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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

One of the Manhattan On. " Saw
ings Bank robbers has been arrested in Phila-
delphia while attempting to dispose of some of
the stolen securities.
A bill authorizing the State of Penn
sylvania to redeem over $4,000, 900 worth of
certificates issued to sufferers from raids in the
border counties of that State during the late
civil war has been defeated in the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
BY an explosion of gas in coal mine
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, last week, three men were
killed and several wounded some of them fatal
ly, it is feared.
Whittemore, Peet, Post & Co., ex-
tensive wooden dry goods commission mer-
chants in New York, have failed for over half
million dollars.
Red" Leary, one Of the most no.
torious bank burglars in the country, escaped
from Ludlow Street jail, New York, by digging
his way, with the aid Of accomplices, through
the wall of his cell, and thence into the room
Of an adjoining building
The trial of DR.. T. De Witt Talmage
which has been in progress before synod of
the Presbyterian church at New York for sew
eral weeks, was brought to close the other
day, resulting in his acquittaL
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has just decided the second suit growing out of
the suspension Of George II. Stuart by the Gen
eral Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church, for hymn singing and commun-
ing with other Evangelical churches
This decision sustans Stuart and his friends,
at the same time condemninP the action of the
Synod, and continues the Rev. Dr. Sterrett and
the Second Reformed Presbyterian congrega-
ton in the undisputed possession of their
property, which has been in litigation for the
past ten years A similar suit was decided the
same way not long ago.
Robert Harris and Dell shaw, while
attempting to cross the Black river near Water
town, ~ Y, il a roy-boat, a short distance
above the Big falls, were carried over, and
drowned.
A dispatch from Pocasset, Mass, says
@the Freemans- husband and wife-have been
found guilty Of homicide, and fully committed
for trial Freeman says he will have an aston
ishing revelation 10 make, and still maintains
that he was justified OF God. His wife is
greatly crushed by the growing conviction that
she has been guilty Of q crime
Destructive fires are reported in the
fire at Unadilla, ~ Y, destroyed fourteen
buildings in the center Of the town; loss,
s6O,OO0.-The stove works Of Fuller, Warren 4
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THE SUPREME COURT.
Three Years Behind I'm It's Business-A Re-
view of the Work Done.


view of the Work Done.
A review of the business transacted
by the Supreme Court of the United
States during the term just ended, says
Washington correspondent. shows that
the court considered since last October
1913 cases, in addition to twenty-nine
passed and continued and six ordered
for reargument. One hundred and
seventy-six of the cases brought before
it were argued orally and 1T submitted
upon printed briefs.
The number of cases finally disposed
of, including those brought over pend
ing decision from the previous term, is
379. In POI of these cases the decisions
OF the lower courts were affirmed, and
seventy-nine reversed, the remainder
having been docketed and dismissed or
settled by agreement between the con-
tending parties. 1t thus appears that
two cases out of every five actually de-
cided have resulted in the reversal of
the judgments of the courts below.
The number of cases Cd the docket
has been steadily increasing every year
since 1910, until il has reached, includ-
ing the cases considered this term, $50.
The court is now more than three years
behind in it's business, but it is hoped
that the operations of the new law linn
iting appeals TO cases involving $4,000
or more, instead of 81 900, as heretofore,
will relieve the hard-worked Justices to
some extent, and enable them to keep
up with the constantly-aecumulating ap-
peals.
An analysis of the docket for the
present term shows that, of the 1880
eases decided and pending, one-half
come from the five States of New York,
Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, and Penn
sylvania, the District of Columbia and
Court of Claims. New York heads the
list with 146 cases, followed by Illinois
with So; the District of Columbia, 80;
Louisiana, rs; Missouri, 70; Pennsyl
vania, Sc, and the Court of Claims, So.
Every State and Territory in the Union
is represented by at least one case with
the exception of Delaware.
An examination into the personality
of the htigants shows that in twenty
one of the 379 cases disposed of this
term the United States was party, and
that 1873 involved railroads, States, mu-
inequalities and other corporations,
leaving only los cases in which the con-
tending parties were private individuals.
Among the salient features of the bust
ness of the term is large number of
municipal-bond cases considered and
decided. Twentyfour cities, counties,
and towns seeking to avoid the pay
ment of obligations have brought their
cases by appeal to this court of last re-
sort. In twenty-three instances out of
twenty-four the court has held that the
bonds must be paid. OF these twenty
four cases, all but four came from Hi
nois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa,
and Louisiana.
A comparison of the work accom-
plished this term with that of the last
shows decrease of thirty-two in the
number of cases finally cleared from the
docket. The number of opinions de-
ivered, however, is about the same.
The court is now seventy-two cases fur
ther behind in It's work than it was at
the close of the October term of 1877.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Lieut.. Coyte, of the British navy, ar
rested on suspicion Of being the author OF a
ridiculous story about pirate ship of Fastnet'
light, ON the 10th of January last, has been
convicted Of the offense and dismissed the
service
st. Petersburg dispatches deny the
reports of the terror-stricken condition Of that
city.
Owing to trichina having been dis
covered in some hogs shipped from Philadel-
phia to Liverpool, England has issued an order,
to take effect June /, interdicting the importa-
ton of American swine.
A London correspondent OF the
Edinburgh Scotsman says the spaniards have
concluded convention with the King of Anam,
Cochin China, with the purpose OF supplying
Cuba with Anamite laborers.
The gallant little American horse
Parole has scored another victory over the
English racers, winning the great Cheshire
handicap stakes at Chester, England, with the
utmost ease. A London dispatch says of the
race that Parole was the last in the first turn
round; then, arousing himself, he ran through
the competing horses like a flash of lightning.
The other jockeys looked at the performance In
perfect stupefaction, almost as il they had seen
phantom horses in their ranks The applause
for the American horse was immense as he
came in on the canter past the winning chair. 7"
Yakoob Khan arrived at the English
camp on the Sth inst, and sent word to the
Viceroy of India that he desired to establish
friendly relations between Afghanistan and
India.
A dispatch from Lahore, India, an
nounces that Yakoob Khan has accepted all the
British proposals. These advance the frontier
line 80 as to give the British the Kojui pass,
Pisheen valley, the Korum valley as far as the
Shuargaden pass, and the Khyber pass as far
as Loarg The British also gain the right to
keep an agent at Candahar
King Alfonso, of Spain, is betrothed
to an Austrian Princess.
At the consistory held at Rome on
the 10Th of May, the Pope appointed five Car
dinal priests and three Cardinal deacons.
Among the new Cardinals are the Rev. Dr.
John Henry Newman, of England, and the
Rev. Dr. Hergenrother. The Pope also made
numerous appointments to Bishoprics, among
them those of Cardinal Hohenlohe to the Bish-
opric of Albano, the Rev. DR.. McCsbe to that
Of Dublin, and the Rev. DR.. Woodlock to that
of Ardagh and Clonmocrois.
A nameless pestilence is ravaging the
Russian villages in the Caucasus, and the peo-
pie are trying to save themselves by prayer.
The disease is probably the plague but the
papers confine themselves to describing its
terrible virulence, without venturing to guess
Its name.
The principal part of the town of
Irbit, at the confluence of the Irbit and Neiva
rivers, in Siberia, is burned
A cable dispatch says that political
murders in Russia have been recently confined
to the provinces The stringent measures
adopted against them seem to have cowed the
conspirators in ST. Petersburg. The Gar has
decreed that prisoners tried by court martial
must be doomed or acquitted within twenty
four hours, and the sentences must be executed
within twenty-four hours from the time they
are pronounced.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The entire force of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing at Washington is kept
busy every day in the week, including Sunday,
printing the $40 refunding certificates
A statement of the funding opera
tons OF the Treasury Department since the lst
of March, 1877, gives the total amount of bonds
disposed of as sos, COS. 700, and the total
amount of interest saved, sl3,6,s,651.
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To BE interesting speaker should be
full Of his subject, unless he happens to
be speaking against liquor.
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Interesting Statistics.

A member of the English Parliament
has had the curiosity to give the follow
ing statistics relative to the state of
matrir.ony in the city of London and
county of Middlesex:
Wives who have left tn cir husbands. $500. 1872
Husbands who have fed from their wives. 2.371
Married people divorced. ................... 412U
Married people living In perpetual warfare .g1 023
in public. ................ ............ l62, 200
difference. .5io.1ss
Ihose who are apparently happy. Ito.
those who relatively happy. ............ 1as
Those VINO are really happy. o
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-17
PROPOSALS.. g
DRoPosALs FOR FUEL, FORAGE, AMI
Il STRAW.
DEroT QUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE,


SEALED PROPOSALS, in trlplicSte, addressed to
n ho y pnSsReq dsdsR OCn S Ss TFDkS sSSSd JUNE
which time and place they will be opened In the
presence Of bidders for furnishing and delivering
required during the fiscal year commencing July
l. 1870 and ending June 20, 1880 at the. various
offices and officers quarters IN this city and George
town, d, Ca and at Fort Whpple, Va, about 200
cords Oak Wood, sawed and split; 100 cords Of Oak
Wood in the stick, 700 cords Pine Kindlilig Wood
sawed and split 20 cords of Pine Wood In the stick
2499 tons G9s 400 tons RSdAss sS SgG
for free from slate, dust or dirt and 20 tons of Bi
luminous Lump Coal All Of the wo9d ana % coa 70 70
weigh 2,2i0 pounds TO the ton.
TIE lowest aggregate bid for the wood or coal or
both, will be entertained. Also for furnishing ana
delivering during the samo period all the Corn,
Oats, Hay, and Rye Straw required at the various
cOrrns and officers quarters, In this city ana
georgctown, D. ci Soldiers Home, D. O., and Fort
one copy of this advertisement must be securely
attached TO each tfiplcate proposal and be men-
TONED therein as comprising part Of II. .., a. 4.
Blanks for proposals and circulars, stating the
kind and estimated quantities. required at each
post or place and giving full instructions as TO man
ner Of bidding, and conditions 10 be observed BY
bidders, and terms Of contract and payment, VIII
be furnished Oh application to this Office.
One copy of circular must be securely attached
TO each triplicate proposal and be mentioned there
In as comprising pnrt Of IT,
The successful bidder viii be required TO enter
into written contract with the United States with
good and approved security, In the sum oil hye
thousand dollars within ten days after being noti-
fed of the acceptance of his proposal.
Proposals must be inclosed in sealed envelopes
marked Proposals for Fuc" and proposals for
Forage and Straw" and addressed to the under
signed.
The United States reserves the right to reject any
or all proposals and these proposals arc invited un
der provision that appropriation shall be made foi
the supplies by Congress If otherwise, the Gov
ernment Will not accept any bid nor enter into
contract.
Aprefcrenco will be given to articles Of domestic
production, conditions OF price and quality being
equal. A. L. ROCKWELL,
mayl3 Depot Quarm.sicn
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-17

and excites distrust toward the party en-
gaged In this work Of revolution. The
direct tendency OF this Democratic policy Is
to disturb confidence, dsarm enterprise,
cripple our industries, and thus take em-
ployment aud bread from the workers, for
the reason that when revolution In any
form shows it's head capital and enterprise
retire to seclusion, and employment and its
rewards are nowhere to be found, and the
workers of the country are brought to grief
After passing through o series of financial
crises which had entailed great suffering
upon the laboring classes, when resumption
was achieved and steadily maintained, con-
fdence began to return to the marts of trade
and business, and it began to put on the air
Of hope and increased activity. The
country had the promise Of revival
of business, but when the Democratic
party assumed hostile stand toward the
Executive and the laws of the country, and
threatened to starve the Government unless
they could be permitted to disarm it of the
power to enforce its own laws and protect
the rights Of the people by every constitu-
tional agency, that promise was dimmed
and the business heart sank back into dis
appointment and disgust ut this fresh out
rage. The hope that inspired the business
heart Of the country In February last be-
gan to fade in March, when the Democratic
programme was promulgated to the coun-
try, and the policy of that party began to
take shape under its inspirations, and II
has grown weaker daily ever since. 1t is
now too late for the Democrats to check
the mischief they have inaugurated by any
makeshift. They must meet the people on
their own reconstructed platform of state
Rights and stand or fall by the issues they
have created and presented to the country
No shifting of scenery-no change OF actors
can disarm the plot of this comedy OF
errors of It's mischievous character and ten
denotes. The Democrats have selected their
parts in the political drama, and now the
play must so through as they have put il
OH the stage
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-17
DEMOCRATIC PLArFoRM-MAKING.

DEMOCRATIC MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Democrats think they are making
platform for the Republican party, but they
are not. The platform Of the Republicans
is firmly laid, and with enduring cement.
1t is imbedded in the spirit and letter of
the Constitution and concreted with the
principles of freedom, equality, right, and
justice under the law. In all this it differs
from the platform of the Democrats and
from any platform they can create from the
broken fragments of treason, rebellion, sec
tional hate, dishonesty of purpose, infringe
ments upon the rights of citizenship, rs
well as upon the purity and honesty of the
ballot-box, and from inGdelity to the Union,
the Constitution, and such laws as they
deem born of the passions Of strife, and
with which they are now wrestling TO pro-
vide loOthold for their scattered forces
The Democrats are now repairing and re-
constructing their platform for 1880, upon
which to do battle for the mastery; and
yet every plank they gather from
their present policy and insert, only
adds rottenness and weakness to the struc-
ture. Every step the Democrats have taken
during the present and past sessions of Con-
gress, in the direction of disloyalty TO the
national power and loyalty to the State gov
ernments as supreme above the Federal au-
thority in matters relating to the Federal
Government has only added 10 their weak.
ness with the people. They assumed q
quasi revolutionary attitude toward the
General Government, and they soon learned
from the people that revolution holds no
place in the Northern heart There may be
few Democrats in the Nor tn who sympa-
thiZed with the other rebellion, and are
ready to egg on revolution now, but the
mass of the people spurn such Gn attitude
as they would n pestilence, and take no
stock in the starvation revolution which Is
now being nursed in Congress. SO long as
the Democrats build platforms for them
selves by such architects aud out Of such
material, they are welcome to the perform
ance, for each plank and each nail thus in
troduced will form their final encasement
as party, If they fancy they are deceiv-
ing the people they are deluded. Ii they
think the business and commercial interests
of the country sympathize with them in any
degree they are entirely mistaken, for the
people want peace and quiet from revolu-
ton or its agencies. They have had enough
of secession and rebellion, and do not desire
any more, or of starvation revolution as
their substitute.
The attempt now being made to strip the
reserved Federal power of its supreme au-
thority aud to divide it with the States is
IN assault which attracts public attention,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-17

WE notice that Mr.. COOPER, Of Tennes-
see, takes occasion TO complain because THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN declined to insert
in its columns u long and abusive letter over
his signature pointed at Mr.. HoUK, which
was peculiarly in the interest o. rersouai
q"Hrrel pet"e.ee;l the two parties, and in
which the public have no especial interest
Mr. COOPER is right in the predicate Of his
complaint. letter over his own signature,
full of abuse Of Mr.. HouK, appeared in an
other city paper, when Mr.. HoUK was de-
MED the privilege of making answer, and
we granted the latter an opportunity to de-
fend himself in THE REPUBLICAN, and there
we proposed to stop. When Mr.. COOPER
asked us to surrender twice the amount Of
space occupied by Mr. II. to admit COM
munication surcharged with malignant
abuse, if not with repeated libels, we de-
clned and hence he charges THE REPUB-
LIcAN with uniairness. Perhaps we made
q mistake in inserting Mr.. HoUK's commu-
nication, but, as he had been denied hear
ing in the paper in which he had been
assailed, we acted more indulgently
than we otherwise should. 1t has become
too much habit when gentlemen get Mt
loggerheads over questions in which the
public have very little, if any, interest, to
invade the columns of the public press TO
fight n wordy duel in the adjustment of
their personal griefs, and too often the am
munition used is not any too fragrant, and all
at the expense OF the innocent parties who
conduct the arena thus sought to be used.
We regard this as an innovation of the laws
of right and propriety, and much prefer in
any instance of this kind TO be excused
from any participation in such wordy en-
counters The newspaper is not the proper
place for adjusting personal quarels, not
even those of the editor himself, and for that
reason we hope TO see this practice re-
formed.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-17
PERSONAL


ARTHUR G. MORTON, of Boston, is at the St. James.
Hon. L. Is. FINLEY. of Ohio, is guest at VII.
lard's.
Hon. WILLIAM A. PILE is stopping at the Riggs
House.
SESAToRJ. W.. JOHNSTON, of Virginia, has apart
ments at Wizards.
Hon J. A. HuBBELL, of Michigan, registered at
the National yesterday
MRs GENERAL ANDREW PORTER, of Philadelphia,
has rooms at the Ebbiu House.
HENRY HARRISON, of Virginia and Dick Lamar
of New York, are guests at Wormleys.
c. A. EARNEST. U. S. A.: t. Rogers u. s. NJ
and c. II. Boyd United States Coast Survey, are
registered at the Ebbitt House.
GEORGE RICHARDS of New Jersey; l.. X. Snoad
and wife, Texas; Mrs Addison Gilmore Boston
aud f. r. Fcnncssy, New York, are stopping at the
Riggs House.
JOIN w. STEPHENS L. 3. N. Morgan George V.
Lawrence A. Craig, j. X Loring, and William
Hill, members of the Pennsylvania Legislature
have taken rooms at the Ebbitt House.
STEPHEN I. STILLwELL and wife. of New York
James =. Hull, Buffalo; l.. Quisenberry and vile
Missouri; y. 4. Chaplin, Boston; A. ]. Fuller
Maine and Mrs. Jacob 'Strawn, Illinois, registered
at the Metropolitan yesterday.
ALEXANDER MCDoNALD of Virginia T. Palmer
OF York. Pa; w. j. Crossey and wife, of Proyi
dcnce, X, l.; A. H. Greenhord, of Indiana; ii. II
Stilewcll, of Indiana; a. w. Patterson, Of New
York Dr. J II. Moseby and wife, of Brooklyn, n
y; Thomas j. Evans, of Richmond, Va; NJ. ID
Murray, of Philadelphia, Pa, and X. Jackson, o
Troy, N. ", registered at the st. James Yesterday
MOTHERS should take warning and stop dosing
their babies with laudnnunl while tecthing. DR.
Bulls Baby Syrup answers the same purpose ant
Is perfectly harmless. Price, % cents.
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SENATOR CoNKLINC,s spEECH.

TO supply he extraordinary demand for
Senator COnktng's Great Speech upon "THE
extra SESSION OF 1879; WHAT IT
TEACHES AND WHAT IT MEANS" he
National Republican Printing Company has
printed large edition thereof IN pamphlet
form, conveuieat for public distribution as a
Republican campaign document. Copies OF
This pamphlet may be had on application at our
Counting. Room or JOB o9ice, at the rate Of
$40 per thousand. Orders respectfully solicited
aad prOmpny -6Red.
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pR0p09ALS.
PROPOSALS FOR COAL,

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE TssANE.
NEAR WAslIfSGToN, ID. G., May IL, 1872.
Sealed proposals. are invited until noon ot SATUR-
DAY, May y, 1870 when they Will be opened, at the
Hospital In the presence of such bidders as choose 70
attend, 10 furnish the Hospital fifteen hundred O)
tons, of 220 pounds each, OF best run of mine, btu
minous, Cumberland coal, md e ur hundred (l00)
tons 22iO pounds eaC of anthracite coal, range Size
to be delivered In boats alongside OF the Hospital
wharf or in cars upon the wharf the delivery TO com
mence about July 1879, and TO be continued. ut
the rate of not less than four hundred (l00) tons
week, until the whole quantity advertised Tor Is do
lvered The coal will be received Ia strict accord.
nnce with the act of Congress approved July L. 1870
Payments of ninety (O) per cent. OF the amount due
for coal received each week viii be made aud the ten
U0) per cent withheld Will be paid when the full guam
tity Of coul engaged to be delivered in accordancewh
this advertisement Is received. No offer to furnish
coal above will be considered unless the true name
IL given In tile offer by which the coal the bidder pro
poses to furnish s known IN the market, nor unless II
Is made by regular dealer or miner and the sue cess
iu bidder must furnish the exact quantity and de
scrpton of coal that he agrees to furnish. Offers Will
be received rom the same person or comrany to fur.
nsh either bitunlinous or anthracite coal nlone, or
bolh kinds Of coal. Bids will be considered binding
TIL the st OF June 1870 and the right Is distinctly re-
served TO reject ~ or any Of the offers made, II In
the Judgment OF the Superintendent the public inter
ess require II or to buy the coal In open market at
the expense Of any contractor niling to comply with
the terms of his contract
w. w. GoDDINu.
myii superintendent
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-17

SENATOR HAMlN'ss rctugh to the Senate
. AMONG the certainties of the future if he
is alive and in good health in 1Ss0-'s1. He
will have completed the seventieth year of
his life ON the 27th of August next, and is
still as hale and hearty as he was when, a
half a century ago, he "set" type for liv-
ing up in Maine.