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Year: 1879

The important feature in the Speakership
contest now going on at Albany is the
reported withdrawal of Mr.. Hustled from
the canvass. If Mr.. Hustled has really
retired there will probably be only two
candidates in the field, Mr.. Alvord and Mr..
Sloan, and in that event the result will be
decided on the first ballot. At the same
time our Albany correspondence shows that
there is strong disposition on the part
of a number of members to take up new
man, and it is believed that the overthrow
of all the present aspirants is not altogether
improbable. The usual wonderful rumors
as to intrigues connected with the Speaker
ship contest are floating about on the
Albany air, and dark designs against Mr..
Conkling and deep plots connected with
the next tenancy OF the Executive Chamber
are discovered at every turn. But the fact
is that the interest in the question,
'Who shall be Speaker" hinges mainly
on the other question, "Who shall
obtain prominent and desirable places on
the standing committees?' and as Mr..
Alvord will make more promises than Mr..
Sloan he appears at present to have the
best Of the fight. There will be no oppo-
sition to Mr.. Conkling's election as United
States Senator. The New York Custom
House controversy has about as much
to do with the Speakership as the dis
posal of the Bulgarian crown, and Mr..
Sloans chances for nomination next
autumn are not sufficiently promising
to render his election as Speaker dangerous
to the numerous other republicans who
have the Governorship bee in their bonnets.
So far as the policy Of the republican party
is concerned it would clearly be wise to set
aside the gentlemen who are SO eager to fill
the Speakers chair and to place new and
unpledged man at the head Of the Assembly.
The election of DR.. Isaac l. Hayes would
give dignity to the Legislature, refute the
charges OF bargains and lobby influence,
and prove that the republican Assemblymen
possess independence and self-respect.
Year: 1879

Some of our contemporaries are complain
ing OF the recent delays on the Third Ave-
nue. 81" Railroad aud Of the neglect of
several matters important to the public,
such as the heating of the cars and the
starting of special way station trains dur
ing the crowded hours of the day. Both
the ''L" companies have done so we'll, in
giving US rapid transit considerably in ad-
vance Of the time allowed them by
law to construct their roads, and
in overcoming the many difficulties
naturally surrounding novel and
experimental enterprise, that we have been
disinclined to criticise their omissions too
severely. We cannot expect perfection at
the start, and it is only fair to wait patiently
for accommodations and conveniences that
will no doubt come in good time. The
people were anxious that trains should be
run on both the "L" roads just as soon as
the rails could be laid down, and if the
companies had delayed the opening until
the stations were completed, the full
amount of rolling stock provided aud all
the details in perfect order, they would
have incurred general disapprobation.


There are, nevertheless, some improve
ments that can be made on the Third
avenue line just as we'll now as at future
time and that will afford those who use
that road effective and immediate comfort
and relief Passengers who 60 above
Forty-second street land they form the
great bulk of the traveD are subjected to
annoying delay, while the crowds at the
depots are increased through the constant
running of the. Forty-second street depot
trains Frequently in the busiest hours
of the day two or three Of these
short trains will pass depot in
succession, while hundreds are gather
ing and waiting for through trains.
These Forty-second street trains can be dis
continued at once and train of cars pro-
vided to run up and down constantly be-
tween Third avenue aud the Grand Central
Depot to accommodate the few passengers
who desire to ride the short distance of
three blocks. Mr.. Field has himself sug-
gested how the passengers can reach these
side trains by means of bridge built over
the main track. The pressure during the
busy hours of the day would at once be re-
lieved if all the trains ran through; but it
could be still further eased by the use of
way station trains at points where switches
or pockets are already supplied. The
cars could be and ought to be heated.
The steam pipes are ready and the
delay in using them is unnecessary.
These things Mr.. Field can do at once on
the Third avenue line without much trou-
BILE and without any additional expense. 1t
certainly is undesirable to excite popular
feeling against the IL" railroads at the
commencement Of their careers, or to create
the impression in the minds of the people
that the rapid transit corporations are as
avaricious and unaccommodating as the
horse car companies. We appeal to Mr.
Field to give the people, without delay,
these advantages, so easy to bestow. The
public will be grateful for the favor, and
still more grateful If Mr.. Field will, at the
same time, confer on them the boon of a
uniform five cent rate from the Battery to
Har
Year: 1879

If the horrible circumstances Of the case
did not persistently obtrude themselves
upon the consciousness of honest men there
would seem something extremely funny in
the desire of the man Bishop to become the
second husband OF Mrs. Cobb, in spite of
his self-declared knowledge that she has
labored industriously to dispose Of her
original lord and master. To the ordinary
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was fairly active and prices were teverish,
but generally lower. Government bonds were
firm. States steady and railroads strong. Money
on call was easy at a per cent, and closed
at per cent The bank statement was favor
able
Year: 1879

IL THE OPINION Of the government directors
the Union Pacific Railroad is not the model in
stitution the public have the right to expect. If
they were merchants they would probably
change their views in regard to its freight
charges, which, they DECLARE are not extoi-
tiouatc
Year: 1879

TIE ADYssTNIA, of the Cunard line, and two
other ocean steamers slightly overdue, but
apprehensions are felt for their safety. They
have in all probability met with heavy weather,
and it is thought they are waiting for the gale 10
subside before they approach the coast
Year: 1879

JUDGE KnBRETns DECISION. holding the Com
missioners of Excise to await the action of the
Grand Jury upon the charge of having illegally
licensed Il saloon, will present the hotel question
in new light.
Year: 1879

ought to dread was the governments drill and
barrack system. Ii the government could prove
the connection Of the German socialists with the
attempts on the lives of the kings Of Spain and
Italy he would accept the anti-socialist law. The
government should itself be placed ut the bar
for imposing the petty state of siege in Berlin
rather than the socialists. Remaining seated
when the Emperor was being cheercd was no in.
suit, but merely duty which socialists owed
their political convictions.
Year: 1879

Tbe following from the Glasgow (Ky.) Times is advice that VIC think not out of place in this community "Levity In places of religious wor- ship, especially during time when deep and abiding influences are at work upon the heart of all, IS sign of mental weakness which no one who has proper regard for himself or reverence toward God will be coy etous ofdisplaying. If there is no reverence of the Almighty or fear of his wrath for their mocking desecra- tions of his sanctuary, they should at least preserve semblance of good breeding out of respect to the feel ings of their more serious elders. It is time that the average boy and girl were becoming aware of the fact that the house of God is not fitting place for relieving themselves of their surplus friskness and i'll bread tng. There is one consolation, how ever those who thus plainly hang out their sign are pretty apt to have just appreciation of thelr true sense set upon them"
Year: 1879

Under the above head we find, in recent number of the Little Rock Democrat, letter from Hon. S. r. Hughes, well and favorably known all over the state. It reads as fol

 lows:

 'It seems that your position is right in regard to subordinating tue question of hard or soft money to availability, and success, in the selec- tion by the democratic party of q candidate for president in 1880. We cannot subordinate everything else to the currency question in the coming presidential campaign, un- less we are prepared to throw over board many of our ablest and staun chest democrats, north and south, east and west. Can we do this, and not dismember the Democratic par ty; and if we dismember' or fail to unite the party, can we hope for success? Now, it IS very fine to talk grandly about principle, but sometimes, and this is one of the times, policy IS principle. If we cannot unite the the democrats hard money and soft money, we are cer tain to be defeated in 1SS0 It is of the first importance that we wrest the government, by legitimate means, from the republican party, in 1880, and then we can settle the currency question, which is one of great i'm portance. and upon the right side of of which, i. e., in favor of unlimited coinage of silver, and sufIlciency of legal tenders, with the geld and sil yer. to give us volume of currency, adequate to the business demands and necessities of the country, we hope to find large majority of the democratic party. We like Hen dricks, prefer him in some particu- lars to Tildcn, but Tilden is q sound, true and able democrat, and with him at the head of the ticket, we ac- hieved victory in 1876, and if we stand better chancs to do so again in 1880, with him at the head, let the democratic party put him there; and true to the interest and welfare of the country, winch we think depends upon the success of that party in 1880, let her leaders and her rank and file subordinate their differences upon all other ques- tions for the time being, put their shoulders to the wheel in good ear nest, and roll up grand majority. and again achieve victory over it's opponent. There is no tune for swapping horses when crossing q stream. Yours, s. ?. H."
Year: 1879

Many of the prominent repnbh- can leaders do not count confidently upon clecting their candidate for governor by the people. At the best they expect to carry the legis lature, and choose Mir. Davis in that way, while they entertain some hope of giving him q popular majority! As for full reversal of the result of last September, and a restoration of the political situation to what it was in and before 1877, there are. very few intelligent observers who do not abandon the idea utterly"
Year: 1879

The brilliant success of Captain Emls in removing the bar at the South Pass of the Mississippi by re- ducing the width of the stream, has turned attention to other parts of the same river. The Mississippi River Improvement commission will consider the feasibility of applying the jetty system to the excessively wide places in tho river from Cairo to the gulf. It is believed that not only could uniform and permanent channel Of at least twenty feet in depth be thus obtained, but that cayIng in of the banks could be stop ped as well. Philadelphia Record.
Year: 1879

In its deleterious effects upon the human
system, tobacco ranks next to the great evil
of intoxicating beverages. No close observ-
er can fail to mark it's baneful influence upon
''our boys" It is time that parents and
school teachers were a unit in discountenanc-
ing and prohibiting it's use among the boys
The Salem Statesman has the following sue-
gestive article ON the use of this filthy
weed, :" which is worthy of careful perusal


Boys, if you were German boys aid
should be caught smoking, you would be
locked up. In Germany the government
has become anxious abont the injurious e.
fects of tobacco on the physique of soldiers
in coming days. and in order to rectify in
some measure the evil, bas ordered the police
to arrest all under sixteen found smoking on
the streets, and to have them punished by
fine and imprisonment. This will have
beneficial influence in more ways than one.
According to reports resulting from govern
ment investigations among the boys attend
ing the Polytechnic schools of Paris a
clearly defined line has been discovered be-
tween the smokers and the non smokers, the
latter being decidedly superior to the former
In general scholarship and in mental vigor.
The poisnous nicotine, far cOunteracted
IN the ADULT smoker by the resisting forces
of his maturad physical constitution, lays
hold of the forming nerve tissues of the
young, and does its injurious work without
hinderance. Smoking cannot be put down
by an act of congress, but, it would be a
great improvement if the German custom of
apprehending all under sixteen found smok-
ing in the streets could be put in force.


I'VE would say, extend the time toinclude
al boys under 81 years Of AGED. GA
ZETrE.1
Year: 1879

Thank God for the faith that teaches,
When the struggles of life are DER,
We shall meet our own-our loved ones,
And shall know them all once more!
What matter though life be dreary,


And we tread its paths alone
If, when the journey is ended,


In Heaven well know our own?
Sometimes when fate's frowns are darkest
And clouds hide the fair, blue sky,
For the tender love of the lost ones,


Our souls will vainly cry;
Then, sweetly over our spirit,


flushing the hearts wild moan, ,...-
Comes the whisper of faith-be patient


And, in Heaven We'll know our own
And life and it's cares grow brighter,


In the light of this precious thought
When the conflict, at last, is over,


And the battle of life is fought,
If we work in faith and submission,


The victory shall be won
And in Heaven where rest awaits us,


We shall meet and know our own.
All how will it be, l wonder,


Shall those who were dearest here
Be dearest again in Heaven?


Or think you when we stand SO near
The throne of a loving Father,
That his children. every one,
Shall seem equally dear to each other?


Can any be like our own?
I wonder-but there-no matter;


This belongs to the great to be;
And, we'll see these things more clearly
In the light of eternity.
'Tis enough to know if we're faithful,


Till the labor of life is done,
In the ''sweet by and by in Heaven


We shall meet and know our own.
Year: 1879

Don't think when you have won a wife
that you have also won slaye.


Don't think that your wife has less feel
ing than your sweetheart. Her relation
ship to you is simply changed, not her ma
ture.


the little civilities of life toward her on mar
rying She appreciates those things quite as
much as other women.


Don't be gruff and rude at home. Had
you been that sort of fellow before mar
riage, the probabilities are that you would
be sewing on your own buttons still.


Don't make your wife feel that she is an
incumbrance on you by giving her grudgingg-
ly What she needs, give as cheerfully as
if it were pleasure so to do. She will feel
better, and so will you.


Don't meddle in affairs OF the house under
her charge. You have no more right to be
poking your nose into the kitchen, tan she
has to walk into your place of business and
give directions to your employees.


Don't leave your wife at home to nurse
the children, on the score of economy, while
you bolt down town at nights to see the
show or spend dollar on billiards.


Don't find fault with her extravaganza in
ribbons, ETC., until you have shut down on
cigars, tobacco, etc. ..


Don't bolt your supper and hurry off to
spend your evenings lourging around away
from your wife. Before marriage You could
not spend your evenings enough with her.


Don't prowl in the loafng resorts till mid
night, wasting your time in culnable idle
ness, leaving your wife lonely at. home to
brood over your neglect and her disappoint-
ment.


Don't think that board and clothes are
sufficient for all wife does for you.


Don't caress your wife in public and snarl
and growl at her in private. :,


Don't wonder that your wife is not as
cheerful as she used to be, when she labors
from early morn till late at night, to pander
to the comfort and caprice of selfish man,
who has not soul enough to appreciate her.
Year: 1879

1t was simply an informal affair" wrote
the editor, of a little strawberry party at a
neighbor's house. It was simply an infer
nal affair." read the compositor, and that
editor will never get any more invitations
from that quarter.
Year: 1879

We understand perfectly well that the
public take very little interest in the private
affairs of individuals, but there are occa-
sions when 1t does not seem to be practical
BILE to keep them from the public eye, and
one of those occasions has occurred, relating
to the business interests of this Office. The
Workingmens Assembly have assumed TO
take charge of our business for season in
q very unjust and offensive manner, which
seems to make it necessary that we should
take some notice of the attitude that organi-
cation has assumed towards THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN,. We yesterday morning pre-
sented to our readers the proscriptive reso-
lutons which the Workingmens Assembly
aimed at our business interests, and we
now propose to show that its position
towards the REPUBLICAN is unjust, unten-
able, and uncalled for by any act of our own,
and that its interference in our affairs under
the circumstances is in the highest degree
impertinent. This organization claims to
act in behalf of n principle while its actions
seem to be destitute of it, It's proscriptive
course was not anticipated, for the reason
that we had credited the workingmen of
Washington with fair degree of good sense
and some regard for common justice


However, they have made the issue
and we cheerfully accept it, asking
no favor in controversy that has been wan
tonly pressed upon us. We expect to show
our adversaries and the public, before the
end of this controversy is reached, that this
intermeddlng in our private affairs is at


variance with right, justice, good fellowship
and the laws of society and government,
and further that we are entitled to such
protection for our rights and interests rs is
youchsafed under our institutions to every
legitimate business calling in this country.
The spirit and motive which have prompted
the Assembly to make war upon our inter
ests are inconsistent with truth, justice and
the law, while the premises set forth as
calling for prescription in this case are not
justified by either truth, candor or justice.


The Workingmen's Assembly has been
m'sled and betrayed into an attitude which,
we have confidence TO believe, all the rea-
sonable members will regret when they be-
come acquainted with the facts of the case;
for, unless we greatly misjudge them, they
aim to be fair and just men in their. rela-
tions with others. The Asso mbly charges,
by resolution, that THE NATIONAL REPUB-
LIcAN has turned out home industry and
imported cheap labor from abroad, neither
of which statement is justified by the
truth. II is true that change of compos-
itors has recently occurred in this Office, but
not by our having turned out home indus
try, as we shall bo able soon to show. In
Year: 1879

OUR advices from Maine lead to the opin-
ion that the Republicans of that State are
pushing a most vigorous canvass, and are
daily growing more and more hopeful of
success The Greenback party is disinte-
grating, and the Republicans of that party
are returning home and joining in the can
vass with zeal and efficiency, The Demo-
Gratis are far from being confident of victory,
while the Greenbackers are not insensble
TO the fact that their standing ground is
crumbing beneath their feet, rendering
their prospects more and more doubtful as
the canvass progresses, Our friends here
may rest assured that the Republican cause
will be pushed to victory if hard work and
unaagging zeal can accomplish that end.
The efforts Of Secretary SHERMAN have
been exceedingly influential in bringing the
Year: 1879

THE bankers of the country are not so
modest pending their Saratoga convention
as to neglect to blow their own horns.
They claim to have aided materially in
bringing about Resumption, and also in re-
funding the public debt. To very appre-
ciable extent this claim is well founded f;
but its assertion just now will carry no
weight in the minds of the Greenbackers,
who are the sworn and persistent enemies
of the banks. In fact, the Grecnbackers
will find in it further argument against
them, for they are so unreasonable as to
hate any and all of the agencies which
served to knock the underpinning from
their arguments against specie payment II
remains TO be seen, however, whether the
bankers will succeed in stemming the cur.
rent of popular opinion which is setting in
against them outside of the Greenback
party. To do this they must overcome @
constantly growing sentiment in favor o.
the exclusive right of the Government tC
issue all the money-honest money-re
quired for our commercial uses.
Year: 1879

THE cooler weather yesterday is ac-
counted for by the fact that the New York
Times will persist in printing serial sketches
of the life of CHARLES FRIGID ADAMS, and
that he has in consequence been talked of
as q possible candidate for President. The
mere mention of his name in these hot days
is equal in Its barometrical influence to q
blast of wind from the North Pole.
Year: 1879

THE villainous suggestion is made by the
Boston Herald that BEN BUTLER shall be
appointed 10 succeed AIr WELSH at the
Court of st, James. Whether the Herald
hates Great Britain with an unreasonable
hate or loves Massachusetts with undying
ardor is question but that it is anxious to
get rid of BEN is strikingly apparent.
Year: 1879

The assertion is made that "BEN BUTLER
"has his eye OH the Massachusetts, Senator
ship" We knew all along that one of his
optics was levelled in tho direction of the
Governorship, but never imagined that any
one could tell what the other was doing.
Year: 1879

A NOTABLE aud not unexpected pecu-
liarity of Judge KELLEYs account of his
recenti interview with Prince BISMARCK ex-
lists in the fact that the Judge did most of
the talking. He gave the Prince half-a-
column history of finances in this country,
to which BISMARCK replied with less than
an inch and a half Of assent to the PROPOSE
ton to remonetize silver But for all that,
Mr.. KELLEY has done well, and is to be
thanked for having evoked from the Ger
man Premier this emphatic assent
Year: 1879

The misguided boast is made in some of
the Democratic papers that "the lobby "
disappeared from Washington as soon as
the Democrats captured Congress 1t is
true that many Of the old-time manipu-
Iators failed to put in an appearance last
session, but the reason was that they couldn't
stand the competition against them by the
members themselves. A lobbyist on the
floor is worth two in the corridors-so the
big corporations have lately discovered and
the new plan is said to be much cheaper
Year: 1879

deed, for that matter, we did not "turn out"
our compositions They left voluntarily,
when we desired that they should remain
with us, and they were willing to stay, and
would have stayed but for the edict of tho
Printers Union, which forbade it. The fol-
lowing correspondence will fully explain
the case and show that the Assembly has
misrepresonted the facts: