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National Republican., 1875-08-03

IT SEEhs, after all, that eK.Trcssurer
Spinner Is not to be allowed TO find rest
from public service. The suggestion has
been made that he would aeceptably fill
the Office Of State Treasurer Of New York,
and 1t has been received with such unanl.
nous approval that his nomination by the
Republicans for that position may be &C.
cepted as foregone conclusion. Mean.
while his personal inclinations have not
been consulted but If the nomination
should be rendered to him. and he should
accept, hundreds and thousands Of warm
friends in Washington and elsewhere would
earnestly pray for his election. There are few
men who have passed through so long term
Of public service as he has, and come out
of it with an untarnished record, and the
friendship and respect of all classes. Those
who know him best in Washington, and
who fully appreciate the crowding respon-
sibilities which he 30 successfully carried
upon his shoulders during his term of office
as United States Treasurer, will join with
US in the opinion that the Republicans of
New York could make no better selection.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

"WHITKLAw REID gets 10000 q year for Sit
tag In the New York Tribune tower and biting
peoctl. Plenty Of men would chew up twice As
many pencils for twice the money, aye, and wear
silk shirts, too."-Eschange.
"Plenty Of men might be persuaded to do
ID, but we don't believe there Is another woman
in the country who would, and wear mems
clothes in daylight, as Whitelaw does."-AIi-
tcdEkes Sentinel
1t is about time this siander, If 1t Il q
aander, regarding the sex Of. the young
editor of the Tall Tower and Powerful
Mind, should be set at rest. 1t originated
in the fertile brain OF Colonel George H.
Butler, of the Arcddidn, who announced
several years ago that Reid's physicians
had forbidden him 10 marry Annie Dickin-
son. An unjust and perverted public at
once attached the suspicion aroused by
this wretched inauendo 10 Reid. But II II
is true. II affords an explanation, aside from
the availability Of the Tribune n stock
jobblng organ. Of the intimacy which ex.
lists between Reid and that stalwart Wall
street bull. Jay Gould. The more we look
into this matter, however. the more diff
cult Of solution Il becomes.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

THE cruel rumor circulated in the city
last Sunday night that one of our largest
and stanchest river steamers had been lost
was no doubt the result of an effort by some
would-be-funny person to enjoy practical
joke at the public expense. The memory of
the horrible Wawssett disaster was fresh in
t. minds of all, and added to the anxiety of
the public regarding the story, which grew
in proportions as it passed from lip to lip,
and would have produced a most unfor-
tunate and sgonizing excitement if it had
obtained general circulation. The origina-
tors of this wicked hoax ought to be pun
ished, and it is to be hoped that the COM
pany to which the vessel belongs will sue
ceed in its efforts TO discover them.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

Gov. KRMPBR's address to the 'Rich-
mond knights" on their return from the
Bunker Hill celebration continues to at
tract attention, mainly because he is gen
orally supposed to be a representative
Southern Conservative. The following
extract from it shows upon what q mis-
taken foundation this Eupposition really
rests:
"You went as Virginians should go; not in
garments of sackcloth, with :he ashes of hu-
initiation on bowed heads, but with uplifted
heads, proud. erect, asking no forgiveness,
profG'ing no repentance for the past =; some of
you with. the smoke of battle still upon your
garments, proud to be greeted by the men of
New England, not humbly as interiors, but
with pride as the peers of the loftiest."
National Republican., 1875-08-03
"CheekI Cheek!
Cockroach's cheekl
Cockroach's, oookroach's,
CUBA
Opinions Of the Press.

CFrom the Chicago Post.l
There can be no longer any doubt that the
war should be terminated, either by them
selves or the Intervention Of foreign Power,
and the United States of America is It's most
natural ally and protector, and we hope the
President and his Cabinet may, without delay,
take the thing In hand, and In some degree
atone for former neglect by an unqualified
recognition Of their national existence.
rFrom the Chicago Tribune.l
While the Cuban patriots arc making good
headvay in their struggle for Independence the
Spanish officials are In fair way to call down
the wrath of England In consequence of se-
rious insult to the British flag. A Spanish
gunbost at Porto Rico detained an English
mail steamer and forced her commander to de-
liver up a passenger who was accused Of hay-
ing violated the Spanish laws. The two horns
of the dilemma point 10 the near future, when
the patriots shah have gained their freedom
and the Spaniards the punishment their inso-
ience deserves.
tFrom the Council Bluffs Uowa) Nonpsreil.I
The Washington city papers are discussing
pretty freely, and with great deal CT earn
estness, the propriety Of change Of our gov
ernmental policy toward Cuba. In the course
Of q long doublelead editorial ip favor of
Cuban Independence and on the necessity of
the United States doing something to stop the
prolonged contest with Spain THE REPUBLICAN
took occasion recently to say that "the time Is
near when the interests of humanity, to say
nothing of other important considerations, win
demand that some preponderating authority
shall interpose to put an end to the strife.n
Apropos of this It may be remarked that since
its publication . rumor has gained credence In
Washington that the change advocated was
agreed upon at o secret session of the Cabinet,
held one DAY last week. This change, It Is
said, coutemplates the recognition of The Gu
National Republican., 1875-08-03
MORNING. AUGUST 1878

simple Endorsement of the resumption bill
adopted by the last Congress; but it will
generally be accepted as an Improvement
on thst measure, as it provides against the
necessity of retiring legal tenders and the
temptation to increase national bank cur
rency as speculation. 1t Is based upon
the safe assumption that the only defect in
our present financial system resides in the
warrantable lack of confidence in the direct
currency issue of the Government. Values
of all kinds are now estimated upon the
basis Of that issue, because it is the legal
tender. A policy that would contract
that issue to bring it to par with gold
would also contract values. 1t is esti-
mated that such contraction would effect
shrinkage in real estate, corporation
stock and all kinds Of permanent invest
ments, amounting to three times the total
sumof the national debt. This would be ac.
companied by unheard-of financial distress,
including the bankruptcy of tso-thirds, If
not more, Of the creditor class. If this
distress can be avoided by preventing that
shrinksge, it is manifestly the duty Of the
Government to do it We believe it can
be avoided by raising the value Of legal
tenders up to par in gold. The expense
incurred In this effort will be less than sixty
millions Of dollars TO be paid as interest
upon less than four hundred millions Of
five per cent bonds that would be required
to form the basis upon which to estimate
the new value of legal tenders. This done,
as we have said before, national bank notes
would be as good now % at the date Of
their ultimate redemption, because the
legal tenders into which they are now con.
ygtible would be accepted a. the repro.
sentatiyes OF their face value In gold.
Specie resumption would then be an &C.
complished fact, and while the Govern.
ment would be called upon TO pay sonio.
thing less than sixty millions Of additional
interest on legal tender securities, the people
at large would be rescued from the danger
OF q Shrlnkage In values amounting, rs we
have said, TO three times the national debt.
We have no doubt that this happy compro.
mise, which not only preserves but On.
hances the credit OF our currency and the
integrity Of our Government, will serve TO
rally all the sound thinking and clear.
reasoning people Of the country to Its sup.
port. Too much prominence cannot be
given to It, however, by frequent discus
sions of its merits before Congress meets.
National Republican., 1875-08-03
No More Bananas from Panams.

lfrom the Panama star aud Herald.
We have frequently alluded to the banana
trade of the Isthmus, and have noted with
qualification the rapid strides by which that
fruit has now, or rather had recently, become
tie foremost article of export from the 18th
mus. Unlike our other exports, India rubber,
ivorySnuts, and wood, which are gathered and
paid for in adjacent districts, every cent ex-
pended on bananas is laid out in this depart
ment, mostly in the vicinity of Aspinwall.
During the last year there has been paid out
by the exporters of bananas to the producers
from nine thousand to twelve thousand dollars
cash in American silver each month, and
probably not 9 month has passed during the
last seven years in which from two to five
thousand dollars have not been thus expended.
This month not dollar will be paid, not q
bunch Of bananas will be shipped, and
eight thousand bunches will be suffered
to rot upon the trees. Whyi Because
two companies, the Pacific NAH Steamship
Company and the Panama Railroad Com
pany, have raised the freight to such an
exorbitant rate that the shipper cannot put his
bananas in New York except at actual loss.
We are assured by parties Interested that at
the present rate of freight their late shipments
have netted loss, and consequently they have
prudently ceased exporting. We have made
some inquiries into this matter, and as the re-
suit we may state that this sudden increase In
freights arises In . disagreement between the
two companies mentioned as to the division of
tariff. When the Pacific Mail refused to di-
vide with the Panama railroad, the Panama
railroad company then charged sufficient
freight for the two miles transportation of the
bananas to cover one third of the two thousand
miles sea transportation. Meanwhile, while
these two companies contend about the dfVi-
sion Of freights, the banana merchants are
ground between the upper and neither mill
stones, their profits destroyed, their business
ruined and the most important branch of
Isthmus exports vanishes. We earnestly hope
that this subject will be reconsidered and that
justice may be done to all concerned.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

THE registration oath provided by the
present constitution of Alabama embraces
a declaration that the veter who subscribes
to it as prerequisite of the exercise Of the
right of suffrage shall solemnly swear to
support the Constitution and laws Of the
United States. 1t is among the plans of
the Democrats Of that State who are now
advocating revision OF the constitution to
abolish this oath because it is virtually an
acceptance Of the civil and political equality
of the blacks. In other words, they are
willing to accept only so mucd of the Con-
stitution as pleases them. But how about
the oaths they took when they were read
mitted to citizenship after the rebellion
They have violated them repeatedly, and
should not now be squeamish about re-
peating that violation at each succeeding
election campaign.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

attracted by the Southern policy of the Ad-
ministration, would be compelled to place
man in nomination for the Presidency who
would combine the qualifications of oppo-
sition to initiation and reputation,
with the justification of opposition to
State Rights. Such q man and such
a ticket would carry the honest and
thoughtful people of the country by storm.
Hundreds and thousands of Democrats
would repudiate the soft-money platform
which Pendleton. the Buckeye rag-money
king would dictate to the National Demo
cratic convention. and join the Republican
ranks. But if the Republicans carry Ohio,
as it is almost certain they will, the induce
meut to support their platform. which will
embrace declarations of inviolability of the
nations financial credit and of the sacred
rights ofthe war, will not be less urgent.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

THE Boston Journal proposes a family
ticket for Massachusetts,, as follows: "For
"Governor, Chas. Francis Adams, Qnd. j;
"fr Secretary of State, John Quincy
"Adams, (Dem.); for Treasurer. Chas.
"Francis Adams, jr., (Rep. }; for Auditor,
"Henry Adams, (Ind.) }; for Attorney Gen
"eral, Brooks Adams, (Rer.)" The Jour
nal thinks there would be no use for a
Lieutenant Governor with such a ticket.
Ii is all in the family, and yet well distrib-
uted among the parties. 1t might have
added that the first and foremost supporter
of this grand combination would be Murst
Halstesd, of the Cincinnati Commercial, !,
but he would insist that it should be made
a national ticket. he would not give one
of the Adams any but national office, nor
Adam for any Liberal Republican who is
not of that way of thinking.
National Republican., 1875-08-03
RESUMPTION WITHOUT INITIATION Or
CONTRACTION.

If the Richmond Dispatch had studied
the financial policy Of the Administration
as closely as it has some of its other fea-
tures it would have discovered long ago
that 30 far as the Presidents recommends
tons to Congress are concerned, the effort
has been repeatedly made to accomplish
specie resumption without initiation or con-
traction. The free banking recommends
tons of the President have been intended
TO provide for the accommodation of the
public, and at the same time to assure the
country that the national currency shall
remain upon lasting and encouraging
basis of ultimate specie resumption. The
suggestion recently advanced by THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN that greenbscks
or legal tenders shall be made more tangi-
bly, solid by providing that the Treasury
shall accrue gold for their redemption, Is
intended to obyiate contraction, because il
is believed that such q policy would bring
them up to par, and that, in consequence,
there would be no shrinkage in values.
On this platform any party may go to tie
country without fear Of opposition from
the honest and thoughtful classes. In
some respects it may be regarded as q
National Republican., 1875-08-03

HENDRICKS caught the Presidential
fever years ago, but it developed into fatal
heat when the participants in the Meckleu-
burg fraudulent Centennial celebration q
few months ago saiuted him as their oandi-
date for that Office. Since then he has
been casting about for new features Of
policy with which to attract attention.
Naturally he sees in Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, a prominent contestant for the nomi-
nation, and If reports be true he has made
up his mind to take time by the forelock
and Thurman by the fetlock. and coma
out squarely for rag money. If Pendleton
is king Of the Western Democracy, and
there is no reason to doubt if, we may ex-
pect that the West with the South will
support Hendricks. Pendletou himself, il
should be understood, would be satisfied to
be Secretary Of the Treasury. A nice
httle scheme this is to get rid of Thurman
National Republican., 1875-08-03

Col. VALENTINE BAKER, Of the British
Army, received lesson in morals yester-
day at the hands of an English bench and
jury which he viii not be likely soon to
forget-Rot for q year at the least. He
was found guilty Of an indecent assault
upon the person Of Miss Dickinson in q
railway carriage, and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment twelve months, TO pay fine
of e5O0 and the cost Of prosecution. When
we consider that the prisoner was the
especial favorite of the Crown Prince and
the military pet of the commander-in-chief
of the British Army, with whom he had
Just been dining, (and whose fine old Cognac
and Burgundy may have been somewhat
the cause of his rufhanly conduct perhaps
the unflinching courage of judge and jury
may appear somewhat remarkable. But
that the British public viii approve the
finding and sentence there can be no doubt.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

We SHALL tender no apology for occu-
pying so much space in The NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN to day with the elaborate and
well-considered speech of Senator Sherman
upon our national currency. 1t was de-
livered in Ohio last Saturday, and is just
what was necessary in that locality. 1t
fully exposes the subtleties, sophistries and
fallacies of Pendleton. Thurman, Allen and
company, and shows the entire soundness
of the Administration policy for the return
to specie payments by appreciation of
greenbacks to the coin standard. 1t is q
speech which every citizen ought to take
the time to read and carefully digest.
Senator Sherman has had large experience
in all our financial legislation during the
last seventeen years, and is quite as familiar
with the facts and data necessary to q
proper consideration of the subject as any
man can be, and his unyarying success in
securing the adoption by Congress of the
various measures which he has from
time TO time proposed, speaks vol
lumes in behalf Of their soundness, while
the present healthy condition of the nation 8
credit Sully attests the wisdom of the legis-
lation. Financially we have reason to be
proud of our record as party. Taking
the Government in 1861, without dollar
in the Treasury, and our credit destroyed,
the Republican party plunged into a gigantic
and expensive war, which it carried on
successfully, while at the same time it re-
built the credit of the nation 50 that it now
stands without a superior. In doing these
things, over twelve thousand millions of
treasure have been raised and handled
without our fair name having once been
dishonored. We repeat, therefore. that we
have reason to refer with pride to our
financial record as party, and it affords us
pleasure to add that no small portion of the
credit for the wise legislation that enabled
US to do this is justly due to Senator Sher.
man, chairman of the Committee on Fl
National Republican., 1875-08-03

THE story that eK Senator Carpenter
recently gave utlerInce TO the opinion that
President Grant will be . candidste for re-.
election on bGrd.money platform. aud
that the circumstances not likely TO occur
are the pending conflict between rag money
and honesty, is fatty contrAdIcted by the
Milwaukee Sentinel on the best authority.
How many Of the Opposition newspapers
that have given It currency will print the
contradiction
National Republican., 1875-08-03

Foo, HoRH ALIENS definition OF the
fulfIlment OF promises Is, according to the
Cincinnati Gazette. "a id barren
ideality." II the financial schemes of the
Ohio Democracy should prevail, the public
would realize the bArrenness of that ideality
as plainly as Allen will the absence of any
substantial results from his pending cam
paign. About the 18th Of October next the
old gentleman will be. saying something
about c-barren reality.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

uons is peculiarly inviting. Some writer,
speaking of the productiveness of the
island, has said: ''tickle her soil with q
hoe and she laughs with harvest"
Extrayagant as this statement may appear
10 those who have never visited Cuba, It Is
nevertheless a strikingiy truthful metaphor.
The heart ofthe soil is simply lnekhausti-
BILE. and the variety of Its products Is 20
great and so fruitful that limitless amounts
of capital might find profitable investment
in them. But the hand of tyranny has
wrought its mark upon the face Of every
thing, and the natives have been forced
for generations to yoiceless submission
to government foreign to them in all its
interests and aspirations.
At the same time the incubus Of slavery
has weighed upon them like q sitting
nightmare, and 1t seems to be the policy Of
the Spaniards TO preserve that institution
in spite of repeated promises that it shall
be abolished. 1t should be understood
that the Patriots, in their rebellion, did not
hesitate 10 place themselves squarely and
fairly, at the beginning. upon the broad
platform Of human freedom. In this, as in
all other respects. they give promise to the
United States that their desire regarding
the island shall be gratihed. In other
words, they have guaranteed the abolition
of slavery In the most solemn form by
embodyiDg the sacred principle Of human
freedom In the written constitution Of their
Republic. The same pens with which
they signed their names to their Declara.
ton Of Independence from Spain, and at
the same instant, were used 10 proclaim
the freedom Of their bondsmen. This noble
act alone win commend them 10 the heart.
felt friendship Of Americans. II proves
how truly earnest they arc. and presents
such distinct contrast 10 the policy Of
the spaniards that the wonder Is our people
have not long before this demanded ther
recognition as an Independent power In
the interest Of common humanity.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

FoR TIE benefit Of our eight-page morning
eotemporary, whose stupidity Is possibly occa-
stoned by the waning energies n an exhausted
condition, we have TO say that no matter OF
any kind, relating to any subject whatever, Is
allowed to be published In THH NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN without having been supervised by
competent editorial authority. This is and has
been our inyariable rule. OF course 1t prevents
the possibility Of anything appearing in our
columns as the result of surreptitious design.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

AND NOW il is said that Gov. Hendricks,
of Indiana, i coming out in support Of
Pendleton's rIE-money theories. If this
thing keeps on the hErd-money Democrats
will number only Mr.. Thurman and the
editor of the New York World.
National Republican., 1875-08-03
TUESDAY noRIINs:,:.::n..AUe :. l9t

PERSONS LALTrSe the City during the SUM-
mer months 90 have TEE DzHIE NAe1ostAG
REpUBL1cAH sent 10 their address By mai,
postage paid, aA changed Is Often - they
may require, hy Hdering It Of this Office.
Terms: Sixteen cents per week. oC kx9-ax
cents per month; Invariably In advance.
National Republican., 1875-08-03

THE success Of the Democrats in Ohio on
the rag.money plstform-An almost imposs:-
Bile contingency--would concentrate the East
and New England so strongly in support of
specie payments that the Republican party,
with its support from the Southern States
National Republican., 1875-08-03


LAvALETTE.-CHARLoT LUcRBTIA, aged
twenty ponihf, infant daughter OF VIM. A. and
Funeral services at O'Clock W wednesday, August
4, 1915. corner Of Ninth and streets northeast.
Friends Of the family are invited to attead.
LEB.-At 10 O'Clock, on Monday, August 4 Col
RIcHARp BLAND Ike, in the seventy ninth year
OF his age.
BIS friends and the friends Of the family are re-
spectfully invited 20 attend the funeral from his
late resi6encs, corner OF Prince and Patrick
STREETS, AIexsndris, Va, on Tuesday, August ..
at so'clock p. N.
LY0Ns.-on the sist Of July, at 8 O'Clock p. m,
j. II. LYONS, aged thlrty-one years.
The relatives and friends OF the family are re-
quested to attend his funeral from his late resi-
dence, NO. 1905 street northeast, to-day, At
O'Clock o. m.
swEENEY.-Nonday, August 2 at ESQ O'Clock
.. m, BRIDGET SWEENEY, In the seventy-nrst
year OF her age.
slssoN.-August 1. 1876, after an illness OF three
weeks, Of typhoid malaIial fever, which she bore
With christian fortitude, AUGUSTA v. sIssoE, Of
ranersi viii % t.is place at IA Thlrteenth street
southwest, at O'Clock day.
FITZGERALD.-At the residence Of her father,
John Brannan, Mrs. MARY A. fITzGERALD. be-
loved wife % Michael J: Fitzgeraid; aged thirty
Yuneral will take place at 81. Dominic,s churcn
at .. m. Tuesday morning, August J. Requiem
Mass will be celebrated. lStArJ
National Republican., 1875-08-03

TBE NATIONAL RRPUBLIC4N has A
LIRGER CIROULA fT0H fHAH AEY OTHER
NORHIYG PAPBR II TIE DISTRICT OF 90
LUMBLA.
National Republican., 1875-08-03
MARRIED.
DIED

DENNIsON-COOK.-On the I'd Instant, BY the
Rev. j. @. Smith, w. Z. DENNIsoN and Mi.s
FLORENCE Cook, ali OF this city.