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National Republican., 1876-08-28

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Having q large stock of Spruce Lumber, we have
concluded to sell at the following reduced prices
The lumber is water-seasoned, and Of the very best
quality:
2x3, 2x4 and s14, any length, SIS per Loo.
ks, 1e feet rails, SIS per !, 900.
Inch boards, sl5 per !, 900.
sinch ioist, pa and Sl5 per 900.
Finch joist. ia and tl6 per l.00c.
~ feet pickets, (palings,) SIS per !, 600.
1000 feet, rough, s-inch, y. 80 per 900.
213 and AKA. ID quality, Si2. 50 per ], 900.
fspruce sidings, 9 OFT Inch, US per Loo.
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS
Always on hand, at lowest market prices.
r. EDW. CLARK Il Co.,
Yard, Wharf and Planning Mill,
Foot OF Fourth street east,
near u. 3. Navy Yard.
Once, 6O5 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, corner
of sixth street. JeE-u
National Republican., 1876-08-28

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Its constant use is recommended to all, but spe-
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preserve them THenty-ny and hfty cent? per
bottle.
National Republican., 1876-08-28

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Family Tree, by the author Of Tangled Skeln.
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Atlantic Monthly, Appleton's Journal.
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Note. Letter and Cap Paper, blank Books, Pass
Books, Grocers' Books, Pens. Pencils, Ink and
everything in the Stationery line, wholesale and re-
tail, at the very lowest prices, st
SHILLINGT0N'S Bookstore.
National Republican., 1876-08-28

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National Republican., 1876-08-28

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hair. This hne pomade merits special mention.
Purely vegetable, its effect is to soften refine
coarse dry hair imparting TO it gloss and beauty.
Unlike many preparations for the hair, it cannot
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

higher plane altogether, it is more efiec-
lively mimic war. and it requires and pro-
duces skill in horsemanship scarcely to be
otherwise attained.
As played in England. at Nottingham and
Lilliebridge, it is a beautiful and effective
sport; but we are Of opinion that we may
reasonably look forward to its naturalization
here, and its adoption, even with additions
to its excellence as played in England, be-
cause we have better breed of horses. On
all the surface of the earth there is no animal
that might be thought SO expressly created
for the game as the one we have in the Mex
lean mustang. He is far superior for the
purpose to the pony used in England. He
has an energy and FIRE that are in the spirit
of the sport. He is swift. he is tireless, he
is game. He is tractable and intelligent
and in every one of these respects is better
than his British cousin.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

The report in another column of the pro.
oeedings of the New York Yacht Club at the
meeting to take into consideration the chal-
lenge of Major Clifford, owner ofthe Countess
of Dufferin, for the Americas Cup, shows
some want of harmony in the opinions Of
yacht owners as to the proper method of
conducting the race.
Accepting the deed Of gift as interpreted
by Mr.. George L. Schuyler the sole sur
vivor of the original donors of the Cup, it
would appear that one vessel should have
been named by the club to sail against the
contesting foreigner, and that the winning
vessel, with all the chances Of weather, car
rying away, or any other of the hazards
of yacht racing, should win. by
large majority" the club has decided other
wise, and the winner is to be declared by
three contests The vessel on the American
side is to be named only on the morning Of
the race, and will be the representative of a
mongrel victory, something between
sweepstakes and match race, in which
if the Canadian boat wins it will
be with added glory, and if the
victory remains to our own yacht club we
shall retain the ''ugly mug" with no fresh
laurels. 1t is true that Mr.. Ashbury in all
his plaintive appeals made no objection to
this method of procedure, but it must
be admitted that the true sportsmanlike
and gallant manner of accepting the Majors
challenge would have been one race,
with all the chances, and let the
best man win; which, by the way.
Major Clifford has an undoubted right to
claim. The absolute arrangement is not
yet completed, as he has yet to send in his
final agreement to the proposed terms. We
are sure that the New York Yacht Club will
not BIZ found unwilling to agree to the letter
Of the deed of gift, should it be claimed by
the challenging party.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

SCARCE CURRENCY. -The complaint is still
heard that small change is scarce in New
York and that spectators are charging from
three to six per cent for currency. The
process of conversion of paper into silver
has received temporary check by restrict
ing the issue to people presenting currency
in limited amounts ut the Sub-Treasury
We think that the managers of the Centen-
NAL Exposition can do popular thing by
exchanging the currency, of which they will
receive large amounts, for bills from BOND
fide mercantile establishments in New York
and Philadelphia. by making the transfers
through the Sub-Treasury, which would be
feasible nough, the merchants could receive
silver for their bills and the issue of the coin
thus be measurably fastened
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12
From tho Tnmmany ORGAN. ]

In the State Convention OF 1873, when Governor
principles adopted which have been rcatrmed in
every State Convention since held and Of the
prominent declarations in favor OF economy purity
and reform. We elected portion Of the State ticket
that year. and prepared the field for the glorious
tory that followed the next
What does this mean? Will Mr. John
Kelly deny that Mr. Tilden kept away from
the State Convention - 1873 because he had
excited hostility by kidking out of the party
traces in his previous war on Tammany, and
that he sent his resignation of the chairman
ship of the State Committee to Mr.. Kelly
from Europe because he expected to be flung
out for having brought discord into the
party? He had decided in 1873 to break
with his party rather than relinquish reform.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

The career of Reddy the Blacksmith, Of
whom death has just deprived the city,
affords good illustration of the results that
follow from the rule of politicians in oul
municipal government. A rowdy, thief and
murderer, this man lived for years in New
York, safe from the interference of the police,
the terror of decent citizens and sometimes
courted for his s'infuence" in elections-an
influence welded over cutthroats of his own
stamp. After committing highway rob
berry, with violence, Reddy escaped to Cali.
fornia and was brought back to New York.
When he was called up for trial the vigilant
law officers politicians of course-could not
find the witnesses against him, and Reddy
walked out of court in triumph. When
he INDUCED in . murder, his victim being
one of his own sort, his ''pals" had no diff
Guilty in swearing him of, and he escaped
the gallows, which ought to have had
him long before. Indictments found
against him were ''pigeon-holed" by
obliging district attorneys Politicians
sought the friendship and support of the
ruffian. Tammany gave him a sinecure un-
der the city government. Both parties hon.
ored him about election time His gangs Of
reporters his murderous disposition and
the muscles and slungshot of his compan.
ions made him valuable partisan. He
kept groggery which was a resort of thieves
and treated the police literally. The law,
in the hands of politicians, respected him
and left him alone, and he died in his bed
without his boots, like respectable, Chris.
tian man. If he had lived until the autumn
leaves color the trees he would have been Of
much service to Tammany. But he is gone,
and he leaves too many of similar charao-
ter behind him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

In the HERALD of yesterday We printed
an account of the game of polo rs played in
Japan, which account is worthy the atten-
ton of all lovers of sport who wish to under
stand the possibilities of this newly intro
duced game. Mr.. Grifis describes the game
as he has frequently seen it played by the
japanese, in whose country it is evidently
''the national game" of the mounted classes;
and he describes it with m animation, a
spirit and picturesque effect from which it
may be judged that the movement, the
whirl, the exhilaration of the sport caught
up his sympathies, and that though pleased
as spectator he would have been happier as
player.
From this happy account of the game we
may note a Characteristic feature that is
found in the play of nearly all western
nations, and since it comes up so distinctly
in the case Of this isolated people it may,
perhaps, be taken as indicating o uni
versal human tendency. The separate
sides-the two parties to the struggle
are not only assimilated to war parties,
but they are called by names derived
from great historical divisions of the
people. In these days our base ball players
struggle under colors that have no signif-
canoe to popular sympathy; it is the party
of the red stockings against the party OF the
blue shoes, and public that can be expected
to be otherwise than Indifferent to such a
distinction must be credited with acres of
generous interest. In every school in the
land it was once the Yankees against the
British, or the wings against the democrats;
and it appears that the japanese have ac-
cepted such q distinction as o permanent
feature of their game They call their par
ties by names equivalent to York and Lam
caster, or Guelph and Ghibelline, or Capu-
let and Montague.
As played in England and here the game
OF polo is different from that played in
japan. 1t is without such complication MS
must result from the large number Of balls.
1t is played with one ball, and is, in short,
the old favorite shiny, with the one change
that the players are mounted on active, we'll
trained ponies. With this change the game
necessarily has an enormously increased
impulse the interest and excitement in
volyed are more vigorous. the game rises to
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12
What tho Centennial Exhibition
Shows.


The President in his speech at the Centens
NAL said that the Exhibition swill show"
what we have done sin the direction of rival
ling older and more advanced nations in law,
medicine and theology in science. literature
philosophy and the fine arts" Ifhe had said
that it might have shown" what we have
done in these branches he would have been
nearer to the truth. 1t is grave deficiency
in the plan of the celebration that it does not
provide for international conferences upon
science, medicine, law, &c. If commissions
had been appointed to invite celebrated Euro
peans to confer with our leading men in the
various sciences and had been instructed to
make reports great deal of useful informa-
ton might have been obtained and Ameri.
can progress at least partially shown. But
the Exhibition exhibits nothing of our
achievements in law, theology, science or
philosophy, and, judging by the poetry sung
at the opening ceremonies, it gives an entirely
untrue representation Of our literature. We
must look elsewhere for the revelation. Our
progress in Inv might be found in ex-Attorney
General Williams decisions in finance, in
Mr. Robeson's deposits of million with Jay
Cooke & Co. at the time of their failure in
justice, in the escape of General Babcock and
the resignation of ex-Secretary Belknap,
which may end in his escape from the im-
parchment by the House and in philosophy.
in the patience with which the American
people bear these and innumerable other
evils.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12
Tn. B.echer and Bowen Prize Fight.

Tho Beecher and Bowen Prize Fight.
The great want of patriotism displayed by
Mr. Beecher, Mr.. Bowen and DR.. Ward has
been punished as it deserves. 1t was their
duty to have attended the Centennial open
ing and to have joined with hosts of their
fellow countrymen in celebrating the birth
OF American Independence. Instead Of that
they chose to go to Plymouth church, not to
worship, but to take part in proceeding
which is directly opposite to worship the
reading of Mr.. Shearman's report. Now
mark the result. The church was again the
scene Of recrimination and disorder. Mr.
Beecher and Mr. Bowen went through their
celebrated sparring match, and would have
had fight without gloves if they could have
agreed upon referee. Then Mr.. Beecher
said he was charged with monstrous
crime, and DR.. Ward exclaimed, ''of which
you are guilty" Then the row got fast and
furious. The Doctor was elected to the tune
of tweedledum and tweedledee, and both
parties, being exhausted, retired from the
ring, leaving the dispute as to (which is the
better man" undecided We are weary of
this clustering, evasion and cowardice.
There is a mystery somewhere. or the ques-
ton would soon be settled. The proceedings
on Wednesday night were not creditable
to the church, and any other employment
would have been better. If the pastor, the
brethren, the Sphinx and the Doctor had not
enough patriotism to go to the Centennial
they might have attended the theatre.
Conscience" we suggest, would be an ap-
propriate play.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

city, Baltimore and the towns of four States
VIII have their only holiday of the week
They would naturally turn to the Exhibition,
and II 1t were open probably three hundred
thousand would attend. As there would be
no central point of interest, no ceremonies
OF dedication, DC, they would find ample
room in the spacious grounds and build
ings. But by the will of the commission
they are excluded. What will Philadelphia
do with herself on Sunday? 1t will be curl
Gus to see the effect Of the absurd restriction.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

wc now pass along the tall campaign or 1875
During the II became manifest that our good
Governors usefulness likely lost TO the State
by what Horace Greeley stated be the most un
fortunate thing that could happen any man
PRESIDENCY on the brain. !" During tho autumn tho
Governor had visited many portions OF the State and
at county fairs had mpiored the people to send to
Albany only members OF tho Legislature without re.
gard TO party, that would aid him purifying aud re-
forming the abuses in the State Tho Democratic State
Convention met and for the rst time in its history The
Chief Executive, by wei! known proxies, assumed 10
and did control the entire action OF the Convention
and named all the candidates ON tho ticket for the
that they were his personal friends aud SIP.
porscrs For some unaccouniabc reason this was sub
mitted TO.
What does this mean? Has Tammany
opened its batteries on Governor Tilden
because, if he should be elected President,
he would select the federal appointees in
this State on his own knowledge, whereas a
President from another State would have to
depend on advice? And is it because Mr..
Kelly aspires to be the controlling adviser
that he breaks recent friendship, sinks his
State pride and opposes Governor Tilden?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

Tho Return or tho Prince or Wales.
Since last November we have had almost
daily notes of the festal journeying through
India Of the heir apparent to the British
throne. What wonders Of land and sea, of
teeming millions of dusky natives, what
gorgeous architectural marvels Of magnifi-
cent old times that look down in calm gran
deur upon the present, what vast expanses
of land broken by mountains, titled beneath
the broiling sun or lying waste in deadly
jungle where the great fauna have their
lairs I; what visions of sensuous richness
what splendors of Oriental pageantry he has
seen what he has said, what he has praised
and what he has killed in the way of beasts
have been chronicled and rechronicled and
pictured and dwelt upon by the English
people until the average Englishman knows
more about the great British dependency
than all the dyspeptic and saffron-faced old
gentlemen put together that up to six
months ago frowned down anybody else who
dared to say anything about India within
earshot of certain old West End clubs where
curry was served in perfection. Now the
Prince has returned to England and the
bosom of his family without having been so
much as grazed by brahman's knife, and
our special cable despatch tells us how glad
the English people are to have him back
again. He comes back with the diadem
of the Empire of India on the shelf.
where his prudent mother, Queen Victoria,
l. onl Co. Il. 49, a.
ity of Disraeli, but which, we hope, he may
have no chance to put on his head for some
years to come. This trip has been a good
thing for Albert Edward in every way. 1t
was better to give him the chance of learn
ing something and seeing good deal in the
far East than to have him knocking around
London, breeding twopenny scandals for
every old woman-male and female-in
Great Britain to chuckle over and wag her
head ut. Then, in IN age where the
chances for poor prince or king to dis
tinguish himself is so limited, it is we'll to be
able to say he bagged an elephant or he
laid out a royal old Bengal tiger in gallant
style. The physical appeals to the masses,
and they will easily reason that good shot
is not likely to make bad king. That he
looked at the sinuous motions of the Nautch
girls will not injure him in the eyes of the
people, for even the most correct old spinstsr
will admit that most Of her male relations
would do the same thing-only they would
not have it get in the papers-and then there
is nothing SO wicked in it after all. 1t has
been grand trip with happy ending.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

THE CLAWS or THE Law have now been
stretched out to clutch as much as possible
Of tho six millions for which a verdict was
recently given against Tweed. 1t will be
curious to see how much the willy fugitive
has lett within reach of the law.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

TURKEY is evidently on the verge of excess
sively troublesome complications, from
which she will be lucky if she can escape
without calling down the vengeance Of all
Western Europe upon her fanatic Mussul-
mans. The dismissal of the Grand vizier in
face Of the rebellion in Herzegovina and the
uneasy feeling arising out of the assassina-
tons at Salonica is not at oil reassuring to
the peace Of Eurone.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

Tho Governors claim Is urged principally upon the
ground that he Is the sole rcformer ANY letters pat
reform TO be issued should run 10 the demo-
cratic party embr icing all tho States
In cccing opposition Congress that have been and
now engaged IN uncarthng the frauds OF she last
dozen years, and TO no single individual
What does this mean? What is meant by
"letters patent for reform ?" When has Gov
ernor Tilden claimed either the priority or
the monopoly which are implied in the idea
of letters patent?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

This was not enough The state Committee must be
made up suit the circle that occupies the Executive
Mansion. The election followed The democratic ma
jory was reduced about 40, 900 from the preceding
year. aud the Assembly went back into the hands OF
the republicans with handsome majority.
What does this mean? Does it imply that
the great reduction Of the democratic ma
jority in this State last year is chargeable to
Governor Tilden?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

The VATICAN is evidently preparing the
way for accepting all it is likely to get in the
shape of religious intolerance in Spain by
remaining silent regarding the claims for a
sterner regime than the new constitution
authorizes. SO, at least, we read the sum-
mary Of tho Pope's letter to King Alfonso. It
strikes ms, however, that there is trace of
insincerity on both sides Of the question.
The government will not be more tolerant
than it can help, and the Vatican will openly
concsde nothing,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

DIsRAEII had a majority large enough on the
Royal Titles vote of censure to save his Minis
try; but two hundred and twenty-six members
Of Parliament out of House Of five hundred
and sixty impeaching the good faith of the
Sovereign is not a good thing for the mon
nrchy. The Prince Of Wales returns just in
time TO administer loyal antidote to the
people. Who would refuse a title to prince
that bags tigers and elephants?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

New York mas no claims Tor the nomination this
year, and common courtesy toward the other States
should prevent any being presented. But Governor
Tiden and some OF his personal friends have decided
differently. and hence the controversy.
What does this mean? Is it the opinion
of Tammany that if the democracy Of the
other States prefer New York candidate the
New York democracy should thwart their
wishes and decline the honor?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

WAY Our IN Iowa are found thirty-fve
delegates" who meet to praise the virtues
of the greenback. Paper money is not n
thing to be altogether despised. 1t recalls
the trapper who, in IN emergency. dined on
crow; when he came into a country where
prairie chickens were plenty he did not
banker after IT,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-12

From the Tammany organ.
We would not pluck single leaf from the garland
that surrounds our good Governors that he ID
entitled to wear; but we make protest against all
efforts aside and crowd out prominent democrats
in the State who refuse join the formation OF any
strictly personal party.
What does this mean /? Who are the
prominent democrats" that accuse Cover
nor Tilden Of trying to form ''strictly per-
sonal party?"