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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
" How Not to Do It."

The next best thing to knowing chow
to do" what one wishes is to know how
not to do it." In this sort of knowledge
Democrats are experts. The Barnac les.
immortalized by Dickens, are insuferable
bunglers compared to these. They are
but rude, uncultivated ancestors of this
accomplished generation of normally de-
veloped descendants-the Democrats of
the period. If there is way of so inter-
preting the Constitution as to paralyze the
Government they expertly find it. Their
notion of the best way i" to make more
perfect Union" was to leave the parties to
the Union unbound to observe it. Twenty
one years ago they discovered that the
way to defeat one man was to run two or
more against him. Nine years ago they
discovered that "a hair of the same dog
will cure the bite" and they therefore
run the father of Republicanism against
his own party. They also discovered that
the way to secure a free ballot was to Ku-
Klux the negroes and Republican whites !;
and now they are booming with high
hopes of securing Democratic victory in
Virginia next November by defeating
Captain Riddleberger for Sergeant-at-
Arms in the Senate. What boundless
capacity they have for finding out how
not to do it." They have not simple
ordinary faculty for laundering on mis-
takes, but sublime genius for inventing
them.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
A Question of Privilege.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York World announces that Demo-
cratic Senator will to-day attempt some
direction concerning the editorial con-
duct of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN To
this we cannot object, because freedom of
speech-and especially freedom of de-
bate in Congress-is guaranteed by the
Constitution under which we live just
as fully as is freedom of the press But
if any man hopes to prevent us from the
most energetic expression of our con-
victions on important issues, such as now
excite the Senate, he will find his
task as hopeless as ours would be were
we to attempt the regulation of
what should be said by Senators
in debate. The editor of this paper de-
spises all suggestions that his manhood is
to be held in allegiance pending the con-
sideration by the Senate of resolution
as to the Secretaryship of that body. He
would never have occupied that position
for eleven years if to do SO had involved
any such loss of self-respect as the WortFs
real or imaginary Democratic Senator
seems to regard as qualification. If
Senators of the Democratic side can see
no impropriety in denouncing as corrupt
parties to a fraud and a disgraceful bargain
the thirty-eight Senators who opposed
them, their sensibilities need not be
greatly aroused at any words we have
uttered. We have not hesitated to speak
in frank and honest dissent from the ad-
ministration of our own party when we
deemed it proper, and we are sure to do
so again if occasion shall seem to justify
it; and we shall certainly never shrink
from strong expressions of opinion both as
to the policy and the methods of the
Bourbon Democracy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18

SECRETARY Hunt has been visiting in
New York. The purpose of his visit was
to look after the Brooklyn navy-yard; but
he also confessed to a reporter of the
Times the following dreary facts:
confess, too, that was very much fatgued by
the strain we have had to undergo in Washington
from the ceaseless opportunities of public men of
high repute, private persons of less no repute-
men, women, and children-all the woodland
each wanting some Office which they could not FILL
and which it not in the power of the Secretary
of the Navy to give. Nobody can know what
burden this is until he has had to bear it.
The Democratic obstructionists in the
United States Senate are responsible for
this result. The offices would be filled
and routine life settle to its easy flow if
the Senate was not deadlocked by the
revolutionary minority.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Governor Kemper and a Lottery.

Governor Kemper, of Virginia, appears
to be very active in the battle against Malone. A
few years ago was talking to man named Alex
ander, in this city, who lottery at the city of
Alexandria, Va, involving, think, the property
of Madison, called Montpelier. The idea was to
buy Montpelier with lottery profits and turn it into
some kind of a State Soldiers Orphan Asylum. At
that time Kemper was Governor of the State. My
informant says that Kemper and large number
of the State dignitaries were concerned in that
lottery, which was fraud, and nearly led to a
riot. The money of the people was taken, no
prizes were given, and the Madison property re-
lspsed to its private owner: and that appears to
be the most remarkable financial thing done in
Kempers period to restore the credit of Virginia.
Gath in Cincinnati Inquirer
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Malone VS.. the Bourbons.

During the Saxon period in England
the nobility looked with contempt upon
any man not of noble birth who by
genius and energy raised himself to
riches and renown. The old Saxon
chroniclers say:
Such a man became the object of envy as well
as of indignation to all the mobiles. He had great
difficulty in defending what he had acquired. He
found il impossible to protect himself from oppres-
sion, except by counting the patronage of some
great chieftain and paying large price for his
safety.
Judging from the treatment Malone is
receiving from the Bourbons of Virginia,
we suppose they imagine themselves
living somewhere from the sixth to the
tenth century, and that they are the
mobiles of the land, whose smile is safety
and whose frown is death to those around
them. They seem astounded because
Malone does not call upon them for
protection and is neither fattered
by their smile nor terror-stricken by
their frown. That Malone is able to
protect himself astounds them, that
he does protect himself appalls
them. The Bourbons of Virginia and the
whole South must move into this CEN
tury or be crushed. They don't know it,
but a new era has dawned. "Noble
birth +" is good thing; the possession of
lands and money is to be desired; but
this century will not bow down to the
one nor humbly salute the other. Men do
not now "seek the protection" of those
who assume to be their superiors, but
strike manful blows for themselves. Brains,
not birth or fortune, now rule the day.
The last remnants of the old slave
aristocracy of the South have ranged
themselves in line to destroy the new
civilization that threatens to overwhelm
them. Their faces are even now white
with fear, for they see bearing down upon
them great army, over whose columns
banners of progress are flying. At its
head rides Malone, man of the people,
a soldier of renown, foe worthy of any
steel; cool, dauntless, full of vigor; man
who welcomes the roar of this present bat
tie as the prelude to victory that shall
crown the people with larger liberty
and glorify the Republic welove. We well
come Malone as the apostle of a new
and better South, and promise him that
we will do our best to keep his banners
aloft in the lofty struggle to which he has
Iovntod him Golf
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
ConkIing and His Enemies.

The base means resorted to by the
malignant and implacable enemies of
Senator Conkling to wound him and his
friends and to lessen him in public
esteem are well illustrated by the re-
markable case presented on the first
page of this issue of THE REPUBLICAN.
The calumny which is there so COM
pletely stamped out has been made to do
duty on several important political occa-
sions, and daring the late senatorial con-
test at Albany, resulting in Senator Platt's
election, it was sent around on slips
printed for the occasion. Its des-
perate mendacity will serve to instruct
defamation is generated. A female de-
tective from Washington figures as col
lector of the vitriol which her employees
desired to throw at the Senator from
New York. Tales may be told of any
public man as baseless as is the one we
print. But the extraordinary venom
and the reckless falsity of the attacks
on Senator Conkling lead to the belief
that they are directed against great
public career rather than against an in
dividual. It is not to be believed
that so gross and palpable a false
hood as this Hayden story, made
of whole cloth, and persistently
reproduced at such intervals as best to
serve political enemies in political crises,
can be weak spite of any insignificant
person. The political life of Senator
Conkling excites the thirst of secret foes,
who spend some money in the fabrica-
ton and circulation of calumnies
to wound and injure him. There
can be no other defense against
such assaults than the discredit
which all good people can throw around
them. The Senator has allowed this
fearful calumny to 60 unrebuked, and
it is only the impulse of General
Knapp that brings the refutation of it
to public attention. Last autumn, while
he was engaged in the canvass in the
West, brutal stories were put in circula-
ton connecting his name with lady as
being his companion at hotels and in
palace-cars. He made no allusion to it,
but scores of men who were his compan-
ions, and on committees to receive him
visiting him in his car for that purpose
could have given the lie to the misera-
bic and malicious statement. Well, he is
right. He disdains to be put on trial by
every hired defamer, and leaves the pub
lie to judge him as they will. He can
afford to do this. He is one of the peo-
pies idols, and they will protect his good
name
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Latest from Liberia.

Professor Blyden gives the following
items of interest in a recent communication:
1.-THE Legislature at its last session recommended
the people to vote an amendment to the eonstitu-
ton making the presidential term four years in
stead of two years, but not to go into effect under
the next President, but to affect the following
term. Liberia College was reopened with twenty
seven students in the preparatory department and
eight boys in the collegiate-one from Sierra
Leone, whose father pays his way. All the boys in
the college are negroes for the first time since the
college has been in existence"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
HOW NiCEI
Behold snow white lily stranded
T1rop tho Shnra of Slppni The QOld

Behold snow white lily stranded
Upon the shore of sleep! The gold
OF tresSes streaming over creamy lace,
Fair dimpled hands that tenderly enfold
The ivory image of grand dark face;
Lips yielding sweets the pictured face demanded
The crescent lids on cheeks of roses prest,
Athoughtfni brow like pearly shell upborne;
The undulation of her gentle breast
Like snow the kisses ofthe wind has worn
To lines of beauty that God commanded:
Swift smiles Che signals Of her happy dreams1
Drift o'er her mouth like softly dipping sails
That stir the quiet Of bright Indian streams;
Her breath the air of those enchanted wales,
Where spiced fruits and scented woods are landed.
One tiny foot like baby rabbit slipt
From snowy covert, and the curved arm,
Veined like violet the Wild bee sips,
Takes captive sense with resistless charm
Nay, all the love ana graces are disbanded.
A Grey LoteF.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Right You Are. Hiram!

You should see the weather we are
having here now-bright as sunshine can make it
and as genial and warm as Southern France, Italy,
or Southern California at their very best There
are no winds, the grass is as green as emerald in
the parks, the flowers blossoming out of DOORS
and the trees are budding like the rose There is
no frost at all, and ladies promenade the streets
without wraps and gentlemen have left off their
overcoats Yet 1 read of places less than a thou
sand miles away (Alilwaukee, for example) which
are showed under with nine feet of snow. A great
many people are beginning to appreciate the eli
mate Of Washington, and even now the hotels are
all full-RdmSdeE in PltHadeLphid Times.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18

THE New York World has a marked
phobia in relation to Secretary Window.
1t is dreadfully alarmed because there is
no law to allow him to satisfy creditor
with three dollars and half instead of
six in the matter of interest on matured
bonds. The people will forgive Mr.. Win
dom for not paving the bondholders two
dollars and half year more on hum
dred dollars than they want. But then
the World is so learned, and so honest.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
a Westerr Rreexc

George c. Gorham, it seems, just now
comes i'll for full share of abuse He is charged
with being the instigator of Mahone's acts in the
Senate, whereby the Republicans were to control
the offices and Gorham 20 again become Secretary
of the Senate. 1t is now stated that Democratic
Senators are particularly anxious to defeat the
election of Gorham but he seems able 70 take care
of himself-SaH Francisco Caa
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
At the Brooklyn Nary.Yard.

Secretary of the Navy William H. Hunt
visited the Brooklyn navy yard on Saturday. The
steam tug Triana, commanded by Captain Barry
more, chief of the nayy-yard pilots, met Mr.. Hunt
wife, and his niece, Miss McCook, at the foot of
Twenty-third street, New York. Lieutenant Mil
Ter and Master Barber, of the Colorado, and Lieu
tenant Coles, adjutant of the commander of the
navyyard, acted as escort. AS the tug steamed up
to the navy yard wharf nineteen guns were fired
as a salute. The Secretary in landing passed
through line of marines. As the marines pre-
sented arms Mr.. Hunt raised his hat. The party
after the round of inspection, lunehed on board of
ha
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Correct. TruthfuJ James,

Give us about three weeks more of such
weather and then come. By that time the grass
will be up, the trees in bloom, and the flowers in
blossom, and we will show you the prettiest city
there is in the country. Let people in Philadel-
pha who wish for a week or ten days recreation
come here then, and especially let the young
people, who are now studying over a route for q
wedding tour, turn their attention to this quarter
The hotels good, and the weather will be fair.
and in addition to the beauty of the city, there
lots of places of national importance the seeing of
which will fill in all spare time.-"Soar Mash" in
Phiddelphia EueninQ Star.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18

A Lancaster hotel-keeper has been
arrested for killing a Boston book agent If the
defendants counsel can show that the deceased
talked to the hotel-keeper two and half hours
trying to persuade him to subscribe for a work in
ninety four parts, at fifty cents number one
part to be delivered every weeks the jury will
acquit him on the ground of self-defense without
eavinp the box
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
The President and the Dead-Lock

It would be well for the fabrieators of
special dispatches concerning the dead
lock to leave the President out. He has
repeatedly expressed to Republican Sem
ators his hearty approval of what they
we're doing, and we could easily give the
names of many such Senators. The
men who state to the contrary could
easily learn the truth but for the fact that
it would not suit their purposes. They
could ask the President himself. and he
would say to them as he does to Republi-
can Senators that the position of our
party in the Senate is one that admits of
no change.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18

THE Laurel (Md) Cleaner has passed
into the hands of E. Wright Newman, who
has changed its name to the Herald and
its political character from Independent
to Stalwart Republican. The first issue
under the new management gives promise
of good work in good field.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18

THE National Era newspaper has be-
come the NeW South, and will, under the
management of Arthur ST. A. Smith, be
faithful exponent of the needs and de-
sires of the coIored race It is published
in Washington and Alexandria, and ad-
vocates full union between the Republi-
cans and Readiusters of Virginia.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
OId.Tfme JournaIisn,.

The late S. N. Stockwell, Of the Boston
Journal, used to tell good story of odtime jour
nalism meeting was to be held in Brighton or
that vicinity, and he suggested to Leavitt that
somebody ought to go out and report it for the
Journal. Never mind" replied Leavitt q" some
body will send it in in few days." And so they
waited
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Ifs Legitimate Emit.

Ben. Hills and Joe Browns assault
upon General Malone is bearing its legitimate
fruit i'll their State. AT Griffin Ca, on Thursday
night, the actors in the play of" Uncle Toms
Cabin" were numerically pelted with ulIsavory-
smelling eggs. The play, which is an old one in
nearly every part of the civilized world, was en-
tirely new to Griffin, Ga, and was condemned
simply because it was a novelty.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
naafau.<rur

The inaugural address of President 1929
was nothing more and nothing less than Yankee
stump-speech. If he tries To ca,Iy out his niger
istic and nationsistic ideas hereaway. he win find
that the old South has enough bullets left in her
locker 10 prevent the consummaton of the outrage,
and aae of those bullets will be sent whistling
through his own black heart if he dares to disobey
ourpeople opersistently.-TheS Solid Soat Of Bart
lett, Tenn MdT,ch TO-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Another Crisis.

There is another impending crisis"
in the South. A Republican Senator who has been
interviewed by the New York Herald accounts for
the stubborn opposition to Malone by the fact that
the terms of many of the Southern Senators are
about to expire, and the success OF the Virginia
movement will imperil their chances of re-elec-
tioD
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
AGrecn.NTSunIain A ASS.

A Vermont clergyman makes the future
of good Christians clear by saying After crossing
the mystic river we shall go on from the man to
the angel, from the angel to the archangel, from
the archangel to the celestial from the celestial to
the divine, and then, gathering the stars in clus
tiers about our heads, dream out the endless dream
of eternity"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Scions of ChiYaIrY.

Some of the white constituents of
Wade Hampton and Hamburg" Butler have
proved themselves true scions of Southern chvalry
by lynching eolored woman who was under ar
rest for attempting to burn barn. South Carolina
has an opportunity to vindicate her character by
hanoino the ruffians
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Sor 8enf--&o1lses.


ENOR RENT-HOUSE AND BARN AND q
u acres of land, Point of Rocks Railroad, one
mile from Boundary. Apply at Room II, Section A,
Post-0fice Department. apIS3t*
TIOR PENTHOUSE I19 MARYLAND AVENUE
4 northeast, partially fronting East Capitol Park,
containing eleven rooms, besides bathrooms and cell
lar, and all modern improvements. Inquire at 326
street southeast after p, m. ap16-3t$
NOR RENT-A WELIrFURNISHED HOUSE OF
u eleven rooms on Capitol Hill, for five months
from May or 15; rent, $50 Address a. l., Repuhi-
can office. apl6St*@
E,oR RENT-ATs175O, TO TORELIABLEANDPE PER-
II manent tenants only, 1l22 and 1I6 street north
east fronting Lincoln Park; have halls, bay windows
seven rooms besides bathroom, ranges latrObes gas
fixtures, &c; keys at lbs. j. W. STARR api6-6t
LNOR RENT-STORE AND DWELLING-HOUSE,
II IA Il street northwest Inquire of JOHN i.
RUFF, Central National Bank. ap16-6t
IF YOU WANT TO BUY, SELL. RENT OR
Trade City or Country Property. come and see the
great bargains at WILLIAM H. MAIN & BROTH
ERS ST. Charles Hotel, corner Third street and Penn
sylvania avenue northwest. ma19-tf
EORRENT-DWELLINGS IN LIE DROIT PARK;
II all of the modern convenences; location fine ana
healthy So to SO; Offices and Stores in LIE Droit
Building; location central. A. L. BARBER & CO.,
LIE Droit Building Eighth and streets north
west. ap7-l2t*
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
Praise for " The Republicau ,,

The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN will be out
this morning with an editorial which has the
proper sound, under the caption 1.-THE President
and the Black Race" THE REPUBLICAN is q great
paper, and we are generally pleased ywhat il says
except when it speaks of the negro as darkey.'
With this amendment THE REPUBLICAN is O. K.
YOU bet-The Netg South
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18

Proposals for the Removal of
Garbage.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT

HEALTH DEPARTMENT
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON, March 70. Issf
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- Office until u N. WEDNESDAY, April ID ISL
for the collection and removal of all Garbage. Refuse
Animal and Vegetable Matter. and Condemned Food
from dwelIing-house markets, hotels, and other
places in the cities of Washington and Georgetown
and their immediate and more denSely populated
suburbs in the District of Columbia for the collection
and removal of all Dead Animals from said cities and
suburbs, and for the transportation Of all Night Soil
Garbage, and Dead Animals beyond the limits Of the
District of Columbia for the period of five years from
July l. 1881 All work to be done in accordance with
the regulations and requirements of the Health De-
partment
Form of proposal and information regarding the
service will be furnished upon application
Proposals will be indorsed Proposals for COlleC-
tiOn Transportation, and Removal of Offa and viii
be addressed to the undersigned.
The right to reject any and all bids is reserved.
BY order of the Commissioners Of the District Of
Columbia
SMITH TOWNSHEND. N. D.,
ma2IM&W-5w Health Officer.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
How to Become a Millionaire,

If the manufacturer of hair renewer
were to get permission to use the portraits of SEN
ators Burnside and Malone in his advertisements
one labeled before using" and the other
after using he would make more money than
q plum ber.-NorriStopn Herald.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
WILLIAM B. TODD.rr
ALFRED II. LEE, trustees
TyRUsTEES SALE OF VALUABLE BRICK-
Il YARD, MACHINERY, &C, IN ALEXAN-


BY virtue of deed of trust from John W Wood
ward and Eliza II. ). Woodward, and being thereto
required by the party secured thereby, the under
signed trustee in said deed will offer for sale al min
lie auction, the premises, halfpast O'Clock in
the afternoon, on SATURDAY, the I4th day Of Nav
1881, the property conveyed to him by said deed viz
Two pieces parcels of land in said county, lviur
the Columbia Turnpike, near its junction with ne
Washington and Alexandra Turnpike; the one con-
tanning acres rood and poles, and the other con
tanning l of land: with the Buildings Sheds
Klns, Engines, Boilers, and all Machinery apperta
ing to the business of brick-making thereon.
For more particular description Of said property
reference is made TO said deed Of trust, which duly
of record among the land records Of said Alexandra
County in Liber ID, No 4, folio 434.
Terms of sale: Cash as to much Ofthe proceeds as
may be necessary TO defray the expenses Of executing
the trust and also 10 the of 81 I063 The baE
ance of the purchase money payable as follows: 500
on the 9th of February 1882; 500 the 24th Of Feb
ruary, 1888, and 500 the 9th of February, lSSi
Said several deferred payments to be evidenced by the
notes of the purchaser, bearing interest at per cent
payable quarterly and secured by deed of trust upon
the premises If there be any residne Of the said pur
chaSe-money, the same shall be payable as the said
John w. Woodward shall direct. Conveyancng az
the cost of the purchaser.
DAVID A. WINDSOR,
aplSWFMts Trustee