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COURTNEY & POWELL

COURTNEY t. POWELL
!syc jt:>, received another supply Of
DHL>S GOODS CHEAPER THAN EVER.
Tlioy invite special attention 10 4 lot Of JAPAN
E>E ruPLINs at 25c., heretofore sold ut 50c.,
Ta.+a-cd not TO slip or break in wearing. Also, q
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at 90. These goods were bought at auction, and
a!c worth double The money.
GIRLS and BOYS MERISO SHIRTS
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MyIg SIS BROAD STREET.
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A'i Nral JAPANESE SILKS and POPLlSS III
s.YrA A4L on tllc way.
T. X. PRICE & CO.
a:e 9'.;ing daily for spring and early summer al
the iai:sl III. porialions IN
DRESS GOODS.
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AUv"ties IN STRIPED PDPLISS and SILKS at
BEOr tNk aid FiGUEED POPLINS and SILKS
. II . aud -J0c.--rare;
IcRDEEED OEGANDiES and JACONETS;
spLlD and FIGURED ORGANIZES;
ELAth JAtFEIA and GEOS q RAIN SlLhS;
Large variety Of new MOURNING GOODS; ,
bl.hCk CANVAS and IRON GRENADINES,
every grade Of quality, from SOC. 10 Sl.60.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

THE Pennsylvania State Senate on Thurs
day last concurred in the slight amendment
of the House to the one million appropria-
ton to the Centennial. The bill is now o
law. This Is the second million subscribed
by the State, outside of the subscriptions
from the city, amounting to anather million
and hall, and all this given In addition to
more than a million of individual sub
scriptions All cavils and doubts have
passed away in the face of these noble and
patriotic contributions. If Congress does
its duty on Tuesday by adopting Judge
Kelley's report appropriating three millions
to the Centennial fund. and the Senate con-
ours, as 1t ought to do, operations will COM
mence in the great Paramount Park at once
Indeed. the lsborers are already engaged on
the permanent structure. The roads are
being graded, material contracted for, and
everything is in readiness to push on the
celebration with unparalleled rapidity.
There need be no fear as to the manner In
which this money will be disbursed. The
men at the head of the finance committee
are among the first men In the country,
gathered from all the States Of the Union.
There is not the slightest party bias in the
whole organization, and nothing after the
full machinery Is started, will be more inter
estings hardly even the great Exposition
ITSELF than the extraordinary zeal and self
sacrifice which viii be displayed in the
prosecution Of the stupendous preparations
necessary to the completion of the magnifi-
cent structures and all the suxilliaries 10 the
celebration.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

TIE course of the New York Times upon
the head-money" bill in the New York
Legislature is not entirely without suspi-
cion. The Commercial Advertiser, in al
luding to the subject, says: "The Times
" dare not openly attack Governor Dix. 1t
never omits an opportunity to stab him in
&" the back. The Governor, in his message,
called the Legislatures attention to an
increase Of the head money. He says
81 commend to your favorable consider
" ation the report on this subject from the
A" Commissioner of Emigration. The Times
" calls the bill job. The Governor ia
"vored this Job Messrs. Hurlbut,
.Quintard. Forest, Stevens, Starr, Lynch,
and Kaufman favored the increase, 30
I" did Senators King and Booth. These
" gentlemen are all denounced by the
" 7YmSs as aiding verlal legislation. and it
" claims the credit of defeating the bill
A." The Times takes too much credit to ITSELF
The money of the steamship companies
-" defeated the measure. What portion of
+" the corruption fund the 'unnaturalized
d" Englishman' of the Times received as
=" his share, we are unable to state but un-
{" less the English steamship companies
call off their dog we shall be disposed
+" to invite the Senate next year to have
/" the Committee on Commerce and Navi-
"gation send for the steamship companies
"sgent, and have him tell what portion of
the 'swag' the 'halfbreed Of the
Times received, and what it cost to de-
feat the measure at Albany. We know
the man and the amount"
The Connie 'eiaI AdUertiser, in the above
few sentences. gives the "unnaturalized
English editor a home-thrust. All the
steamship companies, owned and controlled
by Englishmen, opposed the bill and used
money to defeat it. Of course Jennings
was their mouthpiece. It Is the same way
upon every other question. The Timss is
more English than its English namesake,
and always sustains English interests when
they come In conflict with those of the
United States. No wonder It's circulation
has fallen away nearly one half during the
past twelve months. F-sH ettI
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04
THE SHIPPING INTEREST.

The country-our merchants, capitalists,
and leaders Of public thought and opinion
seem to have come to the determination to
make last effort TO roconquer the com
manding position which we held on the
seas up to 1851, when the unfortunate war
of the rebellion began. The story of the
decline and fall of this important branch of
Industry since then Is sad one, but the
situation is not altogether without hope.
At the outbreak of the war the total amount
of American tonnage entered at our ports
from foreign nations, was between five and
six millions of tons The foreign tonnage
so entered was between two and three mil
lions of tons. To-day the figures stand:
American tonnage three and half millions;
foreign tonnage between eight and nine
millions. In other words, thirteen years
ago American vessels engaged in the foreign
trade more than doubled the capacity of
their foreign rivals. To-day the situation
is precisely the reverse.
Mr.. John Roach, who has done more
than any other man in America to keep
alive this one fourishing industry, who has
never abandoned the idea of regaining the
supremacy we then held, explains in a
small pamphlet the reasons which have
contributed to this unfortunate and humil.
iating condition of affairs. In the first
place, at the beginning of the war three
quarters of million of tons of our mercan-
tile marine was diverted to military pur-
poses, transports, coast defense, &C., &c.
three quarters of a million tons was trans
ferred to foreign flags, and between one and
two hundred thousand tons was destroyed
by Confederate cruisers. In addition to
all this, the naval architecture of
the world about the same time IN
derwent complete revolution. The
day of wooden vessels passed away,
and with an immense war, deprecated
currency, and an exhorbitant and enhanced
rate of wages, we found ourselves utterly
unable to compete with the older nations of
the world, To-day We have but seven
millions Of dollars invested in iron ship build
ing; England alone has three hundred mil |
lions. But the causes which have operated |
to place US at this enormous disadvantage |
have been slowly changing, until we almost
stand upon an equality with our rivals
Prices have been expanding in England in
the same ratio in which they have been
in the United States. So great,
In fact, has been the change that Mr.. Roach |
is now of the opinion that iron ships can be
built here better and cheaper than they can
in England-that the sceptre will in very
short time be transferred from the Clyde
to the Delaware.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

An Independent editor bears witness
against the independent correspondents.
Mr.. zWetteron, of the CoErter-Iours0L
who was here some days ago, writes home
that ''those indefatigable sensationalists (the
Washington correspondents) have over
'tfdrawn somewhat the picture Of political
confusion and partisan combustion brought
'tround by the Presidents unexpected veto
message" The editor of the Courier
Journal believes that although there is e
good deal of feeling among tina Republicans
who committed their fortune to imitation,
there is no demonstration looking to actual
revolt; that the result of the whole thing
will be the collapse Of the imitation bubble.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

schools inaugurate. makes the studious me-
chanic or laborer well-informed and prac-
ticaIly educated citizen BE knows his
rights and privileges and understands per
fectly well that he can maintain them at the
ballot-box. Heperssives also that the more
Intelligent he becomes, the higher price he
can obtain for bis labor. Hence the strong
reason he has for insisting upon Q proper
division Of his time into three parts, Of eight
hours each. He would devote one to labor.
one to diversion. recreation and study, and
one to refreshment Of food and sleep. He
naturally and reasonably holds that the
third devoted to labor Is made more valu-
able by reason of the intellectual culture
which he obtains during the second division
of his time that is occupied in the improve.
ment Of his mind and health No one
will deny that eight hours of intetelli-
gent and skilled labor Is better than ten
of that which is simply the result of animal
force without the direction of an educated
mind. 3
. Strikes are to be deprecated as injurious
both to labor and capital When labor is
unemployed her hand-maiden, capital, is
sympathetic sufferer. The interests of the
two are identical; and the skilled labor of
the mechanic cannot be fully utilized with
out the cooperation of that lower class Of
labor which provides the material and
places 1t close at hand. The bricklayer
must have one hand for the trowel and the
other for the brick which he is to lay. If
he lays aside his trowel to become his own
tender his employer Is obliged to pay full
wages for this inferior service. So the
Tribune will observe that what it Is pleased
to denominate an ''effort to diminish the
amount of productive labor performed.
does not apply to the 'brick-mason who re-
'fuses TO lay down his trowel to lift bricks
with both hands," because such course
would diminish the amount Of the most ex-
pensive labor which he Is paid to perform.
All labor organizations should be encour-
aged, for the reason that well-organized
system of labor is the most effective in its
results. 1t is only by its effective results
that capital can be benefited, and the proper
and remunerative reward OF labor be Sc
cured.
There is little doubt that some of the
leaders of our labor organizations are indis-
Greet in their exsctions. but such leaders
cannot long retain their influence, because
the onerous exactions will so restrict the de-
mand for labor as to correct the evil. If
We would augment our national wealth we
must cherish, and in every rational and
practical manner foster and encourage pro-
ductiVe industry.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04
LABOR dVD IT'S REWARD

The New York Tribune contains a re-
view Of the prospects for change in the
hours Of labor in that city, which are at
present eight per day. The masters, So
called, but otherwise known as contractors,
will probably insist upon q return next
month to ten hours as days labor. This
will be opposed by the Trades Unions, 1t is
feared, to the extent Of general ''strike."
ofthis threatened struggle that journal re-
marks, editorially, that there is little pros
t'pect Of speedy return to the ten-hour
"rule. The motive for 1t has in many cases
'been removed, since their wages have been
% 'r5rought down to point much below the
"old ten-hour rate. Bricklayers, for in
''stance, are now paid $S.5Oper day, against
''S450 and s. two or three years ago. To
-'treturn to ten hours would be certainly &C.
tcopB5nied by an advance of wages to "a
nper day, and the advantage in this to en-
''ploycrs does not seem to most Of them
sufficiently great to warrant any serious
contest over the matter. 1t Is thing,
'showever, of lamentable notoriety, that
sthe amount Of building done In the city
''has for some years steadily fallen Of that
'fhere are fewer large buildings going up
s'now than at any time for years past and
''that the number contemplated for the en-
'tsuing year is still smaller. The reason Of
CHS is, in one word, that capitalists find
kbuilding too expensive to pay. The La
'bor Unions who insist upon such require
''ments as that no brick-mason shall lay
''down his trowel in order to lift brick with
''both hands, may see in this circumstance
"a hint as to the workings of their system.
''That is rarely wise policy for working
'fmen which unites them in an effort to
diminish the amount of productive labor
performed.
The rates Of wages naturally fall with the
appreciation Of money. Perhaps the de-
cline noted by the Tribune may be more
reasonably attributed to this cause than to
the change of hours of labor. Another
reason for the decrease in building in New
York may be found in the fact that living
has become 50 expensive there that the in
crease Of population annually seeks sub
urban homes for more room and better air.
This is the effect of locating city upon an
island between two rivers, with insufficient
space for expansion. A very large portion
ofthe business men Of New York are resi-
dents Of other states or counties, and make
the city their counting room and dining
room only. Perhaps this may account In q
great measure for the dullness complained
Of In the building line in the city, as also
for so many mechanics leaving for other To-
caiities. v-
The labor question Is one of the most in
terestirg now engaging the attention of the
American public, and it is one which 1t win
be necessary for the politicians to become
thoroughly acquainted with in order to
handle 1t In an intelligent manner. Our
systsm of free education, Of which cheap
newspapers form an important auxiliary,
because the press continues what the public
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

Ak interesting and patriotic excursion
was made on Saturday last to the tomb of
the mother of Washington. at Fredericks-
burg, by the special committee Of the House
on the completion Of the Washington monu-
ment. The party, under the chaperonage
of Hon. James B. Sener. representative of
the fredericksburg district, had q very
pleasant trip. and were most cordially re-
ceived and Hospitality entertained by the
citizens Of Fredericksburg. detailed ac-
count Of which viii be found elsewhere in
this paper.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

Qua Democratic exchanges contain their
annual attacks upon the Bureau Of Educa-
ton, which is quite natural and to be ex.
pected. Education Is fatal to Democracy.
They have the same aversion to It that his
Internal majesty Is said to have to holy
water" Mr.. Monroe's speech the House
q few days ago. printed In other columns,
shows the necessity for and the work Of
thu hf1raar
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

REPRESENTATIVE LUTTRELL says the
author of the article we printed In regard
to him Saturday morning Is falsiher, and
that he is responsible for the assertion.
We do not believe Luttrell is responsible
for anything. Let him come down here
and bring Col Meyibbin with him.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

TIE best thing Luttrell can do Is TO keep
quiet. he knows that every word printed
in TEE NATIONAL REPUBLIoAH true. We
can convince him oft N very SHORT time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

THE Baltimore American has descended
to the level of the New York Sun in its
abuse and misrepresentation of the Dis
frict -
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

WE LEARN that Mr. John Welsh, presi-
dent, and the Hon. John L. Barbour, of
Va. Hon. Thos. II. Dudley, of New Jer-
scy. Ex-Governor Bigler, of Pa, Hon. D.
NJ Fox, Hon. J. P. Wetherill, and Hon.
Thos. Cochran, of the United States Centen-
NAL Board Of Finance, are to be in Wash
ington city early this week to furnish to
Congress all needed information about the
Centennial work, and to act officially in any
exigency that may arise out of the action of
Congress touching the grand celebration
and exhibition. This is proper and poll
tic step. The work in which these gentle
men are engaged is one of grave public con-
Germ, and just at this time involves the feel
ings of the people and the dignity Of the
nation to greater degree than any other
measure now pending in Congress, and it
is important that those having the work In
charge should be present at the Capitol dur
ing the discussion of the subject to the end
that they may efficiently respond to any call
for information, or correct any misunder-
standing that may arise. Their presence
cannot fail to facilitate q right understand
ing of the subject by the representatives of
the people.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

REPRESENTATIVE LUTTRELL, of Califor-
mia, attempted to make personal explana-
ton last Saturday regarding a paragraph
which appeared in THE NATIONAL REPUB-
IIcAN Of thai date, in which his connection
with the investigation Of the exploded
charges against the Post Office Department
was fully exploded. OF course, he claimed
the privilegein justice to himselfand his con-
stituents. This is the claim always made by
such men, but fortunately for both himself
and those whom he represents, the attempt
was q failure. as Mr. Cobb, of Kansas, OBJ
jected. He succeeded, however, in declar-
ing that he was responsible for denouncing
the author Of the paragraph as the ''perpe-
TRAITOR of q SANDER. Sad as this DECLARE
ton apparently is. we have not been
seriously disturbed by it. The fact is, Mr..
LuttFelIs reputation as judge of matters
connected with Pacific Slope mail con-
tracts has been SO clearly established by his
course during the pending investigation
that we would have been dissatisfied if he
had assumed the responsibility to declare
the paragraph in question to be true.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04
. CoyTFyTS OF INs1DE PAG

SECOND PAe8-Distriet Investigation.
THIRD PAGl-Advertisements- Sales /;
Insurance; Steamship Lines |;
Business Directory; State L IT.
teriesi Proposals, &c.
SrxTH PAGr--Dfs:riot Investigation. l
SEVENTH PAgE-British Civil Service; Summer
Resorts; Merchant Tsilors,
Railroad Time Tables, Gre
cerIes, Books and Stationery,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
- GosflHnsd JroD Flrsf Psgs.j

They are instructions 70 special superiniend-
ents, signed by the vice presidsnt. llSp q
Q. Where was that publishsdi A. Il does
not state the paper; in one Of our daily papers.
It was published for the information Of con
tractors who might not receive orders direct
from the board. ss...'.- s. 4 - q
By Mr.. Mattingiy: Q. Have you any blanks
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04
Quality.
Description.
RsmarkG


Stewart Do DO sir The property Ia, been
the following
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-04

that you have not even ds,it Justly ~ tisn N n 0
way Of contrscss especially az they we've . lks1i
oJmpany. aad had considerable car M andsrlia-
o1inery inv esfed 10 the butiness -. a
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-11-07
How to Estimate the Profit Of a Farm.

The Farmer lives In his own house.
The use Of the house, which he does not
pay for, is as much part of his income
as the money which SHARED man pays
for rent, is Of his, and should be counted
as such in an estimate Of the profits of the
farm. All things produced on the farm
and consumed on the farmers table inelu-
ding the vegetables from the garden, the
eggs and milk used IN cooking, are as
much part of his income as the money
paid for such things out Of his salary is Of
the salaried man. If farmer gives bis
wife and children pleasant ride 70 town,
using bis own horses and wagon, the value
Of their use is part Of bis income from his
farm, as truly as the money the other man
pays out Of his salary for carriage hire is Of
his. The correct rule for estimating the
income from a farm is substantially this
-Giye credit for every article produced,
used or expended in any way whatever no
matter how small in value, as well as for
cash received for products sold, and in
crease in the value Of farm property, and
charge against the farm for interest on
capital invested, and for all expenditures.
The farmer that win do this from year to
year, win not so much feel like complain
ing Of the unproitableness Of farming as
compared with other pursuits The fact is,
that not one in a hundred farmers take
into consideration the luxury aud comforts
Of fresh eggs, butter, milk, fruits, etc. that
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-11-07
NOTICE.

TINE undersigned hereby gives notice inas
n he has been appointed General Agen.y'
the Carroll County Fire Insurance Conra,,y ~,
All persons desiring 10 insure property ie''nss
real or personally in this Company, vii I'easal
address the Agent at Weg,ninstcr, M. ="
communications win receive prompt al.sn''o"'
ane 2S.tf Agent