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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Cincinnati Enquirer urges the farmers
to give up their new party notions, and assures
them that "the agricultural people have no
redress"
Congressman Kssson, Of Iowa, has written
o second letter telling why he does not wish Q
reelection. In IL he says: 81 have neither bid
farewell 20 one party nor hail to another, but
have simply declined q candidacy in order to
have my friends and opponents both free to
choose as they would" SD. .
The national lecturers closing address, st
the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Grange,
predicted that Pennsylvania would have 900
oranges next January, with Q membership Of
over 5000. Ono county already has forty
oranges, with membership Of nearly 4, 200,
end the same county had only one grange,
with less than10o members, on the LIST of jan
uary. ~ .-. rs
The Richmond Dispatch says, "The races
were placed separately upon the earth by the
Creator. They can never dwell together in q
ststs Of equality With peace and success. Ths
white man is the highest Of the FIVE types of
man. BE must rule he must be the eKclu-
stve possessor Of the territory, or all others IN
1t must b controlled and governed BY him.
Equality Of race 10 impossible; equality In the
government between races distinct Is great
fallacy, destructive of the happiness Of man,
equally fatal to any two distinct races that
may by the agency Of man be brought together
in the same political community. Therefore
Mr. Lamar Is only 9 good-hearted orator. ae
is no statesman"
Governor Smith, Of Georgia, in recen
conversation said: "should the civil rights
bill become law, Gas is much to be feared,
after patiently waiting for the negroes TO take
action in the premises, If they attempt TO
.intrude their children into the white schools,
he would not hesitate to Issue his official
proclamation suspending all payments to
teachers from the school fund, and thus prac-
tically sbolishing the system. In this position
he would be sustained by the unanimous YER
dict Of the entire white population and the
General Assembly" .... ..--..
In his address to New York editors on g
visit to the South, the Hon. Ben. H. Hill, of
Georgia, said: During the war, st one time
dnring the cessation Of hostilities. Federal
troops occupied one bank of the Rappahan-
mock river and Confederate troops the other.
Each had their band. One day the Federal
band struck up "Dixie," and the Confederates
rent the air with shouts; the Confederate
band struck up "Yankee Doodle" and the
Fsderals made the velkin ring. Both bands
then simultaneously struck up "Home, Sweet
Home, and both armies sent up such shouts
as were never heard before. We, perhaps,
have sung the song Of Radical and Yankee
long enough You have sung secesh, rebel and
traitor untn you ought to be tired Of It. Let
Us both quit these songs, and, in the new
temple of the Union, with united voice, sing
CLONE, Sweet Home"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-17

THE House of Representatives yesterday
virtually said by its action upon the Nor
mon question that it was willing to sit with
Apostle Cannon during the balance Of this
Congress as peer, but thst thereafter. he
might take good notice that there will be
no chance there for either bigamists or
polygamists. There was, doubtless some
misrepresentation as to the purport of Mr..
Burrows resolution calling upon the Com
mittee on Elections for report, or the mo
ton would have carried. But this is not
the last Of it The opponents Of polygsmy
are determined to give the Republicans in
the House still another chance to redeem
their pledges and wipe from their es-
cutcheons the foul stains of cowsrdice and
NOrTIYpfiOn
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SOME FARMERS I'M POLITICS

The farmers of Illinois and Indiana have
assembled In convention, formed plat
form and made nominations for State off,
GERS. We have not any means Of estimst-
ing the strength of the new organization,
what cohesion it possesses or the exact char.
+scter Of its managers If we may judge,
however; from the brief synopsis of the
platforms which were printed in our news
columns Wednesday morning, there is good
deal of the worst kind of demagogism
connected with the movement There is q
''cut and dried'' favor about the perform
ance that is suspicious and leads US to sus-
pect the presence of some of the old politi-
cal hacks who have become ''reformers' in
the expectation that Ii will bring them some
thing of profit and advantage.
In the Illinois platform the principal
point is opposition to the railroads. Why
il Is necessary to 60 outside the present
Republican party in order to effect solu-
ton Of this question Is difficult to see. Dur
ing the last twelve months. the party has
practically made it one Of its leading ques-
tons and done more to rectify whatever
abuses exist than all other agencies CON-
bined. In Congress and out of it, the party
has sgitated the subject with an earnest
ness and vfgor that affords the absolute
certainty that in very short time the
question will assume practical shape and
be dealt with in manner Just to all con.
cerned. For Ii must be remembered that
railways have, after all, some rights which
the people are bound to respect; that they
have accomplished wonderful results and
made millions of even poor people rich;
poor people who, if it had not been for
their aid, would be In the slums Of the
cities or perhaps in psupers' graves. We
have no intention whatever to defend the
railroad companies and monopolists; but
one Of the great dangers Of this Western
farmers movement, ss Il called, Is that in
the reckless war which would seem 10 have
been declared against this class of business.
the farmers themselves will be the greatest
sufferers It Is very well known that 9
large portion Of the capital invested in our
was obtained in England and Ger =
many. The result Of the present agitation,
unless there shall be some reasonable limits
set to il, viii be to drive capital away from
us to suspend the building Of any more
rosds and as consequence to impede the
Of the country.
The Indiana farmers" adopted pretty
much the same platform as their Illinois
brethren. declared gold and silver to be ut.
terly useless in this world and clamored for
more paper money. Free passes on rail-
roads were condemned. for the reason. we
suppose, that none of the delegates were
able to obtain any. Platform literature, as
a rule, is pretty poor stuff, but for down.
right stupidity and Stiffness the Indiana and
Illinois productions have been rarely sur
passed. The candidates nominated are new
and unknown men. naturally. Some are
Democrats and some Republicans, and may
be the best men in the country for all we
know. That the movement will make any
dec,ded political impression upon the coun-
try is very improbable.
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THE REPORT OFTHE COMpITTEE.

THE REPORT OFTHE COMIHITTEE.
The report of the joint special committee
to investigate the Board of Public Works
of the District of Columbia will be found
elsewhere in these columns. While it ap-
pears to afford fair satisfaction to the friends
of the board in this city, who have read all
the testimony in The NATIONAL REPUB-
LIcAN, We apprehend that 1t will be great
disappointment to the readers of those So
called independent sheets abroad, who have
been INDUCED only with the perusal of
garbled, IMPERFECT and lying abstracts of it.
Such readers doubtless expected wholesale
denunciatioDs Of the several members of
the board as corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS
vampires, who had fsttened upon the sub
stance Of the complaining memorialists.
1t will be observed that, while the COM
mittee criticise the broad construction
which the board has given to the organic
act, and the liberal latitude exercised by it
in the issue of its own certificates Of indebt-
edness to contractors and other creditors, it
does not find that the funds and credits
have been corruptly applied or diverted to
their personal benefit In noticing the
manner in which contracts for work were
awarded by the board, the committee, fail
TO mention the fact that the payements
were in all instances protected by patents,
upon which the owners always expect
to realize large profits. It was from these
gains to which their inventions entitled
them that the contractors, in legitimate
business rivalry, were enabled to pay
bonuses for contracts already awarded, and
still reap rewards in accordance with the
quantity Of pavement they could get to
lay. The royalty upon the invention was a
clear margin of gain in all the awards sub
seQuentto the first, which the contractor
owningshe patent could much better afford
to divide with party having contract
with no right to use the patent, than he
could sfford to lie idle. Had the board
given all the contracts to the two or three
parties controlling the patent, the cry of
favoritisn,rwould-shave been much more
loud ana'deen And yet the scale of board
prices were, on the average, lower than in
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In the House last night the Committee
on Invalid Pensions had the floor, and
Gen. Rush, chairman, succeeded in obtain
ing the passage Of one hundred and I've
bills. The most prominent reason for his
almost unprecedented success was that the
House, having confidence in his integrity
as well as in the ability and earnest work
of the committee, did not call upon him for
the details regarding the bills reported.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-17

PHILADELPHIA Is lust now worried over
the management Of Paramount Park The
Press thinks Fairmount Park Is fine orna-
ment 'tand would still be something to be
proud of were all its gates barred and Q
'fstone wall built around il, but it was not
intended for anything q the kind; 1t Is or
eft ought to be the pleasure ground and
'tplace of resort for all our people, rich and
''poor. 1t is fast losing this character, how
"eyer, for the reason that it is inclosed by q
network of railroads, and because Its main
approaches are continually crossed and re-
crossed by trains running ever so many
'tmiles an hour. One cannot gain admit
'ftanoe at any Of the southern gates without
'fbeing confronted by a red-shirt signal
'fman, waving red flag, and shouting o
warning in the voice of q stentor. This
''spparition, to say nothing of the trains
whose coming it herslds, is sufficient to
alright a spirited horse and alarm the
occupants Of carriage or coupe" The
trouble and danger, it seems, does not end
when the red-shirted signal man has been
passed. Inside the park this danger is sup
plemented by the runaway horses, that
daily dash down its graveled rdadWays at
the average expense of one human life per
day. What these screeching and bell-ring-
ing locomotives now are to Paramount
Park the locomotives of the companies
whose roads terminate at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue will be, to the city OF
Washington, in brief period Philadel-
phia must remove the railroads from her
park to be cleared of the nuisance, and the
same remedy will have to be applied by
Congress in the case of Washington.
Screening locomotives are out of place in
a suburban parkdevoted to pleasure -driv
ing; in thickly-settled community they
are terror to the people, blight upon
contiguous property, and should not be
tolerated
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-17
PROPOSALS FOR FORAGE AND STRAW.
DEPOT QUARTERnksTER,s OFFICE, /
: WAaHINlrnN. ID. C.. MAY L la14

WASHINGTON, d. c., May /, 1874.
Sealed proposals in duplicate, with 4 copy OF this
.dvertistment attached AIS invited from resPonsi-
ali the Corn, oats, Hay and Rye Straw required at
this depot during the fiscal year CONNIE neing July
such times and places as may be directed by the
The Quantity required each month Il estimated
at q, 900 pounds OF Oats, loo pounds Of Corn. 70
weigh 81 and 50 pounds to the bushei; ~ 90 pounds
Of hay, Known s prime Timothy, and 2, 900
charitable quality, net weights. Esch bid mu.t be
accompanied by q written guarantee, signed by
the bidder or bidders and sompetent surety: GER
tihed TO be such by some oficer or other person
known TO the Quarterinaster's Department 70 the
effect thatin the event of the Acceptance OF such
bid al any time within ten tio1 Gays after date Of
opening bids the necessary contract VIII be entered
into, and that In case the said party or parties
offering shall fail to enter into contract as afore-
said he or they guarantee TO make good the differ
erencs between his or their offer and the next lowest
Proposals should be marked ssPropos.ls for
Forage and addressed TO the undersigned.
Bidders are invited to be present at the opening.
Full Information furnished on application to this
Office. 49,
Denot Quartermaster. Byt. Brig. Gen. U.s.A
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Two sANeU1NARY editors of San francisco
yesterday amused themselves in the post office
of that city by practicing at short range with
pistols. The jolly editors took q Western
Union telegraph boy for target, and pre-
tended they were shooting at each other.
Eight shots were fired before the boy was hit
In the leg, when both the marksmen were ar
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DIED.

ROBERTs.-In Baltimore, on the morning OF
June 10, Mrs; ELIZA A. ROBERTS, in the ninety
Funeral at the Congressional Cemetery, June II,
At O'Clock p. IN.
SHIEL.-On Tuesday, June l6 at O'Clock D. m,
THOMAS SHIEL, in the eighty-hfth year Of his age.
Formerly Of the city OF Limerck, Ireland, but for
the last tweuty-three years resident Of this city.
Funeral from the residence of John 7. Burch,
16s5 Eighth street northwest, to-day at O'Clock D.
m. Friends OF the family are invited.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-17

TAAMANT HALL has, 1t seems, found new
leader and grand sachem in the person Of Mr..
John Kelly, who, in the days when the Democ-
racy was aHttls purer and better than 1t is ct
present, held several responsible positions in
New York city. The friends Of that famous
political organization are sanguine that, under
Mr.. Kelly's leadership, Tammany will regain
its former influence and shine with its old-time
splendor. ..
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MoRNINe.:.::::..JUNE h. Iu..

PERSONS leaving toDR for tho summer
UiH do tcel to consult the catering -psGos
advertisements IN another column. =
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TN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE D
nEPoT oUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June r. 1871.
The bids which were received on the following
advertisement being considered too high, are re-
jected, and the advertisement 10 therefore rtpub-
lished, with notice that bids will be received until
Il o'clock m, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, ls74 for sup
WIN. MYERS,
Depot Quartermaster, Brevet Brigadier General
United States Army.
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JAS. LITTLE, Proprietor.
slIghtful sumner seaside resort is now open

This delightful summer seaside resort is now open
for the recsp tion of visitors.
Mr.. W, P. Cossarte, one OF the best caterers in
the country, and who has managed some OF the
most fashionable hotels, both North and South,
will superintend and dispense all the luxuries the
season affords.
A fne band of music, conducted by Professor
Louis Voelker, late director OF the Richmond Thea
tre has been engaged for the season. Attached to
the Hotel are Bowling Alley, Bar, Shooting Gal
lery, and Telegraph Once. jeh-lm
TN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
L TRIGT 1 ~ COLUMBIA, THE 10TH DAY OF
Thomas ms :. hs0sn No. 1851, Equity Docket "a
On motion Of the plaintiff, by Mr.. Enoch Totten.
HIS solicitor, Il IL ordered that the defendants
Thomas ]. Fisher, David Gallup and Joseph H.
Fincn, cause their appearance to be entered herein
on or before the first rule day occurring forty days
amer this day; otherwise the cause will he pro-
ceeded with as in case Of default,
BY the Court: A. WYLIE, Justice, &C.
True copy. Tests z. ]. MEIes, Clerk, &c.
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PIANOS.
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
IT Is w BIO 0 II o.

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The Case OF the Virginius. By George Ticknor
Sketches by Boz. BY Charles Dickens. CCarle,Ou's
Memoirs OF Westminster Hall. BY Edward Foss,
FIR. g, author OF Lives Of the Judges OF Eng
Theory OF the Beautiful. BySamuel Tyler, Ii. d.
Mark Twain g Sketches, Mol.
Second Cousin Sarah. A novel. BY y. W. Robin
Lie Of John Of BarneveId. By III Motley; 2
Some WOmen's Hearts. By Louise Chandler MOuI-
ton.
How Marjory Helped. By d. Carroll.
Merdana; or, Adventures In south Africa. By
.luleS Verne.
Sedg wick on Dsmag es; sth edition law sheep Hub
beli's Legal Directory. 1874. Baroour's Chan
CRY Practice; ID edition. Hill on Fixtures, I'd
edition. BiEelow's Life and Accident Insurance
For saIssy WE. go. N. MORRISON,
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The vIs-a-vis, Court Pspete<ie, containing two
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Papeterle5 Of Pirles, Rep and Wove paper, as
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envelopes TO match inst the thing for parties about
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TIE NATIONAL RRPgBLIcAE HAs 4
LARGER CIRCULATION FRAE ANY OTTER
MORNING PAPER IN TIE DLSTRICToF 90
LURBEA.
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TIE warm weather is having decidedly
bellicose influence npon the editorial fraternity.
One California Journalist" pays his respects
to another after the following fashion: "a
particle Of refinement, delicacy, respect, benev-
olencs or Christian kindness never found q
place in OWENS bosom. He is as utterly devoid
Of everything but that which ID base, gross and
british, as Berkshire SOW is of the divine
sfiatus." ~ -
Coming from>the "goiden shores' of the
Pacific to the Alleghanies, the Pittsburg Com
mereial slindes TO the Cleveland PietidedIsr as
s'malignant imbecilitysp
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Each subscriber is entitled to draw two books :. q
Free readins-room attached.
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15s * ana proper
mefho9 Of tfeatlsg .C.tarfh and similar diseases.
For ale y all tina principal druggist and instra-
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W.DR. A. PRATT, GRADUATE OF
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In eKT.ctlnE Teeth, Teeth .ses either jan .,es.
~N0TICE TO HACKMEN.-THO$E
Of the eIpspee Of Keeping the Hack Stands clean
Will not be slloysd e Ssenpy the stands BY order
o. m agS sf e cLESEsT Hill Gen. Inspector
~ MILBURN's z.
ORIGINAL POLAR SODA,
Ico Pennsylvanis avenue, near Wizards.
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the contractor CO for the removal Of the garbage
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apis =. :. Inspector Of Garbage
H3eDR, 9. 8. BOND HAS REMOVED
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T~PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR
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Drug Stole and En 1s1 sIresss Wy 'ns nosf
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AND Law REPORTER,
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IeooDs sELBY cannot be excelied in reg ard
Duck Cults for S, Cheviot Suits for 81, Navy Blue
FLANNEL for $40; Goats and Pants from Al aud up
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1T is SAD to know that 80 pure and high
toned sheet as the Evening Telegraph, Of
Philadelphia, should be so easily swerved from
the path of honorable journalism as It is. For
example, a few days since it made application
to the Interior Department for authority to
publish the advertisement for Indian goods
for the current year, whic was refused. Re-
peated applications met with the same refusal.
It was urged that the Telegraph was friendly,
aud would continue so, IL this favor was
granted. The refusal seems to have so affected
the Telegraph that It is incapable of telling the
truth in regard to Indian affairs. Its leader of
the 18th is full of Misrepresentation and false
hood, but when the public understands the
animus Of the paper its shafts must fall harm
less.
It has been admitted by undoubted au-
thority that VIM. Welsh writes the editorials
on Indian subjects for the Telegraph, and that
the editors should not therefore be held re-
sponsfble for them. For the honor Of journal
ism we trust that such is not the fact.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

RDING.-DESIRABLE FURNISHED
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No. 9l5 Twelfth street northwest. jeE-lm
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

r~ A FAIR FOR THE BENEFIT OF
~ GRACE CHURCH Il now being held at
Potomac hall,-corn of Eleventh street and Mary
land avenue s. ". 1t will close THIS (Wednes-
dayl NIGHT. All articles not disposed Of viii
SOLD AT AUCTION. tal7