National Republican., 1876-01-31

ton deserves divorce, and the Ohio Senate
has shown great wisdom in legislsting in his
favor.
Private Dalzell is qniet, and, being quiet, it
may safely be said that he will soon electrify
the voters of America with the following an
nouncement: aFor President, Private James
NJ. Dalzell; for Vice President, General VIII
liam Tecumseh Sherman"
The Alfonsists are striking some effective
blows at the Carlist cause. Severe fighting Is
now in progress, which, up to the present
time, has resulted strongly in favor of the
Madrid Government.
All the employees Of the Pension bureau
have signed a card denouncing the attack of
morning contemporary on Commissioner Atkin-
son as being scurrilous article, and without
foundation, decency or a semblance of truth.
Liberia has exhausted her resources in sup
pressing her miserable insurrection, and will
have to withdraw from the Centennial because
of her poverty and distress. Where is the
philanthropist who will aid this patriot people
to secure the benefits of the great Exposltionl
elias your husband got an Ulster:" said
Mrs. Mix to an old lady acquaintance. "No,
he haint got no ulcer" she replied; "bu. he's
got the whackenest biggest wart on his nose,
which is verging on a cancer every day OF his
life;" and she sighed like one without hope in
the world.
Since the great fire in Chicago it is said that
New York owns nearly all of the place. A few
days since New Yorker got drunk and bois-
ferrous in Chicago and was captured by the
police. On being fined SO and costs by
magistrate he replied, "All right; just deduct
it fIom the mortgage"
Now they say that if tie poor mans home
was made more pleasant he would not spend
his time in the drinking saloons. We have
always insisted that the wife should fix up
lager-beer garden in the back yard and secure
a troupe of ballet dancers and music and
Chinese lanterns if she expects it is possible
for the husband to stay st home away from
the evil influences of the restaurant.
The ComricT-JouTRdl says Louisville has
the prettiest girls in the country" OF course
that blue-eyed, white-headed, fair-sknned
paragraphist is genuine in his belief; but let
him come to this city and walk from the
Treasury to the Capitol, by the Avenue route,
about 4 p. m, and he will 60 back home and
make faces at the Louisville girls. You have
not Travelled, young man. Come East.
The Summing up in the Lands trial COM
merces to-day. The friends of the accused
are confident Of his acquittal. But, after al,
it seems very hard that even in these degen-
crate days an editor can be cornered In his
own composing room and shot like wild game.
If such things are allowed 10 go unpublished
the time will soon come when longevity will
be unknown in the profession of journalism.
When the West Point bill reaches the Senate
it will receive the check which it deserves and
which the people demand. They have too
high an appreciation of the national and last
ing benefits derived from that great institution
to quietly submit to having it crippled by the
wild and parsimonious legislation of their
servants in Congress; and, should this bill
pass, the odium will fall upon the Democracy,
the results of which will be materially felt by
that party when the public will is expressed
in the great campaign that is coming on apace.
expression on the Democratic countenances in
the House. They appear to be surchargcd
with misgiyings. There is handwriting on
the wall which they cannot satisfactorily in
terpret. They have recently consulted their
oracle, the result of which seems to have
crowded their political aud legislative horizon
with omens of troubles which are to beget
troubles. They have been closely watching
Blaine, who has been as quiet as a sleeping
lion for the last week, and they fancy there is
a storm coming. Their misgivings are forty
fold; but towering high above them all is one
in which they picture the political Hercules
from Maine hurllng a missile, in the form of
resolution on resumption, into their financially
discordant camp, that will be more disastrous
to them politically than would be the personal
damage derived from the explosion of dyna-
mite clock in each of their coat-tail pockets.
Judge Van Cott has caught the spirit of So
called wit recently displayed ~ Mr.. Cox in
the House OF Representatives, and he forth
with arises and calls Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher
'holy bully" Just what 4 real out-and-out
holy bully is We are unable to say. 1t may be
an expression used only in Brooklyn, or one
created from the vast resources of the Judges
judicial Uranium. We have often heard of the
holy bulls of the Pope, of Spanish bull-fghts,
of bully boys and bruising bullies, but holy
bully never. Therefore, taking everything
into consideration, it seems that the response
bility rests with the Judge to elucidate the
true meaning of the expression, so that the
public may know exactly what holy bully
means when applied to gentleman of Henry
Ward Beecher's prominence and position in
society. For man shrouded in the folds of
the judicial ermine to startle the public by
hurling the inyective "holy bully" at q man
mantled with the sacerdotal robes, and then
seal his lips in silence without explaining the
meaning OF the expression, is ptchy black
sin Of commission that even Brooklyn should
not tolerate.