National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-06

THE Peruvian war vessels have taken to
the Chilian cavalry. Secretary
THOMPSON should look into this. 1t will
not do to permit our South American neigh
bors to get ahead of us, even in the horse
marine business
The election news from Kentucky is not
very exciting. The only pivotal indica-
tions that.are even derived from the dark
" and bloody ground" relate to the prices
of breeding jacks, stations, and Bourbon
whisky.
THE New York State Democratic Com
mittee will meet at the International |
Hotel, Niagara Falls, on Friday of next |
week. Fitting day and place; hangman's |
day, and in the immediate presence of the
most gigantic water-squirt in the world.
OF course JEFF DAVIS is not candidate
for the Senate, and of course, the Misss-
sippi Democracy would not do such foolish
thing as to elect him TO succeed Senator
BRUCE. But the Democratic Convention of
Clark County, in that State, indorsed him
for the position, all the same.
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MORE than one-half of the interest charge
upon the public debt as it stood at the close
of the war has been swept away by pay
ments and refunding of the principal, and
if the Republican party continues in power
the same bright prospects will continue. But
the Democracy must keep hands off.
THE Chickasaw Guards is the name of
the crack militia company in Memphis
but all of its members have refugeed in the
face of Yellow Jack. The city does not
suffer from their absence, however, for the
places of these brave soldiers are now filled,
as all the world knows, by couple of
"nigger" companies.
The Mississippi Democrats continue to
disagree and the result is elimination and
recrimination, during which the fact APP
pears that everything in the way of politi-
cal murders and prescription charged against
them by the Republicans during the past
four or five years is true. When rogues fall
out, &c.
THE "strays" are coming back into the
Republican fold up in Maine. Seventy
men, according to the Bangor Wing, of that
city, oil of whom voted the Greenback
ticket last year, have lately rejoined the
straight-out Republican club in the town of
Gardiner And Secretary SHERMAN made
only five speeches in the State.
THE political gossips have it that Secre-
tary SHERMAN and Senator BLAINE have
entered into a combination to "beat
"GRANT." Perhaps they have; but if
GRANT does not receive the nomination
next year it will be because the people do
not want him, and not because of any COM
bination for or against him.
THOSE Cincinnati ward-strikers who tes-
titled that they were paid by both sides to
do political "worll" in the campaign of
1878 make frst-class witnesses before the
Democratic Congressional Investigating
Committee now in session in that city But
there is some cause for suspicion that an
attempt has been made by them to infringe
upon the New Orleans patent
Now the disappointed Office-seeker in
Louisiana has abandoned his habit of SLAM
dering and lying about the bestower of
patronage and taken to the plan of assas-
sination. Collector BADGER seems to have
been selected as the first intended victim of
this change of policy, and at time, too,
when he was subjected to charges alleged
against him under the old and accustomed
plan.
GENERAL MILES complains that many
"half-breed trains" are scattered over the
frontier country SELLING ammunition to the
" hostiles." The prototypes OF these prairie
miscreants may be found in existingpolitical
conditions in the East. The Northern
Doughiace Democracy is engaged in selling
ammunition TO the Confederate Brigadiers,
and giving aid and comfort to the attempted
revival of State Rights
THE trouble in Virginia just now is that
the dominant party in the State Govern
ment is without capable flnanciers, and is
therefore incapable Of rescuing the Com
monwealth from its financial embarrass-
ments. Tho people, as q mass, are honest
enough, and would pay the Stat debt to the
last penny, thereby preserving tho honor
and reputation Of old Virginia against sus-
picion and tarnishi but they are without
leaders Verify the day of craftsmanship
has passed away in the Old Dominion
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TRNNFssEE will voia to-morrOw on the
question of repudating her State debt.
The alternative presented by which this dis