachusetts House of Hepre tentative* has concluded not to flog wife t, eaters and has defeatem 1 r . n order to prevent t he .oiroducnon of d\ n-mite. ' . M *rtin Steel*, aged >0 years, wL<> wa t oiled S ti * f'on'ul to Mosoowin 1-T ' di'd st 1 lenly at bis country r<-si denee i'i Wyin'tig. Luzerne c unty, h-t wi ek of | neaiotua. M- Bi.itichw N'\in has com | hue I li r statu* of Petit Mulilen i its'- I'• ' her, such't ao i < naior, to be | lac-d by It ania in the gal levy of the f. dcral cipitol. I i < V.I - 1 i,e • ' t 11 • I n ted atr sand it' interest, is 1.,-tt< r understood wL o tir<:ii. ili-i. I tiii in the l.i>t twenty noo the mte'i t payments on thi pu' d- tit et >unt< dto |J.'■'.< OftO, (Kit. 1' it.ng the l.vt sev.-n day* there have I e. n transferee I fr< tn the I'nit. 1 Pipe Line* to the V.it or .d I rsn.it t.'oinpsny o.-r ist iss 1.. i if] - crude pet rol •um le*v ,ng 1< s than fi.itint t**j in the original line. Pav'd We!|s. of S tt county. HI., "hokibd Constable < oats at Glasgow on the LTith tilt whs on Monday sur ren dered to tlie authorities by his father and brother for Ibo reward of SIOOO , offered for bis rapture, which will be used in his defense. tin Monday night amisked mob at Itallas, North t atolina. took ; colored man named Edwin M S'ullough from jsil and hanged him to a tree. About a week ago MrC'ulb ugh sb t slid kiile I 1 botnns ,1- n, a prominent young m if. without provocation. I r th< tweiv< month* ending Febru ary l".t, l>s|. the t r.it.- l States have • xjiortcd $ 100,4ib.1.'.i> more nirrchan di-<, i in and bul.i m than they im porte I . the leg t-ni.te deduction from wbn li is tbst the 1 *iiti-d Stat*** can easier diaprn with hrr fori ign brrth r-n than the latter run low th out the f'nited > atea. Cincn niti has settled down to what \ry mui h resemldea itn old tiroes quietude, although the | lace still re t iins tbe at pearance of a city in a state of Siege, htf rta are making to dispense as *<>. m as p -sible with the s ldiers,nnd ti will !*• done ■ ioon as the ordinary police protection of the city ia deemed sufficient. I In funeral r f Hon. W,llium 11. Hunt, formerly Seen tary of the Navy and late M tii'ter to Hus'ia, took place on last Thursday from St. .lohn' sP. E. 1 fliunli, There was a large attendance of prominent people, including the President and all bin Cabinet, eirept the attotrney General, who it out of the ; city. The stockholders of the Bald Eagle ; \ alley Railroad Company held their annual meet :ng on the Sth inst, and elec j ted the fuilowing officers ; President L. j A. Mackey ; Hirectors. i/lound Rltnch ard. A. fl. t'urtin, J. X. Dubarry, .lames I'ufTy, -tames M. tiainbled, John F. ; Greed, .'oho Irwin, Jr., Henry M. Phil* i lips. (' A. Mayer, Wistar Morris, Geo. B. Roberta and Edmund Smith. Mr. Blisa testifies that in on* of the Star Route cases, which the government has tri-d, it was shown that on one rout which waa the outcome of the con •pirslors' operation* "not a letter or paper went over it for twenty daya, and tbat route paid $40,000 tos.'io,ooo.' "One man we found carried the entire mail aoroas the mountains in the leg of boot," and got $50.000a year for it. And theae are the thieves whom HI is* waa paid SIOO a day to prosecute and con vict— and he didn't do it, Mr. Rlin bad better step down and out. NO. 10.