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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23
THE DRAMA.

As the regular dramatic season opens in
the large cities throughout the country GER
tain editors are having their annual spasms,
caused by what they call the "degeneracy
of the stage" 1t lisa strong indication that
they are about to have fit when they be-
gin to talk about the purity of the drama
in the palmy days of Greece and Rome.
And when they begin to curse poor France
as the mother Of Camille" and hundred
other productions demorslizing to social
virtue, these pious knights of the quill get
into regular frenzy. The whole truth is
that great actor commands from theatre
goers now the same respect talent always
insures. The three best female actresses
in the world, Janauschek, Ristori and
Piamonti, together with the eminent names
of Salvini, Booth, Davenport and Adams
in tragedy; Owens, Jefferson, Clarke and
Sothern in comedy, are all before the pub
lie, and never was there day in the dra-
matte history of Greece, Rome, France,
England or America when the stage
had more gifted representatives. Another
word about Camille - as a type of
modern society plays. 1t has done
much to deter thoughtless women
from entering upon a degrading life,
and it would be hard to instance a
fact where it has enticed woman to repeat
in her own history that of the heroine of
the play. Charlotte Thompson, in the play
of Divorce" has laid an iron hand over
the folly and sin of hastily breaking the
yoke of marriage, and Lucille Western, in
East Lynne" has read most powerful
lectures to foolish and jealous wives. Not
one of this class of plays is of immoral ten
dency when viewed from the proper stand
point. The Joseph Surfaces of the editorial
tripod, when talking about the degeneracy
of the stage, remind one strongly of the
modern patriots who are ever signing for
the "better and purer days of the Repub-
lic." But George William Curtis devotes
an hour in one of his splendid lectures to
the proof adduced from newspapers of
Revolutionary dates, that the forefathers of
our country, including the immortal Wash
ington himself, were all consummate ras-
calls There is as much of truth in the one
as in the other.
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war and Grants first commands when, as
a correspondent of Western paper, he
circulated false and malicious reports about
his personal habits. When Mr.. Reid be-
came an editorial writer on the Cincinnati
Gazette he persisted in the same course,
and when he left that journal for the Irt-
6asRe he carried with him the same feeling
which had grown with his growth and
strengthened with his strength. 1t is really
difficult to account for the bitter animosity
which he has exhibited for so many years.
Probably he was angry that General Grant
did not take him into his confidence. Mr..
Reid ought not to blame him for that, be-
cause Mr.. Reid is not man whom any one
would take into his confidence. 1t cannot
be that Mr.. Reid was jealous of his reputa-
ton and success as a soldier, because Reid
has not and never had single warlike i'm
pulse. Reid preferred to write about bat
ties, not to fight them; to look at them from
an ambulance wagon, instead of partici-
pating in them. Whatever may be his
motives, it is undeniable that the fame of
General Grant has been to him a sort of
Nessus shirt, burning his very vitals, dur
ing the last fourteen years. The pretence
now put forward that he does not wish to
attack the man, but to defend principle, is
all nonsense. If Mr.. Greeley had been
elected in 1872 the Tribune and Mr. Reid
would to-day be supporting his renomina-
ton, and after the second term it would be
endeavoring to show the folly and absurdity
of the idea that third term would be fatal
to our American republican liberties. But
however all that may be, the Tribune is
taking just the course the friends of the
President (ifthere are any) who desire to see
him renominated would have it take. Its
support would be fatal; lis opposition is the
brightest third-term omen in the political
heavens
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4 FTN1W0TIT TONTPICT

The Democrats always claim to he pre-
eminently the party of economy and
national thrift. But the record of their
party will not justify any such claims.
Taylor and Fillmore reduced the expendi-
lures of the Government from sixty mil
lions, which was the cost of Folks last
year, to less than forty seven millions in
1852. The Pierce Democrats ran them
from this up to seventy-five millions in
1854, and seVenty-three millions in 1856,
which Buchanan's administration advanced
to eighty-three millions in 1859 and sew
enty seven millions in 1860. 1t also in
creased the debt from twenty mine millions
to nearly sixty-seven millions 1t
left the Treasury empty, with an
authorized loan untaken because of
the bad financial management of the
national funds. In 1858 Mr.. Cobb nego-
tiated five per cent. twenty million loan,
with the proceeds of which he purchased
largely of six per cent. bonds, at premium
of fifteen per cent. In 1860 he went into
the market with another five per cent. loan
of twenty-one millions, of which he was
only able to place about seven millions.
In February, 1861, six per cent. loan was
offered by Secretary Dix, but so greatly had
the Government credit been deprecated
that only about eighteen out of the twenty
five millions authorized were taken. Thus,
under the management of the Democrats,
during the administration of Mr.. Buchanan,
our six per cent. bonds went from fifteen
premium down to the point of being re-
fused at par. These disastrous results were
achieved in face of larger net ordinary re-
ceipts than had been enjoyed by any former
Administration, except that of Mr.. Pierce.
The Republicans took the administration
of the Government with civil war i'm
pending, its credit utterly impaired and the
commerce and other industries of the coun-
try paralyzed. They have so managed as
to recuperate the credit of the nation so
that five per cent. bonds can be negotiated
at par in coin. They have raised, since
1861, over twelve thousand millions of dol
lars, put down the most gigantic rebellion
Of modern times, restored the credit peace
and prosperity of the country, and are
rapidly reducing the public debt. Mr.. Bu-
chanan, the Democrat by his temporizing
and imbecile policy, involved us in a war
which has cost ten thousand millions in
money, besides many valuable lives.
During the last few days we have seen
the promptitude and frmness of General
Grant, Republican President, crush new
rebellion in its incipiency without mate
rally affecting the national credit or dis
turbing our industries or commerce. The
contrast between the two Administrations
is glaring and instructive. Let the nation
heed and profit by the lesson.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23

at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of fifty
five pictures loaned that institution by the
Duke de Montpensier from his gallery in
the palace of St. UImo, at Seville. The
only condition exacted by the Duke was
their insurance against marine and fire risk.
Out of the f1fty-fve there are twenty-seven
whose equals have never been seen on this
side of the Atlantic. Reference is made to
this fact for the purpose of suggesting that
it may be possible for arrangements to be
made by which they can be positioned
for month at least in the Corcoran Art
Gallery.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23

JAMES GORDON BENNETT, of the New
York Herald, is just now amusing himself
by playing fantastic tricks before the coun-
try. The ordinary paths Of journalism are
toopent up for the young man. Discussion
Of grave questions affecting the well-being
of peoples and the existence of States is not
sufficient to satisfy the vaulting ambition of
the Herald man. He has mounted his Ro-
zinante, and, with spear in rest, proposes
to settle single-handed the woes of the
world. His demand on Governor Kellogg
for surrender of the seals of his great
Office not meeting with a prompt afirma-
tive, he is now calling upon venerable men
like Reverdy johnson to tell him what they
think of such criminal obstinacy He rides
against great questions of administration
with the same resolute daring as did his
chivalric prototype against the fiocks of the
swineherds. lie religiously believes that
he has got the start of the males tic world,
and can bear the palm alone, and we may,
ere long, look to the Herald, and not to
Congress and the Executive, for the legis-
latiOn and administration of the republic
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just now danger which nothing but wis
dom, prudence and forbearance will avert.
Very many of the Low Churchmen are
in sympathy with the secession movement
Of Bishop Cummins, and even the slightest
leaning towards Ritualism by the conven-
ton may drive the Low Church party into the
Reformed Church. Nor is this the only
danger which the Triennial Convention
will have to meet, for should an attempt
be made to conciliate the Low Church
party, by even an apparent opposition to
Ritualism, the High Church party may
take the intervening step and boldly trans
fer themselves to the Church of Rome,
The Baptist Church, which will also as
semble in National Convention, at Brook
Ign, next month, viii have some questions
to meet, or avoid, which will be of great
importance to the future unity of that
body. The liberal views and tendencies of
some of the individual churches and pas
tors of the Baptist denomination in regard
to communion have excited the advocates
of the ancient tenets, and an effort may be
made next monthto discipline" those who
are preaching and practicing open COM
munion. Such an effort will, It is feared,
drive to other sects large body of Bap-
fists. In this, as in the Episcopal Conven-
ton, there will be much need for wise
counsel and Christian forbearance, as any
effort to prescribe the liberalism that has
lately sprung up in the Baptist denomina-
ton on the doctrine of communion is likely
to lead to a serious secession. Thus it will
be seen that the Church is threatened by
questions of policy and craftsmanship as
well as the State, and that Christian char
ity, forbesrance one with another, together
with the exercise of that wisdom only &C
quired by active contact with the busy,
every day world, arerequired in the consid-
Grafton of affairs of Church as well as in
the affairs of State.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23

Certain obnoxious features in these laws
prevailed under Warmoth, and were
promptly repealed upon Warmoth's down
fall. Permitted to control the entire ap-
pointment of registrars, election commits
sioners and the location of polls, he suffered
the appointment in 1872 of not one Repub-
lican to such functions, and fixed polls at
localities most inaccessible to rural Repub-
ncang-sometimes but one poll to a parish
County, thirty miles long. In view of the
ensuing election, Gov. Kellogg frankly called
some time since on theDemocracy toindicate
partisans to share equally with Republicans
IN the discharge of the official duties per-
tanning to registration and the election, and
the police juries of the parishes boards
of civil administration-would appoint such
Democrats. Yet, although furnishing no
reason for complaint, and every reason for
marvel at Kellogg's fsir-mindedness and at
his scrupulous Interpretation of the re-
formed law in behalf of all parties, Penn
cites the registration and election laws as
part of his provocation to mutinous action.
Turpin might have argued plausibly with
the traveller quailing before his muzzle,
but Penn could not, and cannot, proffer
one solitary honest reason in illustration of
his bastard excuse for rebellion. He would
have disclosed one dishonest reason, among
others. 1t is this All through the State,
up to the hour he dashed his mob upon her
government, the Democratic registration
for the election in November was wofully
in the minority. To seize upon the gov
eminent and employ anew the wicked
Warmoth system of 1872 of manipulating
registration, denying black sufragans and
raIying, nay, moving, whites from parish
to parish, as q nomadic majority, alike to
register and vote-to do this would assure
his party its only possible chance of vindi-
eating white civilization. Fraud was
the brain and red-handed violence the arm
of the Penn movement. Its reasons were
falsehoods; its motives were heinously
wicked, and its end a bloody scandal to
American civilization. i
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23

THE White-League organs of Louisiana
are full of venom. They are probably edited
by men who during the war husbanded
their fire for pacific citizens, whose treason
should be to differ with these editors in
opinion after the war. These tempestuous
instigators of riots in New Orleans are
violent just now. The PicayuRe, for in
stance, declares that every white man seen
talking confidentially to two or more ne
groes is practically instigating riot, and
should be shot down without judge or jury.
We would do better for such editors-we
would insist upon their having both judge
and jury. The prospect for their getting
both soon is promising.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23

THE Democratic press of the country is
just now engaged in repeating the asser-
ton that not a single negro was killed dur
ing the recent New Orleans troubles. If
the assertion could be relied upon as truth
full it would not weigh feathers weight in
making up the verdict against the rebels
who were responsible for the riot But it
is not true. And, besides, the memory of
Coushatta and Grant parish has not yet
faded from the minds of intelligent men.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23
PROPOSALS FOR MILITARY SUPPLIES
DEPOT QUARrERMAsTER's OFFICE,

DEPOT QUARTERlIAsTER's OFFICE,
60, PHILADELPHIA. August II, 1874. J
Sealed proposals, in duplicate, with a copy OF
tins attached TO each, VIII be received
AZ ms once until noon, September "a 1874 for fur
nishing the nited States Quartermaster's Depart
ment With the following named articles, viz:
8, 500 Helmets.
10, 500 Uniform Dress Cans
1000 Forage Caps.
5000 Forage Cap Covers.
Il 600 dozen Scrlbbing Brushes.
All rrtcles will be subjected TO rigid inspection,
and bidders are Informed that full compliance with
specifications Will be insisted upon, and that no
ticle inferior to the standard Will be accepted.
or all bids.
Bids are requested for delivery OF the articles at
Philadelphia, JeersOuville, and also at San Fran
cisco.
For information in detail apply to this ONCE.
Envelopes containing proposals TO be indorsed
10 the undersigned.
By order OF thu Quartermaster general;
Assistant ouartermaster General. U. S. A., in
charge. auzt-6t
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DRoPOSALS FOR COAL.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
RUREAU OF ENGR WING ANyD PRTNTTNG

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, ,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 4, 1874.
Sealed proposals will be received at this once
until 10 O'Clock Il. m. TUESDAY, 9Th October. for
furnishing six hundred (6oOl tons of run OF mine
Georges creek Cumberland coal, to be delivered
at sueh times and places and in such quantities ss
may be required, aud subject to the conditions re-
CURED by act OF Congress, approved July IL, 1870,
VIZ: That such coal shall weigh =, 80 pounds TO
the ton, and shall be inspected and weighed, and
the quantity OF each load certified at the time of
delivery by the person appointed and qualified
under the act for that purpose, and that the pre-
scrbed fee Of % cents for each ton of coal
weighed and delivered shall be paid by the con-
TRACTOR
Proposals will be considered binding for one week
from the 9th October, the Department reserving
offered.
No proposals will be entertained unless accom-
panied by satisfactory evidence of ability to fuhl
the contract, nor will any payment be made with
out the certificate OF the inspector that the coal
furnis he'd Is such as the contract calls for.
Proposals should be addressed and sent 10 the
ofice OF GEO. b. MCCARTEE,
ury Department. se5-STuThtd
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G. G. CoRNWELL& SONS,
FINE GRoCERs,
I4Isi Pennsylvania avenue, opposite
WIIArd's Hotel.
DROPOSALS FOR COAL AND FOR
L TRANSPORTATION.
NAVY PAY OFFICE,
M LlI nun .n-Era. EnnHEn

NAVY PAY OFFICE,
.. NO. ~ CHESTNUT STREET, ,
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. q, 1874.
Separate ssaled /, proposals in duplicate,
TraHsportAtion, y will be received at this Office
tETHURSDAY next, 24th instant, at one
O'Clock p. m, for One IN 0usand ,0O) Tons 80
pounds to the toni Of AHTHRAOITE STEAMER
COAL, (st. ambOat size, to be delivered on board
Of vessels at Ort Richmond, FREE OF ALL EX-
PESsE to the Government.
The above coal to be of the best quality, aad
uniform in character, selected free from all i'm
puI titles, and subject as TO quality and quantity,
to inspection by the inspector appointed for the
purpose, who will have the right Of peremptOry
rejection.
BIDS will only be received from bona JSds miners
or dealers in coal.
Bids will also be received st the same time and
place for the Immediate transportation OF the
above coal, in frst-class American vessels, the
Unifed States navy-yarI, Washington, ID. @.
Bidders must state in theirbids name, rate Owes
sell, and when ready to load,
The right Is reserved to reject any bills that may
not be de- med adyantag to tie Government.
Responsible security viii be required for the faith
full delivery of the above in conformity with the
stpuations on the blank forms for lids, to be had
at this office, otherwise bids will not be enter
talned.
Pay Inspector, U. s. Navy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23

Mr.. r. MmToN sPEER, who has been exceed
ing glib in the way of CAB, and not backward in
cheek during his four years of membership in
Congress, is not to be returned to the House.
His district has always been strongly Repub-
lican, but has been lost to the party by reason
of party feuds in the county of Huntingdon.
These have now been healed, and the party
goes into the campaign united on one of the
most popular men. in Pennsylvania
Langhorn Wistar, one of the famous Wistar
family of Germantown. He commanded the
famous Bucktail brigade during the latter part
Of the war, and is a gentleman of ability, edu-
cation and culture. He will carry the full
party strength, which makes his election a Ger
tainty.
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MARRLEn-

RYAN-EARNA.--On September %, 1874, st the
Church OF immaculate Conception, by Rev. Father
Mccarthy, JOHN RYAN and BRIDGET EARNA, both
OF this city.
ORAIGHILL -CHURCHILL.-At st. Johns
Church, Baltimore county, Md, on September p
by Rev, Joseph 4. Jones, Of Virginia, Colonel N.
daughter Of the late Rev. Alexander Jones, D. ID.
No cards.
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SUBSISTENCE

PROPOSALS FOR SUBSISTENCE
L STORES.
OFFICE Posi- AND DEPOT)
CoMlnssARY OF SUBSISTENCE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept IL, 1874.
Sealed proposals, in duplicate, win be received at
this office, until u M, on the last Mondays Of Oc-
tOber, November aud December, 1874, for the fol-
lowing stores:
No. / Flour, Corn, Meal, Soap. Beans, Salt,
Hominy, Bacon, Breakfast Bacon, Smoked Beef.
Amount required each month, quality and condi-
lions made known by G.'BELL,
sepl6-5t c. s., u. s. A.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER "a, 1874

THE State convention of the New York
Republicans will be convened at Utica to-
day. Governor Dix will certainly receive
the deserved compliment of a denomination
and, in due time, of reelection.
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PROPOSALS.

TT @ ENGINEER OFFICE,
u D. THIRD STORY
UNION BANK BUILDING.
FAYETTE, NEAR CHARLES STREET.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Sept. Il, 1874.
Proposals for dredging in WicomicO river, Mary
land, will be received until noon of October IL,
IS74, and opened Immediately thereafter.
Blank forms, specifications, and any desired in
formation can be had on application at this Office.
VIM. p. CRAIGHILL,
seDle-6t Major of Engineers, u. 8. A.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING:

TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN HAS a
LARGER CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER
MORNING PAPER IN THE DISTRICFOF CO.
LUNBIA
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/ CARD OF THANKS.

ID
The subscriber returns his thanks to the citizens
of Washington. especially to the retail dealers for
generous custom while he has kept two establish
ments-One at 40 Pennsylvania avenue. and the
other opposite the Metropolitan HOtel-and begs
leave 70 announce that his store opposite the Met
repoltan Hotel has been rehtted and enlarged, and
that IN the future both establishments will b. con-
ssqqi !. a1 ~ ". bENJAMlN'S NATIONALC CANDY
MANOFACTOR1. The new establishment has
largely extended its facilities for the wholesale
trade, and the spirit of accommodation and fair
dealing which has drawn host OF customers in the
past Will continue to animate the future. HIS
eortment Will be Of the most complete character.
stale goods are removed from the shelves. Fresh,
pure. wholesome. and OF moderate price Is the
Totto OF the establshn ent. All goods warranted,
and may be returned II n 4 as represented. Car
tickets furnished eta dealers, and goods sent to
L. BENJAMIN,
National Candy Manufacturer
seplc-eotf Opposite Metropolitan Hotel.
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THE ARTIFICIAL sToNE CoMRAHx

Il OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUluA.
are prepared to supply az short notice. Thing toE
different eOlors; Fountains, Lawn Ornaments,
House and Lawn steps, and Platforms; houses
fronted; cellar walls and flooring cemented 70 eE-
cIute dampnegE: Kitchens and areas cemented and
mnue perfectly dry, and sure preventive against
the intrusion OF rats, insects, &c, and all other
work executed for which Portland Cement q
adapted. Our Portland Cement becomes in feW
days superior to any Of the marbles natural stone
in common use, and Is an admirable imitation O
either marble or stone; Is more durable, and Ia
ereases its crushing resistance with age Ia bsaug
4 unquestionAoae. N n RoBERTs, Manager,
iAnSo-r " - ts6LOuisiana aTenIa,
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ID Ed.

CALH0UN,-On September 2, at o. ,lOck .. m,
at his late residence, No. $40 Seventeenth street,
STEPHEN CALHOUN, aged 40 years.
Funeral Will take place to-day, September ., at
O'Clock d. m. Friends of the family are respect
fully invited to attend.
IDDlNs,-On September q, THOMAS GEORGE,
infant son Of Henry and Annie lddins, aged two
years eleven months and three days.
Funeral to-day att O'Clock p. m, from the resi-
dence or his grandparents, No. 1120 Fourth street
northwest. Friends OF the family invited to
md >
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The Goose Greek bridge, on the Leesburg and
Georgetown turnpike, which has been in course
Of construction for some time, will be opened to
travel in few days.
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The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is published every
nerofIhirtcenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
and is furnished to subscribers Cby carriers) at my
cents per month.
Mail subscribers, $50 per year; s4OO for six
months, and 500 for three months. Terms In
VariEbly in advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
Twenty-Five cents per line. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
thehead Of 'FOr Sale Rent, ~ WANTED - Lost
andFound, 3" and personal, - twelve and a half
cents per line
~ AllcommunicStiOns, whether on business or
for publication, should be addressed to WIN. J.
hURTAGH, Proprietor, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
Washington, D. C
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SUNDRIES-
F. E. Smith Co.'s CRUSHED WHEAT and
GRAHAM FLOUR. just received fresh from the
mills in Brooklyn, n. y and for sale low.
In short our stock Is now large and complete, and
we are selling low.