National Republican., 1876-06-16


the New York press still insist that Governor
Shepherd is in Cincinnati pulling wires ener-
getically for Conkling. In denial of these
rumors, the Governor said yesterday that he
NAV be In Cincinnati in spirit but certainly
not in truth. ~
The country will accept with favor the action
of the committee in respect to the Hayden,
Wheeler and Powell explorations. They have
decided to continue these explorations, but
have reduced the estimates about 33 per cent.
A vast amount of valuable and necessary in
formation has been derived from these excel
lent explorations, and Congress can well af-
ford the few thousand dollars that It requires
to sustain them.
Two girls attending an Illinois seminary
staked bets on which could dress throughout
first for church. Everything being in resdi-
ness, at the call of ''time" they sprang into
the contest in q manner that made the ward
robe furniture fly around and shook the shoes
and stockings and detached hair on high.
In seven minutes and thirty seconds one of
the girls jumped into her hat, pulled down
her dress, pocketed the bet and marched off
to church in triumph. "
With Sam. Tilden, or Bayard, or Hendricks
in the White House, the loyalists of the North
would be edited by beholding Cabinet some
thing like the following: Secretary of State,
Sam. Cox; Attorney General, Ben. Hill; Sec
retarY of the Treasury, Ran. Tucker; Post
master General, Sam. Randall; Secretary of
War, JEFF. Davis. Should q rebel or dough-
face be elected, it will be by the Kuklux votes
of the South, together with their Northern
sympathizers. In that event the rebels will
demand a majority in the Cabinet, and their
demand VIII readily be acceded to. ..
The agent of the new paper, the Empire Of
the People, has received a letter from the secre-
tary of the Grand Council of the American
Alliance in New York city, in which he says:
'I have no hesitation in saying that the nomi-
nation Of President Grant is what we desire,
and which We are prepared to indorse. With
a strong man as Vice President like Edwin D.
Morgan, we can give the ticket every doubtful
State. If the Republican convention have
their senses, they will renominate the Presi-
dent, and we will give the ticket 12l 900 votes
(alliance) in New York State alone"
Before the engineer Of. the House was ap-
pointed, be promised his present assistant
(GleDcy) the position which he now holds,
but upon securing the appointment, he re-
fused TO fulfill his promise. Cheney became
enraged at this, and sent several letters to his
friends soundly denouncing the engineer and
charging him with all manner of crime, from
petty theft to poisoning. The engineer, in
order TO hush matters up and effect a compro-
mise, sent for the misused Cheney, and gave
him the position promised. These letters i'm
plicate both of the men in crime, and it is I'M
derstood that they are now before an inyesti-
eating committee for consideration.
After Mr.. Hooker had finished his speech
yesterday, In which he arrsigned the Repub-
lican party of Mississippi for corruption and
maladministration, Mr.. Lynch arose and an
swered the charges by strong and we'll
timed speeC h, which took at once the wind
out of the ails of the Democratic member,
Mr.. Lynch, whose wide experience In Missis-
sippi politics, renders him admirable authority
on all subjects relating to the affairs Of that
State, charged that there is an armed Or
ganization of White Liners in the State,
which was brought into existence for the ex-
press purpose of suppressing the elective
franchise Of the colored people by force and
intimidation; that this organization was a
part and parcel of the Democratic party, and
without its villainous influence that party
could never have gained the ascendency in
Mississippi. In answer to Mr.. Hooker's
charges of corruption and oppressive taxation
Mr.. Lynch produced figures which showed
conclusively that the taxes of the State under
the Ames administration had been reduced
nearly five mills on dollar, and the debt
nearly one half. 1t is very easy for such men
as Mr.. Hooker to present statements dressed
in all the rhetorical beauty Of the English
language, but it avails nothing in the face of
refuting facts, such as those given to the House
yesterday so ably and happily by Mr.. Lynch.
Is Fitzhugh crazy or is he too honest for the
Democrats in the House? Some time ago he
refused to turn over certain books relating to
the document room until an invoice of the
contents of that department had been taken.
He urged several of the Democratic members
to investigate the matter. He called their
to the fact that many thousand
volumes of valuable public documents are
missing from that department. The missing
documents consist of such works as "Tbe
Medical History of the War;" which is valued
at $50 q set in open market. He besought
them to look Into the matter and bring the
guilty parties to justice. Who are the guilty
partiesi There is a man named Fletcher in
the folding room who, perhaps, can answer
this question. He was Mr.. Samuel RandalPs
man to succeed Fitzhugh, but the majority
Of the Democrats acquainted with his charac-
ter refused to support him, and he was de-
fested. The charge has been made that he
has spirited these books away. Is this the
reason that Blue Jean Williams refuses to
take an invoice of this rooml Does he want
to shield this man! Will he and the rest of
the ex-Confederate House of Representatives
stand indifIerently by while the document
room OF the National Capitol is being ruth
Iessly robbed of its best treasuresl Some
thing should be done Immediately to ferret out
The rascality of this clandestine transaction,
and bring the miserable culprit to the bar of
rigid justice. 1t was intimated to Mr.. Williams
and others of his party weeks ago that rob-
berry and pilfering were going on in the docu-
nent room, and yet they have not raised
hand to stay the crime. These are the men
who are bowling "Reform reform !" while
hey see thieves of their own making with
both hands plundering the property of the