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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

Hon. L. G. Houk, who has just ar
rived at Washington from Tennessee,
says that there is no doubt whatever
of there being a Republican majority
on joint ballet in the legislature of
that State, and that he regards the
election of General Maynard to the
United States senaIorship as fore
gone conclusion that in view OF the
closeness of the contest in several
counties and the complicated tinan-
cial questions involved, the Demo-
Gratis have managed to delay the re-
suits to some extent, but before
leaving the State he had been reliably
informed of the exact condition of
things, and in. the light OF this infor-
nation it can be authoritatively
stated that the legislature of Ten.
nessee will be Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

A postal card from Geo. P. Row
ell & Co.. of 10 Spruce street, New
York, reminds us that we have neg.
lected to notice their American
Newspaper Directory for 1880, issued
in August last. AS it is better late
than never to do a good deed we now
say cheerfully that the directory in
question is so far as we are able to
tell probably the most accurate and
complete publication Of its kind ever
issued in this country. The circula-
ton OF THE REPUBLICAN as given
in it is nearly enough correct for
practical purposes. We don't have
much to do with advertising agents.
Such contracts as we make with them
are generally on our own terms, and
therefore when we speak compli-
mentarily of Roweli's directory we
mean just what we say. We have
frequent occasion TO use in our sane
tum, and it has more than once dem
onstrated its value. RoWell is al
rea iy at work on his directary for
1881, and hopes to make it the best
of all.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

Solid South has been chartered for
this trip. The owners have taken
cut shotgun policy and provided a
choice selection of red shirts, tissue.
ballots, mules, forged letters and old
Bourbon for the comfort of the crowd.
AS the owners believe in tariff for
revenue only, fare for the trip will
be 329." On the coupon which is
attached there is this highly taking
announcement "This coupon will
admit the bearer to the great Moley
Reception, including an introduction
to and close personal association with
the most notorious forgers, libsllers.
perjurers, niger killers, gamblers
and thieves in the country, who al.
ways join these regular quadrennial
excursions. Cipher dispatches will
be received at ali landings" If The
World does not claim the ticket, it
will be forwarded to FOrncy, as he
needs change more than any one
else now gYoaning on the surface o +
politics. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

Mr.. VIM. A. Fowler, chairman of
the Executive Committee of the New
York Stale Democratic Committee, is
now kind enough to say that there
has been a great deal of misappre-
hension regarding their purpose.
1--WE do not seek to GUST Garfield !;
only.to discover the frauds that have
been committed, and publish them
to the world" Fowler has tanned
down wonderfully within the past
week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

A CURIOUS VIsIToR.-There arriv-
ed here in the steamship City of
Brussels, from Liverpool, Socially
Hystala, a Bombay merchant prince,
who brings with him his four native
wives. They were in charge of an
other women and Eunieh. In adj
dition were the servants of the male
sex, varying in size, height and age.
The Prince says each servant has
certain things to do. No servant
does two things, and when | get
tired and weary l make them amuse
me. They are all good musicians.
During our trip across they had plen-
ty of opportunity for practice, as in
that time some of our most solemn
feasts took place. To the last of these
we invited the passengers and they
were highly amused. Then l have
my coniurer, my snake charmer and
my women who dance for me after
dinner. When the Prince of Wales
visited Bombay some years ago l
entertained him, and on that occasion
my wives showed him the Nautch
dance. The Prince says he is here
just to see the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27
The South's Material Interests

Judging from the following, which
we take from the New Orleans
Times, the South will no longer have
any reliance in the Northern Demo.
Gratis. The Times says.
"We do not think it wise for the
South to abandon the Democratic
party, and we are far from advising
such course. We do say, however
that the South is obstructing her
own interests by placing any further
reliance upon the Democrats of the
North. What have they ever done
for the South? When we want a
steamship line to Brazil, do they aid
US? When we ask for the improve
ment of the great water way of the
Mississippi Valley and for the re-
building of our levees, do they come
to our assistance? Such encourage
ment as we have ever received. in
these and other kindred matters, SO
important to US, has come chiefly
from the Republicans of the great
West. That rich and prosperous
section is becoming bound to us
more firmly every year by the chains
of trade, and with that section our
interests lie. While holding to the
great Democratic principle of local
selt-goyernment and opposing en-
croachments on the Constitution, 1t
is the duty of the South To cease
playing second fiddle to the unrelia-
bile, dough-faced Democracy of the
North, and unite in raising and sup
porting such economic issues as will
tend to increase her material wealth
and prosperity"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

The London telegraph, in discuss
ing the appointment of General
Longstreet as Minister TO Turkey,
says that "he has shown moral cour.
age even to more remarkable de-
gree than the physical bravery which
he displayed upon hundred battle
fields. 1t is to the interest OF man
kind at large, no less than To that OF
the South. that the United States
Should be prosperous and homogene
Gus, and, differing from almost all
the rebel generals of mark by whose
side, or in alliance with whora. he
had fought, General Longstreet set
an example which might with ad-
vantage have been followed by
others, and which has at last gained
for him the distinction of being seiec
ted for highly honorable civil office
by the government to which both
the North q South nov owe a
common allegiance"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

The forged Morey letter was the
text of Henry Ward Beecher'S SER
mon last Sunday night. He spoke
of it in the following scathing terms:
"Of this last attempt, with this de-
liberate connection of low and ven-
omous lie, brought forth by forgery
and expedited by perjury, and that
too by the ministration Of the organ
lied members Of the great Demo-
cratic party, think in the whole
history Of political transactions there
has never been anything whose in~
fanny was SO deep, whose disgrace
was so black, ana on which history
will set such blazing seal, as upon
that transaction"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BALTI'
MORE AND OHIO RAILRoAD.-The
report of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company shows that its
gross revenues for the fiscal year
were Sl6,317, 740.10, an increase of
81, 1913, 1887. The net earnings over
working expenses amounted to S5,-
172, 980.76. The Indebtedness of the
company was reduced So, $3.50, 815.98.
The profit and loss account shows an
increase of 1886, 984.44. The tom
mage of through merchandise, east
and west, reached the enormous ag-
gregate of 1.9S0,397 tons, more than
half million tons more than in the
fiscal year ending September 30th
1879.
The financial condition of the
Washington Branch is shown by the
statements Of the treasurer. 1t will,
be seen the earnings We're 1914, 405.S5,
showing an increase OF S29, 39S. so,
compared with the previous year.
The expenditures charged, according
to the system explained in previous
annual reports, amount to $67 ,90S.94,
being for improvements and for re-
pairs ofrailway depots, water stations
aud bridges, and for pumping water.
The partial expenditures charged be.
ing deduct ed from the revenue stated,
thereeremained the sum of S246, 1885,
91-an increase of net earnings, com-
pared with the preceding year. of
49,, S22.SS. Semi annual dividends Of
five per cent. upon the capital stock
were paid on the LIST of November
1879, and on the 10th OF April, 1880
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27
The Democratic National Commit

The Democratic National Commit
tee are trying to dodge the respon-
sibility for the Morey forgery by
very small bubble. They declare
that they did not see the original till
after its publicatien-that it was first
pub lished on October 10, and shown
to them on October 20. But they do
not state that only printed version
was published on October 10, and
that the fac simile, which was the
real weapon of injury, was not pub
1ished till three days later-October
%. The fac simile was not published
till the Democratic COMMITTEES, In
Guiding Messrs. Hewitt and Randall,
had pronounced the signature to be
General Garfield's. This was two
days after General Garfield had de-
nouneed it as a stupid forgery, yet
the Committee flooded the country
with it, and Barnum declared over
his signature thatit was undoubtedly
genuine. The Committee are in too
tighta place to get out by squirming.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

There never was sounder sense
talked than that which is contained
in the appended extract from the
Vicksburg Herald, which is solidly
Democratic enough even for the re.
gion of Mississippi Money is ready
to come to the South 40 soon as the
South is ready to be perfectly toler-
ant to strangers as to their opinions /;
but in this age when everybody reads
and talks freely and doe, not get mad
at opposition, the first thing to be
established in the South must be the
perfect freedom of an immigrant or
capitalist. Northern men who come
South to forclbly swallow Southern
opinion are not worth having. For
the interests OF themselves, their
land and their children, the Southern
people ought to encourage higher
tone in the local newspapers. The
inconsequential blackguard who cur
ses against the living and the dead
north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers
is costly nuisance"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

THE RELIC HUNTERS DAMAGE.
For weeks and weeks delegations
of citizens, women and boys have
been flocking daily to Mentor to
shake hands with Mr.. Garfield,
They have made the pilgrimage from
Cleveland and from all the neigh
boring towns in Northern Ohio.
They have nearly all been memento
and relic-hunters, and the result has
been that Gen. Garfield's farIl has
been left as bare as if cloud of
locusts had lighted upon it. There
is hardly a potato or an apple or a
spear of grass left, and the deYasta.
ton has really been so great as TO
amount TO serious loss to man
who del ends on his farm for large
share OF ms family provisions.
Cleveland Despatch,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

The Parkersburg Journal lately
made the following very forciole and
truthful remark:
Every Republican paper in the
State was "lively and effective
campaign document" throughout
the campaign. And if the money
that was put into torchlight process
sions, brass bands and trashy cam
paign literature had been used in
placing Republican newspapers in
every voters hands, the State could
have been carried for Garfield.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27
OPPOSITION TO THE "PAssIoS

OPPOSITION TO THE passion
Playa New York letter says !:
The signatures to the petition to the
mayor and board of aldermen, insti-
tuted at the instance of various re.
ligious societies in this city, coniem-
natory of the Passion Play are
rapidly increasing at all the places in
which the petition is presented thro'-
out the city. There seems to be a
universal feeling of Indignation
against the proposed representation
of the life, sufferings and death vi
Jesus Christ that will eventually
compel its withdrawal should Mana
ger Abbey still persist in his project.
The text of the petition is in effect
that of the San Francisco ordinances
by which arrests were made, and
under which James O'Neill, the actor
personating Christ was fined $780,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

Fifteen candidates for Congress
will contest before the next House
the seats of antagonists who were
counted in, and there is a fair pros
pect that several of the contestants
will be seated, 50 bare faced were the
frauds that carried some of the
districts, particularly in the South.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

BY some curious mistake a ticket
has been sent to this Office which oh.
viously belongs to the Editor of The
World. The body of the interesting
card bears this inscription "Quad-
rennial Excursion Of the Democratic
Party. The holder of this ticket is
entitled TO one fast. class passage up
Salt River. The Superb steamer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

Baltimore and Ohio stock cold
Monday at 100, or 80 per cent. above
par; and, from the indications at The
close, 1t is doubtful if five hundred
shares could be purchased without
forcing the price up to 100 or higher.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

The New Orleans Times argues that
the present generation of Southern
statesmen are of no good to that sec
ton of the country. sit is clear"
that papers says, "that if the South
is to secure again a leading place in
national affairs, it must be upon new
issuss,D
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27
SATURDAY NOV. 27. 1880.

Hancock's majority in California is
only ST. The Legislature is Repub-
can in both branches.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27
YERMs or SUBSCRIPTIONS.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

Correspondents must enclose full name and
address, not necessarily for publication, but
as private guarantee of good faith. Reject
ed communications will not be returned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-27

Alexander Stephens describes the
late Democratic canvass as a mad
rush for Swill trough.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07

Gen. Grant, on the 18th of October,
will be very grand affair. An effort
is being made to surpass that at the
soldiers reunion at the Chicago Palmer
House last fall. Among those who
will be present are the governors Of
the New England states, Secretary
Evarts, Attorney General Devans, sena~
tors Hoar, Dawes, Edmunds and Burn
side; Generals Hawley, Chamberlain,
and Banks; Commodore Ransom, U.
S. navy; the Rev. Henry w. Beecher,
ex-Minister Stoughton, and the Massa-
chusetts representatives in congress.
Invitations have also been extended to
Chief Justice Gray, President Eliot, of
Harvard college; Senator Conkling,
General Sheridan and others. A spec
ial train will convey General Grant and
party from New York to that city.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07
Germany's Army Difficulty.

The development of the German
army has met with a check which is
likely to prove absolute, as it comes,
not from the parliament or any other
political body which might be managed,
but from the nation itself. 1t has long
been difficult to procure the necessary
number OF officers, and it now seems
impossible. The army is already in
sut1i GENTLY differed, and there are no
applicants ready to supply the new
cadres with which it shall be increased
this fall. The greatest inducements have
been offered to allure young men to the
army, Half of the places at the mill
tary academies are free. Large funds
have been raised to aid the young
officer in buying his very costly equip
ment when he first enters the army.
The pay is enormous. The salary of
a sub-lieutenant IS twice as high as that
of young professor ofphilosophy, and
three times as high as that of a coun-
try parson. Nevertheless, the induce
ments have not been strong enough to
outweigh the disadvantages. First, the
question of nobility plays an obstruc-
tive part. In the Imperial Body Guard,
no one can become lieutenant who
does not belong to the very nobility of
the country, and is not willing to keep
his affiliations pure. Thus Count
Eulenburg, lieutenant in that corps, re-
Gently received a very harsh rebuke
from his chief because he was about to
marry a lady of too new nobility. The
rebuke was answered with challenge,
and the challenge with incarceration
and degradation. Next, the career is
very expensive. Though the salaries
are am ply sufficient to form a home
and raise a family in easy circum-
stances, they are, of course, not suf-
ticient to give grand entertainments and
brilliant balls, to keep race-horses and
opera dancers, to f1aunt at Baden-Baden
and gamble at Monaco, and these
things have become almost necessary
ornaments of military life in Germany.
Finally, though one would think that
laurels of the last wars must exercise q
great charm on all ambitious youths,
so great is, nevertheless, the power of
the spirit of our age that, even in Ger
many, the peaceful arts, more especial
ly the commercial and industrial pur-
suits, attract almost exclusively the
energy of the people, and the military
demands have to be supplied from
those classes in which family habits or
prejudices determine the choice of a
position. But this supply is insufficient
and great anxiety is felt in military
circles in Berlin, for though it has been
possible by the aid of parliament, to
compel a disproportionately great num-
Der of the young men of the people to
serve very long term as soldiers, it
would hardly be possible, by any kind
of device, to compel one of them to
serve his whole life as an officer.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07
4 SapphO in the Dock.

It9s possible that the poet may be
king. 1t is more or less possible that
he in a golden age was born, and was
lowered with all kinds of attributes,
still it is nevertheless certain that, from
a police-court point of view, the present
times are very perilous ones indeed for
poets, and especially poetesses. An old
woman of IS was arraigned at Wands-
worth, on Saturday, charged with beg
cling in the purlieus of the camp at
Wimbledon. She was described as a
claw writer" but really she was bard,
and as poor as bards, not being poets
laureate, usually are. A policeman
said that he found the poetess "kneel-
ing by a seat and pretending to pray"
How did the constable know that her
praying was a pretense? Do only rich
people pray? He added hat she wrote
some poetry afterward, and that he
saw her receive money from several
persons possibly Homer did the same
kind of thing ages ago. On being
searched some money was found in her
pockets-an exceptional poetess. Evil
IDENTIFY it had not been for publishers
that she composed her apostrophes. The
defense of this woe-begone poetess was
that a gentleman had asked her to write
an acrostic on his name. She added
with pardonable lyrical pride, that she
would compose an acrostic on the name
of any gentleman in the court in the
space of three minutes. But the worthy
magistrate, who was in no mood to be
acrosticised, sternly told her that he
had great mind to send her to jail un-
til the Wimbledon camp was broken
up. Ultimately he discharged her with
caution, and the vetran poetess left
the dock declaring that she would
never write another line, but would seek
an asylum in nunnery at Hammer
smith. She might do worse; at all
events we would counsel her to abstain
from composing her lyrical profusions
in public. In any case it is to be hoped
that we shall be spared repetition OF
the painful spectacle of an elderly
Sappho in the dock.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07

While at Warren, Pa, few days ago,
Judge Tourgee, the author of "a
FOOLS Errand,' making misstep, re-
opened the old wound he received in
the rebellion, and fears that it will re-
suit in his withdrawing from the cam
paign as soon as his present. engage
ments are filed.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07

The subscriptions to the fund for the
Cincinnati art museum have reached
the sum of 900, leaving only $780,
600 to be raised.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07

Archibald Forbes, the famous war
correspondent, Colonel Mapleson, Nine.
Etelka Gerster, Nine: Marie Rose,
Mile. Belocca and Signor Ardite, are on
their way to- this country.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07

A Hungarian officer named Szerkre-
meshy swan across the Platten sea.
The distance was twelve English miles,
and the time seventeen hours. The
swimmer did not suffer from exhaus-
ton, and frequently conversed with the
occupants of a boat which accom-
panied him. The only refreshment
AIKEN was little wine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
A MOTTO FOR 1880.

/ have no sort of sympathy with
the Republican party because Of that
act, and because it justified and sus
tanned it. After such an act l have
no desire to sustain the Republican
party in any way. / would not vote
for a party that would carry through
such a fraud. II think Mr.. Hayes
was elected by a fraud, and 1 do not
mean to havei it said that at the next
election I had forgotten it. l do not
say that Mr.. Hayes committed the
fraud, but it was committed by his
party. 1 have no enmity to Mr..
Hayes, but after the fraud by which
he became President l could not vote
for any person put up for President
on the Republican side who did not
disavow the fraud committed. /
would not support any member of
that party who had any sort of mix
ture with that fraud. feel that the
counting out is just as much a fraud
now as at the time it was perpetrat.
ed. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
roaNEY N HANCOCK.

JOHN W. FoRNEY, of Philadelphia,
is one of the oldest and most distin-
guished Republican journalists in
the United States. 1t is scarcely
necessary that We should recall his
long and brilliant career as the lead
er of the Republican press and the
most pronounced and active Repub-
lican in the East for many years past.
His history is known to all.
Bnt John W. Forney has been cap
tured by the Cincinnati nominee and
has announced for Hancock, and
bis paper is giving the ticket its sup.
port. s.
Following are some of the reasons
why MI. Forney will vote the Demo.
cratic ticket in 1880, as given in his
own paper:
On the morning of the 4th ofJuly
1868, I was at the Union League
then on Chestnut street near Elev.
enth, Philadelphia, in the massive
building now occupied by the family
of the beloved Matthew Baldwin
The rooms and gardens of the lovely
mansion were filed to overAowing
with pale, anxious men; the streets
were full of a silent waiting crowd
| the sidewalks and windows were
crowded with women; even children
were awed into silence as their elders
discussed in whispers the possibili.