National Republican., 1876-03-03

"Who" says the Christian Weekly, "didnt
steal watermelons when he was boy" Yes,
but that doesn't necessarily force one to steel
his heart against leap-year proposition.
Miss Betsy Carr, of New Hampshire, is one
hundred and five years old and is still unmar-
ried. She SAYS the Republicans will be victo-
rious in the coming election, for she feels it in
her bones.
When the Southern Democrats robbed the
National Government of over two hundred
millions of dollars worth of war property
the leaders of the Democratic party North
sanctioned the infamous theft and tried to JUS
tify the dirty and disloyal deed.
If Charles A. Dana should occupy the edi-
torial chair of the Tribune and Queen Vic.
should occupy the White House as Queen of
the American Kingdom, 1t would be high time
for the world to slip off on a tangent from its
orbit and run a foot-race with a comet.
When old Ben Floyd seized upon the forty
million dollars belonging to the United States
and fed precipitately southwark, his Demo-
cratic sympathizers in the North clapped their
hands and cried, AGO it, Benjamin. While
the money lasts, our hearts are with you."
Fifty thousand troops will now go to Cuba TO
quen the inssrrection. The magnanimous
thing would be for Alfonso to put Don Carlos
at their head if he would go. The Don once
proposed that Alfonso should go there while
he himself should stay at home and do gaarda
costa service.
While Ben. Hill was attempting to fasten
the blame of secession upon the New England
States, the other day, a Northern Democrat,
keenly appreciating the value of such episodes
to the Republican cause, said to gentleman
on the floor, "That man Hill would bankrupt
he'll if he attempted to defend the cause of his
Satanic majesty"
Governor Hendricks and his friends stren-
uously oppose the call Of the Indiana State
convention in advance of the national conven-
ton at st. Louis. They are solicitous that the
State platform will be based on soft money,
and thus injure the Governors chances for the
Presidential nomination. Hendricks does not
like to be pulled off the fence.
When the repentant patriots came back into
the Union, "hugging the Constitution closely
to their bosoms," the Democracy welcomed
them with a natural feeling OF love, but the
past few weeks are fraught with experiences
which convince them that they are too cum.
bersome to bear. Their constant prayeris that
they may all be afflicted with the lockjaw
until after the elections.
"Mr. Mix" said the family physician of
that gentleman 70 him, the other day, "your
mother-in- law won't live long unless she has
more exercise" "All right" said Mix, and
then he walked eff some ways, and said to
himself, "If exercise is going to save her,
will spike her down so she can't wriggie.
There never was anything very refined or gen.
tie about that man Mix. He is so bluff and
rough and means so much Of what he says.
The following are the total ordinary expen-
ditures of the Government in 1860, under Dem
oera ic rule, compared to the expenditures Of
the Government, under Republican adminstra-
tiou, in 1875: Democratic expcuses-Popula-
tion in 1860, 81 ,0000 600 expenses, SSl 900 900;
equal to S..Gl per head. Republican expenses
Population in 1879, $4,000, 900 expenses,
$50 .ON,OOO; equal to s2.O5 per head.
Some men will preach the gospel anyhow
locks and bolts won't stop them. For instance,
in free church in Banffshire, Scotland, min
lister has been preaching some unpalatable
truths, and some of the members of the con-
gregation endeavored to lock him out of his,
church He had tussle with them for the
key, in which he was somewhat injured
Nevertheless he had a new lock made, and
preached in his church as usual on the follow
ing Sabbath before a large congregation.
The ex-rebels in Congress, arm-in-arm with
their loving dough-faced allies, are now at
tempting to rob the United States Treasury of
several millions of dollars for the purposes of
paying the arrearage pensions of those who
were dropped from the rolls for disloyalty
during the recent rebellion. They are willing
to rob the poor widows and orphans of our
veteran dead for economy's sake, and more
than willing to pay these disloyal men for
their dsloyalI services, making disloyalty an
honorable and meritorious thing.
jeff. Davis, Ben Hill " Co., in league with
rebel sympathizers. wantonly robbed the
United States of over three billions of money,
and in order to make up this deficiency in the
itself, and will not be able to meet its liabili-
ties for many years to come. These men COM
mitted this theft maliciously, willfully and
unnecessarily for the purpose of satiating a
morbid personal ambition. They are now re-
questing the confidence of the American peo
pie, and their dough-faced allies of the North
are trying TO bamboozle the people into the
belief that their requests should be satisfied.
Under the caption OF .'North Carolina in
the Two Revolutions, - the IItder and 4ppsal,
of Petersburg, Va, says /" The two equally
sacred and honorable causes are associated on
the pages of history and in the memories of
men; and the annals of after years will ac-
knowledge that the earlier 'rebels had no
higher rank as patriots and martyrs OF politi-
cal independence and personal liberty than
those who poured out their life blood on the
fields of a later and more hapless struggle
Put this ard that together, ani here you have
another unreconstructed rebel as dyed in the
wool as Granma Davis himself.
The CONSERVATIVES of Louisiana are doing
the worst thing possible for themselves and
their party throughout this country by virtu-
ally repudiating the compromise to which they
agreed a year ago, and endeavoring to effect
the removal of Governor Kellogg by impeach-
ment. The offenses which they allege as
coming after the Wheeler adjustment are the
fimsiest Of pretexts, and the whole spirit and
manner of their proceedings show that they
arc determined to get rid of Kellogg on the
old ground of opposition simply because they
think they have the power in their hands.
The whole performance is an act of bad faith,
which will do them more harm than good.
There is man living in Taunton, Massa-
chusetts, who has had rather checkered
career. He has been twice shipwrecked; was
nearly baked in a railroad accident; has been
run away with times without number; was
shot in the neck at Gettysburg; was prisoner
in Libby prison; fell overheard from a whaler
and had two fingers bitten of by shark; was
drafted twice; had his right arm broken in two
places in the Grst New York riot; stood on a
barrel with rope around his neck from sun