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National Republican., 1881-11-05
pEzENpoRF,s DECLARATIONS
To thc straightout Pow-wow is Ports
mouth h-RcsoIutIona Defeated.

To the Editor OF THE REPUBLICAN;
The dlsaffected few of the Republican party Of
Norfolk and Portsmouth calling themselves
straightouts called n meeting here last night, an
nouncing that the Hon. John +. Dezendorf, NJ. G.
for this district, would be present and deliver an
address. The was a natural desire among all par
ties to hear Mr.. d., because nobody appeared to
know Just where he stood, and consequently there
was about three hundred people present. John
Miller, Funder boss in the Norfolk navy-yard,
wns selected by the management TO preside over
the meeting, and introduced Dezendorf with some
fattering remarks, but It was manifest from the
coldncss with which he was received that the
mass Of the people assembled had no sympathy for
the managers who called the meeting or its object
Dezendorf made n very poor speech in favor OF
the Bourbon view Of the debt question. INDUCED
In reflections upon General Malone and the Ad-
minstraton by innuendo, and sought by piteous
appeals to arouse some enthusiasm for himself and
| sympathy for HIS henchman, Callahan, who was
lately removed from the Norfolk nayy-yard, but
all his efforts were fruitless he at no time appeared
to have the support Of more than ffteen or twenty
| OF the audience. lie stated that he was opposed
to the Readjusers, but should not vote for either
| ticket-he would not advise his audience how to
vote-but thought II their duty to support Repub-
| licans alone. The substance OF his speech was
| really an argument In favor of nom action by Re-
| pubicans so that the Bourbon Democrats might
secure the election of their State ticket He made
q most labored effort for about an hour, and then
sat down amidst profund silence having failed en'
| tirely to please either side.
At the close Of Dezendorrs speech one John
Drewry, who holds sinecure In the navy. yard o,
small pay, arose and read some resolutions con-
demnng the action of the authorities at Wash
ington for removing John Callahan and Joseph T
Wilson, and requesting the President to have them
rcinstated. Miller, the chairman, put the vote 10
the usual form; about twenty voices, including
those on the speakers stand voted "aye," the
mass Of the audience voted mo" defeating the
resolutions by at least ten to one; but Miller de-
clared them carried, saying. "I declare the res
olutions carried, because I am sure the gentlemen
| who voted against them did not know what the
were doing" The audience requested him to pu
/ the question again, but he refused.
| 1t was very evident to oil persons who were
present that Mr.. Dczendorf has, for the present
lost tho support and sympathies of those who
elected him, and that the mass Of his constitu emit
| favor the Liberal or Cameron ticket.
1t was gratifying to notice that though the Lib
erals were in majoIty of ten to one they treateC
the speaker respectfully, making no noise or con.
fusion or any effort whatever to disturb the meet
| ing. OBSERVER.
PORTSMOUTH, VA, Nov. 8, 1881.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Sleeping Apurf.

"More quarrels arise between brothers,
between sisters between hired girls, between
school girls, between clerks III stores, between
hired men, between husbands and wives, owing
to electrical changes through their systems by
lodging together night after night under the same
bedclothes, than by any other disturbing cause
There is nothing that will so derange the nervous
system of a person who is eliminative in nervous
force, as to lie oil night in bed with another per-
son who is eliminatve in nervous force, as to lie
all night in bed with another person who is alb
sorbent In nervous force. Tho absorber will go to
sleep and rest oil night, while the eminator will
be tumbling and tossing, restless and nervous, and
wake up in the morning frctful, peevish, fault
finding and discouraged. No two persons, nc
matter who they are, should habltually sleep to-
gether. One will thrive the other will lose. Thi
Is the aW."-FrOm The Ldtps of Life
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Varieties.

Paris made kid gloves have the stitch
ing ON the backs outlined with jet, crystal pearl
garnet, and sapphire beads, the same being used
In working the monogram or crest on the wrist
Paris made boots for ladies have the tops orna-
mented with band of plush The cciniure curdsst
is made of solid coored or shaded morocco, French
calf or Russian leather; the lining is rich silk.
fanciful freak in French millinery displays O
white turtle dove with ribbon around the neck
It is perched the left side, with Its head upward
The accordion" crown is another pretty novelty
In millinery; the plush or velvet is so disposed as
The Jersey" Is still fashionable; the recent
change given In this garment is very pleasing II
Is now made of ffet net and richly beaded II Is
laced at the back, and is adorned with hand.
some beaded fringe.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
0uacn YictOrin.

Until she was fourteen years old Vic
torla did not know she was heir to the throne
But OH seeing genealogical table one day she dis
covered the fact, and said to her goyerness
"There is much spendor, but much responsible
ity." Then with tears she exclaimed, BARONESS
l will be good" She was more sober and dignifed
ever aTter.--Nei0 York Tribune. Until he was eigh.
teen years old n Chicago boy did not know he
was heir to his fathers property But on breaking
into the old gentenan's safe one night and look
ing over his parents will he discovered the fact
and said to himself: "rhere Is much insurance OH
him, but heavy premiums. will be good TO my.
self" lie came home cold sober the next night
which gave his father such u shock that death
en,ued.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
A Llnn.Tnmer.

Barnum's lion-tamer is man of daunt.
less courage. He is not afraid to so into u cage
full of Wild animals, but he will run like son o.
a gun when his mother-in-law gets after him with
II broom. He laughs at the roar of the hungry
tiger but word from her paralyzes him. With.
out linching he looks the angry lion In the eye
but he hangs his head or looks out of the window
when his mothcr-If.law Is around. Such then
fellow sufferers, Is the power of woman over man
ofwhich the poets love to sing, but to which thC
man of experience refers in u whisper and with
Quakings of fear.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
The nr,lnia,,cr

The New York Herald pays its respects
to the commercial travellers; Sometimes tn @
drummer is not a bad fellow TO meet on the road
unless the man who meets him keeps a country
store. He can name the best hotel in every town,
tell the exact time from any place to any other,
and inform traveller where to buy cigars that are
not noxlous, He frequently carries pocket flask,
well. filed, and his assortment ofstorles although
not available for in religious circles, Is quite
unlike anything that one ever finds at home.
STILL business is business the merchant Is entl.
tied to his profit and the rural dealer to peace o
mind so the withdrawal Of the drummer 10 his
original point of departure will greatly crafty
those most concerned and grieve only railroad
ticket agents and the owners of country hotels"
National Republican., 1881-11-05
A MlstorIcaI RcIIc.

A historical relic of considerable inter-
est has just been brought to light and presented to
the Ipswich Museum by d. II. Goddard It Is au
original letter of John Adams, second President OF
the United States, dated Westminster June 25, 1885
and waswrltten when he was officiating as the first
ambassador from this country to the British gov
ernment 1t is addressed TO the private secretary
Of Washington, and is strongly condemnatory OF
the intrigues of certain refugees "-royalists who
had left the United States and had gone to Eng
land-whom he terms base and abandoned, who
would be impotent and despicable in the United
States but may do some mischief in England aud
NnVa Scotia
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Confederate nnndn.

The demand for confederate bonds is
Just brisk enough TO induce those who have any to
hold on to them and wait to be struck by lightning.
Those who have given their confederate bonds to
the children to play with, and have seen them
share the fate of all else that Young America gets
hands on. are not sorcly distressed That story
about sl7,OOO,OOO being in the Bank of England to
the credit of the Southern confederacy is not stout
enough to throw a speculator in peanuts into ex-
ntta
National Republican., 1881-11-05
The salute to the EngiIsh Flag.

To the Eultor OF the New 1 ofh sum
SIR; The saluting of the English flag at
Yorktown, 1t is to be hoped, viii bring comfort to
the hearts-dead in patrlotism-of those who Or
dered 1t to be DONE Could we not, in Difference 70
the present sickening taste remove the history OF
the Revolution from our schools and colleges? A
Nation without q history AN AMERICAN.
Npu
National Republican., 1881-11-05
what Trea. Donglnn. saIa.

Frederick Douglass said to some MEM
ber of the Middesex Club, of Boston, that the
best thing he has discovered in the changed con-
diIon of things is the recognition, not OF his race
nor Of his color, but of his manhood. He feels
that he is citizen of the United States and man
among men. He says that the first ray of hope he
ever had was Inspired and aflerward encouraged
by the speeches OF John Quincy Adams.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

The loss of sixteen million dollars is said
10 have caused the sudden death ofthe late
Baron James Rothschild. Bankers are
more liable to this sort of thing than
almost any other class of men. No editor
or clergyman of this century has died of
losing sixteen millions,
National Republican., 1881-11-05

The senior clerks of the State Depart
ment have decided that in future they
will invite French and German guests to
alternate centennial celebrations of the
surrender of CORVALLIS. They have also
concluded to name the Hon. Thurlow
Weed as the orator for the next York.
town Centennial.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

THOSE Democratic newspapers that are
constantly employed in arranging the
personnel of President Arthur's Cabinet
should vary the entertainment OCCASION
ally by occult speculations on the chances
of Democratic statesmen for getting into
Tilden cabinet in 1898, or Seymour
cabinet in 1897,
National Republican., 1881-11-05

THERE is quirc too much looseness in
the vague generalizations of the Democ-
racy against " the iniquities of the tariff"
We do not undertake to say that there is
no room for improvement in the schedule
as it stands, but the enemies of protection
should present bill of particulars. What
are the specific changes desired? Let us
get out of the region of aerial declama-
tions into the domain of facts.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Remembers This.

In the midst of all the racket about the
star route thieves, 1t is well to bear in mind thai
whatever stealing they did, If any, was with the
knowledge and approval of the last Congress
which, after investigating the subject thoroughly
and learning all about 1t, not only indorsed ali
General Brady had done, but gave him the money
he asked for to enable him to keep ON doing it,
Manchester (N H) Mirror
National Republican., 1881-11-05

A LINE officer Of the army was Sue
cessful competitor for one of the three
recent appointments as civil engineer in
the navy. II is not often that martial
nrdor takes so pacific a turn.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

THE chivalrous spirit of the Democratic
press is forcibly illustrated in the contin-
uous fire ofridicule and scurrility directed
at Lieutenant Flipper, now on trial by
court-martial on q charge of embezzle-
ment. AS the only colored officer in the
army this young man would not lack u
fair supply of troubles if his case were
treated by the press just as similar cases
of white officers are treated-with de-
cency
National Republican., 1881-11-05

THE bonds of the defunct confederacy
are not yet due; in fact, they will never
mature. By their terms they are not
payable until after the acknowledgment
of the independence of the confederacy
by the United States. There is no breach
of contract in these worthless rags.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

MEDICAL writer's furnish occult but con-
vincing arguments against the circulation
in families still liable to natural increase
of such pictures as that of the specialized
criminal lawyer which appeared in a
morning paper of yesterday, The con-
sequences of this recklessness might be
truly awful
National Republican., 1881-11-05

AT ten dollars seat Patti concerts will
not be sufTocotingly crowded in any part
of the United States. Life will still be
endurable to the average citizen, even if
compelled to forego the luxury of hear
ing "the divine Patti"
National Republican., 1881-11-05

proach far longer than was reasonably
expected, and if the heating apparatus in
every school building is not now thor
oughly in order some one has been Grim
inally neglectful. If in any school fires
cannot be made the pupils should be
given leave of absence until the proper
repairs are made to the furnaces, and not
be compelled to risk their health by re-
naming all day in cold room.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

Boston hospitality to the French guests
was marked by one rather phenomenal
innovation. 1t did not include bean
dinnerl
National Republican., 1881-11-05

JAMES LEWIS, colored miner of Fayette
County, West Virginia, appears to have
been guilty of uniting with other miners
in strike. lie is charged with having
been troublesome" He will not be
troublesome" any more, for he is dead
shot dead by the prosecuting attorney for
Fayette County, Is it customary in that
locality for public prosecutors to so gun
ming for all striking minersP Or was
LOWS killed for being black as well us
troublesome ?"
National Republican., 1881-11-05

The Fair-Trade League" in England
will make little progress. The interests
of three-fourths of the people are opposed
to the taxation of food supplies for the
benefit of the farmers.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

IT is asserted that in some Of the school
buildings fires have not been made on
account of the furnaces being out of order.
There has been sufficient warning and
the cold weather has delayed its APP
National Republican., 1881-11-05

If Mr.. Secretary Hunts naval advisory
board will substitute steel for iron as ma
terial from which to construct the pro-
posed cruisers, they will thereby align
themselves with progressive naval
rnnmnra
National Republican., 1881-11-05

SOMETHING more than double-turre ted
popularity or breach-loading stump elo-
quence will be a prime necessity with
any Republican Congressman who ex-
poets to retain the confidence and sup
port of his constituents after he has
helped Bourbon Democrats into Office to
the exclusion ofcompetent and reputable
ex-soldiers of the Union army, who have
been as true to the Republican party in
peace as they were to the old flag in
times that tried mems souls.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

AND now Marat Halstead goes back on
Secretary Blaine and doubts the ability
'of that gentleman to pronounce eulogy
on the late President at Cincinnati at
such short notice rs November 10 because
of other pressing duties This extreme
toadyism of Halstead's is unnecessary.
Mr. Blaine's antagonists in past conflicts
do not require converts like Halstead to
enter upon the work of knocking Mr.
Blaine down and dragging him out.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Resunto shoot.

The Mississippi Bourbons are preparing
for election day In the usual manner. They have
begun to shoot "niggers," II they shoot dozen
or so perhaps they will be able to scare as many
thousands from the polls-NeS0 York Tribune
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Nn Moro Gnlaa.

A new fence for front yard has been
invented which obyiates the necessity for gate.
1t is safe TO say that 1t was invented by old maid
II an old maid would invent anything It would be
O front yard fense without gate. She's just mean
enough 10 do -NOrrisiOlUn Herald.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

MAINE has but one convict to every
.sthirty-two hundred population. This is
a better showing than any other State
has made.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
amy.cr,cuts To.NIgnt.

NArioSAL THiATnE-Emma Abbott Opera Com
pany-" Chimes Of Normandy" at the matinee and
"The Two Cavaliers at night
FoRD's opERA. HOUSE," The Tourists"
National Republican., 1881-11-05

ONE ten thousandth part of one per
cent. on his claim is the astounding total
of wealth which Mr.. Hecht has gathered
in the shape of damages to his character
by an alleged libel in a Chicago paper.
This is calculated to chill the ardor of
those who propose to place their charac-
ters on the market with Chicago juries to
fix the prices.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

RECENT mention of the many beautiful
and costly presents which are being
placed in General Grants New York resi-
dcnce has elected sad display of envy
and malice. While one secs so much of
meanness in human nature it is impossi-
Bile to believe that the millennial period
is likely to- show up for many ages to
come
National Republican., 1881-11-05

Ignorance is criminal, even in the alb
senCe of malicious intent, when, as in
the case of sundry bank directors who
have signed and sworn to false state
ments, it robs coniiding 'depositors and
takes from the widow, the orphan, and
the old their only PROVISION against
penury and want. For a directory not
TO know the condition ofits bank is crimi-
nal neglect of plain and most impera-
tive duty
National Republican., 1881-11-05

PROFESSIONAL civil-service reformers
have thus far shown pronounced ability
in steering quite clear Of the one evil
which, far more than all others, calls for
remedial efforts. Not in the manner of
securing appointments and promotions
but in the purchase of public supplies lies
the principal abuse and the main source
of corruption,
National Republican., 1881-11-05

UNDER the Revised Statutes, as inter-
preted by the head and forefront of the
Navy Department, it was lawful to pay
per diem employees for the day DEVOTED
to the unveiling of the Farragut statue,
but unlawful to pay them for time lost by
reason of closing the navy-yard as a mark
of respect to the memory of President
Garfield. 1t was lawful also, to pay the
men for time lost on the day of prayer for
the President, but unlawful to pay them
for time devoted to attendance on the
Presidents funeral. These things excite
the special wonder of lawyers, appren-
tices, and marine recruits.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

If Mr.. Hayes really decides to go to
Europe he will have an entirely new out
fit, not even taking his old schurz along
with him.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

ALREADY some dozens of Democratic
organs have solemnly read out of their
party Messrs. Voorhees,, Hendricks, and
Randall, by reason of heretical opinions
on the tariff entertained by those gentle
men. If the possession of brains We're u
condition of that party's existence this
expulsion of its cerebral matter might be
regarded as premonition of its early de-
mise
National Republican., 1881-11-05

WHEN a Chicago judge finds all his
margins swept away by sudden decline
in wheat, corn, or hay products, there is
nothing in the columbian Orator "
equal to the eloqucnce which he displays
in spreading before the grand jury the
wickedness of those who gamble in the
necessarics of human existence, coming
wealth from the tears of the suffering
DOOR"
National Republican., 1881-11-05

On mature reflection we are willing to
extend the time to five full legislative
days for the House to muster out Mr.
Chalmers, of the shoestring District,
with his cow-itch, tissue ballots and
fraudulent returns. If the committee on
elections is not posted as to the manner
in which Mississippi Democrats use cow
itch, the members mighttry afew expert
ments on Mr.. Chalmers.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

TIE rumor that Postmaster General
James is to be indicted for corruptly and
extravagantly expediting the railway
mail service to the extent of million
and quarter year lacks confirmation.
The story grew out of the fact that Van
derbilt, whose railroad property is bene-
fited by James's action, has given James
fat place at $4,000 year as the figure
head of bank in New York to commence
In January
National Republican., 1881-11-05

A GOOD memory has been the undoing
of another Western clergyman. This
pillar of the church permitted his recol-
lection to hold on to sermon that he
had read until it got mixed with the
luminous products of his own brain, and
was unconsciously delivered from his
pulpit with his own hand on it. In the
literary world this is called stealing, but
that may be too harsh term to apply in
this case.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

MACVEAGH calls himself ex-Attorney-
General, and says that since he has
branded the men he accused of star-route
frauds it is unnecessary to convict them.
He may have been retained by some of
the big contractors. A lawyer who would
abandon a case in which he had been
paid fee would not add to his infamy
by selling out to the other side.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

THREE things are necessary to human
existence-air earth, and water, The
laws of Great Britain have enabled few
hundred men to get possession of all the
earth there is in the United Kingdom,
The DEGREES Of men who mouldered back
to kindred dust centuries ago still control
vast areas Of land. If the law of entail
could be applied to air and water il
would not work greater injustice than it
produces in its application to land. This
is what makes communists and provokes
agrarian outbreaks. The earth that God
created for all the inhabitants thereof can
not long be held bya few to the exclusion
of the many. If civilized craftsmanship
cannot find remedy, brute force will
take its cwn way.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
Tue trouble with Wayne MacYeagh is

THE trouble with Wayne MacVeagh is
that when he "rose above party" some
years ago he happened to come down on
the wrong side of the fence, and has never
entirely succeeded in getting back again.
He generally puts in his time roaming
over the debatable ground between the
picket lines of parties, lost in devout
admiration of his own moral grandeur.
National Republican., 1881-11-05

The November elections are only three
days off. Except in Virginia there is no
unusual interest in the results. The
Bourbons of the Old Dominion affect their
customary show of confidence, but their
apparent courage is the outgrowth of ar
dent desire rather than of reasonable ex-
pectation. Their predictions are based
on thick substratum of bungling and
incongruous fictions. "Claim it exult-
antly" is their maxim.
National Republican., 1881-11-05
ONE of the good ladies who addresse

One of the good ladies who addressed
the Sunday School Institute remarked
that "being converted should not keep a
child from playing, but converted child
would play like u Christian" This al
legged difference in little people has hth-
erto escaped our observation. When
wicked little boys and girls have prepared
to "play circus" we have not seen their
truly good companions going off by them
selves to "play Sunday SCHOOL"
National Republican., 1881-11-05

THE Post thinks the President violated
good taste by going to New York on the
eve of the election. That is to say, it
looks bad. HowP What does it look as
though he would do? Is there fear
that he may arrange for the stufiing of
ballot-boxes, or for the erection of man
sard roofs over the eyes of Democratic
voters? If he had remained in Wash
ington the Post would probably have
thought itlooked as though he had done
so in order to raise campaign money in
the Departments. Perhaps the President
could not do anything or omit anything
whereby he could find favor in the eyes
of the Democracy.