, 1874-11-12
NOTES AND OPINION.

oolored member Of their own, from South Caro-
lina7 Tho Washington correspondent of tho
Philadelphia Press says:
Joseph =. Rsinsy, shs negro Congressman from tho
First South carollna District, beaten In tic r.
uel L., alse negro When isalney W. c1eeted % 10
Congress he brought Lee hore and had him appointed
oy se1t tor oo e homa o. ns
aaslst him. Leo obcycd the aimmons but when ho
reashed home ho permitted hiase|f to BE- nominated
Raincy In tho First Diariet anl according tho ro-
t,Irns was elssea r. o, sasd Ley ,e.s ast tA tbs
The colorod members OF tho noxt House, 10
far olocted, are: Leo democrat, us abovo) aud
snalla {Repuhllcan), Of South carouna; Hara.-
aon (n.), OF Alabama Nash (R.), OF Louisiana;
aud Lyman (R.). Of North Carolina,-all now
members. Tho recollection Of Walls, in Florida,
is c1aimed, md In doubt.
THO Joliet Sur says Of tho result In tho
Seventh Congressional District:
+ s ge oo1ntx S,ys @
corwin thore BY about 1.ooo In tho three towns
whero tho largo numbers Of iness liyeLasae Peru,
hunlred to spare, to oailct rurai townships Tko
Adams shat eaye cofwin 100 majority. Tho tan'a -
Tho Pennsy1vania Legislature Just elected
holds for two years. under the new Constitution.
Col. L. K. Mcclure, Of that State, who WAS hcra
yesterday, eaya tho regular Republicans asa
bound to fenomuato tho present incumbent,
Gov. Hnrtrauft. Tho opposition will concoa-
trate upon ex-Gov. 4. g. Curtin Washington
correspondence.
-Hamlin'a friends IN Maine, and Hamhn him
self, arc greatly distressed at the overturn.
seated las spoakor], will make push for the
United Staten senatorship aud. II ho doos. it is
all up with tho ahrowa old farmer-potfoian.
and then there is fresh talk again Of Dingtey,
ting drea.lfuly mixed aud uncertain everywhere,
noWadays.--Boston Globe.
Tho idea Of having an entire session Of an
old Congress intervene botwoen tho election aud
would nevor havo been put into the constttu-
tion in these tiEnos. Il was doubtless intondod
to proservo sort Of continuity in tho Affairs Of
the Government, by guarding against sudden
changes aud having the incoming aud outgoing
incutnbents overlap each other, something aiter
| tho manner Of tracing corn or ontonB. Tho con-
sequence is, that We have body Of Legislators
| In full authority at tho Capital aftor the Peoplo
difEsren. opinions It Is tho laN, however, and
tho Republican party ut least ought not to COM
plain Of It at tho present time Il gives them
invaluable opportunity, although It 70 manitcstly
one beHot with peculiar ditticultie8.-B0ston
Journal.
Tho Republican party can bo mado stronger
before tho country by 1876 than 1t has been Tor
years, Il it will only SEQ and selza the opportu-
nifty within it's grasp during tho next throe
| uontha. But II It shall persist in going on AZ
| 1t has boon going, when the next election comea
there will bo scarcely enough left Of it to call
convention or mako nominations. It will not
| d. az Rone OF our contemporaries arc Whisper
| ing and suggesting, to stand still and giyo tho
| Opposition flushed with 8ucceBg aud victory,
rope enough: That Is . frai} and slender thread,
aud tho mistake may DO mado once too often.
| ~ to ir tfyfya
| the country some policy besides tho old worn,
and threadbare ono OF years ago. Washington
National Republican.
| Lot it be understood thet all these oxtrane-
borniBm, and their kindred horesies, must DO
| thrown overheard that they constitute no pnrt
! Of the articles Of Republican faith; and that
those who advocate thom must do so outside Of
| tho Republican organization. : At tho
proper time, it necessary, the party. from Maine
| 10 Yexas and from Oregon to Florida, will make
its voice heard Oh this [tha Presidency and other
like iasues in tones 30 loud that there will he no
| mistaking it; and Republican principles will be
preserved. not BY destroying tho party which has
| represented and sustained these principles for
tho past twenty yoars, but by purifying aud
| maintaining it in all it8 power mud intaGrlIy.-s
| Illinois Slate Journal
The loading Republican proBRes Of the coun-
try have tried to rule the country, instead Of
assisting President Grant to rula it. We rotor,
particularly, to tho pross OF Now York City for
thore bus given tho Administration Of Prasi1ont
Grant itH hearty aud rosolute support the past
ycar that wo know Of On account Of solue
hook Or c1ooK, each has seemed to want an Ad-
nlinistration OF its own aud haye catered to tho
floating, diBcontented fow, feeling that they
wore sure OF tho ovor-insinigoEt, patriotic, and
aubstantal many. and might lose the sppely
iBh. we must havo Republican press Of tho
country that will u.anfully austain our Repub-
iican Administration Gaiena (IA.) Gazette.
We by no meana expect tint the prohibitions