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National Republican., 1878-04-26

A SEEMINGLY well-authenticated rumor
has been floating about lately to the effect
that Mr.. SIMON Wolf is soon to be replaced
In the Office Of Recorder Of Deeds for this
District by General GEORGE A. SHERIDAN,
of Louisiana. Confirmation of it comes from
General SHERIDAN himself, who says he has
some reason to believe that he will soon be
appointed. He adds that in that event he
shall retain Mr.. VOLTS present deputy re-
corder, an efficient and popular official,
whose faithful services in the Office have
received cordial recognition from the bar
and the public generally. General SuERI-
DAN is n gentleman of rare social qualities,
and finished attainments as man of busi-
ness. lie is essentially man Of the peo.
pie, and If Mr. WOLF, against whom no
complaint can be alleged affecting his Off
cial record, is to be removed, the General
will prove to be worthy successor of O
very good man.
National Republican., 1878-04-26
PENSION ARREARS,

The measure known as the arrears PEN
sion bill seems TO challenge an unusual
measure of Misrepresentation throughout
the country This would not be so if great
merit did not attach to it. II seems to be
very strong in the House, for the reason
that the question of paying arrears of pen
sions is intrenched in stern justice. 1t has
not been characterized as unjust on the floor
Of either House Of Congress; on the other
hand, Senators and Representatives of both
political parties have frequently stated that
it should be passed, and nearly all the
Northern members of both parties
have recently voted to suspend the rules
that it might be considered and passed, and
which would have been accomplished, but
for the brigadiers, colonies, and other officers
of the Confederate army and Congress on
the floor of the House.
1t is chargcd-and we think wrongfully-
that this measure is not called for by the
pensioners themselves, but by the claim
agent and attorney lobbyists. To show the
absurdity of this objection it is only neces-
sary to state the solitary fact that no claim
agent or attorney can be benefited by it, IA
the bill provides that the pension shall be
paid directly from the Government pension
National Republican., 1878-04-26

wastekcn of tea in this country, the Chinese
government placed an export tax of fifteen
cents per pound upon all teas shipped from
China to this country, thus keeping the price
of the commodity the same as it was before
the tax was removed. The abolition puts
money into Chinese coffcrs-not our own.
Neither do we enjoy the benefit of cheap
tea. five restore the duty the Mongolians will
abolish their export tax; we will buy the tea
just as cheap as now, and Government will
be annually enriched thereby Sl1,OoO,OOO.
Let us try il.
National Republican., 1878-04-26
sASTO DOMINGO,

San Domingo Is an unfortunate country
at best, under the circumstances. It has
been boiling cauldron of strifcs, uprisings,
usurpations, and frauds for years, and it
would have been far better for its peace,
prosperity, and happiness if it had been
brooded under the wing of the American
eagle years ago. 1t is just now excited and
enlivened by two rebellions, whose leaders,
though called generals, are mere bummers,
and whose armies are graceless and infu-
rated mobs. One of these has retreated to
the interior, where he bears sway, while the
other has taken possession of the capital
and is exercising the powers of dictator
ship. The leaders of both factions are self
constituted, and have assumed command, not
by popular choice, but by their own sover-
eign wills and upon their own motions
Several battles have been fought, but they
were little more than the scrimmages Of 0
rabble which involved no serious loss OF
life or bloodshed. But, unless there shall
he some Intervention to avert it, the she'd
ding of blood must follow. 1t is suggested
that ours is the only nation on earth which
would be listened to by the belligerents
and hence it is our duty to send forth the
mild mandate of peace and restore order
among dissentient people. San Domingo
for the present, is without constitution
laws, or q recognized ruler, and the Govern.
ment of the United States should promptly
tender mediation and restore order. Have
we BISMARCK among US for this occa
sionY
National Republican., 1878-04-26

STRIPPED Of its purely sensational aspect
the Florida explosion appears to be moth
ing more nor less than an effort by two disap-
pointed office-seekers MOTION, of Virginia
or New York, and NCLIN, of Florida or
Georgia, to wrcak revenge upon the Presi-
dent, who is the cause of their dsappOnt-
ment, and who appears to them to be the
very incarnation Of the objectionable sin of
ingratitude. DENNIS comes in for a share
of notice in this connection as an indicted
man struggling to avert consequences of
political persecution And he denies that
he has made any confession. But the whole
affair summed up and closely analyzed fails
to disclose a single wrong act by the re-
turning board during the canvass of the
votes MCLIN's statement is not con-
fession of crime, but a second-thOught re-
latng to what he would have done in 1876
| ifhe had then known what he nOw> >thinLs
| he knows in 1873. In the interim of these
| two years-we use his own wOrds-his" par
ti4an zeal has been chilled by the Presi-
"dent, who has bascly betrayed and merci-
lessly destroyed the Republican party of
the South, and crushed the very men who
" did 80 much for his election" We submit
| that this part of his statement is u confess
SION e., confession of personal malice
and binding, selfish prejudice which dis
qualities MCLIN from being accepted as a
competent witness. The closer this thing
is looked into the more apparent it becomes
that the bottom has fallen out Of the TIL
DEN-BLAIR case. However, the trashy
sensation will serve, in lieu of better ma
tcrial, for a Democratic campaign docu-
meut, and that Is what MORTON and Nc
LIN seem TO have been paid TO furnish.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

agent TO the penioner without any inter-
vention. Another misstatement Is that the
bill provides for back pay to all living pen-
sioners, whereas but about one-eighth Of the
number are interested, and these are pan
sioners who by accident and incident, and
not unfrequently through the fault Of the
Government itself, were unable to secure
their pensions within the limitation Of five
years, including widows, who could not
prove they were widows within that time,
ms well as those whose papers were pigeon
holed by attorneys and neglected, and others
whose papers were destroyed by fire or lost
in transmission through tho mails-all of
whom have been deprived Of their rights.
There is no pensioner borne upon the rolls
of tho United States who has not fled
medical and other proof in the Pension-0f-
flee to show that his disease, If pensioned
for such, not only originated in the service,
but has continued from the time Of dis
charge until the date of application for PEN
sion.
The statement has been recklcssly made
by portion Of the press that the bill pro-
poses to make donations to pensioners Of
sums from 800 to $1,000 each-whereas
nothing Of the kind is proposed, as the pen
sioners have only asked that Congress shall
act upon the question of their rights rs pre-
sented by them. The further statement
has been made by the Chicago Tribune and
other Northern journals that it would take
some 500, 1000, 600 to meet the requirements
Of this measure, while the truth is that the
report Of the Pension Office to the chairman
of the House committee one year ago shows
that it will require only about 10000, 900
No one can deny that this sum would dc
vastly more good to the country in this
shape than by lying idle in the vaults o.
the Treasury. We can understand South
ern hostility to this measure, but can dis
cover no good reason why the North should
not be unit in its behalf as an act of jus
tice to the soldier who periled his life and
has suffered for the salvation of the Union
National Republican., 1878-04-26
CLOSE THE DOOR OF EDUCATION.

Congress yesterday refused to appropriate
$4,000 to keep the schools Of the District of
Columbia open for the education of its
youth, and their doors will be closed on I he
1st of May This is sad commentary upon
Congress of the United States in the nine
teenth century, but it is a faithful reflex OF
the aims and purposes of the Democratic
party of the present day. They would suf-
fer the people of this District, which is sol ely
dependent upon the munincence of Con-
gress for the means of education, to be ILL
educated and their manner to be corrupted
from their infancy. This calls to mind the
sentiment of THOMAS MOORE on this sub
jcct. When this is done, he says-"then
punish them for those crimes to which
their first education disposed them-you
first make them thieves, and then punish
them"
The people of the District of Columbia
are subjected to great wrongs at the hands
OF Congress, but this is the greatest
that L<, as yet been laid upon
their interests. One-third of the
children educated within the limits of the
District belong tto transient families, who
are brought here from all parts of the ma
ton to consume the substance of tax-pay-
ers, and a considerable percentage belong ia
the very men who now withhold the means
for keeping the fountains of education open
TO all. While Ignorance is dangerous
"and spiritual poison which all men ought
"warily to shun," it appears to be tn,
popular inspiration that a Democratic
House would invoke. As Democ,
mcy thrives best among thu
ignorant and vicious, the Democrats appea
to be intent upon establishing their hot-bed
at the National Capital.
Close the schools Turn our youth loos,
upon the streets or imprisOn them in ou
homes at the behests of q parsimoniou
Congress, the popular branch of which /
eminently, and unfortunately for the wei
fare of the country, Democratic. Wha
motive inspires this action we will not as
sumo to divine; but that it is of the wors
possible type there is no doubt.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

world might be ours n we woaldo but Sxert
ourselves to take it.-A~tland Presl
"wHsrl Sam. Randsll's foino boy now
amt hcf Voting fur - Ribbil instead Of 9
dacint soldier. Dye moind that votin' fnr n
Ribbil only six months in the country, an the
son q th' Ka-dee-ve Of Agypt."-Phiiadstphia
World
BoTH In Washington and In Massachusetts
II Is a comman remsrk concerning Ben. But
Ter that THE old man Is losing his grip" IL
Is mortifying Judgment and we may be sure
the old man" will spit on his hands and
strike for new hold."-Syracue Journal
MoLIN, Of the Florida returning board, Is
tho Mrs. Tilton Of the Fraud Scandal. lie has
q fresh confession every day or two At first
he confessed that Manton Marble tried to bribe
him, and when Mr.. Marble said It was q lie
everybody believed It was. Now McLin says
General Noyes tried TO bribo him for tho other
side, and everybody will believe that Is lie
without q word from General Noyes.-Neu
York Tribune.
THE facts Of tho most recent phase Of the
great bookkeeping question are thus welded to
immortal verse:
There was an Egyptian Pasha,
Field Boy, whom they mado doorkeepaw,
For pouring the tide
OF his blood on the side
Ofthe Z. s. A. in tho late wah.
Said he, "Now the mudsill and Yank1l
Know that In me no ill.will doth rsnkle;
A fat berth I'll ensconce In
James q. knight Of Wisconsin,
A hero who once sprained his ankle"
National Republican., 1878-04-26

WHILE the Republicans are piling up
record mountain high Of Democratic incom-
potency, corruption, and anxious friendship
for the Southern rebel war claimants, to be
used as campaign material this fall, the OPP
position Is not backward about showing its
hand and giving plain indication how its
side Of the game will be played In fact,
the dullcst comprehension cannot fail to see
that the Democracy is devoting itself to n
development and exaggeration of the SLAM
dcrS and stories Of corruption in the cam
paign of 1S16 On this foundation they
propose to build their claims for the suffrage
of the people in ls-O. They shrek Martyr.
dom! Martyrdom! and awaken the echoes
again and again with charges that TILDEN
has been defraudcd Of his rights, or that
| President HAYES is the Great Usurper OF
modern times. The result of this manpuvring
will not effect the decision of the electoral
| count, because from ALEX. STEPHENS down
the leaders Of the Democracy are pledged tC
the idea that President HAYES title is "ir.
"refragible and sacred" But it cannot fail
in time to strengthen TTLDEN's chances for
a denomination. His income-return fraud,
meanwhile are lost sight of, and there is
prospect that the republicans will have al
opportunity TO cry Thief! when they allud,
| to the next Democratic candidate for Pres
| dent.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

An insinuation from the flippant and gar
rulous Opposition press is going the rounds to
the effect that General TON EWING is man9u-
wiring to make Secretary SHERMAN Presi-
dent, with the design to become Secretary of
the Treasury himself. If Secretary SHER-
MAN should ever become President by any
now unforeseen combination of circum-
stances, he would no doubt, select Cabinet
from outside the Democratic party and his
own blood relatives. But this makes no
difference with the Opposition. When other
sources of attack upon Mr. SHERMAN fail
they resort to their weak imagination for
causes. The EwINGs are great as family
something like the BLAIRs; but their Jort'
is not Presidcnt-making
National Republican., 1878-04-26
POLITICIfL NOTES.

THE New York Nation is dead. 1t was the
sourest. suriest meanest paper Of ability that
was ever published in this country.
Mr.. EDISON has been exhibiting his phono.
graph before several Congressman. How IL
must have astOnished them to hear themseye
as others hoar them !-NeW Jersey Freeman.
A GEORGIA paper wants to see the time
come when 1t will require a microscope to see
the President Of the United States. Hence il
nominates Alex. II, Stephens for ls5O.-Pe.ers.
burg Post.
SENATOR BLAINEs words to tho Chester
hipbuilders are wise and timely. A very
great portion Of the carrying trade Of the
National Republican., 1878-04-26

well for the dark and bloody ground of
Kentucky, where the whinnying Of stations
and the braying of breeding jacks swell the
chorus of Moonshine murderers as they ex-
ult over seventy-fve or hundred thousand
Democratic majority, but 1t will not go
down in any Intelligent community. The
Republican party was deprived Of its power
to legislate either for or against I" the in
"dustrial interests of the country" three
years ago, when IL so unfortunately lost its
control of the House, the popular branch Of
Congress, in which measures for the ad-
vancement of those interests must constitu-
tionally originate. So long as the De-
mocracy retains its control of the
House, and consequently Of the power to
originate such measures, just so long
will the present saving-at-the-spiggot-and-
leaking-at-the-bung-hole policy of dema-
gogical economy and wasteful extravaganza
be continued despite the contrary efforts Of
those branches Of tho Government under
Republican control. Take these facts out
into your patch of bluegrass, Mr.. WAITER
SON, and see If they are not fully sustained
by the struggles made by HENRY CLAY
and Others who preceded You in Congress
and in Kentucky, to maintain inviolatc the
right and privilege of the House to origi.
nate measures to levy taxes and make ap.
propriations. And while you are out there
in that ochocless expanse, repeat some OF
your own speeches made, If we mistake not
to the same effect. The Moonshiners, stal.
lions, and jacks aforesaid would doubtless
convict you, even with their limited intel
ligence, of inconsistency; but that makes
no difference with Kentucky Democrat.
National Republican., 1878-04-26
IDIEID.

BENNETT.-On Wednesday, April q, 1878, at go
o'clock y. m, Of dysentery, CLAYrOS LEE, son Of
Charles A. and RhOda A. Bennett. aged | year 0
months and days,
Funeral from residence No. ill3 street southeast,
to day, aI o'clock Relatives and friends respectfully
invited.
LEwIs.-on wednesday noon, April "a l57s MAY
LEWIS, aged 3s years
His funeral VIII take place from his late residence
5ll Fourteenth street northwest, at o'clock this
morning.
WALLACH-0n the morning Of April 25, 1878, at 4
O'Clock, after long and painful illness, SAMUEL
wALLAClI, aged y years 10 months and " days.
nm Funeral VIII take place from his late residence No
Baltimore sun please copy.
DYRE-On the 2ith instant, SAMUEL I. DYRE, In
the 18th year OF his age.
Funeral from Waugh NJ e. Church, to-day, 2Gth
instant, at i3O p. m. nterment at CongreSsiona
Cemetery.
MARR.-On April q, is7S SAMUEL STUART
youngest son Of Dr. $. $. aud Nina II. Mari, aged
years months and day
Funeral Will take place to-day at II A. n., from thS
residence of his father, li5 Tenth street northwest
National Republican., 1878-04-26

SENATOR GORDON says that he stands
"by the Administration when it is right
"and goes against it as freely when it is
wrong" But Senator GORDONs percep-
tions of right and wrong appear to be a lit
tie obscure. When the Administration pro-
vides Democrat or a shaky, weak-kneed
Republican with an office, or extends adj
vautases to Democrats politically, it is right
ana when it fails TO do this the Senator
goes against it. He sails his craft by this
chart
National Republican., 1878-04-26

IT Is the plain duty of every good Repub-
lican to encourage Democratic investigation
into public affairs. A campaign is coming
on, and the resultant discoveries of these
investigations make good Republican CAM
paign material.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

I. Now the Democratic newspapers are cry
ing, in the language of the Baltimore Ga
zette, that "Mr." HAYES has gone back on
his civl-service reform circular. There is
hope for the President when the Democ-
racy begins TO find fault with him.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

THERE is a story that President HAYES
consulted with several Louisiana Republic
cans regarding the nomination for the New
Orleans scollectorship. Will some one please
reproduce that letter Of acceptance?
National Republican., 1878-04-26

THE RANpALL-WALLAcE fight for party
supremacy in Pennsylvania is growing
fiercer every day. 1t will make but little
difference, however, which wins. The State
will 90 Republican.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

ADMITTING, as we do not, that all the
charges of fraud by Republicans in Florida
are true, the proven frauds against the De-
mocracy would have given the State to the
Republican ticket in 1s7G. Even if this
GIiunde business were now to be investi-
gated, and its logical effect carried out, the
result of that campaign would not be
changed
National Republican., 1878-04-26

THE Ohio Democrats propose to redis-
trict that State while they have the power
to do so. Speaker RANDALL has suggested
that Democratic gerrymander wherever
it can be done is requisite to ensure DEM
ocratic majority in the next House. Verify,
coming events cast their shadows before
them, and the Democratic leaders are
struggling to ward them off
National Republican., 1878-04-26
Civil Service Melting Away.

TNtW IOfK I1tTHTusI
How the civil.scrvice virtue has melted away
All that remains Of Il Is the periodical discov-
cry of mares nests In the New York custom. house.
such Us that lately found by Special Agent Curtis
have any civilseryice virtue at all than to be af
flicted with that kind
National Republican., 1878-04-26

AND now MONTGOMERY BLAIR wants
President HAYES to appoint certain
young man to be second. lieutenant in
the army. All! we thought it was only the
nfiicea
National Republican., 1878-04-26
Paid and Kept Vigorously at Work.
New York Tribune1

Ifthe Republican Congressional Committee want
TO put campaign funds where they will do the
Glovers experts? The Democratic House onits to
appropriate money for them, and II would be per.
fectly legitimate and eminently useful II the Re-
publicans should sec that they are paid and kept
vigorously at work.
National Republican., 1878-04-26
A Downright Steal.
IChicngo Tlmesl

A Washington dispatch says positively that OF the
66 votes given In tho House OF Representatives for
the grand aggregation Of steals embodied in the
river and harbor bill, no less than l56 represented
districts which 10 share directly in tho pluuder
strict construction Of the law against bribery
would convict the committee that reported this bin
OF an aggravated criminal offense.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

A DELICATE complexion Is best compared to a
blooming rose; but when the countenance Is dis
figured with blotches and pimPles like weeds in a
rose bed, the sufferer should promptly use DR.,
ually ,Cradicates such unsightly evidences of i'm
National Republican., 1878-04-26
Face to Face with Dan ger.

Evidently President Hayes has seen new light
Face 10 face with the danger OF Confederate domi.
nation sure to follow the control OF the House
OF Representatives by the Democratic party, he has
%ooheinaea; % wisely lhat the hepubiican party must
Organization should be einvigorated and enllyened
by the means which must always be used In politi
cal campaigns
National Republican., 1878-04-26

Now COMES the correspondent of the Bal
timore Sm from this point and says Mr..
HEWITT knew all the while that JAY
GOULD sent $4,000 down to Florida to aid
in the elucidation of President HAYES cleo
ton in 1915. What man Mr. HEWITT is
to keep secret and let it out at the proper
time TO advance the interests of the DemOc-
racy! There are other secrets, however
that he does not reveal for tho same reason
that he does reveal this one. Why don't he
tell us how much JAY GOULD or some other
non-partisan railroad manipulation sub
scribed TO the Democratic funds2
National Republican., 1878-04-26
Another Way of Accounting for It.

Cincinnati is called tho Paris Of America, we
suppose, from the tendency Of Its population &C
suicide. They have no Notre Dame TO jump off
but six Cincinnatians have made way with them
selves in five days. There were three suicides on
Tuesday,
National Republican., 1878-04-26

WHY not restore the duty on tea ? Tea IL
tho rich mans beverage more than 1t is the
poor mans drink. The tax on tea brought
to our revenue nearly SllOOOO0O annually,
1t was abolished, and the tax on sugar re-
tanned. Sugar is the poor mans luxury
and while perhaps there is a deficiency in
our revenue not making it advisable to ad-
init imported sugar free Of duty at the
present time, yet we can see no good reason
why tea should be exempt. When the duty
National Republican., 1878-04-26

THE MOVES case still hangs fire up in New
Jersey. Further arguments in it will be
heard next week. Meanwhile considerable
curiosity exists here, among those who are
familiar with the case, regarding the course
of tho prosecuting attorney. The query is
ont OF STEDMAN as he did out Of DANIEL
J. MOVES (who is not to be coniounded with
Mr.. BEN. NoYEs) aud other parties in New
York? There nro stories that much of this
missing insurance money or fund may be
found if proper activity is invoked.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

THE full import of McLIN's so-called
confession was anticipated by compre-
hensive synopsis in yesterdays NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN.
National Republican., 1878-04-26
Have to Muzzle Glover

II Congress Is going to remain in session until
June, OF course the House will have to muzzlc
Glover and his experts or there won't he Demo-
cratic member without a damaged reputation-and
that will be bad state Of things just before Con-
gressionnl election.
National Republican., 1878-04-26

PROCTOR KNOTT, chairman of the Judi
cary Committee, is reported to favor the
BLAIR-KIMMELL quo ,odrrdntO scheme. Mr..
KNOTT is great statesman. He once bor-
rowed a speech from a scribbler named
his own ideas of that great metropolis,
Duluth. He now bOrrOws other ideas from
MONTGOMERY BLAIR. This is statesman
ship, notwithstanding some people find a
parrot-lke similarity TO the telephone in it.
National Republican., 1878-04-26
Was u All u Dream 2

Keokuk Constitutional
Mr.. Hayes dreamed, the other night, that satan
came to him aud informed him that his place
didn't need any more paving.