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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
A NoRpHoFF FERMENTATION.

Charles Nordhoff once more claims the
attention of those who are ready and willing
to nip falsehood in the bud. Mr.. Nord-
hoff is intelligent enough to make very
excellent writer, were it not for the fact
that he willingly allows erroneous state
ments to creep into his efforts simply for the
purpose of making political capital. In a
recent letter published in the New York
Herald he makes the Indian Bureau respon-
sible for the troubles which have lately
arisen among the Pa LA tribes of San Diego
county, California. When he made this
statement he must have known that it was
in sum and substance false, and yet with
that same innate desire to pervert the truth
which unfortunately seems to be an uncon-
trollable mania with the gentleman, he al
lows himself to do the Indian Bureau a
willful injustice. The truth is, when this
the United States by contract with Mexico
they were deprived of the citizenship rights
of which they were formerly privileged,
and became simply travelling beggars, Drift
ing about, with no permanent home, there
having been no reservation set aside for
their use. AS the white settlers gradually
poured into the regions in which they had
taken up their abode they were forced
from valley 10 valley, at the pleasure
of the intruders, for the reason
that they had no lawful claims for the
property thus wrested from them. They
sought redress, and, of course, there being
no treaty reserving for them this district,
the Indian Bureau was unable to satisfy
their demands. The Bureau has antici-
pated trouble from this people for the past
two years, and has exerted every power
within its command to avert the threat.
ened danger by securing to them title to
the lands upon which they have always
lived, but have failed, because Congress has
refused proper appropriations. Yet in the
knowledge and light of these facts Mr..
Nordhoff picks up an imaginative response.
bility of this outbreak and hurls it with
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
california Election.


The total number CT votes cast for Governor at
the late State election, as shown by the Official
figures, was 122,19l, whereas in 1872 only ?4T3s,
and In 1868 los go cast Tor the Presidential
candidates. The small vote In 1sT2lwas caused
by the dissatisfaction Of many Democrats with
the nomination of Greeley. Although the ballots
this year were 1900 more than In 1885, and % 900
more than In 1872, still they do not represent all
those qualified to vote in the State. The number
who stayed away from the polls has been estI-
mated at e, 000 but there Is no method of ascer-
tanning it precisely. At every election many
men remain at home on account Of Illness busi-
ness or indifference, and not unfrequently neigh
bors who belong to opposite parties "pair orr and
attend to their farms. The vote this year is large
for State election.
OF the IL, l91 ballots cast for Governor, Irwin
got o., 40 Phelps 81, s22 and BidWelI % 1872, the
two last having together It's votes more than the
first. Irwin Is, therefore, a minority Governor.
Yet he ran ahead Of bis associates. johnson got
5s.424, Beck SO, 726, Vaudeville 57,064, Estudillo
5000, Minis 59,677, Hamilton 6O,9l5 and Woolf
6s,723. These were on the ticket with him. and
were, on the average, about 1000 behind him.
for Hallett got 1884, Green S7,4Ol, Beckman
Az, Gardner IS 098, Sawyer 81 006. and Taggart
S4,642. Thus Phelps was nearly 5000 behind the
average OF his associates. CaVis got the same
vote nearly as Phelps, but he was injured by the
exceptional popularity Of Pacheco, and It is to be
presumed that he was sacrificed by several thu u-
sand Republicans who, seeing no chance Of his
success, paid q compliment to Irwin. There must
votes than any OF his associates, except Pacheco,
and the true strength Of his party was about
against "a 900 for the Republicans and So 500
for the Democrats. Since 1t Is universally con-
ceded that the Independent party has expired as
State organization, and as all its leaders aud
journals and nearly all its voters were formerly
Republican, we see nothing in the figures to lead
us to despair of the future success Of the Repub.
ncan party in California.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE majority of the permanent or older
residents of the District of Columbia are
Southerners by birth, education and the
sympathies of kinship and social relations.
Many of them event South during the
war, others owned slaves, and one and all
look with eager alarm upon the present
condition of affairs in the Southern States.
the truly conservative people of the South
are felt and acknowledged as dominant mo-
tiyes within these ''six miles square" But
we have no trouble here as they have in
Georgia and Mississippi. We have no color
phobia prejudices that carry the reckless or
rowdy classes to the extremes of violent
crime; and we have, in short, no "war of
races" The reason for this is plain. A
sentiment of respect for the laws and a
pride in the complete execution of equal
justice governs the entire community. Our
colored fellow. citizens enjoy all the privi-
leges of parading with arms or with the
banners and paraphernalia of mysterious
and secret societies, of which some of them
are SO fond; but there are no riots in our
streets; and even when, in the past, poli:i-
cal excitements existed to arouse tue fiercest
passions black and white were alike inter
ested in securing the apprehension and
punishment of the violators of law. We
refer to these facts not by wy Of boast,
although we are justly proud of them, but
to illustrate the difference between the
present situation and what might be if the
people of the disturbed sections of the
South would profit by the example set for
them by their kinsfOlk, friends and sympa-
thizers of the District of Columbia.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE colored people of the District Of
Columbia have much to be thankful for,
more than those of their race whose fortune
it Is to be citizens of any other section of
the Union. They have schools, public and
private, and of high and low grades, besides
the Howard University. They have social,
political and religious associations, as well
as military organizations. They have every
avenue of business progress open to them,
and every encouragement to make earnest
efforts for personal advancement. In short,
the majority of them enjoy all the rights
and privileges of citizenship guaranteed by
law, and those who do not will probably
find in their own hearts a condemnation of
their own conduct which will serve as an
explanation of their deprivatiOns. Yet
they live among Southern people-people
who for generations have been accustomed
to trea! them as menials and interiors. but
people who are possessed of sufficient intel
lgence and respect for the rights of hu-
manity to protect them from the cruel
aggressions and Outrages of the rowdy
classes of society. How sadly different it
is in some of the Southern States, where
the experiment of equal citizenship has
been accompanied by the most heartrend-
ing and bloody prosecutions of the blacks,
and no conservative regard for the law has
acted as a restraining influence to prevent
outrage upon them or to secure the pun
ishment of the perpetrators of outrages.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
NEWS FROM OHIO grows more positively

NEWS FROM OHIO grows more positively
encouraging each day as the canvass pro-
crosses. An extract from a private letter
just received reads as follows THE con-
test in the present campaign is lively,
but / think on the 10Th Hayes will be
ahead by from eight to fifteen thousand
majority, which is conceded by some Of
the Democracy, and 1 think the more
"Allen speaks the more Republican votes
will be polled." Senator Sherman, who
has been extensively engaged in the cam
paign, writes more confidently than ever
of the result. He also believes that the
Republicans are gaining strength each day,
and that the friends of a sound currency
with coin basis will be found upon cleo
ton day to outnumber by many thousands
the sponsors of Gov. Aliens rag baby. 1t
appears that the farmersS and the laboring
classes of Ohio, who are among the most
intelligent in the country, have determined
that those dollars which;swill buy the
largest quantities of the means of subsist-
ence, and which do not fluctuate with every
new moon and each unfavorable change in
the weather, and every rumor of war and
civil CO nmotion, are the safest dollars to
have after all. They are aware that the
more paper man has out the less it will
command in market, and they are not so
green as not to know that it is the same
with company or body of men. They
also know that our Government is only an
organized body of men. The conviction
which results from this knowledge is al
together in favor of Gov. Hayes.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

ANDY CURTIN, when he was Minister to
Russia, drew his salary in coin. Had he
been obliged to draw it in legal tenders its
paying or purchasing power would have
been decreased about one half, and he would
have been obliged to have come home
sooner than he did. But, for all this, he is
reported as saying to the people Of Ohio
that he believes greenbacks are or may be
made to be as good as gold without being
made redeemab!e in coin. He spoke of the
great issues at stake in the Ohio election,
saying they were immeasurably more i'm
portant than the election of one man or an
other, and promised if Ohio did her duty
next week Pennsylvania would follow suit
with an increased majority next month.
We have no doubt she will do her duty by
electing Hayes, or that Pennsylvania will
follow suit by also going Republican.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THERE have been several attempts IN
Baltimore TO initiate the example of the
Georgia and Mississippi "nigger- killers y
but they have been nipped in the bud
through the quick, timely and earnest ad-
vice of the press of that city. OF course
they were made by the rowdy classes,
whose prejudIces of race or color carried
them far beyond the bounds of discretion.
If the press-particularly the Democratic
press-of Georgia and Mississippi had pur-
sued the same commendable course at the
beginning of the political disturbances in
those States, which have since resulted in
wholesale murder and assassination, they
would have earned the praise and gratitude
of every law abiding man in the country.
AS it is, they deserve the execration of
every peaceable citizen, and have incurred
the fearful responsibility of melting and
condoning the most horrible crimes in the
calendar,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

tain General at Havana finds 1t diff
cult to support his own armies oper-
ating against the Patriots on the Island.
But the United States Congress is about
to assemble, and for fear that it will
do some act of friendship for the Patriots,
the Spaniards put on a bold front and claim
that the 'fnsurrection" will soon be put
down. This is an old trick, and one that
will not serve to deceive those who seek
the truth. They find thatthe great buster
made by Spain about sending reinforce
ments to Cuba simply has for its basis the
shameful fact that an army of conscripts,
small in number, and composed of boys
less than sixteen years of age, has been sent
by the Home Government to die by the
bullets of the Patriots or of the diseases Of a
climate to which they are HnacCustomed.
Meanwhile, the young men, natives of the
Island, who are constantly reaching the
fighting age, are more than numerous
enough to supply the vacancies caused by
casualties of any kind in the ranks of the
Patriots
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
Foynton Us. Sherman.

From the PhilafeIphis Evening Start
General Sherman was interviewed by re-
porter of the Cincinnati Gdzstte, and in the in
terview spoke of General Boynton, the Gazette
Washington correspondent, as an ignoramus.
Boynton replies TO Sherman in a scathing let
ter, printed in the Gazette of last Monday. 1t
is apparent that Sherman is no match for Boyn-
ton in this controversy, for Boynton is not only
a soldier, but also journalist. As he has
won his spurs as a soldier in the field under
General Thomas by his ability and gallantry,
so has he won his spurs in journalism by his
thorough honesty and his splendid talent as a
worker and a writer. Boynton's offense against
Sherman is that he went to the War Depart
ment and compiled from the official records
thereof sufficient number of facts to make a
score or more letters to the Cincinnati Gazette,
proving conclusively that Sherman, in his book
of memoirs, deliberately and willfully sup
pressed or perverted the facts so as TO glorify
himself, and either detract from the services or
injure the regulations of many of his brother
officers. 1t is 10 answer for Sherman to call
General Boynton an ignoramus. The fame of
Sherman as a soldier reaches every nook and
corner of the world, and it would seem an alb
surdity for any one even to attempt to criticise
him, and Boynton seems to appreciate this, for
in his modesty he throws aside the criticism he
is so ably fitted to make, and gives to the pub
lie plain and simple compilation of the facts,
which are part OF the official archives of the
Government.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

IT Is mistake to believe that the politi
cal murders in the South are all committed by
''poor white trash;" but they are certainly
the result Of ignorance and prejudice.
During the war, it must be remembered,
the opportunities to educate the youth of
that section were either limited or entirely
destroyed. The result is that hundreds
aid thousands of young men, who were
BOYS at that time, and would have been
school boys under happier circumstances,
have reached the age of manhood without
having enjoyed those opportunities. They
are in consequence ignorant and amen
able to the prejudices of ignorance. In the
District of Columbia, where the schools
were not interrupted, but, on the contrary,
were enlarged and their capacity for in
structing the young increased different
condition of affairs exists. There are no
f'young men whom it is difficult to re-
strain" here; but, on the contrary, old and
young are alike intent upon the common
object of preserving, an intelligent ODE
dience to the laws.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

mean epithet and inconsistent assertion at
the Indian Bureau. tits simply the old, old
story which the tribe of detective fiends
have been singing for years past, and in
which they sacrifice all truth and manli-
ness in order TO satiate morbid desire to
assail the Administration. What. has al
ready happened to two or three hundred
Indians is likely to occur at any time to
four or five thousand of the Mission In
dams in Lower California. The Indian
Bureau has done all within its power to
obviate the difficulty existing between this
tribe and the aggressive white settlers, and
should further and more alarming troubles
arise the responsibility cannot rest with
the Bureau but with Congress for not
taking some measure to relieve this people.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

WENDELL PHILLIPS has a new lecture,
entitled "The Indians" Professor Marsh,
William Welsh and others of their kidney
should be furnished with dead-head tickets
for it without delay. Of course, they would
not learn anything of the subject because
they know everything about it already !;
but then it would be a new sensation to
them to hear a gentleman and a scholar
discuss it. The opportunities they might
have enjoyed heretofore to do this they
have carefully avoided, and have listened
only to such teachers as Louis Richard, the
drunken half breed, or Murrey, the St.
Paul gin-mill man.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE Petersburg Inder and Appeal tried
to get up a colorphobia scare in Prince
George county, Va, the other day, but
failed ANONYMOUSLY, because the people of
that section of the Old Dominion are too
sensible to be frightened by such sensational
efforts. The ignorant Georgia crackers or
Mississippi clay eaters, whose acts ofmurder
and assassination thrill the country with a
shudder OfhoIr0r whenever an election cam
paign occurs, have no counterpart among
the intelligent citizens of tide-water Vir-
ginia. But the Ia. was guilty of the
effort to create an "insurrection," never
thelesS
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE REPORT printed few days ago that
a large party of Spaniards in Cuba are NOV
ing actively for peace, at almost any price,
has stirred the country with o renewed
sympathy for the Patriots on the Island.
The fact that they have been struggling
for their freedom as long as the American
colonies fought against Great Britain is &C.
cepted as fortuitous coincidence, and it is
safe to say that the recognition of their in
dependence by the United States would be
hailed with a general acclaim of delight.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE smart little boy who asked how
many hams it would take to make ham,
mer had no idea what hammering the Chi,
cago Inter Ocean could incur on account Of
a single Ham. For example, here comes
the Cincinnati Commercial with the re-
mark that wherever you see a sneer al
"Secretary Bristow you can smell crooked
whisky and anent this the Louisville
Commercial asks: Were you referring to
the Inter. Ocenn p
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE people of Virginia are talking about
a statue for John Smith. There is sense in
this suggestion but they should not forget
the rest of the family-Ambler, for exam
pie And, while they are about it, let
them make it a national affair. There is
hardly a State in the Union that does not
owe something to Smith, or that Smith
does moi owe something to. By all means
let the Smiths be statued.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THEoDoRE TILToN is reported by the
Philadelphia Times to have said that
Washington is so corrupt that the man
" in the moon holds his nose when he goes
'' over the city" But then it was the
Times that reported that Tilton said it, and
under the circumstances the man in the
moon will be able to survive the SANDER.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

AMONG the latest admonitions of the
Yicksburg Monitor, the organ of the Missis-
sippi While Lesguers, is the following:
"After you are laid in your little bed, Mr..
Radical, you wont be able to say you were not
warned, for we tell you that brave men don't
intend to shoot negroes any more"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THREE more working days are left in
which to take the wind out of the Ohio
Democratic initiation bag, to say nothing of
the praying that will certainly be done on
Sunday.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
DIE ID.

CLoUGHLY.-At Long Branch, New Jersey, at
mtdntSht on October 5, of diphtheriA, NELLIE,
youngest daughter of Alfred and the late Eudora
Cloughly, aged seven years, nine months and five
days.
Friends of the family are invited to attend the
funeral from her fathers residence, 1877 Tenth
street northwest, this (Friday) afternoon al 8
O'Clock.
RAY.-On the 9Th of October, 1875, CHARLES
CLIFTON BROWN, infant son of Daniel and Mary
l.. Ray, aged two months and twenty four days.
Funeral this (Friday) afternoon At 3:3D O'Clock
from the residence of his grandfather Gilless Kew
42g N street northwest. Friends and relatives are
invited.
ROHRER.-In Georgetown. D. c., October G. at
$50 O'Clock p M, OF heart disease, JOHN z, RoU-
RLR; In the thirty; fourth year Of his age.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to
attend his funeral this friday afternoon at Q
O'Clock, fccm his late residence IS Bridge street.
WILLIAMSON August 20. 1875, at O'Clock a.
M. at Old Crow Indian Agency, Montana Terri
tory, ANDY WILLIAMS, formerly OF Washington,
ID. q.
SUMMERS.-On the eth Instant, at $3.50 O. m
after long and painful illness, REBEcCA, wife of
AcquiIla L. Summers.
Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb,
Take this new treasure to thy trust,
To slumber in the silent dust.
Her funeral will take place SUNDAY, the 10th in
slant, at y. m. from her late residence, No. 4O6
l. street outheast. Relatives and friends are re-
spectfully invited to attend.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

THE NATIONAL EKPUBLICAN is Publis ed every
morning CSundays Z epted) at he sou Invest cor
ner Of Thiri cen street and Pennsylvania avenue,
and Is furnished subscribers Cby carriers) at any
cents per month.
Mail subscribers, postage paid, es.oo per year;
500 for six month and 500 for three months.
Terms Invariably in advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
Twenty-Five cents per line. Advertisements un-
der the h ad of For Sale or RENT s'wAnted,"
SELost and Foun 1, ~ and "Personal," twelve and
a. half cents per line.
M All communications, whether on business or
for publicatio D., should be addressed to WIN. D.
MURrAGH Proprietor, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
Washington, D. c.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

So FAR as the 'other side is concerned
there seems to be mo child's play in
Mississippi lust now.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

Peirotin, of Berlin, has discovered q new
planet. Was it watermelon or potato rine
that gave him the slipl
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
Nav Publications.,

chester Towards Temptation" By Mrs.
C. A. Warield. Published by T. B. Peterson
& Bro, Philadelphia, Pa.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

Awoman in Ohio became so interested in
politics that she locked her babe in the kitchen
and attended a grand mass meeting. The
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

HsH. l.. HASTINGS WILL PREACH
rs at the Foundry church, corner Of Four
teenth and e streets, THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING.
at 1850 O'Clock. Daily prayer meetings from to
and to 1880 p. m. All are cordially invited.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

'rwiIl the coming man drink PR. If he
comes at all he will drink, land there is no wash
ing that out.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

SPAIN draws upon Cuba for cash with
which to carry on her war against
the Carlists. At the same time the Cap.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
M lRRIED.

MILLER-HERBERT.-O September 21, by the
Rev. VIM. Owens, at the residence Of the bride,
JAMES A. MILLER. esq, aud Miss JULIA L. HER
Bent, both of Washington, ID. O. No cards.
CALDWELL-CLARK.-A the residence of the
brides parents October s, by Rev. DIR. Chester
tory, and Miss CARRIE L. CLARK, OF Washington
ID. Q.
ERGMAN-ENGLISH.-At the Church of thu
Immaculate Conception, October s. by Rev, Faith Al
McCSrty. THOMAS HRGMAS, OF Boonsboro', Mary.
of WashipgtOn, ID, g,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

Ohio is inthe midst of political earthquake.
Over TWO hundred speakers are stumping the
State.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, HAS
LARGER CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER
MORNING PAPER IN The DISTRICT OF co.
IUMBLA
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

Down on the borders of the Red River they
get up in the morning and quietly remark
"Give US this day our daily quinine."
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08
EDITORIAL AFrERTHnuaHI

That Des Moines speech is worrying the
Democracy more than bone in the throat.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-08

Money will be close and times hard soilong
as insolvent men persist in wearing diamond
pins and sporting brandy-smashes. y