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National Republican., 1880-06-25

with his earlier struggles and successes. has Sc
cured for him soft place in the hearts of the
people.
His indomitable will, under difficulties. to
push onward in the arduous march toward
intellectual excellence attracts the attention
and challenges the admiration Of men who
arc ready to make his path smooth The
story Of the life of General Garfield is simple,
suggestive and touching. 1t was his great
good luck to be poor Necessity inspirited
him and gave him an opportunity to exhibit
the man in the boy. An orphan at two years
of age, ho was the fortunate possessor OF the
enchanting smiles Of an anxious mother
Under her smiles he grarpled the gloomy sit
uation. He beat down the hidoous barriers of
poverty and marched from the conflict way
ing the flaming banner of success
At the age of sixteen, us we are told, he
could barely read yet at the age of twenty
five he had graduated with flattering literary
honors. With a college diploma in his pocket
he was not satisfied. Iustead of considering
himself educated and finished, as most sheep.
skin sophomores do, he continued tho laborious
course of self-education by teaching others. He
became college professor, then college prcsi-
dent. He had the sagacity to know that no
mans education is ever complete He studied
and practiced the art of oratory under divine
teachers, While in intercourse with them
learn ing the sublime truths Of revelation he
became master of tho sister arts of rhetoric
and logic. SO that when plunged into the
actualities of the battles Of real life he found
himself armed.
His political speeches are marked with
ability. There is vein of original thought
running through his uttcrance, with evidences
of culture quite uncommon, and therefore the
more noticeable. Ho is yet of an age admit
ting Of the accumulation of the sources Of in
tellectual power, aud is willing, IL not amb-
tious, to go on in the same career of improv-
ing himself All honor to tho industrious
student.
1t is said of General Garfield that youth,
barefooted he drove a mule on the tow.path of
a canal. Let us remember that Henry Clay
was not the less illustrious because of the
fact that in his youth he had been the mill
boy of the slashcs."
National Republican., 1880-06-25
PERSONAL.

EX-SENATOR CATrELL of New Jersey has
recovered his health.
COLONEL JEROME NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE
and family arrived from Europe in the Gallia
aud arc at the New York Hotel.
COLONEL ROBERT PRESTON confederate
soldier who was admired for great gallantry,
died at Blackburn, Va, on Sunday.
MAJOR S. w. CLARK, recorder of the land
Office, leaves for n short stay Mt Asbury Park,
N. j., where his family occupy cottage for
the season.
EX.SEoRETARY boutwell, has recovered
from an illness from which he has been SUI.
iering since his return from the Chicago
convention.
SENATOR WITHERs met with a painful ac-
cident on Wednesday, at his farm near Wythe-
vile, Va. His foot was badly injured by u
moving machine.
THE Rev. ]. G. Briggman, n former Indian
agent at Keshena, Wis, who has been on trial
at Milwaukee,, charged with making fraudu-
lent returns to the government, has been ac-
quilted.
BISHOP HENRY w. WARREN has gone to
Atlantic City for rest and 20 recover his health
as his tour through the south recently over.
taxed his strength. During August he will
remove, with his family, to Augusta, Ga.
DANIEL DoUGHERTY tells an Enquirer re-
porter that he is struck with the taneness of
the present convention compared with the con-
vention which met in that city in 1856. He
attended the latter as an enthusiastic Douglas
man.
GENERAL THEoPoLUs II. HOLMES dicd at
Fayetteville, N. c., few days ago Il. ilio
seventy-sixth year Of his age. He was lieu.
tenant-general under Lee in the late war, Il
graduate of West Point and veteran of the
Mexican war.
EDWARD w. ScUDDER, Bennett Van Syckel
and David a. De Pue, all of New Jersey. re-
ceived the degree of LII. d. from Princeton on
Wednesday. Rev. b. b. Warheld of Penn
syvania aud Rev. John Sparhawk Jones of
Baltimore were made d. DIS at tho same
time,
BISHOP SIMPSON, Of the methodist episcopal
church, accompanied by bis wife, left New
York ON Wednesday on his mission to China
and Japan, where he will make the annual
visitation. 1t is expected that he will con-
clude his labors in time to return home by
the first of the next year.
SENATOR BECK of kentucky told an inter
viewer ut Cincinnati, the other day, that his
philosophy was: Laugh and grow fat and
don't climb hills before you come to them. -
Ho is rosy and round, has genial, kindly
manner, and is full of fun. HI would prefer u
| lark with the hounds or II visit TO the circus
any day to n session in the senate.
National Republican., 1880-06-25
SPECIAL NOTICES.

sSSSsS REPUBLIcAN POLITICAL HAND6ooK.
A handbook for public speakers and local commit
tees for the campaign OF 1880 and in the interest OF the
Republican party, prepared and complied by Henry
o'Connor OF Muscatine, Iowa. will be published and
ready for distribution on the lst OF July.
The compiler is thoroughly conversant with the
history of politics from the formation the Republi-
can party, and has the best OF opportunities for OBJ
tainlng Information from authentic sources.
The book will be carefully and systematically ar
ranged In order to be OF the greatest use and con-
venence to those for whom It ls Intended.
II will be put to press Immediately alter the ad-
Journment of the Cincinnati convention, and will be
sold for the lowest possible price. ie22-5t
National Republican., 1880-06-25
THE LAST STRUGGLE OF THE DEMoC-
RACY.

We think the democracy has made the
same kind of mistake in the selection of
candidate at Cincinnati as did the wings
in 1852, at Baltimore, in the nomination of
General SCoTT In each case the trained
statesmen were set aside because they were
statesmen, and had made record. The
soldie; was taken, not because he was
soldier-not in the spirit of hero worship
but simply and solely because he was not n
statesman. The attempt to hurrah General
ScoTr into the presidency was fiat failure.
The hollowness of the enthusiasm of the
Grassland politicians was perfectly APP
parent to the people. The statesmen who
had been set aside were hurt and sore that
their services to the party and the country
were ignored and that their very fame was
looked upon as a weakness.
The nomination of noble soldier, made
from the most ignoble motives the result
OF wretched rivalries, was the deaih-knell
of the whig party. The nomination of
HANCOCK came by reason Of exactly SINH
lar political tactics and beliefs. The result
in our opinion, will follow the parallel al
ready pointed out. Nothing will be gained
to the democracy from ringing the changes
upon the war record of their nominee, for
the campaign will not turn upon war ser
vices The questions with which they will
have to deal will be those to which their
candidate is as perfect a stranger as though
he had been a resident Of Canada. The in
justice done to the leaders of democratic
opinion, those whose lives have been passed
i'll the struggle 10 maintain its principles
and its organization, win rankle in the minds
of their followers When defeat comes, as
it certainly will, it will bring with it dis.
ruption of the conflicting elements which
sought a meaningless nomination MS the
only method Of escape from an unsolvable
problem. The democratic will follow the
whig party into dissolution, never to rise
again as anything but memory. In this
light the choice made yesterday becomes a
blessing to the country.
National Republican., 1880-06-25

THE intelligent, thoughtful, patriotic
people of the union will weigh the merits
and demerits of the two great political par
ties-the sponsors Of the candidates. They
will ask, Can the democratic party be trusted
with the executive power? VIII party
which has used all the strength it has
possessed in the legislative branch of the
government since the war to wipe out every
vestige Of the progress made toward
freedom, equality Of right and the preserva-
tion of the national feeling be likely to be
less scrupulous when welding the execu-
tive power also? Business men will ask, Is
it wise TO transfer the control of the finances
now so satisfactorily working out the
problem of debt-paying, to party which
embraces within its organization every form
of those financial heresies which have
vexed and hindered our progress to q safe
basis for future prosperity? The men at the
head of the tickets-the one trained states
man, the other only trained soldier,
would naturally attract the preponderance
OF truly conservative voters to the republi-
can party, even if there were no differences
between the party platforms and the party
histories. But when the record of the two
political organizations are compared there
is an absolute certainty that vast majority
of the citizens of the north will decide that
the hazard incident to such change is toe
great to be incurred.
National Republican., 1880-06-25

LEO MIL, departing from the policy of
inaction formed by PiUs IN, has counseled
all Italians devoted to the church to take
an active part in the municipal elections.
This wisdom is manifested in the results.
At Rome the clerical ticket has won n
sweeping victory. The most notable feature
of the triumph is the defeat of the radical,
General GARIBALD1, by Prince CHIGI, mar
shall of the conclave.
National Republican., 1880-06-25

be made upon which General HANCOCK can
not comfortably stand. JERE BLACK can
write his acceptance as it is said he wrote
the Louisiana proclamation. The dubious
platform can be construed in ways to suit
the north, the south, the east and the west,
with the positive certainty that no speech
will be raked out of tho party archives, no
vote will be found in the congressional or
other records to confront him with contra
diction
National Republican., 1880-06-25
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Manufacturers Of speciates IN Light Hardware and
Metallic Goods generally Government ana Giaut Pad
locks sewing Machine Locks, Piano Locks, Organ
Locks, the automatically made Giant Sash Chain, su.
perior TO every other and very much cheaper No
special pulley required. The Smith Egge Manuiac-
turing Co also gives special attention "a the muking
OF estimates for the cost Of the manufacture OF pat
ented inventions and all the NECESSARY tools and the
manufacturing OF the same on royalty, All commu-
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a will again be presented for the
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National Republican., 1880-06-25

THE franking privilege is a part of our
inheritance from England, and although in
this country our Legislators have at times
shamelully abused it, they never reached
the height TO which our English cousins
carried the misuse. MACAULAY wrote to his
sister while he was in office that he habtu-
ally passed portion of his morning in
franking not ouly his own, but the vol
luminous correspondence of large circle OF
friends. Lord TENTERDEN told his friends
of the bar that one Of the pleasures of his
elevation to the peerage was that he could
send their letters and parcels free. This
system continued until ROWLAND HILLand
the penny post re.established the postofiice
on basis selfpaying and honest. We can
here see that we copy some English errors,
but we do not carry them TO such an excess
nor cling to them so long
National Republican., 1880-06-25

HANCOCK and ENGLISH. This alliance
between the union soldier and the copper
head painfully reminds us of the ante
bellum compacts of the ire-eater and the
dOughlace
National Republican., 1880-06-25

WERE the pilots OF the steamboats, Ade-
laide and Grand Republic drunk, insane or
deliberately murderous when they ran
their two steamers together in the Hudson
river, the other day. Their criminal CON
duct cannot be explained except upon one
or the other Of these hypothesis. 1t was
very fortunate that each had landed its pas
sengers-those of both aggregating some
1900 souls. When the collision occurred
they were on their way to their coaling sta
tions. An account of the affair states:
The pilots of each craft saw the other whom
half Il mile apart. The Adelaide was headed
diagonalfy across the stream, and, 1t is gen
orally conceded, had the right of way. Her
pilot signaled that he meant to hold his course.
III answer from the Grand Republic was to
the same effect. The signal and the answer
were repeated. Neither pilot would change
his course. did each pilot then become
stubborn and refuse to change his intention p
asked a rcpor ter of the pilot of the Adelaide.
II don't know what you call 1t. We were
perfectly right. We gave the first signal and
stuck to it all the way through"
This tells the tale, except that the pilot
and officers of the Great Republic maintain
that they were in the right. The sequel
shows that great sacrifice Of property has
occurred through the carel essness or bull
headedness of the managers of the two
steamers. The loss Of prope rty, however
is of little consequence W hen compared
with the perils to life that lurk around
such stubbornness as charact erized the
conduct of the manag ers of these two
steamers. If there is no law to punish
these men there should be, and each and
all concerned should expiate their olense
in the penitentary, NOpersons should ever
again trust their lives in the hands of either
Of them.
National Republican., 1880-06-25

DANIEL DoUGHERTY spoiled the best hit
OF the convention when he corrected the
slip of the tongue with which he closed his
speech nominating HANCOCK. He had
said: zone word more-if nominated he
will take his seat" This was the signal
for the greatest cheering of the day. The
delegates saw no slip Of the tongue. They
saw frank ayowul Of the determination of
the democratic leaders in congress. When
Mr. DoUGHERTY came back to correct him
self with "if elected he will take his seat"
the point had all been eliminated for the
average democrat, and the amendment fell
as fat as skim milk upon the ear Of the
convention.
National Republican., 1880-06-25

As we pointed out the other day, the
hunt at Cincinnati has been for man
without a recent political record. lie has
been found. No one is able to say what
his views are upon any national issue. There
is no kind Off party platform possible to
National Republican., 1880-06-25

Bows ofColorado, who seconded FIELDS
nomination, was decidedly too drunk for
the occasion, aud yet it WAS really too
bad for a democratic convention to hoot
and jeer at man for such a thing as that,
The man BRowN could hardly have had a
better certificate of sOundncss in the faith,
National Republican., 1880-06-25

THE nomination of HANCOCK is an evil
dence that the democratic party gives up
New York and falls back upon Penusyl-
vauia. All the better for us. We care
little where the battle is fought, but can
ask for no better vantage ground than the
Keystone state.
National Republican., 1880-06-25
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The new passageway about 10 be opened across the
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National Republican., 1880-06-25

GOVERNOR HUBBARD has realizing
sense of the effect which might be produced
by insulting aud ignoring JOHN KELLY.
He closed his appeal in favor of giving
Tammany twenty votes in the convention
in the following frank statement of the
democratic strength and weakness;
Thank God said he, that we are solid
south for any nominee you may present; but
the party is not so strong that it can afford to
throw away tens of thousands Of votes. In
November we may cry, "Oh, that Blucher or
night would come" and the Tammany votes
in New York may be our Blucher. It's votes
that we want. The issue of the whole election
may depend upon our settlement of the con-
test. The regular delegation may stand SO
straight as to bend over backward. If New
York will not settle this quarrel, let us do it
for her. We do not ask anything for the
south, but we beg you to preserve harmony in
the north. New York, Indiana and New Jer-
sey must be our battle-grounds, while below
MASON and DGXoN's line we are solid for any.
body. If we fail in this election, the sun in
heaven may never again rise upon a success
ful democratic party.
National Republican., 1880-06-25

The Columbia Is. c. Register addresses
the delegates assembled in Cincinnati as
follows; "Restorc to the people Of this
great country, restore to us in the name
and by the instrumentality of that great
party, the limited, wisely-adjusted, safely
balanced government of the fathers, the
government of PINCKNEY and RUTLEDGE,
MADISON, WASHINGTON and ADAMS"
To which we reply by entreating our re-
spected cotemporary 10 retire TO his closet
and reflect that when South Carolina had
that limited wisely-adjusted, safelybal-
anced government" administered by the
said great democratic party" the people
of his state were eternally protesting against
the tyranny Of it. For the forty years pre-
vious to the wal the federal authority was
welded almost without interruption by
democrats, the laws were interpreted and
executed by men belonging to the same
party, and yet the state of South Carolina
now protesting TO be so loyal to the work
" of the fathers" was in constant state
of unrest and dissatisfaction, which finally
eliminated in an explosion which shool;
the world. The Register must excuse us il
we fail to be impressed with its devotion tc
the constitution, either as it was or rs it is
National Republican., 1880-06-25

TNHE ROSSLYN SEMINARY,
4 No 1896 ! street, near Sixteenth street north
west, Miss h Ross Principal; Mrs. Sddons, Teacher
Of Elocution; Miss Belle Ogden, English Assistant,
and II .Masson Teacher French dec3 tff
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covered and forced to go back. John
treasured her as well as he could
You'll be just as safe at the farm as
II you were IN an iron safe, " he protest
ed
But, spite OF his assurances, the Turk
ing terror never left Lucy's eyes, though
weeks sped safely by and nothing oc-
CURED to alarm her. Every sudden
noise made her start the sight of a
strange figure on the road blarched her
roses to paleness. Except for this fear
fulness, she proved an excellent "help"
IN all ways, quick, neat-tingered, sweet
tempered. Old Barbara wondered how
ever the farm had got on without her
and John in his secret heart wondered
also. 1t never should be without her
again-on that he was firmly resolved
Lucy" he said one day, three months
after she became his inmate, :" I'm tired
OF seeing you jump and culver and scut-
tie up stairs whenever the peddlar or the
ragman comes along. It's bad for YOU.
and 1t worries me almost to death Now.
there's Just one way that II make all safe,
and set your mind at ease, and that is.
that you Just marry me out of hand. and
give me the right to protect You. Once
my wife, | shouldn't care if your step
father and all the gang came after you;
let them lay finger on you at their
peril while I'm alive and have the right
to interfere VIII you, Lucy? It's the
best thing to be done, trust my word for
it. don't mean to pretend that I'm
doing it for your sake entirely" added
John, with n broad smile,< for | amt |
want you for my own sake the worst
way, but both ways it viii be a gain; so,
unless you have something against me,
say eyes, Lucy, and we'll have the par
son over tomorrow, and make all safe.
VIII you, Lucy ?"
ooh, how could | have anything
against you?" replied Lucy, with the
sweetest blush
We'll" declared John, a moment
after, as he raised his head from his first
long lovers kiss, "now [ forgive Mrs.
Nash -
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hree Debts Paid.
From the Bangor (Me.l Commercial

FROM the Bangor (he.) Commercially
a singular coincidence, showing how
much can be done by the payment of
even small debt, happened yesterday.
a gentleman was at the wharf intending
to buy some Holsters, when two gentle
men came up aud engaged with him in
conversation. The first gentlemen said
to the second, q believe | owe you a
dollar. Yes" replied the second,
/ believe YOU do. The sec
ond man then spoke to the third: Il
believe | also owe you dollar, which
fact the third man acknowledged, and he
also said that he owed the first man
dollar, which he desired to pay. Inthis
transaction the three men each paid their
Indebtedness TO each other, and they did
SO without passing any money between
them
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The Oldest Established

Large Retail Dry Goods Store in the
state of Wisconsin, 1856 and 38s East
Water St, Milwaukee, Wis" situated
about the middle of the block north of
Mitchell's bank. better known as James
Morgan's, has been in the hands of car
penters, etc, for the past two months,
and in few days the store will compare
III every respect with the tirst-class stores
in New York and other eastern cities.
The ladies are invited to send for the
Spring and Summer price list.