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National Republican., 1877-12-24
Practical Reform.

The New York 7ymes furnishes the fol-
lowing illustration of civil-service reform as
practiced by the present Administration.
Comment would be supernuouG
There is In the city Of Brooklyn consider
able number Of Republicans mostly business
men, who have been warm adherents of the
President, because they were heartily con-
WINGED Of the soundness Of the principles which
he has profescd regarding a reform Of the civil
service. They have clung to him through
good report and evil report, have eagerly cred
tied him with every act that afforded evidence
Of his intelligence and sincerity, and charita-
bly, overlooked whatever seemed TO tell against
him. This section of the party has been fairly
represented In Congress by Hon. Mr.. CnITTEN-
DEN, Of the Third District, who, more con-
sistently than any other member Of the New
York delegation, has faithfully respected
the principles of reform laid down by
the President, and has held himself entirely
apart from all efforts to oppose him with
the old methods Of distributing patronage.
The postmaster Of Brooklyn, whose position Is
an important and responsible one, has proved
himself extremely competent, and as his term
drew to q close the Republicans to whom we
have alluded very reasonably regarded his re-
tention as required by the rules which the
President had defined for himself In such
matters, and Mr.. CHIrTEHpEN was requested
to lay their views before the proper member
Of the Administration. On inquiry at the De-
partment, that gentleman learned that the
postmaster's record was exceptionally good,
that tho Department. could conceive OF no
reason for a change, that reappointment
would be recommended, and was entirely cer-
tain to be granted. This statement of the
case was repeated q few days before tho ad-
journmcnt Of Congress, with the addition that
the reappointment had been recommended.
But at the last moment, on the Friday before
adjournment, another appointment was made.
National Republican., 1877-12-24
A Modern Bunsby.

Here is "an opinion as is an opinion"
Some chap has furnished the Philadelphia
Press with the following exposition of con-
stitutional law, which is so remarkable in
its deductions and conclusions that we are
inclined to spread the folly of its author
who takes care to conceal his real name, be-
fore the readers of the NATIONAL REPUB-
LICAN:
To ne Editor Of the Pres:
SIR "Gen. GRANT and 1890" Is q suggestive
combination which one hears on every side
and sees in every newspaper.
Gen. GRANT will not be a candidate for the
Presidency in 1880. And whyP Because, un-
der the Constitution Of the United States, he
will be ineligible to hold that high office for
the space of fourteen years after he shall have
again set foot within the United States. The
provision of the Constitution which creates his
ineligiblity reads thus: "No person, except a
natural born citizen, or a citizen Of the United
States at the time of the adoption of this Con-
stitutiOn, shall be eligible IN the Office of Presi-
dent; neither shall any person be eligible ia
that Office who shall not have attained TO the
age Of thirty five years, aud been fourteen years
q resident pithip he United States"
In the first and last provisions of this clause
the trainers Of the Constitution say, in effect
at would be dangerous to intrust the powers
which we propose to vest in the President ol
the United States, In the hands Of person
likely to be inbued with monarchical princi-
ples.'
The Supreme Court Of the United States has
defined, TO some extent, the application of this
constitutional inhibition. For instance, II
has decided that it does not apply to person
lent abroad as Minister, Consul, Ambassador
&c. Hence, JAMES BUCHANAN, who was once
our Minister at the Court Of St. James, after
ward became President of the United States.
With General GRANT the case is widely diff
ferent, He went abroad among the kingdoms
of the earth intending 10 stay for years. He
went to examine into tho different forms OF
kingdoms and empires, into the cause and eff
feet of absolute and limited monarchies. And
who knows with what new ideas of Cesar
ism" his brain may DO affected before he re-
turns
The trainers of the CONSTRUCTION wisely pro-
National Republican., 1877-12-24

THE Buffalo Express seems to think that
there was much greater virtue in the fact
that q man lent the Government greenback
money during the war and took therefor
gold bearing bonds than for man take his
life in his hand and go to the front and
fight for the Union. We judge 50 from the
fact that it weeps bitter tears over the poor,
wronged and suffering bond-holders, while
II has very little to say in behalf of the boy
IN blue, though he may be sueing the Gov
eminent for his bounty-money or the loss Of
his horse.
National Republican., 1877-12-24

yided that person who does this shah be al
lowed, upon his return TO this land, whore
every man is q potentate and none o subject,
10 cool his heels and his head for fourteen
years, amid the practical working Of "Institu-
tionM liberty under constitutional govern
ment," before he shall be given chance to
put into execution any Of his contemplated
coups detat.
Let us hear no more of GRANT for President
In 1880. So mote IL be. II. s. ID.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. IS 1877.
This wonderful legal opinion has been
furnished us in slip by gentleman in the
Quaker city, who characterizes II as 20 mat
ter of great public importance" We regard
1t as q superlative pieco Of innate foolish
ness, which has no importance beyond the
fact that it incontinently excites smile of
derision. 1t is simply preposterous that
Gen. GRANT or any other American citizen
ceases to be citizen or resident of the
United States when he takes his family for
q trip to Europe or anywhere else in the
world for pleasure or improvement with
the intention of returning be the term Of
his absence longer or shorter. The PROPOSE
ton of this insane scribbler defeats itself by
its own absurdity. That cat will not fight
National Republican., 1877-12-24

IT cannot be doubted that the excitement.,
labors and dissppoinments attending the electoral
count and lis results gave the finishing stroke 70
MoRroN. To the same cause may be traced the
physical downfall Of BLAINE, who will never again
be the man he was two years ago.-Foa.
THE above is about as near right as our CO.
temporary usually gets on matters of political
fact. We do not concede for moment that
Me-. BLAINE affords the least evidence of o
downfall mental or physical. II the Senator's
severe illness Is referred to, the conductor Of
= live journal ought TO know as q matter of
fact, that "ths electoral count and Its results"
had no more to do with that illness than the
man in the moon. Mr.. BLAINE's illness ante
dates the Electoral Commission by many
months. When he was taken i'll such o thing
as an Electoral Commission was not even
dreamed Of. However much the Democracy
may wish otherwise, the distinguished Senator
from Maine will be found equal to the task of
dealing as ponderous blows upon his political
opponents in the future rs ho ever did In the
past
National Republican., 1877-12-24

THEsL Louis Globe Democrat says: "CoNK'
LING will probably be remembered in two
Or three years from now as the man whose
Armness saved the Republican party in a
most dangerous crisis, and, instead of find.
ing ourselves without q candidate, we will
have two most excellent candidates "a
choose from-the one n civilian, the Other
with military reputation added to his civil
hurels.n
National Republican., 1877-12-24
A Desperate Disease Requires
Desperate Remedies.

The country is in. Its business interests
arc in typhoid state, and rapidly sinking.
Enterprise is without inspiration. 1t is
either dead or dormant Trade is stagnant
and brings no adequate return TO invest
mont and effort. Manufactures arc de-
pressed, sickly, and dying. There is no en-
souraeemcnt to the forge, the blast, the
spindle, or the loom. Everything every
National Republican., 1877-12-24

The Springfield Republican has II that the
President could be broughtto friendly terms
with the Senate but for Mr.. EvARrs, who
Is n lion in the path of paciacation. We
fear that the President has rs little infu-
mce with his Cabinet as Mr.. LINCOLN at
one time thought he had with mis-. Gen.
GRANT was always master Of the situa-
tion
National Republican., 1877-12-24

"In freshness and viror Of thought, In sim
plicity aud purity of Language, in grasp Of
Gospel truth aud in tsct and force Its pro
scntationr he Is perhaps without . peer in tho
pulpit" This book contains twenty different
sermons together with complete indexes Of
the texts and subjects Of the entire fourteen
volumes of the American edition of his works.
The volume forms q very nice little present
for ones pastor or friend. IT
National Republican., 1877-12-24

# b actually painful 10 see child suflsrine with
bad cough mothers should never NIL 70 keep
Dr. Bolts Cough Syrup convenient, In order 10 re.
iieyethdir little ones speedily and surely. Price.
Is cents ~ III La
MARRTED.
TENDENIN-ToNGE.--on On the 18th Of December,
1877 at the residence Of the brides parents Col Gro
CLrNpESfs, q Montana, and Miss FANNY ToseK
DIED.
MISUNDERSTANDING q, EuxA ". BAHEE, In the
twenty first year Of her age daughter OF Charles T.
Dearest sistsr, thou hast len MS,
BUY q. hS oS S's vino %ois sass ss;sey Ssf.S sesi
ocSeR RssSes sna ~ :ns
tCincnnati papers please copy.l
B0NNER-0n Saturday morning, at halfpast two
sER, daughter Of y. n and NJ r. homer.
ANNIE M.y, aged nineteen months, twin daughter of
Robert and Mary A. Coggins.
HICKEY.-On the 2lst Of December. 1877. Mra Es.
TMER HICKEY, aged sixty years, Come unto me,
ni ye thet are weary and heavy laden and will give
HoEsTER.-on Friday evening, December II. 1877,
At seven o'clock, ADA beloved daughter OF Aug. and
Adelheid Hoester. aged ss years, four months, and
CASE On Saturday. December n, st roIs p. M.
CHARLrs D.. son Of Francis II. and Rachel d. Case,
aged three years and four months
attend the funeral at the residence iis street north.
east, this afternoon, al two O'Clock.
MTowEERsAt pidngh'% IN Sn y tse y,'s IA o. Dscsmoer e
the sixty sixth year OF her age.
Her funeral will take place from The Church Of the
Ascension on "Wednesday morning, the 20th instant,
at eleven O'Clock. Relatives and friends are Invited
National Republican., 1877-12-24

NOTHING hasmorc disturbed the Democracy
than the recent announcement that Senators
CoNKLIsG and BLAINE have buried their diff
ferenccs, and with view doubtless of stirring
up unpleasant recollections they are digging out
and repubishing the speeches Of twelve years
ago and the circumstances which lod to the
differences. The two distinguished Senators
no doubt had full and complete recollection
Of what then transpired, and they are not
likely to be influenced now by any publica-
tion. The Democrats hoped to reap advantage
from what they supposed the irreconcilablo
differences of these gentlemen. The recon-
c.liation has been most sad disappointment,
Hence these tears,
National Republican., 1877-12-24

THE Post reads us lecture on its supe-
rior wisdom. 80 wise, soyoung, they say, do
never live long,
National Republican., 1877-12-24

. THERE are one hundred and fifty.two Demo
Gratis in the House of Representatives. OF
these nincty-threo came from the South, as
against hfty-nine from tho loyal North. Of
the ninety-thrce from the South forty-four
served In the Confederate army and eleven
others served the Confederacy in a civilian
capacity. 1t Is very clear therefore that the
one hundred aud forty-one Republicans in the
House represent the loyal sentiment Of the
country. And yet the Democratic party
claims to be, par ercc,enee, the party Of patriot
ism and the Consultation.
National Republican., 1877-12-24
LIVERY STABLES.

WE ARE PREPARED 10 FURNISH BY THR
w hour, day. or month, first class Carriages at
reasonable prices and short notice Our stock
consists Of Iandaus Clarences, Coupes. Lght Bug.
giles, Pony Phaetons, Saddle Horses, and In fact
everything that comprises a arst.ciass Hiring and
Boarding Stable. .
We clip horses with the American horse-cllpplng
machine In two hours without slngeing
Entrance TO the stables on street, between Thir
noi.am : j. n oLCoTr a SON.
National Republican., 1877-12-24

TNHE NEW DAVIS N0BAsTING, LIGHTEsT-
Rnnnlng Shuttle Machine larger range than any
other machine No trashy attachments sold. Price
so; with DAVIS attachments -
sCHEFFEY q CO., Agents,
deo-n 7a5 Ninth street northwest
National Republican., 1877-12-24

Mr.. N. h. FUGITT is Agent for the receipt
sf Advertisements and subscriptions for this
Paper, as well as for the Collection Of Ac-
counts.
Mr.. ID. II McCLELLAND is also authorized
TO solicit Advertisements.
National Republican., 1877-12-24

Nl FAsIiIoNA ABLE MODESTO
superb Styles Latest Partisan Fashions.
nOis-6m hoo Thirtesnth street nOrthwesUI
National Republican., 1877-12-24
ROOMS FOR RENT.
FOR SALE.

OFFICE OF LINCOLN PARK LAND.-THIS
Park In squares 9ss 49, 800, lOs i0lt 1915. 103i i5
1885, 1857 l03s 0S and 1861, Will he sold In squares
per cent The Lincoln psrk Association eontem;
cost by THOMAS NJ. PLOwMAN, Architect, al his
can be obtained no5-iy
FN0R sALE.-sTOCK, GOODWILL, AND FIX
II tureB Of sample Room, nt dDl street northwest.
Apply to WILLIAM DICKSON,
dels6t| 222 Four-and-ahalf street northwest.
National Republican., 1877-12-24

An communications designed for Publication
should DC brtJ plainly Wrii and only upon one 'fde
Of TIC paper. Communications Inaccompdnfed BY he
name Of he anhor are moi solicited and ,en neither Be
veud nor r5urrod. Rejected manuscript uR not be re
asned nor preserved. The cro,Pded state Of our col
s~ns during TIE session Of Congress tsa preclude u
Insertion Qf iopo articles.
MONDAY Y,,,,,i.,,,,,ii DECEMBER ~ is77.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
DR.. Salter's Specialties.

At the Eclectic Dlspensnry cancers arc
successfully treated and II cure effected
IN nincty-ninc cases out Of u hundred,
! when taken In time.
R~uEUMArIsM cured In every ease, In
from one To three months, nc u cost Of five
dollars II month for mrdlcincs.
DISEASES or THE THROAT cured In from
one week to two months.
CATARRu oP mi HEAD cured In onH to
three months, IN most eases; occasionally
meetwith one requiring more time,
WOMB DISEASES liberation, inflnm-
nation. leucOrrhen, cured ~ Onc-hnlf the
time required by other systems, and with
out the use OF caustic.
EpILEPTIc FRS relieved and perma-
ncntly cured. In most eases from siS to
twelve months required for II prrman,nt
cure.
NERVOUS DEDrLry,--FrOm excuses,
sclf-abnse, &C., successfully treated and
cured IN one 20 live months.
Bloom DISEASES cured In from three to
twelve months.
KIDNEY DISEASES cured In from one to
three months.
DISEASES or LIVER nmcnNblc to treat
ment. permanently cured ina few months.
NEURALGIA and other nervous diseases
successfully treated,
Call on or address, :. +. Salter, NJ. D.,
No. IS Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25

1t will be seen from an article, cop.
led from the Nashville American, that
Col. c. N. Gibbs has been reelected
Secretary of State; Col j. L. Gaines
reelected Comptroller, and Col. NJ. T.
Polk elected Treasurer. We congrat.
ulate Messrs. Gibbs, Gaines and Polk.
We know them all personally, and
while they were opposed by very hon
orable gentlemen who would have
done credit to the State, still we car
but congratulate the people upon the
selection Of such clever ard competent
men as Gibbs. Gaines and Polk, and
here is our hand to each of them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25

~ The German citizens of our
county, on the north side OF Decherd
and Winchester, met on the 18th OF
January (inst,, J and determined upon
having a German Sunday School," in
the church house near Mr.. Christian
Vogelgesang's. They propose to meet
every Sunday at 10 A. N. Twenty
three children were enrolled as schol
ars. Mr.. II. Bullcnbacher was elected
Superintendent OF the Sunday School.
All the Americans living in the neigh
borhood were cordially invited TO come
and take part in the Sabbath School,
where they could learn the German
language, without money and without
price.
The clitor Of the Home Journal
takes pleasure in publishing these evl
dences Of thrift among the German
citizens OF Franklin county. The fact
is, the Germans are n thrifty people,
and it behooves us to cultivate their
society and labor for their immigra-
ton. They are, as a general ruie' oe''
ter educated in German than we are in
English, and Franklin county is being
settled by them to IN extent thai
makes it very necessary for rs To learn
their tongue. We must never forget
the fact that the Germans are Il liberty
loving people-a people who believe
in freedom of conscience and the righ0
TO worship God as every one chooses
They are naturally democratic.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
The People Want Proof.

There is no medicine prescribed by ply
%sicians. or sold by Druggists, that carries
such evidence of its success and superior
virtue as B0schee's German Syrup for Sc
we're Coughs, colds settled on the Breast,
Consumption, or any disease OF the Throat
and Lungs. A proof Of that fact is that
any person afflicted. can geta Sample Bot
tie for 10 cents and try its superior effect
before buying the regular size at 70 cents.
1t has lately been introduced in this coun-
try from Germany, and its wonderful
cures are astonishing every one that use
1t. Three doses will relieve any case. Try
il. Sold by j. NJ. Hutchins and &C. Phil
lips, Winchester, Tenn. and by all respec-
table Druggists in the United States.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
ellnne
The peanut crop Of Tennessee Is 800,

The peanut crop Of Tennessee Is 800,
The criminal laws OF Virginia are I'M
dergolhg u revision.
Oranges sell at fifty cents per hundred
In Columbus, Gu,
--The negroes IN South Carolina kill
their nelghbors' lows for meat,
There were 1881 marriages IN Maury
county, Tenn, within the past six years.
The military companies celebrated the
birthday ofGen. Lee January 10Th,
An enterprising plrl has found there
were 10000 words In the recent message
Of Gov. Smith, OF Georgia.
The Roane Iron Company, Clattanoo-
gR. Tenn, works 5S5 hands. and turns ont
600 tons OF rail per week,
Miss Jennie Eckles, Of Petersburg,
Va. suicided by satnrating her clothes
with kerosene and setting fire to them,
The Judiciary Committee of the Ala
bama Legislature Is enqniring into the
cxpedienry OF passing II dog law anG re-
curing citizens to pay p~oll-taX before
voting.
The Rogersville, Tenn, Jail contains
two boys under fourteen years OF age
charged with murder. Distinct ollenses'
"A colored woman OF Belltown, Va,
left her nineteen-months-old child alone
In the cabin, and an old SOW entered and
ate 1t up, all except an arm and the head
Robert Kidd, Austin county, Texas, is
l03 years old. He married at the age of
81. and raised seven children. AT 90 he
raised u bale Of cotton and 200 bushels OF
corn. His wife Is alive, and he's not bald
headed, either.
"A bill passed the Virginia Legislature
lately appropriating $500 for the removal
tion of the statue Of Henry Clay. The
vote was unanimous except one al-black
vote against it-a commentary upon Clay's
lifelong advocacy of emancipation.
IL Texas paper says Government lands
In that State cost one dollar per acre, and
good whisky two dollars per bottle, and
adds, "llom many men die landless who,
during their lives, have swallowed whole
townships, trees and all"
"A negro insisted that his race was
mentioned in the Bible. He SAID he heard
the preacher read about how "Nigger
Demus wanted to be born again."
A California paper. having obtained q
new subscriber, recorded the fact in Il big
article, heaIcd-"Still another! Ofcourse
Endorsed by the people"
-"Bruce had u ccourse to the swOrd'
Tell to the bow and arrow. and Washing
to appealed to the God Of Battles; but
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
THE SUN
NEW YORK.

The different editions of THE Sun dur
Ing the next year will be the same rs dur
ing the year that has Just passed. The
daily edition will on week days be u sheet
of four pages, and on sundays u sheet OF
eight pages, or So broad columns; while
the weekly edition will be sheet ofeight
pages OF the same dimensions and clarac-
ter that are already familiar to our friends.
THE Sun will continue to be the siren
uous advocate OF reform and retrench-
ment. and OF the substitution OF states
manship, wisdom, and integrity tor hollow
prctence. imbecility, and fraud In the ad-
ministratlon OF public affairs. 1t will CON.
tend for the government of the people BY
the people and tor the people, as opposed
to government by frauds in the ballot
box and in the counting of votes. enforced
by military violence. 1t will endcavor to
supply its rcaders-a body not now far
from u million of souls with the most
careful. complete, and trustworthy nc
count OF current events. and will employ
Tor this purpose 4 numerous and carefully
selected stall of reporters and correspond
ents. Its reports from Washington, es.
pccially, will BE- full, accurate and fearless
and 1t will doubtless continue to deserve
and enjoy the hatred Of those who thrive
by plundcring the Treasury or by usurp-
Ing what the law does not give them.
while it will endeavor to merit theconti-
dence of the public by defending the
rights of the people against the encroacll-
ments OF unjustitied power.
The price OF the dl lily Sun will be 90
cents Il month or $3.50 II year postpaid,
or with the Sunday edition 1910 q
year.
The SrNDAY edition alone, eight pages,
Sl.2O q year, post paid.
The WEEKLY Sun, eight pages of Sc
broad columns, will be furnished during
1877 at the rate of $l Il year, postpaid.
The benefit of this large reduction from
the previous rate for The WEEKLY can be
enjoyed BY individual subscribers without
the necessity of making up clubs. At the
same time, if any of our friends choose to
aid in extending u circulation, we shall
be grateful to them. and every such per-
SON who sends us ten or more subscribers
from one place will be entitled to one
copy OF the paper for himself without
charge. Az one dollar q year, postage
paid, the expenses of paper and printing
are barely repaid; and, considering the
size ofthe sheet and the quality of Its con-
tents, we are confident the people will
consider The WEEKLX Sun the cheapest
newspaper published in the world, and we
trust also one of the very best.
Address, THE SUN,
New York City, N. Y.