Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-09
LETTER FROM PITTsBURG.
eclnl corrospondopce Of tho DrnocnAr.


weather is hot-poltics hotter; the
weather is on the cool-politics is get
ting hotter; one is physical discom
fort, the other almost mental malady
The lengths some people carry their
political feelings seem unwarranted, for
to the majority of people it does not
matter much who rules, they must earn
their living anyhow.
The heat we have had in Western
Pennsylvania, the last two weeks, has
been relieved by cool nights. The Ari.
zona papers give the weather reports of
the Yuma district as the warmest place
in the United States. The thermome.
ter there has been from 103o to ll1o
since the 9th of July. When the sun
goes down the temperature drops to
about So, but that is too warm for COM
fort.
President Hayes proposes to pass
through Yuma on his return. lie will
get little example of the hot weather
of the hereafter. II he comes home
as advertised, il will be one of the most
dangerous journeys in the whole United
States. After he leaves the railroad
east of Tuscon he will come by stage,
visiting the Tombstone and Shakespeare
mining districts, coming up through
Silver City, New Mexico, to Santa Fe
and home by that route. From the
end OF the track east OF Tuscon to San.
Ia Fe is about 575 miles of staging,
through the roughest and widest coun.
try on the continent. Victoria, The
Apache chief, is cavorting around that
locality, and Rutherford had better
take the very best troops he can draw
from the slim garrigons OF Forts Grant,
or Cummings, or Bayard, If he expects
to camp with any security, or has much
of desire to live out his term. / do
not believe he will come home that
way travel by railroad is much better
| than by any of the Star Route coaches.
The latest outrage not fully reported
in that region is the murder, by Victor.
las band, of Gen. J. J. Byrne, the chief
Of locating party of Texas Pacific en-.
gineers, near FL Paso. Victoria was on
the Mexican side where he watched for
the stage going TO FL Paso on the
American side, and killed everybody in
it. Beyond the mere fact. telegraphed
by Col. Grierson from Eagle Spring, we
have no further particulars.
That was an amusing speech made at
the Washington City ratification meet.
ing the other day, by the old man who
| presided. 81 have seen" said he, every
President of the United States elected
by the people, except Washington. /
never have seen Mr.. Hayes, and hope
to God never will; be is a pretty good
man they say in his way. but his way is
a stealing way. aud | don't desire TO see
him" THIS little speech was received
with deafening applause. Montgomery
| Blair followed in telliag spaech. old
| Ben Butler is the best card we have
lately in the line Of converts or rather
reinforcements. His speech at Wor.
cester in declining the Democratic nom.
ination for Governor, was full of good
sense, as was that in Boston, when he
first came out. On Hancocks letter
Gen. Butler says "Tf any one desires
to read his (Iiancock's) mind and search
out the springs OF his action, let him
read that most admirable letter to Gen.
Sherman, written in the confidence and
under the seal Of private correspond.
euce. 1t exhibits Gen. Hancock's inner.
most thought rs the obedient soldier
when within the line where obedience
was duty, the analytical statesman who
guided himself by research into the Ian.
! guage and principles of the Constitu.
! ton, evinced determination not to re.
/ cede one hair from its mandate, nor
step one inch beyond its provisions, un.
der whatever stress or pressure"
lie adds; every word Of Eancock's
letter TO Sherman might be well written
to-day, under the light of all that is
past, and would be equally sound after
the event, as it was prophetically said
before the event"
His closing paragraphs were excellent.
Men of Massachusetts, you have now
the golden opportunity to put the des.
TIMES of the country under the guidance
of his firm hand, strong will, mature
Judgment, loyalty to the Union for
which he battled, and fidelity TO its
constitution which he has ever made
the guide of his action"
see Judge Black is being interviewed
extensively by the press and gets off
some of his good things. lie cracks
Garfield over the cope as frequently as
II he had lately learned the art in
Ireland, and then slips a withering sar.
casm at him and his followers that il
worth whole mass. meeting to us.
The boss OF all sarcastic speakers,
Conkling, is to speak here next week.
lie has ten appointments to fill, not
that he hates Garfield any less, but that
he loves Roscoe more, so to air his care.
fully prepared speech he cometh. Il
will be the same speech repeated ten
times, and in point Of makeup will, no
doubt, be we'll done. but like many mis-.
placed adjectives his eloquent words will
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