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Nasty ON FINANCE.

PETROLEUM V. NAsBY has caught the A.
nauciai ullatus from the Nationals, aud has
set his machinery at work to grind out a
lie seems to take ia the question Of abso-
lutte money on paper, and digest and tormu.
late it for great usefulness with almost su-
prrhuman power Of intellect. II is evident
that Nasty was cut out for simon-pure
National, notwithstanding he has been so
long postmaster at Confederate Gross Roads
and we should not be surprised to find BA--
CON- and PogRAM and most OF the Corners
Statesmen falling into line ia the iiat
rauks Then there will ba lively times At
the" Corners" NASBIS post-oitiCc will be
uvcrhiuled. whitewashed, and rejuvenated,
BA-CoM's will be enhyened by II great de-
mand for nat drink and the like when
marched throats lind au inhOwing currency
" sufficient tor the want. Of trade The
Corners will bloom as Io,e when that
promised time sha.l come.
NAsBY hls a wel!-diye8ted plan for bring,
ing good times, which he has submitted tC
the popular "jcdgmcut.' iIr wants thc
Government toau,hOIiHe extensive improve,
m ,nta at all points Ia the country, and thel
to issue paper money enough to pay fol
them. which he has no doubt would tloat
thousand millions Of dollars. The Corners
would take $1,000 900 for the improvement
Of the slack water OF Niger Run, the corn
pigtlon ui the ScceSSOnville railTold tn
building Of the turnpike to iioaulegard,
national observatory near the Corners,
AMI swing-bridsc over Niger Run. TIL
money thus issued aud used never TO be re
deemed Nasty. inspired by ianciiu
view OF the future greatness Of the Corners,
when it will l0w with milk and honey anl
ancient Bourbon, explains that this money
like TESNYsoNS brook, will dow on for
ever lie says When bill gets oil
you can g. aud exchange it 10
"a new one, and that for anOthe
new one, and 50 on to the end Of time tn
people being Obliged 10 take 1t, ior It Is lega
tender aud money must become plenty ii
says We want permanent relief something
that will last. An unlimited issue of none.
aud liberal system OF internal improve
ments TO get It into circulation, is what W
want now. NAsBYs rallylng cry IL, "Ou
capacity for spending money must b
National Republican., 1878-08-16
Pr hSON.JL.

LoRNE wears his hair parted in the middle.
A. p. RICHARDS, Of Now York, is at the In
poral.
LIEUTENANT W. A. SIMPSON, U. S. A., is at
the Ebbitt House.
L. C. FREY and wife, OF Indianapolis are
guests at the Imperial
GOVERNOR COLQUrrr OF Georgia, arrived at
Round Lake yesterday.
WAsHIEGroN IRvIEd's home OF Sunnyside
looks old and neglected
A GREAT many babies In this city are Of.
llcted with the yeller fever,
Mr. s. 8. Cox and wife are at the Winder,
mere Hotel, Greenwood Lake
CARDINAL MCCLOsKEy will ofliCiate at Miss
Jeanette Bennett's marriage.
CHARLIE L. VI. CLAIR Of Charlestown, W
Va, Is stopping at tho Imperial,
RoRERT CoLYER estimates that 5,000I00(
Americans are in Europe this year.
| 1T Is said that Montague's life was insured
In favor Of his mother, for $4,000.
MRS. A NJ PuRyIs and Miss Alico II. Pur
! via, and W, u WedgwoOd, Of this city, ar'
National Republican., 1878-08-16
THE SLIUGHTER- PEN.
The Late Troubles In Edgeheld, =. q.
TRENTON, EDGEFiELp COUNTY, s. C.,


The Late Troubles In Edgefeld, g. q.
TRENTON, EDUEFIELp COUNTY, s. C.,
Aug l2, 1873.
TO he Editor Of the National Republican:
SIR On the l2th day Of August, 1876 Gov
ernor D. II. Chamberlain, the thon Governor of
South Carolina, came to Edgeaeld Court. House
To speski to q mass.meeting Of Republicans,
and the shameful manner in which he was
treated by tho red-shirt Ku-Klux Democracy
no doubt you have long g-since heard on which
occasion he was cursed and called id liar
by Gary, who glOries in the cognomen of the
Bald Eagle Of EdgefeId :" aud II was all NJ,
c. Butler, who now claims scat Ia tho United
States Senate could do to keep his red.shirt
assassins from actually numbering him Cham.
berlain). Governor Chamberlain attempted ia
address the Republicans, but was not allowed
ed TO do so, and left amid the Jeers and bias.
phemOua insults of the red.shirt Ku.Rlux.
Now Gary and Butler claimed that they
had achieved great victory, and that Edge.
field naugurated the plan that caused
| the downfall Of Radicalism" iu South Caro-
lima (Yl. And as such the 18th day Of August
must be held sacred in the hearts Of the red
shirts, and therefore to-day was set apart as
the occasion for grand celebration and ami
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among the arrivals at the summit Houss,
Mount Washington.
Mr.. Moody and Joseph Cook ore wondering
IL II would pay to convert Kesrney.
GENERAL JOHN TAYLOR CooPEn died at
Albany last evening, aged eighty-three
WHEN woman joins a gymnasium Il Is
sure sign that she Ia going 10 be married.
TEE English will have TO shoot their own
pigeons now. Bogardus Is coming home
SEVENTEEN soulptors aud eighteen painters
from the Unitod States are now residing In
Rome.
Miss LATiMER, Chicago lady teacher who
weighed 200 pounds, has died from using an
anti-fat remedy.
A. T. AxBRMAN, Of Georgia, formerly Attor.
General Of the United States, is guest at
the Riggs House.
The Sultan Of Turkey Is obliged to have 1896
suits Of clothes O year ho mover wears the
same garments twice.
ATTORNEY. GENERAL YouMANs, Of South
Carolina, arrived In tho city yesterday, and II
registered at Wormley's.
A FULL length portrait of Nine. Modjesks
has been painted by Carolus Duran at Paris.
The price paid was 5000.
GENERAL GEORGE A. SHERIDAN, Recorder
Of Deeds, has returned from his summer trip,
and resumed his official duties.
MILE. AIMEE is living quietly In her hote
near the Pare Monceau, Paris. She VOWS thai
her days Of foreign travel are over.
Mn. X. J. .MEIos, the efficient clerk Of the
court, who has so long been confined by illness
has almost completely recovered his health.
Ex-Governor AMEs. of Mississippi. son.in.
law of General d. F. Butler, has abandoned
politics, and Ia now butter and choose com.
mission merchant In New York.
BIsHoPs FOLEY, Becker, Lynch, Gross
Moore, Kain and Chatard will be present al
Archbishop Gibbons conservation and install.
lation Of Bishop Kcane, Of Richmond, on the
25th Instant
HENRY WARD BEEcHER and Henry c
Bowen are joint executors Of the will Of Mis-
Mervida Wood, Of Brooklyn, just deceased
Tho will was made In the loving days 0
twenty years ago.
AFTER twenty-five years Of unbrokcn ser
vice as the Washington correspondent Of tn
Springfield Rcpub!ican, d. W. bartlett resign
that post 10 become American Secretary Of tn
Chinese Legation at Washington.
STANLEY MATTHEWS and Senator Lama
have Just been made members Of the Londoi
Golden Club, before which famous" Is gener
ally written, but whose modern achievement
appear To consist in giving dinners and dis
tributing tnolaSscs candy.
National Republican., 1878-08-16
THE COAT OF MANY COLoRs.

The Republican press Of Ohio are so un-
reasonable in their treatment of Senator
THURMAN and his late Hamilton speech as to
point to his departures from former positions
and his Inconsistencies and meaudcrings of
opinion on questions of currency. II is
scarcely kind, perhaps, TO hold Senator
THURMAN's currency garment up to public
view, and show TO the world that it is q
coat OF many colos He is now in favor of
the greenback as the currency of the coun-
try. On the 9th Of April, 1874, the Senate
had under consideration MI MERRIMoN's
initiation measure, when Senator THURMAN
relieved himself Of the following views:
Upon the measure itself have a word to
say. 1t simply means that no man OF my age
shall ever again see in this country that kind of
currency which the trainers Of the COnstitu.
ton intended should be the currency of the
Union; which every sound writer on political
economy the world over says Is the only cur
rency that delrauds no man; II means that so
long as ! shall live, aud possibly long after l
shall be laid In the grave, his people shall hare
nothi,.g bat an irredeemaJie paper currency Nth
uhich 10 transact their business, that cHrrcHcy
iChirh has been rsu de,cribed ~ the most eTrc-
tire inronti0n that eper the Tit Of man ierisei
10 I,ytuizs he rich mans field al Tie expense 0t
thc p0or mrns broW. WILL HAVE NOTHING
To DO WITH IT. SIR.
We suppose that Mr.. THURMAN has the
same right 70 change his views and positions
politically that General BUTLER, or any
other changeling und trimmer has; but Il
adds nothing to the weight Of his character
or the strength Of his position as an inita
candidate for the Presidency to be thu
playing vaue in the political currents
Senator THURMAN is not having very pro
pitious launch as Presidential candidat,
in this effort to blind and confuse the I'M
derStandings OF the people in regard to hi
real positions and principles
National Republican., 1878-08-16

vcrsary, rejoicing over the down AL Of Radi.
calism 10 South Carolina, aud the rcd shirt
Democracy was called together en- nds,s TO
listen 10 speeches by Wade Hampton, tho
Mississippi bankrupt, and who claims TO be
the Governor Of South Carolina Well, the
day came, and by ton o'clock tho town was
filled with men dressed in overy conceivable
manner. Some In. red flannel, dirty, dingy
shirts others In uniform cut after every
pattern Of q coat from Noah's time down, and
trimmed In yellow calico. And the events oi
this day will cause the 18th day Of August To
be long remembered by the people Of Elg.
field, and will indeed be q sad aoniversary 10
many bitter heart.
The first thing that occurred 10 mar tho
pleasures was the running away Of the mules
attached 70 the wagon In which the band rode,
breaking the wagon, smashing up tho instru-
ments, and throwing the driver out, and, IL Is
thought, fatally wounding him, as the wheels
passed over his body.
Hampton was behind this gorgeous chariot
In buggy, to which was hitohed one-oyed
mule. lie kindly took the wounded driver in
his buggy and proceeded on to tho Court
House. Arriving IN town, he went 10 grove
near by, where the stand was erected for tho
| speakers, aud was soon introduced to about
1000. He spoke for an hour telling the
people the good be had done and how
he had kept his pledges, &c, &c. After
Hampton concluded, one Judge Thomas
| Jefferson Mackey, OF hdbcds cOrpus noto.
riety, was introduced and was harang gung tho
crowd, when the report Of several pstolshots
wero heard over In the direction Of the town,
which caused kind Of stampede among tho
| red-shirts, and IL was soon ascertained that
only four men had been killed and nino
wounded, two Of them mortally. Still this did
not break up the meeting, but thunder storm
coming up made them scatter pell.mell. Tho
killing was caused by an old family feud be.
tween two families by the name Of Toney and
Boothe. About ten years ago Ben Boothc shot
and killed Luther Toney. He was convicted
OF granddaughter and served q term In the State
penitentiary, and to-day was the occasion for
the renewal of tho old grudge. Ben Boothe, his
brother, Jim Boothe his son, Tom Boothe, and
eral bystandcrs were wounded, aud two "
them niortally. And so passed off the memora-
BILE 18th day of August, the anniversary Of the
downfall Of Radicalism In South Carolina"
Long, long will II be remembered by the wid-
ows and orphans Of the unfortunate slain.
Just six weeks ago to-day Brooker Toney
shot and brutally murdered Gus Harris, q
colored man, and Q United States deputy
IN arshal, In the streets of Edgeaeld, simply
because Harris was instrumental In getting
Governor Chsmberla In to offer q reward for
IToneys arrest for killing another negro In
1872; and, strange TO say, Toney, when he fell
to-day, fell within Ave steps of the spot where
Harris fell dead six weeks ago. 1t seems that
Providence has given tho people Of Edgefeld q
cause nor TO remember the memorable 12th,"
instead Of rejoicing over the brutal, inhuman,
and ridiculous manner in which they treated
Governor Chamberlain on the l2th day Of
August 1876. VISITOR.
National Republican., 1878-08-16
Republican Growth In Kentucky,
fClnclnnati Dazette,l

As the C0UritT,JodrrId confeSses itself unable 10
learn Of any Republicans elected to office in Ken.
lucky last Monday, we come 10 Its assistance with a
few mon returns In Carter County the Repuhli.
cans elected the county judge county clerk, sheriff.
and half the magistrates In Greenup County the
county judge and part Of the magistrates; in Lewis
County, the judge, attorney clerk and assessor in
Boyd County, jniler, coroner and an Independent
ODem) attorney in Rowan County clerk, attorney
and surveyor and majority of the magistrate In
Mason County Jailer In Scott County sheriif. This
swells the list Of counties where Democratic OH.
cials were exchanged for Republicans 10 nearly
twenty. The Couricr.Jmrnai Is too good a newspa-
per to be without facts like these and We hope II
will not omit TO publish them. Considering the
state Of the school laws and other obvious adyGn.
tages enjoyed by the Democracy the growth OF Re-
publcanism in Kentucky Is very satisfactory.
Ina Nursery, wherein all Is life and laugh in.
stead Of crying aud fretting, there Is sure TO DO
found Dr. Bulrs Baby syrup. Price, % cents per
bottle
National Republican., 1878-08-16

THERE was some queer work enacted In
the first Virginia district Democratic Con-
gressional nominating convention. The con-
Vention nominated General BEALE, but It is
asserted that # the tellen had done their
duty honestly o Mr. WASHINGTON, of West
moreland County, would have received the
nomination on the third ballot DOUGLAS
delegates generally supported BKALE when
they found their own iavorite would be IN
successful
National Republican., 1878-08-16

HtTald North Carolina correspondent
predicts that the Republicans and Green
hackers in that State will join forces
against the Democracy. Our information
from reliable sources Is entirely different,
1t is true that the Grcenbackers are slough
ing Of from the Democracy in that State
and few Republicans are joining with
them. But the Republican party has not
hauled down its colors, nor will il abandon
its organization for a coalition with any
other party. The result will be three par
ties in North Carolina, the Republican, the
Democratic, and the Greenbackers--a re-
suit most devoutiy to be wished for, be-
cause under such condition Of affairs the
Republicans, who have legitimate major
ity IN the State, will have q fair show IL
the coming election. We reach this conclu'
sion through the assumption that tb,
Democracy will find ii harder to cheat two
parties than one.
National Republican., 1878-08-16

THERE are nineteen daily and weekly
pcwspapers published in the eighth Ohio dis
trict-CHARLEY FosTERs-eiSht of which
are Republican, seven Democratic and the
remainder Independent These papers have
combined circulation of 1900. There are
about $4,000 voters in his district, of which
the Democracy are in the majority by about
1000. The Independent press will, if no
Nomination Is made by the Nationals,
doubtless support FOSTER in preference to
FINLEy, in which event close contest may
De expected
National Republican., 1878-08-16

THE sheriff, in his official capacity as o
guardian Of the public peace, had much to
do with the recent Democratic nominating
convention In the Reading Pa district
He was called in to preserve order at the
very beginning OF the meeting The lacb'
rymosc CLYAER made a lengthy speech
which was greeted with rounds OF applause
His opponent, Mr.. WANNER, also spoke, ano
he was groaned at and hissed, and at othel
times applauded. The meeting was the
most disorderly ever known in the political
history of the county. After this cat-and
dog fight the faithful will settle down &c
solid work, and the discipline OF the party
will secure the usual development of Demo.
cratic strength ut the polls. If there had
been as much dissension M this at Repub,
lican convention there would have been NJ
occasion for the presence Of the sheriff. FOL
instead Of fighting and quarreling among
themselves the weaker clique Of the dele
gates would have withdrawn and set mp
bolter's ticket That's generally the way
Republican Losses occur in strong Rcpubli
can localities.
National Republican., 1878-08-16

THE Eleventh Amendment To the Const-
tuition, excluding the rights of individuals
10 bring a suit against any OF the States in
the courts Of the United States, will be
overhauled aud repealed one Of these days
II is now Of practical use In providing means
by which some Of the Southern States evadc
the payment OF just obligations. Georgia,
for example, has rcpudiatsd hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars Of her State debt undoI
the assurance that no power exists to COM
pei her to pay these repudiated obligations
Other States have graded" their debts ar
btrarily, which amounts to partial rcpudia-
ton. 1t Is very natural conclusion that
the sufferers from this population will
eventually begin to seek some remedy. The
aggregate amount involved reaches away
up among the millions There will consc'
quently be millions in the argument in iavoi
Of repeal of the amendment
National Republican., 1878-08-16

PuILLIMoRE, in his International
"Law," says "The right of interference
" on the part OF the state, for the purpose
sof enforcing the performance of justice to
. its citizens from q foreign State stands
upon an unquestionable foundation when
" the foreign state has become itself the
debtor Of theac citizens" A free transla,
ton Of this authoritative declaration into
the Spanish language would be OF practical
use III the next diplomatic note sent by the
United States to our deNrly-beloved sistcl
Republic on the south bank OF the RiC
Graude
National Republican., 1878-08-16

TIE experience OF the Southern Confcd-
eracy in the matter of incouvertible Or ire
deemablo currency seems to have been for
gotten in those sections of the South where
the Fiat Money idea is making headway.
National Republican., 1878-08-16

We have been furnished with a copy Of the
Political Map Of tho United States by Mr.. W
T. VIGus, the compiler. 1t is published al
Chicago, Ivy CuARLEs l.. DRIEssLEIN, and rep
resents the Congressional districts, with thoir
boundaries in each State In the Union--eScept
irrrynandered Ohio their political complex
ion with other valuable political information
conveniently arranged and presented for study
and reference. Every editorial and politioa
colnmittee room in the country should be pro.
vAed witha copy of this map, Indeed, twill b,
convenient and useful appendago to the public
aud private library US wolI as a companion fol
the active politician who seeks important po
ItiGal information with which TO stoch biz
| mind.
National Republican., 1878-08-16


Mr.. ANTHONY CoMsroCK receives the on
dorsement OF The Irdependeha in his devious
methods Of obtaining evidence against
dealers in infamous literature and ap-
planes In fact, that great religious jour
nal goes 50 far as to commend the decep-
tions ordinarily practiced by detectives of
all kinds in the pursuit Of their duties. 1t
says:
We will take typical case Mr.. CoMsToCR
has reason TO believe that a male OF female
physician whose advertisements bctray his or
her character, is selling, in defiance of law,
drugs or instruments for the purpose Of de.
stroying the life of unborn infants He visits
the practitioner, tells q plausible story of q
friend In trouble, aud asks for the suspected
articles. They are produced and paid for, and
the evidence is used TO convict the seller
This Is all And we say II is right. We admit
the deceit, tho falsehood but we insist that Il
Is one OF those cases Of iustidabe falsehood
which are not simple lies aud which no right
ethics can condemn.
But The Ldcprnien fails to evade in this
the admonition of ST. PAUL that the dam
nation Is Just of those who do evil that good
may come. After all, the strict religionists
had better drop the discussion of this sub
ject They arc benefited, It is true, by the
result of such practices, and are therefor,
interested parties; but until the millennium
arrives the theory that it takes q rogue L
catch rogue, which means that deception
is necessary even in the batting Of rat
trap, will prove to be the best one to follow
for the peace and protection OF society. II
the pure abstract It is q sin to kill rat, a
it is also o sin TO deceive the hungry rodent
into trapby means Of savory bits Of cheese
But rats are pests and the enemies of hu
manity. So arc the infamous people agaius
whom Mr.. CoMsToCK uses his skillful de
| cnntiona
National Republican., 1878-08-16

THE number of intelligent citizens who
are listiessly engaged in watching political
affairs, and who wonder why such dema-
gogue as KEARNEY can make any impres-
sion on the public mind, is sufficient to over
come any combination of strength the dis
turbers eau mako at the polls. But the
trouble is they permit their listlessness To
go to the extent of keeping them at home
on voting days 1t is a well-ascertained
fact that there were more than 10000 high
toned stay-athomes in California when The
election occurred at which KEARNEY re-
corded his so-called victory over everybody
else.
National Republican., 1878-08-16

equal to our capacity for producing IL, and
both must be unlimited" In his gleeful
feeling over the prospect, NAsBY esclsims
"We shall have good times at the the Corners
as soon as the Nationals carry Congress
and get to work have developed the
scheme for EN-" We suggest that Nasty
jines BUTLER and KEARNEY In the brick.
throwing business, and sets up branch a,
the "(ofnersv
National Republican., 1878-08-16

peculiar circumstances OF this case, to regard
Mr.. MOVES Us an innocent and grossly in
jured man. lie is the victim of a conspiracy
as black and diabolical a. ever betrayed in
uoccnce into tolls that ended In infamy. In
this case, in our opinion, innocence is pun
ished and guilt goes freq
National Republican., 1878-08-16

of propriety known as the Presidential Man:
sion. We have felt as times and In the mental
annsthesia Of street-car ride, mild interest
In Mr.. WEDD &. HAYEa Every littlo while we
hear OF him, but there has never been anything
definite OF satisfactory in The accounts which
have reached Us. There has been o sort Of
aching void hunger and thirst after the
righteousness Of fact Now VIC know that he
is at the family home at Fremont, which used
TO be Lower Sandusky. lie may not come TO
Washington before next winter. The next
winter may pass, its SHOWS may melt, the ma
pie bud again he swelling and the crocus bloom
below, and still WEnB may not arrive. He Is
in the "if thon" shapo. Early In the fall which
must be some time before the 10Th Of October,
he is to be married to some dusky daughter Of
Lower Saudusky. And thon he is going TO
settle which In this unsettled world is a
good thing to do. SO his fhthcr thought when
ho settled the hash Of the Republican party Of
the South
National Republican., 1878-08-16

delightful thing to sec such high.toned
"chiv" as BIACKBURN cuff his doughiace
mud-sill Northern Democratic brethren on
their somewhat elongated ears once In q
while. But BLACKBURN is at IL all the
time he is getting monotonous
National Republican., 1878-08-16

The Tildenitcs are more disgusted with
THURMAN than evor. They insist that he
should have yelled fraud" Just the least
little bit in his recent keynote speech
National Republican., 1878-08-16
How "Our" War Goes On.
New York Commercial

New York Commercial AdyertIser.1
A Cabinet officer says there is no danger ofa war
| with Mexico, or course. The present Admins
ration will not fight anybody bui the Republican
party. There It's courage ends.
National Republican., 1878-08-16
The Way Out.
tChicAgo Inter.Ocean

tChlcAgo Inter Ocean
Times mny be tight, money hard TO gct remunor-
alive Jobs dificut TO obtain Of present but patience
grit, and q steady pegging away will III you out
sooner or later. This Is nation Of workers, and
laboring for Others but a short time ago. Have
courage, hope, and then remember to ask for your
selves only what you will lie willing TO grant to