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National Republican., 1878-03-07
Bankrupt Virginia.

"Old Virgina's dead busted" sorrowfully
remarked son of tho "Old Dominion as
he read the telegram announcing that the
venerable r. NJ. 7. HUNTER, State Auditor,
had declared that the State government
could not be run another hour without q
recuperation Of tho cash-box. This is sad,
especially after the great glorification we
have been treated to of the wonders that
the MoFFET bell-punch was accomplish
ing. The creditors of the State had begun
TO advance their ideas regarding skies
and ''peelers," &c, when all at once their
hopes were dashed with the news that the
returns were all made in coupons; that no
thirty per cent. discount in market were re-
ceivable for even bell-punch taxes.
This state of things is almost inexplicable
when we reflect that the State government
was rescued from the hands OF the "thieving
carpet-baggers' as long ago as 1869, by the
highly intelligent and accomplished tirst
families" better known as the Conservative
party of Virginia, who have ever since made
and executed the laws, and never reduced
the valuation nor taSes a single cent, in the
city Of Richmond at least. 1t is difficult to
comprehend the present direiul condition
with such talent at the helm. If the State
had been all this time under the rule
of those rascally Yankee carpet-bag-
gers" or under the abominable "USDER-
woOD-nigger constitution even, this i'm
povcrshment would have been easily
accounted for but, as the constitution has
been effectively and numerously amended
until it may now, in fact, be considered Il
perfect States rights" instrument, this diff
ticulty can neither be laid to to"UNDERwOOD's
black-and-tan constitution nor TO the car
pet-baggers," 1t is next to impossible to
believe that II can be attributed to "uniyer-
sal suffrage, however much that freedom
of franchise may have increased the bur
dens Of the "taK-payerS' Of this District, for
the counters in Virginia have always taken
care that the tax payers tickets were sue
cessiul in Virginia indeed, they lave been
National Republican., 1878-03-07
Personal.

JUDGE FISHER, of Delaware, Is In the city.
Mr.. T. Richie STONE is visiting Atlanta,
Ga.
CHARLES NAHL the artist died Friday in
San Francisco
SECRETARY EvARTs is making brief visit
to New York city.
THOMAS G. DURANT esq, is at the Gilsey
House, New York.
THE Princess Louise has Joined the National
Health Society.
A GERMAN author has written book called
Kisses and Kissing"
EX-GOVERNER HOFFMAN, of New York
has arrived at the capital.
GARIBALDI will visit the Paris Exposition
as the guest Of Victor Hugo.
WILLIAM S. NoYEs has again assumed con.
troll of tho Biddeford Dem0crdt.
REV DIR. STEPHEN II. TYING completed his
seVcnty-eighth year on Saturday.
ROMAN CATHOLIC priests in Germany are
renouncing ceibacy, the church despite.
JAMES NORRIS spent his nincty-eighth and
last year in II poorhOuse near Milwaukee.
Mrs G. 4. PALMER, of this city is regeris.
tered at the Bingham House, Philadelphia.
A CHINESE consul, with salary of $4,000
year, is to arriyeiat San Francisco this sum.
mer.
MRs. HIcKs-IoRD and her venerable hus-
band will probably visit London this sum
mer.
ONE ofthe principal duties of Gregory XVFs
secretary was to read French novels to his
master.
THERE are two japanese priests in San
Francisco who claim to perform all kinds ol
miracles.
JOmS r. ARNOLD, city marshal of Sar
Francisco, was killed last Monday while max
ing an arrest.
JUDGE KETCHAM and United States Dis,
trict-Attomcy Mccormick, of Pittsburg Pa
are in the city.
Mn. L. NJ. TUTwILLER, of Virginia, has
been appointed chief engineer of the Miami
Valley Railroad.
A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was given Gene,
raj Joseph +. Johnston by Mayor Minis, oi
Atlanta, Thursday evening.
In the breach of promise case of Dckey VS.
Tytus, at Hamilton, Ohio, the jury returned q
verdict awarding the plaintiff $1,000
BERGH, the famous humanitarian, last yeal
prosecuted 1000 cases, involving cruelty TO
animals, before the New York courts.
TIE wife of Prof T. W. ID. Worthen, ot
Dartmouth, died Friday, at the residence o.
her father, B. ID. Wilcox in ThOtford, W.
HERR CAMPHAUsEN, who has just tried tC
resign from the German Cabinet, Is regarded
as the ablest man in that body except Bis
marck,
NJ, J. DE RoJAs and ]. N. Mestre, the bear
National Republican., 1878-03-07

ers Of the oeicial dispatches announcing the
downhll Of Tie Cuban rebellion. arrived here
Tuesday.
JErFERsoN DAVIS has by a verdict recently
rendered been released from all responsibility
as partner in the firm Of Boyle & Co., Of
Memphis.
Mr.. REUEL wAsBBuRN, Of Livermore, Me-,
died yesterday morning, aged eighty-hvo
years. He will bo buried Friday with Ma
sonic honors.
For attempting to kiss, Mrs. Ri-John
In Broadway, New York, on Friday, Judge
Murray fined q man ten dollars. Tho man
Intellectually pleaded that he was only in fun.
CHARLES S. WHITTIER, town clerk and treas
urer Of Methuen, Essex County, Mass, a man
Of high social standing has fed with all the
available funds, between $4,000 and $4,000,
HENRY c. JARRETT Is paying $500 TO Faw-
cett Rowe to rewrite "Uncle Toms Cabin" for
the English trip. The version now being
played at Booths Is not good one dramatic.
ally.
Six hundred female employees Of A. T.
Stewart & Company arc served with tea gratu.
itously each day at lunch, which Is partaksn
of In room fitted up by the firm for that pur'
pose.
Mrs. PHILLIPS, of Hopkins, KY, went out
to shoot her husband, from whom she had
parted, aud who was throwing stones at heI
house. By a mistaken aim she killed her
brother
Mr.. LEONARD KIRBY, president Of the
Globe Fire Insurance Company, died at his
residence, No. 26s West Eleventh street, New
York, Sunday, of heart disease, in the seventy
sixth year Of his age.
LORD NAPIER, named as the commander Of
the expeditonary force to be sent out by Eng
land, Is now Governor Of Gibraltar. He Il
sixty-seven years Of age, and one of the
most experienced soldiers in the British
army.
The February number of Wop.an's Irords
printed in Philadelphia, and edited and pub
lished by Mrs. Juan Lewis, contains q good
portrait and complimentary sketch Of Mrs
Sara Andrews Spencer, of this city, chairman
Of the resident Congressional committee o
the Womans Suffrage National Association.
The second daughter of NJ. Blanc, the late
king of the gambling world In Europe, Ii
about to marry the Prince Joseph de Rohan
whose family motto is Roi ne puis, Prince j
ddigne, Rohan je puis. N. Bancs eldest daugh
ter is married to the Prince Constantine Radzi
will, a cadet Of one Of the principal families o
| Poland.
THE will of the Pope, among other matters
! gives instruction that his body shall be In
TERED In San Lorenzo, outside the walls, unde
| the so.called Gridiron where st. Lawrence 4
said to have suffered martyrdOm and whicl
still bears the reputcd stains of his blood. II,
wishes the sole ciest of his monument to be
bare skull, and that IL shall bear a Latin in
scription bearing only his name, with the year
of his life and Pontificate.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

reason Of the Government stamp; and upon
this premise Is based all the denunciation Of
the opponents of the silver bill. II, then,
the Government stamp is worth ninety
eight cents when applied to paper, and alb
selutely nothing when applied to silver,
what becomes of the arguments Of the po-
litical economists to which we have become
so accustomed-thatt the valuo Of the circu-
lating medium, called money was almost
wholly based on itsintrinsic value2 If this
Is true >law of political economy, why
does 1t not hold good in the United
statesP The opponents Of silver
have proved too much. 1t Is no wonder
that the common people, unskilled in dia-
lectics, are puzzled over these financial prob
lens, when, as in this case, the teachers
are themselves so hopelessly muddled.
The trouble is that the original falsity Of
the assertion that coin meant gold coin
continues to adhere to all the reasoning Of
the gold monopolsts in reference to this
question of silver coinage. We have seen
into what a rsductio dd dbsurdum the argu-
| "N"' ~ iVitiehce " iHtiiisic Naiues, thc
gold standard the "greenbacks," and "the
present value of uncoined silver" has led
them. There is one other argument some-
times urged by them, and that is that the
coming Of silver will depreciate the value OF
gold. This Is a concession Of the whole
question: solution of the problem. Yes
it doubtless will depreciatc the value Of gold
by just SO much as that value has been in
creased by the enjoyment of a monopoly as
coin, but it will increase the value of silver
by just the per cent. by which gold is de-
creased. Subtract from gold the arbitrary
value it now receives from this monopoly
restore to silver the Just increase Of value
the increased demand for it for use as coin
will confer add to this the increased value
which the Government mintage adds &c
whatever material it is applied, and the re-
naming difference will hardly be enough tt
justify any son of America in aspersing before
the world the fair fame of his country. TIL,
present danger to the country does not liz
in the coinage of silver dollars; it lies in the
inability of those who legislate and thosC
who influence legislation to comprehend tn,
existing facts. 1t is rapidly becoming Q
question, not of honesty of intention, but o
ability. 1t Is time for those who really cart
for their country TO cease arguments and t.
devise some practical means of relief o
these we will consider in future article.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

30 unanimously successful that the ta1-p
ers pdr erce,lencs have presumed upon their
influence In high places to screen them In
the event Of their negligence 10 pay up;''
hence this dearth In tho Democratic CASH
box.
In old times now, oil the arrears of taxes
were easily adjusted by the sale-oh, no,
not sale-but the sending Of a sulky mig
ger or two toa commission merchant in
Richmond or Petersburg on an GRAND from
which he never returned. But all the
wheat, corn, hog, and tobacco must be
turned into money now to pay taxes.
Darkeys don't run Of such messages any
more. And the result Is hard times in ''ole
Virginny." We are really sorry for the
grand old State. She has wealth Of re-
sources unequaled. She had constitution
under which, had IL been left undisturbed,
both labor and capital would have focked
into her borders to develope her immense
treasures Of agriculture, Of mines, Of water
power Of forests, and of manufactures. But
the persistent changes in her organic law
for the oppression of labor and Of mer-
chants and tradesmen, at the expense Of
the landowners, has prevented immigp.
ton, and the disposition shown latterly by
a large portion of her people to repudiate
her Indebtedness has caused capital tc
shrink from her necessities appalled,. Hei
lands, many of them If put up for sale now
would hardly bring enough under the ham
mer to satisfy delinquent taxes. Nobody
wants them unless they can procure the
labor to work them. The quality Of Vir
ginia labor, under her present laws is dc,
teriorating instead of becoming more pro.
ductive. Virginia must begin again. She
must wipe of her slate and reconstruct
once more for new start in life. But in
so doing she must make the free-labor sys
TEN her foundation stone. Then success
will attend her.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

TIE New York Tribune, In referring to a
probable appropriation Of 100000 for the
building of a new post-office at the city OF
Brooklyn, says! Brooklyn will miss Null
hErT." So far as beauty and adaptation OF
architecture Is concerned, that Is so, for
whatever faults Mr.. MULLErr may have
End we are not prepared to say that he has
pnore than is the average lot of humanity
10 has vindicated his skill and taste as an
STchiteot Of public edifces beyond ques-
Non.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

VIZ notice with more than ordinary salts
Action the nomination Of Mr.. DAVID Eek
STEIN as Consul to Amsterdam. No more
atting appointment could be made. As
sonsul TO Victoria he has remarkably fine
pecord, and we have seen dispatch from
Cincinnati, signed by eleven of its first eiti,
sens, comprising editors, bankers, mer.
chants, and lawyers, which calls for his ap.
fointment without further delay, "in the
interest Of true civil-service REFORM"
National Republican., 1878-03-07

The scare-crows set up In the way of re-
nonetising silver are fast being knocked
Ever by the logic Of events" Gold has
hearty struck hard-pan, with a downward
tendeney since the passage of the silver
bill. Government bonds, instead OF depre.
eating since this measure became law, have
sdyanced both in London and New York
And are In active demand in both markets
at higher rates. Thus the silver dollar be.
comes a bow of promise In the financial
armament, hope revives and enterprise be,
gins to awaken from its deep sleeps The
people begin to put on courage, and the
eroakers are hiding their heads.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

1T Is given out that the first freight train OF
new silver dollars will be run to Washington,
and that the freight will be used In the pay.
nent of Congressional salarios.-Albary Even.
tsg Journal.
Though this act might be perpetrated in
svengeful spirit it would be hailed as
sweet revenge on the part of the recipients
sf the shining emblems of good faith.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

The State of Virginia Is In corner. The
Auditor is overwhelmed with grief, and in.
forms the Legislature that he cannot run
the government another day. Let her 90
INTO liquidation and sell out Somebody
will buy the State, and in judicious hands
make better government than it now has,
by contract. 1t would be good field for
sWestern enterprise"
National Republican., 1878-03-07

THE New York Herald remarks that th.
silver agitation has alarmed many prudent
pcople and adds I'VE happen to know oil the
bost authority that for some time quiet
movement has been going on Of capital drawn
cut here and sent to Europe 10 be invested
there" 1t says If the whole amount were
Known it would startle thoughtful men,
albany Ereai,.g Journal.
The most surprising thing in connection
with such statement, If true, is that there
arc no many timid fools in this country.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

The New York Graphic says: 1.-THE New
York gold papers-the Herald, Ttbvns
T'"es, Sun, World, and other and smaller
journals with bigger names-ac butt OF
sidicule now in every part of this country.
They seem unable to comprehend the rudi-
aents of finance"
National Republican., 1878-03-07

In January, 1867, we We're present at an
Interview in the Gayoso House, Memphis
Tenn, between the late BEN. F. WADE
and General FORREST, the celebrated con-
Sedente cavalry leader. They were pleas
antly discussing the political situation of
the day, and General FORREST was quite
solicitous as to what Congress intended to
do with the Southern States, evidently de.
sirous Of having Mr WADE commit himself
to policy which would be just what the
Southern people deemed most acceptable
TO one query Mr.. WADE replied: ave
would much rather meet you on the battle.
field than in the Halls OF Congress" IIis
remark indicated that he fully appreciated
that the South could gain, if given the
power to legislate for the country in Con,
gress what il could not accomplish by the
bayonct, and that his sagacity was fully as
great as his undoubted personal courage
Perhaps It would be wise for living states
men to realize the danger apprehended by
Mr., WADE, and that the diplomacy of the
South, which ever consists Of promising one
National Republican., 1878-03-07

The Car of Russia and the Sultan of
Turkey have suddenly become the most in
Innate and loving Of friends. The carcsses
after spat are usually more afiectionate
Than those that occur during an unpleasant
National Republican., 1878-03-07

THERE have been more discharges In two
of the bureaus of the Interior Department
within the past two days, and most of them
for the lack of the proper appropriations. Now,
that the silver bill is disposed Of, will Con-
gress turn its attention to the appropriations
so necessary everywhere throughout the
country?
National Republican., 1878-03-07

THE gentlemen who cssaycd to serenads Miss L.
q few evenings since should have had clear
thrOats, and their efforts would have been better
appreciated Bulls Cough Syrup is the best rene
dy cXtant for thick" or congested condition Of
the throat and bronchial tubes giving instant relief
National Republican., 1878-03-07

RUMoR says that JAY GOULD has
morning organ at the national capital If
%, 1t isn't either the Union or NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

SENATOR SARGENT has the floor in the
Senate at one o'clock to-day to speak on the
Chinese question.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

thing and doing another, may prove as sub
versive of true republican liberty as Victories
won by armed rebel battalions.
National Republican., 1878-03-07
PROPOSALS..
pRoPosALs FOR STATIONERY.
SECRErARy's OFFICE,

SENATE THE USITED STATES,
wAsHISoroS, u. C., March 4, ISIS
N Fl & M s ss 4sshsr HSe H @
onery for The use oi The senate @ Of lie Whied States
hss % s S ana Se sr& the s
be signed by the bidder and suretes, will be furnished
Tie ouarto Post and Commercial Note, Legal, and
Ps' P 10 sS ras SP " Say S
with no outside or Imperfect qulrea.
stock, fiat and smooth sheets, and Of the toughest
Tile Adhesive Envelopes must be extra we'll
gummed with pure white gum, or they WIN not be re.
gc,vsd and samples Of all kinds Of envelopes ms be
they are 10 bs dSvered All white envelopes are 10
TIC sSass o S rS aos afcs SsSSs set
forth sie supposed TO be whatw be requiIed but the
10 order rom contractors or less Of the several
Fa@ to t ser S s% e
Of american Industry i equally cheap and good
Such OF the upoye'articies a, may be designated by
oihcs in he city or Wilmington iree OF any chm 20
Tor carriage, on or before the lst day OF November
Every article must be Of the very best quality unless
A suiliceht specimen Of each article propose Ior
IL to accompany the proposals. and 10 be marked with
sS of each sR' Ss
foregoing list Will be deemed class and the person
Qualify considered WI receive contract for the
tiles sSi,i.ctory 70 ihs Secretary Of thc senate Tor
the performance thereof. which bond is TO be ed In
the office OF the said Secretary within ten days after
| the proposal has been accepted.
| Ifany articles contracted for should not be deliv
cred Within the time stpulatei should be inferior
In any respect 10 the sample, the bond OF the contrac-
| tor Will be put in suit
| Proposals should be indorsed Proposals for sta
tionefytior the sen9t and be directed to the Sec
retary OF the sennt ffshlngton
Proposals and spesl1tns must be delivered At the
| office free OF charge. - -
| GEORGE G. GORHAM,
| Secretary OF the Senate of the United states.
| martlaW-iw Union and Star copy.l
National Republican., 1878-03-07
THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REprBLrcAs

THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
Is now ready for mailing, and may be had
Tin wmppers) on application at the counter.
1t contains an epitome of the proceedings
in Congress, an agricultural and literary
page, together with the last nights tele-
grams from all parts Of the world, and two
full pages of editorial matter. 1t Is the
very best channel by which to transmit q
knowledge of Washington affairs to friends
h every portion Of the country.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

No roses bloom upon my finding check,
Nor laughing graCcs wantOn in my eyes:
But hHggard grief, lean looking, sRllow care
And pining discontent-a ruehl tmin-
Dwell on my brow, all hideous and iorlorn.
This is the lay of the disappointed and dis.
consulate jobber who has been blowing his horn
around the Government Printing -Ofico foI
more than seven days but, unlike Jericho
its walls refuse to tumble down. Congress Is
ungratoful. Hence these tears.
National Republican., 1878-03-07
PERSONAL.

TNFoRMAT1oN.-TlE GENTLEMAN WHO IN
Il Quired at the EbbittHouse yesterday morning re-
garng the Office of the Artist the Frcsco Painting
IN the new dining-room az the Ebbith will find the
mar2-0t. JOS RAKEMAN, Artist.
National Republican., 1878-03-07
NAVY DEPARTMENT. |

WASHINGTON, March !, 1878.
Sealed proposals. indorsed such and addressed to
the Secretary OF the Navy, will be received at the
Navy Department until the sth instant, for disinter-
ring the bodies sixty to eighty In number OF those
who perished by the wreck Of the United States
steamer HurOn which now temporarily buried
along the North Carolina coast, and for their trans.
portaion to Annapolis, Nd, and renterment In the
Naval Cemetery at that place.
Full Information for bidders and In regard TO tho
cond ions and execution of the contract can be OBJ
taned on application In person or by letter 10 the
Secretary OF the Navy.
Bids will not be received from any other than regi-
lar and well KNOWN undertakcrs and the Department
reserves the right 10 reject any or all Of the pro-
pOsals. X. W. THOMP PSON,
Secretary u le NAVY
National Republican., 1878-03-07
DIED.
March 5, ISIS,

ANDERSON.-On March 5, is7s nj nine o'clock y.
M. IsABELLA ANDERSON. the beloved wife OF C. =.
Anderson. In her twenty-seventh year.
Her relatives and friends are respectfully invited to
attend her funeral, from her late residence No a3i
Third street northwest, on Friday morning, At eleven
o'clock.
BARTLETT-On Monday. March T. ISIS, JOHN, In
fant son Of John II. and Lizzie Bartlett.
HEAD.-on the 6th of March, 1873, at two a. m,
GEORGE NJ. HEAD. In the seventy second year Of his
age. 4 native of Harro lsburg, Ky, and for more
than ~ years resident Of this city,
Funeral from his late residence 4l3 Fourth street
northwest. at eleven a. M, Thursday next
National Republican., 1878-03-07
POst-humOus-A "POmc." with
Explanatory Remarks.

hAptahutvEy nehuEAs.
A few days ago certain business man of
this community presented bill against a
certain newspaper establishment, temporarily
of this community. amounting to fifty dollars,
for collection. He was instantly informed
that it would be paid as soon as the temporary
business manager of the aforesaid temporary
concern could 60 to ''the bank" and return.
He may have entertained suspicion that
this trip to tho bank might be something more
than temporary but, be this as it may, he vol
unteered to accompany the IT, b. m. on his fnan-
cial errand The things he thcreupon saw and
heard were subsequently, reduced to rhyme
after the following style:
There Is Il young journal named P-t
That tries hard the gold. bugs 10 roast;
Twill live In these ways
So long as Gould pays
And then II will give up the Ghost.
There was young man named Gould
Who by the weak PIT was fooled,
II as IL gold bug,
Lives snug In his rug
On funds by gold-gamblers pooled.
God bless the Duke of Argyle"
lie had itching all the while;
Like Gould he'd post,
Kept ms warm as toast
scratchlng his back by the mile.
National Republican., 1878-03-07
Married,

BCCHLY-ELY.-In Alexandria, Va, February
q, by the Rev. William Dnwidde, WILLIAM s.
BrCIlLY and ALICE r. ELY, both Of Washington,
u. C.
GLEAsoN-THoMPSoN.. N..March 5, 1878, at St
Peters Church. by the Rer. Father Bowie JAMES A.
GLEASON, of Charlotte, y. e., and Miss AGNEs f.,
daughter of W. H. Thompson, o. Washington, ID. q.
National Republican., 1878-03-07

Tho National Republican has larger daily
circulation than all the other morning papers
Of the District combined.
National Republican., 1878-03-07
The National Republican

THuRssDAY Y'',,.,itIii'NA MARCH :, l7s
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A TTORNEY AT LAW AND JUSTICE OF THE
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