National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-22

Rubenstein, the young and polished Jew,
who is charged with having loved his cousin,
Sarah Alexander, not wisely, and then with
having cut her throat too well, is feigning iu-
sanity to evade going to meet his victim.
We always laugh when the erudite editor
of the World grows funny. The way in
which he sings polysyllables about is provoca-
tive of mirth, and we indulge in the pro
pensity. But when the E. E. on Tuesday To-
Gated Achilles on the Isle Of Calypso as sub
ject to the Establishments as well as the wand
of Gree, we INDUCED in loud guHaw. We
always thought it was Ulysses -..--.
"Then Stephens is at the head of the Com
mittee on Weights and Measures, is he W said
an old man who looked out of the corner of
his eye as though he knew something. "To
weigh all his measures against this Government
during the civil strife would require more
weights than are usually found in the average
corner grocery. Ny boy who starved in Libby
prison was worth his weight in gold, yet he
was but one ive-thousandth part of the num-
Der who are in the same fix and will have to
wait until the day of judgment for JUSTICE
Samuel Tilden is Presidentially dead, but
still lives as the Governor of New York.
Whether in the death of his Presidential pros
poets he has become insensible to his guberna-
torial duties as a reformer, we cannot posi-
lively say; but one thing is certain, the great
furore he made three months ago respecting the
canal ring has ended in nothingness, and now
If his friends can point to one single positive
measure of reform adopted by him and carried
out successfully, it would be an accommoda-
ton to the country if they would be kind enough
to do so.
This is harvest week for eur merchants.
Yesterday the busy throng which surged back
and forth upon the Avenue and Seventh street,
bearing innumerable bundles, from the small
pocket parcel up to the great arm ful-box,
bore unmistakable evidence of this. These
packages are without doubt by this time slowed
away in the secret places of home, and we
charge all little boys and girls not to modest
anything wrapped up in brown paper that they
may by chance find mysteriously laid away on
the top shelves of cubboards or in the dark re-
cesses of closets, and by no means ask any
questions respecting their contents. What
would small boy care for jumping. jack in
his stocking on Christmas morning that he
had seen lettering about the house for a week?
Valmaseda has resigned and Jovellar has
accepted the Captain Generalship of Cuba.
There is something mysterious about this
position. Not one of the many Captain
Generals have yet been able to hold the place
for any considerable time. The only reasons
for this which seem at all probable are, either
just as soon as one man has held the po-
sition long enough to hoard a fortune he is
relieved and another person who has claims
on Alfonso made his successor, or, the gen.
tlemen becoming positively convinced of the
hopelessness of the Spanish cause, and
wearied by the wretched political and military
condition of the Island, beg their King to take
them back to their native heath, to engage in
duties more wholesome, if not more profit
able. .....- ....- -.- .. --.... -.a-.-
The Vicksburg Herald and many other Mis-
sissippi journals of the same ilk have raised
their arms in positive rebellion against the
proposed investigation of the election frauds
in that State. When small boy purloins a
sugar plum from his mothers pantry and
slows it away in his pocket, any approach of
the mother to the neighborhood of the plum
is resisted with nervous yigor and anxiousness.
When these men have organized widespread
plan of intimidation, have murdered colored
voters by the score, have carried Republican
Mississippi by an immense Democratic major
fly, there should be no surprise at their earn
est endeavor to stay proceedings which must
inevitably expose series of crimes both po-
liticsl and social which will startlc the eoun-
try with their atrociousness