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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
How Arthur was Nominated.

"Why, certainly said Marshal Payn,
who sat near; " remember the circumstances
clearly. Just as soon as 1t was evident that Gar
field was nominated, and before the vote was an
nounced, Governor Dennison, of the Ohio delega-
tion, came to the New York seats and said that
New York could be carried best by New York
man, and that Ohio would support any candidate
named by New York. 1t was then suggested that
an adjournment be had to give time for consulta-
tion Governor Dennison secured an adjournment,
and during the recess General Arthurs name was
decided on. Whitelaw Reid was on the platform.
Coming down, he put his hand on my shoulders
and said: For heavens sake do not nominate
that man Arthur. 1t will certainly lose us New
York by ffty thousand majority But Arthur was
nominated, and agree with Senator Platt that
New York was carried by men who had faith In
Arthur as a man OF character, rs politician, and
as a successful organizer and manipuator. r."-Neto
Ynrl
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
Americana In Paris.

A meeting of the Americans was
held in Paris Thursday to take action in
relation TO the death of President Garfield.
Mr. Morton, United States Minister, was chosen
president, and General Mcclellan vice. president
Speeches were made by Rev. Tying, William Allen
Butler, ex-senator Cattell, Hon. John Jay, General
J. Meredith Read, and others. Resolutions were
passed expressing ut the crime and sympathy
with the widow and mother OF the martyred Pres
ident; also declaring that this assembly Is
profoundly sensible OF the evidences Of affection
end regret that france has given TO tbe United
States on this occasion, and that President Ar
thur possesses the entire confidence OF this assem-
bly,. Mr. Morton was asked TO transmit copies oi
the resolutions to Secretary Blaine, Mrs. Garfield
and NJ. Barthelemy St. Haire, the French Minis.
ter Of Foreign Affairs. The International Peace
and Liberty League, at Geneva, sent telegram to
Mrs. Garfield expressing sorrow, and offering con-
dolenco and respectful homage. The Diplomatic
body and many members Of the aristocracy waited
on the American Minister to-day, and offered theii
ann1nlnnoaq
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

Mary Gilleam, the daughter of Maynard
Chilean, of Charleston, Ark, will be twenty-five
years fage come next Christmas Charlie Stover-
a romantic name, as the reader may mark-was
Miss Gilleams Romeo Not to mince matters, Mrs.
Gilleam declared that Mr. stovers intellectual
bank account wasn't half as long as his ears. The
lovers decided to elope The Charleston Vindtcd'or
contains thrilling account of what followed the
decision. Mrs Gillcam caught her daughter in
the act of slipping out at the back gate. The
mother seized Mary and tried to hold her Z" In
the scune," says the Tindjcator, Mary was di-
vested of her dress and many other garments, but
fortunately one of Charles friends had the pres
ence OF mind TO throw u rlding-skirt over her in
the nick of time" Meanwhile Charlie and Mr..
Gileam were having II tooth and toe-nail. The
former triumphed, and, mounting horse with
his .nting sweetheart in his arms, the youth rode
at furious gallop to the minister's, two miles away
All has since been forgiven.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
PERSONALITIES.

COUNT and Countess Fernandina, OF
Spain, arc at the Windsor Hotel.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN intends to re-
move to Washington in November
Hon. J. r.. SETTLE and wife, of Missis-
sippi, are in the city, guests ofG C. Smith, esq.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER delivered an ad-
dress at Peekskill, N. Y, Thursday evening the
murdered President
We will not hang Guiteau on a sour
apple tree, but on the gallows of the Jail of the
District ofColumbia.
MARY ANDERSON says the critics mustn't
write about her legs. Mary is right. Critics
should not bother their heads about little things.
EDWARD PAYsoN WESTON, of pedestrian
fame, Is now regularly employed temperance ad-
vocatc of the Church of England Temperance
Society
TIE will of the late Justice Clifford, pro-
bated at Portland Wednesday gives his law library
in equal shares to his three sons, and the resi-
due Of his property to his wife.
MARsHAL VoN MoLTKE, although seven
years the senior of the Emperor William, looks to
be a much younger man. 1t should be remem-
bered, however that Won Moltke is a widower.
GENERAL JOHN A. HALDERMAN, Consul
General at Bangkok, Siam, is about to return
home OH sick leave, one years residence in Siam
having badly and, it is feared, permanently in
jured his health.
WHEN the King of Dahomey was in the
English settlement on the coast he saw an officer
having his boots backed. The King didn't hap.
pen to have any shoes on, but he walked up and
had his bare feet polished. lie could sling style
with any of 'em
ROBERT BONNER pays his horse doctor
more than twice as much as any college professor
receives per year. That proves that II is better to
thoroughly understand the nature of glanders aud
bolts than TO fool away lifetime on the study Of
deceased languages Laramie Boomerang,
No BETTER testimony of the immense
importance attached in France TO every word ut
tered by NJ Gambetta Just now could be given than
by the fact that he is accompanied on his Journeys
by troop of from forty TO sixty reporters from all
parts and a squad Of special telegraph clerks from
Paris.
TIE following able lie is from the Chi
cago Tribune: General Thomas j. Brady, late
Second Assistant Postmaster General, Is in Can
ada We hope the Canadian papers will publish
full accounts concerning the progress Of the STAR
route cases that Mr.. Brady may not lose track o.
them entirely"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
Jimmy Garfield ou Ambition.

Shortly after the shooting of President
Garfield his little son James gave his views on
Washington and on the Presidency. 81 tell you "
he said, "none ofmy chums will ever aspire to be
President ! don't like Washington now. Mother
has been sick ever since we came to the benstly
place, and now father is shot. Ambition is all
very nice for school essays, but it's like other
things-it don't pay. Mollie, my sister, don't get
along at all, She's gone to stay at Colonel Rock
wells house, where she has chum Colonel Rock.
wells daughter, and only Harry and are here in
the gloomy place" Amer pause: 81 hate this
place | wish wrote columns for the newspapers,
like you do-wouldnt give II to It? I'll do 1t in
my diary, anyway."-LonJ Branch dispatch 10 The
Nllp York Star.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

TO the Editor ofTHE REPUBLICAN,
The question is frequently asked, why
q, was that IN the arrangement Of the programme
for President GarGelds funeral no place was as
signed for the heads Of bureausY II ever there
was an occasion on which all classes and all
officials OF the Government, over whom the Ia
IN ,nted dead was late chief, should have been
Ivcognlzed this surely was Que. Our institutions
recognize no magnatos entitled 10 special honors
and distinctions. II Is not known who was tho au.
thor OF the funeral programme. whoever he was,
ne should be informed Of what he does not seem
10 kn0w.-viz, there arc some respectable men that
are heads of bureaus OBSERVER.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

Judge Cowley, of Lowell, in letter to
the Times, Of that city, throwing light upon the
refusal OF the rebels TO grant the request from tho
Union side, through flag Of truce that the body
OF Colonel Robert g. Shaw be passed through the
lines for interment says:
Captain Hendricks, n confederate oficer, who
was in the bOmbproof Of Battery Wagner when
the body of Colonel shaw was brought H. an hour
or two afler the battle, and who was afterwards
present at the trench when Shaw was buried in
formed me last May that the mode OF inlement
was as follows; The trench having been opened,
a LAYER of bodies OF ShAw's sable soldiers was first
thrown in; then Shaw's body was laid across
these second layer Of cOlored bodies was then
placed across Shaws body and then the whole
mass was covered with sand.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

The American boy is charming ami
NAL. We call the first witness in the shape Of an
intoxicated German, who got on a Hudson River
train at Undertook to go to Troy, He threw his
satchel down in n corner OF the car, took a seat
and was soon asleep. On awaking he said he had
left his baggage at Klnderhook, and asked a boy
how he should recover 1t. The latter, who had
seen the German place his satchel in the corner,
replied:
"You giveme thirty cents, and I'll telegraph to
Kinderhook to have the depot master forward it
by telegraph to Greenbush. 1t will reach there
before we do"
The German paid the thirty cents, and the boy
departed, taking the satchel into another car. On
reaching Greenbush the boy walked in with the
bag.
"Ah," said the German, "dot deegraff is yum
CRATE tings, Here, dake anoder quarter, mein
poy"-Uh and Wisdom.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
Dust TO Dust.

Death, the great leveler, revels in a
Nations woe. As easily as if his stroke
had been aimed at n daily laborer, he
lays low the head of the highest. The
currents of ambitious strife stop suddenly
as a leader is smitten by an ignoble hand.
Nor fame nor power can ease single
pain. Swiftly the baneful influences
gather, and though the stately victim
struggles Ikea Titan, there comes the final
heartbeat, the coffin, and the knell. Yes
terday from the Nations Capitol, the walls
of which had resounded with his patriotic
eloquence for morethan half generation,
there was borne the dead body of JAMES
A. GARFIELD, twentieth President of the
United States. Surrounded by martial
pomp and civic notables, wept by those
who were dearest, and honored as the
Chief Magistrate of "a Nation Of fifty mil
lions of people should be, the shrunken
remains of the strong man moved slowly
and solemnly down the great avenue to
the railroad station from which, eighty
four days ago, in the health of powerful
manhood, he was about to leave
for his summer vacation when stopped
by the deadly bullet of an as
sassin. 1t was spectacle calculated
to move the hearts Of men. The throngs
of people on either side of the wide
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS perhaps than on
the day of his inauguration-brought to
the imagination of the looker.on that
great multitude at whose bidding he had
been sworn in as the representative of
the national will and the national laws.
Their hearts to-day throb with sorrow Us
they think Of the wounding, the suffer-
ings, and the death of the citizen whom
they had clothed with the highest honors.
And if any looked on who had, in the
heat of political strife, given and taken
blows with the dead when he was in the
full vigor of his strength, and able as he
was willing to cope with any adversary,
hard indeed would have been his heart
if il could have controlled its emotions as
the hearse moved by wherein was laid
the head and brain so quiet, and the
heart SO silent and still. To such one
"Oui' iuNO NOhlV VI thO hVCu
we all have for the charitable judgments
ofour foes, and, chastened and subdued in
the presence of death which must so
soon also overtake him, he would fain
have cried out, Farewell, fellow NOR
tai Greatness of soul and of intellect
are not safeguards against human weak
ness, but in the realm whereto thou goest
pray that my faults be not greater than
thine !"
-pondering how all human love and hate
Find one sad level, and how, soon or late,
Wronged and wrong g-doer, each with meekened
face,
Aud cold hands folded over still heart,
Pass the green threshold Of our common grave,
WHITTIER all footsteps tend whence none depart,
Awed, for myself, and plying my race,
Our common sorrow, like mighty wave,
Swept all my pride away and, trembling, Iforgave.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
AMnIrnresd,. pr.dlc,,ou.

The new Cabinet is speculated upon as
freely as ifa newly elected President was about to
be inaugurated, and all concede to President Ar
thur too much political sagaclty to make ques-
tionabe Cabinet The places Of such as Blaine
and MacVeaGh cannot be filled by mere machine
men. and Arthur will not think oft. Hamilton
Fish or Senator Edmunds will be likely to succeed
Blaine, and ex-senator Frelinghuysen or some
one of like character and ability will be the future
Attorney. General, II will be the aim of the new
Executive TO make his administration distin.
gulshed for its statesmanship, but II win be Stall
wart to the backbone and no Half Breed or indie
pendent need apply.-A. Il. Mcclure, Ldlj. Breed.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
United States MarshaI's Sale.

by virtue Of writ OF ileri ficlas, issued out o. The
Clerks Oice OF the Supreme Court Of the District OF
Columbia, and To me directed will sell At pllic
sale for cash a. the Court ouse door said District
on SATuDAY, the sth day OF October, 1881, at ~
o'clock M, all the right, tile claim and interest Of
the defendant, JamesW, Barker. IN and 20 The FOL
square $40, beginning for the same at the northeast
corner OF said lot and running thence sonl 100 feet,
north with the east line OF said alley 100 feet and
thence east 70 the place OF beginning together viii
all aud singular the improvements thereon, Levied
upon az the property of the defendant, James w.
hafker, 10 satisfy execution No. 22IO0 ut law. In
favor OF r. Ross Perry and Frederick d. Mcguire,
g. u. HENRY,
United States Marshal.
Thomas Bowling, AuotioneeT. aeI9d&ds
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
AtLons Rrnnch.

The st. James Episcopal Church at
Long Branch, where President Garfield at
tended divine service the Sunday before he was
shot, is heavily draped in mourning. The seat he
occupied is also covered with drapery. There has
been many people NJ Elberon to-day to see the
cottage In which tho President passed his last
hours Of suffering, Al the desire Of Mr.. Franck-
yn the owner Of the cottage, no one is allowed to
visit the rooms occupied by the presidential party.
The soldiers who acted as guards at the cottage
have broken camp and returned TO Governors
Island
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
United States NIarshAI's Sale.

BY virtue OF writ OF ieri fclas. issued out of tho
Clerks oice OF the supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia, and 10 mo directed will sell at public
sale for cash ut the Court door OF said District
o'clock m all the right title, claim, and interest OF
the defendant In aud tO the following described prop
the same at the northwest corner OF said lot and run
ming thence south 100 cot, theme. east 25 feet and
said alley 100 feet and thence west 20 the place OF be
ginning together with all and singular the Improve
ments thereon, Levied upon the properly Of the
defendant James w. Barker, to satisfy execution No.
2lS ut law In favor OF Charles Kennedy OF John
q. McKelden. T.. T.. HENRY.
United States Marshal.
Thomas DOwllng, Anctoneer. selOtSdR
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
ELBERON.

The wounded chief supinely lay,
Worn out with pains and ashen gray
What mocks his weary eyes each day?
The deadly calm at Elberon,
sitting calml o furnace airi
Despite the kindest, tenderest care
And bopefnlseeming round him there.
A deep gloom rests on Elberon.
"Blow, heathnul breezes Fresh winds blow ~
The Nation prays " blow high, blow low;
Give but chance for hope to grow,
And lifl the pail from Elberon.n
Two nations pray all England's rnce,
The past forgotten, now embrace,
And suppllcate that, of Gods grace,
This cup shall pass from Elberon.
The healthful wind responsive blows,
The cooling rain In torrent flows,
The anxious face more hopeful grows,
With stiff seabreeze at Elberon.
The ocean waves swell strong and high,
The sullen mists are all blown by,
A bow OF promise spans the sky
Gods sun smiles fair on Elberon.
Days come and go the rosy morn
Now mocks that frame by anguish torn
Those deadly pangs 80 nobly borne
Thy breeze avails not, Elberon,
0etlsemane's blood,sweat and pain,
And prayer and tears were all In vain;
We shall not see our chief again
sigh breathes over Elberon.
They tell us "hope Is not yet dead
hut while they speak theshadows dread
ofAzraes wings arc widely spread
Above the cot at ElberOnl
o worn out hero tired chief
peath gently comes and gives relief,
And all the world is filled with grief
Toll, midnight bells OF Elberon
Poor aged mother-wang sore
In far Ohio him she bore
Gods peace to thee Twill soon be DER
Gods viii is done" at ElberOn.
And thou, o stricken wife, art seen
Upheld rs wife hath rarely been
Sweet words are those from Englands Queen;
"God comfort YOU" at Elberon.
God comfort all The pulseess clay
weeping people bears away
To wait the Resurrection Day
Far, far away from Klberon.
Tie soul hath len the llfees elod,
Upbornc by angels Ichabodl-
From mortal arms 30 arms OF God,
O'eS Wrnkled sea ~ ElberOn. q. =. ID.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
A Wall street pinIoguc.

The following dialogue was overheard
between two Wall street clerks recently
been to the seaside for your vacation?"
"No; haven't been TO the seaside for my vaca-
tion."
"Been 70 the mountains, then, for your vaca.
tion?'
mo; haven't been to any mountains for my
vacation"
"Whcre have you been, thenG"
"To the seaside"
Thought you said you hadn't been 10 the sea.
side"
"You asked me If I'd been there for my vaca.
tion. l got my vacation in New York"
"Whnt did you do with it?'
"Took II to the seaside"
How long was it?'
1.-TWO weeks. Too long for my salary,
"Get sunburned?'
"Yes"
"Mosquito bittcnT'
"Yes."
"Nosc peeled9'
"Yesn
"Trip cost you twice as much as you expected ?'
"Yes."
more money than you had with your
eyes; of course"
"Borrowg
eyes"
"New winter ulsterq'
"Nor
"Any girls thereg"
"Yes"
"Flrt?"
"You bet"'
"Expensve?
"You bet!"
"Engaged2n
"Ye-yesr'
"IIow many?" 49,
"Two.'
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
"CranEsn - Sent 40 th. Asylum

From July . (the date of the assassina
tom to septetlber there were sent TO the nsGn'
asylum, at st. Elizabeth, 6ny. -four cranks, agains
thirty eight for the corresponding period last year
or these twenty eight were males and twenty.s,s
females II is believed that The large malo Il,
were made crazy by the act of Gutcau.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

ASornER Virginia duel was very near
coming oifthc other day between Captain Proctor.
of retcrsbun, and Mr.. Boiling Wilcox, of Prince
George coiniy. Perhaps Il would have come on
had no' cLptaiS rroetr been put. under bonds
Bill, as Is, fo Proctor Wilcox duel was lust as
blnody fray a. tso Lewis.wise ducl.-NeiO Yo,&
In
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

HENhY y. Vail, president of the Ma
si0nal Dsnk Of Commerce Of New York, died from
disease a. the brain at half-past six Thursday
morniug al his hoI1s OH West Thirty fourth
street, IN the tiA.y. plath year Of his age.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
2fuction Sales.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST DATED
ID August 8 1862, and recorded In Liber iettered T
and H. No. IL, folio 3A, OF tho land records Of
Washington County, u; G., shall sell at public sale
on the premises, ON FRIDAY, the 30th day Of Sep
tember 1881 at o'clock p. M part OF original Lot
In square numbered 13l beginning at point on the
line OF North Carolina avenue, II feet aud lnoheB
northwestwardly % feet along the centre wall OF
house; thence northwestwardy ~ feet to the dlvid
said line feet and Inches 70 the northwest angle OF
said lots thence due south along the line between lots
avenue Is feet and inches thence southeastwardy
to intersect North Carolina nvenue, 81 feet and
inches; thence enthusiastically along said avenue
u feet and Inches TO place OF beglnnlng. Terms
Onethird cash, balance In six and twelve months
se2O,2l2 28,30 NJ p CALLAN, Trustee.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
lielLSr.

In Prussia man has been arrested for
splitting NJ policeman We msnsse these things
better In America, Here tho policeman SpiiE at
the eI!zcu and syeS thing goes on pleasantly
Major BrOes. ....
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
@anfeS-- -Souses.

XXTANTED IMMEDIATELY-To RENT A =
wv room House; all modern improvements
Capitol Hill or between Tenth and Fifteenth streets
northwest; rent not TO exceed t25. Address Room
6i, Third Auditors Office. se22-3ts
UTANTED-To BUY, WEST OF SEVENTH
w street. n pleasantly located Brick House, about
rooms; modern improvements, good repair; price
not 1900; give street, number. and description
Address Box 100, Star office. se2i-3t#
UTANTED FOR CASH.-WE ARE AUTHOR
w iZed to purchase several good Houses or un-
Improved Lots northwest; or Will accept loans upon
good margin at low rates Owners will please oOni-
munitate with US at once. w. w. DANENHOwER
d SON. 1912 street northwest. seli1m
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

CoRREcrioX.-Wc wrote yesterday that
President Arthur's inaugural address was
"fratcrnal in i!sallusion to the sufferings
and death Of President Garfield" By
an error ofa compositor fraternal' was
printed "paternal"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

A mans head was found inpaled On the
point Of II cow. catcher oil M English train the
other day. On going back Two miles they found
the man 10 whom the head belonged. He was
dead LdrGDlie LDOBicdHs
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24

POSTMASTER PEARSON, of New York, who
lisa son-in-law of Mr.. Thomas l.. James,
notifeda a New York Sun correspondent
through the columns Of that paper yester-
day that candidates for appointment as
clerks in his Office who have been honor
ably discharged from the army or navy of
the United States are excepted from tbs
rule which disqualilics other candidates
over the age Of twenty-five. OF course
they are. Section 1854 of the Revised
Statutes fixes that. Nearly all of the ap-
pointments made by Mr.. James, how
ever, are in violation Of the above-namei
section. Union soldiers to the rear" has
practically been the rule Of Mr.. James.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-24
The Extra Session OF the Senate,

The Senate is 10 assemble on the 10th
proXimo. Y. must choose President pro
-tGsa. Some contend that as statute ex-
lists providing that new Senators shall be
sworn in by the President of the Senate,
and as the President of the Senate has
become President of the United States
therefore the three new Senators cannot
be sworn in until after presiding
officer is chosen. Others contend that
as the Constitution provides that each
House shall be the judge of the elections,
returns, and qualifications of its own
members" and also that" each House may
determine the rules of its proceedings"
neither body can be controlled by an act
of Congress rs to the manner of swearing
in its own members
The Democrats are likely to agree at
this time with Carlyle's idea that "the
strong thing is the right thing" and to
take the chairmanship for one of their
own members The point ought to be
made that the admission of Senator's is
question of the highest importance, and
that under the Constitution "no State,
without its consent, shall be deprived of
its equal suffrage in the Senate" If the
Democrats are then willing to over
ride the equal suffrage clause and to con-
cede to Congress the right to make rules
for the Senate and prescribe qualifications
for its members, perhaps it may be
deemed wiser to let them proceed than
that they should be defeated by dilatory
proceedings or the breaking Of a quorum.
The Senate can choose new President
pro TEN. at any time when q majority
shall deem il advisable.