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once elevated him far beyond the reach of
his rude and quarrelsome assailant, and left
the latter and his coachers to share alike
the disgrace and disgust that the
scene which they had inaugurated
brought upon their offending heads.
There was no measure to the
whitening contempt that Senator CoNK-
LING evinced toward his confederated as
sailants while his words fell like Goals of
fire and hot embers upon the heads of those
who had conspired to disgrace the Senate
Chamber by a scene more becoming bar
room broil or among the rude elements of a
ward political caucus. This scene, dis
graceful as it is, may perhaps be regarded as
the fitting dcROuemom Of vile conspiracy
against the peace and dignity of this nation
For eighteen years Congress has been ex-
empted from such disgraceful scenes, for
until the present session the enemies of
peace, good order, and ordinary propriety in
and out of Government have been in Mi
nority and on their good behavior, and
their plantation manners have been held
under restraint. But now the case is diff
ferent. The Confederate Brigadiers are in
power, and they have resolved to either con-
troll public affairs in accordance with their
crude and unhealthy notions of government
or bring disgrace upon our national good
name.
The conspiracy to draw Senator CoNK-
LING into personal quarrel, and, in accord
with the Southern code, into violent en-
counter is apparent; but it utterly failed
in its purpose. Not for want of courage on
the part of the assailed, but for the reason
that he regards his own and the reputation
of this Government of more consequence TO
himself than the personal chastisement of q
regiment of Confederate Brigadiers. A sur
vey of the battlefield fails to develop any
proper cause for this emoRe; but it had TO
come, as a part of the Confederate pro-
gramme, and no Republican has cause to
regret 1t, for the reason that it reveals to
the country another and an appropriate
chapter in the history of Congress which
is clothed with the spirit and purpose of Sc
dition and revolution and which is no more
in accord with the genius and spirit of oul
Government than its predecessor, which ex-
lpired at the threshold of the rebellion
This occurrence affords the people anothe
opportunity to study the intents and pur
poses of the majority of this Congress, ant
to appreciate to some extent the peris tina
now environ the peace, harmony, and wei
fare of the Government
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WHAT THE CoDEo REQ UIREs.

The Views OF One Who Has Been There
Senator Conkling's Response the Only One
He Could Make-The Gentleman Sinks
Into the Blaokguard when He Abuses the
Privilege of Place.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 10, 1870.
To The Editor of The National Republican:
SIR: The trouble between Senators Lamar
and Conkling last night is probably ended, be-
cause Mr., Lamar is protected by the place in
which the words were spoken, and he will not
repeat them elsewhere. Mr.. Conkling is not
under the code" even required to notice Mr..
Lamar any further than he has done. Mr..
Lamar said Mr.. Conkling had been guilty of
falsehood. He said it in place where Mr.
Conkling could not resent It by blow any
more than he could in private parlor and in
the presence of ladies. Mr.. Conkling took
the only course left him. He did not handy
epithcts, and lie could not strike Mr.. Lamar, so
he said to him, Elsewhere from this, ifyou will
repeat that language, l will tell you that you
are coward, liar, AMI blackguard." As
the matter now stands, Mr.. Lamar Is PRO.
tected" by the rules of the Senate from any
thing further from Mr.. Conkling, who has re-
sented, in the only way he could, the insulting
language of Mr.. Lamar. But the latter has
only one way left him to reply to the insult of
Mr.. Conkling, and that is at some other place
than on the Senate floor to hold him account
able. He will not do it, and there the matter
ends. That Is my understanding of what "the
code" requires, and have had some experience
under it, though not so much hs my friend, cx.
Senator Foote, who, If he were here, could tell
| exactly which party had to move first. think
the gentleman sinks into the "blackguard and
coward" when he uses such language as re-
quires blow for an answer in a place where
the blow cannot be given, and that, l believe,
| is the doctrine of the code. N.
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CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS.

The National Republican Printing and PUB.
fishing Company has printed and for sale, ID,
large or small quantities, The follocing speeches
Senator ConkIing, 16 pages.
Senator EdmundS, 30 pages.
Senator Blaine, 16 pages.
Hon Charles II. Joyce, 16 pages.
Hon j. c. Brro,cS, 16 pages.
Hon. James 4. Garfield, pages.
Other speeches wH be added to the list from
time 10 time.
Orders By mail promptly .fHed.
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Personal.

q. y EBER Of Paris, is sojourning at the Airing
Hos. r. e. FENTos, of Jamestown N. Y, is at the
Arlington.
yesterday.
DR.. CHAuLE, of New Orleans, is registered at the
Riggs House.
GENERAL LOUIS WAGNER, of Philadelphia, is
Quartered at Wizards.
II. w. Booth and L. w. Frost of New York, are
stopping at Wormleys.
s. r. GARDNER, JR., of Connecticut, booked at the
Ebbt House yesterday.
Hos. J. X. MCPHERSON. OF New Jersey, registered
at the Arlington yesterday.
A. l.. HALL, U. S. N, and w. NJ. Constant, U. s..
~, are at the Ebbitt House.
DIR. II. s. PERRY, U. S. N, and wife are an
chorcd at the Ebbitt House.
HoN. WILLIAM MCCLELLAND, of Philadelphia, is
among the guests at Wizards.
COLONEL THOMAS J. ECKERsoN and wife, of Texas,
are camping at the Ebbitt House.
CAlTAIS II. B. SERLY, U. s. N, swung his ham,
mock at the Ebbitt House lastnght
Hon THOMAS b. KEoGH of North Clrolina,
booked at the Ebbtt House yesterday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. Lowry MANN and Miss Mann, of
Cheshire, Eng, are guests at the Arlington.
AMONG the guests at the National yesterday were
Hon b. Wilson, West virginia, and Hon. Jay A.
llubbell Michigan.
CHARLES REED, of Chicago; William II, Grenellc,
New York, and X. Il. Shellabager and lady have
rooms at the Riggs House.
HOS. h W. BLAIR, tle neWIy'elccted senator
from Now Hampshire, arrived in the city yester.
day, and has apartments Mt the National.
X. S. MEssICK and w. S. Messick. of Nevada
William j. Bayand, OF Pennsylvania, and Dwight
X. Trpp of San Francisco, are at Wizards.
GENERAL SHERMAN and party passed through
Detroit yesterday on their way to attend the com.
| mencenient exercises of the Michigan Mlitary
Academy, at orchard Lake near Pontiac.
Miss OLIVE RIsLEY SEWARD the amiable adopted
daughter of the late Secretary Seward is reported
| 70 be writing new book
\ MARBLE bust of Frederick Douglass was for
mally presented to the city of Rochester by NUM-
| Slbley Hall.
| AMoSG the delegates in attendance upon the
thirtytth annual session nf the National Division
| Sons of Temperance of North America, held In the
Congregational Church, Is W. II. i. Combs, Of Rich
| mond Va who was the first colored man TO plant
| the banner of temperance In the South.
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THE sATURNALIA OF CONGREss.

On Wednesday night the Senate of the
United States became n scene of disorder,
discourtesy, aud disgrace through the ire
strainable ill-nature and worse manners of
au ex-Confederate Brigadier, Senator La
MAR put on his plantation manners, and,
in violation of every rule of parliamentary
usage aud propriety, aud behind his parlia-
mentary privilege" offered direct and
unprovoked insult TO Senator CoNKING.
Nothing had transpred in the proceedings
of the Senate that could possibly be pleaded
in justification or extenuation Of the con-
duct of LAMAR, who ut once sunk himself
TO the level of a common blackguard and
bully and excited the disgust and contempt
of every right minded man within the
Senate Chamber, whether on its floor or in
its galleries. Descending from the poisc
and dignity of the Senator to the grovel-
ing plane of the grounding, with the man
ners of the boor and the swagger oi
the braggart, he made the saddest
exhibition of himself that has dishonored
that Chamber since the day the cudgel
Of Bully BROOKS descended upon the
fated head of SUMNER. And what is
more and worse for LAMAR, he had allowed
himself, like mere prize-fghter to be
coached and groomed for the occasion by
his ex Confederate peers, and to be egged
| on to his own disgrace and that of the Senate
by their encouraging words aud evil spirit
Prominent among his coachers was VANCE
who divided his time between a proddingO
LAMAR on aud an almost constant violation
of the propricties Of the Senate Chamber by
words and signs Of encouragement whicl
at times degcnerated into the service ant
acts of the mere ciaquer.
Senator CoNKLISo received the insul
rendered with dignity of bearing and
propriety and power of language which a
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SENATOR HILL struck the keynote of the
situation yesterday in n short speech which
commanded much attention. He declared
to the Senate that there is more danger to
the Republic from non-action than from
revolution. The Government, he insisted,
cannot be destroyed by open and armed
revolution MS easily as by an insidious policy
of non-action which withholds from it the
needed means for the performance of its
functions. These may not be his precise
words, but they convey his meaning In
this he virtually conceded all that the Re-
publicans in both Houses of Congress have
contended for since this extra session was
made necessary by the non-action or-which
is the same thing-by the wrong action of
the House of the last Congress 1t is to be
hoped that Mr.. HILL by this impulsive eff
fort may arouse both Houses of the present
Congress to q sense Of duty and put stop
to the non-action policy of the majority that
now menaces the Government and threatens
it with revolution. Through this non-
action it is now within ten days of the end
of the fiscal year without appropriations ex-
tending beyond that period for several ofits
Departments.
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DIED..

m JOHN PEER, aged 50 years, native of New York,
but for the past two years q Resident OF this tity
His felloW-craftsmen OF Columbia Typographical
Union and other friends are requested 10 attend his
funeral from his late residence, No. 6l0 New Jersey
avenue northwest this (Friday) afternoon, at Z
o'clock,
SIIREVE-Very suddenly, June 10, MOLLIE L..
beloved wife of Walter Il. Shreve and eldest daugh-
ter of George w. and Mary NJ. Harrington.
Funeral services at $3.50 O'clock Saturday afternoon,
streets: Friends OF the family are cordially invited
TO attend.
SYPHAX.-Fel asleep In Jesus, on the 18th inst.
at o'clock a.. m, after long and painful illness,
LOUISA, wife Of Charles Syphax, in the 2sth year OF
her age.
Her funeral will take place to-day Friday), the Goth
inst at Union Bethel Church, on street northwest
at $50 p. IN, Friends of the family invited 10 at
tend
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still believes that secession was right. Let us
look to It from this time until tho campaign of
1880 is ended that none but the loyal and true
arc put on guard. Eternal vigilance Is the
price of liberty"
fear that l have perhaps woaried your
patience but felt IL my duty to say this much
by way of encouragement to you in your manly,
straightforward struggle in behalf of the cause
of liberty, truth, and justice. Very truly and
sincerely with you for the Union,
EX.UNION VOLUNTEER.
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DECAY OF AMERICAN COMMERCE.

Senator BLAINE had been invited to ad-
dress the business men of New York on
" The Decay of American Commerce and
"the Means for Promoting Its Revival"
but owing to pressing engagements in Con-
gress, he was unable to accept, and has
written a letter on the subject propounded.
That letter was published in the New York
papers yesterday morning, but is so elaborate
that it is not possible for us to republish it
in ectenSO without asurrender of more space
than is consistent with the pressure of other
current matter upon our columns. The
letter takes broad and catholic view of
the field of American commerce. 1t traces
the causes which have led to its decline,
until as nation we hold an inferior rank
in the marine scale, and it makes some very
sensible and forcble suggestions regarding
the agencies by which we may hope to pro-
mote a healthful revival of our commercial
interests. 1t appears from the statements
of Mr.. BLAINE that twenty years ago the
United States stood nearly, If not squarely,
side by side with Great Britain in ocean
tonnage This rank was held until
1861, when, of course, our commerce
was placed in jeopardy, and disappeared to
a great extent from the high seas, Our
merchantmen were withdrawn from the
paths OF commerce and converted into war
agencies. Eight hundred thousand tons of
American shipping cancelled their American
registry and adopted the flags of other ma
tons to escape destruction at the hands o
hostile cruisers that had been built by
British hands and money, and were manned
by British crews but which trayersed the
ocean under the flag of confederacy o.
rebel States, dealing destruction on every
hand. These ships have been worn out
and replaced, not from our own docks anC
shipyards, but from those of foreign nations
and of iron material and heavier ton
mage, until our commerce is at an exceed
ing low obb, and calls for national succo
aud foster care.
Mr. BLAINE suggests remedy through
the building up of private yards along tn
Atlantic and Pacific coasts under encour
agement from the National Government
He cites, in support of this proposition, tn
fact chat Great Britain is paying her vari
GUS steamship lines subsidy exceeding S3,
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THE starvation policy begins to bear
fruit. We learn from the Philadelphia Press
that, owing to the failure Of Congress to
make the necessary appropriations to pay
the expenses of the United States courts,
the witnesses summoned TO attend the Dis
trict Court in that city are obliged to 20
without their fees. Marshal KERNs adj
vanced the money to pay the jurors out of
his own pocket.
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CAUTIOUS critics there are who analyze
the proceedings of Wednesday night in the
Senate and discover that Senator BLAINE
provoked the war, so called, which was SUBJ
sequently carried on by Messrs LAMAR and
CONKLING.
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NOTHING would be more grateful to the
Republican sense than to have MONT
GoMERY BLAIR step into Senator WHITES
shoes, for if the Democrats have not trouble
enough now TO ruin their prospects, BLAIR
would round out their case beautifully.
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In referring to Hon. L. P. MonToN's
speech of Wednesday, which we cannot
give at length at present, we desire to say
that it was compact, pointed, and well said.
He characterized the trade-dollar bill,
which provides for an exchange of the trade
dollar for the dollar of the daddies at
par as bill for the relief Of the subjects of
the Emperor of China. This is apt.
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SANFORD Z. CHURCH, of New York, be-
gins to boom in that State as TILDENs
competitor in 1850. Anything would be an
improvement on TILDEN, the people begin
to think
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To his credit be it said, while LAMAR
VANCE and others were making bullies of
themselves in the Senate on Wednesday
night, BEN HILL was among the best be-
haved men in that body.
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IT is questionable at least to allow the baby to ex-
haust itself and annoy the household with Its con-
tinual crying when that tried remedy DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup, will quiet 1t at once. Price, % cents,
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SOME one must squelch CoNKLING! This
was the decision of the Southern Senatorial
bull-dozers who have felt and cringed under
the weight of his argument and sarcasm
The bloody-handcd LAMAR, author Of the
Mississippi Plan" in Southern politics
was selected, as it appears, to do the
squelching. But he failed ANONYMOUSLY
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If there is any immediate significance in
Senator BAYARD's recent victory in the
Bourbon caucus it is in n direction which
cannot fail t., bring discontinue to Mr..
THURMAN. As the Car who ruled the
caucus the latter started out to discipline
the chairman of the Finance Committee,
when the latter rallied Senators HERMAN,
GORDON, JoNEs lFla), and others to his re-
lief, aud 10! the caucus itself vanished into
thin air the Cars power crumbled into
very nothingness, aud all party discipline
Came to an end. Think Of it! BAYARD's
rebellion broke up the Bourbon star cham
ber conclaye last Wednesday. Is this a pre-
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WAS Mr. LAMAR especially selected to
play the part of a bully in the Senate last
Wednesday night?
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MARYLAND,S HERO.


Mr.. MCLANE, who made himself the hero
of an assault upon political assessments and
affected to be very severe on General GRANT
the other day, must be q contemplate piece
of hypocritical humanity under the circum-
stances He knew when he was inveighing
so Justify against political assessments that
in his own district the Democratic munich
pal government assesses its subordinates
even down to the street-sweepers, heavily at
every succeeding election for political pur-
poses. He knows this fact full WE'LL and
yet he puts on an air of honesty, which
makes even his own partisan friends smile
with derision that he should play the hypo-
critic so shamelessly. MCLANE has war
record which is consistent with his present
action. On the 18th of April, 1861, he made
a speech to the secession rabble,
in which he advocated secession and
rebellion, and declared that the
dividing line between the Confederacy aud
the Union should be the SusQuehannah
River. But as the war shadows fell upon
Maryland, instead of exposing himself to
personal danger on either side he took him.
self off to France, where he remained in
safety until the war was over and there
was no danger in return.
Now we find MCLANE raising his puny
voice against General GRANT, the recognized
conqueror of the rebellion, and assailina
him with bitter vituperation, when he is
unworthy TO unloose the latchets of his
shoes. We find him also denouncing politi-
cal assessments as an abomination, when ht
acquired his seat in Congress by sucf
agencies. Now
mo mans condition is so base as his;
None more accursed than he for man esteems
Him hateful, cause he seems not what he is;
God hates him, cause he is not what he seems"
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THE policy or impolcy of political ASSESS
meuts upon otIice-holders has been dis
cussed for time immemorial in this country
and all over the civilized world. The re.
suit is that every reasonable man in public
life has reached the conclusion that they
should not be tolerated. No reasonable
man, however, will attempt to deny to bis
fellow-citizen, in Office or out of it, the
right or privilege of voluntary contributions
TO the campaign funds of the party of his
choice, be it Democratic or Republican
This is the Republican platform, and it is q
sound one.
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LAMAR's tactics were characteristic Of the
habitual Southernbully. He made covert
insinuation, which drew out a direct retort,
and then replied by adding emphasis to his
first declaration. This evasiye procedure
enables him to appear, in the light of the
duello as the aggrieved aggressor-the man
who must receive the challenge, if one is
sent. But he has thereby incurred the rep
rotation and contempt of every loyal and
law-abiding man in the country. This
sneaking way of inviting or incurringa a duel
is worthy the law-breaking law-maker who
TesOrted TO it.
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Boss BAYARD seems to be "biger" man
than the Car of the Caucus.
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A WHITE man was lynched in Spartan
burg County, in South Carolina, last Tues
day for the murder of a white woman. This
fact is announced in the Democratic press
as "the first case of lynching that has oc-
"curred in that State for many years" We
infer from this that "stringing up Niger"
for voting the Republican ticket is not a
case of lynching, Hundreds, if not thou
sands, of outrages Of that kind have been
perpetrated in Spartanburg and other coun-
ties of that State within the past ten years.
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WAR INNIVERSARIES.
Pertinent Extracts from tho Chronology OF
The Rebellion.
1871


JUNE 20--First field telegraph laid by Engi-
ncer II. j. Rogers, between General McDoweps
headquarters and his advanced guard and the
War Department. The machinery Of the
United States steamer Colorado, while at sea,
was discovered to have been tampered with.
Cornclious Vanderbilt offered his vessels to
the Goverement at an appraised value. Frank
II. Pierpoint, chosen Governor of Virginia, in
place of Letcher deposed.
1862.
JUNE 20-General Sherman's command oc-
cupied Holly Springs, Miss; the rebels had re-
moved their armory to Atlanta, Ga. The brig
Yankee Blade arrived in New York from New
Orleans, laden with sugar, molasscs, and cot
ton. She was the first arrival since the reInis-
sion of the blockade. President Lincoln APP
proved the bill prohibiting slavery in the Ter
ritorics of the United States.
1868.
JUNE 20-A fstter from Fort Scott gave an
account of the squelching of a rebel recruiting
mission in New Mexico and Colorado. They
were nineteen in number, including three col
onels one licutenant-colonel one major,and four
| captains. The OSages attacked killed, scalped
and decapitated the whole party. The Hon
| A. j. Boreman elected Governor of the new
State of West Virginia. General Shenck called
oil Tie citizens Of Baltimore to rally to the de-
fense of the city. Baltimore appropriated
500 900 for the defense of the city. Vallan-
bingham ranch blockade at Wilmington.
| 1864.
JUNE 20-The fighting. before Petersburg
| being temporarily suspended, movement was
commenced in order to occupy and destroy the
railroad leading south from that point.
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MIRRIED

HOWE-RAY.-On "Wednesday eve ing, June ls
1879, at 81. Johns Church, Washngtons ID. G by the
Rev, Dr. John Vaughan Lewis, FRANK II. HOWE to
ELLA, daughter of Albert Ray, esd. both of WASH
ington. No cards.
New York papers please copy
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monition Of the result of the hard and soft
money contest in the coming Democratic
national convention +?