National Republican., 1876-02-25

honest, hard-money policy. In the meanwhile
portions OF the Democracy are shooting of on
tangent in various directions, and give every
possible indication Of a hopeless division Of
opinion on the financial problem, which both
parties must soon attempt to solve.
A most wondrous tide set In last night all
over the country in favor of General Bab,ock.
Enthusiastic men on the street were nominat-
ing him for the Presidency and betting ffty to
one on his election. Tho receipt of the news
of his acquittal at West Point was the occa-
sion of universal rejoicing.
Sweet kome-a beehive. Guilt frames
prison windows. Short crops-convicts' hair.
Mill dues-wageso of factory girls. Odd again
1t was the frst pair that eat the first apple.
Best invocation-keeping a hotel. Painful
suspense-hanging. Professors of the black
art-negro minstrels. Song of tho man with
the tcothache-"How happy could l be with
ether The most lonesome place Is pawn
broker shop. Roots Of words produce nowers
Of speech. Can q person consume time by
eating dates, A hectic flush beats TWO pairs.
Sheet musicis best sung In bed. Good watch
word-tick. 1t Is morbid curiosity which leads
people to buy trash st auctions. Tight ft-
delirium tremens. Weighs that are dark
seventeen hundred pounds to the ton. To
cook ones mistress-get her into a stew. Pa
tron of cooks-the God Pan. The first cook
was Prometheus who stole fire from the skies
to warm Pigmalion. Those who cannot find
their match should go to bed in the dark.
"Gen. Babcock has been acquitted" sang
the merry, ringing voice Of the newsboy as he
rushed along the streets last night with and
against tho beating force Of the bleak north
wind. "Not guilty"-again and again the
cbcery notes sounded forth-catching the ears
OF those whom business or necessity had COM
PEELED to meet the chilling winds upon the
streets, and like good tidings on the wings of
the evening the intelligence spread far and
near over the city. Thousands who believed
with undoub.cd faith in the innocence of the
accused, yet wayered with distTuSt at the
complexion and surroundings Of the jury, felt
a sense of comforting rolicf. Hundreds who
trade in rumor and fatten on the gossips and
ISLANDERS Of the present felt chop fallen at the
suddenneSs by which the source of their cur
rent of yituperation and contumely had been
absorbed in the sponge of Justice and forever
placed beyond the reach Of their poluling
grasp. Hundreds who were hitherto indif-
ferent as to the result of the great trial cx-
pressed in glowing and emphatic terms scnti-
ments OF approval and rejoicing. Iu the face
Of widespread journalistic cry Of ''cOnIiCt,"
from that portion OF the American press which
spends its force in abuse and vilicsticn, the
cause of truth and innocouCe has most sigually
tTiumphcd. Popular feeling has been con
tiuually On the side Of the accused,
and II was only here and there that
expressions from the massCs Of The pco-
PIE unfavorablc to the defcEdan. were heard.
But the Detective press tried ard conyictcd
him long before the prollminares Of the trial
had ended. Every rumor, every wild and un-
founded statement which this portion of the
press found floating about, were seized upoo
with the rapacity of fsmished feud4 AMI hcr-
aided over the land as positive fact and truth.
Among this number stand most conspicuous
the Herald, World and Sun, q trio Of journals
whose chief aim in this great prosecution has
been to secure the conviction Of the accused, IN
public estimation at least, for no other purpose
than political Advancement and interest. BY
distorting truth, by manufacturing positive
falsehood, by Jesuitical insinustion and mean
exaggeration, they wagcd their wicked and un-
manly warfare against man whom thoy be-
licvcd to be innocent, but whom they were
willing to pcrsccutc to the bitter end, that
thcy might secure an inch or an ell of political
vantage ground. They have played the part
Of despicsble slsndcr creators, and the tri-
urnph Of truth and justice now forces them to
swallow their false and unwholesOmc cr5a-
tiUns.