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National Republican., 1878-08-14

II THE Administration is congratulating
itself that the public has been mislcd by, or
is satisfied with, the pettifogging, finger
iddling manner in which the South Carolina
Modification case has been compromised, II
Is sadly mistaken. The efforts of THE NA-
TIoSAL REPUBLICAN and other so-called
stalwart journals to attract attention TO the
insidous treason which underies the asser-
tion of the superior power of the State gov
ernmcnt of South Carolina in this affair
have not been without avail. The result is
very general belief that the President, in
his desire not to wound the feelings of his
Confederate friends orcompromise or the dig
nifty" of the "GoD-like" HAMPToS's 5
State government, has permitted the in
dicted officers of the revenue service, who
are the real sufferers in this case TO remain
the victims of an infamous rebel persecu-
tiou. The Cincinnati Times has the follow
ing to say on the subject:
The South Carolina affair as we have for
many days predicted, has been arranged so as
not to injure the feelings Of our dear WADE
HAMPTON. The sheriff handed the prisoners
over to the United States marshal, and the
marshal, under Washington instructions,
handed them back to the sheriff, and so they
still languish In a South Carolina jail for doing
their duty as United States revenue officers.
1t would be impossible for us to depict, in de-
cOrous language, the impression which prevails
in the North concerning this pitiful business.
National Republican., 1878-08-14
POLITICAL NOTES.

TIE general opinion Is that Manton Marble
has written too much" letters.
SAM CARY is stumping Michigan for the
Grecnbackers to tho tune OF $50 night.
JOHN W. HALL, the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Delaware, is q very wealthy
shiptuider.
Ir Ben Butler hates riches so much why
doesn't he give that yacht to Kearney.-Bali-
more Gdsette.
THE Democrats Of the seventh district Of
Iowa have indorsed the Greenback candidate
for Congress.
WHEN the National party swallows the
Democracy, Senator Thurman will have to DO
driven In with ramrod.
PROCTOR KNOTT has no opposition in his
district The man who wrote that Duluth
speech did great thing for Proctor.
Hon. J. W. MAYNARD, of Williamsport,
Penn, Is talked of as Democratic. Grcen.
back candidate for Congress in the sixteenth
district
ex-senator GEORGE W. MILLER, Of Wash.
ington County. Penn, emphatically declines
TO be :. candidate for Congress, although he
has been strongly urged to do so.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has been invited to make
that speech Of his at corner stone laying In
Mississippi on tho 2lst inst. He keeps 1t en-
balmed In tinfoil on phonograph.
Is Cameron County Pennsylvania, father.
in-law and his son.in.law are running for the
Legislature the former on the Republican
ticket, tho latter as Grcenbacker.
JUDGE BELFoRD will go to Congress this
time with a majority that will command even
the respect of Democratic House, If the
House Is Democratic, which Is doubtful.-.Ds Den.
rer Tribune.
BALM for Banning, offered by the Cincinnati
Commercial: I" He might do we'll to run as an
independent 1t would be wise and timely tu
retire from the Democratic party by the same
hole he went In at"
WHEN General Sherman heard that Banning
had failed to secure denomination to Congress
he pulled his cap over his face, turned his back
upon things in general, and tears trickled
down his bronzed nose.
The National party in Michigan excites the
amused criticism Of tho Detroit Post and TiiJ
politicians and Office seekers. Reform Is the
little lamb that will lie down inside of the lion
II that gang Is successful.
THE Alton (Mo) Democrat cautions the Demo
| Gratis Of that State to beware and not vote fol
any representative who will support Samuel T
Grover for United States Senator, because Il
says that he was leader and main instigatoi
Of the tadpole movement In 1874"
GENERAL "CERRo GoRDo" WILLIAMS, Sen
ator elect from Kentucky, thinks II might be
good idea to make Grant field marshal, o.
something of the kind, in order to eiiectually
dispose Of him. He, too believes Grant viii
be the Republican nominee in 1879, but is con
fident lie will be defeated.
GENERAL d. +. BUTLER has taken final leav,
of the Republican party, and announces him
self q convert to the doctrines of the Nationals
The General has gone where he belongs, ant
the Republican party can no longer be hell
him congenial society during the approaching
canvass in Observation-Disclosures Standard.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

"OSE Congress can not bind another" Is tho
significant declaration of the Washington TILDES
Orsan.-NdipOEdi Republican.
Well, II you were to indulge in the luxury
of an opinion, what would you say about it?-
Washington Post.
To indulge in an opinion is not luxury
with US by any means, and we promptly
reply to this inquiry that we believe the
action Of the House at its late session in de-
claring the irrefragability Of President
HAYES title is neither binding upon the
present nor any future Congress, for
it was insincere. If the POTTER in
quiry should prove an assumption of
fraud, however vague, against that title
the Democrats would not hesitate next
December or next March to punish the per-
petrators of it, and deprive the benefciaries
thereof of the enjoyment of their offices.
This is our opinion, and it is one that we
have frequently expressed. Now let our
cotemporary relieve itself, and speak to the
point without evasion in answer to these
suggestions.
National Republican., 1878-08-14
THE RETURN OF THE LIBERALS.

The somewhat remarkable editorial in the
New York Tribune of the 7th instant, pledg-
ing the support of the Liberals to General
GRANT in the event of his nomination in
lsSO, continues TO attract attention, and has
been very generally accepted by the so-called
GREELEY press of 1872 rs the law and gos-
pei of the present situation. We submit
that this acceptance does great injustice to
that class of Republicans known in cotem-
poraneous political slang as Stalwarts. This
injustice resides in the fact that the Tribune
editorial charges the Democrats with having
made General GRANT possible candidate
by their mismanagement of affairs since
their accession to the control of the House
in 1915. The truth is the Democrats have
not changed in any respect since they came
into power. They are Bourbons now as
they were in l-60-'6l, and as the Stalwarts
have always claimed they were But it re-
quired the experience of the past two years,
with its attempted cancellations and its con-
ccssions, which have all been accepted with
out gratitude or friendly return of any kind,
to convince the Liberals that the Stalwarts
were right in their estimate of the Bourbon
character We, therefore, maintain that the
revulsion of feeling among the Liberals, as
illustrated by their present willingness to
accept General GRANT as candidate in
1SSO, is born of bitter experience of their
own seeking. They offered something
more than the olive branch to the Southern
Confederates, for they threw themselves
into their arms and joined with them in an
effort of lsTl TO destroy the Republican
party, but they have been repudiated and
sorely abused. Their proftered cancellations
have been rejected. In other words, the
Southern Democracy remained stagnantly
truc to its Bourbonism, thereby sustaining
the foresight of the Stalwarts. 1t Is this
experience, as we have said-this digres-
sion from straightforward Republicanism,
that has recalled the Liberals from their
waywardness and re-enrolled them under
the loyal banners of the old Republican
party. Their return gives US strength and
National Republican., 1878-08-14
PERSONAL.
BRET HARTE Is thirty-nine.

BRET HARTE is thirty-nine.
SENATOR BAYARD is an expert swimmer.
r. II. yIssEL, Of New York. is at Wormley's.
EDGAR T. WELLS, Of Hartford, is stopping at
Wormley's.
REV. Mrs. WILKES Is announced to preach
in Rochester.
]. R. STERN, of Pittsburg, is registered at
the Imperial.
A YOUNG ladies' brass band has been organ.
lied in Topeka, Kansas.
THE Hon. Thomas b. Keogh, OF North Caro-
lima, is at the Ebbitt.
CHARLES W. LEAGY and NJ. A. Ring, of New
York, arc at the Imperial.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is spending tho
summer at Far Rockaway.
SENATOR THURMAN will speak at the Ra.
leigh, n. G.. fair In October.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Is with his son
at Tarrytown this summer.
The condition of Queen Christina, of Spain
is regarded as almost hopeless.
PRINCE LEOPOLD and Earl Dunraven will
hunt in Colorado next summer.
CoMMoDoRE VASDERBILT's widow Is one OF
the dashing bellies at Bristol, Vt.
DENNIS KEARSEY was accompanied to Bos.
ton by his wilU and three children.
VICTOR HUGO says England produces wealth
admirably, but distributes 1t miserably.
DIR. CARVER, the famous rifle.shot, Is said
to be engaged to lady in New Haven.
COLONEL !. J. YOUNG, collector of internal
| revenue at Raleigh, n. c., Is In tho city.
REv. JouN MCGOyERS, of Philadelphia, q
Catholic clergyman, died Saturday night.
LAURA FAIR, the famous murderess, Is com.
ing to the front again, and proposes to lecture,
AT Leeds, England, a Mrs. Anderson re.
Gently walked 200 miles In u thousand hours.
GENERAL NOAH L. JEFFRIEs arrived In the
city yesterday from his summer residence at
Ridley Park.
THE Princess Louise, the Marquis OF
| Lorne's wife, resembles her mother, and looks
older than her husband.
Mr.. GREGoIRE DE WILLAMoY, Secretary of
the Russian Legation Ut Washington, Is at the
Everett House, New York.
MR.. WALLER A. OTwAY, Third Secretary of
the British Legation at Washington, is at the
Hotel brunswick, New York.
GOVERNOR WILLIAM Q. DoERRs left yester.
day afternoon for Kinsale, WestmOTeland
County, Va, to visit his relatives.
p. VAN VALKESBURGH, p. Van Valken.
burgh, IT,, and Mrs. d. Z. Van Valkenburgh
of New York, are guests at WOrmey's.
w. W. HARDING, proprietor of the Phila.
delphia Inquirer, has compromised with his
creditors at twenty-five cents on the dollar.
SENATOR BECK, who weighs 222 pounds and
has never taken dose Of medicine in his life
has gone out to the plains on hunting expedi,
tiOn.
DIR. CHESTER, Of the Fourth Street Presby-
terian Church, Capitol Hill, who with his fam.
| lily, has boen rusticating at Dickinson Station,
National Republican., 1878-08-14

Mr.. FENTOS seems to be the accepted
leader of the International Monetary Con-
ference now in session at Paris. NJ. LEON
SAY, the French Minister Of Finance, is
president of the conference, but was nomi-
mated by Mr.. FESroS, who then explained
the object of its meeting. In short, the
United States, having originated the idea of
an international conference on this subject,
very naturally maintains the position OF in
spring its methods. Mr.. FESToS is evil
IDENTIFY the right man in the right place, ca
pable of asserting and sustaining the dig
nifty of his Government. But there is much
natural curiosity to hear from him. as an
aforetime supporter of the gold standard, on
the subject of bi-metallic currency. The
experience fthis country since the rehabili.
tation of silver will furnish him ample basis
for interesting argument.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THE New York Sun has taken the politi-
cal management of Connecticut in hand
and proposes to regulate the Democratic
nominations in the several districts. Any
Democratic member from that State who
had voted in favor of "the sacredness of the
Presidential fraud" must walk the plank,
If the Sans behests are respected. 1t es-
pouses WARMERS cause with much fervor,
because he voted against "the sanctity of
the fraud and demands his reelection.
We should think it about time the people
Of old Connecticut took their matters into
their own hands.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THE Chicago 7Ymcs is gricved over the
defeat of BEVERLY DorGLAss for rcnom-
ination. 1t asks plaintively: What will
Congress do fora thoroughbred inebriate p
Let the Times possess its soul in peace. BEv-
ERLY will be on hand until the 4th of
March next, and meanwhile, now that he
has learned not TO drink alone, will leave
his mark behind when he carries his South
crn neck back to his home in the Northern
I" Neck" of Virginia There is always plenty
of material on the Democratic side of the
House ready TO receive such impressions as
associations with BEv would be liable to
leave behind. Besides, he was not the orig
inal Jacobs in Congressional inebriety, but
simply the fag end of long line of illus
tTious predecessors
National Republican., 1878-08-14

BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, is fast earn
ing fame as the Great Talk Heap Of the
Southern Democracy. He has fixed things
for 15s0 so that the inconsiderate triae OF a
Democratic nominating convention will be
avoided. In short, he has nominated, out Of
his inner consciousness, THURMAN, of Ohio,
for President, and WALLACE, of. Pennsyl-
vania, for Vice-President, and has begun
the canvass in their behalf This fills the
bill for the North, you see, and leaves the
next speakcrship open for the South.
BLACKBURN has acted frequently as
Speaker pro tenn, and rather likes it, even If
lie did once adjourn the House while it was
in Committee Of the Whole.
National Republican., 1878-08-14
HOW WOULD HE LOOK AS A CORPSE.

Mr.. THOMAS ). KELLY, who is repre-
scented as being possessed Of important in
formation relating to the forged Louisiana
certifcates-he being at that time messen-
ger of Governor KELLoGG-is now being
represented by the Democratic press as
having refused to make public his guilty
knowledge. OF course there is no truth in
such q statement. Mr.. KELLY is now in
this city, and Mr.. POTTER, of the commit
tee, has been in full possession of the
knowledge of his whereabouts since he
wrote to him from Lake Providence, on the
9th of last June, on the subject of giving
his testimony in the case, when he informed
Mr.. POTTER that he would remain there
subject to subpoena until the 10th of
June He remained there the time speci-
fed and until the 22d of June. Nosubpmna
being served on him by the POTTER COM
mittee, he came TO Washington, arriving
here on the last day of June. Since then
he has been in Western New York and in
Canada, and returned hero one week ago.
He has been engaged with his own bust
ness, aud has not evaded any subpoena or
an appearance before the committee, but has
been in readiness to appear at any time
when his appearance was required by it.
Since the Democratic papers have taken the
matter in hand, for the evident purpose OF
msrcpresenting and prejudiciug him, Mr..
KELLY has ascertaiued, by application at
the Office of the Sergcant-at-Arms of the
House of Representatives that no subpoena
has been issued at any time during the in
yestigation of the POTTER committee for
him to appear before it and give testimony
In view of these facts-and we are fully
convinced that they arc facts-it is very un-
Just to charge that Mr. KELLY has been run
of by one of the beneilciaries Of the act,
and refuses to make public his guilty
knowledge. Such grave charges certainly
should be well founded to warrant the mild
inquiry " how such party would look Us q
corpse" But this is the spirit OF the South
The first inquiry about colorcd man and a
Republican is, how would he look as q
corpse ?" This killing of negroes is
greatly popularized within the Democratic
party. If Mr.. KELLY is wanted he will re.
main in this city sufficient time to be sub
pUnaed, and is ready to give his evidence
when required.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THE disturbing question in the columns
of the Opposition journals nowadays is:
" Has President HAYES paid up his cam
paign fund subscription" We are conf
dent that he has-in part and it is, per-
haps, not going too far to say that he has
also paid the penalty of adherence to Uto-
pan dreams of a cvil-service non-contribu-
tion millennium, in which the Old Boy him
self, typifed in the Democracy, was ex-
pected to lie down and peacefully allow the
good people of the world TO walk over him,
tread upon him, and subject him TO further
defeat without resistance.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

Now THAT the mischief has been done,
and the feelings or dignity of the State gov
ernment of South Carolina have not been
compromised by the surrender of the in
dcted revenue officers at Greenville, the Ad-
ministration is explaining, in private, what
it intended to do, and all that sort OF thing.
Ii, perchance, some of these private explana-
tions should leak out and get to HAMProN's
cans, what a muss there would be. The best
way, and the honest way, to treat such mat
tiers is to have but one policy for all parties
to the question, and adhere to it consist
emily Hypocrisy and double dealing gen.
orally meet with reputation and condemnn-
ton all around when they are exposed, as
they always are in such matters.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THERE are charges against Revenue Agent
CHAPMAN, who has figured prominently in
the South Carolina revenue cases, to the
effect that he has been guilty of garbling Il
certain dispatch from Collector BRAYToN to
Commissioner RAUL CHAPMAN, it is under
stood, is one Of the COnciliatory kind Of Re-
publcans, who are especially dear to the
Administration, because of their constantly
increasing scarcity, and who dislike to tread
upon the toes of our dearly beloved South
ern brethren. Perhaps Collector BRAYToN
will feel inclined, in time, to make public
all the facts in this case. He now stands
accused of having recommended the pardon
of the murderer REDMOND.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THE Bounding BANNING gulped down his
grief when he was defeated for renomina-
tion, and introduced his successful competi-
tor with the best grace at his command.
Since then he has shed few tears in ST.
lence, mourning over his lost opportunities,
and feeling rs disconsolate in his loneliness
as his friend EPH HOLLAND did few
months ago in the penitentiary. The swift
punishment that fell upon him for his ar
rant demagogism is, however, more lasting
than the incarceration HOLLAND suffered.
No civil-service-reform pardon can allie, late
it or restore him to his former privileges.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

IT seems to be foregone conclusion that
Senator MERRIMON, of North Carolina, has
lost his reelection. There are forty-odd
Republicans in the next Legislature OF that
State, who will hold the balance of power
in combination with the Independents and
thereby be able to defeat him. That he
deserves this defeat, no one who knows any
thing of the manner of his first election
will deny. He owed that election to Re
publican dcfections, and obtained those de-
fections under an implied promise that he
would pursue a conservative course in the
event of his election. But his course has
been illustrated all the way through his
present term by the most ungenerous and
proscriptive demeanor toward Republicans.
He was the paid attorney and confidential
adviser of the scamp LIrTLEFIELD, who, as
he afterward intimated had debauched
the North Carolina Legislature. In other
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THE Associated Press report of the pro-
ceedings of the late South Carolina Republi-
can convention has attracted some attention
in the North for its inaccuracies and bold
expressions of partisan opinions. The New
York Commercial advertiser very properly
comments upon it as follows:
The agent of tho Associated Press at Column
bia, :. G., Is person whom it is just as we'll
not to believe. He sent dispatch out last hight
saying that the Republican convention in that
State was "a political failure, rs half of the
delegates were pronounced HAMPTON men.
When we bear in mind the fact that resolutions
indOrsing HAMPTON We're unanimously voted
down, II must be confessed he has an imagma-
tion that oNght to bring him great profit as a
professional rCmancer.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS, of Indiana, has
. favorite son" aspirations for 1SsO. A year
ego he gave " pass - to his iavorite son-in-
law, which guaranteed that favored indi-
vidual full immunity from the Hoosier rail
road rioters. WILLIAMS and KEaRSEY
would make good ticket for the Tramps
or the Commune, but unfortunately KEAR-
EEY is naturalized citizen.
National Republican., 1878-08-14
DIED.

BEAL,-On the morning of the 18Th instant, ANNIE
ALICE, daughter OF Edward n. aud Ann Elizabeth
Beal, aged years and II days
Funeral on Thursday, the 18th Instant, at I p, m.,
from the NJ. T. Mission Church. sOj II street IiOrih.
cast.
SIM0SIoN.-On Tuesday morning. the 18th In
stanl, FLORIDA only daughter Of the late Colonel L.
W. SimOnlOu, Of Key West, Fla
Tho funeral will take place At o'clock p. m. on
Thu sday, the lIh instant from the residence OF Dr.
l., W, Buckley 6li Eleventh street northwest.
Friends and acqualntanoes Of the amily respect
WILLIAMSON the i2th Of August is7s of men.
Ingtis ELLA COLE WILLIAMS In the 10th year OF her
age.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

MIR. IlIsCOCK, in the Potter committee,
In New York, yesterday, began to attempt
to prevent General Ben BUTLER from
throwing mud at President HAYES. Docs
Mr.. Ii. expect to expel BENJAMIN from the
committee2 Unless he is expelled he will
continue to throw mud, all efforts to pre-
vent it to the contrary. He is there for
that purpose, and revels in the congenial
work. When he stops it IN obituary notice
of the greatest demagogue OF the nineteenth
century will be in order.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

THE New York HcrdH has most solcmnly
determined that an honest editor shall be
made mayor of that city. This, of course,
does not accord with the views of JOIN
KELLEY, who clings to Mayor ELY with II
death-like grasp. If the power of Tam
many over the interests of the great city of
New York can he broken by the Herald it
will be the noblest act of its life. If there
was little more esprit d" corps and frater-
nifty of feeling among the press of that city
the project of the Hcrdid would be feasible,
and 1t may be under difficulty.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

State was always very strong, so strong, in
fact, that geographical considerations alone
compelled the North Carolinians to sue
cun,b to the Democratic wave of secession
in 1860. It is significant fact that the
Republican party loses very little strength
by this new movement, aud it is not irh-
probable that at the fall elections there will
be three-Democratic. National, and Rcpub-
lican-candidatcs in the field for Congress
in many of the districts. Some good may
come out of Tarheeldom yet.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

encouragement. 1t closes up the ranks and
dissipatcs all fear of desertion in the COM
ing contest 1t remains only that the un-
swerving Stalwarts shall extend the right
hand of fellowship TO the no longer recreant
Liberals, and VIC will go into the campaign
of 1880 as we went in in 1sG5 We are
weakened by the loss of the Southern
States, loss occasioned by the instability
of National administrative policy and The
failure Of the Republican party to protect
its own friends in that section; but the vic
tory is ours, nevertheless, If we are willing
to seek it with Unity of purpose and to de-
serve 1t by unal;erable fidelity to principle.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

GENERAL Ben BUTLER complains that
Senator STANLEY MATTHEWS is constantly
testifying to the newspapers and refusing
to testify to the POTTER committee. BUT
LER should take few lessons in courtesy
from the newspapers. He would then have
less difficulty in procuring witnesses, al.
though it must lie admitted that the news.
papers have not treated Mr.. MATTHEWS
with very distinguished consideration.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

SINCE JIM ANDERSON became connected
with the Democratic organ in this city it
has been able to print 1l,5l6 copies of its
daily issue on eleven reams Of paper. This
is an unheard of achievement in newspaper
enterprise, and without the ANDERSON at
tachment it could not very well be accom-
plished.
National Republican., 1878-08-14

CITIZEN SCHwAB has been lost sight of
since the adjournment of Mr.. HEwIrr's
Lunatic Waste Basket Committee. He is
either losing ground among the Communists
or is too busily engaged in selling beer to
waste time in more public performances.
Meanwhile BUTLER and KEARSEY are as
active as ever, 50 the country is not likely
to forget the existence of the ScHwAD type
Of craftsmanship in our midst.