National Republican., 1878-08-19

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Persons leaving tn" city during the sum
ner months can have THE NATIONAL RE
PUBLICAN mailed to theIr address by or
dcriug It at the cornting-rOotn Of this Of
ice, either IN person 81 by letter. T"rms
ATTY cent" per month. including portage.
TIE way he starts oil on his Presidential .
tour leads to the opinion that THURMAN .
will be TrLDES over again, without the .
Nbsrl o money" \ good chance TO run, |
but none to win.
THE Opposition press fairly gloats over !
the recent declarations of OEyuIE GRANT .
the political intentions OF his
sbig brother" But it requires very little to
get up gloat in that quarter.
IT is said that ANDERSON blushed the
other day when before the Potter commit
tee. The discovery of that defect in his
character was, no doubt, the cause Of his
leaving the service Of the POH The man
who can blush even at crime has no business
on that paper
Why not put a Southern Republican on
our ticket for Vice-P President in ls-O; There
are native Republicans in that section who
are as pure in their devotion TO the princi-
Piles Of good government and free from any
faint in their personal record ~ any of the
public men of either party in the North,
IT seems that Governor HAMPTON has
not caused a requisiton to he issued for the
arrest Of his predecessor in Office ex-GOv-
crnor r X. SCoTr Why not Is it be-
cause SCoTr voted the Cancellation ticket
HAYES for President and HAMPTON for
Governor?
THE National is the title of a new weekly
Just established at Raleigh y. G., in the in
terest of the National or Greenback party.
Its purpose is based upon something that
@looks like bread and butter" Any im.
tation will do, no doubt, and We hope it
may have abundant success.
DEATH by suicide is increasing III New
York The Potter committee Is in session
in the custOm-house and has not been quar-
antined. An epidemic Of political and moral
suicide can therefore be explained but it is
difficult to explain the physical denonstrL-
tons in this line, unless it is that the Goth
amtes can't avoid reading the reports OF its
proceedings in any other way.
We are gratified to be- able to state au-
thortatiyely that voting citizens of the sew
eral States OF the Union connected with the
Departments of the Government will he
granted the usual voting leaves to attend
the approaching elections In their several
States. Now, If the Congressional Commit
tee can negotiate Communication transporta-
ton for regular voters, it will De all right.
THE question seems to he very pertinent
whether country eau he very hard up"
which consumes fifty millions of gallons of
whiskey, ten million barrels of beer, and
two Thousand million OF cigars in single
year. TO say nothing Of the brandy, RUN,
gin, and wines that are consumed. This
consumption OF luxuries goes II good ways
in producing what is called hard times.
MIR. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS talks
about Republican bolt in the event of the
nomination of General GRANT in lS-O. The
better way for q. WILLIAM to behave, IN.
der that OF any other circumstance, would
b. TO join the party Of CURTIS, and remain
within its single rank and halforU hle, II,
never belonged rightiully anywhere else, un
less it was in the brrrcheS ppcket-the hip
pocket at that--oi rx-Srrr"tury BRIITOw.
When h. dies he expects t. go to BKIsTUw
CONKLING'S treason TO the Admiuistrt.
ton has at last h,en fastened upon him
without question by Mt. RDBERTS, editor
of the Tucl Her,IL who testl!ies that he
told the senator OF his talk with Mr.
HAYES, and the senator replied that "iI
"HAYts was elected he should get in
without any cDuca~si ms TO Louisiana: II
" he was not cIcc.rd, h. should not get il
"ut all" Til. must he the abstract Of al
villainy, and should c0n,su the olt.udcr t
certain iulimy.
SOM of tn. C,ilOrntJ paper, ire hescc,h
ing KGARNhY to return 10 the Pacific Slope
The SPIRIT y III. Times san Francisco
grlvrly Informs him that the ileas in I'll,
'sdAd-lol' are yrarning for him Bu
KEAUNi.Y knows his business. lie Is lin
self u hcn on the Nii" Of the bigger But
lrrian hco which sacks the blood Of Tia,
filthy sores OF our body rolitic As for til,
lusscI hcs, and 80 "u I'D inh"tom, he care
very little lI'Srtck1 to tho bigger one. al,
continues to "hirc en-"
The PhiIalripAIe Tame, turns up its nos
A. the possible uon,uttlpn Of cx-Srcrctar!
RJBr- ~ to Congress by the people OF Ncv
Jclscy Gr.JrtE must have stepped Of
AIECK to,s sometime, OF he would no
make such an exhibition Of himself Mar
row-mindcd people are very liable to mag
nifty small prrsDntl matters into occurrence
Of grave state Importance. Mr. RuBEso'
is vastly the superior OF any man connected
with the Times, intellectually, socially, o
morally, and that's what's the matter.
TuE rOsyips have ID that the Republican