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National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE rebel war claim question Is paramount
to all Others in the political discussions out
West The CoNoER amendment, as it is
mistakenly called, to the Constitution, Of
fered In the last session of the House, to
prohibit the payment of rebel claims, is
therefore a subject of absorbing interest in
that section. The discussion Of II has
brought out the fact that while Mr.. Con-
GER, Of Michigan, presented it to the House,
the Hon. CHARLES WILLIAMS, Of wiscon-
sin, was the real author Of IL. II seems
that at the outset Mr.. CoNoER was opposed
to the amendment or doubted the policy Of
presenting it; but after some reflection and
consultation with the leading Republicans
of the House he became convinced that
Mr.. WILLIAMS proposition was right. He
accordingly took hold of II with his usual
energy and spirit. The Northern Demo-
Gratis were forced to support 1t, but sixty.
two Of the Southern wing Of the party
placed themselves squarely upon record In
favor of the payment of Southern wal
claims A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean comments ON the subject as fol.
lows:
Let tho taxpayers of the Northern States
remember that this record Is made in the face
of the approaching Congressional nomination:
and elections Let them not forget that the
control Of the United States Senate is about &c
pass, but only temporarily let us hope, into
the hands of the party which fought TO destroy
the Union and then If they think they car
afford to return majority Of the same party
to the next House of Representatives, let then
do so with the full knowledge that they ar,
thus giving their consent to be saddled with
the war claims of the lately rebellious Greeks
and to be taxed and phlebotomizcd during tn,
remainder Of their natural lives for the pay
meut thereof Mr.. WILLIAMS friends, o
course. take no exceptions to its being known
as the CoSGER amendment he having intro
duCed IL, but the above 10 its true history.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

ONE needed agency in the advancement
Of the interests of this especial community
is little more confidence and mutuali,y oi
feeling in business circles. The District was
never before in better condition as regards the
matter Of government and large sums o.
money are being or soon will be,expended by
the General Government in our midst, lie,
every man put his shoulder to the wheel
whatever that means-and give things 4
push. Let's hurrah; wake up, and do some
thing.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE Graphic is rather sweeping in its
who will support General BEN BUTLER in
his future political aspirations II says:
1t is likely that almost every man ont Of
work, whether a suffering trades-union man
on strike or a tramp carefully avoiding the
wood pile, would vote for BUTLER, and he
would have the support not only Of some gen.
uine philanthropists, but of every man who
wrecked train OF set u house on fire during
the riots last summer.
And to make BUTLER still more popular
with this class of malcontents, he has been
retained, on the authority Of DENNIS
KEARNEy, the California agitator, to de-
"lend pair of Molly Maguires in Pennsyl-
"vania." BES's our boy for lss0" shouts
KEARNEY. But 1t is hardly probable that
"our boy" will succeed in getting anything
more than the nomination then. Two years
Of cooling down will intervene, and mean
while KEARSEY and his fcllow-a -agitators
will have been relegated to the obscurity
they came from and they deserve. The
fitml fever which now possesses the un-
quiet laboring masses will have been al
layed, and BUTLER, the rich lawyer and
bond-holder, who owns more property in
the District of Columbia alone than KEAR-
NEY's Pacific coast raggamutfans do all put
together, will find himself with following
composed only of the tramps, rioters, and
his not altogether scant personal support
But under any circumstance he will CON
tinue to be the same disturbing agency that
he has been in the past.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
PERSONAL.

LYMAN ARMS, U. s, N, is at the Imperial,
SENATOR BooTu, of California. Is at Saratoga.
W. LAWRENCE, of Chicago, is guest ut the
Imperial.
BISHOP KERFoor will spend three months
in Europe
Ex-senator DANIEL STURGEON, Of Penn
sylyauia, who died Oh the ith, served in the
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE habit of complaining about the bard.
ness Of the times still clings to our people
here in the District. Isn't II about time
they began to wake up to the undoubted
fact that times have changed? A vigorous
spirit of adventure would shake things uT
IL some business man, or combination OF
business m,n, would go about It In the
right spirit. The weather is hot, 1t is true
but the effort could be made carefully and
judiciously notwithstanding.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
THE COLOR LINE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

THE CoLOk LINE IN NORTH CAkOLtNA.
In the North Carolina gerrymander the
Democrats consolidated the Republican
strength in the second judicial district of
the State The Republicans of that district
have nominated one JOHN II. COLLINS, a
colored lawyer and graduate of LINCOLN
University, Pa, for the Office of solicitor.
With fair election he will he elected by
an overwhelming majority. The Democrats
are furious at this prospect, although it is
the natural result of their own gerrymand-
ering process. They say that it is drawing
the color-line again, and the Raleigh Nems
goes SO far as to remark threateningly:
They say to the public that they have 10 re-.
gard for law and order in the selection Uf Of
fCers Of the court; they mean to trample on
the rights and liberties of the people bt cause
they happen to be In the majority. But let
them pursue their course If they will. They
have been advised by both white and black
friends, political aud otherwise, and If they
eau afford to re.establish the color. line, d I'd
white people can stand to have them do IT, sll
it will be seen in the end who shall have suf-
fered. They should, however, note one fact as
they go along, that the white people of the
South having. from the first determined not
TO submit to negro domination, have, in every
Southern State, thrown of the yoke of negro
rule, and the attempt to re.establish that sort
of thing now, even in q single judicial district
in North Carolina, will most iguominiously
fail.
We fail to see how any mans liberties
have been trampled upon by the nomina
tion of COLLINS, and think the Ncws is for
getiul of its promises to treat the colore(
voters of the State with fairness and justic,
when it threatens them with dire venganc,
for attempting to elect one of their ow,
race to an Office in o district which belong
to them by right of Democratic legislation
We do see, however, that the SeWs and 1t
Democratic co-labOrers are responsible nov
as they have been always in the past for tn
so-called drawing OF the color line Bu
this affair is OF piece with the Mississippi
"plan," and of kidney with the pre-
gramme carried out to Democratic sucCes
in Georgia and other Southern States where
in the blacks have no rights the whites al
bound to respect In this way the cOnst
tutionAl amendments are set at naugh
r while the South enjoys the increased repr
sentation in Congress and the electoral co
lege provided for by counting the blacks
, voters
National Republican., 1878-07-09
HOW uaMproS KEEPS HIS "PLEpGEs."

The town OF Summerville, South Carolina,
q suburban resort Of the poor but aristo-
cratic denizens Of Charleston, is just now
attracting much attention in the Western
and Northern press. because of the glaring
injustice recently perpetrated upon the Re-
publican voters there in a municipal cleo
tim. About tour months ago IN election
National Republican., 1878-07-09
DIED.

LEWIS .,-,Juiy g. Mrs NJ. NJ. LEWIS aged IS years
and months
Funeral this CTuesdayl evenings clock nom the
res denCe OF her sonin.law, Thomas II. Stumph, No
" finh street northeast
.SUYDAM.-JANEs O. SrYDAN, printer employed
IN the War Department printng-ofce, died yesier-
day morning, ut 1920 O'Clock, OF consumption Ie
great sufferer for several years and had fought
the disease with great determination, and bore his
suffering patiently to the last. lie was highly re-
speCled uy his numerous acquaintance. He leaves
wife and Two children.
The funeral will take place from his late residence,
% Myrtle street, this evening, at o'clock.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THERE is no community Of its size in the
country in which public and private bene-
factions are so well managed and generously
illustrates the result of energetic aud intel
fgent labor IN fixed and determined di-
rection among our people. The same
amount of energy directed in another chan.
mel would produce similar results.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE BOUNDING BANNING is about ns well
known now as any bogus Reiormer in the
country, and the more he Is known the less
of public respect he enjoys, As the friend
of Lo the poor Indian, he philanthropically
did his level best to reduce the army" and
he tried in divers ways to de;ract attention
from the manner of his election to the
| House. But 10 one EPH HOLLAND, a Gin.
cmnati gambler has been pardoned out OF
the peuilentiary, whittier he had been rus
| ticatcd Tor having stuffed the b Bs ballot.
boxes aud comes forward to say that ht
knows to a dead moral certainty that BAN
NING WAS beaten by more than 500 votes
BANNINU knows that EPI teI.a the truth, buI
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE New York Tribune is mistaken In
its announcement that General EPPA HUN-
TON has been defeated for denomination to
Congress in the eighth Virginia district.
The nominating convention does not meet
until the 2sth of August proximo, when it
Is believed he will defeat Mr.. NEALE, who
is the most prominent candidate against
him
National Republican., 1878-07-09

1t Is to he hoped that our new Commis-
sioners will not make haste with too much
slowness, rs it were, in getting ready to put
the wheels Of our new government in mo-
tiOn. The community is aching, SO to
speak, to he kicked into new activity.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE Baltimore Gazette charges that the
Hon. CHARLES FOSTER has bought his way
three times into Congress from Democratic
district. What a pity it is the Democrats
ofOhio were so corrupt, at time, too, when
the editor of the Gazette was one OF the
leading writers of the Cincinnati Enquirer
the great Buckeye Democratic organ.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE Charleston Is. c. Ncrs says that the
health of its city is underrated because the
deaths Of whites and blacks are counted to-
gether The logic of this rather peculiar
statement is that the deaths of blacks
should not be counted. They do not amount
to anything. you knOw-unless perchance
they vote the Democratic ticket, as the
whites very generally DO
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Georgia Independents.

An independent candidate, as parties now stand
In Georgia, may be defined to be q political trick
steI. who Is ready TO betray his political friends
and deceive his political opponents-one who does
not hesitate to sacrifice principle for promotion,
and who while schemlng for the support OF the
carpet bagger and scalawags, has not the courage
or the manliness 10 array himself under their ban
ner. Let none such be trusted.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

GENERA Ben BUTLER was once pelted
with rotten eggs and decayed vegetables by
the drait-rioters of New York. Now he
appears in the attitude of expecting and
soliciting to be their candidate for President
in lSSO
National Republican., 1878-07-09

FoRTY.oDD citizen-soldiers were killed
by the Indians near Willow Springs, Oregon,
last Saturday. Let us rejoice that the
Bounding BANNING was not of them. He
Is needed, he is, Us chairman Of the Military
Committee of the House.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

IMMORAL men are not to be allowed to
practice law In Ohio. This explains the in
crease of Democratic candidates for Congress
In that much gerrymandered State. The
poor fellows must live one way or another
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Too Much Water In His.

lOnChRo llines
Men Will run TO extremes. Beverly Douglu y
now getting too much wnter in bis. Returning
from public meeting where he had been yocalis~
Ing In favor OF his reelection TO Congress, Douglas
and party Of friends were crossing the Mattapan
River In a ferry boat. II sank suddenly and mex
plicaby, half mile from shore, and he was COM
PEELED to float In the liquid he abhors until some
generous boatman rescued him.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

WHILE it is true that Washington Is not
now manufacturing city, it is among the
possibilities Of the future that it may be,
The Great Falls water power furnishes lacil-
tiles for this result which would have rem
dered this possibility certainty under
more favorable circumstances The way to
enjoy favorable circumstances is to make
them favorable
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THE way to enjoy revival Of business is
to aid in accomplishing that revival. This
Is a homely way OF expressing the un-
doubted fact that the average Washing
tonian is too much inclined to wait for some
one else to begin public enterprises of any
Kind
National Republican., 1878-07-09

WHAT little glory there still remains Of
General Ben RuTLER's career as politician
OF statesman centres in the fact that he
has been the steudliIst friend Of Southern
Republicans "a q class when other Northern
leaders have deserted them. This is per
haps sufficient to condone many Of his short.
eomings and long-goings in these days ot
Northern political treachery.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

pie together and arouse the feeling ter
est in home affairs which naturally re-
sides in every mans breast The Carnival
was an affair of this kind, and much rs II
has been criticised and derided, nothing has
happened in Washington, for generation
at least, that has evoked so much mutuality
of public spirit and go-ahcadativeness as it
did
National Republican., 1878-07-09

AFTER all, it seems that Ten Broeck's de.
feat Of the California mare was not a very
difficult task. 1t Is true that the weather
was hot, bat the time was not. The
whole thing looks like "put-up job" simi-
lar to those with which Washngtouiuus are
treated vi hen some ol ou small, tackn.eu
National Republican., 1878-07-09
A coSsnERApIE amount Of capital !,

A CONSIDERABLE amount Of capital is
constantly or continuously invested In
Washington in usurious" monthly loans
to impecunious or reckless Government en-
ployees An institution modelled after the
accommodating asd generous plans of the
French pawn-shops would prove to bo
beneficial and profitable substitute for the
money-sharks who thrive upon this prac.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

Is THERE a school or institution of learn.
ing, public or private, in the South wherein
the doctrine of secession Is not taught as
among the cardinal principles Of our gov
ernmental system? If there is it is sup
ported by Northern benefactions and con.
trolled by Northern influences and teachers
National Republican., 1878-07-09

he holds to his ill-gotten seat like the true
Democratic "Reformer" that he "a, although in
the light of these facts he is placed about as
low In public estimation as man well can
be. 1t Is Lol loii low u! for BANNING.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THERE is as much pure sectionalism in
this country to-day as there ever was. The
South still believes in the right OF Seces-
sion. The North believes In the right Of
Coercion.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

REAL estate is looking up" in the Dis
trict. The fixed laws regarding taxes, and
the removal of fears regarding the stability
Of the local government, has produced this
nf1,.t
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Is Grieved to Announce.

LCharleston Journal Of Commerce.l
The Charleston Is, ca Journal " C0mHercs is
grcvcd to announce that W, II Thomas, OF South
Carolina recently appointed consul 10 st. Paul de
loando. Is u coal black negro who was q member
of the Legislature under Republican rule.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
A Southern Compliment to General sher-
tLynchburg Virginlan.l

General Sherman 10 OF the opinion that 1--WE will
soon have to apologize to the people we whipped"
meaning that the enctoachments OF e.-C Confederate
over Union power IN the Government Is being inipu-
IDENTIFY asserled.-NutfOndi Republican.
In that event the braggart Sherman will have no
apologies TO make as he Ia not conspicuous fol hav.
ing whipped anybody II General Joe Johnston.
moved from his trout, he never would have
marched 10 the sea and gained the fictitious iane
which he did. His vandalism among women and
children should have brought disgrace upon him
rather than honos. soerman 10 a Lumbug OF the
first water. His arrogance Is only equalled by his
empty. .head adedncss
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup Is recommended by all
druggists as being purely vegetable and reliable
preparation for babies. Price, 25 cents.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

Bob INGERsoLL's reflections regarding
PoTTER's Perjury Mill are in order as cool
summer reading. If he don't recaut his
pagan theories under this pressure, then
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Put Ths, Quiet, SIN Man to tho Front.

Many think the expressions at the Iowa and Ill.
nois conventions In favor Of Grant iltlmed, but
from the present indications II seems probable that
In 1880 a condition OF things will exist which will
make II necessary 10 put that quiet, still man In the
front The signs Of the times are not altogether
mystarious
National Republican., 1878-07-09
His BugIe Snort Defiance,
Toledo Commercial,

When Thurman, with tho whole of the great
State Of Ohio behind him, moves out into the PTCs
dental field Of battle waves his red bandanna gon.
iRlOn, aud makes his "bugle7 snort defiance Hen.
dTCks and Randall will wish they had never sNId
anything about being candidates.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Wild With Dismay.

TJIHVIHHHll 7 IHlth'I
The Commercial has, this morning one and one
eighth columns Of extracts concerning the posi-.
bilty OF Grants nomination In 1850. OF this one
full column Is from Democratic papers. The very
idea has struck the Democratic party wild with dis.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Popular straddie-Bug Ticket.

Hendricks and Randall would make a popular
sraddlebug ticket for 1850. Randall strRddes the
tariff issue with the grace and compass of the Co.
lossus Of Rhodes aud Hendricks strGddleS the cur
reuCy aud everything else. Us II his legs belonged
10 q .uIly ton derrick,
National Republican., 1878-07-09
During the Interval.

TTVHNtf NtWh,I
Democrats are prophesying that the enthusiasm
for Grant cant be kept up from now until 1850,
Tint depends good deal upon how the Democrats
conduct themselyes during The interval.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
ThelRepublican Party,

The Republican Is the only party capable Of con-
ductng the Government, and the only party In
whose hands II 10 safe. 1t Is under no obligations
TO the rebel element In the South. nor does II
pAndeI 70 the dAngeIous eeinents in The North
National Republican., 1878-07-09

ANDERSON seems to have secured his place
In warm climate at last-in Washing
ton.
National Republican., 1878-07-09

an honest man in Louisiana. You would have
needed five billion candle calcium light, old boy
and even then you would have been on O sad wild.
nnnsR chnsa
National Republican., 1878-07-09

THERE is an abundance of public spirit
In the District, but it needs a shock to bring
II to the surface. Won't some one tre of
cannonP
National Republican., 1878-07-09

rake in pile of gate-money. Bat Kentucky
crows Just as loud as if there had really beep
q real race
National Republican., 1878-07-09
Linuers too Lovingly,
dayton Journal.l


They do say that Mr.. Forrest will beat Sayler for
the Democratic nomination for Congress in the frst
district Sayer Is entirely too lazy for a district
like the first lie fingers too lovingly on the east
eFn shore
National Republican., 1878-07-09
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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And there is a ine moral to the tale.
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authors. No X. Paper, 50 cents.
This Is the lifc-story of Ariadne Rouin,
an entertaining romance. The heroine Is Al
artistic, who attains some celebrity as q voca
musician. In the first chapter she Is ludicrousl,
. described rs interrupting the study hours o
her earlier school days with an involuntar.
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, The thread of the tale ON which these incident
are strung is an experience of love, jealous!
aud disappointment, ending in sacrifice.
National Republican., 1878-07-09
His Constituents Hate Hin

Ben Buffers constituents elected him 10 Congress
because the Copperheads hated nm." The Cop.
perheads might now elect Ben because his cOustitu
pnts hate him,
National Republican., 1878-07-09

For some cxplicable reason the Opposi-
ton is silent just now regarding the matter
of official juuketing and Presidential dead
heading" over the railroads and at hotels.
When General GRANT was President COM
ments on this subject were frequent, al
though he was not more amenable to them
than any Of his predecessors had been or
than his successor is now. 1t is true
he occupied his cottage, his private aud
personal property, at Long Branch, dur
ing the heated term, instead of Govern
ment cottage at the Soldiers Home, and
that he was comparatively poor man but
that made no difference with his critics.
Perhaps they exhausted their resources OF
comment on this startlingly interesting
topic during his administration, and as a
consequence President HAYES is allowed to
escape.