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Year: 1878

deprived themselves OF potent factor of national
morality and prosperity. We can point TO the en-
come have reaped the benefit of accession of law
abiding and Industrious citizens. Let occupy our
selves to-day, not with the promises fulflment,
but its origin; not with what God spake. but
with the fact of His speaking. Critics ask how God
spoke when and in what language. previous to ac-
cepting the statement; they might well refuse to
be warmed by the suns rays because one can tell
what is their source of heat. Like them those
who. because the creative germ deties the power OF
their microscopes refuse TO believe in its existence


GODS VOICE.


II we earnestly asked for elucdation. we may
answer that God spoke to Abram and gave him that
conviction, just he speaks to us without speech.
without words. without any audible voice. Each
must 20 10 his own experience. | am no prophet
said DR. Mendes, and no prophets son; the days OF
the years Of my pilgrimage half those OF many OF
you: yet both numerous and frequent have been
the moments in which have felt God speak to me.
Your experience, firmly believe. has been similar.
When musng on our life's course tracing the steady
plan that underlies all its varied directions. Gods
voice speaks to of His mercy and kind guardian
ship When men conspired 10 harm and hurt us It
was Gods voice that called to us, Fear not. am
with thee" When it has been in our power to wreak
summary vengeance upon such that the world wonld
have cried .'V,rdf,' and approval. who it that
spoke within soul Mime are vengeance and
compense!" and bade the uprased hand sink to
harmless rest again? When we awaken after long
moral torpor II is the voice Of God that courses
through our soni. like the subtle galvanc fluid
through our nerves and gives it strength and tone.
peaceful grandeur Gods voice dictates the prayer.
Lord. how great Thy works. In the death
chamber, race 10 race with the silent mystery OF nys-
teres God breaches to of His power and our igno-
rance In despair at moment we are helpless the
very next plan of succor strikes Whence came
the light? Not from ourselves. moment before we
were ignorant and without any plan Not in visible
appartions does God speak to us. but in secret
thoughts. our hearts promptings and our brains
revolutions. II is a constant voice. loudest when
hands waver and feet fater When drowned by the
din of the world close the doors of the soul and the
windows of the eyes that open the world and clear
and unmistakable its tones are heard again In bid
ding us, .et thee from thine adverse surroundings.
il points way to happiness. under the guardianship
of the Protector of the suffering the Lord OF all flesh.
Year: 1878

come when 1t shall bs called upon In the
line Of fraternal duty to chronicle the de-
mise of the Post and the departure
of Mr.. HuTcHISs for other and more
rropitious fields In which to eN-
ercse his peculiar gifts in the way
Of newspaper enterprise. When that hour
comes we shall perform that duty with IT.
ting terms of sympathy and commiserAtion,
both for parent and child, and shall furnish
the surviving parent frst-class parting
notice, that he may paste in his hat for !''-
ture reference and consolation.


Finally, THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is
"living" to prosper as the reward of lc,tti-
mate enterprise and effort, and it will con-
tinue to live and thrive in its modest way
long after the grass has grown green over
the grave of the defuuct Post and in the
footprints made here by lis departing pro-
gcnitor. Are not these things worth living
for? We think So
Year: 1878

THE TunEN-GOULD journalistic co.
prophagi, otherwise known as the Washing
ton organ Of the Confederate Democracy, is
accused by its Boston uamesnke Ofan aban-
doumcnt of its principles-as if such thing
were pOssible-as follows:


The Washington rod has its Geographic
dispatches brought in on a bicycle. That's
enterprise but we notice it leads a journal into
stmddling its principles instead OF sluarely
maintaining them.-DOs'OH Post.


We say if such n thing were possible, be-
cause we have yet to find that this mongrel
uft-shoot of Gramercy Park and Wall street
ever had any principles to straddle or
squarcly maintain. In fact we find in its
issue of yesterday an admission that it lives
simply to gratily its cDprophagous ten
dCncies-to swim with the current, as it
were, instead of trying to instruct the people
regarding the right and wrong of public at-
fairs. This admission we find in the follow
ing answer to the foregoing paragraph:
Whenever a tidal wave strikes you, straddle
rather than drown. 1t may not look well. but
1t Is a heap better than being sat on by twelve
mon. -.


n controlling strength in the present cam
paisn the Democracy must not hesitate to
straddle rather than drown Aal, by
the same token, if the hard-mOueyitcs np-
pear TO be the stronger element the Dcmoc-
racy must not hesitate again to straddle
rather than DROWN There is naturally
a limit to this kind of imposition upon tho
public, and it will he reached BY our bicycle
| cntemnOrnrY vcry soon.
Year: 1878

THE Republicans of the fifth Congress
sional district of New Jersey should by all
means send candidate OF their faith to the
Forty-sixth Congress. With n Repub-
lican majority OF 5000 there is no rea-
son why this should not be done.
Mr. CUTLER, the present Democratic in
cumb-lt, first held his seat in the Forty
fourth Congress, and was then reelected.
The Democratic nominating convention,
which met in that district on Thursday last,
adjourned for two weeks, no nomination hav-
ing been made, and it is now highly proba-
BILE that CUTLER will not receive 1t, but
some new man be nominated. Mr.. c. was
very popular with the Republican element,
and hence his past success; but it is hoped
and believed that the Republicans of the
fiith New Jersey district will hereafter sec
that none but those of their own faith will
represent them In Congress.
Year: 1878

MASoHEsrER, April ia strong
movement is on foot among the cotton
operatives to avert the impending strike
An effort will bO made to secure the accepi
lance Of the per cent reduction by ii.
masters and men,
Year: 1878

The DAYTON journal prints letter
from New Bremen. o., which SAYS:
Quite wonder has lately made its
appearance. about eight miles north
of New Bremen. In the shape of fine
boy with three eyes and but one ear.
The parents are a Young married couple
who came here to reside from the east
ern portion ef Auglaize county about


ten months ago. and have been married
a little more than that period. The
child is about two weeks old. The pa
rents were astonished to find on the
right side of the face an eve and ear IN
their proper natural positions. and on
the left side Of tie face another eve in
It's natural position. and about an inch
further round on the left side OF the


head a third eve, all perfect In form,
but no ear where the ear ought to be.
the place for the leitear being perfectly
smooth and solid as any other part of
the head. The boy is healthy. sound,
and bright As baby-boy can be. The
eyes are perfect in sight and action


When the eve on the left side of the
face opens and shuts. its twin does
the same, both seeming to be controlled
and operated by the one set of nerves" !"
Year: 1878

Some of the Eastern papers are
saying that communism must be
stamped out. Agreed One way to
stamp it out is to administer the laws
in such way that to steal railroad
shall be considered as great a crime as
to steal loaf of bread. One way to
stamp it out is to hold the bank officer
who robs the poor depositor as strictly
to account as the man who tilches the
pennies from his neighbor's till. One
way to stamp it out is to punish the
man who gets up "a corner on grain as
sharply as the man who robs his neigh
Dor at three-card monte. One way to
stamp it out is to visit the man who
takes shelter under the bankrupt act,
to defraud his creditors, with the same
scorn that is now wasted upon the
houseless tramp that roams the streets.
Communism is the mute and blind
protest that ignorance puts up against
wrong and injustice. 1t is the reaction
against modern business methods that
sacrifices anything and everything, even
principle itself, to monetary success.
No great popular uprising can take
place in this conntry without subtra-
tum at the bottom. This is a govern
ment by the people, for the people, and
where there is protest by any consid-
cradle number of the populace, it is a
proof that there is something wrong in
the workings of the machine. 1t is
worth our while, then,to ask ourselves,
not how we can most speedily stamp
out communism, but how we can so
shape our government that communism
can find no foothold. 1t is already an
ugly fact in the government of the old
world working vigorously to counteract
the centralizing tendency that is repre-
sented by Disraeli, Bismarck and
Gortschakeff. Its presence here is
protest equally strong against the no
less dangerous tendency to centralize
wealth. For ten years we have beeL
legislating solely in the interest OF the
bondholder. The result is the COM
mune. These facts are too patent to
be denied. Every great uprising is
born OF human misery. And to the evil
just presented, our purblind economists
have but one resource, and that is to
increase the standing army. He must
indeed be blind and deaf to the lessons
of history to seriously contemplate this
measure for one moment. A great
standing army gives the death blow to
the republic. No free people has ever
existed and maintained it. 1t is anti
republican even to hint at such a
thing. The way to stamp out the COM
mune lies along no such road.-Peo-
ria Journal.
Year: 1878

quacks and imbeciles, with goodly
sprinkling Of rogues, that from their
centre in Washington have scattered
wreck and ruin, destruction and death
over the whole republice Will they
even now join the reformers Let us
wait and see.


But half measures or single meas
ures will not be at all sufficient to set
us right. The land, and the credit
founded on it, and the people at work
on it, would build up what Sam Hous
ton called ''new empires where now
the forest waves and the buffalo RACES.
1t wonld ease off labor and in the
cities and make it able to assert its
full natural independence everywhere.
But we want another good and why
shouldn't we get it? We want a full
volume of currency. We want a large
full, strong volume of national money
to infuse new life into the business of
the country. We have the nation S
property, why should we not have the
nation $ money to represent it!
Year: 1878

tudes of instances, and total failure
has always resulted.


The great popularity of the green
back doctrines among the people is
supposed to be amply sufficient to
purge and renovate the old parties,
reform the government and liberate
the people; but when the hour of
action came, these principles have in
variably been lost sight of or dwin-
died to nothing in the party conven-
ton.


The whole thing is farce, cheat,
a falsehood. The people have no voice
in those conventions. If labor in
tends to have any interest in this Gov
ernment and have it's rights and
interests respected before the law,
it must have party of its own, with
a creed that will exclude the Shylocks
and vampires and not be led to cast
itself away to aid and strengthen its
foes. If you are greenback man,
unite with the Greenback National
party, enlist under its banner and
fight in its ranks.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative, or Blood-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is a Cholsgogue, or Liver standard.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

We have advocated the nomination of another
gentleman to succeed Hon. Willard Davis a,
Attorney General of the State, and We think
there is good reason why change should be
made. The Attorney General is the legal advis-
or of the State officers. Upon all legal points,
they are bound to be governed by his advice
and he is not to be dictated to by any other off
Ger, or to be used Us mere tool to furnish any
officer with quibble for doing that which is not
authorized by law. How is it with Mr.. Davis
The crusade of the Governor against certain
Trustees of the charitable institutions, for the
purpose of making political capital, develops the
sort of an Attorney General he is.


Messrs. Taylor and Lanter, two of the Trus-
tees implicated, publish a statement of the trans
actions. They say that they applied to the Aud
itor for a warrant to draw money from the funds
from which they took their pay, but that the
Auditor refused their request, upon the ground
that he doubted its legality; that they went
to Gov. Anthony, representing the matter
as it stood, and requested him to use his influ-
ence with the Attorney General to decide the
proceeding legal; that Anthony interviewed the
Attorney General, whereupon the latter went
with one of the Trustees to the State Auditor
and advised him to issue the warrants, as desr-
ed. But the Governor, learning that these Trus-
tees were opposed to his denomination, sudden
ly discovers that the money paid as he ordered
his Attorney General to decide was legal,
was unauthorized by law, and in his great
zeal for the interests of the State, requests
his Attorney General to mako an exhaustive
examination as to the criminal and civil Ii
ability (he is always trying to catch some
body in n criminal act y of the Trustees, and if
found that they are liable, to bring action at
once for the recovery of the money, in the name
Of the State. The Attorney General at once
made the exhaustive examination, and discover
ed, of course, that the act which lie had advised
was illegal, and reported to the Governor that
he had prepared the necessary papers to COM
mence action for the recovery of the money.


If Attorney General Davis is merely a puppet
in the hands of Gov. Anthony, to do his bid
ding, and to decide act legal one day, and
criminal the next, as the exgencies of the Gov
ernor's situation demands, he had better be sent
adrift with the Governor, and a man elected in
his place who knows something about law aud
has the backbone to give his decisions accord
ing to law, please or displease whom they may.


Personally, We have no doubt that Attorney
General Davis is a gentleman. But while some
of his newspaper supporters are making false
charges against Judge Price, one of his compet-
tors, designed to injure his ch aracter as well as
his political chances, they have not attempted
to show that Price is not an accomplished law
yer, and q man who cannot be swerved from the
right at the dictation of an Executive who as
sumes to run all the departments of the State.
Year: 1878

E The CommoRmedlth is trying to show that
Col. Martin was not sound, when Andy johnson
FIRST flew the track. Col. Martin may have had
too much faith in Andy; but this effort comes
with good grace from paper owned by a man
who followed Greeley out of the Republican par
ty, and who Published a campaign paper, called
the Wood Chopper, devoted to abuse of Grant
aud the Republican party
Year: 1878

lEThe Hiawatha Herald Guthrie blow-hard
organ wants to know who Cy. Leland is, and
what claim he has upon the Republican party
for Congress. 1t win probably be sufficient to
convince the Herald of his sound Republicanism,
to state the fact that he was spending his time
and money in the interest of the Republican
party, when the Hiawatha Herald was support
ing Democratic tickets. His nomination would
not divide the party in this District, but he
would poll from 1900 to 5000 more votes than
Guthrie would.
Year: 1878

wLast weeks Bulletin trots ont three or four
more Republican candidates. The editor of the
Bulletin must indulge his mania, or die; but
couldn't he leave just little of the work to Re.
publican Conventional
Year: 1878

EDITOR STATESMAN Il am credibly inform
ed that Mr.. f. Ping is spoken of as a candidate
for the constitutional convention This is either
severe irony or designed as fiattery to the old
man. l arrive at this conclusion from the fact
that the aforesaid gentleman in all his legisla
tive experience evidenced no fitness whatever
for such position. 1t is a fact susceptible oi
the clearest proof, that in the season of 1873 he
made but one motion, and that was suggested
to him by the speaker. If this single motion
demonstrates his fitness to frame the organic law
that is to govern the new state, then We have a
clear illustration Of how little ability is required
to govern a country God save us from the rule
of small men, is a sentiment to which heartily
subscribe
Year: 1878

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. We notice
that the names of quite a number of yery re-
spectacle gentlemen are being put forward as
proper persons to assist in framing the consti-
tuition for the proposed State of Washington.
1t is deemed high honor TO take part in fram.
ing the fundamental law for new common
wealth, and hence this rush to the front of so
many aspirants, whose chief recommendation
Is their respectability. At the sessions of the
Legislature it is uniformly found that the coun.
ties send up men altogether respectable, but
who are woefully lacking in ability A CORES
pondent refers to respectable OLD gentleman
who during an entire session made but one
motion, and to do that it was necessary for the
speaker to prompt him Now the representa-
tive was paid at the rate of Sc day, which for
period of forty days represents s24O, and
mileage, say 500, makes the total cost of
$40 for a single motion. At these figures an
incompetent man is dear investment, and we
have to suggest that such men will be out of
place in the constitutional convention. In the
convention that framed the national constitu-
tion the ablest men in the land were gathered
together, and the result was an instrument that
challenges the admiration of the world. So
in Washington territory, the best and ablest
men should be selected to frame the new con
stitution, and then We may expect that the
fundamental law of the state will be model
paper of its kind The putty heads that have
heretofore had places in the legislature have
made Washington territory the laughing stock
of the country. When We come to electing
delegates to the constitutional convention let
US make better showing
Year: 1878

ILLUMINATED SIGNS. Mr. j. b. Lewis, the
bookseller, has recently had placed in front of
his store a couple OF illuminated signs that are
something new in this quarter On one of the
sins is the figure head Of a well known citizen,
The resemblance being unmiStakable. On the
other is the picture Of a fat boy-no relation
to the editor. These signs are well executed
and attract great deal Of attention.
Year: 1878

DExTITUTIoN.-We hear Of several cases Of
destitution within the city limits that should
receive immediate relief The first is the case
Of man with wife and large family of chill
dren, ali in destitute condition. The man has
been ont of employment for several months,
and is entirely destitute. He has his family
in house that affords very slight protection
against inclement weather. Altogether this is
a case that appeals to all those who are alive to
the calls of humanity. Another is the case of
boy, possibly L years Of age, who is without
home and has no one to care for him. This
boy roams about town in daytime, and at night
sleeps in sheds and out buildings. The authori-
ties should take charge of this boy and procure
him place with some farmer where he could
have a comfortable home and he taught to work
In a country teemin, with abundance no one
not even the most d. graded should be permit
ted to suffer. Persons disposed to contribute
either money or provisions to the relief OF the
destitute family noticed above, can Obtain
further information on applying to the editor.
In the case of the boy We will be glad to hear
from any farmer friend who can offer him
home.
Year: 1878

greater volume of them than was wise,
or would have been expedient If there
had been a greater and better-directed
effort made to induce our own people at
that time to take the Understanding
paper of the Government; certainly
there was greater volume issued than
would have been necessary or would
have been issued If the Democracy had
not opposed the war; if they had not
given the aid of their sympathy, and in
many cases their active support to the
rebellion. The greenbacks served their
purpose in furnishing the sinews of
war;" they enabled the Government to
throttle and suppress the rebellion, and
years of experience in peace has proved
them TO be not only an excellent cur
rency, but far the best that the country
has ever had. Now, the Democracy
turn round and claim to he the especial
patrons, defenders and maintainers of
greenbacks. They have found out now
that greenbacks are just the thing; and,
eXaggerating, magnifying and aggra-
waiting the ills growing out of the de-
pressed state of the industries and COM
merce of the country, they speciously
urge the plea that great and enor-
nous, if not an utterly unlimited, issue
of greenbacks is what is needed


But for the issue of greenbacks, and
thereby furnishing a medium of eX-
change for the people and Government,
the country must have gone to ruin.
A very greatly enlarged volume of
greenbacks now would disturb and de-
stroy all values, all trade, commerce
and ndustries-would ruin the eoun-
try. The purpose of the Democracy to
disturb, to retard, to tear down and de-
stroy what others build up and save, is
the same now as then-the policy has
changed, that's all-The Republic.
Year: 1878

Soft corns can be cured by this
corn salve; Boil obacco down to an
extract, then mix with it quantity of
white pitch pine, and apply it TO the
corn, renewing it once a week until the
corn disappears.
Year: 1878

WHALE AT OCEAN CITY.-On Sun
day last large object was seen about
fifty yards from the shore in front of
the Excursion House. at the above nam
ed place, which proved to be whale,
Every one present were hoping it would
come ashore, but were disappointed as
it floated on lower down, and finally
disappeared. When first seen it was
inside the bar, and at times about fifty
or sixty feet Of the huge monster were
visible.
Year: 1878

The people of Little Rock, who are now
free from quarantine,are oongratulating
themselves that they escaped the yellow
fever, aud since the Howard medical
corps here have decided that there is
something in guarantees, they will no
doubt attribute their exemption to that
precaution. Our smaller towns around
here will likewise feel vindicated and
justified, although it might be said on
the other hand, that they had no prece
dent or good reason at the time theil
guarantees were established, for believ
ing that yellow fever would spread be
yond the suburbs Of Memphis 1t did
however, and their guarantees we're o
no avail, and some Of the healthiest
places suffered most.
Year: 1878

A man died of brain lever at Seneca
Falls, brought on BY shaving off his
beard This will probably trigbten some
of the bullet headed youth with lawn
moved head clear out of his boots Ht
is not in the slightest danger, however.
= Breakfast Table,
Year: 1878

The newspaper mail Of September
continues to pour in on US by the armful
To one who was down with the fever
about that time and did not see a paper
for several weeks, some Of these old ex
changes are quite interesting, as they
contain much home news not heard Of
before.
Year: 1878

The attempt 10 divert attention from
the rascAlity of returning boards and the
theft of The Presidency, by printing
eypher dispatches for which a suitable
key was invented, has come 10 sudden
grief The public statement by Tilden
has crushed the life out Of the after pi
to blacken bis reputation, and eifectuallJ
disposes OF tho slauder Neither will
there be any attempt to answer Mantou
Marbles utterance on the same sui jeot