National Republican., 1875-11-13
FnIT0RIAI AFTEKTEoUGHT

| EDlTURlAL fTEhTHOU6dT
| ''Life on the ocean wave" is not pleasant
| existence at present.
The wedding trousseau of the Princess of
Milan cost sSS,OeO, and ten thousand servian
\ paupers are starving from want.
Some medium has sufficiently materialized
| Horace Greeley to hear him remark that when
| ever he sees the New York Tribune nowadays
he feels there is cruel punishment after death.
ave regret it exceedingly; but history de-
| mands the truth-Mrs. Edinburg's baby is
ld."-ROehester DenOergt.
Well, what if it Isl Did you ever see baby
that never bawled?
| Out of sheer pity for Spain our Government
should recognize Cuban independence, and
thus close the bloody strife, for in few years
| longer the Cubans will have killed the Span
| iards all Off unless something is done to pre-
| vent them.
The surcease of the Tammany Mogul's sor-
| row could be bottled up in a thimble. He
grieves with unremitting grief over his unex-
pected overthrow. Yesterday, as it were, he
was King of Tammany; to-day he is plebeian,
the poorest of the plebes.
We are panied to learn, from the Brooklyn
| Argus, that you can't put out q red-headed
woman with Babcock eXtinguisher; and now
| will somebody tell us what will extinguisher
| Rochester Democrat.
Smile sarcastically, and tell her she is red
headed, and our word for it she will extin-
guish you.
Under the laws of the United States vessels
carrying passengers are not allowed to trans
port petroleum. From recent information it
is understood that the loss of the Waco is
directly attributable to the cargo of kerosene
which it had on board, and the authorities are
taking active measures to investigate the mat
ter, and bring the responsible parties to JUS
tice.
Right in the face of the fact that Moody and
Sankey are striving to turn the sinners of
Brooklyn and New York from the broad road
that leads to destruction, the authorities pro-
pose to raise He'll Gate with so, 1000 pounds of
nitro-glycerine. Closing Hell's gate by PRAYER
and opening it with nitro-glycerine W,hew
But then, the people of New York are capable
of doing most anything.
There is lively run of blackguardism pass
natl Enquirer. The following is a fair sample
from the former "The Cincinnati Blather-
skite says: We can afford to smile at the
ass Of the COuricr-Jouraal.' Yes, you are
groaning by the grave of iniation and if a
baboon, sitting in deserted misery, munching
his paws on a tombstone, can smile, you can
smile. Your smile is simply the sardonic
grin of death"
Having exhausted her material for Cuban
graves, Spain is now endeavoring TO inveigle
Americans into the ranks of her legions to
aid in crushing out the effort of Cuba to be-
come independent. The inducement is one
hundred dollars in gold and one hundred
acres of land. But these inducements seem
hardly tempting enough, for as yet but very
few have been found who are willing to run
their heads into the jaws of certain death for
the paltry sum offered.
A man interested in the election returns has
been taking the World to ascertain its result.
He secludes himself from his family, and has
already spent one hundred hours in the ef-
fort. He weighed two hundred pounds when
he commenced he weighs one hundred and
ten now. He has scratched himself bald
headed, and whitfield up one gross of lead
pencils. He still sticks to 1t that figures
won't lie but he thinks the Worlds arithmetic |
would bankrupt an institution depending upon
a correct system of accounts for its support.
The Allentown Democrat thus picks its flint |
for next year ''Our pickets and outposts have |
been driven in. The long roll, the call for bat
tie, has already been sounded, and the Democ- |
racy, as in ''76, will respond. As to the final |
result we know the God of nations will not |
forsake us, and we cannot fail" As He hasn't |
been with you for the last quarter of q Gen. |
tury, we can't exactly see how He is going to |
desert you. You must be connected with a |
thing before you desert, you know.
The official returns OF the Nebraska election |
show Republican majority of over two thirds. |
The Republican candidates for Judges of the |
| Supreme Court received from 81 ,226 down to
q ,767 votes; and the vote for the Republican |
candidates for regents ranged between 29,7+4
and q ,053. The Democratic vote on regents
| ranged between Is AS and II ,GS4. The Re-
publican majority is therefore about 16, 900.
The new constitution was adopted by vote of
so 202 for it to 5,474 against it. The total vote
was nearly 45 900, against &c, 141 for Grant in
| 1872. As a harbinger for '76 this is quite
agreeable. .....-
''Independent journalism" as exemplihed
| in the New York Sun, and its feeble tmitators
elsewhere, is the meanest sort OF journalism.
| The fact that President Grant, nearly two
years ago, borrowed some money on mortgages
on his Long Branch property has just been
discovered by some one of the many Paul Prys
attached to the Sun, and the readers of that
paper are treated to over q column giving the
mortgage verbdti1i, which is nowise different
from any other mortgage, except that the
names of U. s. Grant and wife appear in it.
There is no decency In such Journalism
Pittsbtrg Telegraph.
No doubt of It; but then there is the Large
Mind of the New York Tribune, who has been
mourning for two days to think that the SE"
should have gotten ahead Of hirl In this mean
| enterprise.
The following extract taken from Smalley's
last letter to the Tribune from London viii
show to certain degree how the Stonewal
jackson monument recently unveiled in Rich
mond is looked upon by the British people:
"a brief cable dispatch to the Times of
lnursoay announced the unwilling of the
otoneWah jackson statue at Richmond The
ceremonies are described as imposing. the
uemonstration the greatest ever seen there.
the eiIy decorated, the British colors being
prominent, The announcement has caused
certain sensation; not altogether Of an agree
able kind. People doubt whether-vbstaSe-
the South -ay do-the whole countrv mi
welcome gift from England in honor of =
man whose sole titles to fame spring from b;s
efforts to destroy bis country. They do not
am speaking Of the great majority Of sensible
Englishmen, and of their opinions as thew have
found expression in various ways during the
last ten years-they do not wish to revive on
your side the memories Of hostile acts which