National Republican., 1875-11-12

There Will be twenty-four contested seats in
the lower House of Congress, nine being occu-
pied by Democrats and fifteen by Republicans.
1t is said that when the Spanish soldiery
depart from their native shore for Cuba they
seem SO conscious Of the certain death that
awaits them that they act like criminals being
led to the gallows.
Senator Booth says "thst any man ought
to have common sense to know when he has
no chance to be President" which little re-
mark goes to prove the woful want of COM
mon sense in the Senator.
All hope for the safety of the Waco passen-
gers seems dead. No trace of them has yet
been discovered, and the probabilities arc that
those who escaped the flames by way of the
lie-boats were capsized, and perished in the
merciless waves of the gulf.
Murat Halstead; the great field marshal in
politics, says that Judge Thurman is the
strongest man the Democrats can place in the
field next year. Whereupon Samuel Bowles
says (few) dams quietly, and turns anx-
iously TO the combination" Independent
Democratic votes for approval.
Intellectual Gibboseness, of the Tri54as,
who in his peculiar selfconceit, with half
dozen indictments for base libel attached,
thinks that he is filling the chair made vacant
by the death of Greeley, has been forced to
acknowledge that the chances 1of Republican
Centennial successes are increasing rapidly
every day.
In Algiers they believe that the angel of
death twines his fingers in the locks of his vic
Tins and tosses them into the happy land of
Canaan. If fAlgiers has any bald headed men,
we respectfully ask the New York Herald man
to give us map of their feelings while wrest-
ling vainly. with those grim feelers in the last
transporting act.
A great Federal movement is now in pro-
gress looking forward to the confederation
of the five States of Central America into one
grand Republic, fashioned after the principal
features of our own Government. This con-
solidation will make a formidable Power OF
the now unsettled provinces, and If properly
founded and controlled will be prosperous
and important nationality.
The influence Of the great work instituted
by Moody and Sankey is felt not alone in
Brooklyn, but is extending throughout the
country. Already mlny of the Western
towns and cities have caught the spirit. of re-
Hgious enthusiasm and are in sack-cloth and
ashes for their sins. The present. awakening,
acting as a foundation on which to base the
annual revival which invariably occurs during
the week of prayer in January, will undoubt-
edly make this the most promising year for
great moral harvest that the world has ever
realized.
1t has been decided that such scurrilous trash
as the following, which was sent to the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher by postal card, comes
within the restrictions limiting the character
of manuscript matter allowed TO pass through
the mail;
The City Of Churches once stood here,
But God and moral law it did not fear:
Irs idol was Beecher, its ruler ring
That virtue and vice together did hing;
Il nourished apace and greatly did grow,
Then down in the dust descended full low
Gone to join Sodom and Gomorrah.
The decision above referred to has placed
the postmasters in rather an embarrassing
position, as they have positive instructions not
to read the matter on postal cards that may
pass through their hands, as there Is o ciasning
between these decisions. Either this character
of matter must be allowed or the restrictions
placed upon the officials respecting the reading
of documents passing through their hands re-
moved.
In bis efforts to relieve the young gymnast,
Leo" Mr.. Bergh has at last struck the nail
squarely on the head. Ever since Adam was
ruthlessly ushered from the lovely and charm
ing scenes Of Eden into the cold and eheeriess
world without "man's inhumanity to man has
made countless thousands mourn and yet
this of.-recurring inhumanity has not been the
only inconsistent feature which has brought
searching wretchedness upon that element of
our race which dwells in the abodes Of populous
poverty. In the dark and pestilential corners
Of our great cities; in the highways and by
ways; in the sparsely settled districts Of the