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Year: 1879

their hands clean of all such alliances and
consequences by taking bold ground against
both repudiation and adjustment. Hon
esty is the best policy in private or
public dealings, and every Republican
should insist that the full debt
of Tennessee, principal and interest, should
be bonded at such time and at such rate
of interest rs her resources will warrant.
That every State in the Union should pay
its honest debts is simply principle of
right, which cannot he departed from with
out bringing discredit upon the American
people A great and growing State like
Tennessee, which is full of undeveloped re-
sources and has future greatness before it,
cannot afford to write itself down q Repudi-
ator or an Adjuster. 1t is prospectiyely
able, and should bond every dollar of its
debt under the plighted faith of the State,
and then future generations of its people
will not be called upon to blush when it is
charged with reputation in whole or in
part. Every Republican should vote sternly
against reputation in every shape, and
then, if they are outvotcd, the odium OF
the result will rest where ii belongs-with
the Democratic party.
Year: 1879

big sensation in limited political circles is
the rumor OF a new oath-bound political organ
ization of ex- Union soldiers of the late war. 1t
is said to have originated in this city and al
ready spread into larger cities all over the
country. 1t is composed of ex-Union soldiers
of all parties who are dissatisfied with their
treatment by both political parties, and insist
OH a more liberal recognition of their rights.
They propose to do this by selling their votes
en- nasSe to the party that will bid highest.


The above Washington dispatch to Bal
timore evening paper may be, and we be-
leve is in part true. We are told that
new organization of soldiers is being formed,
but it is not intended to sell it out to any
political party. There is serious dissatisiac-
tion among the soldiers of the Union army
and u feeling Of fear that rebels guns never
gave them is abroad. The more thoughtful of
them see danger ahead. They offered their
lives to preserve their country and saw
thousands of their comrades fall in the
effort. They succeeded but danger, dam
ger even greater than the one which they
confronted in battle array, now threatens it.
The soldiers see it. They want no more
wars; no more bloodshed, and they are
combining to preyentit.


During and since the war the soldiers
have known that the Democratic party was
opposed TO them and TO what they did This
has been so well understood that but few of
the soldiers Of the war can be found acting
with that party, aud these few are becom-
| ing fewer since the Confederate Brigadiers
took command 1t. 1t is true that I'm oc-
| uin al al ho in 1yg
of the Democracy, but in almost every in
stance he will be found to be one who was
not valued rs highly by the Republican
party-the party of the soldiers-as he val
ued himself General EWING is one of this
class.


While the war was in progress the Re-
publican party upheld the hands of the
soldier in his efforts to preserve the Union,
as AARON and HUR upheld the hands of
MOSES when he prayed for the children of
ISRAEL. ince the war that party has done
all that II grateful country could or should
do for its brave defenders. They have been
given all that they asked in the past. Times
have changed. The soldiers have seen both
branches of Congress pass into the power of
the rebels whom they conquered. This
created alarm, as it should have done. But
they now see something that alarms them
still more, The Executive Department Of
the Government is in the hands Of Republi-
cans, and the soldiers see these Departments
crowded with rebel soldiers who are in po'
litical afllliation with the Democrats of the


North, the men who during the war, KEEP
up I" the fire in rear" that annoyed and dis


tressed the Union soldiers more than die
! the guns of the rebels in their front. They
Year: 1879

The Sunday Gazette is little too indiffer-
ent to the facts when it assumes the pater-
nifty for itself or its friends of the plan pro-
posed by Mr. c. b. CHURCH for the improve
ment of the harbor of Washington, which
was set forth in THE NATIONAL REPUBLI-
CAN of last Friday. Its claim is set up in
this wise:


By reference to the files of the Gazette Of
November 81 aud 10th, 1873, the letters
written by Colonel BEVERLY KENNoN on
"Our River Fronts " make identically the pro-
posed improvements as illustrated by the
drawing referred to, and We think hc should
receive the credit due him for the same.


We have no intention of plucking single
feather from the nodding plume of the
Gazette, or its friend, which belong there
neither is it just to Others that it should
attempt to deck itself or its friend with bor-
rowed plumage, which, in the light of his
tory, belongs to Others. Mr.. CHURCH is en-
gagged now, and has been since the fall of
1871 us n member and chairman of the sub
committee of one hundred of the Taxpayers
of the District of Columbia, on the harbor
improvement. This subcommittee made
report to the committee of one hundred
November 13, 1877, which was accom-
panied by diagram covering the
plan recently reproduced in these
columns. This plan has met with so
much favor with Congress that two appro-
priations have already been made to de-
velop and perfect and the subcommittee,
which works ardently and faithfully in
q, ;,, Il
in good faith and in the full hope of sccur-
ing to the river front the full benefit of
decided improvementat no very remote day.
This committee, we feel assured, have no
ulterior purposes. Its labor is that of love
for the welfare of the city, and it seeks no
advantage which is not to be utilized purely
in that direction. One thing, however, is
very evident Our Sunday cotemporary
must revise its dates before it can hope to
transfer to the shoulders of itself or its
friend, the honor that attaches to plan for
our river front, which had been published
in pamphlet form year previous to the
time it dates its title deed or letters patent.
In the light of recorded history the Gazette
will make but poor headway in its attempt
to pluck the laurels that belong to the
subcommittee" and transfer them to others,
who seem to have awakened to the subject q
year after areport had been made on the sub
ject, and had passed into print. " Honor
to whom honor is due" and this subcom-
mittee have been too faithful and Jealous
in behalf of the improvement of our river
front to be subjected to any petty piliering
of their well-earned laurels on this question.
Year: 1879

The most interesting subject for consid-
Grafton and discussion just now in Tennes-
see is that ofadiusting, repudiating, or pay
ing the State debt, liquidation is the Dem
ocratic process for discharging obligations,
as that makes short work of the matter,
and cuts off all cause for discussion and diff
ferences between debtor and creditor sub
sequently. 1t is an easy and summary way
of disposng of vexed financial question,
and is purely Democratic in principle and
interest. There are some Democrats, and
perhaps few Republicans, who favor an
adjustment or compromise of the State in
debtedness for two reasons-in the first
place they are not so hardened in crime as
the Repudiators and, secondly, they think
it hard for the people to shoulder the entire
debt. They have not the conscience to re-
pudiate outright, nor the honesty TO make
full payment but compound their opinion
on the English beer principle of half-and-
half


We learn from East Tennessee that q
large majority of the Republicans in that
section of the State are in favor of an hon
est settlement of the whole debt. This is
honest and just, and we hope that position
will he firmly and determinedly adhered to
by every Republican in the State, If Re-
pudiation is to come the Republicans can
not afford TO share the odium of it, and
hence should make an unmistakable re-
cord of hostility toit, Adjustment is but tri-
de better-indeed it is not relieved OF the
odlum of repudiation, for it repudiates hali
the debt. This is not honest or just, and the
Republican party of Tennessee should keep
Year: 1879

THE ex-Union soldiers are taking more
than usual interest in the matter of ap-
pontments by the Administration, both
present and prospective. They are reluct-
ant to believe that Republican Admins
tration, elected in part by their votes, and
which would have been defeated without
them, in u country saved in part by their val
or, and which but for their valor would have
been lost in revolution, will entirely over
look the class to which they belong, or con-
fer appointments upon Democrats and ex-
rebels. However, we are assured that they
propose to watch the appointments for the
next few weeks and see. If the Admins
tration concludes that the soldiers votes are
not wanted, they have only to let it be
known by appointing u few more ex-rebel
Democrats. This suggestion has been made
to us by n genuine Union soldier, who
thinks that the Union was not saved for the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of ex-rebels but for those
who had patriotism enough to risk theil
lives and received wounds in its defense
and we give utterance to these views, which
are so strictly in accord with our own.
Year: 1879

IT is well known fact that the amount
of money subscribed for the relief of the
yellow fever sufferers of last year, was out
of all proportion to the amount accounted
for, or distributed among the needy. Thou
sands upon thousands of dollars were made
up by subscriptions of greater or less sums
in every city, town and hamlet in the North,
and these contributions were sent down TO
the plague-strckcn regions in n helter-skel-
ter STYLE obedient TO the impulse of the
givers. There were no checks upon fraud
or peculation, and no system i'll the distri-
button of these colossal charities, which
were mainly comprised of cash money. A
better way, if the same demands are to be
made this year upon the North, is to send
down food, clothing, and medicines. The
money needed to hire nurses should be ex'
pended under u systematic supervision by
responsible authority.
Year: 1879

THE Wisconsin Republicans start into
the campaign with a hoop-la and vigor
that is the certain presage of victory The
extra session has had the effect to bring all
of the Badger Republicans out of their
homes They will not be caught digging
potatoes" this fall.
Year: 1879

BEFORE the war the employment of white
laborers by farmers or planters was almost
unknown in the mountain regions of Vir-
ginia. The same fact is true to greater or
less extent of the entire South. The OBJ
servant traveller in those sections now, how
ever, will find radical change in this re-
gard. Where all of the agricultural work
was formerly done by blacks, n great deal,
if not one-half OF it, in the mountain Sec
tiOns referred to, is now done by whites.
This is step in the right direction but it
is strange fact that these white laborers
are nearly all as pliable in politics now us
they were in days gone by, when they we're
rated as poor white trash" and voted by
the hog-pen full. They are Democrats of
course, and seem to be ignorant of the fact,
wilfully ignorant, that the Republican party
is the only party which can be truthfully
accounted us the friend of the laboring
man.
Year: 1879

are exceedingly well written while others
are equally well intended, but faulty in
composition and need careful revision. The
length, however, is the great objection. We
are pleased to receive short, sharp, crisp, and
well-written communications on subjects of
public interest, and we therefore say to our
correspondents be brief, pointed, and in
cisivc It is the quality not the quantity
we want
Year: 1879

OUR desk is overwhelmed with flood of
communications on the subject of appoint
ing ex-rehels and Democrats TO office in the
Departments, as well as upon other subjects,
many of which are so volpminous that it is
difficult to handle them in THE REPUBLI-
CAN, except under delay Some Of these
Year: 1879

Two-THIRDs of TIE newspaper editors of
the country have lately become doctors and
sanitarians. They know all about the
cause, effect and cure of the yellow fever.
1t is pity, perhaps, that some of them are
not subjected to the cause and effect afore-
said, without the cure.
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald yesterday was sur
charged with accounts ofSunday excursions,
fights and murders, and yet it advocates the
removal of the National Capital within its
precincts 1t seems to desire that the whole
Nation shall become as bad as that city of
iniquity and weak government; but such a
calamity will be averted.
Year: 1879

THE Repudiators, Readjusters, and Debt
Payers of Virginia are getting themselves
into line preparatory for the struggle for
the supremacy in the Legislature to be elect
ed in that State this TALL. 1t would seem to
an outside observer, however, that it will
make very little difference to the creditors
Of the State which party succeeds in the
contest Under Home Rule the manage
ment of the financial affairs Of the Old Do
minion has deteriornted TO the lowest posi-
bic grade. A new race of statesmen must
spring up and get into power before Vir-
giuia can possibly be rescued from practical
repudiatiOn.
Year: 1879

A TOO sudden change of diet in these
times is often as bad rs continued indscre-
tion, or following the usual habits of eat
ing Many a victim Of any of the numer-
Gus complaints which human flesh is heir
to in this heated term has sacrificed health,
aud even life ITSELF by the too sudden
adoption Of precautionary measures, Old
topers will take notice and taper oil accord
ingly, A topper tapering, or taporing
topper, is " sublime sight, and one that is
not usually seen except in the epidemic
season Of the year.
Year: 1879




WHENEVER the Democracy fights for
anything with earnestness and vigor it is
certain 10 fail The st. Louis Globe Demo-
crdt calls attention to this fact in n pointed
paragraph, declaring that the Democratic
party lost slavery by fighting for it, and
predicting that it will lose State sovereignty
in the same way if il is not very careful.
The only mistake about the Globe Democrats
prediction is the assumption that the Demo-
Gratis are not fighting for State sovereignty !;
they are fighting for State Rights. The differ
ence between the two is very wide-State
Rights being the twin sister Of secession
and State sovereignty being the subtle
agency for the adjustment of Il proper equi-
librium between the State and the General
Government. 1t is true that the Demo-
crafts make use Of the phrase Estate sover-
eighty" very frequently in their argu-
ments nowadays, but they pervert its mean-
ing. The sovereignty OF State is circum-
scribed to the limits of local government
and is subordinate to the sovereignty of the
United States. 1t does not confer upon the
State any right, for example, to interfere
with the supervision by the United States
of the election of officers of the General
Government
Year: 1879

sec these rebel Democrats crowding Union
soldiers out of place. They see the Demo
Gratis, when they have control, dismissing
armless and legless Union soldiers to make
room for ex-rebels or Copperhead bummers
and thus see Republican Executive per-
mitting the heads of the Departments to ap-
point rebels to Office


1t is time for the soldiers TO organize to
unite for their own protection. They are
doing so with but one object, and that is to
bring the Republican party to its senses.
The soldiers are not fools enough to expect
anything from the Democratic party. They
do not propose to sell out" to it at any
price, but they do propose to let the Re-
publican leaders understand that the SOL
dier element cannot be ignored. Ex-rebels
who were soldiers and who have laid down
their arms, and are no longer fighting with
the bullet, for the political heresies they
once fought for with the bullet, will hearth
ly unite with the Union soldiers in this
effort. Their motto is: "Soldiers to the
front, all along the line" With that motto
the Democrats have no sympathy, and the
soldiers know it. The occasional nomina-
tion of q Union soldier to office is, to use
common phrase, too thin" to deceive any
one.


1t is only done when there is hope that
IL will catch soldier votes. In the Forty
fourth Congress there were several men,
bers elected from the South who were
Union soldiers, Or Union sympathizers Now,
that the South is solid, these have had to
give place to ex-Confederate soldiers or
sympathizers, the others having been merely
used as a bait to catch the votes of Union
men until they were no longer needed.


The new movement of the soldiers of
which the Bulletin speaks is good one
and should succeed. We unite with them
in saying: Soldiers to the 'front.' all along
the line"
Year: 1879

Indeed / do not, seeing that this IS
the frst time we ever saw Mr.. Gran
ville.'


He smiled in BelPs eyes.


IN leave you to fathom the myste-
ry. Don't forget the first waltz for me-
Miss Bell.'


He went away, so handsome so
courtly, and Bells foolish little heart
was throbblng with new, vague delight
while Rose was almost suffocating with
envy at the signal triumph Of her sister,
Mr., Granville came for his waltz.


He drew her hand through his arm
almost authorltatively.


Miss Bell, it seems l have always
known you. yet you say you never saw
me before. Suppose we take a walk
through the conservatory instead OF
having this waltz"


Into the fragrant semi-dusk they went'
where fountains tinkled and rare flowers
bloomed, and the music came in yelled
sweetness.


4 want you to be sure I am right
Miss Bell, when l say 1 have something
of yours. Look at me closely Have
YOU ever seen nae betore?'


He bent his face near hers. 1t was
oravely smiling-and so tender and good
and Bell looked tlmidly at the smiling
yet stern eyes.


4 am sure l never saw you before
Mr.. Granville


Then haye ever you seen this?


He drew from his vest pocket SOW
erelgn-lhe very one, with a tiny bi'
chipped off it, that Bell had given the
tramp.


Don't you understand, dear child
| I had taken freak into my head that
would walk from town here, and it was
grand walk, although it took three
days, and ruined my clothes. stop
ped at your little cottage to beg glass
Of water. You know the rest


Bells face was a marvel OF astonish'
ment at that moment.


In your kindness and goodness you
gave it to me, Miss Bell, and the little
act gave me an insight into your heart
that year of ordinary Intercourse could
never do. 1 shall keep it until you buy
it back. haye set a price on it and II
ever YOU are ready to give it you can
have it,


He put the money reverently away in
his breast pocket, and took her out
among the crowd again, strangely hap
py girl.
And before the summer roses had
faded, Bell paid the price for the chip
ped soverelgn-her own heart-tha'
| Lionel Granville pleaded for so eagerly


She is the mistress OF the grand house
now, and Rose visits her once year.
not oftener-because Bells husband
doesn't care much for her.


But the invalid mother has lite long
home amid the luxuries Of Fernley
Court, and Bell Is happier than the birds
that sing in the trees of the big old
mark
Year: 1879

Mamma, don't think the people
who make dslls are very plous people,
said a little girl to her mother enc day.
why not, my childP Because vou
can never make them kneel. always
have to lay my doll down on her
stomach to say her prayers'
Year: 1879

Some men ill the air with their
strength aud sweetness. rs the orch.
ards in October fill the air with the ripe
fruit. Some women cling to their own
houses like the honey suckle over the
door, yet, like it, fill all the region
with the subtle fragrance of their good
mass.
Year: 1879

II YOU would be exempt from un-
easiness, do nothing which you know or
suspect is wrong; and if you wish to en-
JOY the present pleasure, always do
every thing in your power which you
know to be right.
Year: 1879

To ameliorate the dreadful effects OF
Yellow Fever take Simmons Liver Reg
ulator. Let it be given in large doses,
that it may have animmediate effect up
on the liver, and remove the accumu-
lating bile. II 20 acts upon the liver,
stomach and blood as TO prevent the at
tack Of this terrible disease.
Year: 1879

SECRET SESSION or THE COMMITTEE TO DAY


The Potter committee held long private
session this morning. The democratic meE-
beIS first brought up the question whether st.
Martin should bS called as witness by the
republicans OF discharged by the committee.


Mr. Shellabarger in behalf of Secretary Sher-
man theleupOn presented a. letter. in which
after criticiSing the course OF the committee in
not recalling st. Martin on their own motion
he asked that st. Martin be recalled for further
croSS-eXaminafion on the testimony given in
New Orleans and on the affidaVitS which he re-
Gently filed with the committee. The demo-
cratic members manifested disposition TO ac-
quiesce in this request, although il was Still
cOntended that the republicans ought 10 call
st. Martin as their own witness. The subject
was, however, laid over until tomorrow with
out definite action. The question then arose
whether the committee should call any wit
nesSeS in regard to the cipher kilograms in ad-
vance OF the passage by the Senate of the House
bill making an appropriation for the expenses
OF tie fnEestigatiOn, their funds being wholly
exhausted. This question also went over for
decision Tomorrow.


The sending of a SUBJ committee to New Yori;
to investigate the cipher dispatches, was dis
cussed. No conclusion was reached, bat the
committee seemed to be about evenly divided.
whether to conduct the investigation in this
city or in New York. IL is thought that all OF
the witnesses needed Will be summoned 10
Washington except GOV. Tiden and that sub
committee viii sit in New York to take his teS-
timOny. Gen. Butler informed the committee
that he had in his possession cipher kilograms
numbered from to 69O inclusive lie said he
tCdian OF them, but that he had a suspicion,
which he did not disclose. He had left them
with his clerk last summer, and one day when
he asked for them he was informed that his
messenger had called for them and taken them
away subsequently. after the Tribune had
published the cipher dispatches, he found the
There are about 14l OF these dispatches, which
lie Will lay before the committee Tomorrow
Year: 1879

HANGING IN NEW JERsEY.--Among the frs
bills introduced in the New jersey legislature
which convened Monday, was one TO prevent
the recurrence OF such scenes as that OF the
Hunter hanging. Ii provides for the appoint
ment OF twelve persons Liable to grand Jury
duty, OF whom two shall be physicians to view
and report to the court the circumstances OF the
hanging OF criminal and the names of all per-
sons present thereat. The sheriff is empowered
to designate twelve deputies. and no more TO
be present in addition. The condemned person
may have three relatives present and two cler-
eymen only. The sheriff is to be punishable as
for contempt OF court for allowing any other
person to witness the hanging.
Year: 1879

AN INSANE characterization Symes was
married i'm FitZrOy, OTTAWA. The wedding party
dispersed late In the evening, leaving the BRIDE
groom i'm an apparently pleasant mood. At =
O'Clock the bride alarmed the household, and
said that her husband had gone away without
word of explanation. His footprints were fol-
lowed for mile In the snow and then lost sight
Of He was not found for several DAYS after
ward. having wandered many miles, and was
hen insane.
Year: 1879

CARE or .lRoN NEssELS.-The following order
IN relation To care OF iron vessels has been
issued by The Navy department: The inner sur
face OF the plating Will be examined semi
annually, and thoroughly SCraped and painted
where necessary. Special care is to be taken to
remove all rust before applying the paint.
Year: 1879

was extinct. The head Of the deceased was
literally torn in fragments, and presented q
pitisul sight. None of the family were at
home at the time, but returned Immediately
afterwards. Their grief upon beholding
the ghastly sight can better be imagined
than described. The sympathy Of the com.
munity is with the distressed family.