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snCCEseIoN OF WILLIAM T. WHITEHEAD
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Second District Court for tho Parish Of Orleans
No 10 SD,
National Republican., 1878-07-19

THE Republicans Of the seventh Congress
sional district Of Ohio, the district now rep
resented by Mr.. Cox, have nominated the
Hon. CHARLES FOSTER rs their candidate.
As THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN has here
tofore intimatcd, Mr.. FOSTER declines to
run in that district, for the reason that he
does not reside within its limits. The
Sandusky Register, In referring to this mat
ter, says: " If any man in Ohio could carry
" their district in O triangular fight Mr..
FOSTER is that man, but 1t may be set
down as quite certain that he will not ac-
"cept He has repeatedly refused to make
the canvass in the seventh. and given good
"and sufficient reasons therefor, and he IL
hardly the man TO 20 back on his dcclara-
tions. Besides, he feels be has duty TO
discharge to the Republicans of the dis
trict in which he lives, a duty none the
less binding because victory at the polls
seems impossible We still adhere
to the opinion heretofore asserted,
that Mr.. FOSTER will not only run
in the district in which he now lives, and
which he in part represents, but he will
make the travelling very dusty for any can
didate the Democrats may pit against him,
lie has n treasury Of popularity that will
prove troublesome to any competitor, even
in q district where victory seems impos.
| sible
National Republican., 1878-07-19

THE Buffalo Express having intimated
that PROCTOR KNOTT is the champion
liar" the Courier-Jou~nai emphatically de-
MICS that the Kentucky ststesman-save
the marks entitled to that distinction.
Between the intimation of the Express and
the emphatic denial of the Co,'rier-JourHdl
there should be no hesitation in choice. Let
Mr.. KNOTT step forward, crowned rs he is
already with PAT DoNAN's Duluth speech as
a nevcr-fading laurel, and waltz off with the
belt ELL PERKINS and .JiMASDERsoS will
reserve the right of competitive contests
for its future possession 1t is true but then
PROCTOR has the Oou,ior-,Jour1di to help
him retain il.
National Republican., 1878-07-19
PERSONAL

THE Earl of Flies life is insured for 81 800.
W. R. ROONEY, U. S. N, is a guest at the I'm.
perial.
r. f. LArnAM, of Pittsburg, Is guest at
the Imperial.
II. N. HAMMOND aud family, Of New Or
leans, are at the Imperial.
Hon JAMES COEY, of San Francisco CAL, Is
sojOurning at the Ebbitt House.
MAJOR I. IL. HORTON, of Wheeling W.
Va, Is registered at the Ebbitt House.
SARATOGA is well nigh deserted. Nearly
all her patrons have gone to Europe.
THE only medical college for negroes Is In
Nashville. 1t has an ample endowmens
THERE is one successful female journalist
Emily Faithful, Of London. Her paper has
5000 circulation.
DIR. PAYNE, president Of the Ohio Wesleyan
University, formerly pegged shoes for his liv-
ing in Providence, r. l.
The Rev. James r. Dugsnne, of the Diocese
Of Rhode Island, has become rector of the
Church of the Messiah Gwynedd.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH has engaged TO play at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, which
will be opened in the fall by Mary Anderson.
Mrs. SARAH Z. BLAKELY, of Cherryville
advcrtises for lost husband. When last heard
of he was in Brazos County, Texas. He left
home five years ago
On Jay Cookies islet Gibraltar, In Lake Erie,
lives Owen Brown, son Of old John Brown.
| He Is tall and muscular, with tawny and white
overgrown beard and blue eyes, a check shirt
aud a torn chip hat. He Is said to resemble
Edwin Adams as "Euoch Arden"
THE President, General Sherman, and scv-
eral members of the Cabinet, will leave the city
to-day at 7:l5 p. m. for Newark, Ohio, to attend
the soldiers reunion to be held there. From
Newark the party will visit Mr.. Hayes house
at Fremont. The parlor car Maryland, belong.
| ing to President Garrett, Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railway Company, will be used by the
Presidential party.
| NJ. d. CONWAY, In his London letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial, says Senator Bruce, or
his arrival at London, will form ono Of grouI
of three Of the most important Africans Of
official position now living. The other two
are the King of Bonuy, who, with European
education, has introduced 80 many reforms In
TO Africa, aud DIR. Edward W. Blyden, the
Liberiau Minister, who has perfect faith in tn,
future of his race.
GENERAL GARFIELD goes about his farm IL
q broad -brimnied chip-hat, with his trouser,
tucked in pair Of stout cow-hi boots, givinI
directions to his hired men, and lending
hand at the haying and harvesting. None o
his Washington friends, should they see hin
driving yoke OF oxen in the broiling sun ant
emphasizing, with u CAD, the stentOrsn shout
of Gee" "Haw," aud Whoa Buck - withou
which no oxen seems able TO do the pr0pe
amount Of work, would have suspected tina
the broad. .shOuldercd, sun-burned farmer un
der the chip hat was the famous Republican
chief
National Republican., 1878-07-19
POLITIC1L NOTES.

Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, of Georgia, has
declined denomination for Congress
GENERAL ToOMRs is making speeches for
Alexander II. Stephens in the latter's cam
paign for denomination.
JUDGE NOAH DAVIS, according to the New
York Commercial, Is to be put forward by
ConkliIgs opponents AZ candidate for SEN
atOr.
For anting, roaring, hot-headed, thick.
and-thin Bourbon Democratic newspaper, the
Youngstown IindicdtOr takes the PREMIUM
CicrrldHd Leader.
THEY do say in Michigan that Sam Cary can
cOndcnse more ignorance Into single sentence
than any orator who has appeared In that part
OF the world. General Cary is a very able man
Cincinnati Commercial.
TIE typical Democrat in Arkansas Is a
greenbackcr of the Brick Pomeroy type. His
interest in the Government is limited Just now
to its function of turning out money lor the
people, BostOH .idrertiser.
National Republican., 1878-07-19
WILLIAM w-A-L.r-r.R PHrLrs, who parts

WILLIAM WALTER PHELrs, who parts
both his name and his hair in the middle,
is now at the front again rs leader in the
politics OF New York and New Jersey His
wealth and q combination Of peculiar po-
litical circumstances once enabled him to
reach seat in the House but his constitu-
ents repudiatcd him and studiously left him
at home after his first term. They were
satisfied with one experiment with Lib
eral Representative, whose dIisidate style
of hair-dressing was carried to the extent of
parting his party principles in the middle
to the intense qualification Of the Democ-
rncy. OF course he was then, as he is now,
Reformer, with great big K As one oil
Collector pro TEN. MERRrTTs bondsmen, he
Is recognized as an adherent Of the Admin
istration, a recognition that stamps him rs
n double-dyed Reformer and double-back'
action civil-service humbug at one and tho
same time. And he is o candidate for re-
nomination to Congress. We shall sec what
we shall see.
National Republican., 1878-07-19
RUINOUs ENCOURAGEMENT.

On the llth Of July, 1854, gold reached 2S5,
and grceubacks were worth $500 cents on the
dollar. To-day gold Is worth but one half per
cent premium and the greenback dollar is
worth 99g03 cents. 1t has taken fourteen
years of ruinOus Radical mismanagement to
get from the maximum Of 2s5 to the present
close approximation TO par value.-IOst.
Whatever political and financial ills have
bciitllcn this country in twenty years are
clearly traceabe to the Democratic party,
its measures, and policies. But for that
party and its treachery to this Government
there would have been no rebellion, no
war, no burden of heavy taxation rolled
upon the industries of the country and the
energies of the people no period when
gold reached 2-5, and no division of this
nation into sections circumscribed by pre-
judced and bloody lines, and controlled by
spirit of bitter animosity. The Demo-
cratic party is at the bottom Of all these
terrible evils which have settled upon this
nation to ALLEVIATE and opprcss the people,
and from which they are but slowly recOv-
cring.
AS our cotemporary admits, it has taken
National Republican., 1878-07-19

TIE Bloody-Shirt emblem Of Southern
and Stalwart Republicanism served TO pro-
woke dcrsion and sneers only in localities
where the Grshers and Conciliators were
permitted to WELD dangerous influence
The result is n Solid South, and an in
creased representation for the lately rebel
lous section Of the country both in Con-
gress and the Electoral College. The same
spirit of snecring derision is now on the
alert TO exert the same dangerous influence
in localities where the same Gushes and
Conciliatous are permitted to declare that
Southern rebel claims and payment for
cmancipated slsve-property are bugaboo
political spooks. The warnings Of expert
ence should teach the people that these
Gushers and Conciliators are not to be
trusted
National Republican., 1878-07-19
blind and Shameless Partisanship.


II Erra Hunton, Of Virginia, should be defeated
for denomination 10 Congress, a. now looks prob
able his downfall would he q deserved punish
ment for his blind and shameless partisanship.
He was a member Of the Electoral Commission. In
which body he probably behaved no worse than
his Dcmocrntic confrere. but his service there
maniftztly untitled him for membership OF the
Potter Fraud Committee. Nevertheless he got upon
the committee In face of the common senti.
ment that a member ofa tribunal which decided
the Presidential question, had no business on a
committee organized for the purpose OF rc-openins
II. lIunton hoped TO ride into Congress fot
another term OH the back OF the fTaud hobby but
his constituents seem to appreciate the impropriety
of his conduct
National Republican., 1878-07-19
pi2 GARRISON AvESrE,
ST, LovIs, Mo, June l. 1878,
st. LoVls,
Hon SIM MI Psl.er.


My DEAR siR: i sail on Wednesday, the sth in.
sey,Ta OF tSe cumnrd III Inc M and as Tie IL purpSse Of
my voyage has relation to the whole future course
Of my lite desire that you, as FREUD and kins-
man Of the family, should know definitely and cx-
plicitly what that purpose l.. You are aware. my
dear sir, that graduated a few weeks ago at the
law school Of the Washington University, In ths
city YUu know too. that my father has given me
a complete education for the bar having sent me
to Georgetown College 10 make my classics and
nathematics then TO The scientific school at Yale
languages, and finally to our st. Louis law school.
whore have attended the full course Of lectures
during tho past two years under the kind instruc-
tiOn OF yourself and our other learned professors.
For sometime past have had strong leaning
for the ministry, and 20 having now reached the
age when every man has 10 choose his own career
IN life, aud having weighed this important matter
OF choice with all the care and deliberation OF
which am capable, have decided to become
Catholic priest. How long ago reached this dcci'
sion what means have taken TO test and confirm
myself IN my resolution, and why having finally
decided, now choose to go to England to make
qurics which are OF no interest to any one but my.
self aud TO answer them would he apart from the
object Of this letter. write to inform you, and to
beg you to communicate the information to those
who may inquire concerning me, that assume to
myself the whole responsibility Of my choice, as
choosing path In life 80 with me alone rests the
blame or praise OF having chosen the church In.
stead q the ,"w NY hther. as you know, Is not. no.
as startling and as strange to him as, have no
doubt, II does TO you, my dear sir. l 70 without
his approval, sanction, or consent; In fact In dl.
rect opposition to his best wishes In my behalf.
For he had formed other plans for me, which arc
now defeated, and had other hopes and expecta'
tions In my regard which are NECESSARILY dashed TO
the ground In conclusion, my dear SIT, ] have one
request to make, and make II not only to you but
to all our friends and relations to whom you may
see III To show this letter or communicate Its con.
tents II Is this Feeling painfully aware that
have grieved and disappointed my father. beg my
friends and his, one and all Of whatever religion
they may be, TO spare him inquiries comments OF
any sort for cannot help feeling that any thing o
the kind would be ill.timed and inappropriate
Trusting TO your delicacy and to theirs 10 appreci
ate my motives In this, and TO comply with q re
| quest so easily fulfilled remain with great re
| spect. ahectionately and sincerely yours,
THOMAS EWING SHERMAN.
lI,Inr ha lnlul..cl iI, Without dIs
National Republican., 1878-07-19
COLONEL Tom MURPHY has rcne in,

COLONEL Tom MURPHY has sore into
bankruptcy owing to depreciation of the
value Of real estate on the boulevards in
New York city, and OF property generally
at Long Branch. But he suffered his losses
in good company. General GRANT invested
both in "the city" and at "the Branch at
the same time Colonel MURPHY did. The
result was that the General was compelled
to sell his personal property on his st. Louis
farm and real property in other sections Of
the country at a sacrifice to meet deferred
payments and taxes for Improvements, &c
But General GRANT weathercd the storm
although ut such a loss that he Is compare
lively a poor man today.
National Republican., 1878-07-19
DIED.

KELLY.-Thursday, July IS, 1878, amer R.shOrt III
ness, JAMES, second son Of Thomas and Mary Kelly
aged 10 mUnths-
An angel IN the booklof life wrore down an infants
birth,
Then aided ere he closed the page too beautiful Tor
earth.
And hen the reaper death rassed by he read the
words and smiled
Then folded In his ICY arms the lovely little child.
The mother wept hut angels saug soft and sweet nc.
cord,
And welcomed the transported flower in the garden
OF the Lord.
The mother wept she will not weep when all her
And al The gates OF Pardse she meets her little one
An infant soul oil pure and bright from every earth
spot free,
A ba6e to bless that motheIs sight through all
eternity. by HIS MOTHER
The funeral will take place from the residence OF
his grandmother, No. 2uD street, Friday after
noon. al q O'Clock. Friends are invited 70 attend.
National Republican., 1878-07-19

WHAT has become Of the Poor Children's
Excursion down the Potomac? This
benevolent project must not he abandoned.
II our contemporaries of the city press will
take it up and talk it up rs we'll, its success
will I've assured. Why don't some one set
the ball in motion by calling public meet
ing or starting subscription list? Are all
OF our benevolent societies ''out of town for
the season." They are generally active
enough in the winter time in providing re-
lief for the poor OF all ages and classes, but
seem to he dereIict in this matter. An ex-
cursion might be gotten up at cost OF less
than 500, and will be followed by Others
as soon as the example has been set
National Republican., 1878-07-19
figs and Thistles.

Harrisburg Telegraph
Post No ., Grand Army OF the Rcpublic, intend
to prefer charges to President Hayes against United
States Treasurer Eyster, OF Philadelphia. for dis
charging the widow Of Union Colonel and retain.
ing a daughter OF the rebel General Rhett, ol
Georgia. why2 Has Hayes not set Eyster this In
famous example7 And is the Grand Army OF the
Republic green enonyh to suppose that Hayes Will
punish his subordinate for keeping a rebel woman
In the United States Treasury In Philadeldhis
while rebel Colonel is the Postmader.t'e Of
the United States7 Can they gather figs from such
thistle as Hayes7 DO they undcstand ooncil
iatinnY
National Republican., 1878-07-19

The phase in current and fiippant use:
/" Thousands and millions Of dollars of
rebel war claims" means much more than
the average inattcutive loyalist of the coun-
try appreciates when he hears and reads it.
1t means combination in the political iu-
ture of great partisan forces backed up by
the solid sinews Of political methods aud
urged by the eager greed Of an entire Sec
ton of the country in its hungry demand
to be allowed to plunder the Treasury.
Such combination has all the elements of
danger and serious disaster to the Republic
in its makeup. After awhile, when this
danger is fairly upon us, the people will
look back to discover that they erred as
much in not hceding the warnings of to-
day as they did two years ago when they
hooted and scOiled at the bloody-shirt
National Republican., 1878-07-19

KEARSEY, the California agitator, natur-
ally determines to drop in upon" Blue
Jeans WILLIAMS, Of Indiana, for brief
though congenial converse on his way East
But he will finally gravitate into the arms
Of Ben BUTLER, wherever that Great Com
munist may Ike, at Lowell or Atlantic City,
NJ certainly Us that water seeks is level, no
matter how filthy il may be. And KEAR-
EEY will no doubt call upon BEN for an
Aprariun "diyyn
National Republican., 1878-07-19
IOUSG SHERMAN.

How the Son of the General Went Abroad to
Become u Priest.
Editor Republicans:
The matter referred to in the subjoined let.
ter having been the subject Of some comment
in the newspapers aud more in private circles,
and there appearing TO be some misapprehen-
sion Of the facts In the case, am authorized
by the parties concerned to publish the letter
for the information Of those who take an in
terest in the subject. Very truly, your obe-
dent servant, SAML REBER.
ST. LOUIS, July 13, 1873.
National Republican., 1878-07-19

THE pertinent or impcrtincnt inquiry is
made in New York Does WILLIAM WAL
]TER PHELPS, in becoming one of the sure
sites Of General MERRITT, collector Of the
sport, expect to run the politics of New
@Jer-ey through the custom-housc officers
-in that State" To this the Commercial
advertiser replies:
This inquiry IL too impudcnt to answer. Ev-
identity the individual Is an ignOIamus. Has
he not read from the mouths Of President
HAYEs and Secretary SHERMAN that the Gus
tOm-hmlse is 10 lie taken out of politics, and
don't he know that WILLIAM WALTER PmELPs
Is y model refOrnIrrY
National Republican., 1878-07-19

THE absorbing political question in New
York State just now is whether the Repub-
hcans shall hold State convention or not.
The fact that the Democrats advise that one
ahall he held and that their advice is loudly
re-echoed by the handful of so-called Lib
erals who have lately been galvanized into
new and schsmatic existence by the Gus
tom-house removals, Is sufficient to explain
the merits OF the question
National Republican., 1878-07-19

NEXT after journalism" says WAITER
son in his Courier Journal, statesmanship
/" is the neanest business known among
"men." 1t is true that WATTERsoN served
one term in the House, and that he is nom
inally the head of the Co.,; but who viii
accuse him of speaking by experience in
-. instance?
National Republican., 1878-07-19

TIE statement made with current fire.
quency in the Democratic press that Gem
eral GRANT ever admitted that TILDEN
was elected President and ought TO have
been inaugurated is without foundation
I'm fact. On the contrary, General GRANT
entertained and frequently expressed di-
rectly opposite belief
National Republican., 1878-07-19

THERE Is another rumor anoat OF m early
change Of one member of the Cabinet. We
give but little credence to such reports, hut
promise our readers that when the rumored
change occurs we shall give early notice
thereof, with name, cause, SC The weather
II tso hot now to undertake TO forctcll with
any certainty what may happen. Watch
and wait
National Republican., 1878-07-19

FITz-JoHN PORTER has practically closed
his side of the so-called rehearing of his
case. His defense may be briefly summed
up in three points: First, the night of the
2Tth of August was so dark that his troops
could not march, although the forces of
KEARSEY, RENO, and Mcdowell did
march that night second, that there was
nothing more than an artillery duel on the
29th, although Colonel RUGGLEs, one of his
own witnesses, testified on Wednesday last
that there was some infantry fighting that
day, and third, that PoPE's order of 4:30 p.
M. of the 3Oth did not reach him until il
was too late in the day to execute it by at
taclSing the enemy, although LoNGsTREEr
himself testified that he expected PORTER
would attack him, and made arrangements
to Tepel such attack. As the case
has progressed thus far, the Associated
the most unblushing bias in theil
preparation in PoRTER's favor. The
agent who prepared them did not hesi.
tate to interiect expressions of opinion in
his reports of the testimony. This showed,
he frequently said, that so and so" was the
case, &c, dc. But notwithstanding this
bias, the public has not been misled, and
the testimony of Government witnesses soOI
to be produced will realiirm the wisdom o
the findings of the court-martial which dis
missed PORTER from the army and disqual
fed him from holding any Office Of profit O.
trust in the future
National Republican., 1878-07-19

THE Democratic reduction Of clerical force
in the Treasury Department interferes with
the speedy delivery to subscribers, who
have paid up their subscriptions, of per
cent bonds. Even in the matter of placing
che public debt, which it created, the de-
mocracy proves to be a stumbling block.
National Republican., 1878-07-19
Work by the Rule Of the Contrary.


The President Is welcome TO all the glory he has
won In his latest fnot brnvcst raid upon the New
York custom house. II could be put In pipe, even
II he could not smoke It, but there Is not going TO
be any terrible row In the party over the changes,
at least not In time to create that irrcconciable
split through which the Hayes-Evarts Administra.
ton have hoped to crowd Roscoe Conklng out of
the Senate. This is one of those things that work
by the rule Of contrary.