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National Republican., 1878-08-20
Personal.
at Saratoga,

Ex.sESAroR PIScnBAcK is at Saratoga.
MAGGIE MITCHELL Is In San Francisco Cal.
A. b. RUSDLErrE Of New York, is stopping
at the Imperial.
A KEoKUK young man paid fne of 50 for
sassing woman.
Hon. J. II. ANDERSON, OF Keokuk, Iowa, is
at the Ebbitt House.
DIR. T. l.. CATHcART, OF York, Pa, is regis
tered at the Imperial.
Hon. II. f. DAVIS and wife, of Virginia, are
guests at the Arlington.
W. LAWRENCE and L. ". Peters, of Chicago,
are guests at the Imperial.
Hon. A. HERR SMITH, Of Lancaster, Pa., is
stopping at the Ebbitt HouSe.
COLONEL IRA AYRF- JR-, Of Richmond, Va,
is registered ut the Ebbitt House.
EX.GovERSoR JoHS A. BURBANK, of In
diana, Ia stopping at the Ebbitt House.
RIsroRr and daughter are spending the sum.
mcr at the batas Of st. Moritz In the Alps.
MILE. ELEEBERo is a pianist only twelve
years old who is astonishing Paris audiences
The stone Of which the Clay monument in
tho Lexington Cemetery is built Is crumbling
away.
VICTOR HUGO is recovering, in Guernsey,
from his attack Of illness brought on by over
work..
IN England tiny thread Of gold, support
ing solitaire diamond, is the favorite engage
ment ring
Mr.. AND MRS p E. WILSON, OF 4l5 Third
street northwest, have gone to Cape May TO
spend couple Of weeks.
JoHS +. ARNOLD has been appointed an
internal revenue gaugcr for the third col.
lection district Of Wisconsin.
The Chinese Embassy is accompanied by q
journalist. His name is Chin, He does the
talking for the entire embassy.
Miss MACIE HARpISG is lying dangerously
| Ill with typhoid fever ut the residence Of her
parents III Fourth street northwest.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, OF Quincy, Mass
pays a tax OF -, l33J5, aud Henry II. FaKon
oil the same town, $2,6GG+9. The rate is 30
per 81 900.
A. y, PACKARD, ir., the well.known entom.
oligist Is appointed professor ofthe new chair
ofgeology aud zoology in Brown University,
Providence.
Mr.. DELANEY KANE, of Tally Ho fame,
has gone to Newport for u sQOurn among his
friends whose bfoclvities are strong for polo
and coaching
a WOMAN of Steele County, MINI, had hor
National Republican., 1878-08-20
OUR SANITARY CONDITION.

A correspondent, who signs himself IS, "
and forgets to accompany his paper with
responsible name, that neglect pre-
tire, under our rules He takes occasion to
criticise the opinion Of DR.. TowSsHEND,
when he says, "Thc city is in rery perfect san
" ita,y condition, much more pcrtCct Rda il has
"crtr been" "S." antngonizcs tho position
held by the Health Officer with the follow
ing statements. to the truth Of which he re-
spectfnlly calls his attention:
1. To the northwest corner Of Twenty Sec
ond and I streets northwest, where six prlvy-
boxes are exposed ~ two streets, and have
been for five weeks, no action being taken by
the health Office for their removal.
g, To square between Twentieth and Twen-
ty.frst and l. and VI streets northwest, GOV.
cred with pools Of stagnant water.
3. To square between X aud L and Nine
teenth and Twentieth streets northwest an
unimproved alley, with h!thy and offensive
drain.
4. To square between Nineteenth and Twen
tietn and L aud s streets northwest, filthy.
offensive, and sunken public alley; also sur
rounding lots in same condition.
.. To square between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth and d and L streets northwest
ponds Of stagnant water,
O. To cutters along L street, between Nine.
teenth aud Twentieth streets northwest, filthy
and offensive.
:. To privies in the rear OF Johnson
Row.
s. To prvies in the rear Of houses on Thir.
teen and H. half street. between Ohio avenue
and L street
0. To privies, yards and alleys along Ohio
avenue, c, d, and f. streets, from Fifteenth to
Ninth street northwest, and finally to the old
sewer, not only that part Of it which cGvcd in
on C street, near Ninth, but to that part Of it in
square between q aud II and Tenth and
Eleventh streets northwest, which Is libcrat.
ing volumes of sewor'ga daily aud hourly.
We present these cited cases for the con.
sideration OF the Health Officer, with the
assurance that il he finds these complaints
unfounded, and will so inform us, we shall
cheeriully combat and correct any uujus,
allegations made against the sanitary con
dition of the city ut time when the public
mind is exceedingly nervous about the ap'
proach of destructive epidemic. We take
no stock in exaggerated statements, calcu'
lated to bring distrust upon our sanitary
officials, and hence desire TO be put in pos.
session of the bottom facts, that we may in
terpose a proper defense in their behalf II
they are unjustly assailed. But, on the othe1
hand, we must admonish to the most
studious care on their part to protect the
city against the approach Of pestilence. "Ar
ounce of preventive is worth n pound oI
cure" you know.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

ATroRNEY-GESERALY YoUMANs, Of South
Carolin stopped in Washington long enough
to assure President HAYES that the people
of his State have no intention or desire to
resist the authority of the General Govern
ment. He is mistaken. The desire to resist
is apparent; it is only the good opportunity
to successfully do so that is lacking. We
say mistaken, because it is a mild and par
liamentary term. But when man talks
one thing and acts another there is a more
positive and fitting term. When the people
of South Carolina and the South generally
cease teaching Secession, Modification, and
States Rights in their public and private
schools, it will be time to begin talking
about a recognition of the authority Of the
General Government in that section.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

THE most presumptuous feature of the
present political situation is the false and
transparent assumption by the Democracy
of friendship for the laboring classes, The
record of that party during its long suprem-
acy in the Government proves that it was
and is inherently the party of aristocracy
and tyrannical abuse of the so-callcd lower
classes. With slavery as its cornerstone, it
could have been nothing else, and it is true
TO its old traditions to-day. It's leaders are
the same old pro-slavery tyrants who led
the South into secession, ami embroiled the
country in civil war, from which acts have
followed all the discomfort, the paralysis of
business, and the high rates of taxation
which are the chief grounds of complaint
among the workingmcn.
National Republican., 1878-08-20
POLTTIC.IL NOTES.

AND now Kcarney calls Thurman "a mud.
head"
THE Minnesota Democratic State convention
will meet on September g.
SENATOR BLAINE discussed the finance ques-
tion at Augusta last Friday evening.
A CoLORED Western Emigration Society In
Richmond, Va, numbers over 800 members.
Mr.. BANNING might run as an Independent
aud trust to tho Confederate House, as he did
before.
A GREESBACR orator at q meeting In New
Hampshire last week vigorously denounced
the new tramp law.
GENERAL BUTLER Is to assist in tho Green
back campaign in Connecticut. He speaks In
New Haven tonight.
The Louisiana Republican State central
committee has called a State convention at
New Orleans September 10.
THERE was no Republican party present at
the late election In Alabama. Policy" has
polished 1t out Of existence there.
GENERAL GARY. of South Carolina, has
nominated General Hancock and General
Hampton for President and ce-President In
1850.
THE nomination Of Hon. Carroll d. Wright
for Congress in the seventh district Massa-
chusctts is advocated In the Reading Weekly
News
NEVER, in his whole political career, pre-
yious to his Hamilton speech, did Mr.. Thur
man advocate an increase Of the grecnback
currency.
dressed tho Nationals of Manchester, n. II -,
last Friday, at meeting presided over by Ma
jor A. c. Wallace.
WILLIAM L. PLuSKErT. of Pittsfeld, Mass,
who was the Democratic candidate for Lieu
tcnant-Governor last year says publicly that
II his party dominates Butler he shall bolt.
The Grecnback club at Newport, Me-, has
disbsnded, and many Of the members have
gone back to the Republican ranks. If Sam
Cary and kearney are not muzzled, the ex-
ample will be largely followed elsewhere.
CONGRESSMAN HALE addressed large Re
publican meeting at Calais, Me-, Friday oven
ing. William II. Young. a Greenback member
of the State committee for Washington County,
came out openly yesterday In favor Of Mr.. Hale
and the Republican ticket
POsrMAsTER-GESERAL KEY thinks the best
that could happen to the Republican party
would be TO have Thurman nominated as the
Democratic Presidential candidate. "He has
suoh bad record on finance" says Judge Ecy,
"he could be easily beaten.
SENATOR BLAINE Is announced for sundry
speeches in Iowa during the last week Of the
campaign of that State, one of which will be
made at Des Moincs. General Logan, of this
State, is also booked for speech at Des Moines
In the latter part of September.
GREAT Democratic expectations wero enter
tanned that their new State Treasurer in Penn.
sylvania would rake up the Republican frauds,
but he has just made report in which he says
that the condition Of the treasury Is highly
creditable to the honor and integrity OF his
predecessor"
THE Cleveland Herald, after looking over
the West. "Tlprp Ia "A urnyinu inn
sion In the Democratic camp that three
thousand. yoar-old Egyptian mummy would
be moro promising material to rallyaround than
would tho venerable philanthropist Of Gram.
Grey Park, Put away his little bar'l. only in-
vcstigate 1t frst."
National Republican., 1878-08-20

We have waited sc yeral days for an eX-
PLANTATION of Mr. MUEAT HALsTEAD's sud-
den departure for Europe. He was on the
eve, 80 to speak, of being wanted as q wit
ness before the POTTER Committee. Colonel
WILLIAM II. ROBERTS, the soft-voiced Miss
Nancy of the Southern diplomatists Of the
LAMAR stripe, had been on the stand in
STEAD gave him a letter to President
HAYES, sealed, which obtained for him the
famous Columbus interview, The commit
tee naturally wanted to know the contents
OF that sealed letter; but HAIsTEAD's burly
form was at that juncture seen upon the
poop-deCk Of m ocean steamer, as he waived
an affectionate "ta, Ia, PoTTAH" TO the
land of his birth. He had borne frequent
testimony in his paper editorially and
otherwise, to the high character of Colonel
ROBERTS, and had confirmed in the same
channel much of the testimony given by
that gentleman. His sudden disappearance,
leaving behind him chances to earn witness
fees from the Government and TO go down
10 history as fellow witness with AMBER
son, WEBER, and LEErE, to say nothing of
THE JESKs, is therefore matter Of surprise
He is not man to shirk responsibilities
although the fact that his HAYEs-RoBERTs
letter was sealed would indicate that he
had engaged in something akin to conf
dental intrigue. 1t is consequently reason
able to suppose that he preferred to defer
the disclosure, which must come sooner or
later, of the contents of that document for
tho present Or-happy thought-he may
have gono abroad to get drink of ice water,
unobsnrvcd by inquiring American eyes.
National Republican., 1878-08-20
,JAPASEsE PROGRESS.

Few nations have made more rapid strides
in progressive civilization since its doors
were opened to the outer world than the
Japinese. 1t is but a few years COMPARE
lively since Japan consented to treat and
tnde with other NATIONS aud since Eu-
ropean and American intercourse with its
people became free and unrestrained. Now
it has its ministers with all important na-
tIons and is rapidly assimilating to the Gus
toms aud habits Of other countries. The
japanese government sent parties of their
young men and women to this country 10
be educated by our higher seminaries of
learning and TO study the principles OF n
National Republican., 1878-08-20

husband and son killed by lightning Ave years
ago. She married again. and her second lord
was killed by lightning last week.
MAJOR PETER FARNEY, of the Treasury De-
partment, has returned from Colorado, where
he has been engaged in representing the Gov
ernment In several important suits at law.
Hon. GEORGE BANCROFT. Colonel T. W.
Higginson, and Edward King, have been
elected president, c-prcsident, and secretary
of the Permanent Commission on International
Copyright.
q. A. MANSFIELD, claiming to be Boston
medium, who advertised wonderful cxhibi.
tion of spirit power In light, was rotton.egged
by disguised Nantucket audience on the
evening Of the 18th.
A SMALL bcqucst to the Harvard Medical
School was made, little while ago, on condi.
tion that women shall be admitted to the
schools on equal terms with men. The ac.
ceptance ofthe bequest Is doubtful.
IFa lady shrnks from the promiscuous en-
brace of men 1t Is, or should be. from innate
purity Of feeling. This Is not that we can see,
altered by tho fact that music Is playing or
that she Is In the water J'ea Jersey Pres.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

A "PAREST" suggests that the opening
of the public schools of this city be post
poned until the middle of September or the
lst of October next, for the reason that o
large number Of scholars in attendance arc
from the Southern cities, where there is
yellow fever, and reside here with relatives
during the scholastic term. While we should
guard the health Of the city at every pos
sible avenue, it is not wise to create alarm
until danger is imminent. 1t is suggested,
and with good deal of force, that until the
epidemic makes its appearance at Norfolk
there need be no serious apprehension Ofits
appearance here, and as yet Norfolk is ex-
empt. If the epidemic should make its
appearance in our midst, then the sugges-
tion Of a Parent" might be in order, but
it is quite as important that the city should
be guarded against panic on this subject
as against the yellow fever itself
National Republican., 1878-08-20

VIZ have already recorded the arrest of
Mr., Secretary DUFF, Of the National Com
mittee Of the State of Pennsylvania, for
burglary in Ohio. Itnow seems that he had
habit of committing such acts, for several
complaints are brought against him, based
upon the "bloatcd bondholder" to the full
extent of criminal agrarianism. 1t is hardly
probable that these facts were known when
he was chosento be secretary but now that
they are made public he should not be dis
turbed in his official position. lie is simply
party.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

THE Helena ARK IIorid Bourbon
Journal, holds the following language in ro-
lation to the military buIl-dozing that is
now going on in that State to overcome the
acknowledged Republican majority:
Helena should furnish to the righteous
movements Of the Democracy now going on
al least four companies Vi cavalry and the bat
terry Of artillery which Is proposed. The
cOuntTymon, old aud young, are Immersed in
the matter, aud they are already beginning 10
ask why should the city people stay back and
leave the work TO usf Surely they are equally
interested
The Arkansas Stant'soitrRg says This
paragraph can only mean that the
" Democrats mean TO carry the country by
forcen
National Republican., 1878-08-20

AvOTCEofwarninCc comes up from the South
the solid South-to Senator THURMAN,
admonishing him that he wandering away
from the old Democratic faith in his lately
discovered love for grecnbacks, The truth
is the Bourbons Of the South, now that the
finance question is beginning to be discussed
in that section, revert as naturally to the
old-time theories of the hard-moncy Democ-
racy as they do to the notification hcresies
of CALHoUN's days. With this inclination
as its motive, the Charleston Ners ah ro"-
ricr says it is pity that Judge THURMAN
should allow ambition to turn him aw ay
" from the straight path where stand sush
" Democrats as BAYARD and THURMAN
It apparently forgets that THURMAN is as
good, or bad, a secessionist in theory to-day
as HAMPTON was during the war, or as
HAMPTON is now, for that matter. And it
probably docs not forget that our grcenback
system was one of the most effective agen-
cies in crushing the rebellion.
National Republican., 1878-08-20
HAVE you seen old DESSs KEARSEy.
And TUX him by the hand.

And AK d him how Is the widow,
And how docs she stand
This plaintiye travesty is not so popular,
simply because it is unknown, as it will be
when the Widow stands for Governor.
About that time DENNIS would reply to the
question therein contained, with character
istic buovancy Of rhetoric, that the "scabby-
headed ghosts Of Dives, who sent poor
LAzARUs to the land Of the blest, the
moral lepers who are asking for drop Of
Heavens water, the mOon-eyed idiots who
know only enough to pool their earnings
in their own pockets, and the tyrnnt
d" money -:hiovcs OF the East, together with
the rakings and scrapings of purgatory it.
self" or words to that effect, are about
to be sent to keep company with the gan
grened, liyer-colored imps Of rotte mess,
where they belong And all this would
be called politics out on the Pacific slope,
where KEARNEY is recognized az q leader
and accredited with being q statesman.
National Republican., 1878-08-20
THERE would be something in the nature

THERE would be something in the nature
of prompting to true conciliatory effort in
the fact that the proposed monument for
Confederate General STERLING PRICES
grave is to be of Maine granite, were il not
for the fact that the preparations for its
dedication indicate a desire to keep alive
the sectional hatred or Issues TO which he
fell victim. II might be said of him that
he was an American soldier, and that
though he served the cause Of the South,
the North and New England paid tribute
to his memory, and all that sort of thing +;
but it will not The millennium has not
arrived now any more than it had at Rich
mond soon after tho close of the war, when
gushing Northern journalist offered to
trade toasts with his hosts at public
dinner. His idea was that LINCoLN's mem
ory should receive public recognition in re-
turn for his toast 10 the health OF JEFF
DAVIS. He proposed that toast accordingly,
and it was drunk standing. The rocip-
rocal sentiment was not forthcoming,
National Republican., 1878-08-20

General GRANT in Paris that he GRANT
would prefer KEY for the second place on
the ticket with him in lss0. This fine tale
is somewhat impaired in its full effect by
the positive declaration Of Judge TYSER
that there is no truth in it, But the Repub-
lican party is nevertheless grateful to its
Democratic friends for these kind atten-
tions, which relieve it of the necessity Of
holding nominating convention in 1ssO.
The thing is settled. GRANT and KEY is
the ticket
National Republican., 1878-08-20

THE. Hon. KENNETH RAYSoR insists that
in the discussion of the Richmond and Dan
Vile Railroad case in THE NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN much injustice has been done him
through misapprehension Of his position.
The following, he contends, are the facts in
the case in brief: The opinion given by him
on this case occurred more than a year ago.
and when lie had been in the Office but
about two weeks II related solely to the
power of the Secretary or any other officer
in the Treasury to reverse the decisions of
his predecessor, except where proofs Of fraud
or some new testimony affecting the merits
National Republican., 1878-08-20
Mn. BEEcHEg's story of the Dog Noble

Mn. BEEcHERs story of the Dog Noble"
is revived by the New York Tribune as APP
pliCable to General BEN Buffers per-
sistent pursuit of that Infamous and cor
"rupt bargain by which President HAYES
permitted the inauguration of NICHOLS.
Noble, it will DO remembered, barked his
life away at an empty hole, This is an un.
kind comparison, for the dogs name was
Noble and his instincts were good, albeit
his discretiOn was bad.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

IT Is apparent that the Hon" PorrAH's
latest and most ath-LEErE witness has had
the iim-iams." He tried, no doubt, to
stimulate himself up to par with ANDER-
son and WEBER for the purpose of meeting
the demands Of the occasion hence the
iim-jams aforesaid. A few more such wit
nesses and the Hon" PoTrAH will proba-
bly, be able to make report as is re-
port"
National Republican., 1878-08-20

VI. b, CONWAY finished his work on de-
mono!ogy too soon. The BUTLER-PorrAII
committee has not closed its labors; JIMAS-
DERsoS is not dead; WEBER and LEETE
still live; and TILDES has hopes But Con-
WAY long ago became un-Americanized. He
has lived abroad 50 long that he is content to
fill his book with the ordinary performances
and suporstitions Of the efIete civilization OF
tho Old World
National Republican., 1878-08-20

THAT man, bo he Republican or Demo-
crat who has not forgotten the hypocrisics
and rascalitics of the last House of Repre-
sontatives will most assuredly vote the Re-
publican ticket this fall. 1t is the only
hope Of safety for the future.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

LET us send General Ben BUTLER to the
Car Of all the Russias as present We
have no especial antipathy against the Gar,
but he might utilize BrTLER as q Chief
of Police in st. Petersburg Two function
aries of that rank have been shot in that
city lately.
National Republican., 1878-08-20
Would Pardon tho Mobbors.
L

Tho Washington REPUBLICAN, speaking OF the up.
pOntment Of Mr. Bristow as attorney for the
United States In the South Carolina revenue cases
iayontbly with those urged by Mr.. Webster against
one HRyne. II Mr.. BTlstow were to express such
views In south Carolina, he would doubtless DO
mObbed and then the President would doubtless
pardon tho mobbers on their agreement not to DO
a agnin
National Republican., 1878-08-20

IT now looks as if the Post was petering
out, and wouldn't be grief to itself or any,
body else much longer. 1t was sickly and
weak yesterday. Lay it away carefully
and cover it deeply, so that its rotteuncss
may be scpulchred with it and cease to be
stencil in the nostrils Of decency.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

PoITEE's committee, unlike the customs
OF old, reserved the worst Of the wine to
the last Of the feast. LEErE turns out TO
be "the worst pill in the box"-the prince
of cyclists, scalawags, and romancer 1t
is seldom that human enterprise and vigi-
lance have ever rakcd together and pumped
ont as many unclean casks in the same
time as have been emptied, to the disgust OF
the public, by the POTTER investigation,
National Republican., 1878-08-20
Hampton and Buii-Doxing.

Governor Hampton doesn't manifest disposition
TO embarrsss the Edgofold bul.dUZers. IIo made
speech In that place last week, and, instead Of
rcbuking them for their open threats to hang, II
necessary, any Republicans who dared 10 engage in
political mGchinAtions' again ho said T'f am
glad 10 have met you day. have come because
| was afraid there was some misapprchousion on
your part In regard TO my course "
National Republican., 1878-08-20
The Grsenbaok DeIusIon.

Ispccch OF Hon ". T, Frye.l
You go over 10 Augusta and pick out the
cngiest man In that insane asylum, and you
take that crazy man and you pick out tho dark.
eSt night that ever existed and you put that
man In the deepest sleep that ever wus and you
get an angel 10 bring him the widest dream that
ever came To the CrIiest man In The darkest night
on this earth. aud Ii would not begin 10 compare
TO this insane deuSion ROurs OF laughter
National Republican., 1878-08-20

The National, the new North Carolina
weekly, devoted to the support of the Ma
tional or Greenback party, puts forth its
puerile yell for something that looks like
. bread and butter" Pass along the oleo-
margarine ON "taffy.r
National Republican., 1878-08-20
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1873,

Persons leaving the city during the sum.
mcr months can have THE NATIONAL RE
PUBLICAN mailed to their address by or
dering IT at the countins-room Of this of.
flee, either In person or by letter. Terms
my cents per month. Including postage.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

THE laboring men of the country will do
well to remember that the wages paid to
their fcllow-laborers in tho Democracy
ridden South arc less, on the average, than
fifty cents day.
National Republican., 1878-08-20

The Connecticut Natioualists propose
that the General Government shall deal
sternly with gas monopOles. This is sui
eide.