National Republican., 1876-01-03

ming lneOrlacy, ne suppeu up on the car track,
and was miraculously saved by slipping just
far enough to escape the crushing force of the
iron wheels. When he regained his feet he
stared wildly about for moment, and then
moving off he muttered: "I resob (hic) do
resob on and after to-day, never to drink an
other drop; not another (hic) drop. Nor
won't swear; not a swear; nor smoke-a-smoke;
nor lie fb, nor-why, how'r, you Jack, old
boy, let's take nip" and the young man,
with the words of his new resolutions still
lingering on his lips, entered saloon and
washed them down with brandy smash in
company with companionable Jack.
Old Mr.. Peters never appeared to care what
his daughter did so long as she did what was
right. He stepped suddenly into the parlor
last evening, and the lights being turned rather
low it was some time before he discovered his
daughter and her lover slowed snugly away
meath the big ulster of the latter. But when
he did, each particular hair arose horizont-
ally, and he said: " Daughter, the fire burn
eth low, I see, but that is really no reason for
your nesting down in that overcoat like a
fawn in cold weather. Arise, daughter, and
go to thy room. Arise, young man, and skin
your coat-tail will come in unpleasant contact
with each other" And they did just as the
old gentleman requested.
'That ranting, hollow w-roaring, bloodhound
of Zion, the great negro-squeezing Bishop
Haven" is the elegant language applied to
the great Methodist by the Rome (Ga.)
Courier. This is simply a fair sample of the
expressions used by certain class of journals
in the South, which have forgotten to bury the
sword and join hands across that bloody
chasm, filled with nearly a million dead. 1t
is this species of journalism that instigates the
great political wrongs which exist in many
parts of the South at present. Aided and
abetted by the fre-eating element of Missis-
sippi, it has succeeded in forging chains for
the franchise by destroying the freedom of
election. In Alabama 1t has accomplished the
subsection Of the blacks to serfdom, and once
more the auctioneer's hammer falls in the sale of
human chattel. In South Carolina it has secured
by iattery and deception the betrayal ofthe Re-
publican party by its chosen leader, Chamber
lain, and proposes TO carry the State at the
next election by repeating the cannon and
rife intimidation movement, which was SO
White Liners. Nothing can be SO deleterious
to the best interest of the South as this kind
of journalism.
The new Captain General of Cuba, Jovellar,
sends tidings to the Island in advance of his
arrival that he proposes to discontinue the
abuses that have existed there for so many
years. This sounds very promising, but the
General has been there before. He then had
one of the finest opportunities ever offered to
man to do right, but failed to grasp it. Jo-
yellar may be an honest man, but he is weak
ruler. The moment he sets his feet
on the soil of Cuba that vile and
corrupt political organization known as the
Casino will weave the meshes of their net
about him, and he will find himself utterly
powerless to do otherwise than they command.
He was under their leprous influence once, and
VIC fail to find any reformation on his part yet,
which conyinces US that he is potent to stand
aloof from them and administer the affairs of
the island in the spirit of justice, of independ-
ence and right. The most incorruptible off,
cial doing service in the cause of the Spanish
Crown cannot Withstand the insidious and cor
rupting power Of this great organization of
bad, ambitious men. Nothing will ever relieve
Cuba except the destruction Of the Casino and
the removal of the Spanish yoke, and both of
these events have already cast their shadows
sufficiently enough before them to allow the
close observer to see their coming.