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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-14
ENGLAND.
John Bright strongly in Favor OF
N0n.lnterventiOn

sohhA vs.
N0n.lnteryentiOn.
LONDON, January 12.-John Bright, in
addressing his. constituents at Birming.
ham to-day, declared that be was strongly
in favor Of non-intervention.
LARGE RrRE-Losssl 100000.
LONDON, January 12-3P. None Of
the largest fires that has occurred here In
many years is now raging on Friday and
Waiting streets. The FIRE originated in
the warehouse Of Croker & Co., calico
printers, so to 81 Waiting street. The
whole block was at one time threatened,
but the FIRE is now believed to be under
control.
EvEs1sa-The NC loss by the FIRE was
over s., 100000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
The American Flag.

In every part of the city, Paris
whether we looked to the right or to
the left, the American flag was Wis
ible. If there was a cluster of the
flags of nations, the American always
has its position by the flag of France.
This has heretofore been the case at
the hotels as matter OF business,
but to-day they were too profuse and
too abundant not to show that there
was a feeling of sentiment involved
in the display. With the exception
of a few English flags at the hotels,
America was the only nation thus
honored. They were displayed from
private dwelling in great numbers,
and for a week past all the stores for
the sale Of flags exhibited large stocks
of "the Stars and Stripes" Passing
to the outskirts OF the city, we found
them equally numerous, from the
humble dwellings of the working
classes, and carriages with the tri-
color on one side and the American
flag on the other were quiet numer-
Gus. There were also q few Swiss
flags visible in some sections of the
city, but the American flag was
everywhere. In those portions of
the city where nearly every window
in the tall houses was the outlook of
a separate family the American flag
was side by side with the French,
and many of the men had miniature
flags of the two nationalities stuck in
their hat bands.-C. G. r. in BuHi-
more AmericCp.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
Hard times, under the Democracy

Hard times, under the Democracy,
were to rapidly disappear in revi val
of general property. Business was
to revive, productive industry to be
stimulated, the idle were to be en-
ployed, and distress and want were
to be banished the land. Now, the
Democracy have been in majority
in the House for two Congresses
three years. How have these pledges
been fulfilled? BY a multitude of
acts all hostile to a revival of trade.
by its reckless war upon the tariff and
currency and by its revolutionary
projects to Mexicanize the Republic
all confidence has been banished from
business circles, capitalists dare not
invest, and idle men and families
multiply daily, with increasing dis
tress and want, with a certainty that
if the Democracy are continued in
control of another Congress general
bankruptcy and ruin will overwhelm
the nation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

WHAT THEY WILL DO.-A paper
at Okol0na, Miss, indorses the jeff
Davis Ma"on letter, and adds:
When we have obtained the upper
hand we propose to undo what has
been done by the Radicals since 1861,
AS far as lies in our power. We pro-
pose to tear the negro amendments
out of the Constitution. We propose
to restore the Planter Republic of our
fathers in all its purity and simplic-
ity.
This is not the sentiment of the
masses Of the people in the Southern
States, but it is an honest and open
declaration of the Sentiment and
purposes of the Southern leaders, the
men who control the South. They
are determined. They are determin-
ed to restore the civilization (?) of the
slave power by reducing the popula-
ton of the South to the condition of
political serfs. Will the Northern
laboring men help them? Will
Northern Democrats help? Will
Southern laboringing men help? An
sWer at the ballot box.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
OAKLAND, July 18th, 1878.
Dr.. Il. II. Bartlett, Secretary Gar
TeH County School Board.


Dear Sir:
VIII you kindly inform a citizen
of the county, through this or some
other paper, what we have to hope
for in the way of schools in Oakland
for the coming year?
We are informed that the State
fund apportioned to this county is
now at your disposal, and if used in
accordance with law ought to secure
an open school at Grantsville and
Oakland at least ten months of the
coming year. Knowing that Oak
lands share will be inadequate to Sc
cure the services of man of stand
ing, attachments and character, such
as we ought to have, | beg leave to
ask if the Board will cooperate with
the citizens in securing such man,
if the citizens will contribute to his
salary? The selection to be made
by mutual consultation and the par
~ employed to be secured for not
less than ten months, and the schools
to be opened not later than the 18th
of September next and kept open
continuously for period of not less
than ten months.
Believing that such a man cannot
be secured for less than 81 900 per
annum, and believing it to be of the
first importance to establish this
school with a thoroughly competent
teacher, you would not only crafty
the writer but many Others by in
forming them to what extent they
would be required to contribute in
establishing first-class school in all
its details. The State fund to be set
aside and supplemented by private
contributions, so that tins school
may not be embarrassed by reason Of
any want of county funds.
OAKLAND.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
In the Potter Investigation on Sat

In the Potter investigation on Sat
urday Senator Kellogg WAS continu-
ed as the witness. He testified re-
garding the intimidation of the ne
groes in the buldozed parishes of
Louisiana. and the inquisitors re-
ceiYed no comfort from him with
relation to their theory that in those
parishes the Republicans had pur-
posely RETAINED from voting, so that
they might set up a false case of
violence upon which the returns could
be thrown out. The alleged forgery
of an amended Electoral certificate
from Louisiana was touched upon,
but Mr.. kellogg threw no addition
al light upon this matter. Gen. But
Ter was moved to favor a waiting
world with additions to his poor
opinion of the Administration, and
the committee, for want of anything
else to do, adjourned to meet at At
lantic City on the 23d of July.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

The Umatilla Indians, now said to
have joined the hostiles, are connec-
ted by marriages with the Joseph
band of Nez Perces Indians, and
were with difficulty prevented from
going to war last year. A majority
Of the Umatillas have comfortable
houses, and the tribe, though COM
posed of only $40 men, have seven
teen thousand horses, five thousand
cattle and extensive flocks of sheep.
Their lands, among the most valua.
BILE in Oregon, haye been encroached
upon by the whites, and a bill was in
troduced by Senator Mitchell for
their removal to the Yakima Reser-
walton, which may explain their out
break. On the 9th of July they were
reported as peaceablc, with only one
Indian absent. and he was with the
soldiers. The fight on the Umatilla
Reservation on Sunday was between
Colonel Miles, with 800 regulars, and
400 or 500 warriors. After fighting
several hours at long range the In
dians attempted to charge, but were
driven back by the fire from the
howitzer. They retreated to the
mountains, with the loss of about
fifteen killed. Only two of the troops
were wounded. A large number of
the Umatillas were spectators, taking
sides with neither party.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

Eearly in the recent session a
prominent Democratic paper read the
following brief lecture to the House:
The Conier-JOWRdI speaks of the
tremendous harmony" OF the Dem
cratic party. The tremendous har-
mony is very good, but wouldn't a
trife Of attention to business benefit
the Democratic Congress Last
Wednesday, when the vote on the
whisky bill was tailed, tWenty-siX
Democratitic members We're absent
from the floor, while the Republic
cans We're present to man. In prin-
ciples and in conservatism, and in
Christianity of ideas, the Democrat
is heavenly ahead Of the Republican,
but in attention to business and in
presence, when prominent measures
are agitated, the average Republican
double discounts the Democrat.
Had this able editor waited until
the closing hours Of the 5 ssion, when
he might have seen the Democratic
Speaker congratulating the colOred
Republican member Of the Com
mittee on Enrolled Bills for his at
tention to duty, while the two DEM
ocratic members of that committee
were SO "indisposed" that they did
not know whether they were "afoot
or on horseback"-We say, had he
postponed his remarks until that in
teresting occasion, we fear that his
comments would not have been
couched in the temperate language
above employed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

The Republican National Congress
sional Executive Committee has de-
cided not to waste its time and money
in trying to carry any of the districts
in the South, in the coming election.
If they undertake to organize the
negroes for a vigorous and aggress-
i've campaign, the old Democratic
reign of terror will be restored and
the negroes will be butchered in
quantities sufficient TO keep them
away from the polls. The fight for
the control of the next Congress will
be made by the Republicans in those
districts in the North, where it has
been hitherto a close fight between
the two parties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

About the best abused public man
in the United States is the pres Mt
Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. Sher-
man is accused, for one thing, of
writing letter which is, to a con-
siderable extent, the foundation of
the Potter investigation, and yet, if
he ever did write it, there is nothing
in it which might not very properly
have emanated from his pen under
the circumstances. He is attacked,
for another thing, by the infiationists,
greenbackers and flat money people
for executing a financial policy for
which he has full warrant under the
law, and the wisdom of which is be-
ing vindicated by the near approach
to the resumption of specie pay
ments, But Mr.. Sherman, both as a
political and an official, can afford to
have applied to his record the test Of
of time and the logic of events. His
administration of the Treasury will
hereafter be looked upon as worthy
of high enlogy in the pages Of his
tory. Mr.. Chase, under the pressure
ofa great exigency, gave the country
the greenback-we might better say
that he inflicted upon it currency
system new and venturesome. Out
of the chaos Mr.. Sherman has sue
ceeded in bringing order and equal
izing paper with specie values against
tremendous opposition. When the
passions, prejudices and errors of the
day have been dissipated he will take
rank as one of the leading financial
Ministers of the world and IN making
this assertion we say nothing more
than history will attest. Mr.. Sher-
man is the one strong man of the
present Administration. and it is his
very prominence which makes him
the target Of SO much ridiculous
Islander and misrepresentation. -Bul-
tin1ore american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
SATURDAY, JULY 90, 1878.

DR.. f. H. Bartlett, in a communi-
cation published in one of our town
papers of June Goth last, in answer
to an editorial that appeared in THE
REPUBLICAN of the previous week,
charges that the said editorial was
written by prominent gentleman
of Oakland. We here state that the
said article was not written by the
gentleman, whom the Doctor might
as well have named, neither has he
ever written word or line that has
appeared in the editorial columns of
THE REPUBLICAN siTce its estab-
lishment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

Members of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, who have re-
manned in Washington, in order to
complete arrangements for the pub
LEGATION and circulation of campaign
documents, report that advices from
all parts Of the country are favorable
to Republican campaign ofunusual
activity and undoubted success. AL
though the canvass has not been fair
ly inaugurated, the demand for doc
uments is surprising, especially such
as relate to the action of the Demo-
Gratis in the matter of important legis-
lation, and indicating animuS Of their
course in Congress,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

Hon. George G. Sturgiss, of Nor
gantown, will most likely be the Re-
publican candidate for the State
Senate from the district composed of
Preston and Monongalia counties.
His friends desire him to accept the
nomination, and he has the matter
under adyisement. We hope that he
will consent 20 be the candidate, as a
nomination is equivalent to an cleo
ton, and men of Mr.. Siurgiss' cal
iber are badly needed in the
West Virginia Legislature. - Wheel
ing Standard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

With one Congressional committee
soon to be nominally at work at u
watering place near New Orleans, an
other to meet at White Sulphur
Springs, and another adjourned to
meet at Atlantic City, it won't take
the two Houses of Congress long to
divide themselves up into special
committees of inquiry and investiga-
ton lorthe express purpose ofspend-
ing the hot season at fashionable
summer resorts at the expense of the
public. People who are afraid of the
Man on Horseback had better look
into this thing little.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

In the city of Washington, at the
intersection of Pennsylvania avenue,
First street, and the northwest en-
trance to the Capitol grounds, stands
the chaSte and beautiful naval monu-
ment, Surmounted by the twin
statues of Columbia, weeping for her
sons, and History, recording their
deeds ; erected by the officers and
sailors Of the navy to the memory of
the officers and sailors of the United
States navy who fell in the war for
the maintenance of the Union from
1861 to 1866. Mr.. Beck and Mr..
VOORHEES, are deadly opposed to this
monument, as, of course, are all the
X-Confederates. Mr.. Beck, on ac-
count of this monument, moved to
strike out Of the sundry civil appro-
priation bill the appropriation for
continuing the improvement Of the
southwest portion of the Capital
grounds, which motion came within
one Of being carried ; the vote stand
ing % Democrats for striking out to
% Republicans against. This mOnu-
ment, this commemorating in marble
the heroic deeds and patriotic deaths
of the defenders of the Union, stirs
up bad blood, they say, and continues
sectional animosity and bitterness.
The building of monuments all over
the South, however, to commemorate
the acknowledged valor Of some of
those who fell in lost cause and the
cause of wrong, is all right and
proper. That stirs no bad blood, in
cites no animosity, and perpetuates
no sectional hate. Such, for the sake
of the solid South, is the reasoning of
the Democratic party Washington
Republic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

Turkey has lost much by the war
and its sequel, the Berlin congress,
She has lost forever her military
power and prestige her true indie
pendence; and she has lost important
territory also. But in many respects
she has gained. Her Asiatic domain
is now protected by all the guarantees
which Great Britin is able to give.
The Danube is made free river, and
its navigation is to be improved by
Austria. That Power has not only
guaranteed the continuance of her
suZerainty over ROumania and
Bulgaria, but by occupying Bosnia
and Herzegovina, has interposed like
wedge between Servia and Mon
tenegro, the two tools which Russia
has been wont to work with when
she wanted to foment disturbance in
Ottoman territory. Great Britain
not only protects Asia Minor; she
insures the development of that once
rich and fertile region by promising
the building of a railroad from An
tioch to Bassora and another from
Antioch to Erzeroum. These two
railroads will in ten years double the
revenue and the products of the
POrte's Asiatlc provinces.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

The special Mayoralty election in
Baltimore on Thursday of last week
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Col. George =. Kane, result.
ted, as every one expected, in the
choice of Gen, f. G. Latrobe. His
only opponent was Mr.. Smith, the
Greenback Labor candidate. There
was very little interest manifested
and the vote was small. There were
1902 votes cast, Of which Gen. La
trobe received l4,GO8, and Mr., Smith
1904, Il majority for the former of
1924.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
A Word of Warming.
UNDINE.

Republicans, now is the time to
put forward your best men. A hard
and vital contest is at hand. United,
youcan win; divided, you must fail.
In each Congressional district are able
and reliable men, who can unite the
Republican vote and draw some
strength from the opposition. TO
waste the opportunity by divisions,
engendered by the ambition Of party
leaders, or on account of local claims
or perjudices, will be under the cir
cUmstances, little less than crimi-
nal. The best talent, the larger eX-
perience, and the greatest popular
strength should be called to the front.
You cannot win with incompetent OF
unpopular candidates. or those
against whom strong local or person
al prejudices may temporarily exist
These must be set aside for the time
being, and the best men for the
present emergency taken. Other
things being equal, the largest eX.
perience will be the most useful.
Republicans, you must organize
for the selection of candidates and fol
their election when nominated
There should be no delay in thi.
work. 1t must be done now, and in
the face of covert but imminent rev
olutiOn, in the face of the payment o
rebel claims, the overthrow of the
constituted authorities, the destruc
ton of the public credit, the degrade
ton of loyal men, and the stamping
out of loyal sentiment. This is no
defamation it is sober reality. The
record of the Democratic party in The
past and present, read Alright, affords
incontestible proof. These words arr
spoken not to alarm, but to forewarn
Look at the attitude Of the Demo
cratic leaders, the cloud Of rebe
claims, the multiplied assaults upol
the public Treasury, the suppression
of popular suffrage in all the South
the practical abolition of populaI
education where these leaders have
unlimited control, and answer at the
ballot. box whether, in your opinion
these men flushed with victory, viii
forego the purpose so audaciousIy
determined upon when only the hop,
Of success inspired them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

seem to be taken with a view to
reaching that end as speedily as pos
sible.
AS Indian matters have forged to
the front, the Mexican situation has
receded temporarily. But its possibil-
tiles for a surprise were consid-
cred months ago quite equal to the
Indian question and may yet prove
more startling.
ITNDINE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

We regret to see that Mr.. George
W. Peck, of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, in
a Fourth-Of-July Grafton, takes the
ground that the Eagle is not fit
symbol or trademark for the Amer.
lean people. He produces evidence
to establish the fact that the eagle
eats mice and snakes, steals babies,
and is a coward. Mr.. Peck takes the
ground that we are a nation of
patient, forbearing, accomplishing
and Woodworking people, and that
we should adopt the mule as our ma
tional emblem. He says that we are
a nation of accomplishing hard
workers. We plod along, doing as
we would be done by, SO does the
mule. We as a nation are slow to
anger. SO is the mule. AS a nation
we occasionally stick our ears for
ward and fan flies off of our fore
head. So does the mule. We allow
parties to get on and ride as long as
they behaYc themselves. So does
the mule. But when any nation
sticks spurs in our TANKS and tickles
our heels with a straw we come down
stiff.legged in front, our ears look to
the beautiful beyond, our voice is
cut loose, and is still for war, and our
subsequent end plays the snare drum
on anything that gets in reach of Us,
and strikes terror to the hearts Of all
tyrants. So does the mule. This all
sounds very well, but we hayes very
decided notion that Mr.. Peck is act
uated by family pride III this matter.
-BditO. Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

The Easton Gazette says: "Busi-
ness is literally advertised and our
merchants sell more dry goods, gro
ceries and hardware than any other
town in Maryland according to pop
ulation. Business sinks into insig-
nificance here, unless it is literally
advertised, and so it will in any
reading community"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

Montgomery Blair and the Hon.
Eli Perkins appear to have retired
simultaneously. The great ability
these veteran statesmen have dis
played in performing this feat should
receive the hearty applause of a re-
lieYed public. -AUanto Constitution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20

Reading matter Oh every page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-11

The completion of the Sutro tunnel to the
great ComSJOck lode is both triumph OF
engineering skill and of AdOlph Sutro, who
has carried the enterprise ON against such
formidable obstacles. The immense deposits
OF silver ore in What is known AZ the ComStOck
lode, under Virginia City, Nevada, are 900
feet below the surface of the hills under which
they lie. 1t is estimated that 300 tons of
waste rock are lifted 1000 feet daily, and the
water has to be pumped into a system of els
terms 20 feet apart, at enormous labor AMI
expense. When the SutrO tunnel is i'm opera
tion the water from the mines can be run off
through it, and companies who are pumping
Water2,ttD feet can discharge it at an elevation
OF leo or 21O feet. The tunnel intersects the
lode at depth of about l,6i0 feet: it will
reduce the immense cost of drainage to a
minimum, perfect the ventilation and stimu-
late the production of the mine. The work
on the tunnel has been prosecuted for nine
years at an average cost Of 81 900 day, the
total expenditure having amounted to nearly
S4UCU,G0O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-11

And now comes John Rae, the Arctic ex
plOrer, in the form of letter from London,
expressing the opinion that the Eothen.
which sailed 10 discover the Franklin records
under Pile of stones in the frozen north, will
fnd no cairn of the kind sought in the locality
mentioned. He furnishes, from the expert
enees OF his own travels in that region, rea-
sons for his belief. Everybody convinced by
Mr.. Rae of the non-existence of the cairn, will
join with him in the wish that the searchers in
the EOthen may discover something else
where that will in some measure recompense
the gentlemen through whose generosity the
expedition was fitted out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-11

The latest invention is the result of the
broOdings of an Iowa genius, and is pIayfully
called, by way of analogy, the "henOphone."
1t derives its value from the principle of the
division of labor. The invention enables an
old, reliable hen, by leading a strictly seden-
tary life, to hatch out ali the eggs of the hen
merry. thus allowing the rest of the family to
devote themselves exclusively to the cares and
pleasures of an outdoor career
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-11

Death does not end the power of the potato
bug for evil. Large numbers of ambitious
young bugs attemp ing to fly across Saratoga
lake, in New York, dropped into the water
before reaching the opposite side and were
gobbled up by the fishes. But the Joy of the
farmers was turned to lamentatiOa when the
fish, unable to digest the hard Shelled insects.
died by the thousand and We're washed I'D on
the shore, To become almost a. great nui
sance as the bugs the .nselyeS. Tne evil of the
potato bug lives alter him.