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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19
Tho EdncntionnI ELL.

The New York Evening Post in its great
zeal to defeat the Blair bill, is soliciting
letters, through Hon. d. II. Chamberlain,
from the south in opposition to the meas
ure. In It's issue Of the 18th instant, which
has been sent to members Of Congress,
twelve such letters are printed but in al
most every letter the declaration is made
that vast majority of the southern people
want the bill to become n law, so that all
Mr.. Chamberlain and the Post have been
able to do is TO show that some people in
the south are opposed to the bill, which
every sane man knew long before the Post
sent out Its drag net AS to the value Of
the letters an opinion can be formed from
one, said to have been written (or rather
dictated as he is unable to wrlte) by d col
ored planter and country merchant in South
Carolina, who before the war was slave,
and "bossn on his owners plantation.
He is said to be worth now $4,000, and TO
have good bank account the year round.
His letter was written, so Mr.. Chamberlain
says, bphis tchitc clerk. Here 1t Isl
Politics arc ut standstl here. Corn, cot.
ton, and sweet potatoc' with Il little northern
bacon, is what we live on now. Politics did us
no good, and here is this something or other
they call the Blair bill, which our preachers
and others say is going to cure all our sores l
never knew much about 1t until got your
letter. It's enough to know that IL is going to
girc us "darkies' something or other. Idon't
wantit We, darkies, don't want It, Schools
are poor and short here so far, but we're get
ting on. b0ssod "niggcrs' once and worked
like "nigger" myself l know EN-. No
more bossing for me nor helping neither. Who
said "root, hog or die?" It's the Gods truth,
but we have to say also, "eat hog, or die" II
We can't get corn and bacon hog aud hominy,
we can't get schools. | stand Just where did
| when You were homework hard, save my
money, and send the young ones to what
schools we have. When we get more money
| wen have more schools
II that isn't conclusive argument
against the Blair bill then evidently d. II.
| Chamberlain Is mistaken. The writer says
that their schools are "poor and Short"
and adds, "when we get more money we
will have more schools and yet his vir-
tuous conscience rebels against accepting 1t
| from the government that freed and en-
| franchised his race, but failed to provide
for, their education in any way. Surely Mr..
Chamberlain must feel that he is engaged
in grand cause, when he conducts cor
respondence with such men for the purpose
Of defeating measure that proposes to
supplement the emancipation proclamation
by giving the negroes of the south the ad-
vantages of education and the influences OF
better civilization than now surrounds
them Shame on such efforts, and shame
on the once great Euening Post for lending
its columns to so unworthy purpose.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19
PERSONALITIES.


Mrs. JAMES Brown POTTER is contemplating
q trip to California.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Is to lecture on John
Brown, in Boston, next month.
GEN. TERRY is bachelor, and his sister will
preside over his domestic department in CHI.
cago.
Col. DANIEL s. LAMONT has gone to Fortress
Monroe for q few days to visit his family. He
will return to-day.
PRESIDENT NOAH PORTER, or Yale Cole ge,
and Mrs. Porter celebrated their golden wed.
ding Tuesday afternoon.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty" was elected alder
man Mt Toledo the other day, as a temperance
man, and after hard fight.
A MAINE man says Gladstone resembles the
late Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, of that state moro
than any other man he ever saw.
THE best. dressed professional woman in New
York is said TO be DIR. Lozier, whose quiet black
gowns suit her and her calling
JULIAN HAWTHORNE and George Parsons
Lathrop have written a play for Modjeska,
which she win produce next year
Mr.. PORTER SHERMAN, now halling from
Kansas, is completing his course at Yale Col
ege, which he began more than twenty years
ago.
THE President TOOK long drive yesterday,
starting from the white house at IL o'clock iu
the morning and returning at about In the
afternoon.
PROF. BILLRoTH, OF Vienna, with one of his
assistants, went TO Alexandria, Egypt, lately TO
operate on rich banker suffering from dropsy,
and tapped him to the extent of ZOO.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS will deliver lecture
on Wednesday, the 2sth instant, in aid Of the
free night schools of the District of Columbia.
His subject will be "My Recolleotions of Anti
Slavery Times" The lecture will be given at
the Congregational Church.
IN last weeks issue of the Christian Nation
appeared poem by Capt Thomas j. Spencer,
of the United States cayal ry, expressive Of his
disapprobation of military supervision of the
Indians, and also expressing the belief that it
is in our power in this century TO do the
noblest work done beneath the skles-"to lift
u race from out Its savage state and rescue II
from Its impending fate"
MISS CLEVELAND and Miss Van Vechten'
after spending a week at Atlantic City, have
gone to New York city. This was in accordance
with Miss CleVeland's plan when she left
Washington. The stay at Atlantic City was as
long as was intended. Miss Van Vechten will
not return to Washington, and the date of Miss
Cleyeland's return is not yet decided upon.
She viii make O visit in New York before re.
tuning,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19

The American presJ wakes indehcately
vehement in its pursuit of personal news.
1t is time that decency cried halt in this
detailed discussion of the Presidents al
legged matrimonial engagement. The force
Of impudence can no further go, surely, but
1t were well to stop before the idiotic stage
is reached. For some weeks past now the
pros and cons Of the possibility or imposi-
bility of the Presidents marrying his young
,nasI -l,Apa ncupiod tl.s p,Illin nsists--n'i.--
young lady Is IN Europe win her mother,
but biographical sketches of her wired from
Buffalo are in great demand, alleged inter-
views with personal friends Of hers are put
in the leading places, and even her portrait
appears in the newspapers. Now, has any
man Of us thought for moment of the cold
cruelty Of the course we are pursuing toward
that young woman, and the irremediable EN-.
barrassment we are working for her If,
peradventure, the basis OF our blathering
kilograms prove wholly chimerical? Then
a man, though President, has some rights
of privacy in purely personal things that
the press and the public should respect.
Why should day laborer, earning fifty
cents per day, receive courtesles at our
hands we deny to the Chief Magistrate?
There is not doubt in our journalistic
minds but that, when the proper time
comes (as come it may y Mr.. Cleveland
will give us abundant notification of his
marriage. And until such announcement
be made the subject is not the concern OF
gods or men. Col. Lamont is in full SYM
pathy with the press, and has never refused
us any reasonable information upon any
matter. Let us endeavor to merit con-
tinuance Of favors. And now to assert the
gallantry we profess to feel for defenselesS
womanhood, and out of respect. for the dig
nifty OF the Chief Magistrate Of the greatest
nation, and, as needed discipline to our
pertinacious nose for news, suppose we
cease to conjecture whether the President
be engaged or no uutIl We find out.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19
RAILWAY NOTES.

The House on Saturday passed Senate bill
granting the right of way to the Schuylktn
River East Side Railroad Company through
the arsenal and naval asylum grounds IN phil
adelphia.
The stockholders Of the Kanawha and Ohio
railroad voted Friday TO consolidate with the
Ohio and Kanawha Company, those two roads
being the West Virginia and Ohio branches OF
the old Ohio Central
d, II. MofIatt, the millionaire president OF
tno Denver and Rio Grande railroad, began life
in Colorado as a stage driver Now this Jolly
Iehu can crack his whip 10 the tune Of s5,OOO-
600, and is still on the up grade.
The terms Of the Virginia Midland and Dan
vile Railroad Company lease II Is s SAID are IN
are for the payment of the Virginia Midland
Railway Company of net earnings, underguar.
antee that the amountso paid viii be suiheient
company, aud upon such amount Of bonds ns
may be Issued by the Virginia Midland Rail.
way Company of sl2, 100000, bearing interest AZ
not to exceed per cent per annum'
II has been settled that G.. p. Huntington
will build the much talked.of bridge across
the Ohio river at Cincinnati connecting the
latter with Covington. The bridge vii, DC q,
iron and steel, supported by five piers. IL Will
be erected at a cost of $500, ,00), and VIII DC o2
feet higher than the high-water marks OF lsS2,
or 10 feet higher than the suspension bridge
Work will be commenced as soon as the stugo
of the water VIII admit, and II is thought that
months.
Good progress is being made In the con.
structlon ofthc Ohio River railroad from Park
ersburg w. Va, to Point Pleasant OHIO. The
aborers in the vicinity OF that work have got
ten up an indignant protest against tho EN-.
ployment of imported italian laborers instead
OF home laborers, and have sent II to Senator
Camden, one of the principal stocKhQldcrs OF
the road praying that he Will use his intiu.
cnce to have the Italians set away aud their
places supplied by laborers who live along the
line of the road.
The Prince OF Wales has n most luxurious
private railway saloon carriage for continental
travelling. IL is generally kept nt Havre, and
is in charge of a first class mechanical cngl'
| ncer, who examines II carefully before each
| journey and who travels everywhere with the
| Prince IL has spacious drawing room, sleep
| ing bertns, with bath room, even shower baths,
/ nj each end for the Prince and Princess, and Is
| supplied with reservoir for gas for forty.eight
\ hours. 1t Is considered the I" finest thing out
on wheels"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19

THE power of public opinion as the con-
servator Of our free institutions, as the great
regulator of parties and factions, and as the
final arbitrator of contending interests, has
been a favorite theme Of discourse In the Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN,. Public opinion is the
chief cornerstone Of our republic, and no
party can long hold power except by care
full consultation OF and faithful compliance
with Its demands. We are not surprised
to see new publication bearing the sug-
gestlve name of Public Opinion, and pub
lished, as 1t should be, at the national cap
ital. Its object is to CLEAN from many
sources, including the daily, weekly, and
monthly press Of America and Europe aud
prominent persons on both sides OF the
ocean, expressions Of opiRion on current
topics of general interest, and to pres ent
them in convenient shape for perusal, thus
giving in twenty-four neat pages the cream
Of hundreds of articles, essays, letters, and
talks. The initial number Is good begin
ming OF work that will steadily grow in
Importance and will require the most in
telligent and honest efforts OF its compiers.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19

The entire legislative day of Friday last
was consumed in the consideration OF
siRgle private bill, which was left uncom-
pleted. This incident ought to be sufficient
to convince our lawmakers that Congress is
not the proper tribunal to consider and dis
pose of private claims. Already there are
hundreds of cases on the calendar, not one
tenth Of which will be reached until the
forty-ninth Congress expires Most of these
claims are entirely just and ought promptly
to be paid, but they are kept along from year
to year to the great wrong Of citizens who
can lily afford the delay. A bill ought to
be passed at once establishing court or
sending private bills to the court of claims,
with enlarged jurisdiction, and thus rid
Congress of this burden aud give the credit
ors OF the government chance to secure
their just dues.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19

WHILE however, hold now, as held years
ago, that the south is the natural home Of the
colorcd race, and that there mu't the destiny
of that race be mainly worked out, still BE-.
llcvc that means can be and ought to be
adopted to assist in the emigration of such OF
their number as may wish to changa their
residence 10 parts Of the country where their
civil and political rights are better protected
than at present they can be at tho south.
! adopt the suggestion Of the NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN, ofthis city, that diglsion is the true
policy for the colored people OF the south. All,
of course, cannot leave that section, and ought
not; but some can, and the condition Of those
who must remain will be better because of those
who so, Men, like trees, may be too thlckly
planted to thrive. Ifthe labor market OF Mis-
sissppi were to-day not overloaded aud over.
supplied the aborers would be more fully ap
pTeciated; but this work Of diffusion and dis.
tribution cannot be carried on by the enamel.
latcd class alone. They need and ought to
have the material aid of both white and col.
orCd Tcople ot the free states. A million of
dollars devoted to this purpose would do more
for the colorcd people OF the south than the
same amount expended in any other way
There IS no degradation, no loss Of selErespact
in asking this aid considering tho clrcum
stances of these people. The white people OF
this nation owe them this help and great
deal more. The keynote of the future should
not be concentration, but dlGuhon-dlstribu.
tion. This may not be a remedy for all evils
now uncured, but it cer,ainly will bad dcip in
TO- ., =, .T.jr. ,;igeJieE I)I,glass
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19

THE "severe censure" and "declaration
Of iustindignation" expressed by Louisville
Democrats sin mass meeting assembled"
last Saturday night, on account Of the re-
appointment Of Mrs, Virginia G. Thompson
(daughtero Of the founder of the Campbellite
church) TO be postmaster Of that city, war
rants some inquiry for the purpose Of as
certaining the animus of this ebullition of
Democratic indignation. It the first place,
it.sis conceded that Mrs. Thompson's only
faults are that she is n woman and was
originally appointed by a Republican ad-
ministration. The opposition to her, so far
as the Louisville indignation meeting was
concerned, is wholly Of political nature.
That being true, let us see who is the chief
among the "number of capable and true
Democrats who sought the position'-and
got left. The Hon. w. b. Flemming is be-
lloved to be that man. Mr.. Flemming was
the contending applicant for the onlce of
United States district attorney for Ken
tueky, and was the choice of President
Cleveland, but Attorney General Garland
favored his friend, Judge Wicklife, Of
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19
AMUSENIEN rs.



Mr.. Joseph Jefferson and his comedy COM
pany begin a weeks engagement tonight at
the National Theater. For the first three
nights adouble bill will be presented-"Crlcket
on the Hearth" and "Lend Me Five shillings"
For the remainder of the week and matinee,
rip Van Winkle."
ALBAUOHs GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
Commencing this evening the English mel
odrama, ''The Silver King" will be produced
Bangs, assisted by the New York company.
The new and beautiful scenery, constructed
from the original model, used AZ the Priacess
Iheater, London, England, and at Wallack's
Theater, New York, VIII be seen.
THE BOSTON IDEAIs
The Boston Ideals, always especial favortos
in Washington, as they are Indeed everywhere,
will appear at the New National thrOughOutthe
week commencing Monday April 90 Their rep
day, Halery's maid Of Honor. mewli Tues
of love, new; Wednesday matinee, Era Di.
aYolo" Wednesday evening and Saturday
matinee, ".yictor, the Bluestocking'' $50 full
ofdelightful remembrance from last January q
engagemenD; Saturday evening, martha"
The old favorites all appear and also Misses
each of whom has won added fame since last
seen here. The sale of reserved seats will
open Thursday next the 22d instant), at $3.50
O, IN.
HARRIs's BuoU THEATER.
The Wilbur Opera Company, which has crea.
ted such ftlrore by their excellent perform,
ance Of 1.-THE Mikado'' last week, have been
retained for one more week, when they will
present on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
matinees and nights Lecocqs charming three
act comic opera, "Girohe Girola," and on
Thursday Friday, and Saturday matinees and
nights Andrans most successful and brilliant
opera, "The Mascotte."
THE COWBOY PIANIST.
The recital of the cowboy pianist at the Ma
tional Theater last night was attended by a
fashionable audience. Mr., Babel proved him
self to be q regular "hustlern and an honor 10
the cowboy race. Blind Tom can't hold a
candle to him. The audience was highly
pleased with the entertainment, especially
when Mr.. Babel played with a tablecloth over
the keys
HER2oG's OPERA HOUSE.
An unusually pleasing play. Fun on the
b Tistol, is promised by Herzog this week, and
acting of surprising excellence. Tho great
buTlesque on "Falka" will be introduced Incl
dentally, with the original music.
THE DIME MUSEUM.
There Is TO be a wonderful combination OF
circus, comedy, and speciality this week at the
Dime. Pretty women are TO delight the eyes,
sweetest songs 70 charm the ears, Who shall
say what will or will not BET The list OF at
fractions given Is long, and concludes with ct
ceIera,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19
Tho ReadJustment of tho Salaries OF
Ex-Postmasters.

Ex-Postmasters.
The Postmaster.Gen has written TO a
member Of the House committee on postolices
a letter urging that Congress definitely and
uumistakably dcclarc the purpose and intent
of the so.called "spalding act for the read.
between lsCi and 1871 When this act was
passed in 1883 its true Intent and meaning was
q matter of great doubt and perplexity. Post
master General Gresham studied II carefully
and wrote an elaborate opinion upon 1t. He
also called upon Attorney General Brewster
for n construction of the law. Tho interpreta.
tion placed upon the lazy by the Attorney
General formed the basis of the mode of read
justment adopted by the department. This
mode has given great dissatisfaction to most
of the 1900 eX.postmasters, who supposed the
strued II to mean another. They arc. pouring
their complaints into Congress, and demand
ing that the method OF readjustment be
changed Postmaster General Villas has thus
far pursued the method adopted by his prede-
cessOr pursuant TO such opinions. He did not
feel authorized to change the rule in view Of
the fnot that the Forty.eighth Congress appro'
priated nearly quarter OF q million to pay
Tn TO March 10 some 2i,S75 cases had been
reviewed. OF this number 9S5S claims were
allowed the aggregate oil allowances bang
and the claimants mostly claim that under
their Interpretation Ofthe act something would
be found due them. Alist of claims, number
2s2 has been reported to Congress TO be pro-
vided for in the deficiency bill 1t is suggested
by Judge Bryant that IL Congress does not
rntify the present method of readIustment, it
should suspend action on an appropriation for
these claims, as a change of the rule of read
justment win work great confusion and com
pei review and readjustment of the claims al
ready allowed. AS the expenditure of over
thrcc.iourths Of a million under the construc-
ton ofthe law now followed is not likely TO
put quletus to these claims, the department
Is desiious that Congress mako plain u very
complicated and perplexlng piece of legisla-
tion. A resolution Is pending before Congress
the true construction. A bill is also pending
ratifying the action taken under Attorney Gem
eral Brew ster's Interpretation OF the Spalding
act, and insirueling the department to con-
tinue TO follow Il,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-19

ought to be appointed to serve upon the
committee on naval affairs, but whether or
not he shall be so designated, he is ready
with the oldest members to act intelligently
upon the most important subject that is to
come up in the Senate during the remainder
of the present session-namely, the rehabil-
itation of the navy. As an active member
and chairman Of the committee on naval
affairs Of the House OF Representatives,
Col. Whltthorne devoted years of deep
study to that branch OF the public service,
and he knows the needs thereof.