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National Republican., 1883-10-05

quiro 1 cent stamps, will be enclosed in
regulation sealed envelopes in the future.
Unsealed letters generally find their
way into waste baskets unopened. Busi-
ness men seldom take the trouble to look
at circulars that come to them in that
form. On the other hand they never
fail to look at the contents of
o sealed letter. Firms and institutions
which send out circulars know this very we'll,
and MS their object in distributing circulars is
to advertise their business, they will naturally
try to put their literature whore it will be
road When an establishment puts out thou
sands of circulars daily, as many do, the diff
ference between aud 3 cont postage made
vast difference in yearly expenses, but now
that this item is cut down one-third, they
will gradually drift into the practice of mail
ing their matter under seal. The result will
be an increase in the revenues of the post
office department from stamp sales"
National Republican., 1883-10-05
A RIornI ArrIcuIturist.

The career of Mr.. Charles Emory Smith,
editor of the Philadelphia Press, illustrates q
familiar principle of agriculture, Tho ex-
hausted lands of Maryland and some other
states show how tho productivcness of
naturally fertile soil may be gradually di-
minshed and the soil itself finally impovor-
ishcd by the cultivation of single crop. Mr..
Smiths sole crop in politics is egotisn
exhausting one, and tho fertilizer simply
stimulates without enriching the soil. Mr..
Smith practiced his peculiar methods at
Albany, N. Y, until he had exhausted the
soil as well as tho patience of tho people,
and then removed to Philadelphia. At
Albany ho ploughed with tho old
Ercning Journal, while at Phila dclphia he sub
soils with tho Press His system and his
methods are unchanged. His crop is still
egotism manured with selfs hness, and it is
only question of time when he will exhaust
tho soil at Philadelphia as he did at Albany
In the transaction by which farmer Smith
endeavored to enrich his op erations by sub
sidy of about S7OO,OOO at the expense of the
government, he showed q degree of enter.
prise hardly to be expected from played
out agriculturist from the ancient capital Of
Now York. But there is reason to fear
that his enterprise was misdirected
Such schemes cannot stand exposure tc
light and air. They require darkness
and careful nursing by candle light. Since
The REPUBLICAN, has turned the glare oil
daylight on Farmer Smiths latest fertilizinl
scheme, there is reason to fear that his vol
laid plans will come to naught In this event
ne may find that what he thought was fresh
field and pasture new in Philadelphia wa;
simply an inviting sphere for new disasters
Mr.. Smith bids fair to be as great failure in
the role of farmer as he is fraud in that o.
reformer.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
Tbo Roblnson Ernloslon. Z

Supervising Inspector Starbuck, Of Now
York, who is investigating the explosion on
the tug Robinson, at Albany, reports to the
supervising inspector general of steam vessels
that tho investigation is proceeding and that
he has taken the testimony OF Frederick l..
Tinslar, tho engineer of the tug, who was
sealded, and now lying at the his homo in
West Troy. Mr.. Tnslar, he says, admits
that he screwed down the pop" valve of che
Robinson's boiler because IL was out of order
and blew too easily. 1t is thought that this
admission leaves Tinslar liable undor two
sections Of the steamboat laws, one Of which
makes tho obstruction of the safety valve of
a boiler, or tho hindering of the operation of
any machinery or device employed TO denote
the state OF wator or steam in q boiler n mis-
demeanOr punishable by fine of 5000 and
by imprisonment not to exceed five years,
and the other Of which mako the engineer or
other officer Of any vessel by whose miscon.
duct the life of any person is destroyed sub
ject to imprisonment for not more than ten
years. Con. Dumont said to-day that he
could not recall any case wherein q convc-
tion had been had under either OF the sections
referred to, although persons had beon prose-
cuted under them.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
The Bourhons Must 10.

A careful review Of the political history of
this country since the surrender Of Lee would
prove that the SO called carpetbag" govern
ments could not have boon erected in the
south if the democratic political leaders there
had not desired and promoted that result. 1t
was their foolish policy to sit sullenly by and
take no part in the elections under the recon-
struction acts in order that bad results should
follow. These false guides of the people thus
actually created tho situation of which they
complained expressly that they might COM
plain of it. We know of negroes who
begged their old masters to take hold of
affairs in 1867 and advise them the best course
to pursue. The obstinacy of bour bonism first
drove the negroes into the support of northern
settlers, and gave them good reason for fear
ing that emancipation would cease to be q
fact if they did not bestir themselves at the
polls. These are sorry truths Only the con-
tumacy of southern bourbon democrats stim-
ulated by Andrew Johnson's policy and en-
couraged by the northern democracy,
caused tho long years of republican rule
the south aftor the war; Had there been
no stubborn bourbonism republicanism would
have given way to unionism. Republicanism
was resistance to reaction. So long as the
bourbon hope of revenge for slavery destroyed
and tho union preserved animates men enough
in the south to make their political copart-
nership desirable to the northern democratic
parasites and Office seekers, Just so long there
will be q party to combat it. In the south we
have no hope for any anti-bourbon leadership
that was not actively for the confederacy
during tho civil war. Every day the rebel
lion of national men against tho bourbons
grows stronger They got some mercenary
negro recruits, but it is at the expense of the
color line which has been so useful to them
The bourbons must go.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
Concerning state Rights.

In nrcplyingto our views concerning IL
men who were opposed to tho war for the
suppression of the rebellion the Post becomes
much confused, aud entirely ignores our main
point We admitted tho honesty of tho con-
foderate belief in the right of state to secede;
but tho same doctrine of state rights by
which they were controlled also taught that
u state might decline to socodo, aud might
determine for itself and its citizens that tho
seeding states had enormously adiudged
themselves aggrievcd. The famous Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions declared that tho
constitution was compact between the states,
aud that each state was the Judge for itself of
any infraction thereof, as well as of the
modo and measure Of redress. This was the
doctrine Of state supremacy, and was not
limited to states which grew cotton. Tho
states which opposed tho right of secession
had as many rights as the others, and there
was, according to the state rights doctrine,
no limit to tho allegiance they might COM
mand of their citizens. Under what system
of reasoning then would the Post havo us
concede that the northern believer in state
sovereignty must disobcy his oDn state at the
bidding of the state of South Car
olina? Take, for example, the
state of New Hampshire. According
to the state rights doctrine on which
secession was based, did not that state have
an equal right with South Carolina to judge
for itself whether there had been any infrac-
tion of tho compact to justify the secession OF
the latter state? New Hampshire decided
states agreed with South Carolina, twenty
one agreed with New Hampshire. Was not
the decision of the twenty-five states as bind
ing on every one of their citizens as was the
decision Of the eleven states on theirs? Had
the eleven states any better right TO band
together as confederacy than the twenty
two had to deny that they had lawfully
seeded, and to contend for the old union
We do not admit tho doctrine of paramount
state allegiance but it does not lie in the
mouths of those who do to assert it for the
citizens of eleven states and deny it to those
of twenty-five.
We repeat, therefore, that tho northern
peace democrats were only for peace toward
the confederacy, while they were for war
against the union, and that those few of them
who dared to uphold the right of secession
claimed rights for tho rebellious states
which they denied to their own
We cannot find any palliation or excuse for
citizens of the states which adhered to the
government, who aided by sympathy or other
wise the cause of the confederacy. They
violated state rights as we'll as national au.
thority. They were the cause of prolonging
the war which they had first encouraged, ant
woro actuated merely by q miserable party
spirit which blinded them to every obliga
tion of citizens, whether of their nation OF
their state.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

tion to the action of congress in refusing to
appropriate the needed money for repairs.
Our taxes arc levied by congress, collected
by men never appointed by us, aud disbursod
without any consultation with us whatever.
We may be ever so willing to tax our
selves sufficiently to meet an extraordinary
necessity like the ono on which this article is
based, but we have no power, There may be
an ample fund created by tho taxes we do pay
TO admit of the needed expenditure, but we
have no representatives chose by ourselves
on whom wo can call to make it available.
What Washington people want is somo say in
their own aflairs.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
Changes i'm the Different Bureaus OF the
Treasury Department..

Changes I'm the Different Bureaus OF the
Treasury Department.
sThe following appointments under tine
civil service rules were made in the treasury
department yesterday Cassius IL. Clay, Dis
trict of Columbia, $1,000 class, fourth audi
tors office; James II. O'Nealo, District of
Columbia, and William IL. Haynes, District
of Columbia, 5000 class, internal revenue
James b. Peake, District of Columbia, and
Miss Marian Pyles, Vermont, 5000 class, Sec
retary's office The appointment of G. II.
Clay to 81 900 clerkship in tho fourth audi
tors Office is the first instance of an appoint
ment to any class but the lowest existing in
any of the departments since the civil scr
vice rules were enforced. Tho appointment
of four men from the District of Columbia
nearly completes the quota allowed TO the
district in the treasury department. as only
two additional appointments can be made
from tho district.
The following appointments were also made
yesterday: Wilfred Alt1enhead William
Kricheld, L. p. Wood, and Samuel G. Holmes
laborers, and Thomas Il. 'Venable, watch
man, secretary's Office.
Promotions in the department have been
made as follows Sixth auditors office-Wm.
b, Dodge. from class / to class 2 james A..
Dickenson, $1,000 to class 1; Charles ID, Hud-
son, 81, 900 to class l, and Miss NJ. G. O'Brien,
5000 to $1,000, and VIM. d. Bard, registers
office, from class to 9.
Sweeping changes have been made in the
Office of the supervising architect in order to
cut the running expenses down to the limit
fixed by congress--Sl20,000 year. Three
craftsmen and two clerks have been dis
charged, two lady clerks have been trans
ferred and the pay of employees in the model
| ing room has been reduced from S5 to 4.50 per
day each. These changes effect saving Of
| $500 per month.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
rhe Unsafe sehool nuLldlngs.

Tho explanation of Commissioner Edmonds
as to why some of our public school buildings
are unsafe, when, with q small outlay, they
might be otherwise, is not as satisfactory rs
his assurance that the evil will be speedily
remedied He says that congress only appro-
priated $4,000 for repairs where $4,000 was
asked by the commissioners. But he says
there is q specific amount in the appropriation
for the current expenses of the schools,
which is devoted to repairs that may be
made available for the needed alterations
We think this money appropriated for the
current repairs should have been sooner
devoted to the removal of positive dangers.
Fortunately, however, no harm has come
from the delay, and Commissioner Edmonds
says that the promptest measures will be
taken to remedy, not merely a real evil, but
anything calculated to give the impression OF
danger, This is a square promise that
all the dangerous places pointed out
in THE REPUBLICAN, as well as others not in
our reports, will be made safe, whether they
were embraced in any previous report of th'
inspector of buildings or not.
Whilo on this subject We call public atten
National Republican., 1883-10-05

WE are pained TO observe q falling from
civil service reform grace on the part of our
esteemed morning contemporary. He actually
speaks with lovity and even approval of the
probability that the democratic house will
ego on with the expected reorganization"
when he knows that the retention of the
present republican officials is demanded by
every line, word, syllable, and punctuation
point Of the Pendleton law. Such are demo-
cratic pTetensions.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
The sennte Organization.


Two Virginiuns, who say they are not republi-
cans, will control the reorganiz of the senate
on a republican basis Washington Post.
"Two Virginians" will have but two votes
in the senate, and they have no moro idea of
having Control" than have any other two
members of that body. They will be sure to
so vote as TO do the bourbon side Of the cham
Der the most harm. This will not bo pleasing
to their opponents, but will be fulfilling the
expectations OF their friends. Tho tactics
of tho democratic editors and their
servile assistants has been to try and
break the friendly alliance between
the Virginia senator and the republic
cans, which was hailed by tho country
with such loud appreciation when announced
in Mahono's first speech in tho senate, in
March, 1881. But they have utterly failed.
That alliance was q step in the coalition
in Virginia which wrested the gov
ernment of that state from bourbon con.
troll, gave Malone friendly colleague in the
senate, elected six members of the next house
of representatives, and Will give the twelve
electoral votes of Virginia to any republican
nominee for the presidency who will declare
his confidence in and respect and friendship
for tho great anti-bourbon majority in Vir-
ginia. The democratic heathen imagine q
vain thing when they think to create discord
by representing the "two Yirginians' as
claiming any undue voice in tho councils OF
the senate.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
Baltimore Public Bu.lding.

Contracts were awarded at the treasury
department yesterday to the bidders below
named for furnishing material for the con-
struction of tho first story of tho public
building at BaltimOre George w. Robinson
& Son, bricks, at SO per 1000; John j. Kelly
& Co., lime, at go cents per barrel;SSS. M.
Hamilton y Co., cement, at $l.0I por barrel /;
and Edward HciIner, jr., for sand, at SO cents
per cubic yard. All of the successful bidders
are from Baltimore
National Republican., 1883-10-05

THE time has arrived for Maj. Dye to give
his somnolent station keepers another dress
ing down. In many cases they are getting
careless and indifferent, if not positively
ncglcctrul of their duties. When station
keepers forget to report arrests for danger
GUS shooting ARRAYS for twenty-four hours,
tho powers that be should explode bombs
under them. Something is radically wrong
and the defect should be remedied.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

LITTLE Charlie McComas is still in the
hands of his savage captors, Commissioners
who went to the Apache country to get him
were informed that the widow of Ju has him
in charge and is SO attached to him she does
not want to give him up. She is one of those
kind, gentle hearted old hags who, having
assisted in the murder of the boys father and
mother wants to do good part by their
unfortunate offspring.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

THE bourbons will always continue TO have
what their organs call our "bitter hostility"
When they cease to feel an undying regret at
the failure of the attempt to blot the United
States from the map of the world, they will
cease to answer our definition of bourbons.
There ore some democrats who are not bour-
bons, but they serve bourbonism as long as
they serve the democratic party No amnesty
will ever reach that hide-bound old organiza-
tiOn
National Republican., 1883-10-05

A DELEGATION of North Carolina editorial
excursionists reached Boston yesterday to
inspect the wonders of the Hub. OF course
Gov. Butler could not afford to neglect so
rare an opportunity to extend the courtesies
of the state to tho visitors. Anybody from
the cotton belt is very solid with Butler just
now and will be until after the presidential
nominations are made.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

WE cannot refrain from expressing our
gratitude to able bourbon editors who go to
the trouble to refer to our files for the pur-
pose of culling therefrom and republishing
in their own columns the many good thrusts
we have given to bourbonism. Such reading
will do good to the unfortunates who have
been starving on democratic husls. We hope
the truths We have spoken will continue to
brighten the pages of our bonighted contom-
poraries.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

GEN. MAHoNEs speech at Zuni station
last Tuesday is reported to have been pow
erful arraignment of the democratic-fu
party. Great crowds came from the sur
rounding country to hear him, and the
speaker was enthusiastically received and
applauded throughout.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

THE annual convention of the American
bankers will be held at Louisville next
Thursday and Friday. Among the subjects
to be considered arc tho currency and bank
ing systems, the refundlng of the public debt,
the movements of commerce and trade and
the causes and prevention of financial panics.
Methods for lowering the ratio of interest in
the west and south will also be discussed.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

THE letter of tho commissioners in regard
to arms for the Union Veteran corps has
given new interest to tho militia question
in the district. Some new light is thrown
on the questions at issue by series of inter.
views in another column.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

THE Louisville exposition continues to be
great success rain or shine. Yesterday was
"Tcnne5sec day." and an immense concourso
of people were present.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

rupt. They aim an incisivo blow at tho New
York court of appeals by resolving that tho
late opinion delivered at Albany, to the effect
that thoro is no legal way to prevent the
watering of stock, calls for national logisla-
tion to stop this monster and growing evil.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

LATRoBE was nominated by the democratic
convention in Baltimore yesterday, as it was
certain he would be- and bad break in tho
party is the result. Tho dissatisfied minority
will bring out a candidate of its own, who, it
labor organizations and probably be indorsed
by the republicans.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

JAMES McSTEEN, Pittsburg rufIiau, who
Drained his wife with an AK, was executed at
Pitt5burg yesterday. As usual with such
valorous brutes the culprit is reported to
have "died game"
National Republican., 1883-10-05

The latest cotton crop report from tho
Memphis district, comprising west Ten
nessee, north Mississippi, north Arkansas,
and north Alabama, indicates decreased
yield of 30 per cent. as compared with the
previous year. The long continued dry
weather has entirely destroyed tho top crop.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
Gllr gJatinllnI RtplshIttalt.
Worms 10 snhscrlI,era.

Doily edition by mail, postage prepaid, per year,
$500; six months. sLOO; three months, $500. To
city subscribers delivered by carricr-Por year,
SG.Ooi per month, SOC.
Weekly edition postage prepaid, per year, $3.50;
six months, 75c.
Sample copies sent on application.
Rcmittanccs may be made ut our risk, either by
DRAFT express, postofice order postal note or reg
iserod letter Money sent in any other way is at
the risk Of the person sending it, Addross
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,,
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National Republican., 1883-10-05

JOHN TYLER, jr, son Of the ox-prosdent
has written long letter to the secretary of
the Alexandria county committee indorsing
tho coalition movement and Senator Malone.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

The New York chamber of commerce will
come before congress again this year for more
legislation, They want the bankrupt law so
amended that all preferences shall bo wiped
out, and all creditors placed on tho same basis
in the distribution Of the assets Of the bank
National Republican., 1883-10-05
FRIDAY. OCTOBER s, 1888.

Now it is said tho report of tho pope's
illness was unfoundcd.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

PRESIDENT ARTHUR left West Island yes
terday morning, and is now in Now York.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

Amusements.
NAT1oNAL.-Bartloy CampbGlrs siberia"
FoRD s.-Thc Edwards Folly Opera Company.
CoMouE.-N. s. Woods in THE 10y Scout"
DIME Observation-Disclosures and evening performance.
National Republican., 1883-10-05
AIllIIsnII,nlits

Entered at he r. q. as second class mat matter.
Postd1c on single copies, cents.
National Republican., 1883-10-05

"Did you know" queried the department
attache, 1that the existing Indian reserva-
tions number about 40 and embrace an area
of not less than 150,0OO,0OO acres? MOI 1
thought not. This is an area four times
greater in extent than tho whole of New
England, FIVE times greater than New York
or Pennsylvania, six times greater than Vir-
ginia four and Il half times greater than Illi-
nois, with its $4,000 square miles; six times
greater than Indiana, and four and half
times greater than Ohio. The 100000 Indians
scattered over that vast tract of country re-
quire considerable governing. The department
is bending its energies to the encouragement
of the idea of q dissolution of tribal relations
among Indians. Secretary Tellor's views on
that point are of very positive kind. He is
against the policy of herding Indians to-
gether on reservations and feeding them at
governmental expense, holding, as do
nearly all who have given the subject
thoughtful consideration, that such treatment
encourages the Indians to lead life of idle.
ness and endless pauperism. He is get
ting Indians to take up and cultivate
land in severalty as fast as they can be in
duced to do SO, and teaching them the beau
ties of independence and thrift This is of
| necessity u system of slow development, but
the day is not far distant whom the Indians
will have to give up their splendid reserva-
tions in the far west and take their chances
with other men. The sooner they are brought
to q realization of the demands Of the age the
better it will be for them"
National Republican., 1883-10-05

The postoflico officials are watching tho
effect upon the volume and character of busi-
ness Of the 2 cent postage law, An observ-
ant official said yesterday that in his opinion
the reduction in letter postage would revolu-
tioni2o the circular letter system. 81 think"
he said, that largo proportion of tho circu-
lar letters that have heretofore been scat
tcred by the ton throughout the country
every day, in unsealed envelopes, which re-
National Republican., 1883-10-05
Anrtlni, EnIea.

FUTURE DAYS
BY DUNcANsoN BRos--Nionday, Oct. s, ut S26 Four
teonth street northwest choice collection o.
household furniture.