davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-18

This standard article is compounded with the
greatest care.
Its effects are as wonderful and satisfactory as
ever.
1t restores gray or faded hair TO it, youthful color.
1t removes all eruptions, itching and dandran
and the scalp by its use becomes white and clean.
By its tonic properties lit restores the capillary
glands to their normal vigor, preventing badness
and making the hair grow thick and strong.
AS dressing nothing has been found so effect
ual, or desirable.
Dr. A.A. Hayes, State Assaycrof Massac husctts
says oft: 81 consider it the best preparation tor
its intended purposes"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-18
Report from a Practical Chemist and
= Ap0thecary.

Boston, Jan. !, 1874.
Dear Sir This is to certify that have sold at re-
tail l54 dozen (s7, bottes) Of your Vegetine since
April II, 1870 and can truly say that 1t has given
the best satisfaction of any remedy for the com
plants for which it is recommended That ever sold
Scarcely day passes without some OF my custom
testfyng to its merits on themselves or Their
friends. am perfectly cognizant of several cases
of scrOiulous Tumors being cured by Fegetine
alone in this vicinity. Very respectfully yours,
GILMAN i6S Broadway.
To II. II. STEVENS, ESQ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-18

This medicine Is prepared hv 4 careful, expert.
enced and conscientious physician, in obedience
to the les ire OF numierle friends III the proies
in the trade, and among the people. Every bottle
is warranted to contain the full STRENGTH o tie med
icne in its highest state OF purity an! development
and is superior TO any medicine ever 'oaPuu t'tc't
for this terrible complaint.
la simple cases sometimes one or two doses SUIT
fee In the most chronic cases IL is sure to ave
way by the Of four five bottles by this sim
pie and efficient remedy hundreds Of dollars are
saved to those who can least afford to throw it
away, as surely it Is by the purchase 81 useless
prescriptions
This medicine is for sale at all Druggists, through
ont Canada and the United States. ii it happens
that your Druggist has not got 1t IN stock, ask
him to send for ii to any of the wholesale drug
gists in Boston, or to j. w. PERKINS II Co, W.
W. WHIPPLE& co, Portland, WIN. +. MANN,
Bangor
The Diamond Rheumatic Cure is for sale by
PARTRIDGE BIOS. Augusta.
YlG. tcOuNMI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-18
the MEDICINE THAT CURES
IS
VECETlNE.

Taking into consideration the character OF its
vouchers the history of its cures and The immense
increasing demand, Vegetine may be fairly entitled
the leading medicine OF the age.
For scrofula in the blood, Negetme is an luialble
remedy, and no person need suffer from tnmorS
ulcers, and all diseases arising from impure blood
il Vegetne Is used according TO directions. There
il not case OF scrofua in existence that Negetne
will not cure provided howeverthe vital functions
have not lost their power OF action, all that may "
said to the contrary Notwithstanding:
Veretine is pleasant to the taste, mild IN It's lnn"'
,rcp and absolute in its action on disease, "a the
following urques donable evidence VIII snow
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
these words

"LET MIR. JEWELL RESIGN" "Let Mr..
Bristow resign!" cries the New York
Herald. "Are Secretaries Fish and Bris-
q tow and Postmaster General Jewell de-
" termined to follow him president Grant,
and share his burden of popular indigna-
ton to the very last?' asks the New
York Tribune. These be questions some-
thing akin to the conundrum of the World
regarding Secretary Fish's duty to resign
as a matter of respect to himself and the
State of New York. "And yet, )" asked the
World, elf one or two or three suns more
" go down upon this tremendous SANDER
" unrebuked in words as explicit as those
which convey it, by the eminent citizen
whom it threatens with social disgrace
"and with historic infamy, what can New
" York do?' Really, remembering that
these great journals-the Great Dailies they
take pride in calling themselves-hsveb been
at work trying to force or coax somebody
out of the Cabinet during the rising and
setting of dozens of suns, and moons, too,
for that matter it is astonishing how little
influence they WELD. Perhaps they will
learn, after while, that they have no in
fuence at all.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
MORE LIGHT WANTED,

Mr.. Schumacher will please "rise to ex-
plain" The testimony of thepaying teller
of the Washington branch of the late firm
of Jay Cooke & Co., yesterday, leaves no
doubt that two of Mr.. Schumaker's $50, 900
checks were finally paid to him in cash
over the counter, instead of going back to
New York, as Mr.. Schumacher testified.
Now Mr.. Schumacher can come forward
again. As yet he has furnished no infor-
nation in regard to the disposition of any
portion of the large sum paid him, except
to assist in the very doubtful business of
tracing one $4,000 package of greenbacks
to dead man. The committee has gotten
hold Of Mr.. Abert's grist, and it don't
amount 70 much in the line of Congress
sional corruption. The outside sharks and
strikers got the money, and the nearest ap-
proach to the halls of Congress was the
doorkeepers Boyd and Hersey, who cap
tured S15,5OO. But behind Schumacher
there lies what Congressional corruption
there is.
Pertinent to this we want to ask ques-
ton or two. What powerful influence has
so suddenly operated on the New York
Tribune in regard to this Pacific Mail in
vestigation? Why is it absolutely dumb
at the sins of Schumacher and rampant over
the sins of King? OF Schumacher, we may
say, it " scars him gently as a sucking
dove" Will Schumacher tell us? Will
the Tribune tell us? If not, will they tell
the committee? Will any of Whitelaw
Reid's friends get hurt if John Schumacher
should make a clean breast of it? That
question is being asked in some quarters.
The fact is Schumacher hasn't begun to tell
the truth, and he won't unless he is obliged
to. Will the Tribune insist on it? We
shall see. If he does we believe a great
deal of Democratic crockery will get broken,
and that the nose Of the editor of the T'ri
6uns will smell something-stronger than
KATY Kings breath,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
NOT EXACTLY SAFE TO DO IT.

When we were in the midst of the war
of the rebellion and the newspapers exhib-
tied unparalleled enterprise in obtaining
and forwarding intelligence of battles, in
which the bravery and gallantry of United
States officers were eXtolled with great
minuteness and particularly, the late Presi-
dent Lincoln got somewhat in the habit of
promoting captains to be field officers and
the latter to be brigadiers, and brigadiers to
major generals, by telegraph, as soon as he
read of their distinguished exploits in the
papers. But this practice was soon checked
by the General-in-C Chief, who informed the
President that he ought to await the official
reports, as there was just bare possibility
that the newspaper correspondents had
written from a superficial knowledge of
the facts, or from interested motives, or
from rumors received from deserters and
stragglers a long distance in the rear.
1.-The fact is, ;" said Mr.. Lincoln one day
to one of the Herald corps, who had been
importuning him for the promotion of a
favorite brigadier, ~ like you Herald boys
"generall!, and on the average you are
"pretty correct, but it so happens that
"haye made the worst generals of the
"whole batch upon the information con-
Claimed in your dispatches. Halleck
"says these promotions should only be
"made after the official reports have been
"received from the military commanders.
"You fellows exaggerate so that it really
sis not safe to act upon your dispatches at
call"
We all know that this was not only
literally true then with regard to news
from the seat of war, but that the same
thing is true now. Who did not uphold
Mr. Lincoln in his determination not to act
upon the press dispatches? And who in
his sober senses does not now uphold Gen
eral Grant in acting upon information from
official sources rather than upon that con-
tanned in the press telegrams2 1t is not
safe for him to act otherwise. But the
press kilograms to Northern papers in the
days of the war were infinitely more reIi-
able than those of to-day. Then politics
were dwarfed by the danger of the nation.
There was no motive for lying beyond the
promotion of a friend Now, however, the
entire membership of the association,
with single exception, are sworn enemies
of General Grant and his administration.
Naturally they do not want dispatches
favorable to him and his policy any more
than the rebel sympathizers during the
war wanted good news for the Union
cause. Their agents, and especially those
in the South, understand this, and color
their statements accordingly. The result
is that no reliance can be placed in what
they say. "But," some one asks. "W by
"is it that the great metropolitan press is
$50 inimical to Gen. Grant2' Simply be-
cause he has persistently refused to submit
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

VICE PRESIDENT WILSON has an article in
the Independent of this week, on 1.-THE Dying
Legacy of Gerrit Smith to His Countrymen."
This legacy was given to the public few days
before the death of the aged philanthropist,
and was an appeal to the Republican party to
L" rise to its feet" and, by wise legislation, to
protect the menaced rights of the colored
race. In the circular this large-hearted man
thus appeals to the South to accept the higher
law of justice, instead of the lower law of
slavery:
81 close with beseeching the South to accept the
wise advice which President Grant offers her in
his recent message. He is her friend, and he says
to her. Treat the negro as q citizen and voter IS
he is and must remain"
The Vice President closes his article with
these words
at is hardly probable that the South he ad-
truth and soberness. Infatuated and maddened,
It will probably pursue the course e has marked
out, whatever the end may be. But there are
those who should and probably will accept this
dying legacy Of the aged philanthropist in the
same spirit with which II was given, and heed
words that seem almost as if they came from the
other world. The old antislayery men, veterans
of thirty years war, though their ranks have
already been sadly decimated and are yearly be-
coming thinner, must heed the summons, come
again TO the front, to renew, IL need be, the con-
hict for still further vindicatiOn Of human rights
and the more complete frutiOn of former hopes,
and by the same weapon OF moral warfsre-ap-
naturo-the conflict they had fOndIy hoped was
ended"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

to its dictation or act upon its advice, but
has preferred to be governed by inForma-
ton obtained through official channels re-
gardless of public clamor. Time has always,
thus far, vindicated the correctness of his
judgment.
:. The New York Herald, with more sa-
gacity than frankness, after having sys-
tematically charged him with the design of
becoming Cesar, few weeks since added
the accusation that he would provoke a
war, either foreign or domestic, in order to
perpetuate his power. As soon as the
present difficulties began to make their ap-
pearance the Herald cried eve told you
so; ali! we told you so." And that paper
has battered away at its weaker companions
until it has succeeded in making them all
play whatever tune it pitches. The Herald
then is the DICTATOR of the New York
Associated Press. The New York Asso-
ciated Press is the dictator of the tone of
all the political dispatches in the country
sent by its agents. And now they all cry
out with one accord, "This is the voice of
the people, - "These kilograms are public
opinion" Public opinion forsooth! All
inspired by a single mind in the
Office of the New York Herald, which
moves and plays the rest of the press like
so many chessmen or puppets. If the Her-
aid can but establish in the minds of public
men and politicians the idea that its bulletins
are public opinion, the voice of the people
to be obeyed, it is clear that its imperious
dictation is supreme. The Herald would
then dictate through the press the policy of
the Administration, and change it when
ever it took the fancy. Do the people think
that this would be o safe thing TO do?'
Suppose the President should attempt to
govern the country a few days in manner
to please the press? Could he please it all?
If he could, would it be a safe thing to do?
Would the press take the responsibility, or
would it turn and abuse him again at every
mistake in its own policy which might ap-
pear? We think the people still prefer to
stick to the bridge which has thus far car
ried them safely over.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13


THE North Carolina Democrats have
called a meeting of the State executive com
mittee for the Goth instant, at which The
question of convention or no convention
for a revision of the constitution will be
settled conclusively. 1t is already settled
so far as the desire is concerned, but the
policy Of it is the question at stake. The
majority of the people of the State are con-
tented to live under the present constitu-
ton, because it is founded upon the inspi-
rations of pure republicanism; but the
Democratic Office seekers, who have sue
ceedcd in getting control of the Legislative
branch of the State government, are anx-
ious 10 so change the organic act as to Sc
cure control of the superior judicial branch.
They will appeal in vain to the people at
large for support in this project. The State
at large is Republican by decided major
ity, and although by an infamous system Of
jerrymandering the Democrats are able to
elect a majority of the membe-s of the
Legislature, the people will repudiate this
covert attempt to tampcr with the judi
ciaTy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE White League Democracy and their
newspaper correspondents are loudly ex-
ulting over what they term their capture"
OF Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, member
of the Louisiana committee. We do not
believe they have made any such capture.
He is not Democrat like Potter, nor an
aristocrat, with nothing but contempt for
the negro, TO whom he refuses civil rights,
like Phelps. Foster has always been a
straight grained Republican, and his con-
stItuents behind him are also very straight
grained, and somewhat dyed in the wool.
We expect to see Mr.. Foster place himself
in accord with the Republican majority of
his committee and the Republican majority
of the House. He told the rebels of New
Orleans that in his judgment it entailed no
social disgrace for a white man to kill a
negro in Louisiana, and we hope he will
stick 10 his opinion.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
DIED..

ANDE N.-Suddenly. on January 10 Mrs
SUSAN NJ. ANDERSON, wife Of Ling I'M A. And1r-
son, aged fOrty-Iour years and I've months
Relatives and friends If tie family respect
fully requested to attend the funeral from her late
resderce, near st. Elizabeth Asylum, to-day, at u
O'Clock m.
BROWE.-In this city, on January 10, ROBERT
BROWN, formerly Of PHILADELPHIA, OF cOnSump-
tiOn, in the twenty-frst year Of mis- age.
POsEY. On January IL. WILLIAM PosEY, aged
Friends and relatives of the family are respect
fully invited TO the funeral from his )tber
residence, 925 street. to-day. Funeral ser ices
WILDE held at st. Patrick church, at IL O'Clock.
WEBB.-On January Il, 1875 JOHN z. WEBB, in
the seyenty-tigbth year Of his age.
His funeral will take place from his late resi-
dence, 1914 g street, Thursday afternoon, at
o'clC OK.
DEVLIN.-On the evening Of JanuaryIO, JAMES
p. DEyLIN, after a lingering illness, which he
bore with hrisiian pa lie ice and foriitude,
his late residence Mar corner Pcnnsylv znia
and sixth street southeast. Re Iule N Ma. S at St.
Peters church, at 10 O'Clock. Friends and ac-
gualntances are invited to attend.
TIPPETT.-On January 10, after lingerin Il ILL
ess, JAMES FRANCIS, beloved SON OF John It. and
Mag9rtt Iippett, aged nine years, eight months
The relatives and friends Of the family are invited
to attend his funeral from his fathers residence
~ Z street southwest, Wednesday afternoon, at 3
O'Clock.
MYERS.-In Baltimore, January IL, Mrs. ELIZA
p. MYERS, in the seventy-hrst year OF her age.
Relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully requested to attend her funeral, from the
re idenee Of her son, VIM. x. Mclean, No. 43l
street northwest, on Wednesday morning, January
10, at 10 O'Clock.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

TINES change and with them the insti-
tulions of mankind. Fifteen years ago
Horace Greeley and Henry ]. Raymond,
through the columns of their respective
Journals, the Tribune and Times, were the
leaders of public thought and opinion in
New York city. To-day Whitclnw Reid,
a bride taker; Charles A. Dana, al outclst
and fugitive from justice, and Lewis Jen-
nings, an unnaturalizcd English snob of
the most conceited and ignorant kind, at
tempt to do the same thing through the
columns of the Tribune, Times and Sun.
But they fail in q most abject manner. The
masses of the people remain true TO original
principles, and the Commercial Advertiser.
the GraEhic and the Deutehes VOlks5Ialt
are rapidly asserting themselves as deserv-
ing candidates for public favor.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE Mississippi Pilot suggests that .the
''members of all the Southern T. ,sIatuTss
"now in session should unite in a solemn
"protest, directed to the people of the United
estates, against crediting the Associated
"Press dispatches in which news capable
f'of being given political bias is forward
"ed to the Northern, Western or Eastern
newspapers. But what good would it
do? The New York agency of the Asso-
ciated Press is getting to be about as bad as
its Southern branch. As we have said be-
fore, the only unbiased and non political
dispatches transmitted by the Association
are those sent North from its Washington
bureau
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
The Sewing Machine swindls.

LFrom The Portland NE. Press.l
1t is to be hoped that the sewing machine
monopOlists who are now besIeging the committee
rooms OF the National Capitol, petitioning for O
renewal Of patents, will be sent away with very
large heas in their ears. The poorer classes
in this matter. Already the patent, which Il
simply for a feed attachment, has yielded mil.
lions in the shape Of royalty. Should the extern.
sion be denied, sewing machines will soon tumble
to twenty doIlars-a sum which will then leave q
fair margin of profit to the manufacturer.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE IDEA that legally-elected member
of State Legislature, one whose election
was not and is not doubted or contested by
his political opponents, should be kid
mapped by those opponents while on his
way to assume the duties of his Office, will
strike the average reader as something
criminaIly strange. Yet it really occurred
in two or more instances preceding the
recent organization of the Legislature of
Louisiana. Mr.. A. ]. Cousin, of the parish
of St. Tammany, one of the kidnapped vic
tins, recftes his adventures in the New Or
leans RspuBEicaB. We learn from this re-
citsl that he was kept in durance, some
times in the hold of a river steamer, at
others in the "pineY-woods, " and at all
times beyond the possibility of commune
eating with his friends until after the or
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

ganization of the Legislature. He was ct
no time in charge of a sheriff, deputy
sheriff or any officer known to the law.
His kidnappers "told him that they had
nothing in the world against him, and
"their only object in holding him was to
prevent his presence at the organization
"of the Legislature. One Of them char
acterized himself as lieutenant of Penn's
militia" And yet these scoundrels COM
plain of military interference in the organ
ization of the Legislature.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE Baltimore american speaks of ''non-
"political bodies in various parts of the
country that have passed resolutions de.
nouncing therecent affair in New Orleans.
Will it specify a body of this kind?
1t caEnOt refer to the ''prelates of New Or
leans, because their church organizations
are as thoroughly sectional and political as
Southern churches always are.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE Cooper Institute meeting declared
that the Louisiana Legislature had peace
ably assembled" when Gen. De Trobriand
appeared in the chamber of the Lower
House. Yes, there was peace there-just
the kind of peace the Democracy will give
to the entire country if they ever get into
power.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

A RECENT CHANGE in the distribution of
Government advertising patronage to the
New York dailies may convince some of
them that harmony really exists between
the President and the, Cabinet ministers.
Are there other journals in the country that
require especial information on this sub
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

some doorkeepers are worth S11, 900;
others $4,000. Some newspaper men are
worth $25, 900; others SIS, 600 and $1,000.
For the amount of brains involved and
manual labor-pulling a string and driving
a QUILT is apparent that the doorkeepers
have the ADVANTAGE
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE TEXT of the able letter of Commits
siOners Dennison and Ketcham to Con-
gress will be found upon the fourth page
1t is a clear and concise statement of in
debtedness found and certificates issued by
the Board of Audit.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

Gas THE Tri5un is full of it, says the
Wilmington Commercial, 'the story about
Cabinet designations is quite probably
''entirely a fraud The Commercial is
right, as it always is, when it accepts the
tales of the Tribune about Administration
affairs nc rDtrrp
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
9atiumal gepnblifatr


THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is published every
morning Sundays eNcepted) at the southwest cor
ner OF Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
cents per month.
Mail subscribers. postage paid, $500 per year;
e4OO for six months, and SEQ for three months.
Terms invariably in advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
Twenty-Five cents per line. Advertisements
unCer the head OF For Sale Rent, ~ Wanted
'Iost and Found, - and personal, - twelve and
a half cents per line.
4S-Al communications, whether on business or
for publication, should be addressed to WIN. j.
MURTAGH, Proprietor, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
Washington, ID. G.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

We HAVE inadvertently neglected to con-
graduate the Wheeling Int eligsneer upon the
neat appearance of its new dress. 1t is one of
the brightest and most vigorous Republican
journals in the country, and deserves the sue
cess II has won
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

"SHALL WE have an elevator" is the cues
ton just now being discussed by tie newspa-
pers of our sister city of Alexandria. We say
amen!-provided it is used to elevate the politi-
cal tone of the journals in question.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

THE LATEST evidence of monarcbical in
tention in Washington has been discovered
by the New York Commercial AdOortiser.
1t resides in the fact that the Sergeant-at-
Arms Of the House has been sent after a
King
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

AT West Point Sheridan was graduated in
a class of 1858 as Number Thirty four"
The aggregate number ofthe class was 80.
Since then he has been student"