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Year: 1877

We need not reassert that we are In SYM
pathy with the laborer, here or elsewhere,
for the reason that those who know us know
that we are heart and soul with the toilers
of the country. The city Of Washington Is
filed with people, male and female, who
are ready and willing to labor for fair
compensation. With all such we have n
deep interest They are entitled to en-
ployment and its fair reward. Il is the
duty of those engaged in prosecuting the
industries of the period to do all in their
power TO afford honorable relief in employ
ment to those who are ready and willing to
labor. We are not in favor Of other relief,
by the way Of aims. To ask aims rs men,
dicant is abasing-to grant IL is demoraliz-
ing.


We were pleased with the views of one of
the District Commissioners recently pro-
mulgated on this point. We coincide with
him In the avowal that II Is our duty to
furnish employment and its rewards to the
poor Of the city. Labor Ia dignifed; it's
reward is simple justice. Beggary is the
most abject condition to which the human
family can be brought, To avoid this is
the duty Of every one who has II in his
power to avert such fallen state. En-
ployment and compensation seems to be
the only door of escape Let the benefac-
tions Of those who would see this city free
from pauperism and suffering take form in
finding employment and compensation for
those who are exposed to that dcplorable
condition. In that way crime and shame
may be averted, and men, women and
children may he raised to plane above
want and mendicnncy.
Year: 1877

We SHALL issue with this and the future
numbers of TIE REPUBLICAN, for some
time to come, n large edition, which will be
distributed throughout this city, George
town and Alexandria, that the reading pub
lie may see what we are doing, and what
we propose to do in the way of journalistic
enterprise. The circulators of THE REPUB-
LIcAN will call upon all those who receive
this paper, who are not already subscribers
with view to securing subscriptions
Year: 1877

ration and benefcent results V themselves
and the country in which they exist.


We acknowledge to strong sympathies
for the toiles through whose labor capital
Is utilized and made productive. They are
the bone and sinew of the nation, and are
entitled to respectful consideration. They
are the weaker party in these relations, as
the world counts strength, and hence are
entitled to sympathy and aid in their
efforts to live, rear and educate families
and take part in the race of life. They
have been the victims of evil counsels,
and have clouded the cause of labor by
resorting TO acts Of violence, when q
more peaceful and benefcent solution Of
their troubles could have been reached
under spirit Of forbeamnce. They
must learn to respect the law and
the rights of person and property, IL they
would save the cause Of labor from repre-
hension. On the other hand, capital must
cultivate q higher respect and n more lively
sense of justice for the toiler, in treating
with labor and its rewards. This point can
be reached only through an intelligent,
liberal and just popular sentiment as to the
status and rewards of labor. Nearly every
toiler is an American citizen, and Is entitled
to oil the respect that upright, industrious
and useful lives secure to their fellow-men.
Because they toll grants to no one license
to oppress and grind them to the earth.
They are entitled to just II not generous
reward for their services in aiding capital
to prosecute the enterprises Of business, and
when this is abridged wrong is done and
discomfort follows. The capitalist who,
from avarice or any other cause, is
led into such an error. makes q Sc
rious mistake and helps to accumulate diff
culties in his own path. We desire to see
this condition of affairs undergo healthy
and benefccnt reform and If We can be in
any way instrumental in bringing these
elements Of individual and national pros
perity into harmonious relations it will be
with us labor of love.


With this presentation of our views and
Purposes upon such questions as we can al
lude to now, we start out in our new enter
prise, not on aowery path, but over a
rugged road, which will require devotion,
endurance, industry and untirirg perse-
verance to overcome the difficulties that
may interpose in the way Of success. We
now look to n generous public to afford us
such encouragement and support rs our
efforts may deserve. We shall certainly
merit that much, and we ask no more
Year: 1877

THE COwHIDE IN VIRGINIA Shocki,ly
Ptntsiment.-James T.. Tye $50 called), con-
Vic!od Of stealing a -boOlS-tbere was
10 evidence that there was any money iu it
yesterday received ten lashes at the hands of
an officer of the police court, in accordance
with the terms of his sentence, providing for
strictly corporal punishment, In addition
10 thirty days imprisonment. Tye tried
hard to get rid OF this portion of his sentence.
he offered TO take sixty days. Imprisonment
instead, but the police justice would no,
agree to the proposition. Tye is a bald
headed man. OF middle age, not overland
some, and has probably seen good deal of
Hfe. He came down here with the horde of
northern pickpockets during the fair, and
was captured by Policeman Depriest. After
every blow laid upon his back with the cow
Eloe his white skin turned TO a bloody red
Tie ten stripes were at the end as clearly
marked there as If they had been made with
aied- hot ron rod edmond Dtspateh.


SA correspondent, whose colored servant
as ks for frequent leaves of absence SAYS size
is the most inveterate Dinah out he ever
Enew.-t Boston Commercial B,slgesia.
Year: 1877

Paulo had not been idle His revolyers
had told more than once upon the hungry
pack, but they were pressing closer and
closer,and it seemed as though they must be
eventually sacrificed to the rapacty of the
wolves,when turn in the road showed them
that the forest was nearly ended, and that
the remaining portion of the journey ran
through an open country, where the wolves
would doubtless hesitate to follow indeed
the pace had been such that they were al.
ready falling oil, and shot or two more
from the rifle and revolver seemed to check
their on rush. But it was as if they were
only concentrating their energies for fresh
charge, for just as the forest was cleared they
surrounded the sledge on all sides, and Paulo
had just time to fire at the first on one side,
when, turning quickly, he lodged the con-
tents of another barrel in the brain of one
that had already mounted the sledge.


But this was the final charge. Once in the
open fields the cowardly beasts turned tail and
skunk back to their native wlds, while our
travellers reached Grovonof palace in safety,
but did not easily forget, amid the festivities
that awaited them, the terrible race for life
they had run on that harsh winters night.
Year: 1877

There is story told in English green
rooms for the truth of which (writes Celia
Logan in the New York Dispatch) I cannot
vouch, 1t is to the effect that certain car
penter, long, long time ago, murdered his
wife by driving nail into her skull. He
fled, and the better to conceal his identity
became an actor. He rose to emnence, and
the whirlng of time and wheel of chance
brought him to the very village in which be
years before had killed his wife, whose muir
der, however-so the story run-had not been
suspected, her long, black hair concealing
the cruel wound from which the blood had
flowed.


The part was Hamlet. Whatever memo
ries the place evoked, he had sufficient mas.
terry over his feelings to keep them hidden.
The first scene of the fifth act came on. The
theatre stood on what had formerly been a
burial ground, and the property man had
nc to go far for skulls, but just dug little
and brought up dozen or more, and at
night tossed them into the trap for the grave
digger to shovel on the stage. He handed
skull to the Hamlet, saying


Here's a skull now hath lain yon in the
earth for three-and.twenty-years."


Hamlet-Whose was it /?


Gravedigger-This same skull, sir, was
Yorrick's skull, the kings jester.


Hamlet took the skull, saying:


"Thisr-


He turned pale and staggered, for the
skull had left on it one long lock of black
hair. Handed to him upside down, the lock
fell back, revealing nail in the skull. The
actor recognized it as that of the woman
whom he had murdered just twenty three
years before. At this mute evide nee of his
guilt coming from the grave to confront
him, the actor lost his presence of mind and
his senses.


In his insane utterances he revealed his
terrible secret, and was only saved from pun
ishment by his fellow actors hushing him
up and hurrying him away. He never re-
covered his reason, and died in mad house
raving of the nail in the skull.
About thirty years ago story was written
by Frenchman on this same ghastly sub
ject, laying the scene in private life in
France, and making the perpetrator of the
deed a woman. 1t had great success, and
to this day is occasionally revived. and goes
the rounds of the newspapers, but old Eng
lish actors insist that it was founded on the
incident in theatrical life which have just
related, and which did transpire on the Brit
ish stage.
Year: 1877

The farmer came In from the field one day;
His langud step and his weary way,
His pended brow, his sinewy hand,
All showed his work for the good Of the land;


For he sows,


And he hoes


And he mows,


All for the good OF the land
BY the kitchen Are stood his patient wife,
Light of his home and JOY OF his life,
With face all aglow and busy hand.
Preparing the meal for her husbands band,


For she must boil,


And she must broi,


And she must toll


All for the good of the home.
The bright sun shines when the farmer goes out
The birds sing sweet songs, lambs frsk about;
The brook babbles softly in the glen
While he works SO bravely for the good OF men;


For he sows,


And he mows,


And he hoes,


All for the good Of the land.
How briskly the wife steps about within,
The dishes to wash, the milk to skim;
rhe fire goes out the flies buzz about
For the dear at home her heart is kept stout.


There are pies to make,


There is bread to bake,


And steps to take


All for the sake Of home.
When the day is Ter, and the evening is come,
The creatures are fed the milking done,
He takes his rest meath the old shade tree.
From the labor OF the land his thoughts are free;


Though he sows,


And he hoes.


And he mows,


lie rests from the work OF the land.
But the faithful wife. frannoR to sun,
Makes her burden up tlSOyHever done;
There is no rest, there is no play,
For the good OF the house she must work away;


For to mend the frock,


And to knit the sock,


And the cradle to rock,


All for the good OF the home.
When autumn is here, with its chilling blast,
The farmer gathers his crop at last;
His barns are full, his fields bare
For the good OF the land he ne'er hath care,


While II blows


And II SHOWS


TIL winter goes,


He rests from the work OF the land
But the willing wife, TIL life's closing day,
Is the children's guide, the husbands stay;
From day to day she has done her best
Until death alone can give her rest


For after the test


Comes the rest,


With the blest,
In the fan mers heavenly home


Christian Union.
Year: 1877

The state Of the weather will speedily rem
der the carriage of provision and ammunition
for any distance an absolute impossibility.
eral very heavy downpours Of % rain IAN and 1to to-
day 1t is coming down with tropical violence
Inhabitants accustomed to the signs Of the
weather are of opinion that the autumn rains
have commenced, and that there will be little
more weather fit for campaigning. There is
no necessity for retention of large force
here or at Sofia


1t is too late for the Russians to attempt
dash on this place, and even could they do so
an army could scarcely force this pass if
held by three or four thousand men,


1t has been rendered practically impregna-
BILE by two lines of redoubts along the summit
and formidable works at the entrance
Year: 1877

LONDON, Sept 26.-The Times financial ar
ticle says: Business remains in very dull
and inactive state generally; nothing but
complaints are being heard on all sides Of inn
movable stagnation.


is more audible than in other denaTtments oi
business in bad times, matters are well nigh
desperate with good many whose means
are limited.


1t is more or less the same in all depart
doing. There is, unfortunately, only toe
good reason to believe that the nation, as a
whole, like one individual, must prepare for a
further struggle of more or less magnitude
from a commercial point of view, before we
regain the smooth path Of prosperity.
Year: 1877

New YORK, Sept. 26.-A Brigadier General
of the Spanish Army in Cuba, Prince DeBour-
bon, cousin of the King of Spain, was pri-
vately married last Saturday at the French
church; the bride is beautiful lady from
Guanabaca; her father, who Is a rich planter,
gave her away at the altar. The happy pair
are now on their bridal tour. All who were
present at the wedding were pledged to re-
veal nothing of the matter. The prince is a
handsome man, about % years of age; before
leaving he appealed to Captain General Joyel-
lar to allow him to marry, but that officer re-
his affanced and her father followed him in
the next steamer to New York The bride
groom fought for some time under the ban
ner of Don Carlos, and when the pretender
was defeated he was allowed to retain his
rank
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.--LittIe Big Man, of
the Sioux delegation, attracts great deal of
attention from the fact that he was an ally Of
Sitting Bull at the time of the Custer mas
sacre, and was lately stabbed in the arm by
Crazy Horse, whom he was endeavoring to
dsarm at Camp Robinson. He Is short in
stature but very muscular, and bears on his
body, which is naked from the waist upward,
a large number of scars received In battle.
the members of the delegation, says that al
though the gentle savage is so little, he is q
bad egg and devil incarnate in fight. He
surrendered with Crazy Horse soon after the
Custer massacre.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-The Graphic's special
from Washington says that the President is
much gratified at the reception he met with
in the South He will visit Richmond next
month, when the Virginia State Fair will be
N proprpes
Year: 1877

Russia reached the mouths of her rivers
long ago. and has got beyond them, un-
less the Danube is also TO be reckoned as
a Russian stream. Yet the exertions of
the Russian government to augment its
military forces were never greater than
they have been in the last six years. She
had already the power to bring half mil
lion OF men into the field. But the grand
measure OF universal CONSUMPTION sane
toned by the ukase of January /, 1875,
will add another half million to that num-
Der OF her active troops, and another mill
lion to the reserve. These enormous
forces can only be raised and maintained
tor aggressive purposes. The territory OF
Russia is invulnerable. Nobody has the
slightest interest In attacking It., unless
she begins By attacking some one else.
Ii attacked, as she was in 1912, she may
rely on her climate, her extent and the
patriotism OF her population for effectual
defence. Setting aside ambitious consid-
erations, We should say that to burden
poor and thinly populated country with
the maintenance of an enormous army is
the most mischievous policy that can be
conceived. 1t is perpetual drain ON the
manhood of the Empire. 1t enormously
weakens its productive powers. 1t leads
to frightful waste of life. When the
Emperor Nicholas once expressed
his surprise at the inferiority
OF the men in his army 10 the seameu of
his fleet in point of discipline and condi-
tion. Count Woronzo replied that what the
army wanted was more food and less
drill Hundreds of thousands of human
beings have been sacrificed in the last fifty
years to the stupid pride OF exhibiting to
the world the shows and pageants Of q
great military establishment. What rem
ders this state of things still more lament
able and extraordinary is that the Rus
SLAMS are not warlike or combatiye peo-
pie. Even in their drinking bouts they do
not fight. They are entirely ignorant OF
all that goes on abroad and entirely indif-
ierent to glory. Nor can any conceivable
benefit accrue to the people Of Russia by
threatening and molesting their neighbors
or by the acquisition of territory, OF which
they have already more than enough. If
their country were attacked they would
defend it with undaunted courage. bat as
race of men there is no people in the
world less disposed TO slaughter their
neighbors Military service Is with them
the result of absolute, blind, unquestion-
ing obedience. They submit to it as they
submit to law of nature, because they
are docile and brave. Yet surely military
service. as it is understood in Russia, Is
the most detestable form of slavery; for
a peaceful peasant is converted by it,
without the least will of his own, into a
bloodhound, a destroyer or victim. And
| this burden is now hung with redoubled


weight upon the back OF every peasant In


the empire. The whole community is
crushed by it. Military service Is the pri-
mary obligation OF life, and must affect
every other relation of society.
Year: 1877

You can always judge better of a
persons character by her manner of
talking with others than by what she
addresses directly to you, and by what
she says of others than by,what she says
to them. A conversation like this
ought to put you on your guard against
any intimacy of girl capable of it..
The vivacity of youthful feelings is
such that it often hurries girls into init
macies which soon after prove uncon-
genial and burdensome. You mistake
an accidental agreement for real SYM
pathy,-one agreeable interview for an
insight into the whole character; and
thus, by judging too hastily, you judge
wrongly. Far be it from us to recon-
mend suspicious character; we would
rather see young heart deceived again
and again, than see it Gourishing suspic-
ion as a habit of the mind; but we would
have you make it rule never to pledge
yourself to any intimacy until you have
taken time to consider your first I'M
pressiOns, and to distinguish between
the charm that really belongs to new
acquaintance, and that which was
thrown over your first interview by
accidental circumstances and associa-
tions
Year: 1877

When the daily occupation is mono
tOnOus and unengrossing, full supply
of excitement for the leisure hours may
be desirable; but where the mental
powers have been taxed to their utmost
through the hours of labor, it is abso-
lutely necessary to health and happi-
ness that they be entirely released for
at least portion Of the time that is
left. IL is not enough that the usual
amount of time be spent in the absolute
rest of sleep, il every waking hour be
filed to the brim with eager serious oc-
cupation. 1t is not enough that certain
hours be secured, free from absolute
work, if they are still permeated with
energetic thought, intense feeling or
exciting pleasures. The mind needs
rest from effort in its waking hours, a
time when it may rightly lay aside its
activity and enjoy being acted upen by
calm and gentle Influences.
Year: 1877

These things are often unknown to
the world; for there is much pain that
is quite noiseless, and vibrations that
make human agonies are often mere
whispers in the roar of hurrying exist
ence. There are glances of hatred that
stab, and raise no cry of murder; rob
les that leave man and woman forever
beggared of peace and joy, yet are kept
secret by the sufierer-committed to no
sound, except of low means in the night
seen in no writing, except that made
ON the face by the slow months of sup
pressed anguish and early morning
tears. Many an inherited sorrow that
has marred life has been breathed into
no human ear.
Year: 1877

Characteristics of Peculiar Dutch Town.


A writer In the Argosy says, in speak


ing of Utrecht


You cannot be long in Utrect without
discovering that you are in a new ele-
ment. 1t is different from any other
town in Holland. In Amsterdam you
have all the hurry of commerce; of men
jOstling each other to grow rich-thst
race for wealth that has become so fierce
battle and so perpetual motion. Rot
terdam is equally commercial, but here
the shipping element more loudly de-
clares itself and throws over its hustle
and work charm very nearly allied to
the romantic; the freedom OF the broad
ocean, the gOod-nstured carelessness Of
those who go down to her in ships, in
fluenee her very atmosphere. The
Hague possesses fashion and pleasure
to its hearts content. Vulgar COM
M rec must not run race beside its
dashing equipages and fair occupants.
The tone of society is here, though
much less observable than in Mayfair
and the new Boulevards of Paris; that
wonderful tone which will not allow
its votaries to be natural, and is only to
be be described by the odious and arti-
fetal; assumed as much as the paint
and padding which compose these bril-
liant compilations and yenus-like fig
ures. Leyden, in spite of past history
of absorbing interest, is dull in this its
day. You almost feel that its atmos-
phere has become impregnated with
some of the dryness of its University
tones; lifeless and stagaant AS the
numberless stuffed birds, beasts and
fishes contained in its extensive muse
um. Haarlem, dear HARLEM, lives in
its past; it's town hall and wonderful
old room, its cathedral, and sense-touch-
ing organ. You wander about its
streets in dream of bygone days, and
there is no unusual noise or confusion
rudely to awaken you. Hand in hand
you walk with ghostly phantoms, and
go through the horrors and excitement
of that terrible siege as vividly as if
300 years had not rolled on since then
and passed into eternity. But Utrecht
is apart from one and all these charac-
teristics. There is no element Of COM
merce about its streets; royalty throws
no refined flavor into the air; it has
simply and peculiarly the calm, grave,
sedate dignity of a cathedral town. 1t
knows how to respect itself and how to
make itself by the world respected
though the one fact, you will say, is a
natural consequence of the other. Those
heavy and alarming camions, which
thunder through Rotterdam and its