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National Republican., 1878-05-09

THE Republican caucus resolution dcclar-
ing the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the Constitution TO be the irref-
ragable and underlying principles of our
pOst-Jciium governmental system should lie
presented without delay. The debate it
will provoke will bring forth from the
Southern Democracy great deal Of gush,
sham contrition, and bogus patriotism; but
it will also develop their deep-seated belief
that the amendments were unconstitution-
ally adopted That they are in violation Of
the sacred principle Of State rights that
they should be treated, as they really are in
all of the Southern States, as dead letters
and that they do not give TO the General
Government any authority to enforce their
provisions granting new rights and privi-
legcs to ncw-madc citizens But the pro-
vision they contain against the payment OF
any debt for the emancipation Of slaves or
incurred by rebel communities rs the result
of their treason will prove to be the most
important topic Of discussion, and it will
have pertinent bearing upon the issues OF
the coming campaigns.
National Republican., 1878-05-09
A Rebel Threat,

New Orleans Picayunc
Saratoga mourns the loss Of John Morrissey : but
not without hope. Eli Perkins is still spared.
National Republican., 1878-05-09

tLynchburg Nirginian.l
Cesar had his Brutis; Charles the First his
Cromwell, and Ulysses Grant may profit by their
example.
National Republican., 1878-05-09
Confederate Aim.

IN. !. tribune.
That election riot IN North Carolina ended as
usual In disaster to the COlOred men The stray
Southern bullet always hits "nigger" but never a
white man
National Republican., 1878-05-09

THE Cleveland Lcddcr says "the Canton
"(Ohio) Repository demands that the Ohio
Republicans shall, in their coming plat
form, give the Administration ringing
Endorsement, and calls upon the Rcpubli-
can papers who think otherwise to take
their positions and let people know what
they are kicking about anyway" The
milk in this cocoanut does not lay so deep
rs to avoid discovery. One Of the editors
and propriotors of the depository has Just
been made Appointment Clerk of the
Treasury Department, and he promptly
dons his livery. No objection is made aud
the matter will stand Us recorded.
National Republican., 1878-05-09
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
1878 GREAT Is

1878 GREAT 1878
- 49, rENSsYhXANrA H9uTn; ,r,,,v',sn
aSFth Ehf$K $5hah Hh! EQUIP
TRAINS LEAVE MAsIhiisET9s, II from Depot, cor
For nfr 2, sTh and and ~ s,rSe,s as 5 fSw; d.v with
.Srs Il S ssSss$ IA SstssS' s%
HSGEriaoRE sEE HNb 'b FS'fSS FFSoTSaSe AZ y RAiISa
and iGe SortS At v g;ie y M daily Sscsp Saturday
ak Ta ff %Tsn cfEi EmrS e %%is %d Watkins XII, al M
fS xS sSs$ In, asss.T 5 a. anH RSs &c Ea n
press OF pullman rNror Cars, eO n NJ. daily, er-
For brooklyn, New York, all through trains connect
aflordHg direct iransier 10 Fulton street, avoid.
Ing double ierriage and journey across New York
sunday, With sleeping Cars ifom washington 10
pS'sdspns @ m daily asHSep spndSy niis Gsd
press, pre- = eva i M M % daily, ~ except { I sunday. ''
Accommodation for Baltimore 6'5. sJj a. m. and 30
For Pope %ns S'fTRs RRs sRs%ny S M and 40 M da,
For Annspohs Gsi n m. and 81 tp m hn,ly except
ALEXxSpRIA AND DFREDERIcKspyHG Y! !, RAIL
Ton Tn RAfLR6hD. N NND'''N AMI " '>''''''"
For AIe'@SS.i% 1S s"aSs SiS 10 H. SnS n sSa at%SS"
For ihe south, via itchmond. atS a. IN, daily, and
Train. g eaR. % dy &sssSSGa sssSgi sqaS%s oT Washington $40
TN sS ic !, a. o an ma "a. n uss lN sc and m.
Tickets, Information. sleeping and rSrlor-car 40
% SAP DC at s
enuc. northeast corner OF sixth street and Pennsyi-
les icr ihs checking OF baggage TO destination rom
hotels and residences.
FRANK Th6HsoN, tsSnsrai Manager. apf uI.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
- tue CHEAT DouhLE ,ri!. TilASK, Sit,rrv -
NoHrH' Wet NoHTnws'r ssS syt,;sra sSTT.ETT y IT.
lxAvE wa-nrseTok. ,
300 a. m- baltimore AMI way stations.
stfa.bGrg, winehester, and Way stations Via Relay.
M ,S si%C%i s,fee.Sars sfeSSi winchester. uaser
Point e R9sss spa Tsy ssonS o,on and pa
mers eapfoss M FAR P&KLoR SXRs 10 o New 2crE I and and
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vile, Cincinnati Columbus, Chicago. Junction. and
.sro a m. baltimore, Annapoiia ana way stations
isio ! M. B"iii%ors Ricot, city. Annpaolls and
.i:S D m, New York and PhiisA.lpha, Express.
az wv p nj & Bsinore n,n ana way s"tons "ihehes'e'
$50 p. M. BHitia,cre, Bladensburg. and Laurel E1.
way stations. On sunday 10 p Of Rocks and way
Gs ss1SE and way yns siaiS5
n Tie cars drsS % boat al GSntSn 10 cOnnseon on
Sunday for Norfolk.
.GOp. m, baltimore and way stations
.d.,s ., m, Chicago and Columbus express. SLEEP
ING CAR to Chicago
sT3O p. m- baltimore express
'H25 j.. NJ, ~. Louis Cincinnati and Pittsonrg ex-
press SLEEPING CAR to 81. Louis and PttsburR.
No connection for pittsbnrs on sunday.
.eH .. m; New York, Philadelphin and Baliimors
| express SLEEPING CAR to New York, and SPE
| ClAL SLEEPING CAR to Philadelphia
| Trains marked daily; other trains daily except
sunday. mylJu
National Republican., 1878-05-09

SPEAKING Of the singular story that Tom.
EWING is maueuvering to make JOHS SHER.
MAN President with the design of becoming
himself Secretary Of the Treasury, the Wash.
ingtOn REPUBLICAN says:
II secretary SHERNAS should ever become Prcsi,
stances, he would, no doubt select Cabinet from
outside the Democratic party ana his own blood
relatives
The REPUBLICAN Is not familiar with
JoHS's political history. There are more SHER.
MANS than SMITHS holding fat Offices, and
almost, if not quite, the entire number are
indebted to JOHS for their positions. If SHER.
MAN were to be made President he would give
every relative he could find some fat place. II
can never be charged against JOHN SHERMAN
that he neglected the claims Of any man, wo.
man, or child who bore him the slightest re.
lationship by blood or marriage. In looking
after his own he is a vast sight better than al
inhdel. l."-sdndusky Register.
We must defer to Ohio sources of informa,
ton relating to Secretary SHERMAN; but
this much our observation justles us in
saying: There are worse men in Ohio, and
here from OHIO, than the Hon. JOHN SHER
MAN. If he were from any other State h'
would have full an average record for per
sonal and official worth.
National Republican., 1878-05-09

,SoME of the southern papers arc publish
Ing sfiidavits declaring that one or two OF
Secretary SCHuRz's timber agents" neg
lected to pay their board bills. This argu-
ment in behalf of the timber Ethieves, who
were exposed by these agents, is unanswer-
ahls
National Republican., 1878-05-09

UNDERTAKERs.
w. r. sPEARE,
UNDFRT-AKER,
formerly with n. p. Harvey,
go T street Northwest,
one door east Of Tenth street.
Experienced lady attendants at short notice ap2.tf
TURCO-RUSSIAN AND
SULPHUR BATHS,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
eHys TICKETS FOR THE LECTURE on THE
- "IAie and 1ln.S Of Charl,s sumner" at
be had PafEers Bookstore. Reserved seats At Met.
erotts. my7.H
s1g" ,OPIYION OF DIR. n = SsTEuARr, pRFsI
have 'Ts Se nGFya rSSens fsBR SBs La@S Extract Of
Bee and T9nic Invgorat9r for more than year and
S hSVs ever met @ wh ' Il "S6nss the vPass
Of foOi and Tonic H. a rcmarkahlc way" niytai
rRF- AMEErING OF, THE sroCKHoLDEEs
~ ofthe Cooperative Ice Company will be held
\ If SaGs e ay a TScF ecSn
hdvisaby OF Increasing the capital stock OF the com
GnhwEkEs. "S { hESsiSShiN, jjAotoSS Oh LEto .
slg. CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,
~ TnElsrnr DErARTAtNT.
OFFICE OF CoArTN9Li.tnor rus CrnnESCY.,
Whereas by satisfactory evidence presented 10 the
frs % T. wHSgfn5 ss
In the city o Washington, In the county OF Washing
tor and ihe District of Columbia has complied win
ali the provisions Of the Revised statutes ofthe United
states required TO be complied with before associ
iion shall be authorized TO commence the business Of
Now . rcfore. I.John Jay Knc. Comp,roller Of the
Ti"S&l RaSK ~ W W4siifNaToS m II sc cry M h I iS. e.
city oi Washington. In the cpunty Of Washington,
and District of Columbia, is authorized 10 commence
Revised Statutes Of he Tnited states. VI
H. testimony whereof. witness my hand and seal OF
Office i.r, III, l''h day orApri'' IhSSniSJ,yxyox III
spiis.Gt No. use. Comptroller OF the Currency.
tlSf" NErRALGIA CuREDIN ONE MINUTE
oan testify. Sold at CougGllns drugstore. janlsT
n5so HEApAt HE. .TooTIIACHE EARACHE.
~ DC. cured by Fluid Lightning sold at
Coughn's drugstore, Masonic Temple. tanc9n
sI,Ss NERVOUS PAINS PLEURIsY. CRAMP
hing. sold at CoushlIhs drug store Masonic Temple
Jau1gtf
r1E- TIE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COM.
w PANy, cor. New York avenue and Fifteenth
o % to y ~ and SG, %sT sn, q
iI;rsSidsn! GEOHGE ". RIdds, Vice Prcsident
| u. +. SNYDER. Secretary Oci5-tf
srECEG roSRs TEX ES
| pies Drug store + and Ninth streets. ss-u
eISSa NERVOUS EXHAUsT1oN-A MEDICAL
sS essay, comprisng series Of lectures delivered
putaby how lost health may be resained, nYordins
lie rsSs"t TFf Of p sna pSysc dbs being
aStr+ s. 81 S TffEy gaSs MtsTM r 2 ~
ANATOMY, as broadway. New York. nOi5-dm
National Republican., 1878-05-09

THURSDAY, MAY 0, 1878.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14
Secret of Success in Life.

An eminent judge, when asked what
contributed most to success at the bar,
replied, "Some succeed by great talents,
some by high connections, some by mir
acles, but the majority by commencing
without a shilling" 1t is common
saying at Manchester, that the men who
are the most successful in the business
there, are those who begin the world in
their shirt-sleeves; whereas those who
have fortunes to begin with generally
lose them. Sir Humphrey Davy said, 81
am what made myself" That is law
which holds true universally, under all
circumstances whatever.
Long ago little boy was entered at
Harrow School. He was put into class
beyond his years, and where all the schol-
ars had the advantage of private instruc-
ton, which was denied to him. His mas
ter often reproved him for his dizziness,
but all his efforts could not raise him
from the lowest place in the form. Moth
ing daunted, he procured the grammars
and other elementary books which his
classmates had gone through in previous
terms. He devoted the hours of play,
and not few of the hours of sleep, to
the mastering of these, till, in a few
weeks, he gradually began to rise, and it
was not long before he was far ahead of
all his companions, and not only became
the leader of the division, but the pride
of Harrow. You may see the statue of
that boy, whose career began with this fit
of energetic application, in st. Paul's Ca
thedral, for he lived to be the greatest
Oriental scholar of modern Europe - it
was Sir William Jones. The Duke Of
Wellington, at the battle of Waterloo,
said to the staff officer who stood near
him, Hard pounding, gentlemen! but
we will see who can pound the longest"
And so it was through life, he would
never retreat, but in every battle, no mat
ter how superior the force of the enemy,
he kept on pounding, and won all his
victories simply because he would not be
beaten. 1t is remarkable fact in his
history, and one which cannot be said of
any other military commandeN either an
Gent or modern, that in all the battles in
which he was engaged he never lost
gun, and none of his foes could ever say
they had captured one belonging to him.
During the great civil war in America,
an intimate personal friend said to Mr..
Lincoln, Mr.. President, do you really
expect to end this war during your adj
minisJration 2" Cant say, sir, can't
say."---"But, Mr.. Lincoln, what do you
mean to dol" Peg away, sir, peg away
keep pegging away" And peggng
away" did it. That was President Lin
coins motto, and good one it is for all
young men.-National Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14
American Toys for Europe.

In former years large portion of the
toys used in this country came from Eu'
rope. Now the trade is the other way
and the Old World is buying largely
from America not only the peculiarly
American inventions, but also the toys
which formerly were made abroad. The
export trade in toys, which amounted
last year to over 100000, began five
or six years ago. Then E. G. Williams,
the agent Of a large exporting firm, says a
number of bankers sent some American
made toys to Cuba and South America.
The trade then extended to London, and
thence 10 Hamburg and Paris. Now
nearly every foreign steamer carries large
quantities.
The principal articles of export are the
mechanical or "clock-work" and the
steam toys, but there are also large ship.
ments of tin and wooden toys, NEST of
which class were formerly imported from
England or Germany. The reason of
this change is that wood is much cheaper
in America than in Europe, and ma
chimes work faster than hands. The
latter reason also applies to the in
creased sale Of mechanical toys. Very
few are now imported and only the
liner French and Austrian work for
show pieces in windows. American in
genuity has also multiplied the varie-
ties of mechanical toys, and the Ameri-
can manufacturers of the clock mechan-
ism have met all overtures for the pur-
chase of the detached works, by European
dealers, by demanding prices which are
practically prohibitory. The American
steam toys, such as miniature steamboats,
that run in water, engines and boilers,
and locomotives with small trains of cars,
are in much demand by European buyers.
The wooden toys are generally of prac-
teal sort. They excel the European
products in cheapness, style and finish.
Hobby-horses, velocipedes, miniature
tubs, pals, wringers and clothes-horses
are among these. Many of these are
made at the West and sent East to be
finished. Indiana is the largest producer
of the black walnut toy furniture for ex.
port. Croquet implements, which for.
merly came from England, now form an
important item of export, one firm re-
Gently sending 1000 sets to that country
The cost of a set here is from $3.50 up
while the lowest price charged for ar
English set was Sl5. Many iron toys, a.
savings banks, etc, are also exported
The higher class of toys are made in New
York and New England, but principally
in the latter States, where there are abou
one hundred manufactures.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14
How to be Beautiful.

"How can | be beautiful Every
boy and girl, man and woman, wants to
know that. Here is Mr.. Emerson S
beauty recipe:
"Th.re is no beaatifier of complexion,
or form, or behavior, like the wish to
scatter joy not pain around u.s.
Do you suppose that recipe will work ;
Think of the most beautiful people you
know. All, l know some one would say
"mother." Do you not think these
people are those who try very hard TO
make others happy9 know very many
beautiful people who would have ie-
manned very plain had they sought only
to please themselves.
We want to try Emerson's rule for be-
coming beautiful, SO it will not do to
forget that "There is no beautiier of
complexion, or form, or behavior, like
the wish to scatter JOY and not pain
around u.s."
But we would like to have him tell US
what things last longest.
He is all ready to tell whoever wants to
know. Beauty is the quality which
makes to endure. In house that
know, have noticed block of sperm
aceti lying about closets and mantle
pieces for twenty years together, simply
because the tallow man gave it the form
of rabbit; and suppose it may con
tinue to be lugged about unchanged for
century. Let an artist draw few
lines or figures on the back of letter,
and that scrap of paper is rescued from
danger, is put ina portfolio, or framed
and glazed, and in proportion to the
beauty Of the lines drawn, will be kept
for centuries" And there are beauties
of heart, mind and character that dc
not meet the eye, but are none the less
powerful in making to endure" -Julid
T.. Sargent, in st. Nicholas.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14
Religion of Russian Peasantry.

The Russian peasants have strange
idea of religion. They regard it simply
as mystery, something which can save
them from all evil in this world and
bring perfect happiness to them in the
next. In their minds, it has no connec.
ton whatever with ordinary precepts OF
morality, and prayer for the success OF
an evil undertaking is very common. Per.
haps this is not to be wondered at
which we consider the character OF
their religious teachers. Our Prot
estant conceptions of minister lead
us to look for man of some dignity of
department, common education at
least, and certain degree of refinement
He is supposed to live, as near as frail
humanity can, the ideal life of purity and
beauty of which he speaks to his bearers.
In Russia is found an entirely different
state of things. The clergy are ridiculed,
hated, despised. No sympathy exists be-
tween them and their people, but kind
of resentful endurance is the only feeling
that binds them together. Many of them
commit all kinds of sins against moral
ity, collect illegal dues, and care nothing
for the religious rites which they perform
In early times these parish priests were
elected by the people, but later the Bish-
ops appointed them, and drew their can
didates from the families of the clergy,
so that in time the priesthood became "an
exclusive caste, with peculiar charac-
ter, peculiar habits, and peculiar ideals"
This of itself would have a tendency to
separate them from the worlds people"
and check any influence for good that
they might otherwise have exerted.
One of the strongest superstitions in
the religion of the Russian peasant is
his belief in the magical power of the
Icons. These are half length pictorial
representations of the Savior, of the Ma
donna or Of some saint, painted upon
yellow or gold ground, and of varying
sizes, from square inch to several feet
Sometimes these figures are embossed
with what is called metal plague, but if
not the crown and costume are adorned
with precious stones, often of great value.
They have two kinds of Icons. One
kind is found everywhere, and though
regarded as sacred, they are not so revered
as those called miracle working" The
latter are few in number, and the simple
folk believe them to have had a miracu-
lous origin. Let the news go forth that
one has been strangely conveyed into
some church, and thousands will flock
thither to worship the Heaven sent
image, or be healed, by its power, of ma
lignant diseases.
Every nation has its peculiar social Gus
toms, and every religion its own super
stitious observances, which seem strange
" inconsistent with the teachings of good
common sense, to those who have not by
life long habit been accustomed to do
reverence. The Icon worship of the Rus
slams is only another manifestation of the
desire of humanity for something tangi-
BILE to the senses to which it can appeal.
The great lack in this religion, as in most
others, is the warm, earnest, heart-throb-
bling interest of its teachers in the well
fare and vital prosperity of the taught. -
Tole1o RI1dA
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14

VALUABLE, THouGH OLD.-My success
is owing to my liberality in advertising.
Robert Bonner.
Advertising has earned me compe-
tence.-Amos Laurence.
| advertised my products and made
money!. Longworth.
Advertising is as necessary an expense
as clerk hire DR.. Young.
He who invests one dollar in business
should invest one dollar in advertising
that business. T. Stenart.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14

THE etary unit of China and its
dependent States is the copper cash, Of
which it takes from 1,200d to ,400d, ac-
cording to the state OF exchange, to equal
one dollar. 1t was about the time of
King Solomon, 1,022 B. c., that the Chi
nese national money was ordered to be
cast round, with square hole in the
center, exactly like the coin used there
at the present time. No coins of any
kind we're made in England until 2S
centuries later.-Toiedo Blade.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14
A Dinner of Horse Flesh.

~ went on Saturday." writes Paris
correspondent, "to a horsehesh dinner
given by a NJ. Ducroix, Veterinary-in-
Chief to the Etat Major of faris. twas
prepared by an ordinary COOK, the host
wishing his guests to know that the food
placed before them owed none of its pal
atable virtues to extraordinary culinary
science. Everything except the sweets
at dessert were of Cheyaline extraction.
thought the soup better than bullion
made from beef. The boulli was very
toothsome; 'Cheral a Ia mode was also ex-
cellent, but the browning dish was roast
tilet, which was very tender and succu-
lent. There was no flavor or odor that
in the remotest way reminded one OF the
stable.
''The weak point of the feast was the
salad, which was dressed with oil taken
from horse feet NJ. Ducroix was an en-
thusiast, and dreams of nothing less than
cheapening meat, and rendering the lives
of horses tolerable by getting people to
become hippopophagists. Ifthe ultimate
fate of the horse was to be sent to the
butchers shamble instead of to the
Strengthening house, cabmen, he opines,
would be more merciful to the beasts
they drive, and the poor would be able to
fall back from dear beef and IN utton upon
cheaper and more nutritive meat. Since
hipI opophagy has been introduced here
more than $4,000 horses annually have
fallen into the stew-pans and soup-pots
of the French capital. 1t appears, indeed
that the supply is scarcely equal to the
| demsnd.
ION sitting down felt,I confess, some.
what nervous. 1t occurred to me that
sundry chevsline diseases were propa
gated by incubation. NJ. Ducroix, who
suspected my misgivings, informed me
that the inspection of horse-flesh for The
! flesh market is more close than that o.
beef. The living animal has to pass {
veterinary surgeon, and when it is re-
duced to the condition of butchers meal
it is again subjected to a microscopic ex
animation. Some members of the socie
ty for the Protection of Animals have in
vited NJ Ducroix to London to make ar
rangements with them for horse fest
banquet at the Crystal Palace, prepared
by French cook. n-Lirerpool Courier
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14
A Song of a Leaf.


BY JOHN FRANCIS WALLER.
flung leaf on summer stream,
That plucked from the alder-tree;
And watched it dance in the sunny beam
Where the eddies played rippingly.
30! for life like the leaf" cried,
"Floating along on the sunlit tide"
Over the water came breeze,
And it hurried the leaf along;
Down to the margin stopped the trees,
And they whispered gentle song.
30! for life like the leaf" cried,
"Ever in sunshine and song to glide"
Fast sped the leaf on its joyous way
Till it reached the rocks in the river;
Over the ledge, amid foam and spray,
Went the leaf-and was lost forever.
"Ah, me! Is life like the leaf?" l cried
"Ltks the leaf the echoing rocks replied
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14

A LIEUTENANT of the Russian Navy
has recently patented substance for the
preservation of metals. 1t bids fair to
be very successful, and has, after long
series of experiments, been adopted by
the Ministry of Marine in that country.
BY applying this material to the surface
to be protected, and then covering it
with a coating of ordinary paint, it be-
comes absolutely insensibls to moisture.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14

MEN will wrangle for religion, write
for it, fight for it, die for it-anything
but live for
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-14

LAWYERS, doctors, and women are all
fss-males.